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[alta-pete]

1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said:

3 month's garden leave FFS. Going to be bored shitless 

Schoolboy error. Should've handed in your notice in May.

[MSU]

4 hours ago, thistledo said:

What is the answer though? Asking for a friend 

How it came back to me. (x + 3)(x + 5) means multiplying x + 3 by x + 5 and the way we do that is by multiplying the components together and adding them all up. So (x + 3)(x + 5) can be written as (x * x) + (3 * x) + (5 * x) + (3 * 5), further expressed as x² + 3x + 5x + 15, and then finally summed to x² + 8x + 15. All of this is to describe or work out y. So if y = x² + 8x + 15, when x = 2 then y = 2² + 16 + 15, which equals 35. So the point (2, 35) is on the curve drawn by y = x² + 8x + 15. And if you take this information back to the original (x +3)(x + 5), if x is 2, then the answer to this becomes 5 * 7 which, as if by magic, is 35.

[scottsdad]

2 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

3 month's garden leave FFS. Going to be bored shitless 

Jeezo...what did you do to earn that?

[thistledo]

36 minutes ago, MSU said:

How it came back to me. (x + 3)(x + 5) means multiplying x + 3 by x + 5 and the way we do that is by multiplying the components together and adding them all up. So (x + 3)(x + 5) can be written as (x * x) + (3 * x) + (5 * x) + (3 * 5), further expressed as x² + 3x + 5x + 15, and then finally summed to x² + 8x + 15. All of this is to describe or work out y. So if y = x² + 8x + 15, when x = 2 then y = 2² + 16 + 15, which equals 35. So the point (2, 35) is on the curve drawn by y = x² + 8x + 15. And if you take this information back to the original (x +3)(x + 5), if x is 2, then the answer to this becomes 5 * 7 which, as if by magic, is 35.

 

I drew a graph, my answer was not 35, too embarrassed to post it now. Is it me or this too difficult a question for a school pupil? 

[mathematics]

32 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Is it me or this too difficult a question for a school pupil? 

It definitely you. PM me if you actually need guidance and I’m not just being trolled.

[thistledo]

No it's ok I think I get it. Thanks. I also think my graph is right now. 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

3 month's garden leave FFS. Going to be bored shitless 

Your garden will be looking lovely after that, shit time of year for it mind you.

[Hedgecutter]

Was seething inside earlier on today.  Went to drop off some decent quality furniture as a donation to the British Heart Foundation, but found an unmanned open door at the usual rear car drop off point.  

Nobody present there so I walked through the open door to see if anyone was around, and ended up in the store itself.  Said to one of the workers that I was looking to donate and was at the back, who said "I'll see you at the back, you'll need to go out the front door and around the side of the building". 

Bearing in mind it was genuinely tipping it down with rain outside at the time, I said "can I not just go with you the same way I came in?", fully expecting a "fair enough, follow me".  But no, the c**t had me walking out the front door and eventually getting back to the car half sodden.  Petty side of me wishes I'd given them f*** all and just used it for a bonfire.

[scottsdad]

Mice in my loft space, first time in years. 

Poison down now but the scratching wee fuckers are keeping me awake at night. 

[hk blues]

8 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Mice in my loft space, first time in years. 

Poison down now but the scratching wee fuckers are keeping me awake at night. 

Are you sure it's mice?

https://www.facebook.com/news.com.au/videos/insane-moment-three-giant-snakes-fall-from-ceiling-of-house/871966307392702/

[GordonD]

10 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Was seething inside earlier on today.  Went to drop off some decent quality furniture as a donation to the British Heart Foundation, but found an unmanned open door at the usual rear car drop off point.  

Nobody present there so I walked through the open door to see if anyone was around, and ended up in the store itself.  Said to one of the workers that I was looking to donate and was at the back, who said "I'll see you at the back, you'll need to go out the front door and around the side of the building". 

Bearing in mind it was genuinely tipping it down with rain outside at the time, I said "can I not just go with you the same way I came in?", fully expecting a "fair enough, follow me".  But no, the c**t had me walking out the front door and eventually getting back to the car half sodden.  Petty side of me wishes I'd given them f*** all and just used it for a bonfire.

I would have driven round the front, dumped the furniture out there and left him to carry it in himself.

[scottsdad]

10 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Was seething inside earlier on today.  Went to drop off some decent quality furniture as a donation to the British Heart Foundation, but found an unmanned open door at the usual rear car drop off point.  

Nobody present there so I walked through the open door to see if anyone was around, and ended up in the store itself.  Said to one of the workers that I was looking to donate and was at the back, who said "I'll see you at the back, you'll need to go out the front door and around the side of the building". 

Bearing in mind it was genuinely tipping it down with rain outside at the time, I said "can I not just go with you the same way I came in?", fully expecting a "fair enough, follow me".  But no, the c**t had me walking out the front door and eventually getting back to the car half sodden.  Petty side of me wishes I'd given them f*** all and just used it for a bonfire.

Get revenge by eating fried food, drinking beer, not exercising and enjoying breakfast kebabs. 

[Stellaboz]

10 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Was seething inside earlier on today.  Went to drop off some decent quality furniture as a donation to the British Heart Foundation, but found an unmanned open door at the usual rear car drop off point.  

Nobody present there so I walked through the open door to see if anyone was around, and ended up in the store itself.  Said to one of the workers that I was looking to donate and was at the back, who said "I'll see you at the back, you'll need to go out the front door and around the side of the building". 

Bearing in mind it was genuinely tipping it down with rain outside at the time, I said "can I not just go with you the same way I came in?", fully expecting a "fair enough, follow me".  But no, the c**t had me walking out the front door and eventually getting back to the car half sodden.  Petty side of me wishes I'd given them f*** all and just used it for a bonfire.

Was that the one in Glenrothes ? 

Edit: forget that, was another place I had issues with years ago

Edited November 3, 2023 by Stellaboz

[thistledo]

3 hours ago, scottsdad said:

Mice in my loft space, first time in years. 

Poison down now but the scratching wee fuckers are keeping me awake at night. 

Poison in traps? Dead mice are honking. 

[scottsdad]

9 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Poison in traps? Dead mice are honking. 

I probably have the corpses of dozens of them in the space directly above where I sleep. 

A friend of mine who is an archaeologist told me a story that he excavated a site somewhere in Africa where the war lord's house was built with the skulls of his enemies built into the walls. This is how I feel about it also. 

[thistledo]

3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

I probably have the corpses of dozens of them in the space directly above where I sleep. 

A friend of mine who is an archaeologist told me a story that he excavated a site somewhere in Africa where the war lord's house was built with the skulls of his enemies built into the walls. This is how I feel about it also. 

More or less the same. Gave me a chuckle in my tired state. 

[tamthebam]

5 hours ago, scottsdad said:

Mice in my loft space, first time in years. 

Poison down now but the scratching wee fuckers are keeping me awake at night. 

This country needs more barn owls. 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 hour ago, thistledo said:

Poison in traps? Dead mice are honking. 

NICE!!!

[Florentine_Pogen]

5 hours ago, scottsdad said:

Mice in my loft space, first time in years. 

Poison down now but the scratching wee fuckers are keeping me awake at night. 

[Venti]

Think Chrissie Hynde & PJ Harvey might be related.

Listen to their songs.