Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98

[Player_Zero]

One question from a one paper for each of the years gives practically no basis for statistical analysis. If, say, you had 50 questions from each year then you might be able to form a convincing argument...

Also, in my opinion it's not that exam questions have gotten harder or easier in maths, it's just that they are phrased differently. Saying arctan looks more fancy than writing tan^-1, for instance...

[unstattedCommoner]

tan^-1 is ambiguous, since it could mean either the inverse or the reciprocal (consistent with cos^2 not meaning cos(cos) but cos*cos).

[Player_Zero]

tan^-1 is ambiguous, since it could mean either the inverse or the reciprocal (consistent with cos^2 not meaning cos(cos) but cos*cos).

Well, clearly you don't write a function without a parameter like I just did, but when you say (tan^-1)x you mean the inverse function of tan, whereas you say (tanx)^-1 to avoid any kind of confusion or even 1/tanx, if you don't wanna' use arctan, that is...

But what I was referring to was the difference in notation between what we use now as standard and what they used to use.

[CurlyKitGirl]

And now for something completely different:
In the news Spam prices have risen to over £2000 000 after the will of the old CEO was discovered in an empty Spam tin.
In it he demanded that prices would increase to the said figure because he had descended the mortal coil, joined the choir invisible and was pushing up the daisies. It also alluded to the fact that Spam is people. This was follwed by a total of five question marks, a sign of insanity.
The food board is meeting in a concerted effort to have the price of Spam lowered to its old price of 85p per tin and will make the claijm that the CEO, Mr. Tim The'nchanter was quite frankly mad when he made his will and it is therefore invalid. It was also unwitnessed except for someone who signed himself as SpamSpamSpam Spammityeggs'anspamspamspaaaaaaamwunnerful spam. This person is believed to be a non-existent entity created by the raving of Mr. The'nchanter.
Now over to our Science! correspondent who has some breaking news to tell us; John Cheese, what is this news?
"Thank you. Here I am outside of Caerbannog Research Centre where it has been proven just minutes ago that Norweigan Blue parrots actually do pine for the fjords. In their piney state they fall into a deep coma until they enter fjord-like surroudings. The famous British comedy act, Gommery Anacondas, who have personally sponsered this research say they're proud that their theory has been proven by Science!."
Thank you John. In lighter news Brian of Galilee announced to the people of Jerusalem that he really truly is The Messiah prompting a great celebration where many aliem spaceships and aliems were roasted and eaten.
The infamous Messiah has also declared war on those who follow and read the Cat-Muffinmicon on the grounds that sentient food is some of the best food to eat. The Messiah will personally meet Jibar, the self-proclaimed Leader of the Cat-Muffins next week at Castle Aaaaaaaargh. The French Kniggits will provide the Honour Guard for both parties.
However, both parties have declared Math? illegal and it is possible they will come to a mutually beneficient agreement.
And now for the weather.

This insanity is brought to you by LazyOverlyCreativeGeekyTeensRUs news channel.
And this is done without me watching or reading any material that I'm referencing. How many can you find?

[Serpentine]

CUUUUUURRRRRRRLLLY! D=
"Descended the mortal coil"?! "Shuffle off this mortal coil" means "ditched this heavy weight and responsibility of life" not "hop off this spring". I thought you'd know that

Other than that:

[Thufir]

Depending on what precise definition you use for a single reference, somewhere between 12 and 17 I think.

I have just done statistics for the last time EVER. Onward, to 3rd year, free choice of modules and real maths!

[Cristo Meyers]

-snip-

...

marry me.

Lesse, I don't know the names of the particular skits but I think we've got:

Life of Brian
The parrot sketch
Holy Grail thrice
Soylent Green
and probably multiple more that I can't even begin to remember.

