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Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
It's okay, dear Lynora. It pains me that we are on opposite sides in this, but we can't all like or be good at the same things, despite what some math teachers think.But....but....I like math! It's fun! And I'm good at it! Sorry, hon, but I'm going to have to side with the equational overlord this time. ;)I will stand against such mathematical tyranny! DEATH TO MATH!!!!!!!!!!GLORY TO THE CALCULLECTIVE.Blergh. More PbP mathematics to doI hate math. (Or it's not fond of me, either way,)
But I luvs me some PbP! :D
You may not realize this, but math is actually a sentient thought process lurking in the quiet minds of the world and plotting its eventual global dominance. And it really does hate you!
ALL HAIL OUR FUTURE EQUATIONAL OVERLORD!!
No,... NO!!!!
<Sits in corner, hands over his ears, rocking back and forth>
"Themathiscoming, themathiscoming, washawaythehorror,washawaythehorror,..."
Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
ox tail is a very important food in my culture. It's a staple. Cow foot soup was a regular meal for us too. I miss it so much.
Ouch, my brain has died and my eyes are following it...whoops.
Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
heheh,... Ewww?
My dad, (God rest his soul) got it into his head to plant a few things next to the house, (Not a proper garden mind you, he couldn't be bothered with all of that work) And for a year we had a few tomato plants, radishes, and something else, I forget what.
Now, decades later, you can STILL go out there and pull up radishes. Or dodge them when you mow that section of the yard, cuz the lawnmower yanks them out and throws them around. :)
They are like the old mint plant, you can't get rid of them! :)
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It's okay, dear Lynora. It pains me that we are on opposite sides in this, but we can't all like or be good at the same things, despite what some math teachers think.But....but....I like math! It's fun! And I'm good at it! Sorry, hon, but I'm going to have to side with the equational overlord this time. ;)I will stand against such mathematical tyranny! DEATH TO MATH!!!!!!!!!!GLORY TO THE CALCULLECTIVE.Blergh. More PbP mathematics to doI hate math. (Or it's not fond of me, either way,)
But I luvs me some PbP! :D
You may not realize this, but math is actually a sentient thought process lurking in the quiet minds of the world and plotting its eventual global dominance. And it really does hate you!
ALL HAIL OUR FUTURE EQUATIONAL OVERLORD!!
No,... NO!!!
<Sits in corner, hands over his ears, rocking back and forth>
"Themathiscoming, themathiscoming, washawaythehorror,washawaythehorror,..."
stand fast and firm, rags! Math cannot defeat us if we do not allow it to. It's tough but not invincible!
When you get to hell, tell them who sent you.
ox tail is a very important food in my culture. It's a staple. Cow foot soup was a regular meal for us too. I miss it so much.Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
I was never big on ox tail stew, but boy does it bring back memories. I'd like to make some.
Never had cow foot soup. Sounds gelatinous.
I do love turnips and parsnips diced in soups and stews, to add that bit of exotic, spicy crunch. Rutabaga is da bomb, though. Just mash it with butter and ground black pepper and I'm a happy camper.
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Rutabaga is my favorite vegetable. It's so delicious.
ox tail is a very important food in my culture. It's a staple. Cow foot soup was a regular meal for us too. I miss it so much.Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
I was never big on ox tail stew, but boy does it bring back memories. I'd like to make some.
Never had cow foot soup. Sounds gelatinous.
I do love turnips and parsnips diced in soups and stews, to add that bit of exotic, spicy crunch. Rutabaga is da bomb, though. Just mash it with butter and ground black pepper and I'm a happy camper.
it isn't. There's a chance it might be called something different in other culture. It's essentially the cows foot (not the hoof per se, but a bony and poor cut of beef, probably from the ankle) along with all the sort of throwaway vegetables uo might feed your slaves or the poor - lots of beans, carrots, celery, potatoes, pumpkin, etc. Boil it for hours and you're good to go. Spices include salt and pepper and whatever is handy.
t isn't. There's a chance it might be called something different in other culture. It's essentially the cows foot (not the hoof per se, but a bony and poor cut of beef, probably from the ankle) along with all the sort of throwaway vegetables you might feed your slaves or the poor - lots of beans, carrots, celery, potatoes, pumpkin, etc. Boil it for hours and you're good to go. Spices include salt and pepper and whatever is handy.
Ahh, so it's like ox tail stew. Some people do things with boiled hooves, so I was curious. Thank you. Now I have a yen to get out the slow cooker.
