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@Wolfie_11 I'm going to level with you. I probably shouldn't say this, but @Karina-Kara, @cjko, @Lurker, @Zen00, @lego-batman and my bad self are all data analysts for a shady, CIA-style organisation, reviewing the personalities of TWS users and deciding who to save in the Star Ark before the solar flare destroys mankind. Wolfie: you're in.

Look at these guys. They think they've discovered a parallel universe, but actually it's just the place talkwithstranger.com adverts come from. The guy in the check shirt is phoning the President. WHAT AN IDIOT.

@Jeff9998 First of all, thankyou for giving me $100mil, illegal or not (I guess, what with Brexit n'all, that's about £70mil? Still thankyou). I think I would just buy loads of secondhand stuff from newspaper ads and newsagent windows. And if ever I needed an operation, I'd hire some backstreet henchmen, kidnap the children of some Bupa doctors and get them to do the surgery for free. IN YOUR FACE NHS.

I believe that Melvin Bragg and the whole 'In Our Time' posse did a whole half hour on St Anselm's Punt, and a podcast does exist, but @petrapark3r I'm unable to give you the link because I'm too cool and working class to use the BBC website.

It's a fascinating bit of logic, though, and win-win. If it's true, then bingo bongo jobs a good un. But even if it's flawed (and there are a couple of flaws, as I remember, I refer you to Bragg and his gang of nerds), it suggests that post-human logic can still be lassoed by the hobbledehoy and used from afar --and this is a good thing, because, if today's technological world has taught us anything, it's that algorithms are an easy-to-use bit of kit, and they have a snowball effect. At the minute, we only use them for marketing data, and financial chicanery, but imagine if we had an algorithm running somewhere in the background that dealt with such large, conceptual matters as God? It would be COOL.

I know it's something that Rainbow George Weiss is always farting on about, and as soon as he mentions it, he gets shut down. I'm less of a hippy than RG, though, and I reckon it's still something worth thinking about.

@nightshifter said in This is the Question of the day:

love Star Trek movies

This is how it works, I think: If you love Wrath of Khan, The Final Frontier, or The Undiscovered Country, you're a very discerning film scholar with impeccable taste. If you love any of the Next Generation films, yup, you're a nerd. If you love the JJ Abrams reboot films, you're just someone who watches sci-fi action films as standard. Basically, the moral is: you can't go wrong with Star Trek films.

@Karina-Kara Well, there's no easy answers, mate. I think you're extremely cool for even thinking about this stuff in the first place.

Love is just ...it's like ...what happens is, like, uh...

It's like when you're getting bevvied up, and you start getting the buzz, and you think, 'wow, this is cool', but then you worry that you might be turning sober again, so you redouble your efforts with the liquor, knowing that it will only lead to a hangover (knowing that the girl has certain fundamental personality traits that just won't synch up with yours), and then sure enough, the magic wears off and you wake up, not only sober again, but with a headache.

Fascinating. Glad I read this cos I was about to write my will & testament and leave my body to the Soylent Green factory.

What will the hobbledhoy do instead of having kids? I think they'll spend the whole time writing Fortnite fan fiction, and it'll get so sophisticated, it'll be like a Samuel Beckett play but with Fortnite combatants.

I wonder: are beautiful ladies and handsome men more or less trustworthy than the rest of us?

My reasoning on the question is all over the place. I don't know what to think. For a start, I know beauty is subjective, and in the eye of the beholder, but I'm talking about that classically beautiful look, as in ...good cheek bones, angled jawline, non-beady eyes. Y'know. Just beautiful, like Amber Heard, or Taylor Swift, or Gal Godot. I can't really speculate on what 'handsome' is in a man. Nigel Havers? Peter Crouch?

I know, probably, the correct answer is, 'Just take it on a person-by-person case' - but are you sure we can't take a general overview? What's the case on balance? It somehow amazes me that all beautiful women aren't evil ..and yet, in my personal experience, they're not. With my general dim view of humanity, I should be able to say, 'Well, they're beautiful, so obviously they can get whatever they want without making any concessions, and they don't understand give-and-take'...

