A cake stop style thread - no cycling content

always_tyred

Sewinman wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

I got into baseball when I was in the states for a few months - stat-tastic. Hard to follow in the Uk, too late at night.

I have a big passion for fly fishing. Standing in a cool river in beautiful countryside, casting a line to a rising wild trout and fooling it...watching it break the surface and sip down a fly you just delicately presented to it. A great moment.

I have been neglecting it recently and have been obsessing on cycling!

I never understood the appeal of fishing (by which I mean the act of spending money on equipment to dangle a nylon line into a body of water, followed by the act of standing next to that equipment for many hours and then going home). Why not go for a walk, or read a book, or go for a boat trip, in the same environment, without the need for all that equipment? Its not like you are fooling anyone - just be honest and tell your family you need a few hours away from them.

There would not be much appeal if that was an accurate description of fishing. The most important component of fishing is fish, and one goes fishing to catch them, not to dangle nylon. Its a pretty basic human pleasure to catch a fish.

I appreciate that. I'm a rower. Sometimes I kayak. People fishing hate me because (a) I can use the body of water for free because I don't want any fish and (b) I appear to be deemed to be present for the precise 10-15 seconds, out of the entire day, that a fish in the general area might be peckish.
I've never seen anyone actually catch a fish.
They tend to look pretty cheesed off on the whole. Or are close to running out of Tennants.

Sewinman

@Always Tyred - I can't be arsed to discuss your prejudices.

prawny

Always Tyred wrote:

I appreciate that. I'm a rower. Sometimes I kayak. People fishing hate me because (a) I can use the body of water for free because I don't want any fish and (b) I appear to be deemed to be present for the precise 10-15 seconds, out of the entire day, that a fish in the general area might be peckish.
I've never seen anyone actually catch a fish.
They tend to look pretty cheesed off on the whole. Or are close to running out of Tennants.

I used to race Kayaks the fisherman on the canal by me were good usually but there were some right arses a mate of mine got a hook though the arm one time, ouchy.

always_tyred

Sewinman wrote:

@Always Tyred - I can't be arsed to discuss your prejudices.

Okay. As long as you don't shout, wave your arms, tell me to use another canal, or throw a warm can of beer at me.

blu3cat

Kieran_Burns wrote:
I found the clearest explanation for Schroedinger's cat came from Dirk Gently when he started referring to collapsed waveforms

I then got stuck with Terry Pratchett and his Science of the Discworld books which cemented the idea.

It's simply a case of the cat being in an undetermined state - the number of possible states is in flux until the determination is made and the number of possibilities becomes 1. Big cloud of numbers 'collapses' to 1.


I think we are all touching on the same thing here, multiple possiblities exist until an action is taken to make one of those possibilities a reality for us. At the same instance another DondaddyD is experiencing another possibility.

So when I had that near miss the other day, in another reality another DonDaddyD was hit but survived, another was hit and died, another missed but died and so on and so on...

Well at least i can rest safely knowing another me has won the lottery, doing Vikki Pendleton and is astride that Lotus time trial bike....

In Dirk Gently's, doesn't the cat do a runner as it is bored with being (possibly fatally) experimented on all the time?

As for multiple personalitites, I have seen scientific interpretations where at the point of the collapse of a quantum wave function the universe splits into however many perpendicular universes there are as quantum states to collapse into, and your reality is merely one of those states, so yep there is a DDD with Ms Pendleton and a lotus TT bike.

biondino

Could that DDD bring them both to the Morpeth next time? I'd love to have a go.

always_tyred

If the cat sh!t in a neighbour's box, would it be a wave or a particle?

blu3cat

biondino wrote:

Could that DDD bring them both to the Morpeth next time? I'd love to have a go.

unfortunatly not, it is impossible to travel between the perpendicular universes, although DDD does have a time travel device doesn't he?

always_tyred

blu3cat wrote:

biondino wrote:

Could that DDD bring them both to the Morpeth next time? I'd love to have a go.

unfortunatly not, it is impossible to travel between the perpendicular universes, although DDD does have a time travel device doesn't he?

He appears to be able to travel between the start of the working day to the end of the working day almost instantaneously without doing any work........ (says he).....

greg66_tri_v2.0

lost_in_thought wrote:

I love people.

<snip>

I love my dogs (in a platonic way)

Did you just tell us something unintended about how you love people?

itboffin

blu3cat wrote:

biondino wrote:

Could that DDD bring them both to the Morpeth next time? I'd love to have a go.

unfortunatly not, it is impossible to travel between the perpendicular universes, although DDD does have a time travel device doesn't he?

Not so dear chap last time I ran out of Guinness I simply reach into the next universe and helped myself, simple really. :roll: