dunno about you, but im going to do better this year.
i shall start by not breaking my ankle again. im hoping that will be easiest.
Happy New Year, yourself, asshole! :rofl: I'd like to get some relief with my arthritic knees, but from what I'm seeing on the 'net, it can be up to a year of painful for recovery from each surgery. I might not live that long.
youve still got the originals on both sides, right? it takes a year to get over a replacement?
that sucks.
im pissing and moaning about the next five weeks.
Yes, mine are both original. You have a broken ankle, that hopefully will heal well. I'm seeing people who still have effects a year after knee replacement surgery. Not happy about that and the amount of painful therapy. Then again, I've had 5 surgeries on my feet for arthritic joints, and they usually resolve after about six weeks, usually in a boot. Choose your parents wisely folks; those hereditary ailments are a bitch. :D
most of my physical issues are self-inflicted, but so far they havent slowed me down a lot. but ill hit my three-score-and-ten in two weeks, so ive started down the slide.
Got you by 3. I turned 73 last October.
You guys are both young whippersnappers. I am old enough to be your high school math teacher.
So far my knees are OK but my brain may be having some difficulties.
you would have to wear a sari to have been my high school math teaxher.
Quote from: Icarus on December 29, 2025, 01:18:24 AMYou guys are both young whippersnappers. I am old enough to be your high school math teacher.
So far my knees are OK but my brain may be having some difficulties.
It's not much to go on, some posts on a quiet forum, but from what I can tell your brain is sufficiently functional. Admirably functional, considering. :cheerleader: :spock:
Thank you Rec.
doesnt have to be quiet, you motherfuckers.
im always ready to debate the flat earth.
nobody has produced contrary personal evidence yet, aroud here.
just stuff people tell them, and that they like to believe.
do it.
Someone is shouting at clouds... :reading:
:smilenod: :snicker:
well, sometimes the clouds offend me. i am in good company.
QuoteAll visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.
Right back at ya! :grin:
Of course the earth is flat.
Go to Peterborough, Crowland or Spalding and see for yourself.
If it wasn't we'd all fall off as the earth cascades through space at 60,000 mph.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/20876221.settling-bet-fens-shape-earth/
you should look up thr earlier bedford level experiment, zorka.
cant repeat either, as some parts of the canal have sadly been drained
Yes but the winner was Alfred Wallace.
He believed in the spirit world.
"Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, became a fervent spiritualist after a transformative séance in 1865, believing spirits could communicate and that natural selection couldn't fully explain the human mind, which required a spiritual intervention"
He also thought the earth was round.
i think the earth is round as well.
but i cant prove it. its one of those things people take on faith, like religion.
maybe hes right about the human mind. i cant explain consciousness either.
Earth is not round.
It's an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles.
If the universe behaves like a giant hologram, then the 3rd dimension does not exist.
Nobody can fully explain gravity or inertia.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-universe-a-hologram-physicists-debate-famous-idea-on-its-25th-anniversary1/
in my experience, 99.9 percent of everybody are unable to explain 99.9 percent of everything, zorkan. dont stop with gravity or inertia. ask the gent next to you on the train to explain how a refridgerator works, or why aspirin dissolves in water, or whether australia is real.
everything we believe to be real that isnt backed up by personal knowledge and experinece is something we take on faith. peopel denigrate solipsism, but when hard logic is forced into the discussion, its the only firm foundation that exists for our interpretation of the world, and lays out a clear line between things we actually know and things that are convenient to believe.
No one person even knows how to make a pencil, let alone a universe.
As for Australia, been there a couple of times and can confirm it's unreal.