Free Association Thread 4

[Tio_Narratore]

Don King, perhaps the only person more interested in money, crack, & black men/athletes/black athletes than Kim K.

Sky King and his niece, Penny

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Sky King and his niece, Penny

sky captain and the world of tomorrow

 

[HandsInTheDark]

sky captain and the world of tomorrow

Tomorrow? It's not even yesterday. Come back later.

 

[JKendallDane]

Tomorrow? It's not even yesterday. Come back later.

Right Back to Where We Started From

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[SamScribble]

Right Back to Where We Started From

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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMxMyCY1c4

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMxMyCY1c4

UC - Berkeley.

Remember "The OC" parents both went (& I think met) there. I've often thought about taking classes there, so when someone asked me where I went to college, it would sound like I was asking another question, not answering.

 

[SamScribble]

UC - Berkeley.

Remember "The OC" parents both went (& I think met) there. I've often thought about taking classes there, so when someone asked me where I went to college, it would sound like I was asking another question, not answering.

I'm pretty sure that the OC parents I knew - Bill and Belinda O'Connor - both went to UMIST

 

[NaokoSmith]

UC - Berkeley.

Remember "The OC" parents both went (& I think met) there. I've often thought about taking classes there, so when someone asked me where I went to college, it would sound like I was asking another question, not answering.

Exam question in Oxbridge Entrance Philosophy Paper:

Is this a question?

Best response:

If this is an answer.

On the 'two for a price of one' theme ('Lo, Sam - sugar ) ... no, I am not posting a pic of my boobs here! I'm going to tell another exam story.

One of the Cambridge exam students put his hand up in the middle of an exam and when the invigilators rustled quickly over in their robes, he said he wanted his pint of ale and piece of cheese, as specified in the rule books. The invigilators rustled away to look up the exam rules and indeed it said that examinees are entitled to a pint of ale and piece of cheese as mid-exam refreshment. They came rustling back and bent to whisper in the examinee's ear: "Sorry sir, but you are not wearing your sword as also required in the rules."

 

[NaokoSmith]

I'm pretty sure that the OC parents I knew - Bill and Belinda O'Connor - both went to UMIST

Ooops, I skipped you - I will have to give you a kiss

 

[SamScribble]

Ooops, I skipped you - I will have to give you a kiss

Thank you. Your tale of the invigilators was reward enough.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Thank you. Your tale of the invigilators was reward enough.

The first exam I invigilated as a TA was a 150-question multiple choice test done on opscan sheets. As I surveyed the lecture hall from the dais, I noted a bit of cheating going on in the last row. As I made my rounds, I casually climbed the stairs to the walkway behind the last row and glanced at the answer sheet of the student in the aisle seat. Nearly every answer was correct. I looked at the paper of the student next to him. The opscan pattern was a perfect match to the first student's, but one question out of sync. The next four students had the same out-of-sync pattern.

No need to accuse them of cheating, of course, and so I avoided the hassle of presenting it to the Dean. The students came to see me after the exams were returned because they had "studied" together and couldn't understand why one of them earned an A+ and the others all had failed. I pointed to the first mis-copier and suggested they should ask him.

 

[loquere]

The first exam I invigilated as a TA was a 150-question multiple choice test done on opscan sheets. As I surveyed the lecture hall from the dais, I noted a bit of cheating going on in the last row. As I made my rounds, I casually climbed the stairs to the walkway behind the last row and glanced at the answer sheet of the student in the aisle seat. Nearly every answer was correct. I looked at the paper of the student next to him. The opscan pattern was a perfect match to the first student's, but one question out of sync. The next four students had the same out-of-sync pattern.

No need to accuse them of cheating, of course, and so I avoided the hassle of presenting it to the Dean. The students came to see me after the exams were returned because they had "studied" together and couldn't understand why one of them earned an A+ and the others all had failed. I pointed to the first mis-copier and suggested they should ask him.

One wrong answer threw all the others out of wack?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

One wrong answer threw all the others out of wack?

He was copying from an opscan sheet. He followed the pattern, but was one question off, so almost all the questions following the mistake were blackened for the wrong response. They only got an answer right accidentally.

