The Hallucinating Goose

Socrates says the word, "true"

So something that can only be true and nothing else but true? So what I said is wrong because there is a possibility that Plato is not guarding the bridge?

Could Socrates have said something like, "you are guarding this bridge" to Plato?

I got that when I actually paid more attention to what you wrote. You said you can touch two switches and at first I thought that meant only press switches twice but you can press the two switches as many times as you want as long as its the same two.

Okay, another idea. Press the first switch and leave it on for ages then turn it off again. Press the second switch. Go into the room. The bulb operated by the first switch will be hot because you left it on for ages. The bulb operated by the second switch will be on. The bulb operated by the third switch will be off and cold. Edit. Just posted that before you said furniture, don't know what furniture has to do with it. Climbing on a chair to reach the bulb or something?

Not sure about the light switches but before you start pressing switches could you not just enter the room and leave the door open?

I don't do simple answers!

The lawyer is right because the court's decision overrides any previous agreement made by the student or lawyer. LAWYERS ARGUMENT 1. If the courts finds for the lawyer then the lawyer has successfully sued the student and gets paid. CORRECT. 2. If the court finds for the student then the student has won a case and the lawyer gets paid. CORRECT. STUDENTS ARGUMENT 1. The Student reasons that if the court finds for the tutor, he has lost and needn't pay. WRONG. The court is telling him to pay and their decision overrides the contract and by finding for the tutor the court is acknowledging the existence of the contract. 2. If the student wins then the tutor's case is thrown out and he still needn't pay. WRONG. By fighting the case in the first place, the student is acknowledging the legitimacy of the contract and so agrees that after winning his first case he will have to pay. ------------- I will point out though that the mistake made by the student is reasoning the case as he has done. By acknowledging the two points he puts forward he is agreeing with the lawyer to the terms of the contract. If he had disagreed to the terms of the contract he probably would have won the case AND voided the contract. While a verbal agreement is considered binding in UK law it is very difficult to prove the terms of said contract without any physical evidence and so the court would have thrown out the case, meaning they would not be acknowledging the existence of the contract and as I said, the courts decision overrides the contract and the court is saying the contract does not exist (if the student just disagreed about it's terms but he hasn't).

The Lion puzzle: Take the goat across first. Go back and get the cabbage and take it across. Leave the cabbage and take the goat back to the start. Leave the goat at the start and take the lion across to the cabbage. Go back and get the goat.

The most predictable reply to a post in this forums history.

Oh yeah, my mistake, I looked up the wrong Apollo Theatre. I looked up one on Shaftesbury Avenue, forgot it was the Hammersmith Apollo where that show is filmed. Still though, not hard to find 5,000 people out of 10,000,000.

Didn't even realise they still made that show. The apollo theatre only holds about 800 people, hardly gonna be hard to find that many people to go watch a comedy show with the chance of being on TV in a city of 10m people.

The height of this seemed to be reached about 5 years ago when every single programme without fail had a so called comedian on it and there were about 50 of those stupid comedy panel shows. Thankfully some of those seem to have disappeared now. I think TV producers may have finally got the message that people are sick of all these idiot comedians and they seem to have been shunted onto specific channels now like Dave and E4. There still seems to be a few of those shows knocking round bigger channels but nowhere near as many as there was at saturation point.

Just seen 5 players got sent off in the PSG game and I thought, bloody hell, something serious has gone on there. I find a video on YouTube from the game entitled, Mass Brawl 5 Red Cards, or something like that so watch it... There was literally just a bit of pushing and shoving... Christ, there was two fights in the Challenge Cup today that were worse and the ref just told the players to calm it and they got on with the game. I don't know if it's cos I'm a RL fan and just used to a few punches being thrown but I really can't watch football without thinking just how tame it is. Just not my game at all.

I swear I haven't killed my wife. ...she wasn't my wife.

One of my favourite jokes of recent times. A man was digging a hole in his back garden when he came across an old wooden box. Using a screwdriver, he managed to break the lock on the box and open it where he discovered it was filled to the brim with gold coins. Immediately he shot into the house to show his wife... And then he remembered why he was digging the hole...

Answer the phone and say in a distraught tone, "I've killed my wife and dumped her body in the river. It's not my fault! The voices made me do it! I'm heartbroken, I love her! I can't take this anymore!" Scream manically and then pop a balloon. *click*

Absolutely brilliant series, I've got the complete series on Blu-Ray, what an experience that is!

I'm getting really fed up with a group of people I'm going to call knowledge snobs (don't know if there's a more established phrase). These are people who know a fact you don't and when you can't answer a question on it and get a question wrong they either look at you with utter disgust, tut and roll their eyes and even laugh and make fun of you. Or they'll do all these things tbh. I could literally wipe the floor with these people when it comes to geography, history, law, rugby league and several other topics but just because I get a question wrong or don't know the answer to a question within a subject I have absolutely no interest in whatsoever but they do, that apparently makes me a target of ridicule and I am treated like I am utterly stupid. Phrases such as, "I can't believe you don't know (insert obscure fact hardly anyone knows)! Where have you been all your life! Everyone knows that!" (actually only about 1 in million people will know). These are the same people that will be so egotistical when they mention a band you haven't heard of or a film or TV show you've never heard of. Again, in that instance they will put you down and use phrases such as, "I can't believe you don't know who (insert incredibly obscure indie band here) are!" As I say, I'm getting really fed up with these kinds of people.

I haven't been back to the cinema yet, will be making my return for Bond in two months time but I have talked to people who have said they've been and been the only person in. I've heard that a few times from various people.

Keeley Donovan had a baby... ... And it wasn't mine...

I've just finished bingeing death in Paradise. I love death in paradise, one of my favourite series on TV but I have to say the quality does start to drop towards the end, Humphrey was definitely the best DI and after he goes the quality drops I think plus it can be hard to binge it without your attention dropping due to the formulaic nature of it. I don't mind a show having a formula and structure but it would be nice for there to be the odd episode that breaks from that occasionally.

I wouldn't stay at a place called Witch Mountain for more than one night either.

One of the best lines in TV history is in Life on Mars when they bust into a warehouse and Gene shouts to the crim, "Drop your gun! You are surrounded by armed b*stards!"

This is why scouts shouldn't write their notes on the back of pizza menus. It's another Tony Benson and Mark Hedges situation.