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MagicalScientist
#16 What year is it??
CitrusyGarlic
#15 - If you make me run a race then I'm going to call you a hateful racist. It might not make any sense, but I'm still going to say it
2074red2074
#6 You'll make your day better but your life worse.
icurays1
#5
so much room for activities
qtRaven
#15 “Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
Purrgandy
Excellent
Yusill
That 18 car garage is still a 2 car garage. They are measured by how many unobstructed vehicles can be put in. Though you get value for it being extra deep. Though honestly you'd make more value by partitioning it off and making a heated work room.
Filanwizard
#1 I suspect you could get 2000mi under 23hrs if doing a cannonball. For legal purposes I am required to add that doing a cannonball run is both dangerous and illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
InnerBushman
#5 SOLD!!! Where do I sign?
scaredshirtless
#13 Person, who is dull - "This art is amazing. I love Van Gogh!"
Me, who is very smart - "Actually that is Van Gogh's painting. Van Gogh was the artist."
DrRad
The best part is that in the book, they don’t call him a monster.
Chooseausernameandyoureallset
#1 Remember, the red guy's vote matters just as much as yours.
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
#10 Maybe you need more comfortable pants?
DnT64
#16 Why would want to block a post that wishes happy birthday to a pet? Pets are awesome!
HaveSpacesuit
Yeah, none of those was why I got off social media...
menemyr
And a weakness? "Not really understanding how my colon works."
RocMage
#17 Well, I'm not sure that I agree, but ok.
ZeroVektor
#1 Same
DoctorEnsignCrusher
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gallumpinggaloof
Twas not a big dump, realistically just a bit of gas.
BeckyLookAtHerButt
#1 Math, not even once
ballsoutflyer
Math, law, physics, bodily needs.
CitrusyGarlic
#5 - The retirement house that my dad built for himself has 2 bedrooms, a small kitchen/dining/living room, and a 6 car garage/machine shop
wambu
That's how you WIN! My dream retirement home is a one-bedroom efficiency with a 10-car garage. OR this . . .
redsmerf
When I started looking around for houses, there was one near me that had an 8 car detached garage sized for an RV. I didn't quite have a down payment at the time, sadly.
It was under-priced for the area and on the market too long, which makes me wonder why.
AnnieGoolahee
#2 Look, I get that a lot of people are fine with the gelatinous cranberry log with the delightful metallic aftertaste, but I can't go back once I had the good cranberry apple relish. The texture, the flavor...
I won't go back to prison cafeteria standards. I won't.
HelpfulCorn
We always have both kinds
UncleGlum
Yeah, I'm not one to balk at people taking the easy way and I'm generally fine with the log, but my dad makes a whole-berry cranberry sauce for Turkey Day and it's very good.
NoBergine
I don't understand #8 and my friend does neither. Can someone explain it, please? @op?
Snooj
Doc says it looks like she's been in a major accident. Guy is hearing "your wife is ugly" and is defending her good traits.
RectalPunchfromHell
75 mph in 24 hours will only net you 1800 miles
RectalPunchfromHell
Is it possible to drive 84mph without stopping?
smax410
#1 if the speed limit is 75, there are plenty of useful idiots driving 85-90 I can set my cruise control behind to get pulled over in front of me. I’m gonna make it in a day. Fucking loser going by the rules….
DukeDarkwood
83 and 1/3 mph would do the job. Just find a place with a speed limit of at least 85... that stretches two thousand miles.
You'll be very hungry, dead tired, and... uh... let's just say in need of a shower and fresh pair of pants... but you'd make it. (Assuming no untoward incidents happen as a result of your reckless haste and/or deteriorating condition as the day progresses.)
DrRad
You will need to fill up with gas 4 or 5 times.
DukeDarkwood
Fair, but... you know how planes have that in-flight refueling thing they do? We'll set up that, with a tanker truck.
It's not as if it's any worse than any of the rest of the bad ideas in this theoretical stunt.
ReverseSyzygy
#2 Hey, I just want to let you know, it is REALLY EASY to make cranberries for thxgv dinner. It's legit just berries, sugar, water simmered. Add orange zest to be fancy. It's so simple and folks will think you spent time on it.
*warning* you might have a bunch leftover, but it's good on vanilla icecream/yogurt.
DoctorAnimalCannibalPizza
Use brown sugar and oj instead of white sugar and water. Much better
Freeasabird2015
I might try that this xmas. I buy whole berry sauce in a jar (ocean spray?) usually but I've never seen a can of it.
