Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[ER]

fun times at the alamo

[Trevor]

Looking for some mild sleeping tabs and I got laxatives instead 

[LilCerberus]

Why are marshmallows flammable?
And how come nobody worries about it?

[indianasmith]

Baby goats hitting the ground left and right here!
Our herd has grown from 11 to 22 in 3 days.
And more on the way!

[RCMerchant]

^ Won't have to mow the lawn! 

[RCMerchant]

I went to the food pantry with my friend Tony and his wife. Got lotsa grub!
I just spent my last dollar on a plumber- my pipes were backed up to the street! With tree roots! Crazy.
I known Tony since the very early 80's. He just got back to Michigan after- 27 years?
He's a pot grower now. All my weed is free.

[Alex]

It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.

[ER]

I went to the food pantry with my friend Tony and his wife. Got lotsa grub!
I just spent my last dollar on a plumber- my pipes were backed up to the street! With tree roots! Crazy.
I known Tony since the very early 80's. He just got back to Michigan after- 27 years?
He's a pot grower now. All my weed is free.

It always amazes me the good things you can find at food pantries. In fact the main reason I left my job there (and went back to just being a day a week volunteer) is that when they'd see donations they personally wanted, some of the women who volunteered there seemed to have zero qualms about taking them for themselves, and when I was the director I told them they had to stop, those things did not belong to us. They resented me for that, said they'd been doing it for years as a perk of giving their time, and I soon had a rebellion on my hands. I got my fill of what turned out to be a surprisingly stressful and high-drama job. No doubt the old bitties are stealing the good stuff with glee these days.

[ER]

It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.

Outside of classrooms, where it serves to provide jobs for teachers, higher math does not exist. I think the great truth about far too many schools is that the students exist to support the teachers. And I concur, FU to Mr Barr.

[Alex]

It really irritates me that despite having a job where I'd literally have to analyse waveforms via an oscilloscope I have never had to once use trigonometry since leaving education. FU Mr Barr and your you'll find maths useful as an engineer.

Outside of classrooms, where it serves to provide jobs for teachers, higher math does not exist. I think the great truth about far too many schools is that the students exist to support the teachers. And I concur, FU to Mr Barr.

I found English useful, enjoyed History (until the teachers decided we should only study boring parts of history), Physics (for a short period I even studied a little quantum physics, specifically in the effects of Chaos Theory and quantum components (circuit boards featuring things like resistors made out of 2 atoms. Physical laws really break down at that level and things operate differently from how you think they should) and Art, but the rest... I had some good teachers, but none of them were inspirational.

[ER]

One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!

[Rev. Powell]

One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!

Playboy in the 50s and 60s was an literary journal, with fiction by Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and interviews with MLK, Malcolm X, and Jean-Paul Sartre. "I only read it for the articles" was a common joke, but it really was a repository of culture.

[LilCerberus]

One of the country's oldest schools for the blind is located in my city. They accept blind people of all ages, born blind, gone blind, and---fun fact---for decades published the Braille edition of Playboy for people who truly did want to read it for the articles!

Playboy in the 50s and 60s was an literary journal, with fiction by Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and interviews with MLK, Malcolm X, and Jean-Paul Sartre. "I only read it for the articles" was a common joke, but it really was a repository of culture.

They also featured short fiction that later became movies, such as The Fly, 9 1/2 Weeks, 2010, & SFW.

[El Misfit]

Gotta say dealing with someone else's toxic relationship daily is rather taxing.  :/

[ER]

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

---Langston Hughes