Humoralistically, I lean toward ...
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Humoralistically, I lean toward ...
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
Ew (Score:1)
Yuk.
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Yeah... this poll is... kinda dumb
Then you're phlegm, I'd say.
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I've had a cold the past couple of weeks, so it's been phlegm for me as well.
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It's phlegm all the way down!
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Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
Slashdot poll rule 0
Don't talk about Slashdot.
Humoralistically, I lean toward ... (Score:1)
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I don't get it... perhaps the joke is a bit too medieval for my taste.
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And I was making a joke regarding the medieval practices... a double whoosh on both our parts :)
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It's all Greek to me.
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Aftá mou faínontai kinézika.
(Slashdot didn't like the Greek characters. :( )
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Yet this, from the page source, clearly shows they are doing utf-8 embedded encoding (of sorts). I wonder why they don't give us a more diverse character set... allow one more html markup tag..
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Not necessarily. These character codes are valid (and correct) in other 8-bit encodings, too (including the majority of ISO-8859). The headers specify UTF-8, though.
Ah thanks upon further inspection I see... I am still learning :)
SPLAT (Score:1)
Most disgusting poll EVER !!
Humoralistically? (Score:2)
What does that even mean?
(And before you waste your time, a Google search is only going to point back at this poll)
Humorism (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Humorism (Score:5, Informative)
"The four humors of Hippocratic medicine were black bile (gr. melan chole), yellow bile (gr. chole), phlegm (gr. phlegma), and blood (lat. sanguis)."
Which, of course, we all know as melancholy, choleric, phlegmatic, and sanguine, respectively. OK, well maybe those of us that took world history (the real kind that covers such things)... And if you want to read the Wikipedia article that actually talks about the personality traits related to them, try here. [wikipedia.org]
Some of us are literature nerds, too. (Score:3)
This comes up a lot in Renaissance literature -- Shakespeare, for instance, refers to the four humours occasionally.
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Indeed! I instinctively chose black bile for the colour*, but after glancing over that Wikipedia article I know I should have checked yellow bile. Damn that stupid poll!
* The first person to claim that black and white are not colours is wholeheartedly invited to find out why yellow bile would have been the right option for me.
Missing option (Score:2)
[X] Blue bile - I'm a Pandoran, and leave our unobtainium alone, thieving earth scum!
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Neither did I.
I thought it was just referring to what your body typically spews out. Like if you drink a lot of red wine and eat blueberries and such you might choose black bile. If you eat mostly cheese, your bile might be yellow.
I dunno, I smoke, so I chose phlegm.
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I believe that the poll is refering to humorism [wikipedia.org].
Well, then - shouldn't it have been "Humoristically" rather than "Humoralistically"?
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Sheesh. Slashdotters. So you can take the time to comment on something, but you can't even look at the fucking article he linked too? Here let me help you.... this is how the wikipedia article starts. Maybe it will answer you stupid question.
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Sheesh. Slashdotters. So you can take the time to comment on something, but you can't even look at the fucking article he linked too?
You must be new here!
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Mod this guy up. I had no idea what wikipedia was before reading this poll.
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The temperaments (Score:2)
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I've British humour, so mine would be pink with green spots.
Missing option (Score:1)
None
I believe in Ayurveda [wikipedia.org].
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wouldn't that have been the last option on the poll?
Blood (Score:3)
I'm a warm, moist artisan. Courageous, hopeful, and amorous.
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I'm a warm, moist artisan. Courageous, hopeful, and amorous.
Rather sanguine, I'd say.
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"We're more of the love, blood and rhetoric school. ...Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric - and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love. And we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive.
"But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see!"
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I think that was covered by the last answer...
"I am humorless you clod".
What the hell these mean: (Score:5, Informative)
From http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html [greekmedicine.net]
Blood promotes a feeling of joy, mirth, optimism, enthusiasm, affection and wellbeing.
Phlegm induces passivity, lethargy, subjectivity, devotion, emotionalism, sensitivity and sentimentality.
Yellow Bile provokes, excites and emboldens the passions. Being inflammatory, irritating and caustic, it provokes anger, irritability, boldness, ambition, envy, jealousy and courage.
Black Bile makes one pensive, melancholy and withdrawn. It encourages prudence, caution, realism, pragmatism and pessimism.
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I just chose phlegm because I like consonant clusters (even if they're mostly typographic).
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Re:What the hell these mean: (Score:5, Interesting)
In looking for details on this, I came across the fact* that 'Black Bile' in the original greek is melan chole. I love etymology.
*Wikipedia 'fact', so grains of salt, etc.
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>>In looking for details on this, I came across the fact* that 'Black Bile' in the original greek is melan chole. I love etymology.
You didn't learn this in elementary school like the rest of us?
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As a Greek, I can confirm that, in this case, Wikipedia got its Greek right.
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Most people would use the terms "sanguine," "phlegmatic," "choleric," and "melancholic."
