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Mad_Cyril sorry…

Hugo and Amps each have half a square cheese cake. Hugo suggests that Amps shares his cake with his sister Anne, Anne’s mother’s husband and his husbands cat.

Anne cuts each slice to have the same amount of cake, using the perimeter of the cake. (It’s essentially the same as dividing a circular cake into five slices). Since the perimeter of the cake is 20 units (as marked by Hugo’s brother, Alan), then each of the five slices must have 4 units of edge. So, we choose a point on the perimeter and then mark all the other points four units along before shoving it up Alan’s ringer.

      mono-stereo You’re making a false assumption again. You can be fine with others having kids, and also still worry about people having too many kids.

      You’re making an assumption here about Amps - I haven’t seen him directly post in this discussion that he is worried about other people having too many kids. And if he is then he is contradicting his quote above about resources and shelf space.

      However!! Even if he tried to contradict himself on this, it would bring me back to one of my original points of contention - if you are actually worried about “people having too many kids” then why would you welcome and be fine with the birth of an additional kid?… It will be another one “too many”.

          hugopal if you are actually worried about “people having too many kids” then why would you welcome and be fine with the birth of an additional kid?… It will be another one “too many”.

          This is the way numbers work Hugo. “Too many” can be any old number.

              Assumptions getting made left, right and centre!

                Never assume.

                It makes an ass of u and me.

                Onwards!

                mono-stereo This is the way numbers work Hugo. “Too many” can be any old number.

                That comment adds nothing and does not answer the clear question.

                Given the context, “too many” will just be any number of 1 or greater.

                If the number was 1, then any additional 1 would be “1 too many”
                If the number was 2, then any additional 2 would be “2 too many”
                etc. etc.

                Regardless of whether it is 1, 2, 3, 70 etc. etc. which you think is “too many”, then none of those will be consistent with someone both being fine with and welcoming additional births on the one hand, yet somehow saving the planet by not having a child on the other hand:

                • If the “too many” number is 1 then you must admonish that 1 birth as excessive.

                • If the “too many” number is greater than 1, then your choosing to not have even 1 kid does not mean you are saving the planet as there is still excess capacity.

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                      • Post #236

                      mono-stereo

                      Did Anne birth the cheesecake from her vagina? If not, then nobody is taking this seriously.

                          • Amps

                            • Post #238

                            Old-Dutch ear it

                            Complete waste, much better in the mouth or up the arse.

                              mono-stereo you’ve tied yourself up in knots here

                              I’ve not - I’ve illustrated the knot which Amps has created; as I explained there is no explanation where Amps is not contradicting himself.

                                mono-stereo Hugo and Amps each have half a square cheese cake. Hugo suggests that Amps shares his cake with his sister Anne, Anne’s mother’s husband and his husbands cat.

                                Anne cuts each slice to have the same amount of cake, using the perimeter of the cake. (It’s essentially the same as dividing a circular cake into five slices). Since the perimeter of the cake is 20 units (as marked by Hugo’s brother, Alan), then each of the five slices must have 4 units of edge. So, we choose a point on the perimeter and then mark all the other points four units along before shoving it up Alan’s ringer

                                Thank you, this is much clearer. And is an excellent frame of reference for the remainder of the debate.

                                We continue

                                  I often wonder to myself why everyone absolutely fucking detests Hugo, and its moments like these that bring absolute clarity of thought to the matter.

                                  I’m quite pleased I didn’t use the word ‘cunt’ there too.

                                  He’s the driving force behind an early contender for Thread of the Year Grant!

                                  An absolute banger !

                                  • RichM

                                    • Post #244

                                    I like the length of detail and analysis Hugo adds to our threads. Makes up for the lack of it in other threads (am looking at you @Smallman1 in your restaurant reviews!)

                                    Succinct and bang on are my restaurant reviews!

                                    mono-stereo Hugo and Amps each have half a square cheese cake. Hugo suggests that Amps shares his cake with his sister Anne, Anne’s mother’s husband and his husbands cat.

                                    Anne cuts each slice to have the same amount of cake, using the perimeter of the cake. (It’s essentially the same as dividing a circular cake into five slices). Since the perimeter of the cake is 20 units (as marked by Hugo’s brother, Alan), then each of the five slices must have 4 units of edge. So, we choose a point on the perimeter and then mark all the other points four units along before shoving it up Alan’s ringer.

                                    As an aside, that would be an incredibly daft method - If at the end you’d have tried to slice from the marked points on the perimeter to the centre of the cake, or the centre to the marked points on the perimeter, you wouldn’t end up with 5 equal slices (as unlike a circular cake you’ve got irregular corners to contend with). And figuring out to what points in the middle of the cake to cut each slice to would be even more of a pain in the arse than Alan would have experienced in your story!

                                    Anne the daft sod needed to have only measured the base of the cake, divided by 5, and sliced vertically.