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[WWGD]

You're ignoring the most serious problems: What if I can't order Chinese food in 2038? ;).

 

[fresh_42]

You're ignoring the most serious problems: What if I can't order Chinese food in 2038? ;).

Lol, bad example.

What if I can't order Chinese food in 2038?
\begin{align*}
10. &\text{ You can order pizza instead.}\\[6pt]
9. &\text{ You live in NY, you can order a cab.}\\[6pt]
8. &\text{ You live in NY, you can walk. }\\[6pt]
7. &\text{ You can order at another Chinese restaurant. }\\[6pt]
6. &\text{ You can order Indian food. }\\[6pt]
5. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner uses Windows. }\\[6pt]
4. & \text{ The Chinese restaurant owner uses UNIX but the machine didn't work before anyway. }\\[6pt]
3. &\text{ You are a nerd and order no. 40 every Thursday, so ... }\\[6pt]
2. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner has only a telephone anyway. }\\[6pt]
1. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner will rather use drums and smoke signals than losing a customer. }
\end{align*}

 

[WWGD]

Lol, bad example.

What if I can't order Chinese food in 2038?
\begin{align*}
10. &\text{ You can order pizza instead.}\\[6pt]
9. &\text{ You live in NY, you can order a cab.}\\[6pt]
8. &\text{ You live in NY, you can walk. }\\[6pt]
7. &\text{ You can order at another Chinese restaurant. }\\[6pt]
6. &\text{ You can order Indian food. }\\[6pt]
5. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner uses Windows. }\\[6pt]
4. & \text{ The Chinese restaurant owner uses UNIX but the machine didn't work before anyway. }\\[6pt]
3. &\text{ You are a nerd and order no. 40 every Thursday, so ... }\\[6pt]
2. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner has only a telephone anyway. }\\[6pt]
1. &\text{ The Chinese restaurant owner will rather use drums and smoke signals than losing a customer. }
\end{align*}

Who knows where I will be living 18 years from now, though. But point taken.

 

[WWGD]

I have someone I work with ( more like I work for) who uses 3-4 different emails when sending me

something. Different abbreviations for name, title, etc. When I search my inbox I need to enter different

combinations to find his emails. My telepathic message to him:

Could you _please_ choose one email address and stick with it?

 

[WWGD]

Seems like "Hey, Waldo wants his hat back" gets either blank stares or unsympathetic answers.

 

[WWGD]

How hard can it be to explain that I am being taxed twice?
I buy something from the hot bar. It is entered into the register, with tax included, total T.
I add something of price t, then I am charged (T+t)*tax instead of T+ t*tax. Fortunately T is
small enough to just let go.

 

[fresh_42]

How hard can it be to explain that I am being taxed twice?
I buy something from the hot bar. It is entered into the register, with tax included, total T.
I add something of price t, then I am charged (T+t)*tax instead of T+ t*tax. Fortunately T is
small enough to just let go.

With out without colored modelling clay?

 

[WWGD]

With out without colored modelling clay?

You have the same problem there ? It would be a good exercise for those who keep asking:

What is Math good for IRL?

 

[fresh_42]

No, we don't have that problem. Our prices per position already include the tax. In the situation you described we would have gotten two bills, or one on leave where all positions would have been associated with a table number or another identification property.

We pay $at+bt$ whereas you pay $(a+b)t$, or in your case $((a)t+b)t$.

 

[WWGD]

No, we don't have that problem. Our prices per position already include the tax. In the situation you described we would have gotten two bills, or one on leave where all positions would have been associated with a table number or another identification property.

If that was the case here, maybe they would have tried to make me pay both bills!

 

[WWGD]

You have the same problem there ? It would be a good exercise for those who keep asking:

What is Math good for IRL?

Another good exercise Re Math IRL is to decide if, given an item at x% discount on which one must pay taxes,, if it is the same to first apply the discount and then apply taxes as first computing taxes and then applying discount.

 

[WWGD]

This woman apparently thought I was harrassing her and changed seats because ( I assume) I was staring at her. I was actually looking at the food she was eating, which looked amazingly tasty. EDIT: When I was going over :" Automate the boring stuff with Bacon(Python)".

 

[WWGD]

Good reason not to give your dog a standard human name. I was sitting on a bench, this guy with a dog named after me: " Don't do anything there, I won't clean up after you!" I turn around (I was sitting). " Stop smelling the (censored) of other dogs. What's wrong with you?". "Just stop!" . Whatever happened to "Pebbles" or " Rocky", etc ? I assure you I won't do my needs in the park.

 

[WWGD]

Why don't they have separate quiet/study and talk sections in coffee shops. I do always carry my head phones
but still too loud some times:

Teenage girls on next table :

" He's so cute, I bet he doesn't even know I exist".

Me:
" Hey, I don't know if _I_ exist !"

