I'm NOT Smarter Than A 5th Grader

Aug 28, 2010 00:47

A while back I decided to be handy around the house and build a new screen to the bedroom window ( Read more... )

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mefilmgal August 28 2010, 19:19:23 UTC
this is hilarious and i can see that "infuriating grin". LOL! Don't feel bad though. I would have done exactly what you did!

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joscobo August 28 2010, 19:53:12 UTC
This is why I've never trusted Math People.

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gnosticelf August 28 2010, 23:02:49 UTC
You at least had the temerity to actually try and work the fractions out yourself. I'd have just looked at them, cried for a bit, and then pulled out a hacksaw and some duct-tape and found some way to make the damn thing fit into the window regardless of silly measurements.

And "wife?" Holy Mother Goddess, when did you and T actually get married? Pffft, and you call yourself a loser. Riiiiiight. ;-)

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germanmouse August 31 2010, 10:07:14 UTC
Hehe, that's why I love the metric system we're using over here ... ;-)
(Even though I once was good at maths, but hey, that's been more than 20 years ago, and I've never had to use that sort of calculations ever since ...)

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joscobo August 31 2010, 16:53:40 UTC
Many years ago in the early 1970's I was starting school. I remember very clearly in first and second grade the teachers giving lessons on the metric system because the US would be converting to it by 1980. There was a push to get with the rest of the world and adopt the metric system. Heck one of our most celebrated founding fathers wanted to back in 1776.

As a kid I learning fractions and the metric system I was elated that one day this great nation would be rid of the old, outdated and confusing fractions. Well I had to learn that this is America and American's don't take to new things very well. No one in the US is going to learn something new.

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