Mid-Morning Art Thread

Lost in Calculations
Octav Bancila

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 He's using an abacus.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 I'll get them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Been there before

Posted by: Lars at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (kJH1Z)

6 Bart Simpson

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Where's an Excel spreadsheet when you need it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (IBQGV)

8 I was told there would be NO math.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

9 He's UCSD material.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (rJ48h)

10 Rules broken.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

11 Looks like he’s getting ready to take a whiz.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

12 Looks like he’s getting ready to take a whiz.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

I feel the same way about math.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

13 Where's an Excel spreadsheet when you need it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (IBQGV)

I'm a Lotus 1-2-3 man, myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Opening up his cheat sheet

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 26, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

15 Playing with matches.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 26, 2025 09:33 AM (y0nWZ)

16 Wait until you get to grammar.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 09:33 AM (L/fGl)

17 Looks like he is dressed for some weather.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 09:33 AM (bss/y)

18

Stole his dad's Dom boots...

Posted by: Hank of Missou at November 26, 2025 09:34 AM (4pRy7)

19 He's reaching for his handy dandy Bomar calculator.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 09:34 AM (XQo4F)

20 Poor kid can't figure out what the hell the number the teacher wrote on the top.

"Don't just stand there like a bump on a log!" I can still remember my 1st grade teacher yelling at me for doing exactly what this kid is doing. I knew what she meant, but I didn't quite get where that particular expression came from. Maybe the Depression era.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

21 or maybe pfs

lan

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Ooh....fail

pfs: Plan

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

23 The answer is "systemic racism."

Posted by: Ibram X. Kendi at November 26, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

24 At least it looks he's using the "Old Math" instead of the "New Math."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2025 09:36 AM (IBQGV)

25 Our math teacher was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at November 26, 2025 09:36 AM (XQo4F)

26 The Prequel to "Lost in Translation" with a young non-bald Bill Murray.

/"I was told there'd be no calculations!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 09:36 AM (IOSCq)

27 If he solves it correctly, he's college material!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2025 09:37 AM (IBQGV)

28 I was told there would be NO math.

Judging from his expression, there is not math…

…only School.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 09:37 AM (olroh)

29 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 09:37 AM (PFs9e)

30 would not hang

i believe it would bring back painful math memories to too many guests

me too. not because i couldn't do the math. because of memories of having the pressure of performing while many others watched.

Posted by: Gref at November 26, 2025 09:37 AM (5rh/l)

31 At least he isn't lost in his phone

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2025 09:38 AM (C6BUp)

32 I dreaded getting called up to the board to solve a math problem.

Posted by: steevy at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (YwEeS)

33 In my head I take one quarter of 87 and add three zeros. Because my brain thinks this way.

So approximately 22,000.

Then I'll actually do math to get an exact answer.
I know better that to do that on this blog!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

34 Why does this painting make me feel sad? Perhaps it's the boy's ragged looking clothes.

Posted by: Tuna at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

35 Looks like he is dressed for some weather.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
________

One of the Christmas Story kids.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (XvL8K)

36 Why does this painting make me feel sad? Perhaps it's the boy's ragged looking clothes.
Posted by: Tuna at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

Mommy always closes her door when the sailors are in town.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

37 24 ears times 8 gallows.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (WPL6O)

38 Carry the six.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (98kQX)

39 He's on his way to counting to 21.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (rYMt6)

40 There once was a lad named McGrath
Who took an arithmetical path
The calculations weren't that hard
But he came out battle-scarred
And now he's dealing with the aftermath!

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (/iMjX)

41 42, the answer is 42.

Posted by: Deep Thought at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (PiwSw)

42 oooh.

Posted by: Deep Thought at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (PiwSw)

43 Aftermath was the spinoff show from Math.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

44 Kid needs to learn how to properly write a '9' before he learns to multiply.

Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 09:41 AM (A26F0)

45 They told me there would be no math.

Posted by: Little Kid at November 26, 2025 09:41 AM (IByKi)

46 The seven is slashed, like they do in the military (and like I still do).

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

47 Kid needs to learn how to properly write a '9' before he learns to multiply.
Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 09:41 AM (A26F0)
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I think his teacher wrote that on the board. Looks a little too tidy for a child's handwriting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (IBQGV)

48 Paintings are preferable to his politics:

Octav Băncilă (Romanian pronunciation: [okˈtav bənˈt͡ʃilə]; 4 February 1872 – 3 April 1944) was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde [ro] (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul).

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (PFs9e)

49 I'm a Lotus 1-2-3 man, myself."

WYSIWYG...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

50 Romanian artist.

Posted by: Tuna at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

51 A muldoon sighting!
Rejoice!

Posted by: Limerick lovers everywhere at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)

52 I stood where that kid’s standing when I was a 9th grader. And I was humiliated by a so-called algebra teacher.

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (i+bC1)

53 The seven is slashed, like they do in the military (and like I still do).
Posted by: Bulg

I could understand doing it on a 6 or 9, but what is the purpose on a 7?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (rYMt6)

54 Is that 247 or 249?
Would hang, kind of Rockwellesque. Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (bfwj/)

55
He's using an abacus.
Posted by: Sponge

Unzipping to count to 21.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (QVmho)

56 53 Not sure, Rick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

57
WYSIWYG...
Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM (XuXeR)

That was an actual thing for the Radius monitor line. An incredibly difficult computer monitor that would rotate on it's stand to give long view ability. But the quality of the screen was listed as WYSIWYG.

Those things were horrible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

58 In my head I take one quarter of 87 and add three zeros. Because my brain thinks this way.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 26, 2025 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

I rounded to 250 and 100, then subtracted 1/8.

We all (or should) do approximations differently, but they are fun!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 26, 2025 09:44 AM (n9ltV)

59 >>The seven is slashed, like they do in the military (and like I still do).

Seen horizontal bars, never a diagonal one.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 09:45 AM (NcvvS)

60 He's on his way to counting to 21.

*********

Thank Good for polydactyly!

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

61 Is that 247 or 249?
Would hang, kind of Rockwellesque. Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (bfwj/)

249, the 7 is differentiated with the line in the number below.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

62
21,663

Definitely needed to carry that one.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 09:45 AM (QVmho)

63 Good morning

I like this. It feels real but from a past age. Kid probably walked to school. He has to come up to the board and do this in front of the class so he is serious. The painting tells a story.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)

64 Thought bubble:

"Is this problem in Base 6 or Base 45?"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

65 I used to have that dream where you're in school in nothing but your underwear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

66 I too, like, get lost in calculations.

Posted by: Alexandrrrrrrrrrrrria Ocasio-Cortez at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (0wVYr)

67 But I do like this one of flowers and he has another one of an Intense looking older looking Jewish man in a yamulke (sp?) which is quite powerful:

https://tinyurl.com/yj4237v5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (PFs9e)

68 rotate on it's stand to give long view ability"
"Long view"?

That water's cold.... and deep, too.

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:47 AM (XuXeR)

69 The slashed seven is faggy Euroweenie thing.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 09:47 AM (d6BF2)

70 WYSIWYG...
Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:42 AM

+++
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Flip Wilson at November 26, 2025 09:47 AM (XQo4F)

71 >>21,663

Definitely needed to carry that one.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Surprised it took over 60 comments to get to the answer. 'No math on the blog' is a real thing.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 09:47 AM (NcvvS)

72 The only math I really liked was geometry. Actually, I loved it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

73 I could understand doing it on a 6 or 9, but what is the purpose on a 7?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (rYMt6)

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If sloppily written can be mistaken for the number 2.

I put a slash through my 7's and Z's (also possibly mistaken for 2"s), and a diagonal slash through my Zeros so they're not mistaken for the letter O.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 09:48 AM (9y34i)

74 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Flip Wilson "

Sure, Geraldine...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR)

75 Thank Good for polydactyly!
Posted by: muldoon

It may have been in olden days but I doubt there were polydactyls flying around!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 09:48 AM (L/fGl)

76 I like the chalk dust on the blackboard. The swirls showing sort of successful erasing make it real to me.

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 26, 2025 09:49 AM (9W5Tj)

77 The slashed seven is faggy Euroweenie thing.
Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 09:47 AM (d6BF2)

I do the zero the military way and slash the O. I work for a Danish company. The slash O is a letter in their alphabet. Every time I do that, it confuses them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

78 The white chalk on the black board symbolises the repression BIPOC mathematicians experience on a daily basis, where their lived math experience is constantly attacked by a settler colonial intepretation of so-called "objective" reality, which seeks to marginalize the Other. Diverses mathematical interpretations are equally valid, and seeking to punish so-called "wrong" answers just serves to deepen the marginalization of these voices.

Posted by: Your Kid's Math Professor at November 26, 2025 09:49 AM (PiwSw)

79 Math. Is. Racist.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 26, 2025 09:50 AM (xvV+O)

80 Alternate title:

"After Failing to Tell Him the Answer, Alphonse Learns That the Magic Clam He Bought For 25 Lira Is No Such Thing, and Now He Can't Buy the New Superman Comic!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

81 Why you no doctor??
-Tiger Dad

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 09:50 AM (VMttT)

82 Posted by: Your Kid's Math Professor"

Put. The. Bong. Down.

