Scary news from A Voice for Men. On their front page right now:
So Sweden is Nazi Germany?
This is a little confusing to me, because, according to what I’ve always considered the most trusted and reliable source of Swedish information, Sweden is actually Napoleonic France.
Unfortunately, my only other real source for information on Sweden is not much help either, as it seems to suggest that Sweden is … the Mojave desert?
titanblue — I cheated, I googled.
Xänte — I considered non-base 10, but with 10 there, it’d have to have been hex or something, and I kind of know hex (HTML color codes use it)
1 + 1 = 10 would’ve been fun though!
And 10 + 10 = 100, have fun with that, stoner’s boner. (Not that anyone cares about your boner btw)
@Argenti,that’s one’s too easy! I have a t-shirt that plays on that, and people ask me what it means.
@Kitteh: we were shown that MacBeth version in English at school. I seem to recall the witches were sexed up a bit….
I remember that version of Macbeth. It felt like watching a therapy session.
LOL I thought it almost made me need a therapy session.
We saw that version of MacBeth in high school, for English classes! Go figure.
I still can’t get my head round Martin Shaw, who played Banquo, being the same person who plays Inspector George Gently.
Martin Shaw seemed to take on characters that were the (logical) voice of reason in a wilderness of conservative beliefs: case in point, Insp. George Gently and Father Jacob (Apparitions). The script writing for those two shows annoys me because it makes Shaw’s characters to be the only sympathetic main ones.
I haven’t seen Apparitions but I didn’t find John Bacchus to be wholly unsympathetic. A walking casebook of 1960s prejudices most of the time, for sure, but he had his moments. The thing I found a little hard to believe was how ahead of his time Gently was on so many issues. He’s a very likable character and I like the series, don’t get me wrong, but it did seem a bit of a stretch on occasions.
I felt that George Gently as a concept was:
– Procedural police show, check.
– Set it in the 1960s so we can deal with lots of social issues, check.
– We need a main character who is usually on the wrong side of the social issues so they can be a foil – Bacchus (and clue the name)
– We need the main character to be the one who is on the right side of the social issues.
I could easily accept the main character to be on the right side of a few moral issues. But abortion, prostitution, domestic violence – too much, for a senior police officer, for the 60s.
Exactly. Gently does have a fair bit of Too Good To Be True about him.
It’s an interesting contrast to Judge John Deed. Deed was a much more flawed character, but I thought they really messed it up with his flaw being the constant inability to keep his pants zipped. It got incredibly boring, for one thing. The whole Whitehall-is-out-to-get-him-but-he-wins-at-the-last-minute business got very repetitive, too. It was a shame, because the series could have been a lot better.
On further reflection, the graphic above the title is quite artistic…
@ cloudiah
Lol’ed endlessly at that link!
“This piece is not about my son. In real life, he is a multi-faceted individual living his own life. In this article, “My Son” is a cardboard cutout of any ordinary, intelligent young man who is considering his future”
Can safely say attractive twenty year olds who have completed army training and deployment, are entering college to study engineering, surfs, rides a motorcycle and a mountain bike, maintains a classic car, has biceps to slober over and is (amazingly) liked and respected by everybody despite being disgusted at the standard of women available to him is not the ordinary young man. Pretty sure “multi faceted” is just code for not as hot, intelligent or impressive as i am pretending ordinary people are in this slightly disturbing essay.
Why couldn’t Stoner state his problem something like:
f(2,3) = 10
f(7,2) = 63
f(6,5) = 66
f(8,4) = 96
f(9,7) = ?
The puzzle would have been the same but we wouldn’t have to ignore what “+” means.
Re driversuz: Whenever a mothers starts going on and on about how awesome her son is, the rule is to take the square root of whatever she’s saying and divide it by three. With a feMRA, one should probably divide it by, like, a thousand.
What’s the bet the multifaceted individual leading his own life chooses to have nothing to do with his weird mother, partly because she has this creeptastic view of women and would be the world’s worst MiL?
We should lock stoner and Diogenes in a room together.
khantron — you win ALL THE MATH, my statistics mind forgot all about functions!
katz — and put it on pay-per-view, could fund manboobz indefinitely on that!
wow, this Diogenes fellow sounds interesting…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
titianblue, good job. Are you related to Typhone Blue?
*dies laughing*
Just how stoned are you? We (rather clearly) meant Diogenes the Dull…I mean, the Cynic. He’s a more regular version of yourself, more or less. Claims to have invented algebra at 9 (or was it 10?) — you two together would be a laugh a minute!
“In real life, he is a multi-faceted individual living his own life.”
Really? You mean he does more with his life than just stereotype and hate women because they don’t meet his unrealistic expectations? WOW!!!!
“Sarcasm is my friend, so no, I’m not a bitter aging helicopter mom with Oedipal issues”
Well, sarcasm is my friend too, and it said that you ARE a bitter aging helicopter mom with Oedipal issues. It also said you are an asshole and in denial and you’re not invited to its birthday party this year.
😀 Sorry, couldn’t resist…
Argenti,
I think you are mistaken, it was a Muslim mathematician in the 800’s who invented algebra, not a Greek philosopher…
How about this one stoner?
f(2,0) = 1
f(.5, 1) = i
f(6, 9) = -1
f(-10, 5.5) = -i
f(i, 2) = ?
Whoops second equation should be:
f(-.5,1) = i
Stoner, come back when less stoned. I, and everyone else here, am well aware that Diogenes the Dull (I mean Cynic) is full of shit.
Let me use little, easy to comprehend, words. Diogenes the Cynic is a commenter here, and he claims to have invented algebra. This is just one of his many absurd claims.
Please do continue to completely misunderstand, it’s hilarious.
Yutolia, are you my sister? Because that is something she would say, in a Daria voice.
I believe you are mistaken. Diogenes the Cynic lived in ancient Greece. He’s dead now.