Testosterone overwhelms bullshit detectors.

[elfs]

The other day, Omaha and I were at a restaurant, and as we sat there I listened to the conversation behind me, one which encapsulated everything that's wrong with humanity in one utterly unreflective sentence:

If it brings out the beauty of life, why the fuck would you care if it's true?

Along the way, I also learned from the babbling young woman that Hiesenberg's Uncertainty Principle not only proves that telepathy is real, but that it validates the Tarot.

Grief, young men will listen to any amount of bullshit necessary to maintain the attentions of a pretty girl, won't they?

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[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Also vice-versa. Lots of women will put up with babblings by self-proclaimed Experts in Sex Magick or aficionados of Zeitgeist, etc., as part of the courtship ritual.

Nonsense is no respecter of gender.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

(Here via James Nicoll's friendslist; I don't think we've met.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

No, probably not, but you're certainly welcome to look around! I rarely lock posts anyway, so you're not missing anything.

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

A while back I was telling the boy (six then?) that he must take responsibility for something that he broke, when his actions quite clearly resulted in that breakage.

"Daddy," he argued, "Einstein's theory of relativity says that ANYTHING can happen at ANY TIME!"

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hah!

Did you tell him that he has it exactly backwards? Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is the one that enforces causality.

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

I'd have to ponder that one, but I did remark that he was thinking more along quantum lines. Still, if you're gonna bluff, might as well trot out Einstein.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

I think you mean that the Special Theory of Relativity enforces causality.

The General Theory of Relativity says: "Mass out there creates inertia here," amongst a few other things.

I don't know the details (the notation conventions alone for the math in GR is pretty tricky until you grok it), but from what I recall, conservation of energy-momentum and mass(gravity)==mass(inertial)¹ both just fall out of General Relativity. The thing that sticks with me about General Relativity, though, is how it ties inertial-mass (the "m" in "F=m·a") to the "gravitational charge" version of mass. Newton's First Law turns into a side-effect of the rest of the Universe having mass(gravitational), and therefore exerting a gravitational force on you, when all added up.

You see where I'm going with this?


Inertia is a result of the Universe resisting change. ^_^




¹(There is some wiggle-room on how close to equal gravitational-mass and inertial-mass are. But how big that tiny difference is … it's directly related to effects that GR kinda-sorta predicts. General Relatvity has a few, "Well, it might be this … then again, we could also have that-there going on …" areas. Another reason GR is so tricksy.)

[amindofiron.livejournal.com]

Very true and sadly I suspect this trait has been selected for since the dawn of language. :P

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I want to post you a link to Taylor's Mali's spoken word poem "Storm", on the subject of a young woman babbling similar nonsense, but I can't find it. It is epic, however.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It's not Taylor Mali, it's Tim Minchin: Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U).

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Ah, I couldn't find it because it is not Taylor Mali, it is Tim Minchin! Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Apparently, I owe you a Coke. There's one left in the fridge from Thanksgiving.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

1: Skinny, kinky, sane, choose any two.

2: Not all men choose "skinny and kinky".

3: I for one, am not one of those men. I don't put up with insane for the sake of women who happen to think I'm hot too.

4: Who said anything about him calling her back, ever?