I’ve only ever done stuff like that on purpose. And in an obscure #include file… 
Yeah, I yanked a few chains when I was younger…
Your logic is flawed. If people only absorb 19% of the oxygen they breathe in, then breathing in pure oxygen will still result in greater oxygen reaching the lungs, because 19% of the entire volume of air breathed in is more than 19% of a percentage of the air breathed in.
I have no reason to think the gym teacher was right, but your objection is specious.
I read a similar story to that, where they talked to a guy who worked as a street vendor, selling balloons. He said that, if he got the money, he’d spend it on keeping his business going. The reporter asked him how many balloons he though he could buy for a million dollars. The guy thought for a second, and then said, “A thousand?”
Dude, you’re saying exactly what pestie was saying. The gym teacher was the one who thought that 19% of 20% is the same amount as 19% of 100%. Again, the merits of sucking down pure O[sub]2[/sub] for someone with a healthy set of lungs (like NBA players,) might be sound or they might not be (though from what I understand, it’s not that sound. Healthy lungs get just about all the O[sub]2[/sub] they need from the air, it’s the heart that ultimately determines how well your body stays oxygenated,) but if it isn’t sound, then it’s not for the reason the gym teacher said, since that makes no sense.
I think that was pestie’s point, wasn’t it?
Well, at least poster editing means I can now apologize for simul-posts in the same post. :smack:
Heh.
I love my sister dearly, but she seldom gets accused of being the sharpest spoon in the drawer.
When we were kids sitting around the dinner table, we were discussing kitchen utensils for some reason. My mother mentioned that she’d love to get an electric wok.
Sis: What’s that?
Me: You know those conveyor belts like they have on The Jetsons? One of those.
Sis: Oh, OK.
Mom: Honey, he’s joking. It’s a Chinese frying pan. You use it to make Chinese food.
Sis: Oh, I get it.
The conversation continued, the subject changed, and about 5 minutes later…
Sis: Wait, you mean for Snooky?
(Snooky was our dog.)
I just have to share this one from a college graduate:
I don’t know where to start. :rolleyes:
I’ve referred to a kind of stupidity as ‘brain poison’ based on an analogy to nuclear power - and then simplified it to simply ‘boron.’ In nuclear parlance a poison is any material which absorbs a neutron without releasing any more neutrons. A person who is a ‘brain poison’ absorbs ideas without ever releasing any of their own. Since boron is a common nuclear poison it always worked for me to extend that label to people.
Yes, most people who hear me use the term have no idea what I mean, but it amuses me.
A friend of mine spent three and a half years in Fairbanks, Alaska, while her husband was stationed there as an Airforce meteorologist. His next station was San Antonio, Texas. She went to the local DMV to get a Texas driver’s license and was told she had to take a battery of written tests, plus a driving test and some other stuff.
When she asked why she was told that “driver’s licenses from other countries were not acceptable to a person getting a new license in Texas.” The clerk would not be convinced that Alaska wasn’t a foreign country. My friend got her to call her supervisor, who was also a little suspicious, but eventually relented and let her get a new license without all the folderol.
My middle school English teacher (evil old bag, long story) did a lesson on the usage of the apostrophe: You can’t go wrong if you always put it directly above the ‘s’. That covers everything.
I hope the end of the long story goes, “and when the camels at the zoo saw her adding an apostrophe to the sign on their pen, they broke out and trampled her to death.” Or something like that. 
Heh. If only it were still possible to edit Max’s post. I read it four times, trying to work out what subtle detail I was missing. :smack:
This makes a little sense to me, in that he may have learned to hear Korean words and have some understanding of them? Or is six months too young for that? I guess it’s on the beginning edge.
WTF does d&r mean?
:eek:
This guy has a degree?
The rest of the spoons can’t be any sharper, can they? They’re spoons!
On a related note, someone once got really irritated with me–he’s one of these guys who gets angry and loses all rationality but still wants to deliver a verbal smackdown–and blurted out, “Well, you’ve never been the smartest tool in the shed!”
