French fast food caters to Muslims

Frank wrote on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:52:37 GMT:

FFM If you look at either the hindu or arab numerals there is
FFM little connection to the digits which we use. I've
FFM forgotten the exact reference to the article which I
FFM remember but it was in Isis (I think) about 25 years ago.

It's not so obscure as all that! If you take a look, perhaps
in Windows XP, at an extensive font like Courier New and show a
little imagination you can see connections. For their
convenience, the Europeans rotated some of the numbers thro' 90
degrees and interchanged some of the symbols but those for 1, 2,
3, 4 (in the later form), 6 and 9 are recognizable, 5 has become
our zero symbol and the symbol for 8 our 7. Interestingly, the
normal Arab decimal point is the comma as on the European
mainland and where our symbols for 5 and 8 came from, I don't
know.



James Silverton.

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:27:37 +0200, Magda
wrote:

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:09:44 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, DDT Filled Mormons
arranged some electrons, so they looked like
this :

... On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:37:45 +0200, Mxsmanic
... wrote:

... Many women experience pregnancy and delivery without ever
... understanding how it works. Many parents raise their children purely
... through random trial and error, with predictably dismal results.
... Experience teaches parents very little. They will even repeat their
... mistakes with multiple offspring.
...
... Since when does no-one learn from the experience?

Don't read so fast. He said "many parents", not "everybody".

No-one could refer to just one then, could it not?
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Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

You simply don't know what you're talking about. Children don't behave
like Mr Spock, no matter what their intelligence or education. They act
impulsively and irrationally. That's why we don't let them vote, drive,
or practice brain surgery.

Children behave just as adults do; the only real difference between
children and adults is that children have less experience in life
(generally). The intelligence and reasoning ability a child has will
remain the same throughout his life, and stupid children grow into
stupid adults. Likewise, smart children grow into smart adults, and
they are smart all their lives.

Children are marvels of applied logic. They behave in an extremely
logical way, with virtually no sign of irrationality. Only adults,
with their accumulated neuroses and other psychological problems, tend
to occasionally behave in what seems like an irrational way.

Anybody with practical experience of dealing with children is well
qualified to judge whether what you say is true or not.

But keep on theorising - it keeps me laughing.

G;

Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Children less perfect than you often simply don't uderstand what it
means to be squished by a car, so the lesson is pointless.

They understand when it is explained to them.

No they don't. How do you explain to a child what it means to be dead?

G;

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:02:52 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

writes:

Children less perfect than you often simply don't uderstand what it
means to be squished by a car, so the lesson is pointless.

They understand when it is explained to them.

"you see first that black round thing rolls over your belly, and then
your insides come out your mouth and potty hole"

Do you really want a kid to hear that?
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:05:04 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

writes:

You simply don't know what you're talking about. Children don't behave
like Mr Spock, no matter what their intelligence or education. They act
impulsively and irrationally. That's why we don't let them vote, drive,
or practice brain surgery.

Children behave just as adults do; the only real difference between
children and adults is that children have less experience in life
(generally). The intelligence and reasoning ability a child has will
remain the same throughout his life, and stupid children grow into
stupid adults. Likewise, smart children grow into smart adults, and
they are smart all their lives.

Children are marvels of applied logic. They behave in an extremely
logical way, with virtually no sign of irrationality. Only adults,
with their accumulated neuroses and other psychological problems, tend
to occasionally behave in what seems like an irrational way.

This is something you don't actually know, but are making up by
extrapolating the imagined algorithym you have constructed in your
head of the world outside.

By your definition you could simply state that all behaviour by kids
is logical - by definition.
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wrote:

How do you explain to a child what it means to be dead?

How do you explain it to anybody? Start with the inherent
contradiction between "be" and "dead".

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The return address has been MUNGED

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Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Children less perfect than you often simply don't uderstand what it
means to be squished by a car, so the lesson is pointless.

They understand when it is explained to them.

No they don't. How do you explain to a child what it means to be dead?


Buy them a nice cuddly bunny rabbit and a sharp knife.

Magda wrote:
On 13 Sep 2005 12:12:29 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
electrons, so they looked like this :

...
... Mxsmanic wrote:
... writes:
...
... Children less perfect than you often simply don't uderstand what it
... means to be squished by a car, so the lesson is pointless.
...
... They understand when it is explained to them.
...
... No they don't. How do you explain to a child what it means to be dead?

I did it to a 2.5 year old once. He wanted me to make a dead snail move around, I told him
why I couldn't. He got it.

Funny how the childless ones are always experts at parenting.

G;

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:34:15 +0200, Magda
wrote:

On 13 Sep 2005 12:12:29 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
electrons, so they looked like this :

...
... Mxsmanic wrote:
... writes:
...
... Children less perfect than you often simply don't uderstand what it
... means to be squished by a car, so the lesson is pointless.
...
... They understand when it is explained to them.
...
... No they don't. How do you explain to a child what it means to be dead?

I did it to a 2.5 year old once. He wanted me to make a dead snail move around, I told him
why I couldn't. He got it.

Did you use the same reasoning with the meatloaf later on?
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