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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
 
Alright, it's late at night, and I'm not falling asleep in an ideal fashion. Why not get something that's been bothering me for a while off my chest? Besides for the fact that -- because of an innocuous forum post -- I now see the lightbuld as a woman squeezing into a tight corset...

I was teaching for a while as an assitant at a school in the middle of nowhere. They were teaching the kiddies decimals, which is always nice. So they used dollars...

$.50 is 50 cents, they start, and so on. Then...

.50 [cent symbol]? I mean what?? It's not half of a penny that you're trying to represent, it's 50 cents, argh. And I never said anything.

Silly school. :/
 
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
 
i also cant seem to fall asleep here. 1:30am now. and yes, that is pretty silly.
 
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
Mmmm... long live the afternoon shift... I won't be to bed till 5am.
 
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
So that's where the Verizon people learned to do math.
 
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Yeah, I also like when people write out "$0.50 cents". Drives me nuts. Fifty cents cents?
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Shigosei:
So that's where the Verizon people learned to do math.

[ROFL] That was my precise reaction as well.
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
<proud to be an inspiration>
 


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