Pet Peeve rants.

The difference between 'fewer' and 'less' - I'm not one to correct people over it, but I hear them misused and my mind cringes.
If I haven't already mentioned it, people who cross qualifiers. That is, people who say things like "twice as small" or "one-third as slow."

--Patrick
 
So now the SJW clowns have decided Weird Al's Word Crimes is racist, because it's championing "rich white man's English" as a tool of oppression.
 

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The Staters of the Obvious. The people who waste meeting time suggesting something that really is the same thing already suggested or the only way it could really be conceivably be done. Or asks questions that were core concepts of the presentation. Usually it feels like it's done to establish intellectual superiority. But it's really just an irritating time waster.
 
The Staters of the Obvious. The people who waste meeting time suggesting something that really is the same thing already suggested or the only way it could really be conceivably be done. Or asks questions that were core concepts of the presentation. Usually it feels like it's done to establish intellectual superiority. But it's really just an irritating time waster.
I recently read a tweet saying, "Help I'm trapped in a meeting with no agenda and people who process externally." And I thought, "Yeah, that is basically every meeting I have had to attend."
 
"Yeah, that is basically every meeting I have had to attend."
"Ok, so I have this idea, and I'm not saying it's mine, but I just thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone else has had the same idea..."
ARGH JUST GROW A SPINE AND HAVE A STANCE ALREADY

...and I've never even been in a meeting environment in my professional life.

--Patrick
 

GasBandit

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I just double checked the hall of Meh (ech I hate going over there) and sure enough the last post in Rant III was in 2009 what are you smokin?

Edit - oh, I see, you're talking about the minor rant thread :p
 
Okay I know I'm on a web-comic slant I don't care, web-comics that advertise that they are free. News flash- SO ARE 98 PERCENT OF WEB COMICS!
 
Undergrads are back which means jaywalking sonsofbees darting out in front of my car. If I ever hit one, I will yell at them until the ambulance arrives.
 


Nah, it's just the same 13 episodes they've been playing on Teletoon for the last decade.
I hate you because you made me miss "Undergrads" all over again. And it's very hard to find in the States. :(

(Okay, I don't hate you, but...*sniff*)
 
Here's one. I post on my Facebook about how Apple making my unplug my phone and the battery dies and blah blah blah my whole rant about my trip to the Apple Store to get a new battery. No less than 3 people then post to my Facebook telling me that I might be eligible for the battery recall if I am having battery issues. I mean seriously? Is it that hard to read my post and figure out that I clearly already know about it?
 
People who bitch about the new way of teaching something being confusing when the actual problem is neither they nor their children read the directions & examples.
 

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I wish people would shut up about the new core math. I like it. Yes, it's slower, but it teaches the "why" rather than just a set of rote rules. If they want their kids to do any sort of science or engineering, they need to know that. It's critical for developing new knowledge.
 

Cajungal

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I wish people would shut up about the new core math. I like it. Yes, it's slower, but it teaches the "why" rather than just a set of rote rules. If they want their kids to do any sort of science or engineering, they need to know that. It's critical for developing new knowledge.
This is what I say when people take a problem out of context and whine about it. Of course it looks overly complicated to people who were taught a mathematical procedure without the reasoning behind it. But that "why" is so crucial. We do not have to follow common core here, but a lot of the spirit of it is here--the rigor, the whys, etc.
 
Truthfully I think if you read over the lessons or even the instructions for the homework sheets, it is not that hard. Drawing blocks in stacks of 10 is not rocket science. Neither is translating 40 + 6 into a series of those blocks. People act like their kids are being taught some alien language from deep space.
 
Truthfully I think if you read over the lessons or even the instructions for the homework sheets, it is not that hard. Drawing blocks in stacks of 10 is not rocket science. Neither is translating 40 + 6 into a series of those blocks. People act like their kids are being taught some alien language from deep space.
Well.... from Kenya.
 
t it teaches the "why" rather than just a set of rote rules.
I think this is what I like most about it. You can see how the math skills are scaffolding from rock bottom basics to more involved concepts. Rote learning has a place, but it doesn't give you the true understanding of how math works and why things are done a certain way.[DOUBLEPOST=1409346120,1409345912][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well.... from Kenya.
Thanks Obama!
 
I wish people would shut up about the new core math. I like it. Yes, it's slower, but it teaches the "why" rather than just a set of rote rules. If they want their kids to do any sort of science or engineering, they need to know that. It's critical for developing new knowledge.

I flipping love core math. It's almost identical to how I taught myself to do math when I was a kid.
 

GasBandit

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What is this "Core Math?" Is it really all that different from

Code:
 47
 x3
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141
 
 
"Seven times 3 is 21, write down the 1, carry the 2, 4 times 3 is 12, add the carried 2 to get 14, write it down."

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GasBandit

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40 x 3 = 120
7 x 3 = 21
120+21 = 141
So it's just doing it from left to right instead of right to left?

These people would probably crap themselves if they found out how I mentally do math.

"47 is close to 50, which is easier to multiply. 50 times 3 is 150, minus 3 times 3, which is 9, so 141."

Of course, it's really been years since I had to actually do any arithmetic by hand.
 
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