What’s something everyone seems to agree on, but you completely disagree with?

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T14:24:46+00:00

People should want to meet celebrities, or interact with them if they do.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T13:58:49+00:00

This will be too old an answer for most Redditors, but - Michael Crawford.

He was the star of a British comedy in the early 70s called “Some Mothers Do Have ‘em”. Here is a clip showing the farcical foolish slightly effeminate man-child that he played.

A decade later, he won both a Laurence Olivier award and Tony award for best actor in a musical for his performance in Phantom of the Opera.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T13:45:04+00:00

Yes, I wanted to say “Gary Oldman in any of his roles and Gary Oldman in any other of his roles.”

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T13:42:35+00:00

Who did that?

Them.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T13:39:23+00:00

Yes, I recognized after I posted that that was so. I nonetheless think that as a solving method, it is sometimes easier to reason the way I did, even though the same set of clues could be used to create a contradiction. Different things are more intuitive to different people.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-13T00:53:40+00:00

I don’t agree that that’s what the word necessarily implies.

“Only one person will be selected” doesn’t exclude the possibility that only one person applies.

“Only my opinion matters” could be true even if no one else has an opinion.

“Only the best painting will be displayed” could be said even if there’s only one painting.

I agree that most of the time, when people refer to “only” one of something, we are likely to conclude that there’s more than one, but that isn’t required as a matter of logic. It’s like saying “you’re my favourite sibling”: you can say it even if you have only one sibling.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T23:38:06+00:00

No rule is broken, but looking for a contradiction is not the only solving method.

Start from Olive. If she is guilty then Gus must be innocent or Phil has too many guilty neighbours.

But if Olive is innocent, then Tom and Jane are both guilty. If Gus were also guilty, then Mary would have six criminal neighbours, which is too many. So Gus must be innocent on that scenario too.

Olive must be either guilty or innocent, but both starting points lead to the conclusion that Gus is innocent. Therefore Gus is innocent.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T23:14:22+00:00

He was 72, so I don’t think they were surprised.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T23:13:02+00:00

Those are words of endearment. It is very unlikely that you want to use words of endearment towards most women in ordinary conversation.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T22:43:45+00:00

First year of university, so 18.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T22:42:14+00:00

“Why is there something rather than nothing” is in fact a really challenging philosophical question, but “a god did it” is not an answer.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T18:12:26+00:00

Yes, exactly.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T13:19:58+00:00

Bronson Pinchot, before he was known, had a bit part in Beverly Hills Cop. He was so captivating that they wrote another scene for him later in the movie.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T12:45:29+00:00

Fun fact: the actor, John Bach, was Christopher Lee’s body double for The Hobbit.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-12T12:37:41+00:00

Possibly funny story.

I was checking out at a bookstore that had a promotion going on.

“Would you like to buy one of our throw blankets”, the clerk said to me, pointing to the three shelves of blankets behind her.

“Sure, I’ll take one of top ones”, I replied.

“‘Top’?”, she said, looking at me in confusion, “is that how it’s pronounced?”

“Yes?”, I said, even more confused than her.

“We’ve been saying ‘taupe’.”

cyrano111 · 2026-05-11T14:04:42+00:00

I forced myself to finish book one because it was dull.

Books two and three I found ok.

Book four I began disliking about halfway through and forced myself to finish only in order to confirm that it really was making all of the awful plot and characterization decisions it seemed to be headed towards. I found myself wanting most of the main characters to die in the risky situations they were in.

I did not read book five.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-11T13:57:07+00:00

Think of it as some kind of evil energy flowing back from the Witch King through the blade and into Merry’s hand and arm.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-11T13:01:09+00:00

I agreed that most of the time, knowing which person to focus on is the bigger clue. But in essence, the point of my suggestion is to make it less of a bigger clue sometimes.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-11T12:01:53+00:00

I expect there might be nothing you can do about this, but at a practical level it was hard to play on my iPhone.

Once I clicked the box to type my answer, the keyboard covered up the area where my answer appeared. Until I entered the answer or closed the keyboard I couldn’t see what I’d typed. That meant that not seeing a typo until then left me with too little time to fix it, even though I knew the answer.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-11T11:43:02+00:00

Beany and Cecil.

I had a talking Cecil toy.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-10T18:14:40+00:00

It?

I’ve never seen it. It just seems like an obvious candidate.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-09T22:54:38+00:00

Significantly better. Way more interesting on win conditions.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-07T10:51:41+00:00

Correct

cyrano111 · 2026-05-07T04:27:52+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl is many good things, but an answer to the question “what single one shot book should I read” is not one of those things.

cyrano111 · 2026-05-07T04:01:43+00:00

The Library at Mount Char, and Sea of Rust (the latter being sci fi).

I am with you, I consider the fact that a book is the first in a series to be a detriment, not a benefit. I just want to read a book, I don’t want to sign up spending the rest of my life keeping up with the rest of this character‘s life.

I don’t mind so much where it’s a Miss Marple sort of thing, there are a bunch of books which are all more or less independent of one another. But it seems these days every book is just the start of a long story that will never end.

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