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

83 Have never seen polydactyl in a limerick...

Posted by: Don't push it, kid at November 26, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

84 Lost in Calculations
Octav Bancila
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"That's not on my cheat sheet...damn!"

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 09:51 AM (krQz2)

85 73 Yes, I slash my 7s (horizontally) and my 0s (diagonally).

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

86 The only math I really liked was geometry. Actually, I loved it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

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Geometry proofs and other rigorous mathematics &: sciences -- particularly chemistry, physics, and mechanics -- first helped teach me to become a pretty good & efficient problem-solver later in college and my software development career.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 09:51 AM (9y34i)

87 Have never seen polydactyl in a limerick."

Doesn't rhyme with Nantucket...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:51 AM (XuXeR)

88 Sure 249*87=21,663.

But how much global warming?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (xvV+O)

89 Modern-day version would have him inputting the problem into Google on his iPhone.

Posted by: red speck at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (Ve/HL)

90 Posted by: Your Kid's Math Professor

“Use your calculator!”
- your kid’s public school teacher

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (9W5Tj)

91 Reminds me of my time at a Catholic school as a yute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

92 But how much global warming?"

Chicago.

Or 42

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (XuXeR)

93
But how much global warming?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (xvV+O)

All of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

94 "...inputting the problem into Google on his iPhone."

I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Grok at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (XQo4F)

95 Sevens don't need a slash.

If you have to unambiguate it from a one, you need to write your ones better. Not add a slash to a seven.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (krQz2)

96 Oh, I loved math board races!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (gILe7)

97 I feel his pain

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (NwnyJ)

98 Google on his iPhone."

Google? Apple, inc. whimpers...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (XuXeR)

99 When I lived in Turkey, I got really good at converting kilometers to miles in my head.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

100 No kid that age today can so that math without whipping put their phone

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (GhIJO)

101 hondo?

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (R11M+)

102 But how much global warming?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 26, 2025 09:52 AM (xvV+O)
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42.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (krQz2)

103

Screw this STEM!

Ima gonna trans and study lesbian basket weaving!

Posted by: Hank of Missou at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (4pRy7)

104 Read anything written about Johnny Von Neumann, there are many, many anecdotes about him that are interesting to read, many or most of them by others who weren’t exactly slouches when it comes to math & physics - Teller, Fermi, Alvarez, the whole crew of Los Alamos longhairs.

One time a crew of folks asked him about the best way of setting up a bank of computers to crunch a bunch of numbers for some wacked out theory of determining the properties of non-linear Hilbert space (I’m just making that up, you get the idea) and he asked what the problem was. They told him, and he went into his far off look, mumbling to himself. A few seconds later “That won’t work. Here’s the answer”. He did the calculations in his head.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (lDzxK)

105 West Point flashback..

Section head: "Take boards!"

Cadet: "Sir, I am required to find the area under the curve given a spherical 100% nitroogen cow with diameter 1 meter at standard temperature and pressure..."

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

106 Aftermath was the spinoff show from Math.

It was also a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game with better ads than rules.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (olroh)

107 21,663

Posted by: Don Black at November 26, 2025 09:54 AM (AOsQT)

108 That top number is two-forty-base-clef.

The teacher should have taken the time she added the slash to a well-formed seven to complete that nine.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (krQz2)

109 I put a slash through my 7's and Z's (also possibly mistaken for 2"s), and a diagonal slash through my Zeros so they're not mistaken for the letter O.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe
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I as well. Learned to do that in a statics class to differentiate “Z”s and “7”s.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (xvV+O)

110
Stop talking about me, you idiots!

Posted by: Polly Dactyl at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

111 hondo?

Movie thread?

Prometheus!

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

112 95 Sevens don't need a slash.

If you have to unambiguate it from a one, you need to write your ones better. Not add a slash to a seven.
Posted by: Axeman
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I've done both a slash to a 7 and a slash to denote zero instead of O. Useful if you are writing code on paper or writing a long series of numbers by hand.

Used to do it with tabulating election results and coding as I mentioned.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (WDjG6)

113 21,663

19,497. Don’t forget ten percent for the big guy!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM (olroh)

114 People don't think my 2s are 2s because I don't make them curly at the bottom.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (UnA8+)

115 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Imprisoning Violent Criminals Is "Racist" and "Immoral’"

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I'm brandin' him an evil crackpot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

116 Kinda blows up the whole "You're too poor to be expected to learn math" narrative, don't it?

Posted by: red speck at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Ve/HL)

117 one, two, three, four.
blue.
you're ugly.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (R11M+)

118 Aftermath was the spinoff show from Math"

And a really bad IBM commercial...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (XuXeR)

119 If you have to unambiguate it from a one, you need to write your ones better. Not add a slash to a seven.
Posted by: Axeman

I do it because I write like shit and need to ensure it's a seven and not a two.

Get over it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

120
I think it's pretty clear that the answer is-

Three hundred and sixteen exes.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

121 This is an effective painting. He captures the moment with the boy's posture and concentration, alone and without support. It's not panic, just trying to remember a new skill, in this case the multiplication tables. But the ragged clothes and short, institutional haircut adds some tension to the scene. I can't tell what medium was used. It looks to me like pastels. I looked at some of the artist's other paintings on his Wiki page and didn't care for them but this one is much better.

BTW, it took a few seconds for me to remember 7 times 9. Guess I'm out of practice.

Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

122 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Imprisoning Violent Criminals Is "Racist" and "Immoral’"

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I'm brandin' him an evil crackpot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

Democrats want you dead and will do almost anything to achieve their goal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

123 *sounds the "MATH!" alarm*

https://youtu.be/qnTwMcr2srk

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (O7YUW)

124 "I can still remember my 1st grade teacher yelling at me for doing exactly what this kid is doing."

My teacher didn't yell, but yeah...

I was painfully shy around that time and would just shut down and become dead weight statuesque under stress. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (6qf1m)

125 Well I didn’t have to pack
Got it all upon my back
Yes, I’m 805 Kilometers away from Home

Posted by: Zombie Bobby Bare, with Updates at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (lDzxK)

126 I do it because I write like shit and need to ensure it's a seven and not a two.

Your sevens should look like a longbow, and your ones like a crossbow.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 09:58 AM (olroh)

127 110
Stop talking about me, you idiots!

Posted by: Polly Dactyl at November 26, 2025 09:55 AM

*bats eyelashes*

Posted by: Polly Nomial at November 26, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

128 Mamdani’s “Community Safety” Adviser Has Called To Abolish Police, Prisons, ICE, the DEA, the FBI, and Borders

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It'll be safe for the community of criminals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

129
Brandon Johnson is a subliterate moron whose life path has been nothing but racial grifting.

A thought leader he is not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

130 I never remember kids being called to the board to do math in front of the class.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

131 I do it because I write like shit and need to ensure it's a seven and not a two.

Get over it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)
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I consider my script "write-only". Especially now.

I no longer know how to operate a pen.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (krQz2)

132 Look! There's a kid getting smarter!

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (FMtrg)

133 And now he's dealing with the aftermath!

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 09:40 AM (/iMjX)

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[Per Etymonline (not to be confused with our online 'Ettes):]

aftermath (n.)

1520s, originally "a second crop of grass grown on the same land after the first had been harvested," from after + -math, which is from Old English mæð "a mowing, cutting of grass" (from PIE root *me- "to cut down grass or grain").

Other words for it were aftercrop (1560s), aftergrass (1680s), lattermath, fog. The figurative sense is by 1650s. Compare French regain "aftermath," from re- + Old French gain, gaain "grass which grows in mown meadows," from Frankish or some other Germanic source similar to Old High German weida "grass, pasture."

When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.

