square root of 2

Originally posted by @humy
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I am mystified how a very loud minority of laypeople have this strange illusion that they now better that the experts; ...

You gotta know the box before you can think outside of it very well.

Originally posted by @sonhouse
Just a bit more, er, concentrated..... His brilliance let him live that life.

Erdős had some considerable peculiarities. For instance there's the anecdote about him not figuring out the proper way to open a carton of orange juice, so he used a knife to stab a hole in its side.

Originally posted by @soothfast
Erdős had some considerable peculiarities. For instance there's the anecdote about him not figuring out the proper way to open a carton of orange juice, so he used a knife to stab a hole in its side.

I wonder if there was someone who couldn't figure out how a nutcracker worked so he tried plastic explosives?

Originally posted by @humy
I wonder if there was someone who couldn't figure out how a nutcracker worked so he tried plastic explosives?

Or the person bugged by a fly so she grabbed a shotgun?

I feel impelled to share a story. I lived in a roach motel for a while. (Carcasses in the microwave read-out window!) Only 40' white hot flames could solve the problem. All I had though was some roach-spray and a pellet gun. Disturbing fun ensued.

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Not sure who you are talking about, but the story doesn't ring true. Even simple animals know to burrow into stuff when they are cold.

Originally posted by @apathist
Not sure who you are talking about, but the story doesn't ring true. Even simple animals know to burrow into stuff when they are cold.

Not sure which state he was from, most likely Gujarat or Tamil Nadu, maybe Kerala but they wouldn't have much need for blankets due to the hot weather. He may have felt it made a good mattress though.

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Actually, if a westerner is trying to eat food and is meeting chopsticks for the first time, what she has is a crappy spoon and a crappy fork. Time to put lips to bowl and start shoveling with the twigs you were given.

Originally posted by @sonhouse
Not sure which state he was from, most likely Gujarat or Tamil Nadu, maybe Kerala but they wouldn't have much need for blankets due to the hot weather. He may have felt it made a good mattress though.

If he was cold and didn't think about burrowing into the blankets, then he had brain damage.

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My younger son loves chopsticks for some reason. So everyone around has to deal with this. I've practiced, am neither good nor hopeless about it. Never felt sophisticated about it. Was fine with tossing the twigs and grabbing a fork.

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Hey duchess thanks for the link. Now I get to tell my kid a thing or two. 🙂

Originally posted by @lemondrop
the actor Terrence Howard appeared on the TV show, The View, and claimed that he had proof (his own) that the square root of 2 was a rational number


laughable?
he was very serious

He probably squared the decimal he got on his calculator.

Obviously if the calculator says it is true....then it must be true.