Awkward silence. But not a viable general solution.

 

[fresh_42]

Why don't they have separate quiet/study and talk sections in coffee shops. I do always carry my head phones
but still too loud some times:

Teenage girls on next table :

" He's so cute, I bet he doesn't even know I exist".

Me:
" Hey, I don't know if _I_ exist !"

Awkward silence. But not a viable general solution.

I once visited a pretty crowded coffee shop. My friend and I took seat at a larger table where already some economy students sat. My friend took a book with him which he unwarily put on the table. Some minutes later we were alone at the table. The book title was: Introduction to Infinitesimal and Integration Theory (or similar).

 

[WWGD]

I once visited a pretty crowded coffee shop. My friend and I took seat at a larger table where already some economy students sat. My friend took a book with him which he unwarily put on the table. Some minutes later we were alone at the table. The book title was: Introduction to Infinitesimal and Integration Theory (or similar).

Don't worry, I believe similar is the case for economists; I remember reading a rule of thumb to the effect that
in order for a party/dinner invite to be successful, less than 10% of guests can be economists. Ouch!

 

[Klystron]

Sitting in a waiting area at the Veterans Hospital reading "The Mathematics Lover's Companion" when the enormous biker sitting to my left notices a diagram of tiling frames.

"Oh, Fibonacci numbers!", exclaims my gargantuan neighbor.

"Yeah, amazing math for the Twelve Century.", I reply. Take a deep breath. "If Fibonacci were alive now he would probably be a computer scientist. I read a book last week that claimed old Leonard wrote some of the first mathematics textbooks then in use for hundreds of years. Blah, blah ... flower petals ... pineapples ... sequences ...".

Giant biker pulls out his phone and starts playing games. Young veteran dude on my right plugs in ear buds and becomes engrossed in watching videos on his phone. Pretty blonde vet sitting across from me crosses her legs and stares up at the 'Veterans Health' video loop on the CCTV. I turn to chapter on set theory.

 

[Ibix]

Today I learned that it's possible to hit every one of my buttons on a particular subject in one conversation, accidentally as far as I could tell, in such a way that each one is complimentary to me and I'd look like an idiot if I started ranting about the wrongness of it all.

 

[WWGD]

I surprised myself at the effort I was willing to do just to get a small pack of salt for my food (to be microwaved). I waited like 40 minutes, talked with like 3 different staff at the place...and then I remembered I had a few packs as part of my "emergency" stash (together with dry socks, etc). There were some pepper packs (picked by Peter Piper ;)) but to me, pepper is only good as a name for exotic dancers.

 

[WWGD]

Aargh! Always forget that the sauce for the takeout is in the bottom. I complain: How is it !@# possible
to eat chicken without any sauce! I slog through it... to find the sauce at the very bottom. Only gone through
this like 5 times, so no reason for me to know (right!)

 

[WWGD]

Wonder why in every picture of a dog I remember seeing, the dog's mouth is open and their tongue is sticking out. Dont remember seeing dogs with their mouths shut.

 

[fresh_42]

If dogs shouldn't eat chicken bones, why do leopard seals chase penguins?

 

[WWGD]

If dogs shouldn't eat chicken bones, why do leopard seals chase penguins?

Was der smokert freshmeister?

 

[fresh_42]

Funny to read an American German surname (ESPN reporter) that you never saw before, and even don't know where to part the syllables.

 

[WWGD]

Funny to read an American German surname (ESPN reporter) that you never saw before, and even don't know where to part the syllables.

Melvin Nugen -Fahrver? Auf Sportkeit TV?

 

[WWGD]

Funny to read an American German surname (ESPN reporter) that you never saw before, and even don't know where to part the syllables.

Is it dubbed in German? Do you get non-Euro sports like Baseball?

 

[fresh_42]

Kirk Herbstreit. Funny name: Herb Streit = tart argue and Herbst Reit = autumn ride.

 

[WWGD]

Kirk Herbstreit. Funny name: Herb Streit = tart argue and Herbst Reit = autumn ride.

Tart argue?

 

[fresh_42]

Is it dubbed in German? Do you get non-Euro sports like Baseball?

Nobody watches adult men chewing tobacco here.

They broadcast football, and right now the College final as a takeover from ESPN. They have German commentators, and good ones: a former NFL player and a coach who won the European championship with France. So at least they know what they are talking about.

 

[fresh_42]

Tart argue?

Google chooses "bitter argument". Herb is not really bitter, but o.k. in a way. E.g. beer with much humulus is "herb", not bitter. The dictionary gave me "dry" or "tart". I guess it's obvious that both words have a common origin, herb and herbs, which indicates the taste.

Streit has no good translation. Quarrel is an option, argument is one, but they don't hit the nail. Quarrel sounds like fighting and argument like reasoning. Streit is more in the middle of them.