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A poll that needs to be explained beforehand is of the same quality as a joke of like deficiency.
But seriously, thanks for the explanation.
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Nice try, but really it's not the polls fault you are lacking in education.
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From http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html [greekmedicine.net]
Blood promotes a feeling of joy, mirth, optimism, enthusiasm, affection and wellbeing.
Phlegm induces passivity, lethargy, subjectivity, devotion, emotionalism, sensitivity and sentimentality.
Yellow Bile provokes, excites and emboldens the passions. Being inflammatory, irritating and caustic, it provokes anger, irritability, boldness, ambition, envy, jealousy and courage.
Black Bile makes one pensive, melancholy and withdrawn. It encourages prudence, caution, realism, pragmatism and pessimism.
I'm surprised that 'yellow bile' is the least selected option, considering the comments in copyright/patents/GPL stories
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Being inflammatory, irritating and caustic, they don't want to give the game away!
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Next Slashdot poll: "Favorite type of leach for curing humoral imbalance"
Let me fix that for you. (Score:2)
More interesting poll : "Favorite leech for causing humoral imbalance."
[_] Birthers
[_] Rupert Murdoch
[_] Steve Ballmer
[_] Flash
[_] Teabaggers
[_] Obamacare
[_] Year of the Linux desktop
[_] Java is slow
[_] The future of Windows mobile devices
[_] Slashdot's new discussion interface
[_] "I'm APK - the hosts file guy - I'm already imbalanced, you insensitive b*tch"
Thank you APK for taking our poll. (Score:2)
Your answer:
... has been recorded.
[X] "I'm APK - the hosts file guy - I'm already imbalanced, you insensitive b*tch"
BTW, HYBT ... again. We really have to stop meeting this way. People will begin to wonder about the real reason why you are so totally obsessed with me that you have to spam every one of my posts, often multiple times.
insensitive (Score:1)
That's "you insensitive clod", you insensitive clod!
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phlegm! (Score:2)
I you had never heard the word phlegm pronounced, would you be able to say it correctly??? also, does snot count as phlegm? It's strange that people with a cold or flu will keep a pocket full of it, wrapped in a cloth. My initial thoughts on this poll were, yuk!, but it's more fun than I thought.
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It's strange that people with a cold or flu will keep a pocket full of it, wrapped in a cloth.
What's strange is that you can time travel, and yet choose to be here.
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Hey! Phlegm is awesome!
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I[f] you had never heard the word phlegm pronounced, would you be able to say it correctly???
For the majority of the words in the English language, if you'd never heard them spoken you'd have very little chance of pronouncing them correctly!
This poll (Score:2)
Phlegm (Score:2)
Until I get over this cold.
black bile - reminds me of (Score:2)
Armus ... he's my idol. [memory-alpha.org]
More like this! (Score:1)
A poll I had to figure out before I could answer
Good times
Clod! (Score:1)
If's "you insensitive clod!" not "you clod!" you insensitive clod!
Dyskrasia (Score:1)
Hilarious (Score:2)
This is the single funniest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot in... uh... how old is Slashdot, 15 years?
Yellow bile is a reference to a Stephenson book.
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no it's not.
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I dunno, that's not a bad summary of Stephenson. The GP may be right...
my humors are in balance.. (Score:2)
for I have recently had a barber-surgeon bleed me.
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The subject line gave it away ;-) (Score:1)
One of the more interesting polls (including reading all of the comments) I have seen for a while ... Thank you so much to the one who had the idea!!!
I was confused... (Score:1)
Missing option: (Score:2)
"WTF?"
combo! (Score:1)
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Well I'd stop casting Conjuration/Summoning spells for a while, just to be sure...
Ultimate joke! (Score:2)
One option too many! (Score:3)
What happened to our options (Score:1)
For real ... this should totally have the option for Unicorns and Cowboy Neil ... what is going on and who is posting these incomplete polls?!?!?!?!
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Great Together (Score:1)
Humours? (Score:2)
I probably lean a little more towards Aqua Velva than I do Aqua Vitae.
This is getting downright ridiculous now. (Score:2)
I can't believe the crap that gets put up here these days. None of the poll choices make sense because I know for a fact that I'm mostly phlogiston. Yellow bile indeed.
Baffled (Score:2)
How could anyone choose the last option? It makes a well-known humorous reference to Calvin and Hobbes, but it itself states that the person choosing it is without humour. I cannot see how anyone, with or without humour, could possibly choose this option, and yet it is currently the most popular choice! Someone please explain this to me!
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While it is possible for the rare person to have a perfect balance of the four bodily humours, it is of course impossible for someone to lack any humours, unless they were dead, and a dead person cannot reply to a poll.
Therefore, the last statement is clearly meaningless, and therefore must have been included in the poll in error. It ought to be removed from the poll.
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Missing Option: (Score:1)