Wouldn’t Jesus be turning swords into plowshares?
And if so, wouldn’t Jesus be more efficient by obtaining plowshares directly?
Nah, the cloaks-to-plowshares exchange rate is all out of whack. He’s just taking advantage of market inefficiencies to arbitrage him some plowshares.
Arizona, other known as “New Mexico’s evil twin”, is at it again:
And what, you may ask, was the issue with the Common Core? Well, Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson, thinks the private sector way is better but it’s all been hijacked by the big bad federal government. And here’s the cherry on the top of this shitpile:
Read that last bit again. Yes indeed - Senator Melvin is opposed to algebra.
I keep thinking these people can’t get any dumber, and yet they do.
Algebra was invented by the Mohammedans, you know.
And it’s an Ay-rab word.
We cannot tolerate Shariah Math in America.
Hell, does he know that all math uses Arabic numerals?
Nonsense! What about Roman numerals? And the Romans were the founders of Western Civilization.
Anyone know how to divide MCMLXII by IIXX?
IIXX?
(Decal on Soviet bomber in a nuclear war scenario… “IXLA”)
The 12 year old in me raises a clenched fist in revolutionary support.* No contaràn *!
I’m curious what the borderline pornographic sex ed material is like. It must be pretty raunchy, because the sex ed I got in Catholic school 30 years ago was pretty explicit.
Got time to explain?
Just a dumb quip: IXLA – I wiped out Los Angeles. A play on I {heart} NY.
(Riffing on IIXX, which is not a valid Roman Number.)
Er, maybe it’s Greek!
Anyway, it not Moslem!
I’d assume IIXX was 18, even if not correct.
I number personal lists of files in Roman numerals a lot, and sometimes I ‘spell’ 8 as IIX. It takes fewer symbols than VIII (and isn’t that efficiency the reason they use IV instead of IIII?)
You may already know this, but its such a fun fact: they didn’t use their number system for anything but notation. The did their calculations on an abacus and wrote down the result in Roman numerals.
OK, maybe everybody already knew that but me. Still, it was fun finding out.
I thought Algebra was that terrorist news organization. Ignorance fought!
I thought it was because four lines are more difficult to read.
I got IXLA. It was funny.
IV and IIII are both valid ways of writing 4 in Roman numerals. There are a lot of clocks that use IIII. More formal inscriptions tended to use IIII and VIIII instead of IV and IX.
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