is there an answer?

marble

if a man tries to fail and succeeds,does he fail or succeed?

just thought i'd throw that one out there:D

Quazzie

This thread succeeds!!

Sea Sharp

Depending on how you interpret it. If you suggest "fail the task" as the task then he succeeded. If you just leave it as task, then he failed it.

Obviously :rolleyes:

Kimbot

Which came first.....

The chicken or the egg?

Biggins

Aaa what? I'm lost!

Who the heck tries to fail and where can I find the sad sod to put him out of his pain!

easy - he succeeds to fail

Sea Sharp

Which came first.....

The chicken or the egg?

Taking evolution into consideration, that depends on when chickens first evolved. Probably speaking, laying eggs was a habit of the chickens ancestors, therefore the egg came first. As the term 'egg' doesn't necessarily have to be a chicken egg

Obviously :rolleyes:

mormank

marble wrote: »

if a man tries to fail and succeeds,does he fail or succeed?

just thought i'd throw that one out there:D

the question is flawed. it can however be broken down into two parts. he succeeds at the task in hand which in this case was failing..so yes he succeeds, however as he was tryin to fail, he does fail. the two are not linked as such.

take the question as if a man tries to X and succeeds does he succeed?? obvious answer. the fact that X = failure does not change the simplicity of the answer imo...

mormank

oh and the chicken came first of course...its like asking which came first the human or the feutus?? feutus couldnt exist without the human so easy answer really

AlmightyCushion

The real question is if he fails at failing can we post a fail pic?

mormank

oh and just to knock another one of these silly questions out of the park...if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound??? that old nugget..answer = no. it makes a vibration which then in the presence of a persons ear is converted into sound by the ear drum so the answer is no it does not make a sound...

any other silly questions???

Biggins

mormank wrote: »

the question is flawed. it can however be broken down into two parts. he succeeds at the task in hand which in this case was failing..so yes he succeeds, however as he was tryin to fail, he does fail. the two are not linked as such.

take the question as if a man tries to X and succeeds does he succeed?? obvious answer. the fact that X = failure does not change the simplicity of the answer imo...

O yea. I get it now!

AlmightyCushion

mormank wrote: »

oh and the chicken came first of course...its like asking which came first the human or the feutus?? feutus couldnt exist without the human so easy answer really

No it's not. The egg the very first chicken came from, would have came from something that was not quite a chicken. It came from a creature that was an evolutionary step behind the chicken.

AlmightyCushion

mormank wrote: »

oh and just to knock another one of these silly questions out of the park...if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound??? that old nugget..answer = no. it makes a vibration which then in the presence of a persons ear is converted into sound by the ear drum so the answer is no it does not make a sound...

any other silly questions???

What happens if there is a microphone recording in the forest the day the tree falls. There is still no-one about to hear it but if you listen to the recording of that day you will hear a sound.

Earthhorse

You shouldn't have to try to fail, you either have it or you don't.

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

No it's not. The egg the very first chicken came from, would have came from something that was not quite a chicken. It came from a creature that was an evolutionary step behind the chicken.

exactly. is evolution really that difficult to comprehend? :rolleyes:

themadchef

This thread makes me feel like now is a good time to do the ironing.

Biggins

The next easy question on the end of year test is:

Write in 400 words or less a workable solution to the Middle East crises in relation to the Afghanistan war and the Iraq invasion. Please explain how they all have simple road maps for peace and explain who's doing the driving on them! Please use graphs where necessary.

Random

Please see here. Your question is null and void.

Pherekydes

The chicken came first. Eggs don't come at all.

Sea Sharp

What is the purpose of rhetorical questions??

AlmightyCushion

Biggins wrote: »

The next easy question on the end of year test is:

Write in 400 words or less a workable solution to the Middle East crises in relation to the Afghanistan war and the Iraq invasion. Please explain how they all have simple road maps for peace and explain who's doing the driving on them! Please use graphs where necessary.

Easy. Nuke 'em all.

tony1kenobi

mormank wrote: »

oh and just to knock another one of these silly questions out of the park...if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound??? that old nugget..answer = no. it makes a vibration which then in the presence of a persons ear is converted into sound by the ear drum so the answer is no it does not make a sound...

any other silly questions???

I have one. How do we know nobody was there when the tree fell?

Biggins wrote: »

The next easy question on the end of year test is:

Write in 400 words or less a workable solution to the Middle East crises in relation to the Afghanistan war and the Iraq invasion. Please explain how they all have simple road maps for peace and explain who's doing the driving on them! Please use graphs where necessary.

Two words.....John Rambo.

