Maybrick--a Problem in Logic

[Observer]

Nor the first scrap-metal dealer, either.

Dodgy lot scrap metal dealers, deceitful lot, they fiddle the scales you know.

[Graham]

Dodgy lot scrap metal dealers, deceitful lot, they fiddle the scales you know.

As if Mike Barrett would ever have sunk that low.........

[Observer]

As if Mike Barrett would ever have sunk that low.........

Hey, by his own admission he perpetrated a fraud

[Iconoclast]

Really important life lesson from YouTube yesterday. Watching a superb series of videos on quantum mechanics, presenter pointed out that the work of (I think) Paul Dirac was so revolutionary that his fellow theoretical physicist colleagues from around the world 'rounded upon him, accusing him of stupidity amongst other similarly dismissive epithets.

Fortunately for the truth, Dirac persisted. And Dirac was proven correct.

Just goes to show, doesn't it? You can face a barrage of criticism from the most intelligent people on the planet even when you are dealing with the truth. All you need to do is have the personal resolve to take it on the chin and persist with your argument.

Of course, as we all know, Society's Pillar is brilliant, but it's not quantum mechanics. Indeed, you could go as far as to say that it's not rocket science. I'm clearly no Paul Dirac (though I do have some of his socially awkward directness) and you lot are clearly not Einstein, Hubble, Bohr, etc.. Nevertheless, I personally take heart from Dirac's experience and his resolve.

I also hope that tales such as this remind all those on the 'popular' side of any argument that the 'argument from popularity' is not in itself the reason why their argument will ever be proven to be correct.

[Graham]

Hey, by his own admission he perpetrated a fraud

The dots ...... at the end of my little quip are intended to emphasise its intended irony. So your sides didn't split, then? And anyway, which particular admission of his are you referring to?

G

[Observer]

Really important life lesson from YouTube yesterday. Watching a superb series of videos on quantum mechanics, presenter pointed out that the work of (I think) Paul Dirac was so revolutionary that his fellow theoretical physicist colleagues from around the world 'rounded upon him, accusing him of stupidity amongst other similarly dismissive epithets.

Fortunately for the truth, Dirac persisted. And Dirac was proven correct.

Just goes to show, doesn't it? You can face a barrage of criticism from the most intelligent people on the planet even when you are dealing with the truth. All you need to do is have the personal resolve to take it on the chin and persist with your argument.

Of course, as we all know, Society's Pillar is brilliant, but it's not quantum mechanics. Indeed, you could go as far as to say that it's not rocket science. I'm clearly no Paul Dirac (though I do have some of his socially awkward directness) and you lot are clearly not Einstein, Hubble, Bohr, etc.. Nevertheless, I personally take heart from Dirac's experience and his resolve.

I also hope that tales such as this remind all those on the 'popular' side of any argument that the 'argument from popularity' is not in itself the reason why their argument will ever be proven to be correct.

Hi Ike

Sometimes It's hard to detect when a really good WUM is winding you up, the above is a good example. In your own vernacular. Giv ower marra

By the way prof Jim Al-Kalili has some excellent documentaries on i player which deal with quantum mechanics.

[Observer]

The dots ...... at the end of my little quip are intended to emphasise its intended irony. So your sides didn't split, then? And anyway, which particular admission of his are you referring to?

G

Well a leopard never changes it's spots Graham. I reckon he was a bit of a lad from the get go. He was certainly a Walter Mitty character by all accounts. I believe this exchange started when Mr Palmer revealed that

"Soon after returning to England, she [Anne Graham] accompanied a girlfriend to the Liverpool Irish club, where she met Michael Barrett, 'nicely dressed, articulate and intelligent,' for the first time. On 4 December 1975 they were married..." Ripper Diary, p. 208

After which I believe you made a reference to Mike Barrett having a wrestling match with the wife on the floor of his front room.

I was a bit lost with your post. Can't articulate intelligent Scousers have a bit of a ding dong with the missus?

By the way, as an aside you might find it remarkable but two families opposite my house are making use of the warm sunshine. About ten of them are in the front garden and are using the amp from a Karaoke machine to have a game of Bingo, no not Bongo. The are going the full hog with proper Bingo sheets, and what looks like an electronic device that's providing the numbers. This is not a wind up.

Twenty Two who's for the Flu.

[Observer]

Someone just shouted "House"

They've won three bottles of hand sanitiser

[Iconoclast]

Sometimes It's hard to detect when a really good WUM is winding you up, the above is a good example. In your own vernacular. Giv ower marra

Oh no. I've been rumbled at long last.

PS I think they are called ellipses ...

[Scott Nelson]

When's the next edition of Society's Pillar due out?

[Observer]

Oh no. I've been rumbled at long last.

PS I think they are called ellipses ...

I bet you feel better for that. By the way why the definition of ellipses?

[Observer]

When's the next edition of Society's Pillar due out?

Are you a fan?

[Iconoclast]

I bet you feel better for that. By the way why the definition of ellipses?

Because you and Graham were talking about the three dots thing ...

[Iconoclast]

Are you a fan?

One of my very biggestest.

[Iconoclast]

When's the next edition of Society's Pillar due out?

Hmmm. I have been rather slow in addressing Lord Orsam's life story response to my short epistle, I agree. Look, don't shoot the messenger, but it might not be until lockdown is over.

Does anyone have any idea when that might be, by the way??????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????