miamizsun wrote: 
Depends. Are those your legs or are you sitting on a chicken?

 miamizsun wrote:

Wouldn't the answer be PIE?

so this is buffoonery squared?

 Steely_D wrote: 
What is the apocalypse but a progression of dire events composed of personal revelation in contrast?

 oldviolin wrote:

I would've gone with Un eschatologist.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
Ah ha! An eschatologist! I knew it!

 oldviolin wrote: 
 
 Well it does all depend on making assumptions about the cats evenly splitting the work and being able to go at non stop for as long as it takes, but is hard to interpret in in any other way.  3 cats get 3 rats in 3 minutes.  Split the 100 cats up into 33 groups of 3 cats and each of them will get 3 rats in three minutes.  That's 99 rats in 3 minutes.  It all depends on how long it takes that last lone cat to get the final rat.
 

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
but is that what it reads?

I'm not a mathematician but I did say 'if' and ambiguity is my playground...

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:

yeah and in what world would rats just hang out and wait to get caught by cats?
here? that many rats might just attack and eat the cat(s)

and because russia...

 oldviolin wrote: 
Not quite.  It's one rat per cat per three minutes or each cat takes three minutes to get one rat.  A hundred cats then would need three minutes to get a hundred rats.  This assumes that all cats catch rats at the same rate and that rate does not depend on how many other cats he is competing with.  A rather dubious assumption if the number of rats is fixed.

 
 

I'm a mathematician.  I couldn't just let it slide.

 Manbird wrote: 
Well if it's one rat per cat per minute it's gotta be 100 minutes, right? Ratta tat cat I always say...

If 3 cats can catch 3 rats in 3 minutes, how long does it take 100 cats to catch 100 rats?

Ten killed and 20 injured after a van crash in Texas


This makes it seem as if the crash and the deaths were two separate events. Shouldn't it be "Ten Killed and Twenty Injured in Van Crash in Texas"?

 haresfur wrote:
 
The Power of The Algorithm compels you?

how do people have time to watch even a small fraction of the videos that float through their social media?

WTF is Tiger Woods crashing his car front-page news? Really?

 miamizsun wrote:

 

 Antigone wrote: 
a few thoughts

occasionally we need to remind each other that we're in a challenging spot and it will get better

because perspective 

however, it will take a little time

my birthday starts with a six and i gets calls from older clients that just want to talk 

just want to hear my voice

i'm thinking just how bored does one have to be to want to talk with me?   

sometimes we just have to be someone's rock (with big ears)

your friend is fortunate to have you and vice versa  

when this current situation subsides, start structuring your life/lifestyle around interesting quality people

they are out there (and you can do this)

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Well, even pre-pandemic I spent about 75% of my time alone ... but in the past year I’ve been depending on one particular friend, and she’s feeling overwhelmed (not by me, just in general). 

 Antigone wrote:
 

Seems to me like you have plenty of friends here. 

Apparently there's an epidemic of loneliness in the US (and likely other places). Just google "epidemic of loneliness" and look at the sources returning the top hits. Supposedly this problem is actually improving during the pandemic.