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Evenbit wrote:
> Beth wrote:
> > Michael wrote:
> > > Whatever floats your boat...
> >
> > Generally speaking, this would typically be a substance
usually
> > known as "water"...
>
> I guess that either an airship is NOT a boat, or an airship
NEVER
> floats!?
You guess incorrectly because, in your haste, you've failed to
note the words "generally speaking", "typically" and
"usually"...I was NOT stating that water is the only
substance...
In fact, if you had not been so hasty then you'd have noticed my
very next sentence starts with: "Though a number of _other
substances_ are also capable of floating a boat"...
Furthermore, if you were not a completely petty little arsehole
then you wouldn't have made a fool of yourself pedantically
criticising what is clearly a _JOKE_...
The colloquial idiomatic phrase "whatever floats you boat" is
NOT an actual reference to a real boat...indeed, the observant
will notice that "float" and "boat" _rhyme_...hence, "boat" has
nothing to do with anything other than it makes a
comically-sounding rhyming idiomatic phrase, to convey "each to
his own" in a more colloquial and "jolly" manner...
> > Though a number of other substances are also capable of
floating
> > a boat, they are rarely in sufficient quantities to justify
the
> > construction of a boat in the first place...whereas water is
> > found naturally occuring in immensely large quantities that
are
> > not easily bridged - oceans and lakes and so forth - that
tend
> > to inspire the creation of said boat devices for traversing
> > across their diameter...
>
> In the case of oceans, I'd try for the circumference...unless
you
> intend to be submerged, or are attempting to drill through the
Earth.
Well, U-boats may, indeed, intend to submerge...
But, nevertheless, you've failed to see my use of _plural_
("quantities", NOT "an...quantity"; "are"; "oceans and lakes"
(plurals); "their", third person plural possessive pronoun) and
the consequences of that distinction...the Atlantic or Pacific
_alone_ (as the plural demonstrates I was clearly separating
"ocean" from "ocean" and "lake" from "lake" rather than treating
all water on Earth as a single entity with my phrasiology) does
NOT form any form of elliptical shape...hence, no drilling
involved at any point...
Although, as "diameter" refers to the "transverse measurement
[...] of any form [...] from (one) side to (the other) side",
while "circumference" refers to the "enclosing boundary" (from
the Oxford Dictionary)...then, well, let's put it to the jury...
Who would prefer a boat from "BethTravel" that travels from one
side of the ocean to the other, heading in a straight line
across the ocean...or would everyone prefer "Nathan Ferries",
where you hug the coastline and ocean boundaries all the way
around (as you're following the "circumference" - or "enclosing
border" - of the surface of the ocean) only to, ummm, return
right back to where you started from?
Yes, indeed, the unique "Nathan Ferries" New York to New
York...via such diverse places as the Gulf of Mexico, the coast
of South America, the coast of Western Africa, the coast of
Portugal, up passed France and the Netherlands, Norway, passed
Iceland, Greenland, down passed Canada, New England and finally
back towards New York - taking in both Artica and Antartica as
you go - so that, ummm, after taking the ultimate "long way
round" the ocean, you've actually stopped exactly where you
started so the journey ultimately takes you nowhere...well, I
suppose it would make a really cool "cruise", perhaps...but I
don't think you'd get many takers that want _proper_
trans-Atlantic travel that _TRAVERSES_ the surface of the
Atlantic Ocean...
Yeah, I know...just to make your pathetic, pitiful point, you've
just decided to pretend you didn't comprehend that I was clearly
talking about the _surface_ of a _particular_ ocean...
Well, two can play at that game...not only is "circumference"
completely silly even on the surface of the ocean but I could
also try to be a smartarse and start pretending I thought you
meant the "circumference" of the Atlantic Ocean _in
profile_...oh, yeah, then you would need to also submerge your
boat to run along the ocean floor as well as to transverse the
surface...but, still, you return to where you've started...
"Diameter" was a bad choice of word, mind you...but not because
of the pathetic, pitiful, petty pedantic nonsense you've
invented to show that you're only interested in _attacking
me_...exactly as I originally predicted was your only purpose in
making your constant pedantic, pointless comments...thanks,
you've just proved that I wasn't in any way "unreasonable" or
"paranoid" to jump on your attacks in any way...because you're
NOT interested in "fact correction" whatsoever...you're
interested in simply attacking me, for whatever reason, and you
can try to now claim innocence of that...but this persistent,
pointless series of attacks is NOT going to convince anyone that
you're anything but 100% guilty of the accusations I charged you
with..."diameter" is a bad choice of word because "passing
through the centre" is usually implied in the "transverse
measurement"...well, there is, indeed, no compulsion to travel
through the exact centre of the Atlantic Ocean, for example,
while transversing its surface...if you really were interested
in "fact correction" then you would have got the true complaint
right, rather than, in fact, countering a "technical inaccuracy"
with a "logical nonsense of a technical inaccuracy"...
> []
> [BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The following is a test of the Emergency
FYI
> System. REPEAT, it is only an FYI -- not a correction!]
Dickhead...
> > crossing...and in gaseous form - as rainclouds - it can
>
> Water in gaseous form is called _water vapor_ and it is
invisable.
The spelling is "invisible", dickhead...
> Steam and rainclouds are made up of tiny water droplets. In
the case
> of clouds, water vapor condenses into water droplets that form
around
> tiny dust particles in the atmosphere. (this is why you find
black
> "pepper flake" specks in snowflakes)
Ah, so, the _visible_ part of a raincloud is water droplets but
there is also an _invisible_ part which is the water vapour
evaporating up towards those tiny dust particles to condense
into water droplets?
Hence, actual mistake: should be "in rainclouds", not "as
rainclouds"...great, so this is established...
You may now go and abuse yourself in celebration, dickhead...
> [BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The previous was a test of the Emergency
FYI
> System. REPEAT, it was only an FYI -- not a correction!]
You know, you initially appeared to be an intelligence and smart
person...this persistent attack on me personally (ignoring,
again, any and all "technical inaccuracies" elsewhere) is
altering that perception drastically...you are, in fact, a
complete dickhead...
My posting was, of course, made entirely for _HUMOUR_...I
repeat, it was for _HUMOUR_...a thing known as a "joke", which
you clearly have no concept of at all (well, if "BEEP! BEEP!
BEEP!" is your idea of a joke then won't be winning any praise
at a comedy festival, for sure)...
But, no, you probably did realise this...but as your only
intention here is to upset me with constant personal attacks
then, indeed, you probably delibrately chose to mount your
attack on my humourous reply, sensing I was in good
spirits...hence, as you only wish to sow misery and depression
to be some kind of "big man" then you set upon even what was an
obvious joke, only meant to life people's spirits...
Well, you have your wish...my attempt at humour just to lift
people's spirits has, indeed, been completely ruined by your
intervention...and you've made me feel completely useless when I
can't even do this without attack, that you've gotten me all
depressed again...well done...I Hope you're proud of your
achievements...
Dickhead.
Beth
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