Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....

You just made me doubt my own (limited) math abilities.

I was all, but there are only six sides on a cube? Everything squared would then be the number x 6?

But now I get it.

I think this is incorrect, the way it was originally written, unless I'm misunderstanding? x^3 is the volume of a cube with sides of length x, not 6x?

(Also, I don't think you can have e.g. a cube with only two squares on each side.)

i think the post is trying to describe volume, in terms of a cube made up of smaller 1x1x1 cubes.

Ah

That Sturgeon’s Law also applies to recipes.

isn't the square/cube thing about dimensions?

Something squared is 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, etc.? Chess board is a square, so this fits. (8x8= 64)

But something cubed? That's 1x1x1, 2x2x2, 3x3x3, etc.

3-cubed is 27. So how do you divide that into 6?

Also, I'm old and stupid, let's keep that in mind.

a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube can be divided into 27 cubes of equal volume, i.e.

https://i.imgur.com/7k38Yel.jpg

when i was a kid I thought a condom was something you wore 24/7

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh xp

xp uh oh maybe I've been doing this wrong

lol

take a line of fixed distance (x)

to find out how much space is in a square made out of lines that length, you multiply x by itself; you are turning the line into a square; you are "squaring" it

to find out how much space is in a CUBE with edges that length, the operation required is the familiar one above; you are turning that line into a cube; you are "cubing" it

thus verbing is not the modern American phenomenon everyone says

gleaming the cube is in a more advanced module iirc

What is the diff between gleaming the cube and romancing the stone

danny devito

Calling Fotzepolitic a "old timey" song ;_;

As your bra gets older, graduate towards the inner hooks.

...that the literal/original meaning of the expression "no holds barred" is "with no restrictions on the manner in which you may grasp your wrestling opponent", not "with none of the storage rooms on the ship having been secured against opening".

Its metaphorical usage makes more sense to me now!

Yeah I'd never given that saying any thought either (re the other thread) and I had no idea it had anything to do with wrestling! Here its just used to mean "no limits".

So I wasn't being entirely ridiculous about that expression usage making me laugh.

What did ye think the Hulk Hogan movie was about like

freightage

on a wharf-bound hulk which is nevertheless incredible

That the Los Angeles Lakers didn't change their colors to purple and gold until after they left Minneapolis – which is still home to the purple-and-gold Minnesota Vikings.

And – irony of ironies – those colors really should belong to New Orleans anyway.

Just realized this evening that beyond the fact that he was a classic Love and Rockets character, the band Speedy Ortiz probably chose the name because it sounds very similar to Sadie Dupuis.

The past three posts seem to me to be not very shocking, no matter at what age one learned these things. I wouldn't even be shocked if someone never learned them at all.

nb: I'm not speaking of "no holds barred". I thought everyone knew that phrase referred to wrestling.

tbh it’s got a pretty wide reach for a culture that has an inherent degredarion of wrestling as a spectator activity

no holds barred has me shook tbh

um this is reaaaaaaaally dumb but

i didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floor

like
“you’re in room 415”
fourth floor, room 15

not the 415th room

i said it out loud & mr veg was like dude wut

That is shocking

I didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floor

this is also the case in apartment buildings

nb: I'm not speaking of "no holds barred". I thought everyone knew that phrase referred to wrestling.

What next, "Pulling your punches is from boxing? Woah!"

you might consider what the title of the thread is here.

zing

picturing Veg’s vacations becoming insanely easier now that she can look at the room number to determine floor instead of making a note what floor room 415 is on :)

it’s true!!

I had that same problem with house and blocks numbers when I lived in the US briefly. Like, "I live at number 2436, but there clearly aren't 2435 other houses on this street, what's going on????"

it came about watching tv: a character was looking for a guest in a tiny hotel & the manager said “hes in room 215” and I said “YEAH RIGHT. As if theres two hundred and thirty seven rooms in that teensy hotel” and Mr Veg said “Second floor. Room 15.” and i was like O_O

I've had epiphanies like that followed by a mental flashback montage, like on a tv show, of every time things would have made more sense if I had that information. It's jarring!

many years ago i was with the lovely emma b and she stopped to buy a memory card for her digital camera. i was like "what happened to the old one?" and she looked at me a second too long and said "it got filled up"

well, that's ONE approach...

lol <3

I had that same problem with house and blocks numbers when I lived in the US briefly. Like, "I live at number 2436, but there clearly aren't 2435 other houses on this street, what's going on????"

yeah when i was a kid (in england) i was amazed that the letters in the back of american comic books seemed to imply that people lived on streets with thousands of houses on them.

OK wait. They don't? Can someone explain the numbering system to me?

as an american the last few posts have made me think of 10 Downing street, 13 Privet Drive, and 221B Baker street in an entirely new light. Like damn, baker street must be long.

it's street number + house number. so if you live on or off, say, 53rd st., yr address might be 5312, or 5345, whatever. tbh can't say for sure what the second set of numbers denotes, assuming it's the house number but again those numbers often seem way too high for the neighborhood. damn im dumb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#North_America

Some areas are to do with how many miles they are from something, or the first number is specific to its block or plot (I'm sure my brother lives at 2345 whatever road he's on, and there's like 50 houses on it)

that's wrong in many cities

in mine, if you're on a north/south street, it's a numbered street and your house number is based on how many blocks north/south you are from a "union" street. So I'm on west 40th, eight blocks north of the "union" street, so my house number is 836 (these are fake numbers, you stalkers)

the houses on an east/west street north of me have numbers like 4012, meaning it's the sixth house down from 40th on the even side of the street (the sides are even/odd)