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“Fit one o’ ye wood nae gi’ it a’ fur a sekond chans tae cum heer an sae “Ye mae tak oor guns, but ye wull neivir taek oor freedum!!”?
The Scots: talking bollocks since – well, forever, really.
But it’s still a bad idea to get on a highlander’s bad side! (That’s the underside btw, especially if they haven’t washed in a while)
Or the side that’s pointing a weapon at you!
Depends if they’re pointing a sword at me and I have an Uzi, I wouldn’t mind.
You might if it was the true Scotsman in his kilt – no weapon would protect you against that one, ILPB!!!
I miss your flowers.
Yeah.
Ditto
Fourthed…
Fifth-ed. *hic* What?
Me too.
I chased away the pretty flowers.
Seventh..
the ”problem” has been resolved . . .
Yay! Do you need any help hiding the bodies?
Yay! You’re back!
LB, Nika and Maggie miss your flowers too.
Well, I can tell this is going to be a horrible day for Pk…
Oh yeah. Third.
The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized. A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. It uses its own jargon and washes its own laundry. It is chiefly characterized by comment on comments, the swelling spiral of commentary eventually reaching the point where the real world gets lost.
Sadly often true in my experience. I can understand being not deeply educated in science, math and technology, because no person can be deeply educated in all things. But I am truly distressed to find that some of my colleagues are ‘proudly’ anti-science and/or mathematics.
One thing I like about science and math — no worries about deconstructionism or post-modernism or subaltern perspectives.
Sorry, when I said “science”, I should have specified the non-social sciences, as in physics, biology, chemistry, geology….
Psst… those of us in math and the ‘real’ sciences call them other sciences ‘soft sciences.’
Actually, you CAN have a lot of rigor in the soft sciences, it’s just that they allow a lot of non-rigorous work because so many things can’t be rigorously tested due to having those pesky humans involved. Scientific American had a nice article about a year ago about pop psychology and its lack of scientific rigor.
I can’t decide if the social sciences are the squishy sciences, given their soft-ness, or if Biology should be the ‘squishy’ science…for more basic reasons. Opinions?
Ooo, I like biology as the squishy science. I will have to tell my son’s biology teacher that.
But then, what will the social sciences be? The wispy ones? The liquid sciences?
Malleable?
But hard to grasp. The gaseous sciences?
The *let us run a 25 year double blind longitudical study to explain that extramarital affairs cause jealousy and other self-evident phenomena* sciences.
A few years ago on the news they announced a study finding a link between TV, fast food….and are you ready for this? Obesity!
Who would have thought…that needed a study to be realized?
The “people sciences”?
I’m anti math. I’m terrible at it. Hrmpth.
Though, to get my Chemistry degree I have to learn something called “Vector Calculus”.
Down with math!
But maths is awesome, I like things like the Golden Ratio and by extension the Fibonacci Sequence and how it appears in almost everything we see in nature.
What I don’t get is how these ‘intellectuals’ can call themselves intellectual, the very definition of intellect is “the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel or to will”. ‘Intellectuals’ don’t know sh*t therefore they don’t deserve the term
I think in order to be earn the term intellectual in todays society one must show a depth of knowledge that encompasses all subjects enough to be able to argue both for and against a point made in any given subject.
Not too hard is it?
I fully agree. The problems is that anyone earning a college degree these days thinks that they are an intellectual. They may be able to earn this ‘qualification’, but it waters down the meaning of the term intellectual.
PS: I am all knowing
I’m sorry, and I know what you’re saying, but I really am terrible at math. I always have been. It confuses me and frustrates me and I have failed many math classes in my life.
In the fortunate times that I have had a good teacher or tutor I can “get” enough of it to pass the tests, but it never really sticks. I’ve taken pre-algebra countless times and regular algebra twice. I took a “Quantitative Literacy” course, which I managed a “B” in, but I have yet to tackle anything really on the college level.
The most frustrating thing is when I finally think I “get” it, I usually find out that no I don’t, I don’t understand it at all. It upsets me and I find it hard to want to continue at all. I want my Chem degree very badly, but I know that this means years of frustrating “F” or “D” grades that will bring down my GPA and upset my self-esteem.
