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[SealyStar]

I was working as a mentor for some kid who sucked at math.

Apparently, for example, he thought that 1/x = x, since he thought (for some reason) that it 1/x = x/1. It's also worth noting that he realized this wasn't true for other numbers- for example, he knew perfectly well that x/2 =/= 2/x. I tried to explain why his reasoning about 1/x was wrong, but it took him a while to wrap his mind around the concept.

[10ebbor10]

To be fair, it's right for x=1.

[FearfulJesuit]

To summarize my most recent rare conversation with one of my cousins with the highlights of stupid;

• She had never heard of the American civil war.
• Criticized me for using words she didn't understand. "Big words," that made me sound like a "snobbish middle class" person. Sour :<
• Asked me what I was "insinuating" even when I said I could point out all the slang she's adopted for her language. Trying to be respectful here and talking to someone as an equal, when out comes the insults.
• Did not see the irony in using a 5 syllable word to criticize the length of mine.
• If wrong, shout mode activated.
• Has a really horrific shout mode.
• Completely disregards that there's an entire room of people present.
• He he he. Shout mode for everyone activated.

You...you're Australian, right? Because if she's American, then this is beyond disturbing.

[Darvi]

British.

Which is kinda proto-american, right?


*ducks*

[Flying Dice]

In the same sense that people in modern-day northern France are proto-English. 

[misko27]

And Proto-Canadian. Although, in that definition, Canada is the bastard child of France and England.
 
And Proto-Australian.

[10ebbor10]

To summarize my most recent rare conversation with one of my cousins with the highlights of stupid;

• She had never heard of the American civil war.

You...you're Australian, right? Because if she's American, then this is beyond disturbing.

To be fair, not many people heard of other's countries history. Bet you haven't heard of the Belgian civil war either.
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[Flying Dice]

To summarize my most recent rare conversation with one of my cousins with the highlights of stupid;

• She had never heard of the American civil war.

You...you're Australian, right? Because if she's American, then this is beyond disturbing.

To be fair, not many people heard of other's countries history. Bet you haven't heard of the Belgian civil war either.

I think it's general courtesy to assume that any given country has had at least one civil war and/or revolution.

[Loud Whispers]

British.

Which is kinda proto-american, right?


*ducks*

For 10 years the UK was the lap dog of America.

*Shudders*

[misko27]

To summarize my most recent rare conversation with one of my cousins with the highlights of stupid;

• She had never heard of the American civil war.
• [/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l]

You...you're Australian, right? Because if she's American, then this is beyond disturbing.

To be fair, not many people heard of other's countries history. Bet you haven't heard of the Belgian civil war either.

Bet you never heard of, um.  In my defense, not many people care about Belgium. I know very very little of Belgian histroy, while I learn a substantial amount more about say, Britain.
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[FearfulJesuit]

I learned recently that although Australia hasn't had a civil war, it did have a secession movement that almost succeeded: Western Australia almost seceded in the 1930s, I think. It never went through, which, considering that the Japanese almost landed in Australia, was probably a good thing. It is still brought up from time to time, but it's not happening.

[SealyStar]

To be fair, it's right for x=1.

But he assumed this for all values of x. Not just x=1.

[10ebbor10]

Bet you never heard of, um.  In my defense, not many people care about Belgium. I know very very little of Belgian histroy, while I learn a substantial amount more about say, Britain.

Belgium's important, you know.

Besides, it's not like there's much history to talk about, it being founded in 1830.*

(*Seceded from the Netherlands, of with it had been part since 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon. The revolution was mainly supported by the french, and the legion they send to "secure" Bruxelles eventually became the foreign legion)

[misko27]

Bet you never heard of, um.  In my defense, not many people care about Belgium. I know very very little of Belgian histroy, while I learn a substantial amount more about say, Britain.

Belgium's important, you know.

Besides, it's not like there's much history to talk about, it being founded in 1830.*

(*Seceded from the Netherlands, of with it had been part since 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon. The revolution was mainly supported by the french, and the legion they send to "secure" Bruxelles eventually became the foreign legion)

Example? How is it important? Anyway, the founding of it is he first and last time I heard of it in class, and it wasn't even on a test.
 
Oh wait, no, Belgian Congo. King Leopold. That, Almost forgot.

[10ebbor10]

How did you think the UK got involved in the first world War?

(and, slightly less heroic, why was France overrun during the second world war).

You also got foundations for the European union, and some other stuff.