Yeah, I thought it might be a generation gap thing.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DebetEsse - Nov 02, 2005 4:13:48 am PST #658 of 10006
Woe to the fucking wicked.
amych - Nov 02, 2005 4:15:44 am PST #659 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Mmm... graph paper...
I don't remember having problems either, but then again, my elementary-school self viewed any such crutches as a sign of weakness and needing to be culled from the herd. I was not a particularly nice child.
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 4:18:43 am PST #660 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I should also point out that when Games publishes those puzzles where the numbers in a multiplication problem have been replaced by letters, they don't include no steenkin' placeholders.
amych - Nov 02, 2005 4:20:17 am PST #661 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I should also point out that when Games publishes those puzzles where the numbers in a multiplication problem have been replaced by letters, they don't include no steenkin' placeholders.
Of course not. In a puzzle, it would give away too much.
Steph L. - Nov 02, 2005 4:27:10 am PST #662 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It may be something akin to Tom Lehrer's line about "If you're under thirty-five or went to a private school, you say '7 from three is six,' but if you're over thirty-five and went to a public school, you say '8 from 4 is six.'"
Whuzzah? I don't understand what that means. It it a base-8/base-10 thing?
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 4:27:50 am PST #663 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oopsie.
Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging coral reef
MANILA, Philippines - Greenpeace said Tuesday it will pay nearly $7,000 in damages after the environmental group's flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, hit a coral reef at a world heritage site in the southern Philippines.
The accident Monday was "very regrettable," Greenpeace said in a joint statement with the Tubbataha National Marine Park, but it laid some of the blame on maritime charts showing its ship was 1.5 miles from the reef.
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 4:30:31 am PST #664 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Whuzzah? I don't understand what that means. It it a base-8/base-10 thing?
It was about carrying the one in "New Math," and I don't actually understand the second part, either, but then I was under thirty-five and had gone to a private school when I first heard the song.
Fred Pete - Nov 02, 2005 4:33:57 am PST #665 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.
Um, Raq, don't know if you're around right now, but what is the Doha Round?
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 4:41:24 am PST #666 of 10006
Jesse, can you snag an underwire from a sucky bra and make Frankenbra?
Just keep it away from electrical outlets.
I had something, but...it's gone now. It may have involved cats. And bitching about dry skin.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2005 4:47:03 am PST #667 of 10006
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Lehrer:
Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in the embarrassing position of being unable to do your child's arithmetic homework because of the current revolution in mathematics teaching known as the New Math. So as a public service here tonight I thought I would offer a brief lesson in the New Math. Tonight we're going to cover subtraction. This is the first room I've worked for a while that didn't have a blackboard so we will have to make due with more primitive visual aids, as they say in the "ed biz." Consider the following subtraction problem, which I will put up here: 342 - 173. Now remember how we used to do that. three from two is nine; carry the one, and if you're under 35 or went to a private school you say seven from three is six, but if you're over 35 and went to a public school you say eight from four is six; carry the one so we have 169, but in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer. Here's how they do it now.
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