[Longfellow, from "Aftermath"]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (9y34i)

134 21633

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (CNp5O)

135 34 i thought rugged looking clothes... if this blackboard situation ever ends he's ready for some serious entanglement.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (R11M+)

136 I could understand doing it on a 6 or 9, but what is the purpose on a 7?
Posted by: rickb223

Do differentiate it from a 1 (back when ppl put a top tail on the 1 instead of just a vertical line)

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (GhIJO)

137 I consider my script "write-only". Especially now.

I have learned that I need to copy my notes onto the computer within three days. After three days I’m not likely to be able to read it. There must be some sort of medium-term memory involved.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:02 AM (olroh)

138
West Point flashback..
Section head: "Take boards!"
Cadet: "Sir, I am required to find the area under the curve given a spherical 100% nitroogen cow with diameter 1 meter at standard temperature and pressure..."
Posted by: muldoon

My chief engineer taught in the West Point math department. So did his two predecessors. Odds are good you know at least one of the three.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:02 AM (QVmho)

139 I still cross my 7s

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:03 AM (GhIJO)

140 Look! There's a kid getting smarter!

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:01 AM (FMtrg)

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For God's Sake -- don't give him a Smartphone or an "AI" Toy!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:03 AM (9y34i)

141 If we aren'tputting them in prison, lets just shoot them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 26, 2025 10:03 AM (+mUZM)

142 Yay! A Muldoon sighting!

Hope all is well in your world.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:04 AM (FMtrg)

143 Have never seen polydactyl in a limerick."

**********

I'll endeavor to explain this problem tactfully:
(For folks who do addition counterfactually)
Use your fingers and toes
Plus your eyes, your ears and nose
You can count even higher with polydactyly

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 10:04 AM (/iMjX)

144 Dot your Ts and Cross your Eyes.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (UnA8+)

145 For God's Sake -- don't give him a Smartphone or an "AI" Toy!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:03 AM (9y34i)

Yes, because that will make him dumber.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (FMtrg)

146 I went through my slashed sevens phase and quit when I realized that it was a foolish affectation.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (d6BF2)

147 I never remember kids being called to the board to do math in front of the class.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)
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You might not be as 29 as some of the rest of us, then.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (krQz2)

148 Warner Music Partners With Suno to Clone Artists’ Voices Using AI

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If they go nuclear, they'll clone Yoko's voice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

149 83 >>Have never seen polydactyl in a limerick...

A theory on worm holes and fractals
left Gustav in search of things tactile.
He began counting his toes,
his fingers and nose,
and left him yearning to be polydactyl.

Posted by: red speck at November 26, 2025 10:05 AM (Ve/HL)

150 I also went through the European date phase. That really confused people. Today's date would be 26 Nov 25.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:06 AM (d6BF2)

151 Is it a limerick-off?
Puns at 20 paces?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:06 AM (dE3DB)

152 Or better still, using Roman numerals for the month. 26 X 25.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:08 AM (d6BF2)

153 Today's date would be 26 Nov 25.

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I prefer that format

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:08 AM (gDlxJ)

154 Polydactyl is a new dinosaur?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:08 AM (1HZta)

155 I'll endeavor to explain this problem tactfully:
(For folks who do addition counterfactually)
Use your fingers and toes
Plus your eyes, your ears and nose
You can count even higher with polydactyly
Posted by: muldoon
======
Folks have been looking for muldoon sightings in other threads for the last week or so.

Glad you provided us with a limerick that even AI can't reproduce.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (WDjG6)

156 Is Romal Numerals for months a thing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (1HZta)

157 Do differentiate it from a 1 (back when ppl put a top tail on the 1 instead of just a vertical line)
Posted by: vmom

That actually makes sense.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (rYMt6)

158 never remember kids being called to the. board to do math in front of the class.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

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Happened a few times for me in the 60s and 70s, but was always voluntary -- teachers would only call on those who raised their hands to do so (a chance to show off if you were pretty certain you knew the answer or how to deduce it).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (T1wyk)

159 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Limerick lover at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

160 A cheat sheet ain't gonna be much help on that problem.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (8mulE)

161 Is there a Centidactly or Millidactyl?

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (d6BF2)

162 I prefer that format
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:08 AM (gDlxJ)

that used to be the Oracle format

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (dCxaZ)

163 150 I do still the European date style. Obviates the
need for a comma.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

164 151 Is it a limerick-off?
Puns at 20 paces?

Great. My first entry into Limerickville, and you'd have me staring at Muldoon from 20 paces? I think I'd wet myself.

Posted by: red speck at November 26, 2025 10:10 AM (Ve/HL)

165 "Is Roman Numerals for months a thing?"

when you get to do whatever you want and don't care about tradition, it is.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (d6BF2)

166 Past 100 comments: God finds a way -

From Institute for Family Studies (via Instapundit):

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: The Left’s Family Problem: Marriage And Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults. “Just as conservatives are marrying at higher rates, they are also more likely to have children during young adulthood. Indeed, we don’t see a large decline in the share of conservatives ages 25 to 35 who are parents from the 1990s to the present.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

167 This is an Emo Phillips joke:
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My nephew is having a birthday next week. And for a while I wondered "What do you give a kid with seven fingers on one hand?"

And then I thought "Oh, firecrackers."

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (krQz2)

168 doing it in my head I multiply 250 by 80 and by 7 and then subtract 87.

Any one else do it this way?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (KDPiq)

169 The turkey prep has begun. I say again, the turkey prep has begun.

I cut up a 17.5 lb bird and am preparing to dry brine it. Perhaps I should have thawed it first.

Nahhhh. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Riz8t)

170 Limerick wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Yoda at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

171 a gal loved to grow polydactyls
she thought them hardy and tactile
with light in the room
she'd get them to bloom
but everyone knew they were fractals

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (R11M+)

172 I think I have forgotten how to do long division

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Wx316)

173 Well, shit! There goes my plans for Thanksgiving in Ethiopia!

Volcanic Eruption In Ethiopia Leaves a Trail of Disruption and Canceled Flights

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

174 Glad you provided us with a limerick that even AI can't reproduce.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (WDjG6)

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For those who missed it: I said in these here comments a week or two ago that once an AI ChatBot Agent can write more clever and punny limericks than Muldoon -- that'll be the last day I comment here.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:12 AM (T1wyk)

175 Things are changing in Europe:

Headline (Jerusalem Post):

"French poll shows far-right leader Bardella winning presidential election
A new Odoxa poll shows far-right leader Jordan Bardella would finish first in every tested matchup for France’s 2027 presidential election, beating all opponents in both rounds."

Posted by: mrp at November 26, 2025 10:12 AM (rj6Yv)

176 7th grade. A competition at the blackboard. I am my best friend were good, but he was ridiculously fast.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:12 AM (d6BF2)

177 There goes my plans for Thanksgiving in Ethiopia!

Volcanic Eruption In Ethiopia Leaves a Trail of Disruption and Canceled Flights

It should open up some space for remigrating Somalis.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:13 AM (Riz8t)

178 He's looking at his cheat sheet to decipher how to solve the problem using the new Common Core method.

the Common Core standards introduced in 2010, emphasizes conceptual understanding over rote memorization of procedures. This approach encourages students to break down multiplication problems into smaller, more manageable parts using visual and conceptual tools.

A common technique is the "box method" or area model, where numbers are decomposed into their place values (e.g., 35 becomes 30 and 5, and 12 becomes 10 and 2), and then multiplied in a grid format.

The partial products from each cell of the grid are then summed to find the final result. For example, multiplying 35 by 12 involves calculating 30×10=300, 30×2=60, 5×10=50, and 5×2=10, which are then added together to get 420.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

179 They (the Europeans) keep using that term (far-right). I don't think it means what they think it means.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (d6BF2)

180 I read a Muldoon on the blogs
Writing poetry for paintings and dogs.
He tried one about math…
It bit him in the ath…
Now he’s modeling Coppertone togs.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (olroh)

181 You really gotta watch out for the Noman Rumerals.

Posted by: Pseudolus at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (0wVYr)

182 Did the Ethiopan volcano do hundreds of dollars damage?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (1HZta)

183 Is Romal Numerals for months a thing?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Years. Especially in Hollywood. Think movie credits. MCMLIX = 1959

Why they did it that way is a question for MPPPP.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (rYMt6)

184 *The turkey prep has begun.*

"Spatchcocking" might be a fun limerick word.
But probably best saved for another day.

Posted by: Limerick lover at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (XQo4F)

185 Well, shit! There goes my plans for Thanksgiving in Ethiopia!

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"How Dare YOU!"

/Sally Struthers (thankfully not nearly as insufferable as Greta "Pol Tot" Thunberg)

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (T1wyk)

186 I math for a living. Not only do I cross my z's, but I also curl the bottom of my t's so they don't look like plus signs.

I had a Turkish professor who wrote her g's like backwards q's. That was confusing for a bit until I got better at visually translating.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (FMtrg)

187 Lost in Calculations
Octav Bancila

I like it a great deal. (Yes, it reminds me of elementary school in the U.S. so many years ago.) I'd considering hanging it.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (NFX2v)

188
16000
03200
00720
01400
00280
00063
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21663

I think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (BI5O2)

189 Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

I was common core before common core I guess. I always broke it down into base 10.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (KDPiq)

190 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. The kid is reading the note Svetlana slipped him as he headed to the board thinking she really liked him, and now he realizes she gave him the wrong answer.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:15 AM (y3bZw)

191 LOL, SPB.
LOL!

Posted by: Limerick lover at November 26, 2025 10:16 AM (XQo4F)

192 176 >>>7th grade. A competition at the blackboard. I am my best friend were good, but he was ridiculously fast.

I love that you remember that. And sad that too many who call themselves "educators" would deny today's kids such a future memory in order to save them the "embarrassment" of competition.

