Author Topic: Perfectly Sensible Child Utterances (Read 123946 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #325 on:** 07 July, 2015, 08:00:35 pm »

Boy of about 3 or 4, to his mother, on entering a new room in the museum:
— What's this?
— This is art.
— What do you do with it?
— You look at it. And decide whether you like it or not. How it makes you feel, happy or sad...
— It makes me feel sad. (Runs off towards dinosaur skeletons)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #326 on:** 21 August, 2015, 09:58:16 am »

"I had the best dream ever. I was in Hogwarts and I was a penguin wearing shades."

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #327 on:** 23 August, 2015, 09:53:48 pm »

Quote from: EldestCub

Paris seems to be mostly tree-lined avenues

Paul · « **Reply #328 on:** 09 September, 2015, 02:53:34 pm »

When asked his address last night Louis (8, in an ambulance on way to hospital with possiblebutnotintheendthankthegodsactualmeningitis*) responded accurately but back to front: village, street, house number.

However, on reflection, it makes more sense that way.

Why do we generally describe/write addresses the wrong way around?

(*Yes - this is the real story here, but I've decided to focus on a distracting detail while I get my emotional stuff together. Louis is recovering nicely from quite a nasty bout of gastroenteritis)

woollypigs · « **Reply #329 on:** 09 September, 2015, 03:44:07 pm »

Yes, why do we write the address that way. Hope the wee man gets well soon.

Kim · « **Reply #330 on:** 09 September, 2015, 04:08:03 pm »

Little-endian is the BRITISH way for dates and addresses. I suppose it makes a self-centred kind of sense, in a world where things are done locally by humans. In a global routing context it seems quaint. But at least it's consistent.

Note that arpanet got it right: IP addresses are big-endian. But DNS names are little-endian because they recurse better that way (which isn't all that different from delivering a letter in a small town, I suppose). It does mean that URLs as we know them are a mess, with a little-endian DNS name followed by a big-endian path. At least it's less ambiguous than leftpondian dates.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #331 on:** 09 September, 2015, 04:32:15 pm »

Glad he's got "only" gastroenteritis and hope he recovers soon.

As to addresses, I guess it's just tradition. You can imagine in the past it was "Take this to John." "Where is he?" "At number 12." Then later "Which street?" and only after that "Which town/village?" But clearly there's a lot of cultural variation. The Polish way is street, number, post code, town; or else village, number, post code, post town. The Russian way IIRC is town, street, number, post code. Other formats are surely used in other places.

T42 · « **Reply #332 on:** 09 September, 2015, 05:47:25 pm »

^^^ In this neck of the woods the villagers tend to give their names big end first. The guy who delivers our winter wood calls himself Schüler Albert. Germanic and/or bureaucratic influence, probably.

hellymedic · « **Reply #333 on:** 09 September, 2015, 06:14:10 pm »

Postcodes are big end first.

Paul · « **Reply #334 on:** 10 September, 2015, 01:11:29 pm »

I once addressed a postcard (from hols) to a neighbour a street or two away from where we lived. I couldn't remember their house number so described it by location and car. Suzy was sceptical, but they got the card.

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 09 September, 2015, 04:32:15 pm

Glad he's got "only" gastroenteritis and hope he recovers soon.

Quote from: woollypigs on 09 September, 2015, 03:44:07 pm

Hope the wee man gets well soon.

Is quite well again and making up for lost eating, thank you.

Ruthie · « **Reply #335 on:** 10 September, 2015, 10:08:15 pm »

That's good news, Paul.

My friend Tom (who is eleven), had a massive nosebleed tonight. He pulled an enormous clot out of his nose (it was two inches long and half an inch wide, like a huge wobbly red slug, and said 'Mum, can we keep this so I can put it on Harriet's burger?'

menthel · « **Reply #336 on:** 30 September, 2015, 10:30:01 pm »

The boy on seeing his new bike- "can you remove those horrible plastic bits?" He was pointing at the dork disk and then the wheel reflectors.

Torslanda · « **Reply #337 on:** 01 October, 2015, 11:50:37 am »

Watching 'Who Do You Think You Are', the episode featuring the journalist, Frank Gardner.

Nicholas asks 'Why is he in a wheelchair?' when the announcer reveals he was shot six times.

He thought about it for a moment and then asked, 'Was it three bullets in each leg?'

