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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Had a boss from South Africa, I bought him one of these.
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The kids today having problems with fractions had more focus on the metric system.
I am in my mid 50s and have trouble with fractions, I was brought up in various foreign countries and had european teachers, fractions give me fits. When I need to devide the length something and dont have a metric tape handy I convert to a decimal and move on.
Every job I've had has been associated with a foreign industry (Mercedes Benz, Swiss instrumentation industry) and everything is metric. I suppose if I had a job as a framer I would be more proficient.
The problem is that most of those tapes either only have the fractions for the first foot or are only 6 feet long.
One of my buds and I bought metric tapes once just to fuck with everyone else. Him: "That's 197 point 2!" Me: "197 point 2." Coworker: "What the fuck is point 2?"
Edited to say that we all started fucking around using "regular" tapes and 3/8" became "point 6" and 3/4" became "point 12"...because, you know, we were fraction genii.
 
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One of my buds and I bought metric tapes once just to fuck with everyone else. Him: "That's 197 point 2!" Me: "197 point 2." Coworker: "What the fuck is point 2?"
Edited to say that we all started fucking around using "regular" tapes and 3/8" became "point 6" and 3/4" became "point 12"...because, you know, we were fraction genii.

If you really want to mess with somebody's mind, get a traditional Japanese woodworker's measuring tape & give it to them.
Looks like inches, but isn't inches....
 
I had a tape that was in 10ths and inches when I worked in the dirt. It would fuck you up if not careful.

My 300' tape is inches on one side, tenths on the other. Damn near fucked up laying out the location of my house foundation. Fortunately I was paying attention.
 
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Same as what I think about those that post such memes! When someone post a meme making fun of someone else's suffering, I just assume that they are an absolute:

Members are allowed to post the meme and I am allowed to comment, either good or bad - seems fair

Douchewagon, let’s all say together. Dirty D is a complete douchewagon (it’s true). Now don’t you feel better skippy?
 
Douchewagon, let’s all say together. Dirty D is a complete douchewagon (it’s true). Now don’t you feel better skippy?

"Skippy"?? Must be an Americanism, no idea what you mean, although, I do agree with your opinion of yourself.
 
Please fill this out in triplicate and report to Lowlight, if he doesn’t respond right away keep reporting until he does, he likes it when members do that.

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As above, anyone can post memes and others can comment, either in a positive or negative way. You seem to be the one upset maybe you need to fill out your form when I commented on your post in a negative way, maybe you have hurt feeling?

When people make fun out of someone else's suffering I just think that the poster is a very sad individual and that is how I will reply to such post, you American's believe in fee speech don't you. You are fee to post what you like and I am free to comment.
 
Even A&W thinks most of the American people are stupid.


PS: Can anyone explain to me how the Romans were able to be great engineers when their math was in Roman numerals. Have you ever tried to multiply or divide in Roman numerals? Let's not even talk about trigonometry!
The basic answer is that they did not build their cities, etc. Their slaves did, Greeks, Macedonians, and middle eastern mathematical geniuses, including Jews (who engineered and built the pyramids). They had the math.
 
How bout you bois take your lover's quarrel behind the scenes so guys can get back to posting boobies and things. You can braid each others back hair later in your own thread.

I don't mind the 'banter' and the ping-pong post, I don't take offence at anyone calling me, the older I get the less I care of other people think of me.
 
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