Humans: Smarter than yeast?

[Dillinger4]

I think Madusa is about equal to yeast.

 

[danny la rouge]

baton it, you guys, this is a serious thread.

OK, don't get a cob on!

 

[Madusa]

jeez Danny, you've started some kind of bunfight in here.

 

[fogbat]

I'll baguetteing out of here before it turns nasty

 

[Dr Jon]

I know you are a fungi, but please stop fermenting distractions...

 

[danny la rouge]

I know you are a fungi, but please stop fermenting distractions...

You've not got mushroom to talk!

 

[CyberRose]

I think that is included in scale, scope and complexity

Well they can't drive really little cars then! Or even make really little cars!

 

[camouflage]

jeez Danny, you've started some kind of bunfight in here.

Flame wars a' brewin.

 

[Madusa]

Oh I hope not, otherwise we'll beer all night!

 

[bluestreak]

Ale have none of that rubbish.

 

[Dr Jon]

you've not got mushroom to talk!

oh i hope not, otherwise we'll beer all night!

pmsl

 

[Dr Jon]

In large groups, or as a species we're about as smart as yeast and other simple organisms. As individuals we can do things that yeast can't, like oragami, and blogging.

I misread that as orgasms and blagging...

 

[Madusa]

I misread that as orgasms and blagging...

Oh Dr. Jon...this thread started out so promising, and then danny came along with his yeast cultural buns and stuff.

Oh Dr. Jon!

 

[elbows]

“I’m tired of this back-slapping ‘Isn’t humanity neat?’ bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes, okay? That’s all we are.

— Bill Hicks

 

[Madusa]

I quite liked typing ''Oh Dr. Jon''

 

[Dr Jon]

Oh Dr. Jon...this thread started out so promising, and then danny came along with his yeast cultural buns and stuff.

Oh Dr. Jon!

Promising - yeah, probably. But given where our evolutionary potential is headed, I don't know if it matters. It's given folk a good laugh at the ludicrous situation we're in and that's good enough for me.

I quite liked typing ''Oh Dr. Jon''

Crikey!

Type it again and again and have a Dr Jon-o-thon!

 

[Madusa]

Crikey!

Type it again and again and have a Dr Jon-o-thon!

 

[Madusa]

Oh we knead not this thread to die.