The Official "woo-hoo/anti-moan" Thread

ApeXaviour

I'm home! okay sleep now!

Agent Smith

i didnt fall once the entire hour ice skating....



i'm so proud!

Tricity Bendix

ApeXaviour wrote:

I'm home! okay sleep now!

Damn. You'll probably be looking for you're job back.


The dream is over./sob

ApeXaviour

ApeXaviour wrote:

I'm home! okay sleep now!

Ah, welcome home!

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

I'm home! okay sleep now!

Welcome back dude

Pet

Wooh, go me. I just did an hour of study. I don't care what anyone says, plant biology has some great stuff in it. The Solanaceae family of plants is fascinating, very economically significant, responsible for everything from deadly nightshade, to potatoes, to tobacco, to chilli peppers, tomatoes, hallucinogenic drugs...Go botany!

Screw zoology and all that boring, cynical, soul-destroying evolutionary Richard Dawkins bull****. (No offense Kev, Guiney, John, it's just not my bag.)

Whoah I've had a lot of camellia sinensis (green type).

John

Pet wrote:

Screw zoology and all that boring, cynical, soul-destroying evolutionary Richard Dawkins bull****. (No offense Kev, Guiney, John, it's just not my bag.)

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to call it bull****. Selfish gene theory applies to plants just as much as it does to animals (i.e. that evolution acts on genes on not on organisms/species). He just also uses it to explain more complicated biological processes like behaviour.

Andrew 83

stargal wrote:

Lol: I was showing my sister around boards a couple of minutes ago, going through a few choice forums. Stopped at personal issues, which had the usual mixture of probs - STI questions, alcoholism advice, girl problems, pregnancy scares etc - and she was quiet for a couple of seconds and then said: "Wow. This is all the Trinity forum?!"

lol!

Pet

John wrote:

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to call it bull****. Selfish gene theory applies to plants just as much as it does to animals (i.e. that evolution acts on genes on not on organisms/species). He just also uses it to explain more complicated biological processes like behaviour.

Screw zoology: I find that amongst the people in my course, zoology is highly overrated, and botany is highly underrated. I don't really understand this sheep mentality. Botany is just as interesting and important, if not moreso.

Richard Dawkins bull****: I'm sure selfish gene theory is perfectly scientifically valid, but what I meant was that I just don't like his application of it to behaviour, or find it particularly interesting. Loads of people reading his books going "omg liek i totally read his book and now i'm an atheist, blahblah i'm just genes and memes, there is no god or spirituality, byebye, i'm off to liek reproduce cos that's all i am, existentialismblatherrrrrbxxfdsxgfytgcvzzxhfdads".

His reductionism irritates me immensely, and I'm so, so tired of people who believe that he is the paragon of scientific wisdom and learning; that he epitomises science. He's not, and I hope he doesn't. He's an arrogant, presumptuous little man.

And I realise this must make me sound like some emo teenager "omg i'm a snowflake! how dare you boil my behaviour and everything I am down to my genes!" But it's not quite like that. I just..when I think about his ideas and opinions, and the people I know who also hold them, I just think.."Ugh."

Edwardius

Yeah, it'd be nice if he stopped behaving like a preacher.

Andrew 83

Is he the guy who did that TV series on religion a year ago or so? Wasn't too impressed with that myself.

John

To be honest, it sounds like you have a problem with his attitude as opposed to his theory. Yes he's completely up his own ass but his theory stands up to the evidence and explains an awful lot more than existing theories did. I'm not saying that I agree totally with his theory but it is the best working model that's out there and that's what science is, not proving is there a god or not (or deriding those who think there is or not). It's like going back to Darwin and people not liking the idea of being "descended" from apes but the theory works so it is accepted.

If tomorrow a new theory of evolution that fit with the evidence and could be used to predict outcomes came out that was completely different to Darwinism, we'd have to accept it. It's not a question of opinion, it's a question of evidence.

