| "Nothing important that wasn't an obvious downfall has happened since then." I don't know, I had thought that sending human beings to the moon was a step forward. "Edwardian Science and technology was the last time we actually had real progress in science and technology." Again, I had thought nanotechnology and computing theory and hundreds of branches of medicine and myriad other fields had been conceived of and advanced in the time since the Edwardian era. But you seem to know best, Lupole Boucher. "Social welfare programs like the Large Hadron Collider are brobdinagian, billion dollar avoidances of the Basic Question." This irritates me. Using obscure wording and speaking intentionally over your audience is a tactic used when you're frightened of your arguments (or lack of) being torn apart or exposed. (He didn't even spell "brobdingnagian" correctly, the prick.) I suppose there is some value to having read that, I can now use it as a cautionary tale and steer my life firmly away from the direction his seems to have taken. |
Is anyone else driven into fits of giggles by the sight of someone typing this phrase into the Internet?
Meanwhile, Wolfram Alpha continues to please. Google tells me that if you type the phrase "life expectancy France 1910" into Wolfram Alpha the number "51.37 years" comes out. 17.3% of French children born in 1910 failed to live beyond age ten! Someone should go back in time and explain to these kids, and their mothers, how great it is to live in a "high civilization".
(For the curious: The life expectancy number for the UK was 54 years in 1910. Alpha doesn't seem to return a contemporary result for the USA: it keeps giving me 1933 numbers, by which time US life expectancy was 61 years and the death rate by age 10 was only 8.4% in the USA. Modern numbers: France in 2006: 81 years, 0.48% dead by age 10; USA in 2005: 78 years, 0.87% dead by age 10.)