Posted by: red speck at November 26, 2025 10:16 AM (Ve/HL)

193 Today's date would be 26 Nov 25.

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25 or 6 to 4?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

194 They (the Europeans) keep using that term (far-right). I don't think it means what they think it means.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (d6BF2)
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* dragging soapbox to the fore *

It means nothing. "Right" means nothing. It's a hodgepodge of a muddle of concepts.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:16 AM (krQz2)

195 Le National Rasseur?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:17 AM (1HZta)

196 Today's date would be 26 Nov 25.

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25 or 6 to 4?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

67
Posted by: Middle Schooler

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:17 AM (rYMt6)

197 It means nothing. "Right" means nothing. It's a hodgepodge of a muddle of concepts.

Right means “against whatever the current Left is for”.

Far-right means “effective against whatever the current Left is for.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:18 AM (olroh)

198
2025Nov26.

Posted by: Fight me at November 26, 2025 10:18 AM (XQo4F)

199 Is Romal Numerals for months a thing?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Years. Especially in Hollywood. Think movie credits. MCMLIX = 1959

Why they did it that way is a question for MPPPP.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (rYMt6)

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I always assumed it was kind of mimicking what you generally see on historical landmarks & plaques where dedication years were (still are?) represented in Roman numerals for some reason.

Would be interesting to know the basis of that tradition ... but can't look up right now.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:18 AM (T1wyk)

200 Precedence of operators??? WTF is that?

(There's a reason I was a Political.Science major.)

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:19 AM (y3bZw)

201 Russia Expected to Reject Ukraine Peace Plan, Extending War Until After Christmas

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Uhh, which Christmas?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (L/fGl)

202 Hi, Muldoon

I saw this article on a Dr. in NYC who just wrote a new book and I thought of you. It is about the melding of medicine and spirituality :

https://tinyurl.com/47k62teh

Hope you are well. Your limericks were missed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (rZCVI)

203 OT:

For those of us who are over 29, it is weird to see Adam Carolla and Jay Leno looking older. Just bizarre. Good podcast.

https://tinyurl.com/u2ep9uj5

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (bss/y)

204 I like that they call a radical Marxist who created Fascism as Far Right .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (KDPiq)

205 Our newish church has a commemoration plaque with the year in Roman Numerals.

Well, it is a Roman Catholic Church. LOL

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (d6BF2)

206 I cut up a 17.5 lb bird and am preparing to dry brine it. Perhaps I should have thawed it first.

Nahhhh. It'll be fine.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Riz8t)

Uhhhh...the Universal Law of Frozen Turkeys is that they will either thaw so early that they go bad by Thanksgiving Day or they remain 40 degrees in the interior after 5 hours of roasting.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (FMtrg)

207 unambiguate from a 1

I don't know about other countries, but in Latin America, a one has a diagonal at the top so it looks like a seven, so they put the slash on the seven.

Posted by: jayhawkone at November 26, 2025 10:20 AM (f/Ixs)

208 "Precedence of operators??? WTF is that?"
+++

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

Posted by: Order of operations at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

209 184 *The turkey prep has begun.*

"Spatchcocking" might be a fun limerick word.
But probably best saved for another day.
Posted by: Limerick lover at November 26, 2025 10:14 AM (XQo4F)

Spent the last 90 minutes making pumpkin dip, pumpkin pie "ice cream" pie, and baking sweet potatoes. Kid is making a cherry apricot amaretto swirled yeast bread for our lunch and dinner option tomorrow (it was gonna be cran, but oldest ate all the dried crans, so we pivoted to an even better option - this is how you chef - no one has to know it was gonna be cran)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (tOcjL)

210 About looking older, I saw "The Naked Gun" recently. Pamela Anderson looked comfortable in her own skin.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (d6BF2)

211 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

I just used “I Don’t Play Like My Aunt Lucy” about an hour ago.

Possibly the most useless of those things I know.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (olroh)

212 I cut up a 17.5 lb bird and am preparing to dry brine it. Perhaps I should have thawed it first.

Nahhhh. It'll be fine.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Riz8t)

Uhhhh...the Universal Law of Frozen Turkeys is that they will either thaw so early that they go bad by Thanksgiving Day or they remain 40 degrees in the interior after 5 hours of roasting.
Posted by: Emmie

That's why you deep fry a frozen turkey in your kitchen Thursday morning and go out to eat after the fire department has left.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (rYMt6)

213 Kid is making a cherry apricot amaretto swirled yeast bread for our lunch and dinner option tomorrow (it was gonna be cran, but oldest ate all the dried crans, so we pivoted to an even better option - this is how you chef - no one has to know it was gonna be cran)...

What time should I arrive?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

214 I think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

My scratch paper (not showing the carry digits)

249
x87
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1743
1992
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21663

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (dE3DB)

215 ‘What’s that thing between my legs?’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (19Bvr)

216 Would be interesting to know the basis of that tradition ... but can't look up right now.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe
________

I think the dates of a book's publication may have been noted in that way. Maybe comes from that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

217 Right means “against whatever the current Left is for”.

Far-right means “effective against whatever the current Left is for.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:18 AM (olroh)
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Exactly. Resisting the left, who have this schedule of History of phases we have to go through.

Gentile and Mussolini had a discrete falling out because Gentile, the theorist of fascism, was much more progressive than Mussolini turned out to be. Their first rift was whether or not the Catholic Church should be involved. Mussolini reasoned that so many Italians were Catholic that it made sense to secure support from where you can.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (krQz2)

218 I prefer that format
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:08 AM (gDlxJ)

that used to be the Oracle format
Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:09 AM (dCxaZ)

Military format. Superior, which is odd since the military usually avoids things like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 26, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)

219 210 About looking older, I saw "The Naked Gun" recently. Pamela Anderson looked comfortable in her own skin.
Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (d6BF2

In her commercials she has chosen not to wear any make up at all. Not a fan.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (KDPiq)

220 It means nothing. "Right" means nothing. It's a hodgepodge of a muddle of concepts.
Posted by: Axeman

Heuristic for a typology. Jerry Pournelle (later his two d matrix was used by Libertarians with their smallest political ideology test). Jerry back when he was a poli sci prof at Pepperdine, came up with two dimensions of economic and social differences in political ideology. Think it was published in a journal at the time but certainly he would discuss it throughout his life.

The Right in Euroland has a specific meaning rooted in history based on blood and history of a nation and usually included preservation of royalty and state religions when those were a thing. Less useful on the right in the US because of the whole royalty and state religion thing being dumped but often there is a related term of Heritage Americans aka descendants of the original English/Scots/Irish/German settlers versus immigrant latecomers in the 1850's and later.

Some argue for a creed based nation of ideals but that has the problem of defining exactly what the creed to be preserved contains.

Nowadays, at least in the US, it is easier to define the Right by what it is not--the Left.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)

221
Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.

Posted by: I guess I'll spell it out at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)

222 FOIL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

223 Gentile? I heard of Gramsci.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:25 AM (d6BF2)

224 Many on the right were shocked when Mamdani said he was going to use Arabic numerals in all schools

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 26, 2025 10:25 AM (IzSNf)

225 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
Posted by: Order of operations at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

I always used "Please Exhume My Dead Aunt Sally."

I'm dark like that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 26, 2025 10:25 AM (PSEDc)

226 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 26, 2025 10:25 AM (IzSNf)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 26, 2025 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Gentile’s theories weren’t kosher.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

228 The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia, located about 500 miles from the capital city of Addis Ababa, erupted on Sunday for the first time in about 12,000 years.
Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for First Time in 12,000 Years

Where's my virgins?

Nobody's throwing virgins down my caldera...

Okay, fine.

This is what happens when you fuck a volcano in the ass.

This is what happens when you fuck a volcano in the ass, Donny!!!!

This is what happens when you fuck a volcano in the ass.!!!!!!1!!!!111111

Posted by: Ethiopian Volcano at November 26, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

229 221
Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
Posted by: I guess I'll spell it out at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)

I tutor students who thought they were going to make it through college without knowing that.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:26 AM (FMtrg)

230 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

I just used “I Don’t Play Like My Aunt Lucy” about an hour ago.

Possibly the most useless of those things I know.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (olroh)

Damn it!
I never had a teacher teach me anything like that.

*kicks dirt onto slide rule*

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:26 AM (y3bZw)

231 "In her commercials she has chosen not to wear any make up at all."

I am old enough to enjoy the natural beauty.

Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:27 AM (d6BF2)

232 "Please Exhume My Dead Aunt Sally."

LOL

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 10:27 AM (XQo4F)

233 213 Kid is making a cherry apricot amaretto swirled yeast bread for our lunch and dinner option tomorrow (it was gonna be cran, but oldest ate all the dried crans, so we pivoted to an even better option - this is how you chef - no one has to know it was gonna be cran)...

What time should I arrive?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

Probably as the Macy's parade is finishing up - that's when the lunch tray goes out (and no one eats anything else til dinner with the tray).

Spouse picked Italian for the theme, so we have proscuitto (for me), speck, and salami with some roasted tomato mozzarella and 4 other cheese slice things (I don't eat it, so can't remember what they are), and some varied crackers (and now the bread, too). Then the pumpkin dip with apples, asian pears, pineapple, and clementines. I put out 2 trays (and take my meat from the pack, so I can just dairy up the one) - one the proteins and one the fruit and dips, and it works for 7...