[CurlyKitGirl]

CUUUUUURRRRRRRLLLY! D=
"Descended the mortal coil"?! "Shuffle off this mortal coil" means "ditched this heavy weight and responsibility of life" not "hop off this spring". I thought you'd know that

Other than that:

Quoted from an insane CEO who just increased the price of Spam to £200 000 a tin. Sanity and correct quotes and/or phrases are hardly top of his priorities. Deliberate mistake.

marry me.

Maybe sir. Maybe.

Spam alludes to the Spam sketch. Five exclamation mrks references Discworld. You could probably strench Science! to reference Girl Genuis, but it's also a new idiosyncracy of mine; and John Cheese references either John Cleese or the Cheese Shop sketch. Or both. The rest I can't recall. But not bad for fifteen, twenty minutes work. Of insane typing and references because math? puzzles and upsets me. Also, sugar highs help.
And insanity.

@Thufrir: congratumalations on no more statistics.

[banjo1985]

No-one can adapt Monty Python for their own use quite as well as you can Curly

[Jibar]

The infamous Messiah has also declared war on those who follow and read the Cat-Muffinmicon on the grounds that sentient food is some of the best food to eat. The Messiah will personally meet Jibar, the self-proclaimed Leader of the Cat-Muffins next week at Castle Aaaaaaaargh. The French Kniggits will provide the Honour Guard for both parties.
However, both parties have declared Math? illegal and it is possible they will come to a mutually beneficient agreement.

This just in.
Jibar and the Messiah have reached an agreement. While sentient food is delicious, it's also very hard to justify ethically and so new laws have been passed that ban sentient food from complaining. Cat-Muffins are however exempt from this law because, in the words of Jibar, "We'd **** you up big time buddy."
The meeting would have gone on to solving world peace, but then a bunch of Fraggloths came running in and it was decided that before anyone could lose some SAN that they should get the hell out. Apparantly somebody left a tip, but if it turns out nobody did then we're never eating there again.
Now, over to you Dr. Doom.

Thank you Dylan the Temp Guy.
For tonight's headline: I'M THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SCREW YOU RICHARDS!
And in a related story, I know what happens at the end of Lost. Why don't you?

(My philosophy paper went great by the way. I got a little too nervous and panicy though and now I feel kinda sick)

[Dallas-Dakota]

The cookiemonsters propose peace, and maybe an alliance to the cat-muffins.

Great Jibar,

We would be greatly honored to have an agreement with the great cat-muffins.
Especially as muffins is an extension of Cookiemanjaro, our god, 's field of power.

An alliance could be great and usefull to both the cat-muffins and the cookiemonsters.

Signed.
Dallas-Dakota, self-declared leader of cookiemonsters and high priest of Cookiemanjaro, etc.

Ps, the cookiemonsters are also generally against math.

[Serpentine]

Quoted from an insane CEO who just increased the price of Spam to £200 000 a tin. Sanity and correct quotes and/or phrases are hardly top of his priorities. Deliberate mistake.

Ngrrumblegrumblenrgrngn... You say that now!

[CurlyKitGirl]

K.
I am truly awesome. Or at least some of my writing is. I terrify one person in SMBG and then make then enjoy my writing of insanity.
I stil treasure the moment in Y5 when I wrote a cliffhanger story parodying Star Wars and had the entire class, plus teacher and helpers demand a sequel. Oh Annie SeaSkimmer and the Revenge of the Mutant Horse Chestnut, I wish I still had that story and the preceding one.
Now if only I can concentrate.

We interrupt this ego-stroking for a some breaking news. This poster has obviously received too much praise and is temporaily more out f touch with reality than normal. It is true these events all occured but this ego must be burst.
Please, O Ego Slayer, wherever you are, come here and stop thi rampant ego before it goes out of control.
The silliness must end!

@Serpy: No problem. I just forgot the quote marks. But it wouldn't matter anyway as it was a broadcast and they wouldn't be seen anyway. Or something. Also, I have to wonder whether the above paragraph was metafiction or meta-reality as it's part of the continuing news show, but talking about OOC (if such a thing exists here) comments and now it brings me to wonder how many levels of reality this paragraph has warped.
Or something.

