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Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

Pawl posted:

When did people start using the word "splash" as a unit of volume

"Just a splash of strawberries"

"I need a splash of salt"

Why did this happen

whats the difference between this and a 'pinch' or a 'smidge'

those are both measurements i've seen in real cookbooks and used myself.

e: yes, this post deserves to be at the top of the page

validate my excellent millennial posting hth

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# ? May 27, 2024 16:06

TheMostFrench: Jul 12, 2009; Stop for me, it's the claw!

symbolic posted:

what the gently caress

like i'm genuinely confused, do these kids not have clocks in their houses??

Since I moved out of home I haven't bought a clock and just look at my phone when I need to know the time, so now that I'm in that situation it doesn't seem so hard to believe. I do know how to read analog, though, since I grew up with them. Sometimes I still look up at the wall in my kitchen and think 'I need a loving clock there' like for when I cook stuff or I'm currently using the phone to for talking (I also don't have a house phone).

Picnic Princess posted:

http://imgur.com/UTXIMte

This is like when you like a band for their music so you decide to look up the members, and you just loving hate the look of all of them and it puts you off them entirely.

TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Mar 2, 2016

# ? Mar 2, 2016 09:54

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Jonny 290 posted:

i suppose asking them to be able to stack time zones/GMT on top of that is just completely out of the question

There are at least two who if you asked them this might say ".... what's a time zone?"

# ? Mar 2, 2016 10:22

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

this is a great read, well researched, empirically based, and scientifically confirms basically everything you already knew about millennials but to save time you can just read the cover

# ? Mar 2, 2016 12:04

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Every public school still has regular clocks on the wall right?

I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and digital clocks were already a thing, and yet we were still taught how to tell time in kindergarten.

Is it like cursive, in that it's just not taught? All the big hand little hand stuff?

# ? Mar 2, 2016 13:30

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

It should probably still be taught analog clocks are still pretty common fixtures all over the world... Also way simpler to teach than a new way to writr

# ? Mar 2, 2016 14:35

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

TheMostFrench posted:

Since I moved out of home I haven't bought a clock and just look at my phone when I need to know the time, so now that I'm in that situation it doesn't seem so hard to believe. I do know how to read analog, though, since I grew up with them. Sometimes I still look up at the wall in my kitchen and think 'I need a loving clock there' like for when I cook stuff or I'm currently using the phone to for talking (I also don't have a house phone).

microwaves have clocks. so do most ovens.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 15:07

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

This conversation comes up every twenty pages in this thread and it's always funny to me how dudes seem personally offended by clocks or something

Living that cyberpunk clockless life

# ? Mar 2, 2016 15:25

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

lol if your house doesn't look doc browns in regards to clocks

# ? Mar 2, 2016 15:51

Mr.Pibbleton: Feb 3, 2006; Aleuts rock, chummer.

I hope millennial fashion trends move to something more sensible like bringing these back.

radiatinglines posted:

This conversation comes up every twenty pages in this thread and it's always funny to me how dudes seem personally offended by clocks or something

Living that cyberpunk clockless life

I've got a wristwatch and the clock on my computer, that's it for timepieces. Looking forward to recording Johnny Mneumonic's broadcast on a VCR, I'll have to find one first though.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 17:09

gleebster: Dec 16, 2006; Only a howler; Pillbug

I know when the sun comes up and I know when the sun goes down. Anything else is the man trying to keep me under his thumb with his corporate railroad standard time.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 17:16

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

radiatinglines posted:

This conversation comes up every twenty pages in this thread and it's always funny to me how dudes seem personally offended by clocks or something

Living that cyberpunk clockless life

Peoples natural reaction to anything they don't understand is fear and anger.

Further topics of study include sexism, racism, homophobia, religion, etc.

What I don't understand is how anybody can not know how to tell time. Lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuL9WP8TJvw

Try a little self improvement, kids.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 17:43

Lufiron: Nov 24, 2005

gleebster posted:

I know when the sun comes up and I know when the sun goes down. Anything else is the man trying to keep me under his thumb with his corporate railroad standard time.

yeah because a sundial doesnt look like a clock at all

# ? Mar 2, 2016 17:49

Snatch Duster: Feb 20, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

lol

# ? Mar 2, 2016 17:57

Cacator: Aug 6, 2005; You're quite good at turning me on.

Snatch Duster posted:

lol

Are elementary school dropouts starting to code now?

# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:30

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Snatch Duster posted:

lol

Most programmers need to be told this because they don't teach modulus arithmetic in school. You learn long division in grade 4 or whatever but they never come back to it and tell you what the remainder is about.