You can use the other 398 words as makeshift bodybags.

Biggins

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Easy. Nuke 'em all.

A clean start might be the only eventual solution. I can't see it ending any other way.
I won't ask what started it all (that would just be starting another long argument line of opinion posts)
...but just when did all this mess kick off and how long has it been going on?

Update: on further thought, this is not the thread for this serious stuff.
I withdraw the question. Heck, I'm still popping out of my bunker to post once in a while.

marble

Deleted User wrote: »

easy - he succeeds to fail

so he failed then:pac:

tony1kenobi

Biggins wrote: »

A clean start might be the only eventual solution. I can't see it ending any other way.
I won't ask what started it all (that would just be starting another long argument line of opinion posts)
...but just when did all this mess kick off and how long has it been going on?

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away............

sillymoo

This thread = FAIL

Steve

themadchef wrote: »

This thread makes me feel like now is a good time to do the ironing.

Oh, the ironing...

sillymoo wrote: »

This thread = FAIL

yep.

mormank

how do we know that the first chicken was even from an egg in that case?? could be the other way round..

besides sthe worst thing about being a chicken is that you only get laid once in your life and its by your mother!!!

oh and we cannot know for certain whether or not somebody was around to witness the falling of the tree...i suggest we start canvassing asap!!!

ill start the thread....oh and lets all go streaking!!!!

marble

mormank wrote: »

oh and just to knock another one of these silly questions out of the park...if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound??? that old nugget..answer = no. it makes a vibration which then in the presence of a persons ear is converted into sound by the ear drum so the answer is no it does not make a sound...

any other silly questions???

if a man is in a forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him....is he still wrong?

Darragh29

Every man must fail to succeed. A man who has not failed, has not accomplished anything.

First attempts at success must first result in failure. All capitalism depends upon it.

Darragh29

For example, I failed with a bird last night in a nightclub, but I sure as fu*k succeeded when Yore Ma turned up at me gaff in the early hours of da morning!

:D:D

Biggins

I've got a headache!

marble

Darragh29 wrote: »

For example, I failed with a bird last night in a nightclub, but I sure as fu*k succeeded when Yore Ma turned up at me gaff in the early hours of da morning!

:D:D

yeah real mature

tony1kenobi

marble wrote: »

yeah real mature

The "Yore Ma" phenomenon is, as I understand, unique to boards and not to be taken personally.

It can be used, again I am uncertain of this, in response to almost anything and with the protagonist exempt from questions regarding their maturity/taste/tact and so on.

I have not used it myself, I am saving it for a special occasion.

Sharpshooter

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Easy. Nuke 'em all.

OR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4

cHaTbOx

Pherekydes wrote: »

The chicken came first. Eggs don't come at all.

Well that is because you have not that the experience of making an egg come





*Had a few and talk nonsense

Sharpshooter

random chatbox wrote: »

Well that is because you have not that the experience of making an egg come





*Had a few and talk nonsense

As has already been established on boards , courtesy of javaboy. (SSF );)

Ghost Train

the guy fails at one thing and succeeds at the other... it two separate things

Darragh29

marble wrote: »

yeah real mature

Could someone explain the significance of yore ma to the newbie!?! :D:D

Pherekydes

random chatbox wrote: »

*Had a few and talk nonsense

No? I've had one and I can talk perfect nonsense. :pac:

AlmightyCushion

Darragh29 wrote: »

Could someone explain the significance of yore ma to the newbie!?! :D:D

I think you misspelt stupidity.

Darragh29

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I think you misspelt stupidity.

I think you must be more pished than me my friend! I didn't say "stupidly", I said "significantly"! Would you like another glass of Arniston Bay!?!?! :D:D

marble

i think its up to you to explain it darragh,nobody else seems to be doing it....enlighten me!

sdanseo

Q2002 wrote: »

This thread succeeds!! FAILS!

Fixed.

Kimbot

mormank wrote: »

how do we know that the first chicken was even from an egg in that case?? could be the other way round..

besides sthe worst thing about being a chicken is that you only get laid once in your life and its by your mother!!!

oh and we cannot know for certain whether or not somebody was around to witness the falling of the tree...i suggest we start canvassing asap!!!

ill start the thread....oh and lets all go streaking!!!!

Eggsactly. So the age old question is still not answered.

The tree does make a sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzMtlAyops

Darragh29

marble wrote: »

i think its up to you to explain it darragh,nobody else seems to be doing it....enlighten me!

I explained it to yore ma this evenin', she said she'll fill you in when she gets home! :D:D

Biggins

Q2002 wrote: »

This thread succeeds fails suck seeds!!

Re-fixed again!