And yet... the one or two strikingly beautiful women I've known have all been cool, and empathetic. How can that be? Is it just the case that if you're beautiful, you've got less to worry about in life, and you build up a stronger personality that way? Or do beautiful people automatically get beautiful personalities to match? And if that's the case, doesn't it make a shambles of 'It's what's on the inside that counts?'

Eh?

I haven't noticed this myself. I mean, presumably, the pervy disrespectfulness will die a natural death once the ladies stop responding to it, and the whole dynamic is replaced by the kind of verbose, Will Self-style essays which I always use in TWS conversations.

I hear you, @DarkIce69 Probably have topics that are more substantial than this current flirty, 'charades' stuff, but not so substantial that we all start hating each other like Twi tter. At least, until we all get to know each other better and I am democratically elected Supreme Leader.

What happens if mankind nukes itself or Earth gets schmashed by an asteroid while there's still people paying off their non-believer debts? Will they be reincarnated as outer space aliens?

If so, I want to come back as a facehugger, but only preying on female regional news readers.

Quiet week at work. To entertain myself, I decided to make a list of my top 50 favourite films. The criteria was, these would not necessarily be the best or cleverest films, just the ones I look forward to watching most.
I highly recommend it as an exercise if you’re bored. Just writing down a rough list of your favourites and the prioritising them? It’s like watching em in your head. GREAT FUN, bwoy.
But yeah. I know it’s weird there’s no Marvel. All I can say, I think they’d DOMINATE the 100-49 positions (at one point, Infinity War was 49, and then 50, now it’s probably 51). If there's any films you've never heard of, please don't think of me as a film ponce.
50. Jason and the Argonauts.
49. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
48. The Mist.
47. Gravity.
46. The Black Hole.
45. Heat (the Michael Mann film)
44. Pineapple Express.
43. Inception.
42. There Will Be Blood.
41. The Departed.
40. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
39. Millers Crossing.
38. Napoleon Dynamite.
37. Duck Soup (the Marx Bros).
36. Crimson Tide.
35. Rambo 1st Blood.
34. Blair Witch Project.
33. Return of the Jedi.
32. The Day the Earth Stood Still.
31. The Road.
30. Alien 3.
29. Solaris (original).
28. The Dark Knight Rises.
27. The Dark Knight.
26. Once Upon a Time in the West.
25. Dawn of the Dead remake.
24. Bladerunner.
23. Fight Club.
22. Enemy at the Gates.
21. Solaris (Soderberg remake).
20. Reservoir Dogs.
19. Alien.
18. Melancholia.
17. Robocop 2.
16. Robocop.
15. War of the Worlds (Speilberg)
14. Empire Strikes Back.
13. The Ninth Configuration.
12. Aliens.
11. Gladiator.
10. Waking Life.
9. Terminator 2.
8. Anchorman.
7. Pulp Fiction.
6. Wrath of Khan.
5. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky).
4. The Great Escape.
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating.
2. The Abyss.

1. Dawn of the Dead (1978).

@Bela-Hella Eh? Who says TWS is going down hill? There seems to be a lot of loved-up (I guess) teenagers, soliciting contact with other loved-up teenagers, but other than that, I like the mix of angst, and good times, and honest opinion. It's also (currently) a small enough pond that interesting contributors really shine through (big up to @Vanessa-Snow @existence @Karina-Kara - I really enjoyed the discussion where we conclusively solved the problems of God and Religion once and for all).

I don't the the attraction of Dis cord, though. A lot of my sillyboy gangs from Google Plus have migrated there. It seems very hard to navigate, and pretty soulless. But that could just be because I've got a stupid oversized soul.

I never made the alphabetic connection before; I just thought that 'Cleavage' derived from medieval times, when a man would be leching a woman in one of those frilly, low-cut blouses, and then she'd come at him with a meat cleaver.

Hopefully no celebrities will catch the Corona Virus, and if they do, none of them will die. But it's best to be prepared, isn't it?