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Well, they do. The Bernoulli effect makes the air pressure on the wing’s lower surface higher than the air pressure on the upper surface.
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But what if it’s on a treadmill? he asked innocently
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Wasn’t the Geo Metro a 3 cyl? (mind you I’m a total girly-girl when it comes to knowing anything about cars so it’s likely I’m totally wrong about this)
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Yeah, the Geo Metro is the first car I think of when I think of cars with 3 cylinders. I’m sure 3 cylinder engines are more popular in those small European cars. I didn’t know that 5 cylinder engines had become so popular.
How about “high school is the best time of your life?”
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On a related note, I was talking to a friend about a mutual friend who recently got his US citizenship. For some reason, we were talking about the American Civil War. I said something along the lines of, “So most people believe that the cause of the war was slavery.”
My friend said that our friend was being briefed on the citizenship exam and one of the sample questions was about the causes of the Civil War. The soon to be American started talking about tariffs, economic differences and the like. The briefer said, “Yeah, but just stick with slavery.”
Sgt Schwartz
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:dubious:
Are you sure you’re not talking about an episode of “Simpsons”?
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:dubious:
Are you sure you’re not talking about an episode of “Simpsons”?
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APU: The citizenship exam is today! And I have forgotten everything your father taught me!
LISA: Perfect! Let’s go!
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:dubious:
Are you sure you’re not talking about an episode of “Simpsons”?
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As much as I hate to admit it, I have never watched the Simpsons. I relate the tale as a FOAF story and do not account for its veracity. 
Sgt Schwartz
Sorry, fella. I knew about the existence of a much more complex theory of flight (even if I didn’t understand it) at the time, and didn’t regard it as functionally equivalent to “a cushion of air”, and still don’t.
[QUOTE=Enterprise]
There’s worse and less accurate things that you could be told, though it is, admittedly, a little inaccurate. Of course the letters themselves only represent sounds, which in turn are vowels, semi-vowels, or consonants. “w” usually represents a semi-vowel /w/, while “y” can represent both a semi-vowel (as in “yet”) and a true vowel as in “very”. So your teacher was on more solid ground here than with the termites-are-not-animals thing. I’d actually call this less ignorant then the usual aeiou listing.
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That actually reminds me of a beef I have with english class in general: reading and especially writing are extremely important skills, but I really don’t relish the way they’re taught in a lot of schools; in my experience formal grammar tends to be extremely confusing, and not particularly useful.
Teaching linguistics I’ve been actively working to avoid building up a vendetta against formal grammar… “Let’s unlearn everything they taught you in 6th grade english” tends to be the rallying cry to first-year syntax. 
[QUOTE=Omi no Kami]
Teaching linguistics I’ve been actively working to avoid building up a vendetta against formal grammar… “Let’s unlearn everything they taught you in 6th grade english” tends to be the rallying cry to first-year syntax.
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But this is really a complaint against the fact that almost everything you learn about formal grammar in English class is wrong, rather than a complaint against the very idea of formal grammar itself, right?
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“Colored people/Negros got the right to vote in 1860.” Followed by “Women got the right to vote in 1920.” I asked my teacher if Colored Women (sic) could vote in 1860, why did white women have to wait till 1920?
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Sowhadshesay?
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Also, it may have been more ture when Omegaman was in school. Were there many 3/5 cyl engines 15 years ago?
Brian
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It was a lot longer than 15 years . I graduated in 1982. You know, when cars still had wooden wheels .
[QUOTE=miss elizabeth]
I was told by my first grade teacher that all pilgrims (and therefore, all “Real Americans”) had blond hair and blue eyes.
I was told by my 10th grade science teacher that black babies are born white, and their skin color changes when they are exposed to light, after being out of the womb for a few hours.
There are others, but those are the two worst.
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What color were these teachers?
[QUOTE=zoid]
Volvo uses a straight 5 in many of it models (I believe most of them actually but I’m not 100 percent sure).
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But what on earth could the overriding advantage be to having an uneven number of cylinders …? Dosen’t make any sense. 
Not to be a thread stealer, but, you’d be amazed at the number of people (whom if you ask them about it) will tell you that the sun goes around the earth.
Two big lies I heard: 1) All cultures are equal. 2) Poor (dumb) students are no less human beings than the bright kids are, that – “Everyone is equal.”
Oh, one other … “Men want sex and women want love.”
[QUOTE=GuyNblueJeans]
2) Poor (dumb) students are no less human beings than the bright kids are, that – “Everyone is equal.”
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This may just be an odd communication of it, but while I get the “not everyone is equal” thing, I don’t think that being better or worse in terms of money or intelligence makes you less human.
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]
This may just be an odd communication of it, but while I get the “not everyone is equal” thing, I don’t think that being better or worse in terms of money or intelligence makes you less human.
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It does if the disparity is such that the one person puts food on his table by cleaning up the pee around the urinals where the more substantial others (from the office cubicals) are emptying their bladders.
Technically we’re all people, but still…
[QUOTE=GuyNblueJeans]
It does if the disparity is such that the one person puts food on his table by cleaning up the pee around the urinals where the more substantial others (from the office cubicals) are emptying their bladders.
Technically we’re all people, but still…
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But still what? You feel the property of being a human being is contingent upon one’s particular career?
[QUOTE=GuyNblueJeans]
It does if the disparity is such that the one person puts food on his table by cleaning up the pee around the urinals where the more substantial others (from the office cubicals) are emptying their bladders.
Technically we’re all people, but still…
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checks forum
Crap.
[QUOTE=GuyNblueJeans]
It does if the disparity is such that the one person puts food on his table by cleaning up the pee around the urinals where the more substantial others (from the office cubicals) are emptying their bladders.
Technically we’re all people, but still…
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Technically I would say that those who have emptied their bladders are now more insubstantial, but i’m pretty much in disagreement. Being a human has nothing to do with what job you do as well as those other things.
And, judging by the (albeit small at the moment) reaction to your post, it seems people disagree with you. So it could easily not have been a lie.
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
But still what? You feel the property of being a human being is contingent upon one’s particular career?
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The point is that being human, to my way of thinking, also relates to being dignified. Therefore, if one person is so subservient to another that he/she is getting way less money to do the most undignified work, then it seems something’s been lost. Which isn’t to say that a person being so degraded can’t turn the whole thing around … as there are more chapters to be written in our lives.