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[rms]

I wonder what they call an actual robot over there (you know, what the rest of us think of when we hear the word.)



Good to know that I'm in Beograd. (I believe you call them semafori).

You got me B. I'm indeed from Singidūn. Game over. If winds of fate ever bring you to Minas Tirith, drinks are on me!

[SteveRiley]

The occasional display of a minor imperfection is an inevitable consequence of the accumulation of billions of years of adaptational anomalies that accrue throughout the continual evolution of any species on all worlds where life has arisen.

IOW, I fubar-ed!

[SecretCode]

My bad... when I wrote the quote, my brain momentarily spaced out and I thought I was replying to SecretCode. Oops.

Gentlemen, I believe we have caught Mr Steve Riley making a mistake.

[bsniadajewski]

I wonder what they call an actual robot over there (you know, what the rest of us think of when we hear the word.)

The one where semaphores/traffic lights and robots are not connected in any apparent way.

Good to know that I'm in Beograd. (I believe you call them semafori).

[woodsmoke]

I definitely learned something from the last few posts! lol

robot traffic lights...I wonder if they dream of electric parking meters?

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

My bad... when I wrote the quote, my brain momentarily spaced out and I thought I was replying to SecretCode. Oops.

The first time I visited South Africa, as the car was pulling away from the airport, I noticed a sign admonishing people to "wait for the robot." I asked the driver, "WTF? Do people go around pranking road signs in South Africa?" He laughed and explained that robot is the vernacular for traffic light.

[rms]

The one where semaphores/traffic lights and robots are not connected in any apparent way.

[SecretCode]

What country do you live in rms?

[rms]

@Steve, SecretCode

Wait, what have I said? What's with this robot thing? I don't get it either.

[SecretCode]

Wait, rms, do you live in such a nation??


It's short for "robot policemen", I have always assumed. But definitely a source of cross-cultural misunderstanding. Once when we were in London, Mrs SecretCode (who is SA born and bred) was asked by someone for directions. "You go up this way about a mile and turn right at the big robots," she said. They looked surprised though thankful, and drove off. Then she realised they might not have completely understood ...

[SteveRiley]

In all honesty, where I live,

Well, when a nation decides that the word robot is a suitable moniker for what everyone else on $DEITY's green Earth calls a traffic light, any reasonable expectation for cross-cultural understanding simply evaporates

[rms]

now, now, now.

The human body is designed for approximately 1800 calories per day.

One taco, of any sort, every few days will not make one fat.

However, eating about 24 cups of tofu, if one does not drink the recommended 7 or 8 glasses of water a day tofu has a lot of water in it ) or the obligatory multiple cups of yogurt, and green tea ( UN sweetened of course) and about a pound of Quinos sprouts, then one could probably become quite portly.

BTW I love Quinoa sprouts!


woodsmoke

Yeah, if one is an old school (no chainsaw) woodcutter than even more is permissible.

In all honesty, where I live, Taco Bell and Doritos are strangers just like Brahma is so I wouldn't know in fact. Judging the book by the cover. Anything fancy looking is a sugary suspect.

[SteveRiley]

Now there's a T-shirt slogan!

[SecretCode]

I've just had to look up what or who Brahma is, couldn't you have just typed God? lol

#!/bin/bash
god="Brahma"
if [ $god -ne "God" ]; then echo "Salvation not attained"

lower case variable name because it's definitely not a constant ...

[SteveRiley]

You know, I could have lived the remainder of my years in blissful ignorance of any unholy alliance between Doritos and Taco Bell. But no -- now I have persist with the knowledge that Tacorito Bell isn't just a figment of someone's imagination but an actual creation. I'm going to go throw up now.