@Jib: Huzzah! The sick feeling is probably left over from the exam stress. Eat, drink and be merrie.

[Cristo Meyers]

K.
I am truly awesome. Or at least some of my writing is. I terrify one person in SMBG and then make then enjoy my writing of insanity.

You're lucky I'm home sick right now...there are soooo many things I could do with that line.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Curly : You can write great stories as well.... May I say I love you and that I want to marry you?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Insanity suits me. Plus I had my first ice cream from-the-local-home-made-ice-cream-shop of the year today. Oh and I'm a bit touched by the sun.
And the Corpus Christi fair's in town and doing free rides either tonight or tomorrow.
The world is my oyster.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Insanity suits me.

And we have a match! Will you marry me?

[Haruki-kun]

D=

But... but... But I wanted Curly to marry me!

I even started spelling it "Colour"!

[CurlyKitGirl]

Ha!
Another convert to Britishness.

[FlyMolo]

D=

But... but... But I wanted Curly to marry me!

I even started spelling it "Colour"!

I consistently spell color colour, and always spell theatre theater. Or maybe the other way around? Trainers go on your feet, biscuits are sweet, and I'm rapping to the British Beat.

That made no sense.

[Haruki-kun]

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[Player_Zero]

Insanity suits me. Plus I had my first ice cream from-the-local-home-made-ice-cream-shop of the year today. Oh and I'm a bit touched by the sun.
And the Corpus Christi fair's in town and doing free rides either tonight or tomorrow.
The world is my oyster.

Insanity, you say? Now the ball is in Zero's court! What with the not-so-sane whatnot...

...I hear that insanity is caused by a lack of salt, and have therefore horded as much salt as I can find in the house into a large pile. Incidentally, you cannot have any of my salt, it is mine and will cure me of my affliction, to give it to you would go against the most basic of moral priniciples.

P.S. The Queen's English is a conspiracy. It was invented by The Pope in 1655.

[Dallas-Dakota]

We shall duel then...

I mean, I don´t know where I´m going this summer yet, and England might be my destination. So if I could get some city names... That´d be great to visit some of you english GitP´ers.

Also on the correct spelling : I always have spelled various words such as colour with an u.

On Insanity : Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
And nobody can beat me on my air keyboard!

[Hoggy]

That British picture would be good, but it fails on one account.

The car, it's dutch!

[Player_Zero]

We shall duel then...

I mean, I don´t know where I´m going this summer yet, and England might be my destination. So if I could get some city names... That´d be great to visit some of you english GitP´ers.

Don't come to Nottingham, it's a bum town. I'm getting outta' this crap hole as soon as possible. And don't go to the North either, you get all the people who talk funny... And don't go to the South either. They talk funny down there too. Midlands is your best bet.

...In fact, don't come to England, we don't like your types around here, and we all talk too funny to be understood anyway.

[Cobra_Ikari]

...is it just me...or is the steering wheel on the left? >.>

[CurlyKitGirl]

P.S. The Queen's English is a conspiracy. It was invented by The Pope in 1655.

Alexander?

[Player_Zero]

Alexander?

No, no, no, no, no. It was Pope Innocent X. Geez, what do they teach in schools nowadays, anyway?

... Do you really believe that Pope Alexander VII would've hidden such a conspiracy from us for over five thousand years without telling us? That'd just be mean.

[Cristo Meyers]

... Do you really believe that Pope Alexander VII would've hidden such a conspiracy from us for over five thousand years without telling us? That'd just be mean.

*resists using an old internet meme*

There was a Pope in 3000 B.C?

[Player_Zero]

*resists using an old internet meme*

There was a Pope in 3000 B.C?

*Steers away from religious discussion with a clever sidestep*

Were you there in 3000 B.C?

...

I thought not. So how about you leave this to people who were, huh?