Isn't it weird that people can read analog clocks?

[recursivelyenumerable]

I mean ... isn't that a weird thing for people to generally be able to do? Don't you agree?

[Himu]

with this logic it should be weird that people can read at all!

[Takao]

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.

[Great Rumbler]

Isn't it weird that people can drive cars? I mean, what's up with that!

[Brehvolution]

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

Yes

[Smooth Groove]

It's weirder that you still can't make a decent thread. 

[Himu]

Isn't it weird that people can drive cars? I mean, what's up with that!

[Tasty]

Do Japanese kids learn cursive? Oscar, fill me in.

[Momo]

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?

[Cormacaroni]

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.

[Joe Molotov]

I learned how to write cursive in 2nd grade, was forced to use it in 3rd grade, stopped using it forever in 4th grade.

[Phoenix Dark]

Isn't it weird that people can do sentence diagrams in cursive?

[Huff]

They've actually stopped teaching cursive in schools as far as I know. Or schools are at least starting to phase it out

[Joe Molotov]

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?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

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.

[Cormacaroni]

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

[Huff]

Who needs to learn how to write anyway? Just learn how to push buttons on a screen

[Cormacaroni]

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)

[Vizzys]

I can read upside down text like it was normal

am I special

[Purple Filth]

 cursive is the biggest pile of shit.

[brawndolicious]

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.

[recursivelyenumerable]

cursive is awesome

[chronovore]

Cursive can suck it.

[recursivelyenumerable]

you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread

[CrystalGemini]

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.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I have like 5 different styles of handwriting I use because I am a narcissistic stuff

[Brehvolution]

you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread

 

[drew]

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

[close]

[Tasty]

˙ʍou uʍop ǝpısdn ʇı buıʇıɹʍ ʇnoqɐ ןןɐ s,ʇı '1102 os sı uʍop ǝpısdn buıpɐǝɹ

[recursivelyenumerable]

I can read sideways too

[chronovore]

you EAT time, so you are not welcome in this thread

:burp

[recursivelyenumerable]

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

[recursivelyenumerable]

Take one down, pass it around

[Momo]

3999 bottles of light years on the wall

[Great Rumbler]

Pyramid building was a closely guarded trade secret, like the Coca Cola recipe.

[G The Resurrected]

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.

[recursivelyenumerable]

[Reb]

Fuck y'all analog niccas we be digital

[T-Short]

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/segmentus/

 

[Momo]

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.

[ToxicAdam]

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?"

[Joe Molotov]

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!

[Shadow Mod]

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.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Cursive is just fun to write if you're a pretentious narcissist about such things, which I am.

[Shadow Mod]

I hope you use a quill.

[Madrun Badrun]

If it is weird that we can read them, it is even weirder that we can make them. 

[Joe Molotov]

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.

[Madrun Badrun]

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. 

[Tasty]

I hope you use a quill.

Typewriters are where it's at.

[Rufus]

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:


On that note, the fuck is this all caps shit I see from the US sometimes? 

[CatsCatsCats]

All caps shit = block print

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