wouldn't it waste paper & take more machinery to make stationery in a non tessellating many sided shape?
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whats the deal with the octagonal stationery?
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Originally posted by Ukko View PostThese are people who build space ships, FTL drives, can colonise other worlds and birthed a race sentient machines. I doubt the difficulties of octagonal paper is much of a bother to them.
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It's a series in-joke. They had to make the miniseries work on a limited budget, and found themselves endlessly talking about cutting corners. As a joke, someone did it with the papers that were to be used in a scene and it just stuck."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostIt's a series in-joke. They had to make the miniseries work on a limited budget, and found themselves endlessly talking about cutting corners. As a joke, someone did it with the papers that were to be used in a scene and it just stuck.
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It is.
From what I understand they really liked it at first as a unique universe quirk, hence why they made it a regular feature. But as the show went on, they they got really annoyed with it because it meant having to cut the corners off pages every time they needed someone to have paper on screen."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by slimjim View PostI'll bet the sort of things your thinking of where done for either aesthetic, ritualistic or religious reasonssigpic
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostIt is.
From what I understand they really liked it at first as a unique universe quirk, hence why they made it a regular feature. But as the show went on, they they got really annoyed with it because it meant having to cut the corners off pages every time they needed someone to have paper on screen.sigpic
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Originally posted by Ukko View PostIf every little detail was going to be explained, they'd need to write out a set of encyclopaedias like the Britannica.
They were interested in characters and story, and very deliberately eschewed going into technical detail unless they absolutely had to."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostIt is.
From what I understand they really liked it at first as a unique universe quirk, hence why they made it a regular feature. But as the show went on, they they got really annoyed with it because it meant having to cut the corners off pages every time they needed someone to have paper on screen.
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Man I just think that they would have avoided the Algae Planet if they didn't cut all the corners off the paper.
They went to the Algae Planet because they were low on food. People resorted to eating Paper. Then they stopped, as evidenced by Saul Tigh, because there was a "Paper Shortage". think of all the extra bellies those corners could have fed if they didn't cut them off!!!! Wasteful!
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