Similarly, I like to count bogons and label certain people as “bogon emitters”. In hacker (the classical definition, not the sensationalist journalism one) parlance, the bogon is the SI unit of bogosity, and the bogus-ness of ridiculous ideas can be measured in bogons.
Does it really matter? The child would quite obviously have been young enough to learn English natively and develop an American accent.
Some local talk radio station up here had some lady on substituting as a guest host along with another guy.
They were making small talk about what kind of music they like. She commented that she was really into “Christian” music.
He asked her if she always listened to “Christian” music and she said “no, just recently since I’ve really gotten into Christianity and have become a Christian”.
He asked her what she was before and she said she grew up Catholic but she didn’t like it and preferred being a Christian.
Duck and Run
Hampshire, you may not be aware that there are large segments of the fundamentalist Christian community that do not believe Catholicism is part of Christianity. I don’t agree with how they came to this conclusion, but it’s by no means unique to this woman’s thinking.
Tell me about it. Oh well. At least my post didn’t contain any misspelled words. That I know of
I don’t get it. What’s so implausible about someone in the army driving a train? Is it just that “engineer” can mean different things in different contexts?
I hear this from all kinds of Christians (and Catholics 
), especially in/from the south. It blows my mind. It’s not so much that they actually don’t believe Catholicism is part of Christianity, they’re just so ignorant that they see the two things as being mutually exclusive. Most of these people don’t know what the word Protestant means and will tell you they’re “you know, Christian” if you ask them what branch of Christianity they belong to. You can see their brain hurts and they’re unable to respond if you try to dig any deeper.
I am indebt to your 3rd grade teacher for making things easier to explain for me
My SIL use to be a veritable font of Ignorance, but a combination of both of us learning we cannot discuss Religion/Politics/Gay/A most everything else has ended the treasure trove of jaw dropping stupidity that this teacher with a masters in Education. Also, Prozac has really put a shield around me to protect me from the sheer stupidity that exists in her.
Exhibit A:
When she was pregnant with her daughter she use to buckle the seat belt over the TOP part of her belly. That would be the waist band part, not the shoulder band. This would be very very bad if she were in an accident. Having just had a baby myself, and absolutely up-to- here- with the Impending Arrival of the World’s Most Perfect Baby, I was rather cranky.
“Ummm, what are you doing?”
“Keeping *the baby * safe”
“Uh, you realize that if you have an accident, that band will push downward on your belly and probably cause you to miscarry instantly or at least hemmorage to death from internal bleeding.”
(Dazed look in her eyes, I swear to god., told me she had never thought of the mechanics and safety of it all.)
" Look, it goes Hip bone to hip bone snugly to protect you and the baby."
(This is also a woman who would drive her car the final 3miles ( dirt road) with The baby on her lap. All the neighbors witnessed this and were in seizures, as one could imagine. Can I mention this child took $13K to conceive. I was out for a bike ride with my son in a trailer behind and ran into her doing this DUMBASS thing with Her Baby and (again, I was cranky as all hell and I tend to be whenever she is in my site, said, " If I had my cell phone on me, I’d call the cops on you. "
More from her:
Gay Related Gays choose to be gay.**
And the Piece de Resistance which made me write her off mentally as a waste of time was we were watching TV and a commerical for something came on that featured monkeys all jibber jabbering at each other like real people and oook oooking before the product was flashed on screen. It was a funny commerical .
We all laughed and she says, " Oh, I am so glad I’m not descended from them."
and I shot back, " I’m so glad I am."
It was her ignorance at turned me into a non-christian.
I really should send her a thank you note.
I’ve had a similar experience with people claiming to be Buddhist.
Dumbass: Oh, I’m a Buddhist you see.
Me: Really, that’s nice, what kind?
Dumbass: …
Honestly, I don’t really even know myself what the doctrinal differences between the various sects of Buddhism are, but I don’t think I’ve ever met a “Buddhist” who had an answer for me. Come on, guys, look it up on Wikipedia and pick one, it doesn’t take much.