Random Thoughts Thread

[reece]

Hi, subject says it all (ssia). Some may, of course, spark a bit of conversation. That's alright.



The number of people on this board that don't know the difference between to and too, and their and there amazes and disturbs me.

 

[Happycamper]

Hi, subject says it all (ssia). Some may, of course, spark a bit of conversation. That's alright.



The number of people on this board that don't difference between to and too, and their and there amazes and disturbs me.

I hope for the most part I get those right.

However, what is the rule regarding when the word less can be used, and when the word fewer should be used? I've only just been made aware that there is a rule, but I haven't fully uncovered what it is yet.

E.g Sophie has less grains of sand than John.
Should this be fewer grains?

 

[lwien]

This thread is reminding me of George Carlin.

 

[hopandstop]

Does anyone hate certain words, or the way someone says certain words?

I've noticed and caught people adding lisps to their everyday conversations to seem 'more sensitive' and 'sweeter'. I tried this once and was hit on by a male bartender.

One time on vacation, I made a mental note not to mention a derogatory term that is in common use of a people, but not the preferred term. I grew up hearing the term used in school and church even (from a small southern city).

So I casually strolled into a restaurant in this other country and said I would like to try authentic local food. But instead of 'authentic' I used the derogatory term, completely unknowingly. Obsessing over not using it made me use it. I was asked to leave because I insulted an entire proud culture. I was shooed away with a clean napkin I, for some reason, handed the guy as I was trying to defend myself. I even remember him stopping his tirade and throwing suggestive glances at the napkin, like he was asking me and it what it was doing in his hand and why I had handed it to him.

I did apologize, albeit in broken language. The guy accepted and laughed heartily. I later found out I called myself a mad pastry and said I wanted to dance with a bus stop.

The last part was probably exaggerated by my native friend, but at least it kinda explains why the guy hugged me for 15 long seconds.

He said I was a 'good friend' and he wanted me 'over'.

Hmmm..... not my style.

 

[VapoFish]

One word: irregardless

I break out in a cold sweat when I hear it.

Great story hopandstop ... it reinforces my long standing commitment to never dance with a bus stop.

 

[reece]

I hope for the most part I get those right.

However, what is the rule regarding when the word less can be used, and when the word fewer should be used? I've only just been made aware that there is a rule, but I haven't fully uncovered what it is yet.

E.g Sophie has less grains of sand than John.
Should this be fewer grains?

Fewer sounds better to me in that sentence, but I didn't realize there was a rule.

 

[CrazyCracker]

Fewer because you used "grains" of sand, it would be correct however to say

Sophie has less sand than John

I think it has to do with the fact that you can count "grains of sand". However you cant count "sand".

I dont really know

Here is a random thought, Miss Bimbo, harmless game? Or teaching little girls the wrong message about themselves?

http://www2.missbimbo.com/

 

[indigal]

Well, at least they are suggesting you make her the "most intelligent bimbo" and get her a great job.. Not like turning her into a bling ho.

I believe I just typed the words "bling ho" for the first time ever.

 

[Progress]

OK...Random thought:

If John Smith was a named John Smith because he was a blacksmith and John Tailor was named John Tailor because he was a tailor; WHAT THE HELL DID JOHN HANDCOCK DO?

While we are at it, why does everyone insist on spending fortunes on fancy diffusers when water full of glass seed beads is cheaper AND can difuse more than most percs?

One more question...I know that I am more stupider than most other fuckers, but do I have "fewer" or "less" smarts (although I have never danced with a bus stop ;p )?

Just some random thoughts...please resume what you were doing?

 

[FEAR420]

Why don't we have separate sub-forums for the more popular Vaporizers? I think it'd be fairly easy to determine which deserve their own sub-forum & which don't.Having to wade through pages & pages & pages of a thread to find an answer is excruciating.

 

[standard]

Hi, subject says it all (ssia). Some may, of course, spark a bit of conversation. That's alright.



The number of people on this board that don't know the difference between to and too, and their and there amazes and disturbs me.

That is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

 

[CrazyCracker]

Churchill for the win.

I think sub forums are a good idea too.

 

[CrazyCracker]

but do I have "fewer" or "less" smarts

Fewer because "smarts" implies they are plural and therefore quantifiable.

 

[rayski]

but do I have "fewer" or "less" smarts

Fewer because "smarts" implies they are plural and therefore quantifiable.

But fewer brains wouldn't be right. Would it? That's plural. I like "less smarts".

 

[CrazyCracker]

If you mean "I have 5 brains in a jar and you have 3 brains in a jar", then you have fewer brains than I do.

