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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:12, archived)
# well, what if the world blew up -- RIGHT NOW
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:13, archived)
# With enough plutonium and a centrifuge we could do it man.
You talk to the libyans and I'll jury rig a blender.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:18, archived)
# exactly how many Libyans will you need
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:01, archived)
# nice!
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:08, archived)
# Wow, it's a hippy APC! :D
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:27, archived)
# Very nice!
but it would need a much better engine than stock.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 4:29, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:24, archived)
# Planet X is approaching -- YAY!
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:01, archived)
# Looks a lot like my Tumblr.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:15, archived)
# My Tumblr Drylr is broken at the moment. My house is full of damp clothes :(
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:19, archived)
# At least you've got one! I dry my clothes on a pulley.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:22, archived)
# Does he have one? Is an object defined by its purpose still the same object when it can no longer serve that purpose?
Surely a hammer that no longer hammers can no longer be a hammer.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:24, archived)
# A tool is a tool.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:25, archived)
# Not if you can't use it for anything.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:26, archived)
# Then it's a useless tool.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:30, archived)
# Exactly - sort of. The definition of a tool is an object used by a person (or animal/entity) for a specific aim, end or purpose.
If it no longer meets this criteria then it is no longer a tool. The same with the hammer and tumble dryer, if they no longer hammer, or tumble dry then they're no longer hammers or tumble dryers.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:32, archived)
# so what are they?
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:33, archived)
# Objects. Lumps of metal on broken sticks. Metal boxes full of burnt out components.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:35, archived)
# Well that would certainly clear things up at the repair shop:
"Yeah - I need a new part for a metal box full of burnt out components"
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:37, archived)
# "I can't really tell you what the part is because until it is in use it's just a meaningless collection of bits of metal and stuff"
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:39, archived)
# Or, if you're not being stubborn, you say I need a new part for what used to be my tumble dryer.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:40, archived)
# And what do you call the part?
If it's never been used, then you can't describe what it used to be.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:46, archived)
# We covered this.
www.b3ta.com/board/10681486
Then Mothra pwned me.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:47, archived)
# Yeah, he did, didn't he.
+1 for taking it like a skin-bag full of organs and bones that used to be a man.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:52, archived)
# I'd take that further and say
it's possible to take the position that objects are defined solely by their present use. So a hammer in a toolbox is not a hammer, it only becomes a hammer when you hammer something with it.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:30, archived)
# I'd take it further still and say that the role of the object is actually defined by the opinion of the user/observer.
The un-used hammer in a toolbox is still a hammer because its owner KNOWS it can hammer when called upon.
The rock becomes a hammer when the monkey realises it can hit other monkeys with it. It wasn't a hammer before then, and once the other enraged monkeys tear the hitty monkey apart it will cease to be a hammer.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:34, archived)
# In conclusion then
you're a tool, because everyone knows you are.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:37, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:39, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:40, archived)
# He looks good, but I don't think he'll ever fill the original's didgerdo :(
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:41, archived)
# What if you were never told you're a human?
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 4:47, archived)
# shroedingers hammer!
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:55, archived)
# Is that the one he killed the cat with?
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:57, archived)
# Or not.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:58, archived)
# Well, it USED to be a cat.
Now it's pâté.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:59, archived)
# Whoa man, Whoa! You just blew my mind man!
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:57, archived)
# just wait till you see his kfc bargain bucket
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:05, archived)
# Haha
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:59, archived)
# At least you have clothes! I have to sew soiled nappies together with tampon strings.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:27, archived)
# Wait, aren't you a doctor? You should be rolling with monies.
Buy a new damn dryer.
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:30, archived)
# lots of goodness and goofs
now zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:33, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:58, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 1:59, archived)
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(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 2:13, archived)
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i tried to make my left eye look at the left one and my right eye the right & I shit out my teeth
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 7:58, archived)
# Bosch!
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 4:31, archived)
# This is in my head when i wake up, thank you for making it into a picture
thank you
(, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 4:36, archived)