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RE: Should schools in the US...
May 15, 2019 at 3:38 am
Why the freck would we need to know Arabic numerals?
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May 15, 2019 at 4:18 am
Because arabic numerals are the numerals we use... pretty much the world over.
But I love how ethnic bigotry has reached such high levels of ignorance. Bravo!
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May 15, 2019 at 4:19 am
Never underestimate the power of stupid!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!
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May 15, 2019 at 5:28 am
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Should schools in the US...
May 15, 2019 at 5:59 am
The terrorists on 9/11 used Arabic numerals, they were all over the planes' control panels!
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May 15, 2019 at 7:08 am
I put up a new mailbox years ago. The mailman left me a nasty note saying I needed to put numbers on it.
I did.
CCXXVIII.
I saw him a week later - and he said " Very cute.. This isn't Rome."
I said "Whatta ya want? Arabic?".
"No - REGULAR NUMBERS!"...
Dumbass government workers...
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May 15, 2019 at 8:12 am
My mother lived at a four-way stop in the country. She could see two other houses, neither very near. Her mailman used to bring the boxes my brother and I sent her into her house for her, and waited to see what she'd got this time. He tried to buy the swords off of her every time.
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RE: Should schools in the US...
May 15, 2019 at 9:09 am
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I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.