Clocks do not measure TIME They indicate AGE from one arbitrary moment to another arbitrary moment Clocks can be used to pick your arbitrary moment (s) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Read The Invention of Time and Space by Patrice F. Dassonville ******* Chapter 3 digs deeper into these issues, which are related to the failure of dialectics. It outlines the confusion between time and event, and describes the semantic disorder concerning the duration of the ongoing (or present) time, countless metaphors, aphorisms, sophisms, truisms, and so forth, including artifacts (i.e., conceptions based on an idea, such as a clock or a clepsydra, used to evaluate the duration between two events). A clock is a device whose functioning is correlated with the configuration of the Sun and Earth (Fig. 3.1). When used as clocks, the rhythms of nature do not generate time. A clock does not produce time and it does not consume time; the time displayed is subject to strict international conventions. The idea (concept) of measuring changes (phenomena) is made concrete by the invention of the clock (artifact): this is conception or design, i.e., the materialization of a concept through the gnomon, sundial, clepsydra, and clock. Consider what Petronius (?–65 AD) said: … a clock near which a “bucinator” (latin word for a “trumpet player”) warns us of the flight of the days, and time gone by ([11]: XXV). Days and hours cannot be measured; it is changes that are measured. Chapter 3 The Failure of Dialectics Abstract The failure of the dialectics of time and space has various origins: • The confusion between time and event, e.g., the confusion between past time and past event. • The non-rigorous use of language, e.g., questions like the duration of present time. • The difficulty in understanding the difference between a phenomenon which belongs to physical reality, and the corresponding mental construct or concept, e.g., we measure changes instead of hours. • The dichotomy between time and space, attempting to make time, space, and spacetime, physical realities. • The countless metaphors in which time has an active role (dynamics of time, action of time, arrow of time), and in which space has a materiality. The Invention of Time and Space by Patrice F. Dassonville **** The extracts do not do it justice Read if you can Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Don't get your knickers in a knot Anyone here Ever gone out Obtained a knot Put their knickers inside? Or bought them pre packed inside a knot? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I say I'm thirteen at heart but my legs are a hundred and thirteen and the rest of me is somewhere in between.
No but in Britain we speak of getting one's knickers in a twist rather than a knot. Some girls' knickers are sufficiently insubstantial that I can imagine them getting twisted, giving rise to an uncomfortable "dental floss" effect. I had always assumed this was the origin of the expression. Perhaps we need a woman's perspective on this, though.
I've heard either from British folks, but you've the experience. Ever heard of a wedgie? The trick is to pull hard enough so they don't rip away, but still leave friction burns. Or to flip the recipient off his feet. I can't imagine doing that to a woman. There are easier ways...
I can think, with zero effort, since it's rarely far down my subconscious, of one spectacular exception.
Stupid sayings right? God is Not well known and if not on any list of stupid sayings it should be added Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
/// IF somehow I became convinced some god exists, that saying would yet be utterly frigging stupid. "I did not say god exists. I said god is." <>
To those of us Brits of a certain age, "wedgie" means only one thing: our one time far left nutcase Labour minister, Anthony Wedgewood-Benn. So I had to look this up. Wiki has pictures of it being done to both sexes. A Melvin sounds painful. As for a Minerva, well maybe that is too. In our family we used to use the expression "starsky" to denote anything that painfully compressed the gonads, after a story that in the TV series Starsky and Hutch the actor ruptured a testicle leaping over a car, due to his tight 70s trousers. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Later, the term was redeployed, Cockney slang style, to mean a small city flat, rented for the purpose of carrying on an illicit affair. As in a f***- hutch.
To be fair, the saying is really the other way around: Nothing worth doing is easy. But that's also untrue.
i asked everyone and no body said anything statistically this is highly improbable for 2 reasons 1 it would be impossible to ask everyone 2 if you managed to ask everyone at least 1 person would have said something even if unrelated.