You must not say duck

[phillip1882]

not what i ment, teach the poor about Christianity.

[chridd]

Aren't sheep herbivores?

[ratammer]

not what i ment, teach the poor about Christianity.

Oh. I'm not a Christian.

[phillip1882]

ah sad to hear.

i personally have no doubt there is a God. I don't understand why he lets bad things happen, but i'm certain he's there.
i believe Jesus is the salvation, but i think Buddhists have the best understanding of the mind.

[ratammer]

I see. I just don't believe anything very strongly.

[phillip1882]

i'm similar, there aren't many things i believe strongly, animal rights for example. yes we should strive to reduce suffering and not eating meat may reduce that, but meat is important to the diet in my opinion. i tend to lean republican, but if it wasn't for the government I'd be sunk, so i take the position with a grain of salt.

[ratammer]

I see.

[phillip1882]

anyway...
what's everyone's favorite movie?
i like shawshank redemption

[ratammer]

I usually say Airplane. It's hard to pick just one movie though. I like Disney films and MCU films.

[phillip1882]

i laughed the first time i saw that, but hardly laughed after that.

anybody here like homestarrunner?

[ratammer]

I love it!

[phillip1882]

such a silly show. I've seen every strong bad email response several times.

[ratammer]

Perhaps I should watch them again.

[phillip1882]

you gotta have blue hair!

teen girl squad! cheerleader! what's her face! so and so! the ugly one!

so how about some math to pass the time.

(-B+/- \|(B^2 -4*A*C))/2*A

[ratammer]

I got my maths degree 9 years ago and now I remember no maths.

[phillip1882]

i know what you mean, i minored in math and forgot most of what i learned.

checkers?

[ratammer]

Haven't played since I was a kid. We call it draughts here.

[phillip1882]

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you want white player 1 or black player 2?

[ratammer]

I don't think I want to actually play, sorry. (Maybe make a thread for it and someone else will join you?)

[chridd]

(-B+/- \|(B^2 -4*A*C))/2*A

-b ± √b² - 4ac
          2a

[ratammer]

Oh, that.

[phillip1882]

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
-Shakespeare

[ratammer]

I choose to be (a rat).

[phillip1882]

The hills are alive with the sound of music.

[ratammer]

My brain is always alive with the sound of music.