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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by William
jackneve wrote:if the astronaut has a height of say 2m
I wonder how many astronauts are as much as 2 metres tall.
Well, NASA did have a maximum height limit of 6 foot 3 inches for the Space Shuttle.
William
An excellent find.
Thank you.
William
How about "Interesting science and maths"
Yes, a good idea.
Here is a post to start it off.
I don't know the answer.
Suppose that a mission to Mars is going to use a spacecraft that is like a giant rotating wheel.
Suppose as a starting point that the wheel is 100 metres in diameter.
How fast would the wheel need to spin in order to produce artificial gravity equivalent to gravity as on the surface of the earth?
Is that reasonably feasible?
What level of artificial gravity could reasonably be produced on a wheel of that size?
William
Thank you.
William
Citizen Kane Party, colourized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSREUHyQEpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ln1B5vPZ6k
William
KarenPL wrote:Joe wrote:Does anyone want legacy products on here? If so, webplus, pageplus and movieplus are good for me.
And perhaps CraftArtist? Some of the regulars from Daisytrail are on Facebook. I could always mention this forum in the Group, to see if there is any interest?
Absolutely! I imagine a DaisyTrail section would be particularly popular.
Yes, call it Daisy Trail rather than CraftArtist.
Could you possibly start it by copying the thread The Race from the legacy forum please?
https://community.serif.com/forum/craft … il-gallery
There are three pages of it.
Can it be done in one go or would it need to be done bit by bit, possibly by me?
William
How about a category of
Art in Art Galleries
where links such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU0EYA2d4_0 could be posted and art that is in art galleries discussed
and another category of
Our Art
where members of this forum can post their own art.
That way the two are separate collections of threads.
William
Oh, so would you rather any suggestions be in that thread?
If so, this thread could be locked.
William
All of the threads thus far are in a category named Discussion.
Would it be good to have other top-level categories?
If so, what should they be?
If there were Arts and Sciences, would that perpetuate the two cultures situation about which C. P. Snow wrote?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
So should that be avoided?
For example, where would anything that relates to the BBC programme 'Fake or Fortune' be placed when it is about whether a painting is authentic and often includes scientific methods, such as spectroscopy to determine if pigments used in the paint were in existence at the time that the painting was purportedly painted?
So if there were, say, about seven categories, what should they be?
Please discuss.
William
The fact of the matter is that a person often discusses things with a doctor or nurse that one would not discuss with other people.
It is not a matter of being upset, or the doctor or nurse being hardened.
The fact of the matter is that, say, when a man is discussing something with a female nurse there is a balance between the medical discussion necessity and the everyday politeness to a lady. It is a delicate balance of trying do both simultaneously.
William
If it were me and I had a need to express such things, say to a nurse or a doctor, I think I would probably use more euphemistic terms than those you mention. But let's not go into details please.
William
A man walks into a pub leading a white horse.
The barman says "There's a drink named after you"
And the horse says "How do you know my name is Shandy?"
William
A new one.
"Do you know the differences between the typefaces Bembo and Poliphilus?"
"Also, no"
"Oh, that's strange as you are studying the topography of Italy."
William
Well i thought it was funny.
Alright, one of my own jokes, from long ago.
"Excuse me, do you know the origin of the word 'malapropism'?
"Alas, no, I don't"
"Oh, I am surprised, as you are an entomologist."
William
Oh, right!
William
Travelling to England from Rome
She booked a holiday home
In a woodland chalet
She practised her ballet
And learned to pronounce the word 'some'I have some issues with this verse, unlike the second. This first limerick seems to be a collection of phrases cobbled together, with only the middle three bearing any relationship with each other, and none with the first and last lines. Also Why the word "some" - I work quite hard to find relevant rhymes.
Why not try: "Having tidied her hair with a comb", or even "And practised the dance Sugar Plum"
As she is from Rome, English is probably not her native language. So the word 'some' is what is called an eye rhyme, it looks like a rhyme, but is not.
So the limerick illustrates, by ending with an eye rhyme of 'Rome' and 'home', one if the many inconsistencies in the pronunciation of English words.
William
William wrote:I consider that we should not be prevented from discussing the mending of socks when that is done in good faith, but mentioning of the mending of socks should not be used as a way to depart from making one's best efforts to participate in the maintaining of a genteel environment.
William
A noble sentiment, perhaps, but how are such things to be policed (other than by self-censorship)? If I write “I hope these darned socks don’t need darning again soon”, depending on how you read it you might be offended by the adjective.
By using the Sergeant Wilson style approach of asking someone using such language if they could possibly try please in future to contribute more effectively to the genteel enviroment of the forum.
William
Since you allude to my novels by mentioning the names of two prominent characters, have you read this chapter?
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_019.pdf
What about that name?
William
I consider that we should not be prevented from discussing the mending of socks when that is done in good faith, but mentioning of the mending of socks should not be used as a way to depart from making one's best efforts to participate in the maintaining of a genteel environment.
William
However the first quoted part was not a rhetorical question.
Do people go around talking like that in their everyday lives, using, amongst other vulgar words, the s word?
For example, commenting in the hearing of a member of staff upon being advised that there is no 'whatever' in the supermarket.
William
My apologies, I had already changed my post before I saw your post.
You had quoted me before I changed it.
My mistake.
William
When I talk to people such language is never used. Not by me, not by others.
I only hear swearing on the BBC.
I find the use of the s word in films and on the BBC appalling.
For example, I started to watch the following programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b … -episode-1
There is s-word vulgarity in the first 90 seconds.
Was the s word necessary?
Does the BBC have a policy that drama must include the s word?
Some time ago I watched the first episode of a drama about autism. About 40 minutes a character, not anyone purported as being autistic, used the s word.
Do people go around talking like that in their everyday lives?
I consider that standards are important in society and that it is not silly to bother about such things.
I never use the toned-down terms that Jack mentioned either.
William
Should there be a policy on zero tolerance of bad language?
One post already used a word showing a letter, two asterisks and another letter.
A word such as 'rubbish' could have been used instead.
This is not the BBC, which seems often to need the s word in its dramas, unnecessarily in my opinion.
It makes it difficult to recommend a programme to a friend.
So I suggest a definite policy that this forum is a polite, genteel forum, where the culture is that only socially respectable language is used.
William
Travelling to England from Rome
She booked a holiday home
In a woodland chalet
She practised her ballet
And learned to pronounce the word 'some'
Sometimes when writing a song
It's like turning the radio on
With rhyme after rhyme
In double quick time
New music is made before long
William
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