Ham · « **Reply #338 on:** 01 October, 2015, 10:38:40 pm »

From a 25 year old child (no law against that is there?) who asked me on the phone to open a package addressed to her with "London Marathon" all over, after I tell her it is the "Sorry but no" pack"

"Phew, that's a relief really. I can only just about run a bath."

Feanor · « **Reply #339 on:** 01 October, 2015, 11:07:31 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 09 September, 2015, 04:08:03 pm

Note that arpanet got it right: IP addresses are big-endian.

Dull OT IP stuff...

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Feanor · « **Reply #340 on:** 01 October, 2015, 11:23:50 pm »

I've just been Fermatted by Junior!

We have a multi-way online chat between myself, Mrs.F, Junior#1 in Edinburgh and Junior#2 still here at home.
I'm in a hotel bar in Bucharest.
<Ping!>

Junior#2: Can I have some help with this difficult maths problem?
Me, and Junior#1: OK, working on it.

<Many minutes pass, and 3 pages of A4 scribbling later I'm almost there, but beaten to it...>

Junior#1: Got it! Here's photos of 3 pages of A4 containing my solution.
Me: Well done, but I can't read it on the small screen on my phone.

Junior#1: "It's an elegant and wonderful solution, unfortunate that it doesn't fit on the screen."

pcolbeck · « **Reply #341 on:** 05 October, 2015, 10:23:46 am »

Quote from: Feanor on 01 October, 2015, 11:07:31 pm

Quote from: Kim on 09 September, 2015, 04:08:03 pm
Note that arpanet got it right: IP addresses are big-endian.

Dull OT IP stuff...

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Yes, but then the IPv4 space got so horribly fragmented that route aggregation is now hopelessly broken.
Might as well be in Roman Numerals!
Those poor 'default free' routers at the core of the Interweb now have route tables as long as a Very Long Thing, due to people fragmenting blocks and assigning them to Very Different Places.

Can you imagine how that would pan out with physical post?

Telehouse.net
Coriander Avenue
That London

Ah, but 'That London' addresses have been split up all over the world.
Coriander Avenue is a specific route to E14 2AA.
All the postal sorting offices everywhere in the world must keep a note of this.

Hopefully, they won't break IPv6 route aggregation so badly.

Yup and some dingers still ask why they cant have the full Interenet BGP routing table on their low end router with bugger all RAM and CPU.

clarion · « **Reply #342 on:** 06 October, 2015, 10:32:28 am »

Don't drive too fast, daddy!

OK, but, before I'd started the engine?

compare:

Not too much pickle [in cheese on toast]!

Wise words again.

hellymedic · « **Reply #343 on:** 10 October, 2015, 02:11:35 pm »

Never forget how sensible and wise your toddler can be!

perpetual dan · « **Reply #344 on:** 18 October, 2015, 12:52:47 pm »

Miss Dan the Younger, improvising while "riding" some bike shaped bike stands...
Oh dear, we've missed our flight to Spain. It's OK, we'll just ride there. But we need some jet packs to get across the sea.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #345 on:** 26 October, 2015, 09:28:06 pm »

"Where are they all coming from?" asked a small child splashing on a bridge as a baker's dozen of cyclists rode past. To which the sensible answer would have been "They're coming from the cafe and going to the pub."

tiermat · « **Reply #346 on:** 26 October, 2015, 09:50:21 pm »

"Dad, stop that, you'll mess around too much and fall off!"

All I was doing was trying to pull a wheelie!

Paul · « **Reply #347 on:** 26 October, 2015, 10:05:37 pm »

And did you? I've never properly gone for it.

tiermat · « **Reply #348 on:** 26 October, 2015, 10:17:16 pm »

Quote from: Paul on 26 October, 2015, 10:05:37 pm

And did you? I've never properly gone for it.

Fall-off or pull a wheelie? Either way, no. Though I did nearly wash out on a corner a short time later.

Paul · « **Reply #349 on:** 26 October, 2015, 10:27:45 pm »

I really must give it a proper go. I've got the no hands thing (well, on most bikes, on the flat, in a straight-ish line). I'd love to be able to do a wheelie.

And speak three languages, and cook in two, and be remembered fondly, and...

(Oh, it's Perfectly Sensible Child Utterances and not Mid-Life Crisis Wish Lists?)