If you mean "she is smarter than him" Then I guess he would have less brains than her. Because you cant easily quantify intelligence.

Im not an English major so I might be missing something.

 

[rayski]

If you mean "I have 5 brains in a jar and you have 3 brains in a jar", then you have fewer brains than I do.

If you mean "she is smarter than him" Then I guess he would have less brains than her. Because you cant easily quantify intelligence.

Im not an English major so I might be missing something.

That sounds right.

 

[Frickr]

random thoughts?? well mine is -15 is WAY to cold to be walking to the gasstation for supper. but this St. Pauli Girl was worth the trip! nothing like a tastey beer.

but why cant we be at the center of the universe? the only time we can measure an atom is if we stop it. otherwise its moving way to fast for us to measure. the more technology advances the further we can see. and its always the same repeating holographic pattern repeating. smaller particals revolving around larger particals. when we look, we expect to see something there. it turns out to be there. why cant we be observing a mirror immage of everything when we examin both the skys, and the particals that make us up? wouldnt it be possible that our eyes are desieving us in the very narrow frequency range we can see? Our consciousness is something that is easily over looked. we could be sitting in the middle of the universe making up the universe as we go, expanding it by thinking about it. we live in such a narrow spectrum of what is actually out there. and our bodys are just a series of vibrating molecules held together by some molecular force unable to be seen by our desceving eyes. as the old saying goes, we make the world around us.


i mean what seperate you from the chair your sitting on at this very moment reading this? your just a combination of molecules, so is the air around you, so is whatever your sitting or laying on, so cant it be said that we are all attatched, we are of one collective body? by touching the earth you are infact being the earth, by breathing the air you are infact the air, and so on. so are all of our 'scientific' reasonings behind things really reasons, or are they just illusions that we have created for ourselves?

 

[Durden]

Today a young man on acid...


It makes me sad how many don't know of the genius that was Bill Hicks and George Carlin.

 

[CrazyCracker]

Ah TOOL, thank you for exposing me to the genius of Bill Hicks and Aloke Dutta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pt0ZOiQF7s

 

[Ben]

Fewer because you used "grains" of sand, it would be correct however to say

Sophie has less sand than John

Mmm...sorry to come across like this and bumpin' in this conversation ( english is not my native language at all and I want to improve it) but couldn't it depend about the size of each grain ...something dealing with granulometry ... no?


You can have a bigger volume of sand in an average hand even if you have less grains of sands than someone else havin finer sand in his another average hand.... ( or am i too vaked? )



so, finally, is there a correct thing to say at the end?

 

[CrazyCracker]

but couldn't it depend about the size of each grain ...something dealing with granulometry ... no?


You can have a bigger volume of sand in an average hand even if you have less grains of sands than someone else havin finer sand in his another average hand.... ( or am i too vaked? )

http://yelims5.free.fr/Yeux/Yeux10.gif

If you have 100 large grains of sand and I have 1000 small grains of sand. Then you have fewer "grains of sand" than me. If your 100 large grains of sand weigh more than my 1000 small grains of sand. Then I have less "sand" than you, even though I have more grains of sand.



edit because I mixed up then and than once >< damn homonyms

 

[Ben]

Wow

 

[Progress]

AFAIK 'greater' is the opposite of 'fewer' and 'more' is the opposite of 'less' (therefore you have a greater number of grains if sand while he has more sand than you). ;P

I have another question for you all to ponder (although no one answered my question about why many spend small fortunes on diffusers when readily available glass seed beads turn beakers into sud-producing diffusers ). Anyhow, my question...How did this vaporizer forum become a place to discuss gramatical guidelines and their application to measuring sand?

Ramble on...

 

[Lo]

Okay as one who ALWAYS has random thoughts such as those posted I LOVE THIS THREAD!!

I too wonder about the use of too and to, their and there.... I haven't tried a diffuser yet so I can't answer that. Greater/fewer and less/more I think were explained correctly above. If only I could remember a smidgen of what I learned in school I'd be scary smart LOL!!

I am actually thrilled to find so many other folks that I can ponder the measurement of sand with amongst other subjects

Oh how I enjoy the internet!!

 

[Ben]

(...)Anyhow, my question...How did this vaporizer forum become a place to discuss gramatical guidelines and their application to measuring sand?

Ramble on...

I guess it's just this kind of thing that you call serendipity ... we found something while looking for something else ... (BTW, It's a pity that this very precise word have no translation in french )

(...)

Ramble on...

Ok , so here I go prog! :

(...)(therefore you have a greater number of grains if sand while he has more sand than you). ;P

(...)

Now, may I say it is "less clearer"