ReverseSyzygy
think it only comes in cans here (Ocean spray) never seen a jar!
But do try it, it is SO simple to do. Folks are easily impressed.
Freeasabird2015
Saved this page in case I forget the 2 ingredients I need. 😳
FukcTedCruz
#1 Yeah but if he drove 100 mph for 20 hours straight, he would be dead
anjeleyezjr
I mean, if he is doing over 100 on the regular, FUCKING GOOD.
androgenoide
But at least he'd attract a lot of attention with all those cop cars following him.
MapleSyrupMafia
The bright lights would help you stay awake tho.
kanybal
Wait why? I feel like there's some science behind that that eludes me
Isn't 100mph around 160km/h? It's not mach3 or anything
Sigge1981
If you drive that fast for that long, you will crash, eventually. And that crash will kill you.
NZSheeps
What if he didn't drive straight and was allowed to turn the corners?
chumpacabra
The current record for the Cannonball Run (2813 miles) is 25h39m with an average speed of 112 mph. It will likely never be beaten.
ballsoutflyer
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gtollie
#1 what if I drove 80 mph and started at midnight on the day daylights saving time end 😉
anjeleyezjr
Your vehicle would run out of fuel and you would be pulled over multiple times for going way over the speed limit.
chris16447
I'd have a radar detector and a refueling plane, checkmate
EstoyPoopis
Atheists.
magichal
You could also cross a couple time zones.
IgnisInvictus
Beautiful! You'd need a diaper to pull it off... but that math works.
NZSheeps
Lisa Nowak approves
IgnisInvictus
That incident was just so freaking weird.
Hashbrown123
Remember when that qualified as crazy news?
NZSheeps
Good times....
SlaaneshiRightsFront
#17 It is the teacher's job to teach you the correct form, whether it's necessary in every interaction or not. You really don't want a society where people are educated to the bare minimum to function. Source: Ask an American how it's going.
017renegade
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Thetiredmechanic
Why come no tattoo?
TheTojo15
“No they cut our funding”
AlmightyElephant
It's like jobs.
You go through the training where you learn all the correct ways to do things, and then you get out there and learn the nuance of when it's okay to ignore the proper way of doing things.
Username62611
Dude, if you haven't been taught that prescriptivist grammar is wrong, then you haven't been educated properly.
imakesoap
My mom was a former English teacher. We got the can I / may I reprimand so many times that I cannot ever go colloquial on that one
cadesama
Ah, but it's not actually "correct." It's a preferred style.
Tenugui
Fine, how u do in'?
mothmam
American here. Can confirm.
Chilichunks
May confirm.
FirePrinceZuzu
Can you?
NemoPseudonymWuzHere
Yes. Will I? Not sure I should need to at this point, but also yes.
probablywrenching
sonofaBITCH
OnlyOneArman
I would argue that a significant problem with the American education system isn't that people are educated to the bare minimum, but that people are educated to an ARBITRARY minimum. It's resulted in a population who can spout facts about mitochondria, but haven't the faintest idea how many years ago Martin Luther King was killed, or what countries fought in the War of 1812.
CrazedAndBemused
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Yetiphobia
Well said. With regard to the subject at hand, I'd argue that the minimum in English should be the attempt to instil proper grammar. I think that people use the fact that English is a loose, thieving language as an excuse but to learn anything about proper usage.
AtomicTwinkie
Can and may are both modal verbs of permission. They're literally both valid. It's just a choice teachers make, and while may sounds more polite / formal, in practical language there is no difference at all. Source: I teach English language.
Yetiphobia
This is incorrect because it's incomplete. "May" and "can" have inherent meanings which are not equal. They're only equal in certain contexts such as the infamous "can I?" / "can you?" exchange, and only then informally so. To teach the difference between the two via this exchange is to be concise.
An English teacher you may be, but in the above I hope that you can see the sense.
AtomicTwinkie
Well the purpose of that exchange is to reach that we use may instead of can, which is not necessarily the truth. You are able to use either, because both are modals of permission. Can is also a modal of ability, so yes, there could be a double meaning but using 'can' is by no means incorrect.
Yetiphobia
By *no means* incorrect? It's incorrect in formal usage. The two words are not synonyms in formal usage any more than are "could" and "should". If people started mistaking "could" for "should" (which isn't the case only because no-one's got to it yet), would you be arguing for their synonymity because they're so used?
There are counterexamples, of course. "Should" used to be synonymous with "would". But it isn't NOW. Should we not teach the current forms? Why argue for the mutation?
