Rolling Blackouts Coming

Bandidoz · Post by **Bandidoz** » 10 Sep 2009, 13:50

RenewableCandy wrote:Now Quantum Sock Tunneling (in which they go missing inexplicably and end up somewhere else altogether) is quite another issue...

Why is it that they never do this in pairs?

Ludwig · Post by **Ludwig** » 10 Sep 2009, 15:12

Bandidoz wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:Now Quantum Sock Tunneling (in which they go missing inexplicably and end up somewhere else altogether) is quite another issue...
Why is it that they never do this in pairs?

Maybe every sock that has come into contact with another sock in the factory becomes "entangled" with it. When a sock owner alters the property of a sock - for example, they change its "spin" by putting it the washing machine at 40 degrees - the partner sock, no matter where in the universe it is, immediately assumes the opposite property. The visible manifestation of this phenomenon is unmatching pairs of socks.

contadino · Post by **contadino** » 10 Sep 2009, 15:45

maudibe wrote:Ludwig mentioned mobile phones...just as a quick question (I dont own one believing they are spawn of the devil) anyone here anti-phone or doesnt own one through choice????

I know this could be a diff thread and really not on track for this forum...

But anyone fancy a rant?

LOL

McMobile

I have a mobile phone, but only because I can't get a telephone line out here in the countryside. Friends can't seem to understand that it's often switched off, or that when I go out I leave it at home. But faced with a couple of years wait and a bill for thousands of euros for a fixed line, it seems a logical option to opt for a cheap mobile.

Of course, in Italy, it is de rigeur to have your mobile soldered to your ear.

Totally_Baffled · Post by **Totally_Baffled** » 10 Sep 2009, 19:44

Sorry if I asked this before - but going back to the thread topic, if the UK said "bollocks" to the EU emissions targets - would the current fleet of coal powered stations keep the UK going?

Im not saying this is the right thing to do - but I think this is what will happen if we get anywhere near rolling blackouts due to coal powered stations being outside their allowed operating hours.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » 10 Sep 2009, 21:06

Your socks are still in the drawer as long as you're not looking for them.

Quantum Sock Law states that you cannot see the sock and know its position at the same time, the act of looking for it makes it appear somewhere else.

In laymans terms, you can either leave the sock drawer closed and know it's in there, or open the drawer and force it to be somewhere else. This explains why you will always find something when you're not looking for it.

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 11 Sep 2009, 03:26

Catweazle wrote:Your socks are still in the drawer as long as you're not looking for them.

Quantum Sock Law states that you cannot see the sock and know its position at the same time, the act of looking for it makes it appear somewhere else.

In laymans terms, you can either leave the sock drawer closed and know it's in there, or open the drawer and force it to be somewhere else. This explains why you will always find something when you're not looking for it.

So Schrodinger's cat was called "Socks" then? Well, that answers that question.

I solve the odd sock problem by buying socks in one colour...black.

Why do socks have to be in matching pairs? One on each foot is enough, after all, they're only going to end up in slippers/shoes/boots, so who cares?

The Sock Law of Mirror - for every odd pair of socks, there is an identical pair somewhere else. You just haven't found it yet.

Totally_Baffled wrote:Sorry if I asked this before - but going back to the thread topic, if the UK said "bollocks" to the EU emissions targets - would the current fleet of coal powered stations keep the UK going?

Probably not.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 11 Sep 2009, 03:41

Catweazle wrote:Your socks are still in the drawer as long as you're not looking for them.

Quantum Sock Law states that you cannot see the sock and know its position at the same time, the act of looking for it makes it appear somewhere else.

In laymans terms, you can either leave the sock drawer closed and know it's in there, or open the drawer and force it to be somewhere else. This explains why you will always find something when you're not looking for it.

I'd always put that down to Gremlins who hide what you are looking for until you have looked in the same place three times. Then they replace it.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 11 Sep 2009, 09:50

The knowledge of the odd sock problem is remarkably well established at all levels of society yet we clearly refuse to recognise the implications of that knowledge.