Roro, have you actually read the book? From the way you talk about it, I don't think you have. I don't mean this in a condescending way but reading a wiki page or attending Nicola Marples' lectures doesn't substitute reading his book and following his arguments. As I said, I think having a pet-hate for the man (pun intended) should not get in the way of scientifically criticising his theory (i.e. don't just do a Kev and say "bull****" but actually say what's wrong with his theory).

As for botany being looked down upon, well it is because TCD's course is archaic at best. There are some more relevant research projects being undertaken there but the majority of work is essentially stamp collecting. Granted it's necessary but I feel there should be greater emphasis on argricultural work. TCD's botany course is notoriously unpopular but ag science and environmental science/ecology courses get a lot of people doing them so it's not the idea of plants being inferior but botany as a subject isn't up to scratch. ALso, the department doesn't do much to help its image by having very dull lecturers teaching first and second year science students.

Nietzschean

Wii new internet channel + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQAvflPexng = cool.

Pet

Hahahaha!

John Guiney is fast becoming an urban legend.

gymrabbit

Heh. All I can say to roro's claims are

"bull****".

Bartron Prime

Yay! The manager in work bought us all chocolate Santas for Christmas with a little personalised message. We've also been positively encouraged to wear showy Santa hats tomorrow in work. Sweet!

As for Dawkins, well I haven't really read much so I'm not really qualified to add anything but I agree with John. Dawkins is a pompous blowhard but his theories (or what I have brifely read) seem sound to me.

John

Pet wrote:

Hahahaha!

John Guiney is fast becoming an urban legend.

Brilliant!

John

Professor Chaos!

ApeXaviour

You get that by prescribing then eh?

Wow I'm destroyed... I mean look what time it is. My laptop says 7.45 but that's cos I never ****in changed it back from ****in denmark viking ***** time

John

Yeah, I decided to treat boards.ie to a subscription for Christmas. If it means I get to be Professor Chaos then I can deal with it.

europerson

Oooh, I have a comma in my post count!

Agent Smith

woohoo! day off tomorrow!

BEEN WORKING EVERY DAY SINCE THE 23RD.... NOT NICE

John

agent smith wrote:

woohoo! day off tomorrow!

BEEN WORKING EVERY DAY SINCE THE 23RD.... NOT NICE

Are you Santa?

ApeXaviour

John wrote:

Are you Santa?

That made me laugh so hard my da told me to shut up (cos he's watching a movie).

John

Glad to be of service!

europerson

I brought my family around Trinity for the first time today. They were very impressed, not only by the campus, but by Ibid, whom we happened to meet.

The walking-through-Front-Arch-for-the-first-time gasps were good. I did a circuit of the campus with them in just over two hours. That included the Book of Kells.

Enda was described thus by my mother:
"Very polite", "good-looking and well-dressed".
In fairness, he was looking very dapper today. I think he was making an effort for his girlfriend, who was with him.

My father said he couldn't believe he was from Kildare (I may have adapted that slightly for effect.) My brother said he wasn't as he imagined him, and he looked better in the flesh than in photos.

So, let's all hail Trinity's newest hunk...

Troglodyte

europerson wrote:

Enda was described thus by my mother:
"Very polite", "good-looking and well-dressed".

Who is this interloper and what has he done with Enda??

ApeXaviour

Em... It sounds like they're expecting wedding bells you saucy dog you. Should soon be possible with the good friday agreement I imagine. So what will it be, Mr. Matt Hargaden?

Troglodyte wrote:

Who is this interloper and what has he done with Enda??

I believe it's still the same enda. But his head will be so large you won't recognise him anyway

gymrabbit

this europerson, europerson's ma, ibid love triangle is creepy.

Stargal

europerson wrote:

Enda was described thus by my mother:
"Very polite", "good-looking and well-dressed".

So, let's all hail Trinity's newest hunk...

Rolling on the the floor, banging my fists off the carpet, unable to breathe with the laughter (ROFLBMFOTCUTBWTL for short).

Bravo europerson, bravo. I salute your fearless and imaginative brand of comedy.