@ponderable saidIf a thread's purpose is to circumnavigate a "vicious circle", so be it I say. If "going off on a tangent" is synonymous with "thread drift", I am all for it.
There is a vicious circle, and someone is going off a tangent, couldn't that lead to something new?
@ponderable saidI thought a vicious circle lead to only vicious.
So we have a curve leadig to somewhere, but someone is going off a tangent. (The basic metaophor, where tthe behavious is connotated negatively)
But imagine:
There is a vicious circle, and someone is going off a tangent, couldn't that lead to something new?
@ponderable said"Going off on a tangent" is possibly threatened by two things: 1. It being seen and treated as an opprobrium. 2. There is an alert category: "Off-Topic.
So we have a curve leadig to somewhere, but someone is going off a tangent. (The basic metaophor, where tthe behavious is connotated negatively)
But imagine:
There is a vicious circle, and someone is going off a tangent, couldn't that lead to something new?
@ponderable saidyer trying to teach me geometry using the tangential method
So we have a curve leadig to somewhere, but someone is going off a tangent. (The basic metaophor, where tthe behavious is connotated negatively)
But imagine:
There is a vicious circle, and someone is going off a tangent, couldn't that lead to something new?
it won't work, i refuse to learn
triangles are for sissies, give me a vicious circle any ole day
@ghost-of-a-duke saidProbably a drug peddler.
I was attacked once by a racing bike.
It was a vicious cycle.
@the-gravedigger saidAngle of a Tagent =° to the location were it deviates, then rising.
Definition Angle:
a spiritual being serving as a divine messenger and intermediary and often as a special protector of an individual.
especially : one in the lowest rank in the celestial hier
~ VR
@ponderable saidThis thread is spiraling out of control.
Angle of a Tagent =° to the location were it deviates, then rising.