FACT

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:23, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I'm tempted to disagree.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:25, Reply)

I'm tempted to make a list of things I need to hit you for.
So I don't forget any. Don't make me add to it.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:27, Reply)

put it in an excel spreadsheet and mail it over to me.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:30, Reply)

No.
Need to pack. Train leaves soon.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:31, Reply)

I thought you were getting the bus?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Nah, train worked out only slightly more expensive
So I figured it was worth the extra five quid.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:37, Reply)

You're going to go through milton keynes
I expect you to stand up and wave like a nutter while you go through.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Joy of joys.
I wonder if it's not too late to get a bus ticket.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:45, Reply)

You'd still drive past it on the bus
probably even closer to my office actually.
I'm going to start waving in the direction of the train track, what time are you getting to london?
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:47, Reply)

About quarter past two

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Ok, I'll stop waving then.
Probably wont get to speak to you before tomorrow see you in london.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I'm off now.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:57, Reply)

Safe journey, see you tomorrow!

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Bye see you soon.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:01, Reply)

^ this is extra creepy

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:04, Reply)

:(
I was trying to be nice.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:05, Reply)

I just read it in a monotone voice
imagining a creepy smile on your face and unblinking eyes.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:22, Reply)

Licking his lips...

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:22, Reply)

Of course you are, you're a contrary bitch.
You can't help it.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:27, Reply)

yet you can't find
any rational scientific reason as to why this would not be so. That makes it FACT
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Well I was going to go for the argument
that the predicting isn't hard in itself but that fact that weather is a chaotic system makes it very hard to measure accuratly enough.
Forecasting is not hard, I do it all the time, but forecasting weather is immensly difficult.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:30, Reply)

I understand that,
it just seems that the weather forecasters here seem keen on making it look like it'll be a mild winter, forecasting a week of days at 15, 16 degrees. There has not been one day since saturday where we have gotten above 12 degrees.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:32, Reply)

They do their best but it's still going to have 10-20% margin of error even on a 5 day forecast.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:36, Reply)

where did you pull that percentage from eh? ;-)

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:40, Reply)

from my stats pocket.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:41, Reply)

ahhh well that explains everything.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I'd disagree
but mainly the terminology

my work involves prediction, the science is really quite exact, it's just that the data isn't available or isn't up to the job a lot of the time
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:28, Reply)

yeah that's basically the road I was going down.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:30, Reply)

I thought as much

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:31, Reply)

You seemed to have upset bert last night?
Have you noticed yet?
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:32, Reply)

nope
link?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:36, Reply)

here you go you "beardy twat"
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post757363
(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:37, Reply)

blimey

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:41, Reply)

indeed, you've ruined the internetz

(PsychoChomp, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:43, Reply)

apparently so
in spite of his valiant attempts to save it by harping on about how this place has become shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Like a lot of people on /talk do

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:46, Reply)

no, they always thought it was shit
and most likely wouldn't take the internet seriously enough to freak out at someone calling them unfunny a few times.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I think the reply far outstripped the original joke in severity
and the original joke was quite funny.

I still clicked his flounce though
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:57, Reply)

I don't quite get what you mean
definitely a clickworthy flounce. I'm not going to though. That would just be wrong.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Hhahaha!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:02, Reply)