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# What
is a collection of water vapour?
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:26, archived)
# The best way I could think of describing a cloud.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:28, archived)
# Ooh.
I don't think she's projecting emotion. She just has a cloud that's following her around, like a jerk.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:30, archived)
# i've always favored the obscure but succinct phrase
'cloud'

/sarky bastard
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:30, archived)
# Heheh
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:32, archived)
# Ah, but where's the fun in that.
Philosophy taught me to always use the longer word when there is a straight choice.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:33, archived)
# yeah but philosophy also says
you can't prove that anything but yourself exists 'i think therefore i am'
so lets leave that there.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:35, archived)
# It also gave me the ability to argue about almost anything,
and for that I am grateful.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:39, archived)
# Philosophy is the best thing
which was possibly never invented.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:43, archived)
# philosophy
is the words on a cereal box
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:44, archived)
# ^ this
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:45, archived)
# As a case in point,
I have spent several hours of my life arguing about the differences between pies and tarts.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:47, archived)
# "How can you arbitrate what is a pie and what is a tart?"
"The concepts are only valid to us based on their nomative labels and words are not objective in any sense. If another culture inverts the words that does not make them wrong, nor would it if one man were to invert the words. The very concepts themselves are only subjective networks in which people can share the same ideas and concepts."
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:55, archived)
# Obviously we weren't hoping to place any kind of objective value on the labels 'pie' and 'tart'.
We were more interested in the every day usage.
I believe our conclusion was that if it is fully pastry topped it is a pie, otherwise, it is a tart.
In the special case of lattice tops, if the lattice covers more than, say, 50% of the area of the surface, it's a pie.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:57, archived)
# where do quiches fit in this?
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 22:32, archived)
# Hopefully, that can simply be defined as a tart with an egg based filling.
*considers*
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 22:35, archived)
# and what was the conclusion?
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:57, archived)
# See above for a breakdown of our results.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:58, archived)
# pies have a lid
tarts don't, but may have a lattice effect

case closed
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 22:10, archived)
# There were counter examples whizzing all over the place.
The lattice caused particular problems.
(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 22:11, archived)
# I wish to express my approval of this statement

(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:35, archived)
# the contents of George Bush's head

(, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 21:28, archived)