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Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
and because of that its not “data is beautiful” it’s “data are beautiful”
Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.
A set of multiple things is a plural, friend. A set of dishes, a set of clothes, a set of knives, a set of tools. THESE tools, THESE clothes, THESE knives, THESE data.
Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.
datus/data means "given", as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered "given" and not interpreted.
Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.
Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.
Everyone needs a bidet. Literally clean yo stinky ass up!
I just shower because I like it. A more important factor in personal hygiene is if you wash your hands or not. I see so many people who piss and shit and then just run their hands under water quickly it’s fucking gross.
I used to think that as well. But what if it turned out that over-showering was actually the thing that makes you stinky?
well what if i only shower once a week and none of my friends complain?
You are vastly underestimating the social awkwardness that comes with telling someone they smell. Maybe you have a very different relationship than most do with their friends, but it would take quite a lot before I would bring that kind of thing up. In a professional setting, I would want to get HR involved before pointing that out to someone. I would let them figure out a polite way of asking the coworker to fix their B.O.
At the canteen table, I brought it up once during a tangentially-related conversation and they were all very surprised. Minutes later, while the others were getting the fill, one of them even privately went up to me and confirmed.
"Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty."
Monty Python is for insane British "people" who think drag is the height of comedy.
"Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up."
Not even true. Daily showers are entirely performative. I'll have you know there are many people in your life who don't take showers every day and you don't even realize.
Isn't data uncountable in english?
"Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad."
How? I didn't even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It's ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you've seen one episode you've seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.
Sir, these are not Big Bang theory episodes.