 

[loquere]

He was copying from an opscan sheet. He followed the pattern, but was one question off, so almost all the questions following the mistake were blackened for the wrong response. They only got an answer right accidentally.

Violent crime always starts with cheating on tests. People who cheat on tests should get the death penalty.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Violent crime always starts with cheating on tests. People who cheat on tests should get the death penalty.

I usually offer them suicide as a way of avoiding public embarrassment. No need to bring their families down with them.

 

[loquere]

I usually offer them suicide as a way of avoiding public embarrassment. No need to bring their families down with them.

I like my plan better. Population control is going to be necessary for global stability.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I like my plan better. Population control is going to be necessary for global stability.

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

 

[loquere]

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

Adam Smith's argument works for me. If I remember correctly Swift was the cannibal.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Adam Smith's argument works for me. If I remember correctly Swift was the cannibal.

A rational economy wastes not!

Soylent Green is people!!!!

 

[loquere]

A rational economy wastes not!

Soylent Green is people!!!!

Smith makes the argument that natural disasters and diseases are necessary to eliminate the weak in society, and that those disasters and diseases should not be prevented.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Smith makes the argument that natural disasters and diseases are necessary to eliminate the weak in society, and that those disasters and diseases should not be prevented.

Yes, I know Smith and those arguments (for some strange reason, this side of Smith is often overlooked: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"). Malthus was just as bad. A good foundation for Trumpists, though - if you ain't rich, you ain't fit. No public health care, because that would only help the weak and unfit to survive. Those who can't afford medical treatment should die, according to that approach. Sorry, even as a human biologist I don't subscribe to that channel. It's only self-serving justification of oppression and exploitation.

Swift, by the way, was a satirist, and his "modest proposal" to eat the excess babies of the poor rather than waste them was itself a condemnation of the kind of thinking that led to Smith and Malthus and beyond.

 

[loquere]

Yes, I know Smith and those arguments (for some strange reason, this side of Smith is often overlooked: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"). Malthus was just as bad. A good foundation for Trumpists, though - if you ain't rich, you ain't fit. No public health care, because that would only help the weak and unfit to survive. Those who can't afford medical treatment should die, according to that approach. Sorry, even as a human biologist I don't subscribe to that channel. It's only self-serving justification of oppression and exploitation.

Swift, by the way, was a satirist, and his "modest proposal" to eat the excess babies of the poor rather than waste them was itself a condemnation of the kind of thinking that led to Smith and Malthus and beyond.

I know who swift is lol, I call him a cannibal for my own ends, I read his works decades ago. The wealth of nations is my bible, I do believe population control is essential.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I know who swift is lol, I call him a cannibal for my own ends, I read his works decades ago. The wealth of nations is my bible, I do believe population control is essential.

According to Bill Nye, education of women and adequate birth control methods are necessary for population control and the good of society in general. But then that's probably too rational for a number of people.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I know who swift is lol, I call him a cannibal for my own ends, I read his works decades ago. The wealth of nations is my bible, I do believe population control is essential.

Bibles are dangerous - people tend to mistake them for truth.

How about we control population by eliminating the wealthy and redistributing their assets so, following Adam Smith, we can have a society that is "flourishing and happy?"

"No Mom," said the young Adam Smith emphatically, "that wasn't me moving the sheet up and down like that. It was the Invisible Hand."

My Economist colleagues assure me that the market always fluctuates to correct itself. It seems to me that you only correct yourself when you're wrong, and so, if the market is always correcting itself, doesn't that mean that the market is always wrong?

 

[loquere]

Bibles are dangerous - people tend to mistake them for truth.

How about we control population by eliminating the wealthy and redistributing their assets so, following Adam Smith, we can have a society that is "flourishing and happy?"

"No Mom," said the young Adam Smith emphatically, "that wasn't me moving the sheet up and down like that. It was the Invisible Hand."

My Economist colleagues assure me that the market always fluctuates to correct itself. It seems to me that you only correct yourself when you're wrong, and so, if the market is always correcting itself, doesn't that mean that the market is always wrong?

The utopia you seek is a dream. The earth would be better off with 3 billion people, no more than that. I'm hopeful that a Trump presidency will bring the earths out of control population under control.