What's bugging you? (2007)

[splitterpfj]

When a player is about to sign a new contract with his current team, he is re-signing, not resigning. There's a key difference in terms here.

 

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[1992casey]

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When a player is about to sign a new contract with his current team, he is re-signing, not resigning. There's a key difference in terms here.

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That bugs me like crazy. The two words have almost opposite meanings. I think I may have even complained about that gaffe somewhere earlier in this thread.

 

Let me say that if I see the wrong spelling (and thus the wrong meaning) in a subject title, I will edit it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[1992casey]

It's bugging me that the Yoplait yogurt has brought back the commercial with the wrong words to Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. For a while, they were using a commercial with the right words.

 

It also bugs me to call my Internet provider and listen to recordings saying I can look for help on the Internet. That's no good when the issue is that I have no connection at all.

[EsoxLazer]

Wow, just when I didnt think it could get any worse...

 

Got a call from my dad this afternoon saying that my mom got some very abnormal test results back from the doc and that she has to go to the Urologist. Cancer is somewhat common in my family so I am fearing the worst but hoping that I am wrong. I'm trying my hardest not to worry about it, but its gonna kill me until she gets in to see the doc in a few weeks. A few other things have had the stress level through the roof lately, but this is the icing on the cake. Nothing to do now but say a few prayers and hope for the best.

[iluvlamp]

esox just keep positive thoughts. Have been there and know how you feel.

[berniebrewer4life]

I hate how the Chicago Media and Bears fan call this "Bear Weather". Newsflash Bears fans, you have 6 home playoff wins in 60 years. There is no such thing as bear weather. When teams from the south kill you at home(see carolina), bear weather is non existant.

[hawing]

Microsoft Outlook. Cringe all you want, but the State of Wisconsin has decreed that agencies (besides the UW System) shall all use Outlook and the standardization will save Wisconsin tax dollars.

 

Unfortunately, something went awry with my account and I have lost up to three months worth of what I thought was saved mail. IT has done what it could (2 of our 3 IT guys were on the case for most of the midday). At least they were able to rescue my address book - so I can notify people why I lost track of a lot of what they sent me since November.

 

I'm trying to work up the nerve to reopen Outlook and see just how much I've lost. But this is bugging me.

[splitterpfj]

Cab drivers who go 85 MPH, while executing several Mario Andretti lane changes, all the while looking sideways rather than forward.

 

Orlando was interesting.

[hawing]

Yeah, I found this thread again. But that's not what's bugging me.

 

During radio broadcasts of Badger sporting events, there's this commercial for the UW for which the focus is the line "I see UW people" (spoken kind of like the "I see dead people" movie line).

 

Kid looks in his cereal bowl and tells Mom "I see UW people" (who discovered how to produce vitamin D). Mom pooh-poohs kid, then peeks in his bowl and stage whispers, "I see UW people."

 

Who came up with that? It fails to do anything but bug me.

[mothershipconnection]

The term "blogosphere" and political commentators (Fox and CNN), who act like blogs have any sway with the average American.

"Well, sir, that's not what the bloggers are saying. They see this as a vicious attack on Candidate A". Shut up windbag!

[Crazyk1294]

School! In particular Math class. I cannot see a practical purpose for ANY of the stuff I'm doing right now. Does anyone here use Venn Diagrams or Subsets on a daily basis? Or ever? I can assure you that I will never use them!http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

[cweber39]

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Cab drivers who go 85 MPH, while executing several Mario Andretti lane changes, all the while looking sideways rather than forward.

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Take a cab ride in NYC now thats exciting!

[bjkrautk]

School! In particular Math class. I cannot see a practical purpose for ANY of the stuff I'm doing right now. Does anyone here use Venn Diagrams or Subsets on a daily basis? Or ever? I can assure you that I will never use them!

 

As a reformed math geek, it's not that you'll use subsets or Venn Diagrams terribly often outside the classroom. That's also not the point.

 

Part of the value of math class is to instill a logical thought progression; unlike most of the other subjects, there's very little room for the subjective in mathematics. Because there are so few abstract concepts, there isn't any room for extraneous argument.

 

Math-as-logic culminates with Geometry. You may never need to prove side-angle-side congruence outside of an exam, but the process which drives that proof is what stays with you. (Hopefully.) It's not about getting the right answer, so much as how you get to the right answer.

 

Unfortunately, most math instructors I've had don't take the time / effort to explain that to their students.

[Crazyk1294]

As a reformed math geek, it's not that you'll use subsets or Venn Diagrams terribly often outside the classroom. That's also not the point.

