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
Pet Peeve rants.
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--Patrick
Damn straight, eat the damn celery and carrots straight up that's what I say! Unless they've been in the ground too long, then you destroy the carrots and save yourself the nastyness.
This may be the funniest thing to come out of an already funny song.
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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.
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."
"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
You know what bugs me? The fact that people still post in the Rant III thread when we're all the way up to Rant VIII 
https://www.halforums.com/threads/minor-rant-iii-for-a-few-hollers-more.26646/page-186#post-1149694
Ok, so maybe one's only for "minor rants". Still, every time I see that III pop up, i'm like waaargarrble!
Ok, so maybe one's only for "minor rants". Still, every time I see that III pop up, i'm like waaargarrble!
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 had 3 do it at one intersection.
Because they are lemmings. One jumps - they all do.
I hate you because you made me miss "Undergrads" all over again. And it's very hard to find in the States.
Nah, it's just the same 13 episodes they've been playing on Teletoon for the last decade.
(Okay, I don't hate you, but...*sniff*)
Barf scenes, without splash sound-effects! Isn't believable otherwise.
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?
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Yep, you can stop there.
--Patrick
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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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.
Well.... from Kenya.
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]
Thanks Obama!
I flipping love core math. It's almost identical to how I taught myself to do math when I was a kid.
Movie trailers that have pop-songs in them, that are NOWHERE in the movie.
40 x 3 = 120
7 x 3 = 21
120+21 = 141
7 x 3 = 21
120+21 = 141
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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.