My Fridays night ask me a difficult question thread.

[Random_Australian]

Sorry for how late it is people! (It was worth it)

Be serious, and no asking about intentionally way-to-arcane things like "What is time like inside the event horizon of a black hole"

But anyway, any problems at all, no matter how difficult. Tortuous life decision? Want to know why someone does/won't do something? Ask me anything!

Or we can just chat. It is fine by me. Also, you are allowed to ask mind-boggling questions, but be aware that the answer will then appear in the next weeks thread.

****NO ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE****

If you don't know what you want to ask, just tell me something you wish for. Simple.

Current record: 89

[MissHoneychurch]

1. Hey R_A

A very tough question to begin with: How far will Australia come in the World Cup?

[Random_Australian]

2. No idea, not a fan of soccer, but I would guess quarter finals.

[MissHoneychurch]

3. So you are not going to watch the games?

I am not a fan of soccer myself but I enjoy watching the World Cup.

[Random_Australian]

4. Rest assured, if the Aussies get far, then I will watch, in fact it is one

of two things I really want to watch, the other is that some friends are going to be in TV because of a program about smart people.

[MissHoneychurch]

5. And why aren't you in that program???

[Random_Australian]

6. It was shot over some years, I was dumb then, remember?

[MissHoneychurch]

13. Then they need to make a new program

with you in it. That would be just fair.

[Random_Australian]

15. sorry, I am too modest, despite these STRANGE pm's I have been

recieving to the contrary.

(Involved the words (from someone I have hardly seen on DU) "You just condescendingly SNAP your fingers and expect people to obey your commands for your petty enjoyment" So I'm like, uh, that's nice, when have I ever commanded people?)

[MissHoneychurch]

19. Please pm me who that is

that is really strange. Either that person is pissed at you for whatever reason or he didn't understand a joke of you.

[Random_Australian]

20. Sure, after I do a few last searches.

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Thanks for the pm

I answered.

So what are your plans for the weekend?

They have a World Cup show here in Frankfurt this weekend. I probably will go with a friend. Different countries are representing themselves with music and food and then there is a lightshow with music. They want to use our skyline as background for pictures.

[Random_Australian]

28. Clean and work is my plans for the weekend, I had parties the past two

days so it is ok. (3 3/4 hours of dancing straight on Thursday)

Hope the World Cup Show goes well. It sounds lovely.

[MissHoneychurch]

29. What music are you listening to?

Cleaning my apt and washing clothes are chores that I need to accomplish this weekend myself also. Ack, why does an apt gets so messy so soon when I am the only one living there?

[Random_Australian]

30. Strauss 'The Planets' (just one as I am tired)

The apt gets messy faster, I guess, because you don't want it to be messy for the other who is living there, so you set higher standards than you do for yourself AND/OR are more motivated to clean when they are there.

The alternative would be a secret that I would do well to keep. (A nice one)

[MissHoneychurch]

31. I live by myself

there is no one else. Of course I clean up more when I get visitors but I also clean up for myself.

And what is the alternative? Having someone else doing it? My apt is too small for that.

[Random_Australian]

32. Whoops! Different interpretation of "Ack, why does an apt gets so messy so

soon when I am the only one living there"

Anyway, this changes everything.

So, by yourself, gets messy quick....
Hmmmmmm, not quite as much my speciality; the best thing to do is watch & work out what creates mess the most OFTEN. That is my guess anyway.

[MissHoneychurch]

34. When I get home

I just leave my stuff where I drop it. I know my problems. But I got better over the years. Honestly :)

[Random_Australian]

35. That's cool, you only clean to keep a life in which you are happy, so

making yourself unhappy for the sake of cleanliness is not something you ought to pursue.

Have a nice day, almost beddy-byes.

[MissHoneychurch]

37. Then I wish you a wonderful weekend

and relaxing.

I will show up Monday but as it is a holiday for us I will probably do other stuff.

[Random_Australian]

38. Fair enough. I sleep now.

[xchrom]

7. what time is it inside the event horizon of a black hole?

[Random_Australian]

8. My apologies for not explaining this in more detail, but "Be serious"

was stated at the top of the thread......

Ah, don't worry about it, I get one every week. :)

So, how are you? Any thing wrong you want fixed?

[xchrom]

12. anything wrong i want fixed -- you don't want to know.

[Random_Australian]

16. Well, perhaps. I shall take you at your word, but if you ever need

comfort, at least that which the internet can give, I'm always here. :pals:

So, what is the weather like over there?

[xchrom]

22. muggy and foggy.

here in the bay area we have what is known as the june gloom -- fog sets in and doesn't burn off til midday -- that's the phase we are in now.

how about down under?

[Random_Australian]

23. LOVELY! Rain! Rain! It's so wonderful! I looooooooooooove rain!

Awesome stuff. It is even foggy in the mornings, I love it.

Cold weather, my favourite! Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

(You can tell I don't get much weather like this)

[xchrom]

26. are you in a normal cycle for rain this year?

[Random_Australian]

27. Not sure, just moved. But it is highly unlikely that we are going to get

normal rain (enough to keep the dams ok). Warragamba is down to about 48% I hear.

[tjwmason]

9. Is eternity simply the stretching of time to the infinte,

the squashing of time to the infinitesimal, or a concept not actually related to time?

[Random_Australian]

11. Eternity taken from the point of view who believes such a thing exists

Must be:
A) You may progress through it, such that while experiencing eternity, you are not in some static state; and
B) It must never end.

Therefore eternity is a sum of an infinite number of finite sections of time.

Eternity expressed as an infinitesmal implies that some finite time elapses, in which this infinite number of states happen, which can only happen if you can add together enough of these states such that they equal a finite time; therefore each is not simply stationary, they are also changing, like dericatives in math, and can be dealt with accordingly.

That was the quick version.

[LaurenG]

10. Who really runs the world governments?

Whose agenda is being worked out on the people of the world?

[Random_Australian]

14. The democratic process works as an algorithm, the person who leads

is the person who gets the most votes.
The person who gets the most votes is the person the most people voted for.
To cut a long and tedious story short, we all gradually choose bastards of genuinely competent people.

These pricks fuck it all up, but there is no big conspiracy.

Whose agenda? Every person has there own agenda; therefore the agenda that is bieng carried out on the people of the world is the agenda of whoever is in power.

Who are greedy powersluts, pretty much.

And to cut an even longer and somehow more tedious story short, capitalism helped for a while, but it is going through the same selection process with "who makes the most money" instead of votes, so they are growing in power and are going to screw us all over.

[riona]

17. Why

do most of the people I automatically like best turn out to be Dems - even though I didn't know it at first?

[Random_Australian]

18. You liked their attitude, you liked the way they presented themselves to

the world, and most of all you liked the way they treat others. Your standards for these three pick dems up much more often than repubs, even though they make no mention of politics.

[riona]

21. a favorite quote

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

[Random_Australian]

24. Until just recently I had someone famous in my sig saying

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whos shade you do not expect to sit"

Wonderful saying, I love these two. (Yours & mine).

And a great way to live.

[rug]

33. Why is Bush doing what he is doing?

[Random_Australian]

36. Why shouldn't he? It gives him + friends money, power, he has learnt

not to care about the little guy, and is making the most logical decisions. He wants some need to be fulfilled, for some reason he can't do it (I would hazard a guess at "he does not know what it is") that he thinks will be solved by more money and power.

And the selection mechanism for democracy eventually picks media pricks over people who are actually competent.

It was bound to happen eventually.

[Random_Australian]

39. All further responses answered later. Goodnight all!

[Random_Australian]

40. I'm back!