What would you like to be?

88V8 · Post by **88V8** » January 3rd, 2023, 6:22 pm

A few spare brain cells, transplanted into a mouse, seem to be working... perhaps, nay definitely, in future one will be able to occupy whatever body one wishes.
Perhaps one could even be in two bodies at once, that would be spooky.
You could be male and female, and then....

What would you choose? Probably not actually a mouse.

I quite fancy being an octopus.

V8

Nimrod103 · Post by **Nimrod103** » January 3rd, 2023, 6:28 pm

A walrus.

Lazing around in the sun most days, combined with some international travel, with a big group of admirers wherever I go.
Also being so big, they have few predators nowadays.

Itsallaguess · Post by **Itsallaguess** » January 3rd, 2023, 6:29 pm

88V8 wrote:
What would you choose?

BnC's puppy...

What a life...

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Tedx · Post by **Tedx** » January 3rd, 2023, 6:31 pm

A cat

Everybody wants to be a cat.

Leothebear · Post by **Leothebear** » January 3rd, 2023, 7:15 pm

88V8 wrote:A few spare brain cells, transplanted into a mouse, seem to be working... perhaps, nay definitely, in future one will be able to occupy whatever body one wishes.
Perhaps one could even be in two bodies at once, that would be spooky.
You could be male and female, and then....

What would you choose? Probably not actually a mouse.

I quite fancy being an octopus.

V8

You might have an interesting but short life. Five years max apparently.
From my observations Wood Pigeons have no problems getting food, so they can spend all their free time chasing/having sex.

monabri · Post by **monabri** » January 3rd, 2023, 8:03 pm

Leothebear wrote:
88V8 wrote:A few spare brain cells, transplanted into a mouse, seem to be working... perhaps, nay definitely, in future one will be able to occupy whatever body one wishes.
Perhaps one could even be in two bodies at once, that would be spooky.
You could be male and female, and then....

What would you choose? Probably not actually a mouse.

I quite fancy being an octopus.

V8
You might have an interesting but short life. Five years max apparently.
From my observations Wood Pigeons have no problems getting food, so they can spend all their free time chasing/having sex.

Wood Pigeon it is then!

UncleEbenezer · Post by **UncleEbenezer** » January 4th, 2023, 2:57 am

I think I'd like to be a troll.

They have such a great life!

pje16 · Post by **pje16** » January 4th, 2023, 6:34 am

Invisible
now THAT would be fun

servodude · Post by **servodude** » January 4th, 2023, 8:23 am

Older!
Continually...

UncleEbenezer · Post by **UncleEbenezer** » January 4th, 2023, 8:25 am

pje16 wrote:Invisible
now THAT would be fun

It's got a very evil history, going right back to Gyges.

servodude wrote: Older!
Continually...

Yeah. I wish I hadn't split up with my archaeologist girlfriend while we were far too young for her to appreciate me.

servodude · Post by **servodude** » January 4th, 2023, 8:41 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
pje16 wrote:Invisible
now THAT would be fun
It's got a very evil history, going right back to Gyges.

servodude wrote: Older!
Continually...
Yeah. I wish I hadn't split up with my archaeologist girlfriend while we were far too young for her to appreciate me.

Erm... did she work at Gardom's Edge?

UncleEbenezer · Post by **UncleEbenezer** » January 4th, 2023, 8:55 am

servodude wrote: Erm... did she work at Gardom's Edge?

I never even heard of Gardom's Edge until just now.

Google fails to find any reference that might motivate that question, so I guess it must be a reference to someone you know/knew.

pje16 · Post by **pje16** » January 4th, 2023, 8:57 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
Google fails to find any reference that might motivate that question, so I guess it must be a reference to someone you know/knew.

I only found a reference to sheep grazing
Is there something that sd is not telling us

doolally · Post by **doolally** » January 4th, 2023, 9:02 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
servodude wrote: Erm... did she work at Gardom's Edge?
I never even heard of Gardom's Edge until just now.

Google fails to find any reference that might motivate that question, so I guess it must be a reference to someone you know/knew.

THis? https://gardoms-edge.group.shef.ac.uk/
doolally

UncleEbenezer · Post by **UncleEbenezer** » January 4th, 2023, 9:09 am

doolally wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote: I never even heard of Gardom's Edge until just now.

Google fails to find any reference that might motivate that question, so I guess it must be a reference to someone you know/knew.
THis? https://gardoms-edge.group.shef.ac.uk/
doolally

Yes, google finds references to an archaeological site. But not to anyone noted for the comment about an archaeologist's partner improving with age.

DrFfybes · Post by **DrFfybes** » January 4th, 2023, 9:09 am

Tedx wrote:A cat

Everybody wants to be a cat.

Not around my dog they don't

Personally I fancy being a Galapagos Tortoise - I'd teach that Warren Buffet a thing or 2.

mc2fool · Post by **mc2fool** » January 4th, 2023, 9:16 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
pje16 wrote:Invisible
now THAT would be fun
It's got a very evil history, going right back to Gyges.

"When given a ring, a shepherd named Gyges becomes invisible and anonymous. Through his invisibility he seduces a queen, kills her king, and takes over the kingdom. Plato argues that the Ring of Gyges- invisibility and anonymity- is the only barrier between a just and an unjust person. " https://www.scu.edu/ethics/the-power-of ... -of-gyges/

As demonstrated by postings on social media daily.

What would I like to be? Easy: a babe magnet.

UncleEbenezer · Post by **UncleEbenezer** » January 4th, 2023, 9:37 am

mc2fool wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote: It's got a very evil history, going right back to Gyges.
"When given a ring, a shepherd named Gyges becomes invisible and anonymous. Through his invisibility he seduces a queen, kills her king, and takes over the kingdom. Plato argues that the Ring of Gyges- invisibility and anonymity- is the only barrier between a just and an unjust person. " https://www.scu.edu/ethics/the-power-of ... -of-gyges/

Plato was arguing for what we call transparency today. Gyges' invisibility is a metaphor for power without openness and accountability.

In more recent times it's become the purest and most absolute evil. Look at Wagner's and Tolkien's ring of power. The latter was a god-botherer, and his was a classical Christian view of absolute evil.

servodude · Post by **servodude** » January 4th, 2023, 9:45 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:
doolally wrote: THis? https://gardoms-edge.group.shef.ac.uk/
doolally
Yes, google finds references to an archaeological site. But not to anyone noted for the comment about an archaeologist's partner improving with age.

OK, right... sorry for the confusion
Many moons ago living in Sheffield I had an archaeologist-ex-girlfriend that worked there with my other archaeologist-ex-girlfriend (or pre-historian that one properly).
Neither was an ex at the time and I didn't realise they knowingly had me in common.
I thought that might have been how things went on in Englandshire?

pje16 · Post by **pje16** » January 4th, 2023, 10:01 am

servodude wrote:I thought that might have been how things went on in Englandshire?

Ohh a new county

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