Idiot sightings - Page 2

tw · 02-02-2010, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Kids here don't seem to understand "quarter" as anything except a coin either.

Frontline on PBS tonight (Tuesday) may discuss this problem in a piece entitled "Digital Nation". This Frontline broadcast will also be available via the www.pbs.org website.

skysidhe · 02-02-2010, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tw

Frontline on PBS tonight (Tuesday) may discuss this problem in a piece entitled "Digital Nation". This Frontline broadcast will also be available via the www.pbs.org website.

Very interesting! I'll watch it.

I still use 'quarter' as it relates to time.

Try it on a kid and you'll feel like an old gramps.

monster · 02-02-2010, 06:44 PM

Well I guess one fourth makes sense logically.... one third, one fourth, one fifth.

I think I'll campaign for a change to onteen, twoteen and threeteen

lumberjim · 02-02-2010, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

Very interesting! I'll watch it.

I still use 'quarter' as it relates to time.

Try it on a kid and you'll feel like an old gramps.

a quarter means $2500

skysidhe · 02-02-2010, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

a quarter means $2500

Maybe in rap and car sales but in my quarter it means Led Zeppelin!

squirell nutkin · 02-02-2010, 07:50 PM

I almost never say one fourth.

lumberjim · 02-02-2010, 08:00 PM

go fourth and multiply

tw · 02-02-2010, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

go fourth and multiply

because of too many fifths? Which results in a sextext of a circle.

lumberjim · 02-02-2010, 10:44 PM

and you'll soon have a seventh son of a seventh son.....

tw · 02-02-2010, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

and you'll soon have a seventh son of a seventh son.....

Octopussy and nano-posts. Decimating the entire thread.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-03-2010, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

I think I'll campaign for a change to onteen, twoteen and threeteen

Which happens to be exactly how they do it in Russian: odinadsat', dvenadsat', trinadsat'.

And exactly how they don't do it in the Romance languages: French until sixteen, Spanish until fifteen.

You pick up your textbook, you take your choice.

ZenGum · 02-03-2010, 02:59 AM

Next time, ask the deli attendant for 0.33 recurring pounds. Time the blank stare.

So, back to idiot sightings, this guy in a car sales yard was looking at a car, and after sitting in the front seat for a while, got in the back to check it out. He didn't stop to think about child-safe locks on the rear doors. He didn't consider that the power windows wouldn't work without the ignition on. At least, not until it was too late.
It was lucky for him the sales chap was about and came and let him out but I got a quick look at him in the mirror while he was there.

Pie · 02-03-2010, 09:51 AM

What's really sad is that sounds like something I might have done, ZG.

CzinZumerzet · 02-03-2010, 09:53 AM

First time I was in the US, Oregon somewhere, somebody asked me the time to which I replied "Five and twenty past ten", to huge guffaws of jolly laughter and cries of "Say it again, say it again". It became a party trick when the clock stood at the relevant time some wag would cry "Listen everyone, Cazz honey, what's the time"?

SamIam · 02-03-2010, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

because of too many fifths?

Oh my gawd! I have done so many stupid things as a result of too many fifths.

02-02-2010, 06:44 PM	#18
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Well I guess one fourth makes sense logically.... one third, one fourth, one fifth. I think I'll campaign for a change to onteen, twoteen and threeteen __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-02-2010, 07:50 PM	#21
squirell nutkin has a second hand user title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: in a Nut House Posts: 2,017	I almost never say one fourth. __________________ And now I'm finished posting.

02-02-2010, 08:00 PM	#22
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	go fourth and multiply __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

02-02-2010, 10:44 PM	#24
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	and you'll soon have a seventh son of a seventh son..... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

02-03-2010, 02:59 AM	#27
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Next time, ask the deli attendant for 0.33 recurring pounds. Time the blank stare. So, back to idiot sightings, this guy in a car sales yard was looking at a car, and after sitting in the front seat for a while, got in the back to check it out. He didn't stop to think about child-safe locks on the rear doors. He didn't consider that the power windows wouldn't work without the ignition on. At least, not until it was too late. It was lucky for him the sales chap was about and came and let him out but I got a quick look at him in the mirror while he was there. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-03-2010, 09:51 AM	#28
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	What's really sad is that sounds like something I might have done, ZG. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

02-03-2010, 09:53 AM	#29
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	First time I was in the US, Oregon somewhere, somebody asked me the time to which I replied "Five and twenty past ten", to huge guffaws of jolly laughter and cries of "Say it again, say it again". It became a party trick when the clock stood at the relevant time some wag would cry "Listen everyone, Cazz honey, what's the time"? __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

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