I do try to spread the "cooking" and "eating" nice stuff all day, so kids get good food memories from dawn to dusk (and dessert is lightest b/c no one really wants it)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:27 AM (tOcjL)

234 FOIL!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Nice save. Thank you! It's been added to the forgotten groceries list.

Posted by: Lady Who at November 26, 2025 10:27 AM (JCLJi)

235 249
x87
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ahem -

250*87-87

200*87 = 100*87*2 = 8700*2 = 17400

100*87/2 = 8700/2 = 4350

17400+4350 = 21750

21750-100+(100-87)= 21650+13 = 21663

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:28 AM (Dv3i1)

236 224 Okay, now I'm convinced. Aliasss is a joke sock.

Posted by: Emmie at November 26, 2025 10:28 AM (FMtrg)

237 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

I just used “I Don’t Play Like My Aunt Lucy” about an hour ago.

Possibly the most useless of those things I know.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:22 AM (olroh)

Resistors:

Bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 26, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

238 Apparently "independents" in Tennessee don't like Trump, Republicans can't be bothered to vote, and Democrat-Communists are stuffing the ballot boxes, so radical nutjob Aftyn "Power, Not Babies!" Behn may steal a special election Congressional seat next week.

Posted by: Aftyn Behn, the Deluge at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (qUkBO)

239 Whell shit.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

240
Currently, defrosting the Prime Rib.

If you're just starting to defrost your turkey today, you may be a fan of ptomaine.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)

241 Would be interesting to know the basis of that tradition ... but can't look up right now.
Posted by: ShainS

I'd always heard it was to make the year unknown to most people, so the movie wouldn't be as obviously old or dated if you saw, say, Jurassic Park and realized it was 32 years old.

Of course, that doesn't explain why they don't just leave the date off entirely instead.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (JCZqz)

242 223 Gentile? I heard of Gramsci.
Posted by: no one
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Gramsci was a Communist (not fascist like Gentile) but argued the best way to rectify Marx's mistake. Marx proposed economic classes as the way to promote revolution; Gramsci argued post WWI where Commie revolutions largely failed including places like Germany that Marx assumed would be at the forefront, that in the industrialized West, a long march through institutions was necessary including social organizations.

Basically seize the heights of the socioeconomy of states rather than rely on a revolution by the proletariat.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (WDjG6)

243 Sir, I send a rhyme excelling in sacred truth and rigid spelling. Numerical sprites elucidate for me the lexicon’s full weight. If nature gain, who can complain, tho’ Dr. Johnson fulminate?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (olroh)

244 The Right in Euroland has a specific meaning rooted in history based on blood and history of a nation and usually included preservation of royalty and state religions when those were a thing. Less useful on the right in the US because of the whole royalty and state religion thing being dumped but often there is a related term of Heritage Americans aka descendants of the original English/Scots/Irish/German settlers versus immigrant latecomers in the 1850's and later.
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Right, because on this side of the pond, we're anti-monarchal from the get-go. Hereditary rule doesn't even enter the question, once the union got going.

The "Right" of the French Revolution weren't even that traditional, they just reasoned that offspring--especially the very young--of the nobles don't need to be killed for having been born noble. For that they were called "counterrevolutionaries".

People really need to realize that the left becoming more extremely selective and violent is an illustratable historical pattern.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:29 AM (krQz2)

245 Posted by: no one at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM

Entertaining film and yes, she looked quite comfortable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 10:30 AM (rZCVI)

246 Some of you folk’s methods of solving the problem are more convoluted than the traditional method.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

247 Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (tOcjL)

I have to hide my baking ingredients because otherwise they are gone when I'm ready to cook. In the wintertime, it's really easy, I put them in a cooler outside if they need refrigeration.

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

248 246 Some of you folk’s methods of solving the problem are more convoluted than the traditional method.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

Counting on your fingers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (VE6XX)

249 Some of you folk’s methods of solving the problem are more convoluted than the traditional method.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

That's the new math. It a main reason why our kids today are incredibly stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

250
Kid is making a cherry apricot amaretto swirled yeast bread for our lunch and dinner option tomorrow (it was gonna be cran, but oldest ate all the dried crans, so we pivoted to an even better option - this is how you chef - no one has to know it was gonna be cran)...

You trans-ed the cran?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (iJfKG)

251 Where s muh recipes thread??
😺

Posted by: I can haz?? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (1ZivA)

252 246 Some of you folk’s methods of solving the problem are more convoluted than the traditional method.
Posted by: Bulg

I just break it down into calculations I can do easily in my head. No chalkboard or pen and paper needed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (Dv3i1)

253 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

**************

On Old Olympus' Towering Top A Finn And German Viewed A Hop

(cranial nerves)

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

254 Not a furry, a feathery.

Actress Kate Beckinsale claims her daughter's boyfriend can "lay eggs" and we're just as confused as you are

Actress Kate Beckinsale claims her daughter's boyfriend can "lay eggs" and we're just as confused as you are

Kate: 'He laid two eggs in a week, is what the bright spot was.'
Jimmy [Kimmel] did?'
Kate: 'The boyfriend did.'
Jimmy: 'He LAID TWO EGGS in a week. Is that a British, uh ... thing I don't know?'
Kate: 'He's from New Jersey, he's a Jew from New Jersey.'
Jimmy: 'What does that mean, he laid two eggs in a week?'
Kate: 'Well, he said I've laid an egg, and I was like ok, trying to focus on the cancer patient, you know, but it had a shell and a yoke.'
Jimmy: 'Hold on a second... [voice shaking] an egg came out of his body?'
Kate: 'Yes, not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route it would come out of a hen.'
Jimmy: "..."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

255 PS - I give the kid all credit for the bread. I don't make bread, but I do offer alternate flavor suggestions when panic about missing ingredients kicks in...and I make good ones b/c who doesn't love cherry, apricot, and amaretto? And it's real amaretto (Disarrano - if you know, you know), so apricot pits vs almonds (it's my favorite flavoring agent b/c I can't have the tree nuts, but it delivers beautiful almond flavor)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (tOcjL)

256 Where s muh recipes thread??
😺
Posted by: I can haz?? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (1ZivA)

There's a food thread every weekend.

Or you can click the link on the main page and order The Horde Cookbook.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

257 This gives me flashbacks to elementary school and not in a good way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:33 AM (6KcYW)

258 Bulls running again on Wall St today. This week has made up much of the November losses. Despite the best efforts of the left to make people think we’re in a depression, investors keep shrugging it off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:33 AM (HW6XE)

259 247 Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:21 AM (tOcjL)

I have to hide my baking ingredients because otherwise they are gone when I'm ready to cook. In the wintertime, it's really easy, I put them in a cooler outside if they need refrigeration.
Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

It's my fault - I knew I had them Monday, but I knew the bag was already open and getting snacked on - I should have written Thanksgiving on them and didn't (I did do that for the meats and cheeses for the lunch tray b/c those also would have gotten eaten quickly)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:33 AM (tOcjL)

260 CBD, thanks for the great selection today! Great choice!

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 10:33 AM (TN0g+)

261 Kate: 'Well, he said I've laid an egg, and I was like ok, trying to focus on the cancer patient, you know, but it had a shell and a yoke.'
Jimmy: 'Hold on a second... [voice shaking] an egg came out of his body?'
Kate: 'Yes, not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route it would come out of a hen.'
Jimmy: "..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

I now know who shit my pants.......

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

262
I never remember kids being called to the board to do math in front of the class.
Posted by: Bulg

This was a common practice in the early '60s in elementary school.

I'd posit that it built character, but I don't think most pupils relished that challenge. As I was good at math, it never troubled me to do it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

263 Actress Kate Beckinsale claims her daughter's boyfriend can "lay eggs" and we're just as confused as you are
...
Kate: 'Yes, not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route it would come out of a hen.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)
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Um. No it didn't.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (krQz2)

264 You all are always welcome to visit the vibrant Hot Air Food Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

265 258 Bulls running again on Wall St today. This week has made up much of the November losses. Despite the best efforts of the left to make people think we’re in a depression, investors keep shrugging it off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Fed is ending "Quantitative Tightening". Inflation is set to come back, pumping up asset values. I guess Fed is thinking we need to juice the economy and need to soak up liquidity (and tame inflation) is less of a concern.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

266 263 Actress Kate Beckinsale claims her daughter's boyfriend can "lay eggs" and we're just as confused as you are
...
Kate: 'Yes, not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route it would come out of a hen.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)
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Um. No it didn't.
Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (krQz2)

Question - how the hell would she know without weird sexual kinks happening? I mean, it would require a certain lack of clothes if it even could be true.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (tOcjL)

267 So, CBD putting up this art implies a waiver of the No Maths rule? Or have some of you been baited into a trap?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (rqEUB)

268 People really need to realize that the left becoming more extremely selective and violent is an illustratable historical pattern.
Posted by: Axeman
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I think the violence comes from a loosely knit class of people that want to rule others but don't have the connections, money, or power to pull it off via those means.

