# This thread goes backwards **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769 "2019-09-06T02:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/21 "2019-09-06T11:10:17Z")
The idiots who devote themselves to lame puns are just emotionally and intellectually stuck in their infancy. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/22 "2019-09-06T11:25:35Z")
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/23 "2019-09-06T11:27:58Z")
_sigh_ OK, this thread will clearly never get back on track until someone takes the bait… I’ll bite…Orange who? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/24 "2019-09-06T12:04:51Z")
So, the issue of whether .999999999999999 = 1 is FINALLY settled! I can hardly believe after 20+ years the debate is finally over and everybody is happy with the resolution. A truly historic moment for the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/25 "2019-09-06T12:29:26Z")
**Professor** , I honestly can’t believe what you said back on post #38. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/26 "2019-09-06T12:50:30Z")
I am going to post to this thread yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/27 "2019-09-06T12:58:49Z")
Talk about beating a dead horse. Look, **Elendil’s Heir** clearly summed up every reasonable argument to the contrary that could possibly be made in his post three weeks from now. The rest of you are just repeating variants of what’s already been spelled out. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/28 "2019-09-06T13:02:22Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/29 "2019-09-06T13:09:44Z")
In the first place, I have never personally owned an iguana, and secondly if I did I would make it point to feed it every day and I resent the imputation that I am somehow a “neglectful person.” More importantly, though, I should point out NO ONE claimed a volcano erupted there to begin with!!! ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/30 "2019-09-06T13:10:59Z")
0.999… or 1. Who cares? The only thing that matters is where the party is at! ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/31 "2019-09-06T13:20:50Z")
> [@Prof. Pepperwinkle](#): > > …except highland regiments didn’t actually march into battle playing bagpipes in that case I will concede the point. However, that still doesn’t change the fact that the colonel wasn’t present. If he had been, it’s obvious things would have gone quite differently. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/32 "2019-09-06T13:34:40Z")
I think it’s been proven as fact, but you’re too stubborn to concede a point, even when you’re obviously wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/33 "2019-09-06T14:03:48Z")
EDIT: whoops, double post ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/34 "2019-09-06T14:04:48Z")
I honestly cannot believe we’re still arguing about this. It’s settled math. Honestly. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/35 "2019-09-06T14:07:28Z")
Is anyone else double posting? Third time it’s happened to me this week. Fourth time. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/36 "2019-09-06T14:08:34Z")
It doesn’t mean the bagpipes were actually used to compute fractions. Just because certain people claim to _know_ because the colonel was an iguana owner does not prove anything. As an iguana owner (IIRC) you should know better. They have to eat. And as **Elendil’s Heir** so eloquently pointed out, if you have to go to New Zealand for the food, you go. Orange ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/37 "2019-09-06T14:10:06Z")
ETA: with bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/38 "2019-09-06T14:11:27Z")
Although some ignorant savages will no doubt misquote me in the future, I am of the position that music has no place in battle, though are those who will state the fact of Scottish bagpipers …except highland regiments didn’t actually march into battle playing bagpipes in that case ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/39 "2019-09-06T14:12:16Z")
C’mon, it’s really easy. All decimals that terminate or endlessly repeat can be expressed as a fraction of two integers a/b. Just tell me what integers a and b result in the repeating expansion 0.99999999… and we’re done. Oh, and who’s there? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/40 "2019-09-06T14:18:11Z")
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