Re: These Are All True

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I don't get it. What's wrong with those?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 7:11 PM
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How could she go down on him without touching?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:30 PM
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She touched him.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:31 PM
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Tantra!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:32 PM
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Touching is commutative.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:33 PM
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The legal and spiritual responses.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:34 PM
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Touching is commutative.

Not in every sense: insofar as we describe a state of affairs--"are they touching?"--yes, but insofar as we describe an action--"did he touch you there?"--no.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:37 PM
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I think you mean symmetric.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:37 PM
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That is, "touching" is a binary relation, not a binary function.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:38 PM
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Commutative works: a x b = b x a :: if a is touching b, b is touching a.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:39 PM
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Ok, fair enough, symmetric is better.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:40 PM
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To be super-pedantic:

Let U be the universe discourse. A commutative operation on U is a function f : A x A -> A such that for any x and y in A, f(x,y) = f(y,x).

Here, U is the set of people P. So for touches(x,y) to be commutative, at the very least we must have touches : P x P -> P, which would require that when two people touch, they yield a third person. This is not always the case.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:13 PM
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universe of discourse


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:14 PM
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Crap, crap, crap. U = A, and let us never speak of this again.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:17 PM
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I apologize for my inexactitude.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:18 PM
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But the phrase

"So, ummmmmm, wanna touch it?"

does not mean the same thing as

"So, ummmmm, can I touch you with my johnson?"

The difference lies in the act of touching, touchor vs. touchee.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:33 PM
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You should probably stick to the simple math, SB.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:46 PM
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You're all insane.


Posted by: IA | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 6:05 AM
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If this were one of those blogs which lists things said about it somewhere, (example, example) I'd think 18 would have to be added to said list.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 10:11 AM
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If this were one of those blogs which lists things said about it somewhere

Say, wasn't this guy doing that before anybody?


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 10:36 AM
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"Say, wasn't this guy doing that before anybody?"

Much as I enjoy taking credit for that which I am deserving of, I don't think so. Although I don't recall any specific inspiration or source by now, more than three years later, I think I saw others do it first.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 1:36 PM
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Geez, not that I meant to stop the discussion of touching. I wouldn't be touched to do that, unless, of course, it was in a good way.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 9:27 PM
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I remember a piece of advice from Old Man Murray, an old videogaming site. When your girlfriend is upset at how much time you spend on video games, and asks, "Why do I always have to be the superintendant of this relationship?", the correct answer is NOT "Why do I always have to be the Super Nintentendant of this relationship?"

He made a little graph of how funny he found that vs. how funny his girlfriend found it. The differences were striking.


Posted by: Ted Barlow | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 9:01 AM
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