Ask Nicky - or just get an answer

[Nicky007]

I had to look those two words up ....

Great that you do that, Paco.

Let me then initiate you into a little secret:

There is a major bifurcation in life, usually in the teenages: People who are too lazy to look up words and memorise them stall intellectually. They pick up some titbits here and there, but never reach the higher levels of learning.

Otoh people who make it a habit to look up any word that they're not entirely familiar with develop intellectually and more and more feel at home at these higher levels. They then cherish the works of the great masters thru the ages - i.a. Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, Hegel - and they converse with them.

Nicky.

[PH]

LOL

So you're saying...

[Nicky007]

... that when the question is crystal clear, the answer is at hand 

So my function is midwifery:

"What Socrates is doing when he calls himself a midwife is describing metaphorically his task as a dialectician. Professing his own ignorance (being "barren"), he seeks to help to "give birth" to wisdom in others that already exists in utero, as it were; often the possessor is unaware of even being "pregnant" with wisdom. Insofar as Socrates takes experiential data already possessed by a person and organizes it in such a way as an answer to a question—to produce an insight into the intelligibility of the data (a general truth), an intelligibility of which the person was previously unaware—he is functioning metaphorically as a midwife, helping in the process of giving birth to wisdom." - http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/GrPhil/Socrates.htm

Nicky.

[PH]

Can you also get a midwife crisis then?

But err... seriously, what exactly is this thread about?
Just you ranting about?


-Paco

[Nicky007]

But err... seriously, what exactly is this thread about?
Just you ranting about?

You seem to be enjoying it, so .... 

Nicky.

[PH]

Just because I can laugh at you.

Note: not WITH you.

-Paco

[Nicky007]

OK, let's start: 1, 2, 3, hahahahaha ....

( unnecessary)

Nicky.

[johninblack]

Is this thread just for Paco to laugh at Nicky or are we all allowed to join in.

[Nicky007]

Got a good question, John ?

I'l answer any question ... except about my sexlife, and some other bodily matters 

Nicky.

[PH]

Ok Nicky, here's one for you.

3 + 4 = ...

[Nicky007]

Dya want the arithmetic or quantum-mechanical answer ?

Nicky.

[PH]

Dya want the arithmetic or quantum-mechanical answer ?

You choose. I trust you with this.

[Nicky007]

Well, actually Appy already has solved this one for us:

You just put the numbers into the formula  E = mc²  and wait for your answer ........ and then live by it 

Iow dumb questions call for dumb answers, Paco-aarse 

Nicky.

[PH]

Dumb threads call for dumb questions mr Nickster.

[Nicky007]

I personally consider that what I wrote in the first post in this topic was the most profound stuff that I'v written in the Room. That's why I took the opportunity to start a personal thread.

Of course, in this madhouse anything can happen 

Nicky.

[maddox]

Then i've got a question for you.

A real brain breaker. 

Here we go:

..

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Is it true that every time you* pick one of your nose hairs a brain cell dies? 

*= You in general. Not you personally. 

[PH]

Is it true that every time you* pick one of your nose hairs a brain cell dies? 

Of course not!
But it can cause you to sternutate!

-Paco

[maddox]

Of course not!
But it can cause you to sternutate!

-Paco

I never knew your name was Nicky, Paco. 

[PH]

I never knew your name was Nicky, Paco. 

I'm sorry Appelmoes??.

-Teunis

[maddox]

I'm sorry Appelmoes??.

-Teunis

Shall i call myself John then? 

[Nicky007]

........ hm ........

[PH]

YES! We confused Nicky!
Go on with it! We might even get the celebrator to lock this topic!

Oops... sorry Nicky...

-Teunis

[Nicky007]

So who's the "celebrator", Paco 

I'l get you guys an answer to your nosey question - they call me "the bulldog" 

Nicky.

[PH]

The celebrator is not the celebrator anymore. He's now commonly known as the administrator.

[Nicky007]

Is it true that every time you pick one of your nose hairs, a brain cell dies? 

Fortunately I don't need to know everything, as I can use Google 

So here's your answer, Mad:

Los nocirreceptores ubicados en las proximidades de los foliculos pilosos son estimulados por el tiron. Esta señal excitatoria viaja por los nervios nasales hasta corteza somatosensorial y otras regiones del tronco encefalicoque se conectan con centros del Sistema Nervioso autonomo. Este recibe estos impulsos y ( entre otras acciones) estimula la glandula lagrimal como respuesta ante el dolor.

You didnt say anything about language  

But OK, since I'm in a good mood, I'l provide you with the English text:

"Your eyes water when you pluck your nose hairs because the hair is from the nose and it is connected to the cells. The nerve endings are shared through the nasal cavity. You cry because you lost a brain cell. Tears are a natural reaction to pain, because you are stimulating your snotoptical nerve."

Source:  http://www.youqa.cn/html/General/0101/general103631.html

I particularly like the bit about the "snotoptical nerve".


So, next question please 

Nicky.