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Title: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 23, 2012, 05:35:19 PM: I mean ... isn't that a weird thing for people to generally be able to do? Don't you agree?
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Post by: Cindi Mayweather on May 23, 2012, 05:36:50 PM: with this logic it should be weird that people can read at all!
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Post by: Takao on May 23, 2012, 05:41:44 PM: I think it's weird that you think this is weird.

A lot of older buildings (namely schools) still use hands based clocks, as do many watches.

If anything, I want to know if kids still learn cursive writing.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 23, 2012, 05:47:11 PM: Isn't it weird that people can drive cars? I mean, what's up with that!
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Post by: Brehvolution on May 23, 2012, 06:05:39 PM: Quote from: Takao on May 23, 2012, 05:41:44 PM

If anything, I want to know if kids still learn cursive writing.

Yes
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 23, 2012, 06:18:51 PM: It's weirder that you still can't make a decent thread.
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Post by: Cindi Mayweather on May 23, 2012, 06:21:25 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 23, 2012, 05:47:11 PM
Isn't it weird that people can drive cars? I mean, what's up with that!

(http://i.imgur.com/1Smtd.jpg)
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Post by: Tasty on May 23, 2012, 06:33:26 PM: Do Japanese kids learn cursive? Oscar, fill me in.
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Post by: Momo on May 23, 2012, 07:18:24 PM: Isn't it weird how we as a species didnt think it was important enough to pass down the knowledge of who and how the pyramids were built or how the mayans used advanced metal smelting to make metal links to keep their bricks together yet every kid on this planet knows the contents of Kim Kardashian's latest tweet?
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 23, 2012, 07:24:58 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 23, 2012, 05:35:19 PM
I mean ... isn't that a weird thing for people to generally be able to do? Don't you agree?

I know! I've spent years of my life staring at the things in dumb incomprehension. I'm late a lot too.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 23, 2012, 08:49:42 PM: I learned how to write cursive in 2nd grade, was forced to use it in 3rd grade, stopped using it forever in 4th grade.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 23, 2012, 08:54:07 PM: Isn't it weird that people can do sentence diagrams in cursive?
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Post by: Huff on May 23, 2012, 09:16:18 PM: They've actually stopped teaching cursive in schools as far as I know. Or schools are at least starting to phase it out
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 23, 2012, 09:51:17 PM: Quote from: Momo on May 23, 2012, 07:18:24 PM
Isn't it weird how we as a species didnt think it was important enough to pass down the knowledge of who and how the pyramids were built or how the mayans used advanced metal smelting to make metal links to keep their bricks together yet every kid on this planet knows the contents of Kim Kardashian's latest tweet?

Isn't it weird that people think that if something is really old it must be really important, but dismiss the ability to stream information across the planet in ways that would seem like science fiction or magic just a generation ago as common and unimportant?
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on May 23, 2012, 09:57:58 PM: Quote from: Huff on May 23, 2012, 09:16:18 PM
They've actually stopped teaching cursive in schools as far as I know. Or schools are at least starting to phase it out

Good. We were taught cursive in the second grade, being told that this is the way adults write, but after elementary school nobody ever required it.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Cormacaroni on May 23, 2012, 10:08:16 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on May 23, 2012, 09:51:17 PM
Quote from: Momo on May 23, 2012, 07:18:24 PM
Isn't it weird how we as a species didnt think it was important enough to pass down the knowledge of who and how the pyramids were built or how the mayans used advanced metal smelting to make metal links to keep their bricks together yet every kid on this planet knows the contents of Kim Kardashian's latest tweet?

Isn't it weird that people think that if something is really old it must be really important, but dismiss the ability to stream information across the planet in ways that would seem like science fiction or magic just a generation ago as common and unimportant?

Yeah! Who wants to build more pyramids anyway
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Post by: Huff on May 23, 2012, 10:17:34 PM: Who needs to learn how to write anyway? Just learn how to push buttons on a screen
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Post by: Cormacaroni on May 23, 2012, 10:27:51 PM: As a parent tasked with helping their kid learn to write Japanese on top of English, I'm totally down with that. Anything you lack in terms of manual dexterity can surely be made up by learning a musical instrument (which she is doing anyway)
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Post by: Vizzys on May 23, 2012, 10:49:29 PM: I can read upside down text like it was normal

am I special
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Post by: Purple Filth on May 23, 2012, 11:33:41 PM: cursive is the biggest pile of shit.
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Post by: brawndolicious on May 24, 2012, 01:37:14 PM: Quote from: Momo on May 23, 2012, 07:18:24 PM
Isn't it weird how we as a species didnt think it was important enough to pass down the knowledge of who and how the pyramids were built or how the mayans used advanced metal smelting to make metal links to keep their bricks together yet every kid on this planet knows the contents of Kim Kardashian's latest tweet?

