Fringe Science

Not art or science BUT SPORT

ps I am getting “fatal error” when I submit my votes. Doubtless true in a “get a life” kind of a way but is something coded wrong?

and i quote:

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It is too early for such theorising – at this early stage of gathering observation I will only report that (at this time) 4 out of 40 people responded ‘yes’ to it

“There are no launderettes in Malmo but that doesn’t matter because people there who live in apartment blocks have shared washing machines in the basement.” Hilar!

Ah, wait a minute…

@11 That one’s actually pretty funny.

“Parking facilities in central London are both limited and expensive, but that doesn’t matter because most people use the pricey but reasonably reliable public transport system, including a reasonably comprehensive Night Bus service that runs after the Tube shuts down at about 12.30.”

Perhaps that joke was written by an earlier discarded prototype for this: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P11/P11-2016.pdf

There are a few too many boolean structural elements in that Comp Sci paper for me – although you have to love any report that includes the sentence “Let SN be an open set of sexually explicit nouns” – but the point seems to be that the computer gets it right only 71 per cent of the time when choosing to respond “That’s what she said!” to ostensibly innocuous remarks.

The robots may have got us beaten when it comes to playing chess, making cars or exploring Mars, but for adolescent humour humanity still reigns supreme.

The fact that people are querying the veracity of the “televisions and bookcases” quote does nothing more than draw attention to the irredeemably middle class worldview of the dissenter.

Writing as someone from a working-class background who lived in that world until he was over 30 and most importantly has a job which takes me into many working-class homes it strikes me as only slightly untrue in that it posits an idea that working-class homes even own a bookcase of any size.

Only someone with an idea of the working-class about as deluded as the average Guardian reader would beg to differ.

Very few such homes will have a bookcase and this includes the upper working (what used to be known as the “respectable”)working class not just the unskilled lower and underclass.

And “defences” of the working-class which include phrases such as “kicking them when they’re down” just reek of paternalism – like the lower classes want to have bookcases, and to not have books in their house means their lives are automatically lesser ones that require pity.

What a bunch of bloody snobs…

The secret to successful issue trolling is to pick a single issue and stick with it, BR. I’m afraid that in your eagerness to score points you’ve overplayed your hand. Sad, really.

hi dere – i will update this soon