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It's okay, dear Lynora. It pains me that we are on opposite sides in this, but we can't all like or be good at the same things, despite what some math teachers think.But....but....I like math! It's fun! And I'm good at it! Sorry, hon, but I'm going to have to side with the equational overlord this time. ;)I will stand against such mathematical tyranny! DEATH TO MATH!!!!!!!!!!GLORY TO THE CALCULLECTIVE.Blergh. More PbP mathematics to doI hate math. (Or it's not fond of me, either way,)
But I luvs me some PbP! :D
You may not realize this, but math is actually a sentient thought process lurking in the quiet minds of the world and plotting its eventual global dominance. And it really does hate you!
ALL HAIL OUR FUTURE EQUATIONAL OVERLORD!!
No,... NO!!!
<Sits in corner, hands over his ears, rocking back and forth>
"Themathiscoming, themathiscoming, washawaythehorror,washawaythehorror,..."
stand fast and firm, rags! Math cannot defeat us if we do not allow it to. It's tough but not invincible!
When you get to hell, tell them who sent you.
<Stands back up, brings ships' Arcane Artillery to bear>
Compute THIS math!! ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!
Funny thing is, I remember eating a lot of roots (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips) as a kid because they were so very cheap. Now I go to pick up parsnips and get sticker shock. Same with oxtails. Trash has turned into treasure.
EDIT: Nekkid roots, tubers, and tails! Oh myyyyyy...
heheh,... Ewww?
My dad, (God rest his soul) got it into his head to plant a few things next to the house, (Not a proper garden mind you, he couldn't be bothered with all of that work) And for a year we had a few tomato plants, radishes, and something else, I forget what.
Now, decades later, you can STILL go out there and pull up radishes. Or dodge them when you mow that section of the yard, cuz the lawnmower yanks them out and throws them around. :)
They are like the old mint plant, you can't get rid of them! :)
That's pretty cool!
t isn't. There's a chance it might be called something different in other culture. It's essentially the cows foot (not the hoof per se, but a bony and poor cut of beef, probably from the ankle) along with all the sort of throwaway vegetables you might feed your slaves or the poor - lots of beans, carrots, celery, potatoes, pumpkin, etc. Boil it for hours and you're good to go. Spices include salt and pepper and whatever is handy.Ahh, so it's like ox tail stew. Some people do things with boiled hooves, so I was curious. Thank you. Now I have a yen to get out the slow cooker.
We used the pressure cooker in my household, we also made pig foot soup, pig tail soup, and chicken foot soup.
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It's okay, dear Lynora. It pains me that we are on opposite sides in this, but we can't all like or be good at the same things, despite what some math teachers think.But....but....I like math! It's fun! And I'm good at it! Sorry, hon, but I'm going to have to side with the equational overlord this time. ;)I will stand against such mathematical tyranny! DEATH TO MATH!!!!!!!!!!GLORY TO THE CALCULLECTIVE.Blergh. More PbP mathematics to doI hate math. (Or it's not fond of me, either way,)
But I luvs me some PbP! :D
You may not realize this, but math is actually a sentient thought process lurking in the quiet minds of the world and plotting its eventual global dominance. And it really does hate you!
ALL HAIL OUR FUTURE EQUATIONAL OVERLORD!!
No,... NO!!!
<Sits in corner, hands over his ears, rocking back and forth>
"Themathiscoming, themathiscoming, washawaythehorror,washawaythehorror,..."
stand fast and firm, rags! Math cannot defeat us if we do not allow it to. It's tough but not invincible!
When you get to hell, tell them who sent you.
<Stands back up, brings ships' Arcane Artillery to bear>
Compute THIS math!! ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!
I am taking that word.
It's okay, dear Lynora. It pains me that we are on opposite sides in this, but we can't all like or be good at the same things, despite what some math teachers think.But....but....I like math! It's fun! And I'm good at it! Sorry, hon, but I'm going to have to side with the equational overlord this time. ;)I will stand against such mathematical tyranny! DEATH TO MATH!!!!!!!!!!GLORY TO THE CALCULLECTIVE.Blergh. More PbP mathematics to doI hate math. (Or it's not fond of me, either way,)
But I luvs me some PbP! :D
You may not realize this, but math is actually a sentient thought process lurking in the quiet minds of the world and plotting its eventual global dominance. And it really does hate you!
ALL HAIL OUR FUTURE EQUATIONAL OVERLORD!!
No,... NO!!!
