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WBraun
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This thread reads ....
After the apocalypse, a group of mental health patients have inherited the Earth.
Armed with a short bus and imagination, they must rebuild society and find the edge of the world.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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A "short bus" ain't gonna hold this many patients.
And you might hear from the pc crowd about the use of that term.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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I poo in your stew
Yes I do, poo in your stew
Stew haiku with poo
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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haha, Cosmic! I hoped someone would post that, Lois/ lucy 'toon. I was gonna look for it, if not...
Lois, did you see the the cartoon analysis from (gasp) RC.com that someone linked back a few pages on this thread? Check it out, if you have any more questions, I think this gives one a conceptual overview of the accident.
Locker, oh well, just trying to send you a quick and easy job... I wish you hadden't reminded me that my blowup doll needs work too...
Werner, I think that sums it up better than anything I've ever heard (re, the world situation and the short bus) I love how you can look at the world and remind us of who we are!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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"This thread reads ....
After the apocalypse, a group of mental health patients have inherited the Earth.
Armed with a short bus and imagination, they must rebuild society and find the edge of the world."
Everyone should rent the movie "King of Hearts" trust me
"Maybe your absurd objection to the "Woody Check" is a fear that someday someone will coin the phrase the "Lois Check". That would be where a patient dies because the nurse was derelict in her duties because she was distracted by slag fests on the blogs. "
Lois already has her internet fame here
The Loising Point and LEBification!
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=497677
Dear Lois
As a worthy partner in our love-hate relationship, I must dedicate the following tribute to you to mark this occasion of your leaving me.
The nature of Internet discussion has created new idioms for communication protocol like “Goodwin’s Law”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin%27s_law
You deserve a law named for you and I consider it my duty to propagate this law across cyberspace for the sanity of the world and to render you lasting fame. A legacy that I know you will actually cherish despite any negative connotations.
So without further ado. Let me present “Lois’s Law” and it corollary principle, “the Loising Point”
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I have an internet friend named Lois.
She just doesn’t “get it” sometimes.
The truth is we all don’t “Get it” to different degrees about something or another.
But Lois embodies obtuseness in such a way that I realize that a certain threshold of blindness is a cosmic principle in human relationships. We can talk until we are blue in the face but some people will never, ever, ever, ever, Ever “get it”
Get used to it.
“Hey Lois, can you see the nose on your face?”
“I don’t see it. Everybody else’s face seem to have a nose but I can’t see one on me”
“Lois, look way down above your lips, you gotta see it.”
“All I see is a blurry blob. It doesn’t look anything like the nose on your face.”
“Come on Lois, when you have a cold, what’s all the snot come out of?”
“Oh Lord, when it’s cold season my cat gets a cold and her nose drips all over my clean sheets. But me, I’ve never heard anything about any nose that might be on my face”
“Yeah Lois, but I searched on the internet and I found 12 examples of people telling you about the nose on your face.”
“You never can be too sure of anything. I heard of a man whose nose was shot off by his ex-wife, I bet he still get colds and he didn’t have a nose. What do you mean by nose?”
I could go on and on,
and it does go on and on.
But the point is simple.
And that is
When you’ve gone around and around trying to communicate something to someone, made your case clear, logical, documented and presented it from every conceivable viewpoint.
And that person can’t even acknowledge the issue to disagree on.
And when their responses inevitably turn into a self-referential feedback loop
That person will never get your point
But you’ve reached theirs
You’ve
reached
their
“Loising point.”
Any further discussion will only deteriorate into the “Loisification” of the subject.
The self-referential feedback loop will imprint excess bandwidth hum over any further progress in the debate.
The topic is lost and the subject reverts to "Me, Me, Me"
Don’t go there. When you reach someone’s “Loising Point” stop engaging. The discussion and only be “Loised-up” at that point.
If you take somepoint to the Loising point.
Step
Away
From
The
Computer!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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what about the, photo of the quarry, point? you could at least toss us one last bone!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Sleep well!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nite Nite and much Love Lois dear who writes
"So what that means is if you want to chat, you know where to find me - right here . Same rule applies - anything and everything is fair game for discussion. Otherwise , I'm out of here. ST has gotten simply too poopy, of late. A whole lot of people here just took dumps at the campsite instead of going over to the latrine. "
Yes, the strategic retreat! Jody is master of it. You've even done it once not very convincingly I think.
In any case, Whatever you decide, have fun with my best wishes
(cause fighting you will never work)
Peace
Karl
I'll post your last one on the Losing point thread cause anyone with any Salinity left in them isn't following this one anymore
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:07am PT
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"Ignore all this Lois; it's just ST abberation. It's that time of the month or the waxing moon."
WoodySt Aug 18, 2007, 11:07pm PT
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:23am PT
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I've seen John Dill solve cases that stumped investigators with that kind of thinking that Lois envisioned.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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Are you the Moderator?????
We're not talking to you anyways. You're out to lunch.
Get back in that glue hut ....
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:29am PT
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You guys couldn't live without Lois, your lives would be dull and meaningless, and you know it. That's why you get irked.
Except for Dingus, he IS Lois.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:32am PT
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Just give it a rest, Locker.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:49am PT
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Soon after hearing of the accident, it occurred to me that physiological factors might have contributed to it. The general ones we're all familiar with - tired, dehydrated, low blood sugar, distracted by noise, sun in eyes.... Or something more specific, e.g. a stroke or seizure of some kind.
I refrained from saying anything about this, and have said little about the accident on SuperTopo. I only 'knew' Woody, and 'know' most of those others involved, through SuperTopo, and through being a climber. It was unclear what had happened, and there was no need to add to speculation as to why. Most important, I wasn't there, and it seemed likely that the accident and its causes would be thoroughly investigated by people much more qualified than I, people who were there. Eventually we'd hear the full story, though these things can take time. Though maybe we'd never entirely know. So I pretty much STFU. It wasn't my place to offer much more than condolences.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 01:50am PT
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RJ, you mean this one?
"It is true that Locker has been vulgar but it is also true that he has never been mean. That should count for something."
That was true then but it's not true anymore.
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Mimi
climber
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Apr 10, 2009 - 02:05am PT
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Exactly Anders. We thought a heart attack may have contributed based on the early false reports. I believed we would learn exactly what happened due to the limited possibilities and there being witnesses. God bless Al and thanks for that. Tragic bummer though.
The first reports were so bogus. What was up with that? Is there an explanation for this? Anyone?
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 02:08am PT
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I don't understand how the NPS could have gotten it so wrong. The press only printed what the NPS gave them. The NPS put the same thing in its Morning Report.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 02:10am PT
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Back in Ripper's office with gunfire sounding in the background, General Ripper puts a comforting - and menacing - arm around a worried Mandrake's shoulder, revealing his completely paranoidal, psycho-sexual, psychotic lunacy. As Mandrake realizes he is speaking face-to-face with the real enemy and is literally being gripped by him, he nervously fingers and folds a piece of chewing gum in his fingers in front of him. According to the nutty, obsessed General who has found a scapegoat for his own sexual inadequacies in the Russkies, Commies are unaffected by the plot to pollute the water of the world because they drink vodka:
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Apr 10, 2009 - 02:30am PT
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OK, I admit that I do not really wish you had not come back, Locker. But you should not let LEB get under your skin like that.
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