 

I'm sure the point is to get the math portion of my brain some exercise, but this stuff just seems like advanced 'which one of these things is not like the other?' Grrrrrr!

 

Looking ahead in my book, there doesn't seem to be as much of this, so hopefully I will make it through the class.

[BrewCrewForever]

Winter and Snow.

[splitterpfj]

Take a cab ride in NYC now thats exciting

 

The ride I was referring to took place in Orlando. This huge Haitian cabbie cranked his reggae up to max volume, and he was just belting it out, singing along as loud as he could.

 

Every time he saw a "hot chick" he'd pull up next to her on the freeway and then go whatever speed she was going until he got the dirty look, or the hand gesture.

 

My boss and I got a good laugh out of it later, but that guy has no business driving.

[splitterpfj]

Oh yeah, before I forget...Maple Nut ice cream bugs me....it's ice cream, make it taste good or you've defeated the purpose.

[pitchleague]

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School! In particular Math class. I cannot see a practical purpose for ANY of the stuff I'm doing right now. Does anyone here use Venn Diagrams or Subsets on a daily basis? Or ever? I can assure you that I will never use them!

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Yeah, you don't typically use a whole lot of the stuff that you learn in school, particularly in math. But as a teacher, I usually have to tell my students this story at least once a year.

 

In my opinion, teachers teach you things to prepare you for the future. We teachers teach you this stuff because you never really know what you're going to do with your life until you get there. When I was in elementary school, junior high, and half of high school I had absolutely no desire to join the teaching profession. I was all baseball all the time and was going to get a job in baseball. Math became second nature for me, due to the statistics. I loved it and ate it up.

 

But in 9th grade, all students at our parochial school were required to join "mass chorus" for the Christmas concert. I absolutely hated music. Never had a music class in elementary parochial school, with the exception of learning a hymn every Friday and having to sing it by yourself. But, for some reason, it suddenly clicked. I enjoyed it. I had a pretty good singing voice.

 

Next year, I joined choir. And over the next 3 years, I became so successful at it that it became my major. I wanted to be a choir teacher at the high school level.

 

Of course, this didn't work out, either, as I ended up enjoying the elementary music education program even more.

 

Now, what does all of this have to do with hating math? For all you know, you will get a job someday that requires you to have some math knowledge. You never know. In six years, you may be working at practically any job where math/social studies/psychology/science/physics/physical education/etc. is a prime requisite. Teachers are out there throwing options out there to try to cover your bases--to prepare you for the future.

 

And, as someone else pointed out, sometimes the answer isn't the important thing. It's how you got the answer.

 

Good luck. Sorry for the rambling.

[DHonks]

I'm almost a teacher, and I have to say that while I love History and Economics, I think that math and English (writing, not poetry) are the two skills that people need more than anything else.

[pitchleague]

I would concur.

 

While I'm not using Venn Diagrams and Bell Curves and figuring out the hypoteneuse in daily life, I do use math--a lot!

[Gone]

I work in a cubicle and my co-worker is constantly playing country music too loud. She'll turn it down when I ask, but I need to ask almost every day -- then when one of her favorite country songs comes on she needs to turn it up and start dancing.

 

I guess that's when I put in my Drop Kick Murphy's in and make sure it's loud enough for her to get annoyed.

[mothershipconnection]

I don't explicitly use math beyond Algebra 1 in my daily life, but I still certainly see the benefit. In my field, you're required to lay out your logic in a very succinct manner, and do a lot of logical problem solving, which is a lot like math.

[dadofandrew]

Never used anything but simple math in my life. I sure wish they would have taught me some simple investment stuff during that Calc/Geometry time. I learned it all eventually, but like most, I didn't invest nearly enough when I was 18-25, when it has all that time to compound and grow.

[pitchleague]

I think most of us when we were 18-25 didn't invest or save any/enough money because we were all so poor from college and loans and other stuff.

 

Do I wish I had done that? Yeah, but that's easy for me to say 10 years later when I make a steady income. Back then $20 a month was a HUGE deal. Some guys tried to get me to do some life insurance annuities thru Met Life or AAL or something and I tried to do it but after about a year, I had to quit because I couldn't pay my bills. I needed that $100 a month.

[dadofandrew]

Sadly, I did a mutual fund for awhile, single and working while in school. I got it up to about $5K, and then sold it when we needed money, my girlfriend, now wife, was on an unpaid internship for a semester, unable to work except Saturday, and we were having to pay for a pair of apartments for 6 months.

 

Heck, I lived at home during my first 2 years of college, but didn't work much, as I had so few expenses. I think the market was at about 1500 then...missed that boat.