Bita Banta

[tyler]

Trust me Maggie,you wouldn't!! Lol

[Patti]

Patti...wow,I know that one! Its from the Sound of Music isn't it?

Hahahaha I am 16 going on 17 la la la la la 

[grahameb]

Hahahaha I am 16 going on 17 la la la la la 

I am 66 going on 67 la la la la la.

[Alias]

I am 66 going on 67 la la la la la.

Hahaha, sweet! You´re funny! 

[lookout]

I am 66 going on 67 la la la la la.

Wish I was,,Grahame.  

[Caroline R]

I have moved all of the off-topic convo from last night into this thread. I will leave it on the main board so that if anyone feels the need to go off topic (which I know is highly unusual) you can simply come here for a bita banta and rabbit till your hearts content. 

[guest154]

Bita banta.

Bit of banter. 

Took me too long to work that out.

[Caroline R]

Bita banta.

Bit of banter. 

Took me too long to work that out.

I just wrote it phonetically, that's how I say it anyway!! 

[No-Bits]

I grant that it was said in the report but why did the raid team not put what Adam's should have told them in their original statement. Why leave the most important bit out?   

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

[No-Bits]

Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.

[Caroline R]

Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.

What hypothesis and who is this aimed at?

[No-Bits]

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

[Caroline R]

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

Aye!

[No-Bits]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

[No-Bits]

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.