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Old 29th September 2012, 04:13 AM   #241
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Here is a nice one from the moderator over on Ickes Zhiba (PKA Merlincove)

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Can you define the word 'understand' in any other context than to stand under?
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showp...&postcount=180
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Old 29th September 2012, 04:38 AM   #242
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Old 29th September 2012, 06:39 AM   #243
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Originally Posted by Erock View Post
I've not seen much this month, but finally after a long wait, my patience is rewarded. The mad brucel at the DIF comes out with simply the best. In a brain-addlingly simple example of a set of parallel lines converging due to perspective, he simply has not enough IQ to take it all in.

Behold:

"really. only an imbecile would claim LATITUDES and train tracks are the same - latitudes NEVER meet"

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showp...&postcount=355

Don't get on a train anywhere near where he lives

Points?

Just sayin....

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Old 29th September 2012, 11:05 AM   #244
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Originally Posted by Rolfe View Post
Points?

Just sayin....

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The outer edges of the tracks still don't meet
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Old 29th September 2012, 11:33 AM   #245
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Originally Posted by Rolfe View Post
Points?

Just sayin....

Rolfe.
Two different lines diverging, not parallels meeting.
If two running rails come much closer than 4'4" your commuters have a bad day.
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Old 29th September 2012, 01:45 PM   #246
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Maybe they have a moebius train where he lives?
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Old 29th September 2012, 02:29 PM   #247
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Originally Posted by Travis View Post
Maybe they have a moebius train where he lives?
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Old 29th September 2012, 03:09 PM   #248
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Originally Posted by Travis View Post
Maybe they have a moebius train where he lives?
http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHF...llnumber=mf102
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Old 29th September 2012, 03:38 PM   #249
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Originally Posted by Tomtomkent View Post
Two different lines diverging, not parallels meeting.
If two running rails come much closer than 4'4" your commuters have a bad day.
Erm, Standard Gauge is 4'8 1/2"
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Old 29th September 2012, 11:59 PM   #250
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
Erm, Standard Gauge is 4'8 1/2"
Yes, but the wheels of a train are chamfered to a depth of three inches , or there abouts for cornering. When the train corners it banks slightly so the inside wheel is rolling on a larger radius than the outside wheel and a constant speed is maintained.

I foolishly tried to be clever and say the train wouldnt drop until the running rails were being forced under the inside lip of the wheel.
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Old 30th September 2012, 04:59 AM   #251
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Originally Posted by Tomtomkent View Post
...I foolishly tried to be clever ...
That was your first mistake
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Old 30th September 2012, 04:41 PM   #252
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Maybe they have a moebius train where he lives?
They do, but the only station is back where you started.
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Old 1st October 2012, 12:05 PM   #253
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This is technically an October stundie but we have no thread yet.
Zhiba the moderator on Ickes (FMOTL advocate) writes

When responding to a post about the validity of the freeman argument he wrote
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It only 'does not work,' because the courts don't allow it to work.
Then three posts later
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FMOL doesn't work. really?

tell that to the dozens of people whom i know have not paid any council or poll tax since its inception, many, many more who have not paid income tax for over ten years, people i know who use un-registered vehicles on the road, people who have challenged parking fines successfully, and these people are people who have never stepped foot in a courtroom or accepted any subservience to unjust laws, who have successfully dealt with bailiff and police attendance, many of these people home school their children, paying for private education and health care, not seeking the benefit of a state they see as morally corrupt and dishonest.

FMOL doesn't work? Carry on with that doctrine in your life, keep sucking up to the state and the control mechanisms if you like, for many, many people fmol does and has and will continue to work despite your assergance to the contrary.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showt...=223452&page=7

I think he needs to wipe the froth from around his mouth before he posts anymore.
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Old 1st October 2012, 12:19 PM   #254
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I like the word 'assergance'. If only it had a real meaning.
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Old 1st October 2012, 12:40 PM   #255
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October nomination thread up and running.

Look for the September finals sometime in the next few days.
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Old 1st October 2012, 01:33 PM   #256
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October nomination thread up and running.

Look for the September finals sometime in the next few days.
That's your assergence, Travis. We'll see if it pans out.
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