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    The Butterfly Effect?

    I was thinking on this one today. from very little I have always believe in the butterfly effect (you know - a butterfly flapsi t's wings here and it causes a storm somewhe else...)

    I used to drive my car to school but one day it was in the grage so I got a bus. As I got off t my stop and old fiend I hadn't seen since primary school got on. We quickly exchanged numbers and promised to meet up again. That summer I met a friend of his who turned out to be Mr Shortie's best friend (and still is). But even then I only met My Shortie because he happened to take him along to a night club we were all at one day. We're now 5 years married with 2 kids. All because my car was in the garage

    Anyone else had similar? Not just around finding partners, but anything
    Last edited by Shortie; 29-04-2008, 11:12 PM.
    Shortie

    "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter
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    Yes I'd like to think so Shortie.....

    All the people that Trousers and I have met since we moved here from Buckinghamshire. Almost every single person has led us to something either downright 'Gorgeous' in terms of friendship, or 'How Spooky Is That?' in some kind of similarity to what we know and love in terms of familiarity to give us that Warm Glow...

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    • #3
      And Wellie, you had to move AWAY from Bucks to meet someone who'd not long moved TO Bucks ... so does that count Shorty?
      Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

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      • #4
        Shortly after moving to a new house I went to visit my Mum about 45 miles away. On the way there, I saw a road and I wondered where it went to. It was a sunny day and I thought, what the heck, I've got time to spare so I took the turning and ended up in another part of town, the whole detour took me about 10 minutes.

        I carried on my journey and came to a major road crossing (very fast dual carridgeway) and there was an almighty accident with ambulances, fire engines and police all in attendance. It seemed to be very recent, perhaps happening only 10 minutes earlier ...

        I think that I would have been in the middle of that accident had it not been for my detour.
        A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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        • #5
          Shortie, thats a nice story but thats not the butterfly effect.

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          • #6
            Aahhh, okay. Maybe it's action and consequence then

            What is the butterfly effect then?
            Shortie

            "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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            • #7
              I thought it was a bit like chaos theory.

              That or a film...
              A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

              BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

              Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

              What would Vedder do?

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              • #8
                Isnt it the theory of a butterfly flapping its wings in the jungle causing a hurricane the other side of the world?

                And yeh, good film Wayne!
                Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

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                • #9
                  Yep both Wayne and moggssue have got it. Its more about the cause/effect the other side of the world, rather than just one small chance thing (leaving your car in the garage) causing many small incremental effects leading to something big (marriage and kids ).

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                  • #10
                    Clever a***S us you know!! Pity I dont know as much about veg growing
                    Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by moggssue View Post
                      Clever a***S us you know!! Pity I dont know as much about veg growing
                      Same here This idiot thought it was ok to put tomatos outside over night a month ago

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by ClayGarden View Post
                        Same here This idiot thought it was ok to put tomatos outside over night a month ago
                        I think that's Frost Theory.
                        A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                        BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                        Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                        What would Vedder do?

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                        • #13
                          I'm too scared to put mine outside at all They're my babies and I think I'm mollycoddling them too much Well, you nevr know when that hurricane might strike, what with all the flutterbys around!!
                          Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

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                          • #14
                            Chaos theory revolves around the idea that the same pattens (often in apparently random things...dripping taps, waterfalls,weather etc,) are repeated, but at various scales. James Gleick (published by Cardinal) wrote a good book on the subject...which I had the pleasure of wading through at University. The best bit was definitely the fractals (Particularly Mandelbrot set)..sort of paisley patterns that have similarities as you zoom in further and further). You often used to see them as flyers for early raves ( hmm, reputedly! I was obviously too busy studying !!!) I have an excellent generation programme on my other puter that I might be able to get onto disc and load on here to e-mail if anyone is interested. I am sure they are out there on the web though.

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                            • #15
                              Paulottie - See Wellie yawn and drop off to sleep darling?!!

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