<Sits in corner, hands over his ears, rocking back and forth>
"Themathiscoming, themathiscoming, washawaythehorror,washawaythehorror,..."
stand fast and firm, rags! Math cannot defeat us if we do not allow it to. It's tough but not invincible!
When you get to hell, tell them who sent you.
<Stands back up, brings ships' Arcane Artillery to bear>
Compute THIS math!! ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!
I love it when a plan comes together.
Yum... Radishes.
I hated turnip as a child. I haven't eaten it in ages and I like to keep it that way.
Yum... Radishes.
I hated turnip as a child. I haven't eaten it in ages and I like to keep it that way.
I have it on good authority that turnips and radishes are the work of the devil.
I am taking that word.
<Stands back up, brings ships' Arcane Artillery to bear>
Compute THIS math!! ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!
It is a most excellent word.
You have my royal permission to use it.Seeing as how I stole, er BORROWED it from my favorite Nodwick comic ever. :)
Also: Disney is currently engaged in a not-so-subtle campaign to prepare us for the psychological impact of being conquered by talking animals and anthropomorphic turnips.
That reminds me, I have to load that on the new computer.Hm. How can I further procrastinate from completing my homework?Do you have Herolab? ;)
I like Herolab as a player, but I really love it as a GM!
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I can hear Bugs Bunny singing it.ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!I am taking that word.
YES! To 'Ride of the Valkyries'! :)
Good to see you, BP. Sorry to hear things have been rough. Are they settling down now?No Fill my life. Hey, I'm back for a post or two.
Sorry about the extended absence, but real life, job hunting, and unpaid medical bills makes for a poor substitute in the Pathfinder gaming scene.
So what's up and what's going on on the Paizo boards?
+1
F$@% my life.
Hang in there!
+1Good to see you, BP. Sorry to hear things have been rough. Are they settling down now?No Fill my life. Hey, I'm back for a post or two.
Sorry about the extended absence, but real life, job hunting, and unpaid medical bills makes for a poor substitute in the Pathfinder gaming scene.
So what's up and what's going on on the Paizo boards?
+2
And, suddenly, I swear I smell fresh-baked, chocolate chip cookies.
Ahhhh....
And, suddenly, I swear I smell fresh-baked, chocolate chip cookies.
Ahhhh....
*head scratch*
Did Alton Brown bake them?
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SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET!!!YES! To 'Ride of the Valkyries'! :)I can hear Bugs Bunny singing it.ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!I am taking that word.
<Gasp!> Spear and magic helmet?!
Are you walking in slow motion, or is the explosion in slow motion?
clearly, I got it the wrong way around.
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<Gasp!> Spear and magic helmet?!SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET!!!YES! To 'Ride of the Valkyries'! :)I can hear Bugs Bunny singing it.ABRACAPOCALYPSE!!!I am taking that word.
NORF WINDS BWOW!
SOUF WINDS BWOW!TYPHOONS!
HUWWICANES!
EARTHQUAKES!
SMOOOOOOOOOG!!!
Why all the math hate? I miss my math classes.... now I'm stuck writing essays about teaching.
Oh, hello Diablo 2, you fantastic procrastination game.
At least it's not the math proofs that are really essays in disguise. THAT was an evil class. Math people don't LIKE writing essays, we like solving problems. It was a class that the essay-writers would never take and the math people would hate.
Too... many... new... posts... (and still no Paizo-shipment, I knew adding those miniature singles was a bad idea).
I think a lot of the dislike for maths stems from the fact that the teachers who enjoy it tend to go for a career teaching at the higher grades, so for the first few years we're taught by people who themselves didn't enjoy maths at school, and unless you have a "natural" like for the subject, the idea that it's boring kinda rubs off on you.
(That's just based on my own time doing temp-work at various lower-grade schools, so might be it's totally different in other towns.)
It's math. It's very existence is a blight upon the land. Even those who purport it to be useful enough to "teach" to others realize this, and so resort to brute force through a combination of varied indoctrination(I don't care what your teacher taught you last year! Forget it! We're doing things my way!! EVERY YEAR FOR TWELVE YEARS) mind numbing drills meant to break down resistance(times tables! Write them over and over again until you memorize them! And if I catch you writing them on the test to help you, you fail!!), rote memorization(I don't care if you never use this a day in your life, you're going to memorize my one and only way to do it ! Don't ask me what you'll use [INSERT NAME OF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THEOREM HERE] for either you just need it to graduate this class!) and encouragement of social competition through unequal access to calculators and other tools(4th grade: you want to use a calculator? What are you, stupid? 9th grade: you don't know how to use a graphing calculator? What are you, stupid?) to "help" their students.
