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Stephen wrote:
> It's cultural Warp, Calling someone ignorant implies that they are
> boorish. Quite a bad insult.
Note, however, that it's perfectly acceptable to say "John is ignorant
of what happened last week" or some such. Unfortunately, "ignorant" has
gotten bad connotations and I don't know any word that means similar
that doesn't. "Naive" is about as close as it comes. (I have said
people are "computer naive" and it seems to bother people less than
saying they're "ignorant of computer technology" or some such.)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> So why does everybody act surprised that I don't know certain rather
> obscure facts?
Because many of the facts you say you don't know really aren't very
obscure, or if they are obscure, shouldn't be obscure in *your* culture.
(Like, who RMS is. :-)
Now, I'll grant that making movie references (like to the Wicked Witch),
I discounted that you're in a foreign country and maybe they don't show
that classic amazingly famous movie on TV every single year. But it *is*
classic *and* amazingly famous.
> See, now I wouldn't even bother watching such a film, since clearly I
> won't understand any of it.
It's not that you won't understand it. It's perfectly comprehensible on
it's own. It's a *bonus* that you already know the characters from
something else.
It's like Stan Lee's cameo as a panhandler/beggar in Spider Man. It's
funnier if you know it's Stan Lee[1]. It's doubly funnier if you know
he didn't, due to contractual bits, get any royalties from the movie.
[1] Stan Lee - the guy who invented most of Marvel's comic book characters.
> People accuse me of being stupid, but I do realise there was a real ship
> called the Titanic, that really did sink when it hit an iceberg. As
> surely does most of the population?
They'd say "Why should we? What makes you think we studied the same
history bits you did?"
That's culture. You *hope* people studied a lot of the same sorts of
things you did.
> To me, not recognising the theme tune to the Wicked Witch of the West
> just isn't on the same level as the two examples above.
Actually, I suspect you'd recognise it if you heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQjXPKfWNY
And now if you just saw that video without any context, you'd understand
the person's opinion of Hillary Clinton, see.
> Well let's see now. You could mean that they're just plain evil. Or
> misunderstood. Or an oppressed minority. Or just Jewish. Or any number
> of other possible meanings...
Uh, I think the point is to listen to the judge reprimand of Shylock's
behavior in order to understand what someone else would mean if they
called you a Shylock. Don'tcha think? :-)
> Depends if the actors know what the hell they're performing or not. ;-)
Well, true. This was a professionally-staged play, not a high-school
performance or something. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:12:21 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:08:07 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
>
>>"Lead on, McDuff"
>
> "Lay on MacDuff..." ;)
I'm still trying to figure out what Richard's got to do with it.....
Jim
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:57:45 -0400, Warp wrote:
> First law of interaction between people: Communication will not succeed,
> except by random chance.
False, provided that they speak the same language - and I don't mean just
using the same words and grammar.
Jim
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:54:51 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> It's like Stan Lee's cameo as a panhandler/beggar in Spider Man. It's
> funnier if you know it's Stan Lee[1]. It's doubly funnier if you know
> he didn't, due to contractual bits, get any royalties from the movie.
He seems to do a lot of those in the Marvel Comics' movies. I think he's
been in each one of them, in fact.
Had a good laugh when he turned up in Iron Man, ostensibly as Hugh
Heffner. Of course, he was credited in the credits as playing "himself".
Jim
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:42:00 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Wicket Witch of the West.
Wicke*d*. Sheesh. Oh, and I'll have to assume that it's the one from
The Wizard of Oz. The way I read the comment, I thought what was being
said was the title of a movie or TV programme.
Seems I misunderstood. :-)
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> It's cultural Warp, Calling someone ignorant implies that they are
>> boorish. Quite a bad insult.
>
> Note, however, that it's perfectly acceptable to say "John is ignorant
> of what happened last week" .....
No, it's not. I'm perfectly aware of what happened last week; it's last
night I'm having a problem with :-) :-)
John
--
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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> Don't remind be. I cracked a laptop's LCD panel last year. The surface was
> fine, something was cracked underneath. Large portions of the screen are
> now
> black.
I did exactly the same to my cell phone display, it was in my pocket while I
put most of my weight onto it while taking a pool shot :-) A few minutes
later I looked at it and the screen had gone all funky colours with a big
crack across it. Luckily it was under a year old, and for some reason they
replaced it with a new one free of charge (of course I forgot to mention
that I knew exactly how it broke).
> Repair place quoted me R8000 to replace the panel, and that was a 17"
> laptop
> screen. I'd hate to see the price to replace a 40" LCD TV's panel.
Might as well just buy a new one I think, there's not much else of value
inside a TV (compared to say a laptop).
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> I read Nokia actually has a touchscreen that gives tactile feedback.
> There's something behind it that "taps" from behind when the key would
> click, or some such silliness. :-)
I guess it saves them having to write a responsive GUI :-)
The worst thing is when you have absolutely no feedback that you've pressed
the touch screen - I used a terminal to buy a train ticket somewhere like
that (can't remember where now). First you had to press the button quite
hard (harder than you would normally to start with), and then the screen
didn't show any sign that you'd pressed it until about 2 seconds later when
it would update the display based on whatever you had selected. Worst thing
was that it would buffer up your inputs somehow, so if you hit the same
button 5 times trying to get it to work, you end up stuck there for 5
minutes and with 3 1st class tickets for dogs and bikes.
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>> Note, however, that it's perfectly acceptable to say "John is ignorant
>> of what happened last week" .....
>
> No, it's not. I'm perfectly aware of what happened last week; it's last
> night I'm having a problem with :-) :-)
When I can't remember what happened last night, I like to make believe
that I got laid, and the extreme chemical rush was the cause of my
amnesia... ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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