If you work as a programmer eventually you will come across this, I have more than once:

A guy writes code that divides by 10, subtracts the whole number part, then multiplies by 10, casts to an integer, and then does a case statement, like this:

code:

function isOdd(num) {
	num = (float) (num / 10.0) - (int) (num);
	num = (int) (num *10.0);

	switch(num) {
		case 1,2,3,5,7,9:
			return true;
			break;
		case 0, 2, 4, 6, 8:
			return false;
			break;
	}
}

This is why computer folk are training their own replacements from countries that still teach math in school

# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:36

ranbo das: Oct 16, 2013

Lufiron posted:

yeah because a sundial doesnt look like a clock at all

# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:44

Snatch Duster: Feb 20, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

reallivedinosaur posted:

Most programmers need to be told this because they don't teach modulus arithmetic in school. You learn long division in grade 4 or whatever but they never come back to it and tell you what the remainder is about.

If you work as a programmer eventually you will come across this, I have more than once:

A guy writes code that divides by 10, subtracts the whole number part, then multiplies by 10, casts to an integer, and then does a case statement, like this:
code:
function isOdd(num) {
	num = (float) (num / 10.0) - (int) (num);
	num = (int) (num *10.0);

	switch(num) {
		case 1,2,3,5,7,9:
			return true;
			break;
		case 0, 2, 4, 6, 8:
			return false;
			break;
	}
}
This is why computer folk are training their own replacements from countries that still teach math in school

Or, you can memorize that 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are odd numbers hahaha.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:14

Day Man: Jul 30, 2007; Champion of the Sun!

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Snatch Duster posted:

Or, you can memorize that 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are odd numbers hahaha.

You having it memorized isn't the same as a computer being able to tell whether a number is odd or even. The thing was about how to code something that would be able to tell. I don't think this was someone trying to write a program just to tell them whether a number is odd or even. They probably needed it as part of a bigger program and needed the computer to do something based upon the answer.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:28

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

dont you dare turn this into a programming thread

# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:31

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Day Man posted:

You having it memorized isn't the same as a computer being able to tell whether a number is odd or even. The thing was about how to code something that would be able to tell. I don't think this was someone trying to write a program just to tell them whether a number is odd or even. They probably needed it as part of a bigger program and needed the computer to do something based upon the answer.

Check the source on enough websites and I promise you will find similar or the same code, or even stupider. Grids usually alternate colors for readability and such so simple odd/even or even Xth number tests are pretty common.

Even though there are CSS styles to handle it people just dont know and sometimes you just brute force your problem so you can get paid and go home. Unless you're getting paid by the hour who cares about textbook solutions.

Like sometimes it's not even that you're dumb, its just that you really don't care and tune out and are watching cartoons and typing on autopilot and just paste poo poo in from stack overflow, especially on website stuff.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:37

Snatch Duster: Feb 20, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Day Man posted:

You having it memorized isn't the same as a computer being able to tell whether a number is odd or even. The thing was about how to code something that would be able to tell. I don't think this was someone trying to write a program just to tell them whether a number is odd or even. They probably needed it as part of a bigger program and needed the computer to do something based upon the answer.

no clue what you just said but lol ok fam

# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:50

Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Theres an app for that

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:03

Wicker Man: Sep 5, 2007; Just like Columbus...; Clapping Larry

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Theres an app for that

All these apps and poo poo make me think of those computers from Idiocracy that just have very big, colored buttons with easy to recognize symbols on them to do stuff. No one knows how that poo poo works, just press the buttons.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:11

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

Mehrgol, 20, Student
The expression like a girl really bothers me, also I guess �like a boy.� I don�t like things that perpetuate stereotypes and I don�t like things that perpetuate traditional roles. Expressions like �be a man� �man up� �have some balls��those bother me because I think that they attribute strength of will and soul to one biological branch. In the same way, �do this� like a girl usually tends to have a negative connotation in our culture, like �run like a girl�� Sometimes I�ll stress something and�one of the boys will say that�s for girls, and I�ll say why? Why is that for girls? I don�t understand.
�And I want to make it clear, I�m not trying to school anyone�I don�t believe in indoctrination, I don�t believe in anything like that at all. I think people have a right to their own opinions and I definitely don�t want to force them to accept mine�I try to talk it out, try to understand where they�re coming from.
11 months ago #yma#millennial#Young Millennial Adult#pittsburgh#feminism#gender

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:38

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

the hell kinda name is Mehrgol

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:42

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Men and women two different biological branches.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:44

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

Darth123123 posted:

the hell kinda name is Mehrgol

sounds like some kind of evil elfish lord

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:53

FedEx Mercury: Jan 7, 2004; Me bad posting? That's unpossible!; Lipstick Apathy

Darth123123 posted:

the hell kinda name is Mehrgol

I'm guessing it started out as Marigold before it went through the retard concentration system that her parents have cobbled into a working mind.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:57

symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

Wedemeyer posted:

