Saturday: Hili dialogue

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1. Idiots Anonymous Twitter

   Awww, I was expecting the passenger to meet her (?) friends (??) on the tow-quad as they reversed back to the starting point.

   1. I was terribly disappointed. There seems to be an issue with the projectile getting stuck in the pocket and not getting a clean release. Must have bought it from Acme.

   2. Looks very fun though. If they could maybe make it a bit more professional and not so much like an entrant to the Darwin Awards I’d consider having a go.

      1. A very small deviation in the angle of release would drive the cargo into the ground.

         1. ‘Extreme FuneralsTM’

         2. I think the anchor points are high enough and the angle of the bungee on launch sufficiently high that she’s safe.

            In fact I think that if the vertical components of force in the bungee cord are sufficient to hold her off the ground in the initial position (which they obviously are) then those will still apply when she’s been pulled out to one side. (In fact they’ll be slightly greater since she’s been pulled downwards a bit by the angle of the tow).

            What I’m not sure of is whether she might get pulled too high at some point in her trajectory so she strikes the ground on the rebound, so to speak.

            I’d be more worried about the condition of the bungee cord, though. Or the supports.

            cr

            1. There’s quite enough acceleration there for her to lose her head. Right at the end of the clip I thought I could see something fall. 😎

2. Is it me or is that math question confusing. I think I would get it wrong too lol.

   1. I didn’t understand it either. What does ‘the remaining quarter’ mean?

      1. Sloppy wording on tests. It always led to feuds with my mentors.

   2. There are 8 left. So when she asks for the remaining quarter I guess she is asking for 2 more out of 8?

      1. There are 12 left – it started with 16. So 3 more.

         1. I took it as a quarter of 16, so 4.

            But it’s extremely badly worded, no one ‘solution’ seems any more likely than any other.

            I think ‘a slap’ is actually the answer that makes most sense.

            cr

            1. ‘What would she end up with?’

               Who, Rachel or Tracey?

               It’s even worse (more ambiguous) than I thought.

               cr

      2. Five apples and a dead neighbor.

   3. I’d slap the writer of the math question. It confusingly uses “the” instead of “a”. The phrase should have been “a quarter of what remained.” This also removes the possibly ambiguous term “remainder.” But these days I suppose it is too much to ask for a math test writer with accurate-writing skills.

3. That math question reminds me of a couple of the more memorable answers I got from little kids when doing testing assessments.

   Me: Please put the block under your chair.
   Kid: No.

   Me: If your father is a man, your mother is a…?
   Kid: (son of a med student) She’s going to be a doctor, but right now she’s not anything.

   L

   1. A friend of mine when she was a kid was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up and, wide-eyed and wistful, said she wanted to be “a duck”.

4. Did some nerd take over North Korea’s twitter account?

   1. It’s always been in the possession of nerds 🙂

      It’s a parody account that has managed to take in several news agencies over the years.

      /Grania

5. Ultima Thule turns out to be a close binary system. So there are two objects that we will see soon.

6. I am also saddened when languages die.

7. Finally! Condoms that meet papal quality standards!

   1. LOL
      /Grania

   2. In the Catholic community of my youth, there were just two Church-approved methods of contraception: the rhythm method and coitus interruptus — or, as they were known among Catholic wags, Rhythm & Blues.

8. December 29 is the birthday of the great
   musician, cellist Pablo Casals, born on
   this day in Catalonia in 1876. He died in 1973.

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