The rights to own and wear socks implies the responsibility to manage them and deal with the problem, even as those around you rarely discuss, let alone openly acknowledge these responsibilities.

It is a classic case of denial.

We can draw on historical experience to anticipate which defences we will adopt when we are confronted by our grandchildren demanding to know why we did so little when we knew so much. We can expect to see denial of knowledge (‘I didn’t know’), denial of our agency (‘I didn’t do it’), denial of personal power (‘I couldn’t do anything’, ‘no one else did anything’), and blaming of other agencies (‘it was the people with large sock collections', 'the Americans', 'the gremlins’, 'the cyclical warming of the sun' and so on).

As for The Great Quantum Sock Swindle, no more need be said...

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 11 Sep 2009, 20:42

kenneal wrote:
Catweazle wrote:Your socks are still in the drawer as long as you're not looking for them.

Quantum Sock Law states that you cannot see the sock and know its position at the same time, the act of looking for it makes it appear somewhere else.

In laymans terms, you can either leave the sock drawer closed and know it's in there, or open the drawer and force it to be somewhere else. This explains why you will always find something when you're not looking for it.
I'd always put that down to Gremlins who hide what you are looking for until you have looked in the same place three times. Then they replace it.

It's not that the Gremlins move the object itself, they move everything else around the object by exploiting loop holes in the Laws of Quantum Annealing and Uncertainty Principle.

Keela · Post by **Keela** » 11 Sep 2009, 22:01

syberberg wrote:I solve the odd sock problem by buying socks in one colour...black.

"Black socks!
They never get dirty -
the longer you wear them the stronger they get.
Some-times -
I think I should wash them -
but something inside me says -
'Don't wash them yet!'
Not yet
Not yet
Not yet!"

A little ditty learned at an American summer camp.......

BTW I love this thread.... I've nothing witty to add, but its made me chuckle several times now.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 14 Sep 2009, 09:30

Keela wrote: "Black socks!
They never get dirty -
the longer you wear them the stronger they get.
Some-times -
I think I should wash them -
but something inside me says -
'Don't wash them yet!'
Not yet
Not yet
Not yet!"

Reminds me of a story an RAF friend told how, when out on training in the desert, they had no change of clothes and no water to spare.

Day 1: underpants worn normal way round
Day 2: wear underpants inside out
Day 3: wear inside out underpants back to front
Day 4: turn outside in, wear back to front
Day 5: underpants worn normal way round
and so on.

That way, they're always cleaner than the day before.

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 14 Sep 2009, 09:44

kenneal wrote:
Catweazle wrote:Your socks are still in the drawer as long as you're not looking for them.

Quantum Sock Law states that you cannot see the sock and know its position at the same time, the act of looking for it makes it appear somewhere else.

In laymans terms, you can either leave the sock drawer closed and know it's in there, or open the drawer and force it to be somewhere else. This explains why you will always find something when you're not looking for it.
I'd always put that down to Gremlins who hide what you are looking for until you have looked in the same place three times. Then they replace it.

Brilliant thread. This little pearl of wisdom made me laugh out loud in the office.

I now understand more about life - thanks Ken.

(Can't wait to tell my wife - just explains so much!

)

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 14 Sep 2009, 11:06

My wife and I share a car. We each have our own keys, but sometimes swap driving on route. I instinctively hand over my keys to her in the transition. Later in the day, she will be driving with her keys, and mine will have vanished. I then spend several hours backtracking my route, pestering people I have visited, and generally panicking because the ring had the only key to my locked bicycle on it, until I double check my wife's handbag, when my keys have been magically secreted after my wife checked there three hours before.

Happens at least once a week.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 16 Sep 2009, 21:52

RalphW wrote:My wife and I share a car. We each have our own keys, but sometimes swap driving on route. I instinctively hand over my keys to her in the transition. Later in the day, she will be driving with her keys, and mine will have vanished. I then spend several hours backtracking my route, pestering people I have visited, and generally panicking because the ring had the only key to my locked bicycle on it, until I double check my wife's handbag, when my keys have been magically secreted after my wife checked there three hours before.

Happens at least once a week.

I'm sure there's something freudian there somewhere...