Why Liberalism is a mental disease - Page 5

Rilkean · #1 04-06-2011, 01:55 AM

Physicists are neckbeard elitist losers and science-rejects FYI. All other science branches hate you guys because you are the ones stuck in your shitty ivory domes of asperger tininess.

Toehammer · #2 04-06-2011, 02:33 AM

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http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=graduate

You failed. Again.

OMG you stuck your foot so far up your throat now it is funny. How does mid-shin taste? NOTHING in that link shows any sort of grammar fail on my part; it shows that you fail incontrovertibly. Moron. You said in your post "try graduating it"... let's replace your ambiguous use of "it" with the real direct object "school" so now the predicate phrase now reads "try graduating school". Your link has 3 examples:
1) "She graduated in 1990"
2) "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
3) "graduate a cylinder"

Your sentence would have been correct with a prepositional phrase; "try graduating from it" would have made sense. The fact that example/definition 2 says "school graduates 2,000 students" works because the noun school is graduating, ie performing graduation ceremonies, students from its halls. However to say someone should graduate school makes no sense. You are missing a KEY prepositional phrase. Let me simplify for you with an accurate analogy: you would say, "I learned college" instead of the correct "I learned from college" whereas one can accurately say "College learned me", similar to example 2, but not "College learned from me". Prepositions matched with direct objects are very tricky, and I understand why you made the mistake. I am not condemning you, I just get annoyed when you cast the first grammar stone, and then when I shatter your house of fail, you try to come back and fail harder. People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks. I think in the interest of saving me time, and you face, that we stop this here.

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Physicists are neckbeard elitist losers and science-rejects FYI. All other science branches hate you guys because you are the ones stuck in your shitty ivory domes of asperger tininess.

I agree, physicists are elitists to a certain extent. I myself hate the ivory tower physicist, and have had to deal with him/her (actually, rarely are women physicists annoying or super-elitist). I try to keep myself in check not to become one. However, all science branches do not hate us. Physicists are generally sought out for collaboration to help solve complex problems from experimental inception to completion. If other scientists hate us because they had problems with vectors and basic Physics I? Haters gonna hate! Oh well! I think people hate their physics teachers because a lot of physics teachers wholeheartedly believe in sink or swim in introductory physics, which a lot of whiny bitches cannot handle. I myself have seen both sides of the issue, and I think a coddling demeanor should be adopted for some people and not for others. This is why I have always liked schools calculus-based and non-calculus based physics approach.

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Foxx · #3 04-06-2011, 03:08 AM

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. If other scientists hate us because they had problems with vectors and basic Physics I? Haters gonna hate! Oh well! I think people hate their physics teachers because a lot of physics teachers wholeheartedly believe in sink or swim in introductory physics, which a lot of whiny bitches cannot handle. I myself have seen both sides of the issue, and I think a coddling demeanor should be adopted for some people and not for others. This is why I have always liked schools calculus-based and non-calculus based physics approach.

honestly I have never come across a physics professor who is worth his/her salt. Don't get me wrong, I am sure they are brilliant, but have absolutely zero business teaching anybody. I did well in the classes, but they are horrible. This goes for the entire physics department at my school. They are also deffinetly elitist. I had a friend of mine majoring in Physics, and when she went to the department head about trying to dual major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, they gave her a ton of grief over it and wouldn't let her. After continuing to try and get permission to do this (from above there head, I guess) they dropped her from the program and she just switched to engineering.

I have never had a good experience with a physics department any school I have attended, or heard a good experience from other students at other schools.

All that, I am not taking anything away from there brilliance, like I said before I know they are all very well educated and intelligent people. Nearly all of them have a doctorate in physics, or a similar field, but they all have a huge ego, and several other things I dont like about them, but I guess I shouldn't generalize.

On a side note, most professors I have come across who teach engineering are great people, and the people I have gotten the opportunity to work with in the engineering field are great, and exactly the opposite experience I had with the physics folk.

Potus · #4 04-06-2011, 03:19 PM

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Your sentence would have been correct with a prepositional phrase; "try graduating from it" would have made sense.

"Reading comprehension is something you learn in grade school, you should try graduating it." is grammatically correct. You should stop knocking "soft science" since for you it's clearly a hard science. Haha a pun.

Seriously you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

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Once again, who the fuck cares?

Already explained it to you. Have you been tested for spergers because words seem to be really difficult for you.

Potus · #5 04-06-2011, 01:57 AM

I'm going to go make a Rube Goldberg machine that will kick Toehammer in the balls the next time he posts.

Potus · #6 04-06-2011, 02:15 AM

No one would have called something a photon before the term was coined, the same way no one would have called Thomas Paine a socialist before the term was coined.

Rube Goldberg ----> your scrotum

Toehammer · #7 04-06-2011, 02:44 AM

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No one would have called something a photon before the term was coined, the same way no one would have called Thomas Paine a socialist before the term was coined.

Rube Goldberg ----> your scrotum

Once again, who the fuck cares? They were called corpuscules by Newton. Just because Lewis used Latin to name something (good choice Lewis!) doesn't really have any significance. I was giving both you and Weier(whateverthecraphisnameis) grief because you guys were applying modern-day political science terms for historical political factions that are both distorted by history and your interpretation of what they mean because you grew up in modern times. Seriously, a photon is a photon, although it is more mysteriously beautiful than maybe anything in science, it is known well what someone means when they say photon. However socialist, liberal, republican... this shit changes with time.

You can see I am swearing slightly more as this thread progresses. It is because if you really are in academia (which I get the impression you are) I am sad. It seems you have a poor, narrow education. If you were trained in logic, your grammar would be better. If you were trained in science, you would understand it more. I swear more often because I get more and more depressed about the lack of thought, logic, and science training's value in our modern society. I like to swear at you, because if you are a teacher, you will probably fail a bright student who owns you in class as I have here. If he be a physicist/mathematician/logician, I hope I have not added to your and Rilkean's hatred for us... please be gentle on him.