Re: Polar vortex

On 18.07.2023 13.24, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 12.07.2023 13.22, Merlyne wrote:
[attributions]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [gone but not forgotten]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I've already forgotten]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Doesn't bode well for your end of term exams.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You want me to paste it back in?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [exams?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Yes. At the end of the year.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [So I still have some time then]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That's not the right attitude. If you don't keep
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> up during the year you'll never be able to get
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> through it all in revision.] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I'll copy off your test]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I shall be giving the test.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Then you'll give me a good mark because we know each
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That is not how it works. That is not how anything
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> works. Also it may be someone else doing the marking.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [You'll tell me the answers so I get a good mark]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [That would be cheating]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [So? do you want me to fail?]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [I want you to study, apply yourself, make the effort,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stuff like that] 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Why? What's in it for you?]
>>>>>>>>>>>> [I want you to do well, is all]
>>>>>>>>>>> [I'm destined to fail since I don't even know what I'm being
>>>>>>>>>>> tested about]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [It's about all the vital and interesting information being
>>>>>>>>>> presented in this very newsgroup. I though that was clear.]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [Nope. Was as clear as mud. I think I will be away that day.]
>>>>>>>> [You are going to make me look bad when no-one passes my test.]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Looks good on you since you refused to help me out]
>>>>>> [So my options are to look like an incompetent test-giver or
>>>>>> behave unethically? Why do you hate me?]
>>>>>>
>>>>> [Deflect!]
>>>>
>>>> What?! Squirrel? Where...?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Apparerntly you've mistaken me for a dog.
>>
>> So the squirrel wasn't the deflection? What was it, then?
>> Surely it can't be the pair of swallows that has built their nest on
>> the door to my garage/storage shed/workshop....
>>
> 
> You have a workshop?
I have a long table with a lamp and a couple of vises and a lot of stuff
on it in the garage. That ought to count.

Not that I can easily get to it at the moment, with the nest on the
door. The eggs have hatched so it's now a nest of baby birds constantly
being fed by two very busy swallows.

-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr