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Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:19 am

attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:21 pm

I walked along 'til I found it,
I picked it up to look for it,
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down,
and walked away with it..

What is it?

I'm patiently waiting to see the real answer to this. If it isn't a good one I'm going to be very cross with you. Don't disappoint

My friends love it, and when I explain it i act out the occurrence required of IT (the circumstance)

My Gramps told me it long ago...and it's my favourite.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:03 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:19 am

attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:21 pm

I walked along 'til I found it,
I picked it up to look for it,
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down,
and walked away with it..

What is it?

I'm patiently waiting to see the real answer to this. If it isn't a good one I'm going to be very cross with you. Don't disappoint

My friends love it, and when I explain it i act out the occurrence required of IT (the circumstance)

My Gramps told me it long ago...and it's my favourite.

How long until he runs out of time for his own answer?

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:43 am

attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:03 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:19 am

I'm patiently waiting to see the real answer to this. If it isn't a good one I'm going to be very cross with you. Don't disappoint

My friends love it, and when I explain it i act out the occurrence required of IT (the circumstance)

My Gramps told me it long ago...and it's my favourite.

How long until he runs out of time for his own answer?

..chomping at the BIT?

attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:37 am BIT?

That better not be the answer...

Glasgow Rangers?

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:51 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:37 am BIT?

That better not be the answer...

Jesus, I really like U.

..then I could have puked at some stuff u posted pertaining to your lack of respect to that namesake - whether u believe or not, THE most unwise thing to do..

Now, I'm attempting to respect U again..upon the see saw of life.

So.

Hint 1. U R walking in bare feet along a wooden pier.

Bare feet along a wooden pier
I suddenly see a deer
O dear
No fear though, I'm not afraid of deer
I'm not afraid when deer are near
He looks at me sideways, a leer
A snear?
This deer has rosy cheeks. An alcoholic? Wants beer?
Come here deer
Hop in the car, you control the pedals, I'll steer
You hit the clutch, I'll change the gear
We're here
Hop out, endless beer is near
You fucking alcoholic deer that I met at the pier

Hint 2: You call out "ouch!"

Hello Adrian, welcome to the forum!

There is some interesting discussion here, but there is also no shortage of bloody wankers (I think that is the correct British term - I am American).

Hume seems like one of the easier to read and more sensible philosophers - but I admit to find Spinoza almost as incomprehensible as the "Critique of Pure Reason". I will be starting some classes at the local community college in September and that will include an intro to philosophy - hopefully that will make me understand the subject better. (The local community college has exactly one philosophy course - intro to philosophy. I live in that kind of place.)

Thanks for the welcome, carlafeit. I hope you enjoy the college group. Kant I can't get into and suffice with reports from those who can. There are some useful guides to reading Spinoza, proposition by proposition. For a good overview of the lens grinder I recommend Clare Carlisle's Spinoza's Religion which is a mischievous title since he didn't have one (as she shows), preferring to see most religious belief as saturated with superstition.

I have not left the Forum, simply tried to complete my introduction. On reflection, it may have been better if I had simply said 'Hello'.

I am looking around the Forum and already I have seen some good stuff. I'm currently hovering a lot over the philosophy of mind but will pause for reflection before potential engagement. If opportunities I arise I may occasionally pounce on prey in the philosophy of religion.

As a final appendix to my prematurely concluded introduction, here are some responses to a few points.

I still like Hume. When I go to Edinburgh I often visit his mausoleum - which he spent a small fortune to be built before he died. Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.

I am not Scottish. I am a citizen of the cosmos. I am more Celtic than Rangers though I have a soft sport for Partick Thistle. Billy Connolly who grew up supporting the latter team says that its full name is Partick Thistle Nil. I more deeply follow Liverpool FC having watched them in the flesh for 40 years. Some decades ago I became interested in the philosophy of sport, we creatures conceptualised as homo ludens. There is a philosophy of all sorts. A philosophy of history, a history of philosophy, a philosophy of philosophy. The magazine (Philosophy Now which seems to be connected with this Forum, has a good regular section devoted to how philosophers have treated all sorts of mundane things. A current interest of mine is the philosophy of sewers. (Mary Midgely excited this interest with her philosophy of plumbing).

There could be a philosophy of Looney Tunes. For now, that's all folks.

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:51 pm That better not be the answer...

It wasn't.

After Hint 2. above you must have the answer, oui?

It's ok to answer, Scotsman doesn't seem particularly fussed..

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:18 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:51 pm That better not be the answer...

It wasn't.

After Hint 2. above you must have the answer, oui?

It's ok to answer, Scotsman doesn't seem particularly fussed..

After hint 2, I think it's a splinter

I walked along 'til I found it, so you're walking and you get a splinter
I picked it up to look for it, you pick up your foot too try to find the splinter
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down, you don't find the splinter so you put your foot back down
and walked away with it. And walk away with the splinter still in your foot

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:07 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:18 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:51 pm That better not be the answer...

It wasn't.

After Hint 2. above you must have the answer, oui?

It's ok to answer, Scotsman doesn't seem particularly fussed..

After hint 2, I think it's a splinter

I walked along 'til I found it, so you're walking and you get a splinter
I picked it up to look for it, you pick up your foot too try to find the splinter
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down, you don't find the splinter so you put your foot back down
and walked away with it. And walk away with the splinter still in your foot

Yes, it's one that's near impossible to work out without those hints.

I don't give hints to people I tell it to, I like to act it out - hopping around as I explain the answer, gets a few laughs.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:12 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:07 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:18 am

It wasn't.

After Hint 2. above you must have the answer, oui?

It's ok to answer, Scotsman doesn't seem particularly fussed..

After hint 2, I think it's a splinter

I walked along 'til I found it, so you're walking and you get a splinter
I picked it up to look for it, you pick up your foot too try to find the splinter
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down, you don't find the splinter so you put your foot back down
and walked away with it. And walk away with the splinter still in your foot

Yes, it's one that's near impossible to work out without those hints.

I don't give hints to people I tell it to, I like to act it out - hopping around as I explain the answer, gets a few laughs.

It's honestly a good riddle, I was (perhaps unfairly) expecting it to be something stupid or impossible, an answer that doesn't fit the question, but it's solid, a classic even. I'll see if I can remember it. Acting it out as a hint seems like a good bit of entertainment.

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:44 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:12 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:07 pm

After hint 2, I think it's a splinter

I walked along 'til I found it, so you're walking and you get a splinter
I picked it up to look for it, you pick up your foot too try to find the splinter
I found I couldn't find it,
So I put it down, you don't find the splinter so you put your foot back down
and walked away with it. And walk away with the splinter still in your foot

Yes, it's one that's near impossible to work out without those hints.

I don't give hints to people I tell it to, I like to act it out - hopping around as I explain the answer, gets a few laughs.

It's honestly a good riddle, I was (perhaps unfairly) expecting it to be something stupid or impossible, an answer that doesn't fit the question, but it's solid, a classic even. I'll see if I can remember it. Acting it out as a hint seems like a good bit of entertainment.

I'm glad you like it, as I said my Gramps told me that one as a child and I made sure to remember it.

I left Sculptor (*Chaz W) hanging on it for some days with no hints and when I told him he believed it to be flawed logically.
Sculptor's position as a flaw was that you pick your foot up to look for it, not "IT" being the splinter. My answer is that you pick "IT" up with your foot, so IT remains the splinter, not your foot. Yes it works.

I plugged the mic into my PC the other day and had a chat with copilot while doing a few things. I asked CP if it had the answer to that riddle. I was surprised that it did answer, but it said a splinter in your hand!!