Mehrgol, 20, Student
The expression like a girl really bothers me, also I guess �like a boy.� I don�t like things that perpetuate stereotypes and I don�t like things that perpetuate traditional roles. Expressions like �be a man� �man up� �have some balls��those bother me because I think that they attribute strength of will and soul to one biological branch. In the same way, �do this� like a girl usually tends to have a negative connotation in our culture, like �run like a girl�� Sometimes I�ll stress something and�one of the boys will say that�s for girls, and I�ll say why? Why is that for girls? I don�t understand.
�And I want to make it clear, I�m not trying to school anyone�I don�t believe in indoctrination, I don�t believe in anything like that at all. I think people have a right to their own opinions and I definitely don�t want to force them to accept mine�I try to talk it out, try to understand where they�re coming from.
11 months ago #yma#millennial#Young Millennial Adult#pittsburgh#feminism#gender

grow some balls, Mehrgol

# ? Mar 2, 2016 21:58

always be closing: Jul 16, 2005

Gender: zuul

????

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:08

naem: May 29, 2011

(s)MeagOl

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:09

Rondette: Nov 4, 2009; Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.; Grimey Drawer

reallivedinosaur posted:

Peoples natural reaction to anything they don't understand is fear and anger.

Further topics of study include sexism, racism, homophobia, religion, etc.

What I don't understand is how anybody can not know how to tell time. Lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuL9WP8TJvw

Try a little self improvement, kids.

A very intelligent 34 year old friend of mine who is a university lecturer couldn't tell the time with an analogue clock. It was a real WTF moment for me. She'd just never been taught it or bothered to learn. I'm a couple of years older and I distinctly remember learning how to tell the time at Infant School, from these books.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:10

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

I was definitely taught clock reading and check writing in elementary school, and I'm only 27

In fact, the more I read SA the more impressed I am with my working class Dallas burb's public schools

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:22

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

Dighan, 16
I have friends around the world and that�s my favorite thing because it lets me know that there�s love everywhere. I realize that I�m really lucky because I don�t have to write a letter and wait ten months to hear back from them. I have people texting me now from around the world, and that�s amazing. I think being a millennial is about being with it, with technology and with the world, and trying to be as in it as possible and I think I find that in myself by surrounding myself with people who inspire me from everywhere.

McGarrah, 17
I like making videos. I think they�re a lot of fun. I�m trying to make a documentary right now about teenagers and growing up and the college process. I think growing up is very interesting�you get hardened when you grow up and a lot of times it�s a bad thing and innocence is bliss, and I identify with that�I think I�m trying not to grow up because that scares me.

D.S. Kinsel, 29, is a native Pittsburgh artist
What advice would you give to millennials who are struggling?
Welcome to the real world. Welcome to real America.
So no sympathy?
gently caress no. gently caress no. No. Welcome to real America.
So what part of the term �millennial� do you buy into or don�t you buy into?
I mean I know it�s bad out here, but it�s been bad out here. But you can get it so many different ways now. And there�s money specifically for who you are, like you can justify someone funding you for support for who you are and that�s beautiful. Ask your grandmother about a grant. Ask your grandmother about a small business loan or about an incubator program or an investor. Come on man, for real.

Paul, 28, Marketing Coordinator
Well I guess I can tell you: I initially started doing drag and there was a part of me that ventured into potentially trans territory. I still day to day just go out presenting as male but there�s a concerned side of me that wonders if there�s something more than that and there is an intense gender fluidity that I have and that causes a lot of distress internally, especially with work. For anyone who is trans, the statistical likelihood of having difficulties with employment grows. Taking on that risk for me is horrifying.

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:27

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Darth123123 posted:

the hell kinda name is Mehrgol

Her grandma was an orc, don't judge

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:41

Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Any functioning adult brain should grasp an analogue clock after 30 seconds of exposure to one

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:47

ChesterJT: Dec 28, 2003; Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

Oh my God where are you finding this millennial gold?

# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:52

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

My roommate had a mini-meltdown of our rent increasing $50 per person/month.

He just bought a $180 ticket to a 2-day music festival. Eats out all the time. Complains about money.

:downs:

# ? Mar 2, 2016 23:08

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# ? May 27, 2024 16:06

Furia: Jul 26, 2015; Grimey Drawer

Wedemeyer posted:

McGarrah, 17
I like making videos. I think they�re a lot of fun. I�m trying to make a documentary right now about teenagers and growing up and the college process. I think growing up is very interesting�you get hardened when you grow up and a lot of times it�s a bad thing and innocence is bliss, and I identify with that�I think I�m trying not to grow up because that scares me.

I like making documentaries.

The effects of gentrification in zones with largely immigrant habitants in developed nations? gently caress no. I want to make a documentary about me

Me me meeeeeeeeeeeeee

# ? Mar 2, 2016 23:15

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