So they rely on the crudest forms of control which is by violence. And then like starving dogs, they fight among themselves for scraps of power when they take over a state.

Only evil and/or corrupt people would want to rule over unwilling subjects by violence. Even most kings were constained by the idea of Christianity in the West. Commies have no such scruples because to them, common people are akin to potato chips. They can always make more (an error turns out but that is the way they feel).

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

269 That's the new math. It a main reason why our kids today are incredibly stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

And a reason why businesses resist hiring here. They do not want to hire stupid people they need to teach remedial math to in order to do their jobs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

270 Nobody got called up to the board, but the math teachers I had generally would only call on someone if they thought someone DIDN'T know the answer.

They liked to make examples of students.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (UnA8+)

271
Actress Kate Beckinsale claims her daughter's boyfriend can "lay eggs" and we're just as confused as you are

They're little turds, dunce.

Do yourself a favor and shut your stupid mouth.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

272 Every day in my senior year the math teacher picked some of us to put up on the board one of the homework problems and our solution, if we had one, for him to pick apart while you stood there in front of the class. It built character.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (8SdDq)

273 Kate Beckinsale is Rule No. I on steroids.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

274 The Orange Football teams from Ohio can also lay eggs on the scoreboard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (1HZta)

275 Ain't no harder math than toilet paper math.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (XQo4F)

276 I never remember kids being called to the board to do math in front of the class.
Posted by: Bulg

This was a common practice in the early '60s in elementary school.

I'd posit that it built character, but I don't think most pupils relished that challenge. As I was good at math, it never troubled me to do it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

Same for posting class rankings based on grades.

It fostered a healthy competition that made kids study harder.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (iJfKG)

277 Commies have no such scruples because to them, common people are akin to potato chips. They can always make more (an error turns out but that is the way they feel).
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

You have ten fingers. If you lose one you still have nine.

Posted by: Mao at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (6KcYW)

278 262
I never remember kids being called to the board to do math in front of the class.
Posted by: Bulg

This was a common practice in the early '60s in elementary school.

I'd posit that it built character, but I don't think most pupils relished that challenge. As I was good at math, it never troubled me to do it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

I had to do it in the 80s/90s.
It was just something you knew could happen so you better know the material. Best incentive to do the homework, avoid humiliation in front of the class.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (HW6XE)

279 I'd posit that it built character, but I don't think most pupils relished that challenge. As I was good at math, it never troubled me to do it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Since I hated math and was never paying attention in the first place, it was simply ritual humiliation for me.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (OTdqV)

280 Question - how the hell would she know without weird sexual kinks happening? I mean, it would require a certain lack of clothes if it even could be true.
Posted by: Nova Local
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Celebutards and the worship of them in Western society is a stupid modern take on very old folk traditions.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

281 I could understand doing it on a 6 or 9, but what is the purpose on a 7?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (rYMt6)

It differentiates a seven from a one for the Europeans.

Posted by: javems at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (8I4hW)

282 Some of you folk’s methods of solving the problem are more convoluted than the traditional method.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

Yes if you break it down too far but using base 10 is easier for me to do calculations in my head and came naturally.

Adults should be able to know 80 x 250 is 20,000 without thinking.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)

283 The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side....Oh joy! Rapture!

Posted by: S C Arecrow at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (r6f6k)

284 The "Wildcat" actress claims her daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, is dating a man who has literally laid 2 eggs in one week. According to Kate, she found it difficult to believe, but was convinced by how frightened he appeared to be about it. Kate said they broke it open and discovered a hard-boiled yolk as if it was "kind of cooked inside him."

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Well, that's it. I'm off breakfast.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

285 Commies have no such scruples because to them, common people are akin to potato chips. They can always make more (an error turns out but that is the way they feel).
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

It is better for half the people to die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Posted by: Mao at November 26, 2025 10:38 AM (6KcYW)

286 185 hoarding all the veal roll ups.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 10:38 AM (R11M+)

287 Um. No it didn't.
Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (krQz2)

Question - how the hell would she know without weird sexual kinks happening? I mean, it would require a certain lack of clothes if it even could be true.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (tOcjL)
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But he can't "lay eggs" without another hole. And then he's not a he.

All this time, these culture assholes have said that religion was a plot against knowledge.

Try no-religion.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:38 AM (krQz2)

288 You have ten fingers. If you lose one you still have nine.
Posted by: Mao

Stalin also said one death is a tragedy, millions are a statistic. Until of course he found himself meeting his maker. Mao too.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

289
So, CBD putting up this art implies a waiver of the No Maths rule? Or have some of you been baited into a trap?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in

It's not math if no one tried to solve it.

Or have we brown nosers here and they did try to solve it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (xG4kz)

290 I had a different reason for not wanting to get up in front of the class on occasion.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (KDPiq)

291 I like that they call a radical Marxist who created Fascism as Far Right .
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There is no "far right". "Far right" is a label the left and imposters on the right attach to positions that tend to discard "right" positions while attaching things the right doesn't believe in so as to cause confusion and derision.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (TN0g+)

292 Fed is ending "Quantitative Tightening". Inflation is set to come back, pumping up asset values. I guess Fed is thinking we need to juice the economy and need to soak up liquidity (and tame inflation) is less of a concern.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

2017-2020 (pre China Virus) we had low rates and low inflation. It is doable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (HW6XE)

293 Adults should be able to know 80 x 250 is 20,000 without thinking.
Posted by: the way I see it

8 quarters is 2 bucks so, yeah that makes sense. I should have thought of that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (Dv3i1)

294 Adults should be able to know 80 x 250 is 20,000 without thinking.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)
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Adults should also know $5.00-$4.49=$0.51 but they don't

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (8SdDq)

295 279 I'd posit that it built character, but I don't think most pupils relished that challenge. As I was good at math, it never troubled me to do it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Since I hated math and was never paying attention in the first place, it was simply ritual humiliation for me.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (OTdqV)

Math lessons were always unwelcome interruptions to my raiding the library for atlases and studying the back of the social studies textbook’s map section. Especially third grade.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:40 AM (6KcYW)

296 but it had a shell and a yoke.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

=====

*yolk

(sorry)

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 10:40 AM (DRSnL)

297 I've always said the Left's motto is The Ends Justify the Means.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:40 AM (KDPiq)

298 Stalin also said one death is a tragedy, millions are a statistic. Until of course he found himself meeting his maker. Mao too.
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

Kill one, you're a murderer.

Kill many, you're a conqueror.

Kill them all, you're a god.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 26, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

299 @289 - They know who they are.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 26, 2025 10:41 AM (rqEUB)

300 Damn hangover.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

301 2017-2020 (pre China Virus) we had low rates and low inflation. It is doable.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (HW6XE)

Spend money to the greatest extent possible on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. Make government as small as you can get away with.

Watch inflation turn to nothing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:41 AM (6KcYW)

302 Kill one, you're a murderer.

Kill many, you're a conqueror.

Kill them all, you're a god.
Posted by: Joe Biden

First insightful thing you've said in your whole entire life. Congrats!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 26, 2025 10:42 AM (Dv3i1)

303 Kill one, you're a murderer.

Kill many, you're a conqueror.

Kill them all, you're a god.
Posted by: Joe Biden at November 26, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

When did Joe Biden join Megadeth?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:42 AM (6KcYW)

304 I think the guard against the intrusion of math is how so many of us can be 29 and still claim to see the things we've seen.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:42 AM (krQz2)

305 Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:33 AM (tOcjL)

I'm making chili tonight if the ground beef is thawed. If not, tomorrow before I go to dinner. That should really put me in the Thanksgiving spirit, lol!

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (dCxaZ)

306 I saw an ad recently that said something like price of eggs is skyrocketing but our prices aren’t.

And I’m like bitch, price of eggs has plummeted in the past year. This is why I roll my eyes at the “affordability crisis” stuff. People live in an alternative reality.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (HW6XE)

307 282 Well, guess I’m not a proper adult, then.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

308 but it had a shell and a yoke.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

=====

*yolk

(sorry)
Posted by: Jordan61

Dude, we're through the looking glass here.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

309
I'm making chili tonight if the ground beef is thawed. If not, tomorrow before I go to dinner. That should really put me in the Thanksgiving spirit, lol!
Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (dCxaZ)

*insert carrots here*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

310
Alphonse, staring at the handwritten crib note in his hand:

"Criminny, this is Momma's shopping list! I am so boned."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)

311 Stalin also said one death is a tragedy, millions are a statistic. Until of course he found himself meeting his maker. Mao too.
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

Stalin is a great friend of the Chinese people.

Now go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.

Posted by: Mao at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (6KcYW)

312 There is no "far right". "Far right" is a label the left and imposters on the right attach to positions that tend to discard "right" positions while attaching things the right doesn't believe in so as to cause confusion and derision.
Posted by: Crusader
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Nominal measures of Left and Right that some activists believe can be calibrated into an ordinal measure similar to a number line where a theoretical zero would indicate a moderate and then each additional notch such as center left, left, far left and similar to that on the right.