We're due for a modern bonfire of the vanities.
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 24, 2012, 06:30:28 PM: cursive is awesome
Title: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: chronovore on May 25, 2012, 12:06:49 AM: Cursive can suck it.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 25, 2012, 02:31:23 AM: you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread
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Post by: CrystalGemini on May 25, 2012, 02:59:20 AM: I prefer to write in cursive (smooth and fast) but nobody can read it but me so I mostly write in print now. Lettering for hand drafted drawings are also required to be in print so I consider it good practice. :D
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 25, 2012, 03:19:49 AM: I have like 5 different styles of handwriting I use because I am a narcissistic stuff
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Post by: Brehvolution on May 25, 2012, 09:16:15 AM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 25, 2012, 02:31:23 AM
you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread

:lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: drew on May 25, 2012, 11:35:13 AM: Quote from: Viz on May 23, 2012, 10:49:29 PM
I can read upside down text like it was normal

am I special

no, i can do that too

spoiler (click to show/hide)
we're both special :omg
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Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
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Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 25, 2012, 12:49:52 PM: I can read sideways too
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: chronovore on May 25, 2012, 02:17:32 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 25, 2012, 02:31:23 AM
you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread
:rofl
:burp
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 25, 2014, 02:30:19 AM: Quote from: Momo on May 23, 2012, 07:18:24 PM
Isn't it weird how we as a species didnt think it was important enough to pass down the knowledge of who and how the pyramids were built or how the mayans used advanced metal smelting to make metal links to keep their bricks together yet every kid on this planet knows the contents of Kim Kardashian's latest tweet?

Uhh get back to me in another 4000 years and let's see which techniques and tweets and threads are still remembered
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 25, 2014, 02:43:57 AM: Take one down, pass it around
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Post by: Momo on March 25, 2014, 02:51:51 AM: 3999 bottles of light years on the wall
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2014, 08:18:49 AM: Pyramid building was a closely guarded trade secret, like the Coca Cola recipe.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: G The Resurrected on March 25, 2014, 08:26:49 AM: I'm not shocked by the adoption of analog clocks, but something is troubling about clocks in general. They are supposed to be telling time, but they don't. What they do tell you is the adopted time for the specific region you are in. A real clock would change at the days get longer and shorter. Hence that weird perception to some that time seems to speed up and or slow down. The funny thing is in order to calculate a real accurate clock it would take a lot of time and effort there are a lot of variables that affect time and space. Maybe time as we know it might change with the advent of smart phones and smart watches.

Another thing that shocks me is the lack of people that know how to read a binary clock.
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 25, 2014, 08:35:25 AM: :)
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Post by: Reb on March 25, 2014, 09:03:05 AM: (http://www.steadybloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bobby.jpg)
Fuck y'all analog niccas we be digital
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Post by: T-Short on March 25, 2014, 11:09:03 AM: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/segmentus/ (http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/segmentus/)

:mindblown
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Momo on March 25, 2014, 12:25:28 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2014, 08:18:49 AM
Pyramid building was a closely guarded trade secret, like the Coca Cola recipe.
you'd think the patent would have run out by now, sheesh.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 25, 2014, 12:33:18 PM: The greatest irony of our time is that Flavor Flav couldn't actually read an analog clock. Which is why he was always asking "What time is it?"
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 25, 2014, 03:22:04 PM: Quote from: Momo on March 25, 2014, 12:25:28 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2014, 08:18:49 AM
Pyramid building was a closely guarded trade secret, like the Coca Cola recipe.
you'd think the patent would have run out by now, sheesh.

The Prince of Egypt was obviously a ploy by Hollywood Jews to extend the patent. Curse you, Spielberg!
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Shadow Mod on March 25, 2014, 08:23:50 PM: Cursive wasn't really ever faster for me which why I was told it was important to learn. All those loops, the fuck it is.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 25, 2014, 08:41:13 PM: Cursive is just fun to write if you're a pretentious narcissist about such things, which I am.
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Post by: Shadow Mod on March 25, 2014, 08:49:29 PM: I hope you use a quill.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 25, 2014, 08:54:25 PM: If it is weird that we can read them, it is even weirder that we can make them.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 25, 2014, 11:07:36 PM: Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on March 25, 2014, 08:54:25 PM
If it is weird that we can read them, it is even weirder that we can make them.

It's even weirder that we can smuggle them in our anuses for years.
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 25, 2014, 11:18:32 PM: That's not a clock; that's an egg timer. When you feel the buzz accompanied by an inhuman farting sound, you'll know it's rape time.
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Post by: Tasty on March 25, 2014, 11:41:33 PM: Quote from: Needs More Cowbell on March 25, 2014, 08:49:29 PM
I hope you use a quill.

Typewriters are where it's at. (http://i.imgur.com/z7F4jYO.png)
Title: Re: Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?
Post by: Rufus on March 26, 2014, 10:02:19 AM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on March 25, 2014, 08:41:13 PM
Cursive is just fun to write if you're a pretentious narcissist about such things, which I am.
Outside the US it's probably all you've learned. This is what I learned:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/a/a5/La-ges.jpg)

On that note, the fuck is this all caps shit I see from the US sometimes? :what
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 26, 2014, 10:39:21 AM: All caps shit = :bow block print :bow2

Also that cursive x looks crazy, I was taught just to come back and cross it like a t or dotting an i.