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You know you are proving that your hate of math comes from being exposed to math teacher that were more incompetent than usual?
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Got a little foam there, FHDM. *passes towel*
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Actually, It sounds like they were more competent than usual. ;P
I had a teacher that held me back in math for 5 years (private Jr/high school) forcing me to take 'basic' math over and over, never allowing me access to algebra or other courses that might have been interesting. And only after she left for my sr year did I get another math teacher. So I finally got to take Algebra, and made an A. ;P
Either way,
MATH IS EVIL! EVERYTHING YOU SAY TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE ONLY PROVES THAT YOU ARE A SLAVE TO THE MATH-MIND OVERLORD TRYING TO ENSLAVE US!
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It's math. It's very existence is a blight upon the land. Even those who purport it to be useful enough to "teach" to others realize this, and so resort to brute force through a combination of varied indoctrination(I don't care what your teacher taught you last year! Forget it! We're doing things my way!! EVERY YEAR FOR TWELVE YEARS) mind numbing drills meant to break down resistance(times tables! Write them over and over again until you memorize them! And if I catch you writing them on the test to help you, you fail!!), rote memorization(I don't care if you never use this a day in your life, you're going to memorize my one and only way to do it ! Don't ask me what you'll use [INSERT NAME OF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THEOREM HERE] for either you just need it to graduate this class!) and encouragement of social competition through unequal access to calculators and other tools(4th grade: you want to use a calculator? What are you, stupid? 9th grade: you don't know how to use a graphing calculator? What are you, stupid?) to "help" their students.
Also,... +1
:)
MATH IS EVIL! EVERYTHING YOU SAY TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE ONLY PROVES THAT YOU ARE A SLAVE TO THE MATH-MIND OVERLORD TRYING TO ENSLAVE US!
THERE IS NO OVERMIND. THERE IS NO SLAVELORD. CONTINUE ABOUT YOUR DAILY PROTOCOLS. GLORY TO THE MANY.
Got a little foam there, FHDM. *passes towel*
thank you, daffydduck was a hero to me back in the day.
Got a little foam there, FHDM. *passes towel*thank you, daffydduck was a hero to me back in the day.
You mean he is not one anymore?
You know you are proving that your hate of math comes from being exposed to math teacher that were more incompetent than usual?
more incompetent than usual? I must have won the incompetence lottery then, to get it for so many years in a row.
You mean he is not one anymore?Got a little foam there, FHDM. *passes towel*thank you, daffydduck was a hero to me back in the day.
I have to admit I have not been a fan of the recent cartoon network looney tunes show, but last night's exchange with daffy duck and porky pig had me weeping with laughter. They found a gigantic truffle in the Woods and were eager to sell it when they got back to civilization. Porky said he might use his share to buy a shirt, to which daffy responded with amazement that anyone could be so cheap. Porky pointed out daffy had been naked for years, but daffy said that was only because he loved his body.
Eventually they were chased into a tree by a bear, and when porky asked daffy to fly them to freedom, daffy responded that he wasn't that kind of duck. They attempted to outrun the bear, and ended up facing a long drop into a lake. Daffy said he couldn't swim, to which prompted porkyto aask him just what kind of duck he was anyway. Daffy responded with confusion, saying he wasn't too sure, pointing out that his beak came off pretty easily, removing it to prove his point.
Actually, It sounds like they were more competent than usual. ;P
I had a teacher that held me back in math for 5 years (private Jr/high school) forcing me to take 'basic' math over and over, never allowing me access to algebra or other courses that might have been interesting. And only after she left for my sr year did I get another math teacher. So I finally got to take Algebra, and made an A. ;P
Either way,
MATH IS EVIL! EVERYTHING YOU SAY TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE ONLY PROVES THAT YOU ARE A SLAVE TO THE MATH-MIND OVERLORD TRYING TO ENSLAVE US!
I used to tutor math for many years, helping my fellow math haters gain some degree of success against out shared foe. That said, +1. :-)
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WIV MY SPEAW AND MAGIC HEWWMET!!!
Maths is beautiful, lovely, wonderful, and what's more, it loves us. It cherishes us and wants us to be happy. It also wants us to do maths, which is the way it expresses its love for us all, its children. Maths loves us. We can do no less back.