I plan to get my Psych degree first so I can begin working in the field that I eventually want to be in while I very slowly work towards my Chem degree. But I get all tingly with dread every time I think about the sheer amount of math I need to slog through to get there.
So, I mean, really. That’s great that you guys all love math and are good at it, but I’m not. So I don’t like the subject.
Aw. *hugs Charro* Algebra = arithmetic with letters. I understand your frustration, though. I taught many returning students whose biggest hindrance to entering university was math. If someone who dropped out of school in 6th grade can do it, I think you can.
ALGEBRA HAS IMAGINARY NUMBERS! IMAGINARY! I cried when I found that out! As if the numbers and letters weren’t bad enough, they had to MAKE UP NUMBERS! Then, there’s all those weird cosigns and other stuff that I don’t get… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *hyperventilates*
C, I don’t remotely want to discourage you, but if you don’t like math, Chem seems an odd choice of majors. For my undergrad, in addition to classes in my major, I had to do 2 semesters each of chemistry and physics, and physics I swear had less math!
Yeah, it does. I know. I had to take a “hard science” for my ever useful Philosophy degree and I chose Chem. I loved it, despite my math handicap.
I want to go into research. I want to research drugs. The combination of Psychology/Chemistry I feel will advance me in that pursuit; with what I want to do in research. Also, it furthers some of my ulterior motives..
I have a friend going into neuroscience for the sole purpose of creating new drugs, not necessarily the sort that are um, strictly speaking, helpful…or legal….You two may want to talk….
That’s very diplomatic of you. And IN NO WAY OBVIOUS.
*is the master of subtlety*
Have you seen the TV series called Numbers? It is FBI/action/mathematical story. You might want to start with Season 1 on netflicks. It might help you get in a good frame of mind for your Vector Calculus
Ooooooooooooooo….I love Numbers.
Uh, first I have to get past College Algebra.. Then Trig.. And regular Calculus.. And some Physics.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ohh! Physics is Phun! *is weird*
phorreal.
*cries* Charro hates me!
I didn’t to terribly well in linear algebra, so I kept taking courses until I got an ‘A’. The last of which was modern algebra AKA how many dimensions can we solve a problem in, using vectors? The teacher was AWESOME!
Awesomeness of teachers definitely correlates to interestingness of subject. Oh, poop. The better the teacher, the more interesting the subject. My son didn’t like history at all until he went to his current school, where they have AWESOME history teachers.
In high school I took all the way up to AP Calculus. After taking a college calc class my freshman year of college, I never took another math class. Now I can barely add two digit numbers together. Somewhere along the line I lost my confidence in my ability to do math well.
I don’t hate you.. just math. It hurts mah brane.
Get on with it! YEAH!!! GET ON WITH IT!!!!
*Can’t even come up with another comment to express her disappointment in the lack of LOL that has been happening recently…
*Gives up and goes back to work.
I like the one captioned ” No more EWAdams on the front page! ” as a group rant…
I think you’re a little obsessed.
*bites and hugs* I am sure there is some funny left, we just need to find it, beat it into submission, and… Ummm… I think fire might be involved. I can’t remember.
Let’s go back to that part about beating into submission …
*grabs flogger* I see you have been very bad and need discipline.
No not the flogger please no anything but the flo — *purrs*
*beats some respect into you*
You know the recipe; you’re supposed to beat until you get stiff peaks.
And here I was planning for some lashing, some thrashing, and then flesh clashing with some licking, flicking, and heavy sticking for follow up…
I suppose I could stop after stiff peaks have been found if you prefer. XD
Oh, the coq au vin is best in a slow cooker; you add copious amounts of cream, but only at the end.
Fair enough, I’ll put cream in the end.
…looks more like the Samba to me.
Personally I prefer the Bunny Hop.
*Public Service Announcement*
Bunny Hop with automatic weapons could be dangerous to your health.
OK, I read that and immediately started thinking:
(Bunny-hop tune) Dah-dadadada, dah-dada, Dah-dadadada, *bang, bang, bang* Uh-oh….
You know, there ARE funny LOLs out there. They’re few and far between, but they’re out there. So why are we getting this sh!t?
Number 5 no see sh*t…..
Johnny 5 is ALIVE!!!
*sings* Who’s Johnny, she said. And smiled in her special way!
Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too?
Your mother is a snow blower!
I must have seen that movie about 1000 times as a kid.