I used to work on a deli. Someone ordered an eighth pound of meat (which is like nothing and nobody ever did this). My coworker asked me if that meant .8 on the scale.
The American education system (for my old millennial ass)
“Memorize this. No I will not explain how it works or why. Memorize it take the test and leave me alone.”
Me who is physically incapable of memorizing seemingly arbitrary stuff and needs to understand for it to stick: I guess fuck me then huh? 1/4 pounder it is!
The hungry alligator eats the bigger number.
“Somehow it’s ok for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
It’s been this way for a long time now unfortunately.
In my eyes, if you don’t understand 1/3 > 1/4, then ya might as well be an illiterate dolt. It’s one of the first things you learn in school along with reading. Might as well consider your self a primary school dropout.
Chuckle? Hell I know full grown adults in their fifties who wear their mathematical ignorance as a badge of pride!
It’s like they’re clinging to their youth so desperately, that they continue on with the high school trope that only nerds who are undeserving of social interaction know math.
Meanwhile, they also tend to continuously moan online how broke they are - inevitably from decades of poor financial decisions that landed them under a mountain of usurious debt with double digit compounding interest.
They also like to get grammatically pedantic on the regular to show off their superior language skills - usually when they’ve got nothing of value to contribute to the conversation or they know they’ve been bested, so better point out those autocorrect errors.
Feels like you’ve a specific person in mind.
Specific people. Plural. But yes, real life acquaintances are referenced.
Troll gave it away by calling them “signs”
I once had a mortgage advisor point at a more than sign and go “is that more or less? I never can remember”
Like, why did you get into this job? I ended up not taking his advice.
The crocodile mouth wants to face the bigger number
i know the guy on discord and he was actually put into a book as well
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What are those words
A very strange and esoteric language called Dutch.
Isn’t that what they speak in the Netherlands? Dutchland? Everybody online who’s from Europe says it doesn’t exist, and nobody lies on the internet. That’s how the Europeans can be sure that we’re telling the truth when we tell them that Ohio doesn’t exist.
Ohio doesn’t exist.
That’s a good start at least.