Difficult to do in practice because no one agrees on the rank ordering of policies that denote the ordinal measuring point.

Ends up being bad rhetoric with little to no dialectical truth within it.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:44 AM (WDjG6)

313 *Kill one, you're a murderer.

Kill many, you're a conqueror.

Kill them all, you're a god.*
+++

Get a gun and you can rob a bank.

Get bank and you can rob everybody.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 10:44 AM (XQo4F)

314 Kill one, you're a murderer.

Kill many, you're a conqueror.

Kill them all, you're a god.
Posted by: Joe Biden

-------

Plagarizing again Joe?

Posted by: Dave Mustaine at November 26, 2025 10:45 AM (TN0g+)

315 According to the msm there is moderate, right, far right and ultra maga.

There is not even a center left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:45 AM (HW6XE)

316 *insert carrots here*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

ha!

I thought about that, but it doesn't seem quite right. I don't even use carrots in the white chili. It probably would work there, though. Especially if using the "white" carrots

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:45 AM (dCxaZ)

317
Who here had spelling bees in class in elementary school?

Now THAT was the prime stalking turf for administering public humiliation at that age.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

318 273 Kate Beckinsale is Rule No. I on steroids.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

She is so bloody hot though…

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 26, 2025 10:45 AM (6KcYW)

319 That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

320 Kate: 'Yes, not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route it would come out of a hen.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
---
Um. No it didn't.

************

My son-in-law's a movah annd a shakah
He's rather more a givah than a takah
Could he lay an egg? He could!
Just like a chicken would
He'll push that darnn thing out of his cloaca!

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (/iMjX)

321 The "Wildcat" actress claims her daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, is dating a man who has literally laid 2 eggs in one week. According to Kate, she found it difficult to believe, but was convinced by how frightened he appeared to be about it. Kate said they broke it open and discovered a hard-boiled yolk as if it was "kind of cooked inside him."

-
Well, that's it. I'm off breakfast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 26, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

***

*declines dinner invitation at the Beckensales*

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (y3bZw)

322 Cran sauce has been decided - pear ginger cran sauce with an apple juice as the fluid. 4 bags of cran and 8 oz of apple juice. If you are going light on sugar vs the bag recipe (which we do b/c this is the tart part of dinner and the sweet potatoes are the sweet), you also want to go light on fluid (you can always add, you can't subtract) to help it still be the right texture...

It's on the stove now doing its thing for awhile...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (tOcjL)

323 Manmade vegetables and the people who worship them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (1HZta)

324 Kate’s daughter is dating a female chicken?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (19Bvr)

325 321 The "Wildcat" actress claims her daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, is dating a man who has literally laid 2 eggs in one week. According to Kate, she found it difficult to believe, but was convinced by how frightened he appeared to be about it. Kate said they broke it open and discovered a hard-boiled yolk as if it was "kind of cooked inside him.

My suggestion.. Tell your Daughter to get a new boyfriend

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (VE6XX)

326
Kate said they broke it open and discovered a hard-boiled yolk as if it was "kind of cooked inside him."

Richard Gere's ears just perked up

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (xG4kz)

327 Kate’s daughter is dating a female chicken?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (19Bvr)

She prefers small peckers.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (y3bZw)

328 309
I'm making chili tonight if the ground beef is thawed. If not, tomorrow before I go to dinner. That should really put me in the Thanksgiving spirit, lol!
Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (dCxaZ)

*insert carrots here*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm making cheesesteaks tonight b/c it's easy and beef...and I need some beef for my iron level before 2-3 days of all poultry...it was gonna be burgers, but the steak took up more room in my freezer, so it won out...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:47 AM (tOcjL)

329 The difference between Right and Left for me can usually be identified based on social or cultural positions.

Also IMO one side is based on logic while the other side ignores it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:48 AM (KDPiq)

330 Kate should've been picked up and brought to an institution, her daughter brought in for evaluation and all of hollywood burned and salted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

331 319 That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

Outside $ donations?
She's got a Kevorkian vibe to her campaign.

Posted by: S C Arecrow at November 26, 2025 10:48 AM (r6f6k)

332
There's a reason that being homosexual is almost always a crime in socialist countries. Socialism needs conscripts to act as cannon fodder when they expand into new lands to destroy Western Civilization.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (y9nCu)

333 Cran sauce has been decided -

Mine too.. We have Lingonberries...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (VE6XX)

334 Lost in Calculations
Octav Bancila

Boy, that kid looks awfully young to be a math major in college already.

Posted by: US High School Teachers at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (qXAQs)

335 Imagine being the dude that shoves hard-boiled eggs up his ass to impress his girl's mother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

336 Sock off

Posted by: Rex B at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (r6f6k)

337 how my brain works:

249x87 is kinda quarterish of 88, 22 but with 3 extra zeros so 22000, but with one less 250 so 21750, and also with one less 87 which is 21750 - 90 +3 which is 21763

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (3uBP9)

338 I just realized what's wrong with the art. The "X" is in the wrong spot.
Sorry if this was mentioned before but I am too lazy to go back and read the whole thread.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:50 AM (y3bZw)

339 Hard boiled egg suppositories.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:50 AM (1HZta)

340 Alphonse, staring at the handwritten crib note in his hand:

"Criminny, this is Momma's shopping list! I am so boned."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)

---------------

"Please excuse Al for being late to math class. He was kidnapped by the jet set and left tied up on a lawn in Hyannis Port."

Signed "Alphonse's Mother"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:50 AM (9XAh4)

341 It's like an episode of Jackass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

342 Ends up being bad rhetoric with little to no dialectical truth within it.
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 10:44 AM (WDjG6)
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I prefer *functional* analysis. There is no substance or function of "right".

Is it to put everything under the government or is it to decentralize government?

The first one is fascism, proper, and the second one is American conservative centrism.

The fascists don't tend to want a "200-year-old piece of paper" tell them what rules have to be followed, any rules and inhibit the state are detrimental to the interests of the state.

So what happens when you want a strong military? Well, then you're a "fascist", a "nationalist", even though the one national function you think we ought to have is one laid out in the "200-year-old piece of paper"
that still gets in the way of the "progress of the state".

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:50 AM (krQz2)

343 333 Cran sauce has been decided -

Mine too.. We have Lingonberries...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (VE6XX)

I love ligonberries and haven't had them in a long time...I'm gonna need to add that to Christmas Eve planning (b/c I don't cook Christmas, but I do cook Christmas Eve)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 26, 2025 10:51 AM (tOcjL)

344 Now THAT was the prime stalking turf for administering public humiliation at that age.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

--
Spelling bees were ok

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2025 10:51 AM (dE3DB)

345 335 Imagine being the dude that shoves hard-boiled eggs up his ass to impress his girl's mother.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

He was probably shoving em' up there long before he was dating a celebrity's daughter.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 10:51 AM (UnA8+)

346 That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

This is why our country is probably doomed.

You have one party who's voters are totally dedicated to winning over governance.

Even in the face of insanity, they vote for it just to own the normies.

Yay!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

347 Imagine being the dude that shoves hard-boiled eggs up his ass to impress his girl's mother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

----------------

Are we sure it wasn't its "bonus hole" instead of its ass?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:52 AM (9XAh4)

348 Well, guess I’m not a proper adult, then.

Posted by: Bulg

There's fun to be had as an improper adult, so enjoy it!

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 26, 2025 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

349 >>That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...

Translation: "I am committed to killing *your* children ASAP! Let's kill off the next generation, you guys!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2025 10:52 AM (GbwPZ)

350
Lost in Calculations
Octav Bancila

Boy, that kid looks awfully young to be a math major in college already.
Posted by: US High School Teachers

I always admired the name Octave Chanute (the aviation pioneer).

I wonder whether he had siblings and were their names something like "Semiquaver" or "Contralto".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:53 AM (xG4kz)

351 Adults should be able to know 80 x 250 is 20,000 without thinking.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)
====

Adults should also know $5.00-$4.49=$0.51 but they don't
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Adults should know a 20% tip on $12.59 is $2.52, but they don't.
10% x 12.59 = 1.259
1.259x2=2.518 (roll up 2.518 to 2.52)

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:53 AM (rYMt6)

352 346 This is why our country is probably doomed.

You have one party who's voters are totally dedicated to winning over governance.

Even in the face of insanity, they vote for it just to own the normies.

Yay!
Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

As long as it can be sold as "Take THAT, Daddy!", Demoncrats will vote for it.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 10:54 AM (UnA8+)

353 0% tips are muck easier to calculate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:54 AM (1HZta)

354
Spelling bees were ok
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

I liked them, myself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:54 AM (xG4kz)

355 The difference between Right and Left for me can usually be identified based on social or cultural positions.

Also IMO one side is based on logic while the other side ignores it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:48 AM (KDPiq)
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The other side is based on academic theories, wish fulfilment and emotion.