AtomicTwinkie
Well, being incorrect would mean that it is linguistically incorrect rather than based on formality. It's true that can, could, and may are differing levels of formality but that doesn't mean the others are *incorrect*. If used within a formal setting it would be both understood and accepted to say any of them. Being specific beyond that is pedantry, and whilst it is important to understand the difference, in practical terms it's a matter of minutiae.
spontaneous9
My 4th grade teacher would give us extra homework if we used the word Laying where Lying was appropriate, as in, "I'm lying down, and my dog is lying at my feet" where to be down already implies lie versus the ACT of going from an upright position to a supine or prone one imples laying. "I'm laying my burden down," or "I'll lay me head on this pillow" or "They laid a trap for us."
Everyone uses lay for both instances now. I'm laying down is the same as I'm lying down. Our language is evolving.
swofromtherock
Evolving as languages always do. Most english teachers just have a need to feel superior to everyone else.
spontaneous9
That one sure did (not really an English teacher per se, she was general education). And I can think of one gym teacher to add to that list. But in all my public school experience, they were the only ones. That's maybe 3 or 4% of all my teachers, throughout K-12. Actual English teachers (7-12 only) were all pretty cool where I lived. Especially the Creative Writing teacher. He used to do oddball shit like drag us all outside, make us lie down on the lawn & write a story about the clouds we saw.
PosthumousExile
"alot" was still a word before I left elementary school
spontaneous9
A lot of points were allotted to people misspelling allot in situations where my 4th grade teacher would have dragged that shit right out into the hall.
Imapseudonym
It is the teachers job to educate you. It is not their job to do it in a way that is demeaning and insulting. To say "I don't know can you?" is mocking a child for not having perfect language skills by the time they're 8 years old. Its bad enough kids are put in a building and made to do clerical work all day, then take it home to do more at night. No need to publicly shame them for not being perfect.
SlaaneshiRightsFront
Yes, and it's one of many reasons it's criminal to treat teachers the way they get treated particularly in the US, because part of the job is to teach that distinction in a way that is not demeaning or insulting. This is very possible to do, but it takes effort, and effort takes energy and patience, and is it any wonder that's in short supply in the American education system?
KyleZombie
While not exactly nice, ridicule IS a legitimate form of learning.
REOJackwagon
That's ridiculous
REOJackwagon
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KyleZombie
You don't have to take my word for it. Look it up. It's usually more harmful than good, but it's still legitimate.
REOJackwagon
I wasn't trying to say you were wrong, it was kind of a joke based on the original comment
IgnisInvictus
#1 The stupid hurts.
IUpvoteFuturama
I see another person's mind has been corrupted by the Mattress Industrial Complex, hours are being hidden from us! Wake up sheeple! (/s)
williamfny
But I thought being woke was baaaaaad... /S
911Poopoo
If he's driving west into earlier timezones, this is technically possible in under a day. Edge of Ontario to Vancouver is almost the perfect distance.
Interleaver11111111
It’s those goddamn Arabic numerals!! /s
sundaymondayhippyday
Mandani strikes again
ModsSometimesHeedMyScamWarnings
I once drove 120KM/H (And faster at points) between Gauteng and Kwa-zulu natal on one tank of gas till the light went on without stopping. That was about 6 and a half to 7 hours. It's also a pretty straight road without complications. When I got to the petrol station I was so fucking wiped out. My body hurt, and my eyes were doing that thing where everything was warping to the center of my vision. If it wasn't an emergency I wouldn't easily try that again. GFL trying to drive that and no sleep.
zombiejedediah
Same, but in the northern half of Italy. Never again.
Take breaks, kids. Even if you think you could press on.
Ajierene
Was it an old car or something? That's the low end of my average speed for long trips, 6hr or more
ModsSometimesHeedMyScamWarnings
More just the legal max speed (so I was breaking the limit on long empty stretches). I only assume it was about that time. To be fair, I was driving from closer to Pretoria to deeper into Durban and that's a bit more of a doozy than saying "Johannesburg to Durban". I think it's alright for a Hyundai i10 (automatic not manual). I suspect if I had a manual one I could've gotten a nip more out of it, but the automatic was also cheaper and money was tight.
Ajierene
Nice, I loved my little manual Hyundai Accent, top speed was 110mph/177kph and that was like really trying downhill, but it was a fun car. When it finally died, got a brand new Subaru Impreza and red lined it a few times because I had gotten so used to jamming my foot on the gas to get the Hyundai up to speed
andwings2go
He meant without sleeping. I’ve done road trips beyond 24hrs without sleeping and definitely don’t recommend it.
