Insanely Idiotic

Billy, notwithstanding, I tell my wife that we always get better service from white cashiers. A xmas part timer who happened to be Hispanic, told my wife we were stealing from Macy’s by reuising a one time use coupon. My wife said the white girls always give her the coupon back. As we left, I told my wife, you’re stealing from Mr. Macy. Then I said, I suppose Mr. Macy would rather have that extra sale than hold on to unsold merchandise.

While all of the monkees are out in force sticking a finger up their ass and ridiculing this “new math” they are in turn showing their ignorance. This is the essence of math- developing an understanding in an intuitive way that works for you.

Of the three examples the last is the most relevant way that I do math in my head. The first two not so much. But I will not deny that those who are inclined to approach a formula as in the first two examples are going to be any less accurate or confused.

lpoh
says:

“Unbelievable.

Must be a joke.

Mustn’t it?”

God Bless Llpoh. Once again he alone has shown a face of semi-reason in this out of control retard-fest. He alone did not give unequivocal denunciation to this math-based shitstorm.

Does anyone here think that Clammy does math in her head like Einstein. Well not me either, but I’ll bet you that if she handed you a bill for $47.15 and you gave her $63.65 and told her to keep the change, she would in a heartbeat be able (by whatever thought process she has been accustomed to) calculate her tip to the penny and still whine. This is the nature of math. Since it is all in our head we can conjure up our own ways of understanding it.

Give me 42 degrees Celsius and I will double it, (84) subtract 10% (8.4) and add 32 and get 107.6 Farenheit. Beats the shit out of – lets see

42×9 = (what the fuck, I need a pen) … ok so that’s 378.

Then divide that by 5… okaaay thats 77.2

and add 32. Whahoolaa… 107.6F

God Bless you fucking retards.

Clammy – you use words you do not know the meaning of. Regularly. Frequently. Often.

Do yourself a favor, and educate yourself. You really should be embarrassed at how illiterate you are.

I clearly demonstrated that am not a thief. You, if you have really good skills re morality/ethics, could possibly mount an argument that I behaved immorally/unethically, but to do so would be far beyond your intellect and education. Plus the moral/ethical argument is always likely to fail as it would by necessity confer upon people the obligation to correct the mistakes of others, and/or to argue that passivity is immoral/unethical, which is equally difficult to argue in most instances.

You are pissed because of your student loans. What you should be angry about is the time you wasted getting your “degree”. You wasted years of opportunity – while you were banging every Tom, Dick, and Hairy, you should have educated yourself.

Someone who has wished me dead on many occasions labelling me a thief, or immoral/unethical, is indeed hilarious.

I think the cashier just gave llpoh the automatic 60% off Native American Discount. It’s like the free dining room set I got from Monkey Wards. They missed three scheduled delivery times, dropped one of the chairs down my steps and never sent me a bill. There’s only so much work a person should have to do to get someone to take your money.

Off topic, but I’ve figured out how to get even with the grocery stores that want to force everyone to use the self-checkout lines (even though they’re way slower): Buy a shitload of bulk organic vegetables and then ring them up yourself as conventional. The wife gets her goddamned organic vegetables and the store takes a loss for replacing workers with robots. Truth be told, I only did this once and it was an accident, but it got me to thinking…

Punk – I do not know what you are referencing. Looks like the guy is rolling a booger.

You know me – pays to be careful just in case I misinterpret a bit of fun for poking me with a stick. And you know what that gets you.

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Z – I responded to that bullshit comment previously. How long since you were in France? I was there recently, and service was great.

Plus, the same stereotype exists for ALL French workers, yet you choose the only one to compare against US workers who get tipped.

In general, the French would not be considered above the US in most fields – especially ones wher US workers do not get tipped. So your point is bullshite.

They have already removed history, replacing it with “social studies” and “world cultures”, thereby removing the ability of entire generations to put current events into context.

It was only a time before they targeted math.

Unluckily for us, science is still going strong, albeit a bastardized version of it. Every high school student will graduate “knowing” that we pretty much need to stop breathing, in order to “save the planet.” That’s right, we need to “save” this inanimate hunk of rock hurling around a giant molten ball of fusion. Carbon is killing it. At least they will know all about that.

SSS

“Jesus Christ, Scrabble. Write a fucking book. And when you hit the big time, don’t forget your friends here on TBP.”

this is the second time I read of clouds scutting across the sky, the first being in IQ84. I don’t know what the word means but it sounds cool, like the surfer word ‘snorking’.

Scutting:

scutting
Definition
Slang

noun: having sex. The term was recorded in the Midlands and north of England in 2004, usually in the noun form although occasionally as the transitive or intransitive verb scut. It may be an arbitrary coinage, or a dialect term perhaps related to scut meaning the short tail of a rabbit or deer.

So hardscrabble is talking about clouds humping. Hmmm. Not sure that is what he wanted to say. Perhaps he meant scuttling.

Scut, as in scut work, is work that is boring/routine. Scut also means an erect tail. In any event, I cannot find it as a verb anywhere, other than the one I posted above.

Best I can determine, there really is no such word as “scutting”. He either made it up, or meant scuttling.

I kinda like to think he meant clouds were humping, but I doubt that is it.

Whichever, it was a really fine post.

Iska – no problem with merit pay. I endorse it. But the employer should pay it, not the customer.

Just when have you ever paid an employee’s bonus when you were the customer? Hmmm? Riddle me that. Well, the answer is NEVER. The employer pays the bonus to the employee for extra sales, better quality, etc. The exception being some service industries.

Tipping transfers the payment obligation from the employer to the customer. And that blows.

Perhaps the egg cannot be unscrambled – I think it can as all it would take would be to eliminate tje ridiculously low minimum wage for food servers – but I damn guarantee I am not buying into the steady “increases” that staff expect – 10 to 12 to 15 to 20% over the years. Screw that. No reason percentages should keep going up – the increase in prices cover their increases. Average service gets 12 from me, but rare indeed do I consider more than 15.

So is this math-bonics? I can this now…. some knucklehead from the UnDepartment of Edumikation has discovered an even more effed up way to do something that should be…. plain and simple arithmetic. I am not saying that we shouldn’t keep up with making head way in how a subject is taught… but this is just ridiculous. Oh well…. our education system is leading the industrialized world. Oh wait a minute….. it isn’t…. our system is sucking wind.

Why do politicians hate teachers so much? Every law they pile on disempowers the teachers.

Here’s how to correct the problem: eliminate every single law involving education and let the teachers teach.

I bet you could take a random selection of teachers (or better yet, the least regarded teachers) in a district, give them the least regarded students, let them loose for 2 years and the results would amaze.

RE ILPOH, I have never heard of a clerk being made to pay drawer shortages. I worked as a cashier in my early youth in a major department store, and it was expected that new girls would make mistakes under pressure and come up either under or over their balance rather frequently, as the traffic was heavy and you were moving very fast.It was expected, however, that you would have your act together after a week or two, and be able to move fast without making errors. The boss would watch to see how you were counting back change and organizing your drawer. You counted it back the old-fashioned way. If she saw that you had a disorganized, messy drawer or were counting your change carelessly, you were called on this. If an employee continued to ring up massive imbalances in her drawer after working there two weeks, she was canned, that’s all.

appalling

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