If an ad you saw had a polar bear prominently going into an ice cave with "hibernate" on the label, what would you immediate thought be?
My first thought was "beer commercial."
Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Dec 03, 2009 12:44:23 pm PST #22788 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
meara - Dec 03, 2009 12:45:43 pm PST #22789 of 30001
I tip on takeout because it's usually taking time for whoever is handling it. But usually 10 percent instead of the 20 I'd tip for sit down. It may help that it's usually work money and not my money, but.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2009 12:46:37 pm PST #22790 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And to show how easy it is to cut out 20% of the meat from your diet, they showed trays with (I think) 16 hamburger patties, cut off half of one patty, and said that if you don't eat that half patty, but still eat the rest, then you've eliminated 20% of the meat from your diet!
That's...not math.
Jessica - Dec 03, 2009 12:46:37 pm PST #22791 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And to show how easy it is to cut out 20% of the meat from your diet, they showed trays with (I think) 16 hamburger patties, cut off half of one patty, and said that if you don't eat that half patty, but still eat the rest, then you've eliminated 20% of the meat from your diet!
Okay, granted - I was not a math major like you, but I don't think that's right.
DH and I have decided to try going vegetarian 2 nights a week to save money. (Semi-vegetarian, anyway - the lentil soup I'm making this weekend will still have pancetta as a flavor base.) We'll see how it goes.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 12:55:22 pm PST #22792 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Cool. And that's actually somewhere around 20%.
Oy. Now someone said that his way of being green is that he doesn't use those little ketchup packets at fast food restaurants.
aurelia - Dec 03, 2009 12:59:59 pm PST #22793 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I could wander over to Barnes & Noble and ogle the books...
I've been known to do this to avoid traffic.
Aside from the not-math, I'm gonna have to say I cut more than 20% of the meat from my diet when I stopped eating red meat (in 1987). I don't think another 20% would have much impact.
Cass - Dec 03, 2009 1:03:26 pm PST #22794 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
That's...not math.
It's really not. Not math that won't end up circled in red and having to be redone at least. Unless it's New Math. Does New Math use different numbers than Math Math?
-t - Dec 03, 2009 1:07:49 pm PST #22795 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can't even figure out where they might have gone wrong, or what they actually meant. Weird.
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2009 1:08:43 pm PST #22796 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. The correct answer is about 3% (i.e. they're eliminating 1/32nd).
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 1:14:38 pm PST #22797 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, 20% of 16 is around 3. I really don't know what they were trying to say. My next guess was that they were, for some reason, eliminating 20% of the meat on that particular tray -- the patties were divided among three trays -- but that tray had four patties, so 20% of that would be almost a full patty.