A weekend of pool, ex-girlfriends, and s&m

[jack]

Thu. Went to Sheila and her Dog. Alex magnificently annoyed everybody by minuting the entire thing -- the war seems to be smouldering again. It was very funny. Got to the Carlton before closing.

Fri. Met Tim and R in the local for a few games of pool. I'd missed it, I was fun.

Sat. Failed to watch graduation, but went to poohsoc, took A and A to Dojo's, and met Jane in town. It was nice to see her, I almost wish we'd met now rather than N years ago, though I don't know if that would have actually turned out any better :)

Sun. Met S&M and friends in the Carlton for lunch. They seriously need to serve Mushroom ravioli (or at least risotto) on Sunday :)

Also, the bouncer at Wetherspoons stopped me to look in by bag. I think he was very confused to find it full of books. And it's turned into a mini-club, which I approve of in general, but not when I want somewhere cheap with no music for generic meetings.

Also, English doesn't map nicely onto propositional logic. "If you're a vampire, then you have pointed teeth" doesn't just mean "a false statement implies any statement." It can be amusing to pretend it does, but it's just stubbornness to pretend that's what English ought to mean, when it doesn't. "If/then" *can* be used like that, but also to trace a logical connection between statements that aren't necessarily true. (iirc predicate logic can represent that better.)

Comments

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I think he was very confused to find it full of books.

Oh, delightful :)

Finding pubs without muzak where groups of people can convive and talk is becoming increasingly more difficult. I sometimes ask for the music to be turned down, or "It is possible to turn off this speaker?". Protest, my friend, protest. And maybe carry a big pair of pliers.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I think I meant wire-cutters...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I think pliers would do the job fine, right?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL.

The Carlton is usually fine, as are many out-of-town pubs. And if we're the main people somewhere, I don't mind asking for the music to be changed. But this was obviously what wetherspoons was on saturday night; everyone else was there for that, they'd introduced a small dance-floor, so I wasn't going to try to change everything.

I'm not sure it was musak; to me that means "pleasant" background escalator music; this might have been devoid of soul, but it felt it wanted drunk people to dance to it :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

As the man says, "Talk softly and carry a big pair of pliers" :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

isn't that just a (common) misuse of you're?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Agh, headache :) What do you mean? I might have got it wrong, I tried to pick a helpful example, but "you are" wasn't in the original, that was just to try to be transparent, the bit I was thinking of was the "if [hypothetical]..."

[mair_in_grenderich]

look! over there! a fluffy bunny!

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

this might have been devoid of soul, but it felt it wanted drunk people to dance to it

Ah, demonic music. No point in asking it politely to go away, then.

[innocencest.livejournal.com]

-Must- you refer to them as S&M? I realise M&S is equally likely to be misunderstood, but at least it wouldn't get my hopes up =P

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

HOLY HAND GRENADE, BATMAN!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, it's totally accidental. Most people absolutely don't enjoy reading it and thinking "is it just me reading it like that". Honest.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what we're talking about, but I think demonic music is a hell of a lot cooler than anything I've heard recently in town :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

*tells bunny to run and hide*