IgnisInvictus
Yeah... but you still didn't drive 2000 miles at 75mph in 24 hours. At a constant 75mph for 24 hours straight, the very best you could do is 1,800 miles.
Sure, he could drive for 24 hours straight, the sleep part isn't the issue, the math part is.
andwings2go
I’m not disputing the math. “In a day” colloquially means no sleep. It’s what he meant at first.
MapleSyrupMafia
Listen here... Cthulhu created days and decided that they'd have 24h, if you drive more than 24h, it's not a single day anymore. Sure you might think it's still the same day with the hallucinations from being sleep deprived, but it is not.
DeadeicPrints
His followup responses clearly show that wasn't what he meant.
WhatisBug
Going an average above 84 mph for 24 hours is totally do-able because there is never traffic or changes in the road condition or road type. Totally do-able. And you'll never get pulled over more than once or three times...
IgnisInvictus
And you'd never need to stop for gas of course.
azgrak1
Cannonballing across the US is a big rabbit hole. Car choice, extra fuel tanks, spotter planes, spotter cars, radar jammers, choreographed fuel stops. And they’re doing it under 24hrs now.
ChicanoBatman
Or just be like me, and drive 2,200 miles through Mexico to Portland for an amazingly, soon to be naked 6 foot blond. 51 hours, but I stopped for a client meeting, and delivered flowers to my mom on the way. I do not encourage this driving program, especially through Mexico at night. The blond on the other hand.,..
a2s2020
I hope you achieved all those things in the right order
BarnegatLight
Bull. The current record is 25 hours and 39 minutes, *and* it's unlikely to ever be beaten because it was set during the covid lockdowns, when construction hadn't really started for the year, there was absolutely no traffic, and the cops weren't really enforcing the traffic laws.
Clayman8
And what are the sources for your data?
BarnegatLight
Go look at Wikipedia.
Clayman8
Well im not sure i agree but ok.
xmaneds
5,410.713 kilometers (3,474.8 miles)
The greatest distance covered in the 24 Hours of Le Mans is 5,410.713 kilometers (3,474.8 miles), set by the Audi R15 driven by Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard, and Mike Rockenfeller in 2010. This record surpassed the previous record of 5,335.313 kilometers (3,473.7 miles) held by Dr. Helmut Marko and Gijs Van Lennep in 1971. --- Wikipedia
IgnisInvictus
It didn't say 2000 miles in a day wasn't possible. It's not possible at a constant 75mph.
xmaneds
absolutely agreed. miimum speed for 2000 miles in 24 hours is 83-84 MPH without any pauses
ratchetasslombax
Yeah but the guy never said he was going to drive 75mph,only that he could,so the second guys argument was never valid to begin with.
ballsoutflyer
And in order to do that in one day, you'd break the speed limit... and still not complete the journey. So no matter how you slice it, the claimant is still wrong. Therefore, the respondent is still correct.
Badprenup
Breaking the speed limit isn't the problem, it's having to constantly break the speed limit and drive one consistent speed regardless of road/traffic conditions, and never stopping for fuel. AND still not complete the journey.
IgnisInvictus
First guy was wrong the second he started to argue with actual math.
prosper020
I used to teach high school math and physics. I’ve had students say this exact thing to me in very similar scenarios. It’s astounding what behaviors can be learned from bad parents / role models. Math is one of the most universal, undeniable things we have as humans, you aren’t allow to just “I don’t believe you” to a complete proof.
IgnisInvictus
And it's the most simplistic math we have. It's not like trying to explain the difference between the time domain and the frequency domain to finance majors. It's simple multiplication and division. Is it the physics part that's confusing because units of measurement are added?
prosper020
Oh, the physics students didn’t do that shit. One typically doesn’t choose to take physics if they don’t already have a decent understanding of math. It was more in the general “need to graduate” classes where I would encounter the whole “I don’t believe you” or “that doesn’t match how I feel” kind of responses. They typically came from students who did not give a fuck, because their parents also did not give a fuck. It was hard to keep helping those students, but that’s what I do (did) I guess.
HandFireWeapon
The guy responding to the the stupid would be -135 on here. When something is actually true but against the general consensus of what people on this site want to think you can post articles or studies on here and still get downvoted over it. Even when it's stupid conspiracy theories that are obviously false like "Trump wasn't shot" you better stay away or you will get downvoted by the nitwits. Now watch this...
HandFireWeapon
And here we go...
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
...The 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz!
MapleSyrupMafia
We can all agree on that!