Fri 19 Aug 2005
If It Quacks Like a Duck…
Posted by anaglyph under Stupidity
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Well it occurred to me eventually that you don’t have to take my word for the whole Echo Of a Duck Quack debate; thanks to the wonders of modern sound techniques I can actually provide for you today, possibly for the first time ever on the internet, the quack of a duck with an echo.
So at the next office cocktail party when someone corners you over the cheese dip and expounds knowledgeably that “A duck’s quack has no echo, and no-one knows why!” you can tell them that The Cow says otherwise, and send ’em on down.
A duck quacking… – mp3 file.
A duck quacking with an echo… – mp3 file.
Of course, this now must generate the obvious question: “Can the echo of a duck’s quack start an avalanche?”
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I submit it to you, however, that being as you are a sound designer of some repute and reknown, with easy access to all manner of modern devices capable of applying the aforementioned echo to the sound of a duck quacking, that we may being as readers hoodwinked by such technological trickery and be enjoying not the original and pristine field recording of a ‘duck quacking with an echo’, but in fact the very same ‘duck quacking’ with an echo applied in post-production.
Your rejoinder, sir?
lol!
There’s no sign warning about avalanches. If there were a danger, I’d expect to see one of those falling rock type signs underneath the duck.
Well, yes, of course I have applied the echo in post-production. The claim is that “A duck’s quack doesn’t echo”, not that “A duck, when quacking out in the fjords, doesn’t echo”. Mr Coleus Smoking Dude is implying, surely, that there is something peculiar about a duck’s quack per se that stops it from generating an echo.
Still, if anyone has a duck they want to bring round, I am willing to take it into a church…
Unfortunately the Mythbusters have already proven that a Duck’s quack does in fact echo. Sorry to ruin things for you.
HooRoo
Bec
That is not the only myth that needs busting, How about the one that Islam is a real religion?
A quick tour around your blog reveals that you are a teenie bit obsessive about that subject Bernie. Here’s a thought for you to ponder: How about the myth that Christianity is a real religion?
ALL religions are political tools you pillock.
You misunderstand what I mean by Islam is not a religion. I am an Atheist, and yes, at one time all religions were political tools. But does the Pope control condom use among Catholics in America? Hardly.
To a casual observer like yourself, America is a predominantly Christian country, yet I, being non-Christian, am not forced to pay a non-Christian tax, nor if I desire to marry a Cristian am I forced by law to convert.
On the other hand Islam as a “religion” requires the political system in which a Muslim resides to be Islamic or if not, to strive (jihad) for it to be so. In Malaysia only Muslims can be Malaysian by law. Every single country that used to be predominantly Christian such as Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, that allowed Muslims to come in, are now predominently Muslim with the legal systems now furthering the expansion of Islam.
In Africa, where Christian missionary work has resulted in hundreds of millions of converts, those countries with Christian majorities have not instituted Christian polities or laws nor the forced conversions of non-Christians.
In Africa, where the sword of Mohammed has helped spread Islam to hundreds of millions of converts, those countries with Muslim majorities have instituted Islamic regimes with Shariah laws and the forced conversions of infidels.
You are most careless in your comparisons of religions. As proof of my position I merely quote an authority in Islam, the Ayatollah Khomeini, who once said, “Islam is politics or it is nothing.”
I agree.
Now, here’s where you misunderstand me, Bernie: I don’t disagree with what you say about Islam. But you are both obsessed by saying it, and blind to anything else.
Listen carefully: ALL religions are political systems. Take a look next time your politicians start running for office; where do they get photographed to show that they are ‘good family men’? On the steps of the church. Who put George Bush in power? The large Christian conservative population. Who will take Obama out of power? The same people. Of course Christians have instituted Christian policies in your country – they have just evolved to be much cleverer about it than Islam. From where I stand in a largely secular country, the US is about as Christian as you can get without actually declaring yourself a church.
You might like to take a little study tour of Christianity and see just how much you like its pedigree. Since the Middle Ages it has practised many of the same tactics of which you accuse Islam (and if you want to talk about World Domination… well then…)
You only obsess with Islam because it’s overt. You fail to see the serpent under the rock.
You mistakenly think that the religious doctrine is the most important aspect defining a religion. It is not. Doctrine and all the fairy tales that come with it are only there to control the masses. The rest, in all cases, is politics.
You want to do some good? Stop obsessing about Islam and campaign instead for rational humanism.
I know that were we living in 1930s Europe,you would not be encouraging me to campaign for rational humanism instead of ranting against Nazism on the ground that all political systems, in the end, are only there to control the masses.
I am an Atheist and all beliefs in a divine being are the same to me, they are all fairy tales. But one must be careful not to assume that all fairy tales are the same.
A Christian in France thinks of himself as a Frenchman first, a Christian living in Germany thinks of himself as a German first, and likewise in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK. However, a Muslim living in any land in the world thinks of himself as a Muslim first. I have been in every country in Europe, Asian Turkey, India, and a few in the Middle East over many decades, so I have already taken a little study tour of Christianity, thank you.
When the Brits left India, the Muslims who were ethnically of the same Indo-Aryan stock as Hindus, who should have been happy to live in a secular independent India, could not do so, and broke off to form their own Islamic nation under Shariah laws.
There are many Buddhist majority nations but there does not exist an Organization of the Buddhist Conference nor would it make any sense to have such a body since there are no common economic, social, and political goals for Buddhists.
There are many Christian majority nations but there does not exist an Organization of the Christian Conference nor would it make any sense to have such a body since there are no common economic, social, and political goals for Christians.
But here is why your lumping all religions into one bucket is dangerous: There are many Muslim majority nations, and there does exist an Organization of the Islamic Conference (with every single Muslim country in it without exception), and it makes sense to have such a body since there is one common economic, social, and political goal for Muslims.
I suggest you look up the Organisation of The Islamic Conference and come back here and tell me that all religions are the same.
Since you’ve invoked Godwin’s Law, the discussion is now barren.