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Yabbadabba...D'OH!

Sounds like a faulty hire alarm.

Sex tourist, IMO.

Apology accepted.

Ooft! It was a simple observation - I didn't mean to trigger you into such an ad hominem rant. Although I can't say I'm entirely disappointed.

Thanks for that tip. VirginTON appears to be pathologically unable to admit his simple error, and apologize to mathematics. His tactic of playing the men (who are... simply correct on a point of fact) is intriguing: maybe he knows that this is beyond parody, so he can have a free hit at "nerds", "Poindexters" or, as they are usually known, "numerate people".

It sounds like the album is a metaphor for a w**k.

As Dorothy Parceur once* asked, "Quelle fraîche hell est celle?" * by which I mean "never"

Speaking of the Big C, what does DNA stand for?

"Cockerel to brain: cockerel taking over!"

It's pretty obvious what she's been peppard with.

In so many spheres, for example sports skill acquisition and languages, everyone accepts that immersion and repetition have roles to play; but rote learning in arithmetic and maths is vilified. Being "very comfortable with numbers" (numerate++) removes barriers from tackling exercises in calculus, trig and anything involving algebra: just having the confidence to throw terms around, see factors (for example, when factirorizing to find roots), and sanity-check solutions and intermediate steps. At the end of 5th year, before the school-year end, our cohort moved classroom and teacher to begin (we supposed) our CSYS maths syllabus. But for the next 3 weeks, all we did was solve sheets of much harder algebra problems. Our teacher's view was that most people could make it through Higher maths without being slick at the tools of the trade; but proper maths needed more fluency. I don't think there was anyone in that group who didn't manage a "good A" at higher; yet only one person (not me) really owned the pre-CSYS sheets. Not everyone who is really good at maths has to be good at arithmetic, but I suspect there's a fairly high correlation; and algebra is needed for almost all "other" maths, and for science and engineering in turn. There is a disturbing new trend for educated people to whine on the side that used to be the province of the proudly anti-educational: advocating not teaching anything that is not immediately applicable to all in everyday life. A lecturer friend made me spit out my beer by calling this (after a shared experience, in discussion with another friend) "faux Utilitarianism". I actually said to him, "My team: Patrick Thistle". The general concept always reminds me of the maths teacher being asked in class, "An I ever going to use any of this stuff?"; and the teacher replying, "Probably not, but some of the smarter kids might." Tl;dr I feel quite strongly that both rote and abstract reasoning are important tools for progressing with anything that involves maths; and I feel that associating the study of maths with only (or primarily) immediate utility is limiting and damaging. Stl;sdr Stay in school, kids, and do the hard sums.

Username checks out.

See also: “les doigts de pied”.

Username checks out.

My buddy is engaged to a Siobhain, and calls her “Shug”. Brave man.

Another neighbour, Jane Hammond, said: 'No comment. This is absolutely ridiculous.' Make your mind up, Jane.

What, you think they come from the same magical animal?

That's a bad fracture.

There's a "wid ah come and pump?" joke here, but I'm too lazy to work it out properly.

MacLeod's was excellent for decades. Don't know if it's still owned by them. A scion of the family was Provost of St Andrews quite recently. That's a step down IMHO.

I’ve just read the equivalent article in the Record. The locals are definitely correct - which is surprising, as she reckons they should be “grateful”.

Yes, of course their focus is on the British team. Rangers should definitely be the subject in that headline sentence. The idea that they were looking to "find [an] opener" at that stage seems quite inaccurate, given the stats. I don't see what's wrong with reflecting the actual game in the reporting (in fact, I suppose that's what this thread is about). "Rangers resisting Sparta pressure" would have been ideal. It's quite similar to the almost standard headline the BBC use when either Celtic or Rangers gets a late equaliser in the league, and are described as having been "held to a draw".

Then let me make it clearer. When I went onto the website for a quick check on the game, the headline was about Rangers finding an opener. A glance at the stats showed that Sparta had taken 16 shots to 2 at that point. On reflection, it seemed to me that the headline was telling a different story to the stats. That level of journalism appears quite poor to me.

A snapshot taken sometime during the second half. Great effort from those stuffy Czech Republic minnows to hold out to the end.