What is the Universe expanding into..

[nigelwright7557]

The Universe doesnt exist.
Its just mans model of his environment in his mind.

One thing more amazing than the universe is the concept of consciousness.
Why am I me and not someone else ?
Given there were a million sperm how come I exist ? and if another sperm fertilised the egg I wouldnt have existed. What if my mother never met my father ?
The chances are I shouldnt be here but I am.

 

[Galu]

The chances are I shouldnt be here but I am.

Nature only cares that someone has been reproduced.

The fact that it turned out to be you is just a stroke of good luck!

 

[Galu]

Isn't Norway the land of the midnight sun?

I meant to say, KaffiMann, that one of my secondary school friends had a Norwegian mother.

Her relatives sent him a fantastic Norwegian cardigan one Christmas, the likes of which his classmates could only dream of owning.

When he wore it, he looked just like Bruce Welch of the Shadows on their first album cover.

He had inherited his mother's Scandinavian good looks too, the lucky sod!

 

[Disco-Pete]

Yep. My wife was below directing. Those two big stumps were the learning curve; steep, no pun intended. I have new respect for lumberjacks! I chopped off the top of the first one way too low when it was still 16in in dia., my wife's fault. I'm calling down to her, "is this high enough"? Her..."I,I don't know". Me... "well is it!? Her..."y,yeah, I think sooo". Well when that huge upper half came down it luckily just took out one stair tread. I at least cut the wedge out on the correct side. After that I worked my way up to the tops.

 

[benb]

Lust on the Bridge - YouTube

 

[Galu]

Thanks benb, that's a luscious lineup of Star Trek: The Original Series beauties!

 

[Galu]

"Spock's Brain" was shown on TV this evening.

Medical inconsistencies aside, since when was 'Advanced Ion Drive' superior to 'Warp Drive'?

Spock's Brain (episode | Memory Alpha | Fandom)

 

[system7]

As a keen observer of the Star Trek Universe, I notice that Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) claims to have not snogged Captain James T. (Tiberius) Kirk:

A Conversation with Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura (1994) - YouTube

A damned lie as I hope to prove.

Here it is:

Kirk and Uhura's kiss - Wikipedia

QED, as we Mathematician's say.

 

[Disco-Pete]

snogged

can you please elaborate for those of us across the pond?

 

[Galu]

Steve, According to your Wikipedia reference, Uhura claims the exact opposite!

"William Shatner recalls in Star Trek Memories that NBC insisted their lips never touch (the technique of turning their heads away from the camera was used to conceal this). However, Nichelle Nichols insists in her autobiography Beyond Uhura (written in 1994 after Shatner's book) that the kiss was real, even during takes in which her head obscures their lips."

It's not clear to me that their lips are touching, even in high resolution.

 

[Galu]

can you please elaborate for those of us across the pond?

The verb snog is British slang for kiss, cuddle, or make out.

 

[gpauk]

snog is very much a proper kiss.... not a peck, and a cuddle just doesn't count..

 

[KaffiMann]

IMO a cuddle would be what's sometimes expected afterwards ahem...
I sometimes have to remind the kids that:
E har rett te å kline me kona mi, vi e gift! (Dialect, different wording, intentionally incorrect grammar)
I'm entitled to snog with my wife, we're married!

 

[Disco-Pete]

The verb snog is British slang for kiss, cuddle, or make out.

So a pseudonym for 'snot'?

 

[Galu]

Nasal mucus?

Glad I'm not married to you!

 

[Disco-Pete]

Nasal mucus?

Glad I'm not married to you!

Surely you understand the premise of my post. Vernacular is developmental, no? I'm just curious, no offense.

 

[system7]

I didn't make much progress with the etymology of snog, but uncovered something about snot...

I suspected it's a Germanic (OHG) word, but perhaps became corrupted by the Viking Invasion. Snorre in Old Norse needs no explanation:

Gomol snoterost, fyrngearum frod, se þe ær feala gebideð.

An old person is wisest, sage with years, that are experienced much.

Or, IMO, more idiomatically: Oldie wise, many years experienced, that all felt and endured.

Clearly, Tolkien was playing an elaborate Anglo-Saxon joke with the name "Frodo" in "Lord of the Rings".

Onwald mæg wel reccean se þe ægðer ge hiene habban con ge wiðwinnan.

He wields power well who can both hold and resist it.

https://twitter.com/OEWisdom

Anyhoo, Star Trek Stamps dropped through the letterbox today. And splendid they are. A significant investment for the Future, one feels. Will be worth Millions at Sotheby's in years to come (If kept pristine, and in original packaging).

 

[Deaf Guy]

If the universe is a fluid like snot, then I still maintain that it is expanding to take the shape of the container its in -- a dixie cup.

 

[Galu]

...uncovered something about snot...

Then you'll know that a "bogey" is a piece of dried or semisolid snot.

Dried nasal mucus - Wikipedia

At school, we used to taunt each other with the cry "If you think that's a bogey it's not!".

Now, that doesn't quite make sense unless you express it verbally!

 

[Galu]

Anyhoo, Star Trek Stamps dropped through the letterbox today. And splendid they are. A significant investment for the Future, one feels. Will be worth Millions at Sotheby's in years to come (If kept pristine, and in original packaging).

I hate to disillusion you, Steve, but sheets of stamps which are themed are sold in their thousands.

They are hardly ever worth anything significant unless, of course, they contain a rare stamp error.

In common with most boys in the 1950s, I had a stamp collection.

They say that philately will get you nowhere, and this turned out to be the case for me!

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Stamp collecting, tackety boots and 2 bob Airfix kits - happy days!