One side is based on pragmatics of what has worked. But it does not have to mean the absence of tweaks.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:54 AM (krQz2)

356 >>> That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

Outside $ donations?
She's got a Kevorkian vibe to her campaign.
Posted by: S C Arecrow at November 26, 2025 10:48 AM (r6f6k)

They're using the Virginia technique from now on. They are like the alien intelligence in a space invasion movie. They probe and prod and find your weakness and when they do, they multiply it by a million. You cannot ever give them an inch.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 10:55 AM (3uBP9)

357 I wonder whether he had siblings and were their names something like "Semiquaver" or "Contralto".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 10:53 AM (xG4kz)

Fermata was always late for class.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 26, 2025 10:55 AM (PiwSw)

358 That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

---------------

If it's anything like Arizona, most of that money is coming from out-of-state GloboHomo (including ChiComm) Deep State Commie PACs and Billionaires (BIRM).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 10:55 AM (9XAh4)

359 255 plus, it's hard to find di amore.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 10:55 AM (R11M+)

360 Search for "math" — word appears 72 times in the thread. (Before now)

Surprised it took 'til comment #8 for someone to chime in with "No math."

This one is… different. In subject and style. Boy looks contemplative. Or has fallen asleep.

Happy TurkeyDay Eve, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - x goes on line 2 at November 26, 2025 10:56 AM (LaTF/)

361 Fermata was always late for class.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 26, 2025 10:55 AM (PiwSw)
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Adagio was always a little slow.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:56 AM (krQz2)

362 Happy TurkeyDay Eve, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - x goes on line 2 at November 26, 2025 10:56 AM (LaTF/)

Same to you

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

363 Is this a thing? Because this dounds like a thing.

Without diving deep yet into the Hong Kong fire that's happening right now November 26, 2025, I have a couple thoughts.

1. Wrapping your building in flammable materials (bamboo scaffolding) for construction work in 2025 is a wild choice, especially in a high rise.

2. Wrapping multiple high rise buildings within feet of each other in flammable materials is an even worse choice.

3. Dried bamboo burns incredibly well as it is, but the addition of spacing for the scaffolding from floor to floor likely allowed for greater airflow allowing for a much more efficient burn and travel up the exterior of the building.

4. The death toll currently stands at 14 and I can almost guarantee that will rise, potentially by a lot. The hope here is fire crews in Hong Kong realized they were dealing with an exterior fire spreading up the building and had the capability and awareness to sound a general evacuation, especially of the other buildings before they ignited.

5. This could be Grenfell all over again. Except multiplied by 4.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 10:57 AM (rYMt6)

364 Ok, off for the day... down to MD Anderson. FWIW, filled road use diesel for $2.80 gal. Lowest price in a dozen years...

Posted by: man at November 26, 2025 10:57 AM (XuXeR)

365 Turkey isn't worth the trouble.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 10:57 AM (1HZta)

366 319 That crazy woman running in Tenn wants mobile abortion clinics... She's also out raised the Republican by double digits...Worrisome...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

I have been assured that off year elections and special elections are nothing to worry about.

Has that changed?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 10:58 AM (HW6XE)

367 You could barely hear Pianissimo.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:58 AM (krQz2)

368 Loved spelling bees.

Anyone ever heard of a "declaiming contest"?

That was fun too.

Posted by: Lady Who at November 26, 2025 10:58 AM (JCLJi)

369 Kid looks like he's pulling his waistline out and checking out his first boner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

370
Search for "math" — word appears 72 times in the thread. (Before now)

Surprised it took 'til comment #8 for someone to chime in with "No math."
...
Posted by: mindful webworker - x goes on line 2

Now, that right there is math (statistics).

You see how easy it is to let that tricksy math into a thread and corrupt it?

Practice proper prophylaxis, people!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (xG4kz)

371 There is math in the blog.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (RuTUS)

372 .
NOOD Rant

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

373 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

374 Adults should be able to know 80 x 250 is 20,000 without thinking.

They should at least be able to do it without turning their phone to landscape mode (to get more buttons) like this kid is doing!

Posted by: 35 is the new 8 years old at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (qXAQs)

375 >>> You could barely hear Pianissimo.
Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:58 AM (krQz2)

Everybody liked dolce

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (3uBP9)

376 Correction: Nood NON-Rant.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

377 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

378 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

379 Why doesn't he just use his smart phone?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (XeU6L)

380 It takes longer to type it up than to do it on paper, but the shortcut is (assuming that curly digit is a 9 - I recognize the European 7):

249 x 87 = (250 - 1) x (90 - 3),
= 250 x 90 - 1 x 90 - 3 x 250 - 1 x (-3),
= 22500 - 90 - 750 + 3,

22410
- 750
+ 3
——-
21663

249 x 87 = 21,663

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (tWxgu)

381 290 "do some push ups. it'll go away."

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (R11M+)

382 8 I was told there would be NO math.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 26, 2025 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

You win! You were first.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (RuTUS)

383 Put yourself back in 2009. There is a special election in your district, which voted for Obama by double digits.

You would be voting for anyone with an R next to their name. They could be calling for an armed invasion of Mars to take out the Martians that live there. And you’d be like whatever, he’s not a Democrat. Where do I send the donation to his campaign?

That’s what a lot of people today feel like regarding Trump. The AWFL in TN could say that about anything and it doesn’t matter. The election is about Trump and nothing else.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (HW6XE)

384 365 Turkey isn't worth the trouble.

You might be right.

Posted by: NATO at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (Dv3i1)

385 The seven is slashed, like they do in the military (and like I still do).
Posted by: Bulg

I could understand doing it on a 6 or 9, but what is the purpose on a 7?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 09:43 AM (rYMt6)

Distinguishes it from a 1 with the little doohickey on top. And the doohickey distinguishes the 1 from a lower-case L. And a capital i has serifs so it doesn't look like a lower-case L

Because humans are lazy and like writing a vertical slash for a bunch of stuff, we have to complicate stuff.

Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (oZL1r)

386 @m: Check out the "Math Alarm" at #123 for a laugh.

If you've never seen The Kentucky Fried Movie, it's a real time-capsule of 70's humor.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (O7YUW)

387 386 @m: Check out the "Math Alarm" at #123 for a laugh.

If you've never seen The Kentucky Fried Movie, it's a real time-capsule of 70's humor.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (O7YUW)

Will do!

Posted by: m at November 26, 2025 11:06 AM (RuTUS)

388 123 *sounds the "MATH!" alarm*

https://youtu.be/qnTwMcr2srk
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 09:57 AM (O7YUW)

hahahaha!

Posted by: m at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (RuTUS)

389 23 The answer is "systemic racism."
Posted by: Ibram X. Kendi at November 26, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

LOL! I am late to the thread and y'all were particularly funny in it.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (RuTUS)

390 322 iron skillet, maple syrup and honey, citrus zest, spices optional. bourbon is open so... what the heck.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (R11M+)

391 It feels real but from a past age. Kid probably walked to school. He has to come up to the board and do this in front of the class so he is serious. The painting tells a story.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 26, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)

I get a definite Eastern Europe vibe from the clothes and the odd number-writing. He walked to school, in the snow.

One story bit further, there's probably a cork rifle in the coat room, used to protect little Piotr from the wolf on his way to and from school.

Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (oZL1r)

392 Um. No it didn't.
Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 10:34 AM (krQz2)

I have heard "lay an egg" as a euphemism for "fart".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (npFr7)

393 In certain styles of handwriting, 1 is written with an upstroke (see, there is still a vestigial bit of one in the typeset version) so as to get the ink flowing in the nib of your pen: it serves a purpose, which is why the seven must have a stroke - usually a horizontal one, but I have seen diagonal strokes as here, particularly in German influenced cultures.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 26, 2025 11:13 AM (tWxgu)

394 317 i beat the teacher's pet on the word "scheme." she hated me so added another word each. when we both got those she had to award me.
i beat the other teacher's pet on the tan bark. laughed at the saliva strand connecting his teeth. it wiggled in on the intake and out on the extake.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:13 AM (R11M+)

395 Also we in the USA usually put the operand in the lower left hand corner:

249
x 87
——-

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (tWxgu)

396 351 around here you just double the tax.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:18 AM (R11M+)

397 361 as was my friend peano.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:20 AM (R11M+)

398 I’m thankful for scotus. They’ve done a lot of good this year.

Not perfect, nobody is. But overall we’re lucky to have them in our corner.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (HW6XE)

399 384 get an oven. way simpler than hickory stick fire.

Posted by: cmeat at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (R11M+)

400 So what happens when you want a strong military? Well, then you're a "fascist", a "nationalist", even though the one national function you think we ought to have is one laid out in the "200-year-old piece of paper"
that still gets in the way of the "progress of the state".
Posted by: Axeman
=======
All of the social sciences are replete with bad data. That being said, never throw away data because it is bad--figure out a way to use the bad data in a probabilistic sense so as to separate the gold from the dross.

So the lazy fascist smear by leftists does not mean that fascism itself as a concept is invalid. Same with right or left as nominal markers of ideology. It is whether or not the data exists to support or not support the concept as applied to specific cases.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)

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