 

[WWGD]

Nobody watches adult men chewing tobacco here.

They broadcast football, and right now the College final as a takeover from ESPN. They have German commentators, and good ones: a former NFL player and a coach who won the European championship with France. So at least they know what they are talking about.

So is it a direct translation /rebroadcast or a German made affiliate? Just confused.

 

[fresh_42]

So is it a direct translation /rebroadcast or a German made affiliate? Just confused.

Never heard the name Herbstreit, but it consists of German words. Btw. Ebstreit is also a German word, meaning an argument about inheritance.

 

[WWGD]

Never heard the name Herbstreit, but it consists of German words. Btw. Ebstreit is also a German word, meaning an argument about inheritance.

No, I meant the station. Is it rebroadcast or an affiliate station?

 

[fresh_42]

Another random thought: One of the healthiest cuisines is the Japanese, and - let's be honest - one of the unhealthiest the American. But both cultures invented a sport where fat people can participate.

No, I meant the station. Is it rebroadcast or an affiliate station?

They bought the live coverage (pictures) from ESPN (or whoever owns the rights) and comment it from the studio.

 

[WWGD]

Want to talk about unusual? I saw a rerun of an old show where Marylin Idiot Savant ( German name?) was debating whether her measured IQ was the 228 she claimed. Saw it on someone's PC. Like another weird competition.

 

[fresh_42]

Marylin is probably a version of Maria, Idiot is universal, and Savant french.

 

[WWGD]

Marylin is probably a version of Maria, Idiot is universal, and Savant french.

Mary the universal French Idiot? She was in the Guinness book at one point but not last I checked.

 

[WWGD]

Another random thought: One of the healthiest cuisines is the Japanese, and - let's be honest - one of the unhealthiest the American. But both cultures invented a sport where fat people can participate.

They bought the live coverage (pictures) from ESPN (or whoever owns the rights) and comment it from the studio.

You'd be surprised that some channels, I think ESPN included, has fishing shows where someone is filmed while just doing some fishing.

 

[fresh_42]

You'd be surprised that some channels, I think ESPN included, has fishing shows where someone is filmed while just doing some fishing.

And I thought Golf was the ultimate tranquilizer.

 

[WWGD]

They have bowling too. But no cheerleaders anymore.

 

[Janus]

You'd be surprised that some channels, I think ESPN included, has fishing shows where someone is filmed while just doing some fishing.

Those have been around forever. They are one of my main arguments against solipsism. I have serious doubts that, even in its most deranged state, my mind would have ever come up with TV shows where you watch others fish. (And this is from someone who done some fishing in his time.)

 

[WWGD]

Those have been around forever. They are one of my main arguments against solipsism. I have serious doubts that, even in its most deranged state, my mind would have ever come up with TV shows where you watch others fish. (And this is from someone who done some fishing in his time.)

How about chess matches? (Maybe with cheerleaders, as in SNL?) That would add to the proof, put a nail in the coffin for me.

 

[fresh_42]

How about chess matches? (Maybe with cheerleaders, as in SNL?) That would add to the proof, put a nail in the coffin for me.

Chess is exciting and if commented well, an interesting sport!

 

[WWGD]

Chess is exciting and if commented well, an interesting sport!

You like the cheerleaders too? I imagine the comments: "Scratches his nose...going to move his rook...no, changed his mind".

 

[fresh_42]

You like the cheerleaders too?

I'm not sure yet I like them at all.

 

[WWGD]

I'm not sure yet I like them at all.

It is a weird thing. Wonder if any other country has something similar.

 

[fresh_42]

It is a weird thing. Wonder if any other country has something similar.

Does this count?



... and of course our football teams (yes, there exists such a thing) have Cheerleaders, too. Not quite sure about basketball, but probably yes.

 

[WWGD]

Does this count?



... and of course our football teams (yes, there exists such a thing) have Cheerleaders, too. Not quite sure about basketball, but probably yes.

I heard some Euro countries and even Israel have baseball leagues. Small and not widely popupar. Still, kind of surprising. Do you also have basketball leagues?

 

[fresh_42]

Basketball, yes, baseball probably not. The only baseball countries I'm aware of are the USA, Cuba and Japan. However, if you count ... uhm ... uhm ... cricket ...

 

[WWGD]

Basketball, yes, baseball probably not. The only baseball countries I'm aware of are the USA, Cuba and Japan. However, if you count ... uhm ... uhm ... cricket ...

No, I've checked and they have some non-pro baseball leagues in these countries. I'll give you a link when I get on my PC; I am on my phone now. I was surprised. Edit: I think this was made possible because of the internet, allowing small groups like Baseball fans outside of the main countries to get together and provide enough of an audience to start a league. Overall RIP with majority tastes/culture thanks to the internet, which allows them to know each other and form groups of common interests.