TaiLiu's Awkward Random Banter Thread #245

[Peelee]

That was a deliberate exaggeration.

It is my understanding that since steroids, for the most part, don't help strengthen tendons or ligaments or the like, people who use abuse steroids are more likely to injure themselves through exertion than someone who obtained similar levels of strength without such supplements since your connective tissue didn't scale up to match your muscle growth.

Unless public school lied to me again.

This shouldn't be surprising, but people who use steroids and hit the gym daily tend to do at least basic research into how to work out and tend to talk to others who also work out. They're not just grabbing some pills and going for broke. They're more likely ro injure themselves in the samw way F1 drivers are more likely to get into crashes at high speeds than you are - they're actively engaged in this behavior significantly more than others and push limits.

[Rater202]

This shouldn't be surprising, but people who use steroids and hit the gym daily tend to do at least basic research into how to work out and tend to talk to others who also work out. They're not just grabbing some pills and going for broke. They're more likely ro injure themselves in the samw way F1 drivers are more likely to get into crashes at high speeds than you are - they're actively engaged in this behavior significantly more than others and push limits.

...So at this point I'm kind of second-guessing if 1+1=2 with how much stuff I learned in school turned out to be wrong or misleading.

[Peelee]

...So at this point I'm kind of second-guessing if 1+1=2 with how much stuff I learned in school turned out to be wrong or misleading.

imean if you were taught "bodybuilders jump grab the heaviest things they can and lltry to lift them with wild abandon", then yeah, and i also wonder why your teachers would be teaching that.

But generally, people who spend most of their time on a hobby, whether that hobby is comic books or star wars or steroid weightlifting, probably know things about that hobby.

[Mystic Muse]

Friend and I went to a local Wal-mart to pick me up a barbie as kind of a rite of passage thing.

And when we pulled into the parking lot, there were police because an active shooter situation was going on.

I am so ******* tired.

[HalfTangible]

...So at this point I'm kind of second-guessing if 1+1=2 with how much stuff I learned in school turned out to be wrong or misleading.

Did you go to public school?

Then it's basically everything.

[Anonymouswizard]

...So at this point I'm kind of second-guessing if 1+1=2 with how much stuff I learned in school turned out to be wrong or misleading.

Yeah, your school sucked. Everybody knows that 1+1=10. Unless we're working with digital logic.

Did you go to public school?

Then it's basically everything.

Hey now, education for the wealthy isn't that dire yet. It's mainly public school traditions that cause problems

[enderlord99]

Hey now, education for the wealthy isn't that dire yet. It's mainly public school traditions that cause problems

He meant state school and you know it.

[Anonymouswizard]

He meant state school and you know it.

I refuse to admit to intentional misinterpretation

[Rater202]

I think it's weird that there's never been an X-Men comic that's used Chi (χ) as part of one of the Greek Letter classification systems sed for describing powers.

[Lord Raziere]

I think it's weird that there's never been an X-Men comic that's used Chi (χ) as part of one of the Greek Letter classification systems sed for describing powers.

probably because Chi is also a word for the common fantasy power source for supernatural martial arts, and at least one marvel character we know of uses Chi as a power source: Iron Fist. I'd imagine they wouldn't want to confuse people by introducing that classification for the sake of clarity and simplicity. greek letter Chi is less well known than fantasy martial arts Chi, after all.

[H_H_F_F]

probably because Chi is also a word for the common fantasy power source for supernatural martial arts, and at least one marvel character we know of uses Chi as a power source: Iron Fist. I'd imagine they wouldn't want to confuse people by introducing that classification for the sake of clarity and simplicity. greek letter Chi is less well known than fantasy martial arts Chi, after all.

But you can write it using the greek letter, and it's no pronounced the same at all. I doubt there's a lot of place for confusion, in either written or spoken media.

[Lord Raziere]

But you can write it using the greek letter, and it's no pronounced the same at all. I doubt there's a lot of place for confusion, in either written or spoken media.

True.

I can only conclude then that they simply don't know about Greek Chi. considering that the most people in the US is unlikely to know any greek letters other than Alpha, Beta and Omega, I can find this completely believable.

[Anonymouswizard]

True.

I can only conclude then that they simply don't know about Greek Chi. considering that the most people in the US is unlikely to know any greek letters other than Alpha, Beta and Omega, I can find this completely believable.

Not even Gamma or Delta? Now Epsilon, that's a pretty uncommon one to see. (Also most people probably know π.)

Plus Chi will be mistaken for X.if written in Greek letters, as well as qi if using the anglicised spelling.

[Fyraltari]

Hey now, education for the wealthy isn't that dire yet. It's mainly public school traditions that cause problems

Only the British would call private schools "public".

[Peelee]

Only the British would call private schools "public".

They're just angry that nobody else took that naming convention so the British could mock them for it.

[Anonymouswizard]

Only the British would call private schools "public".

Really you should have noticed the first sign of our madness, back in 1800. But no, you thought the expanded pantaloons were just a phase we were going through.

[HalfTangible]

Only the British would call private schools "public".

Really you should have noticed the first sign of our madness, back in 1800. But no, you thought the expanded pantaloons were just a phase we were going through.

Drop the U from color!

[Anonymouswizard]

Drop the U from color!

Let's see...

Nah, you lott cahn just lern tu spel properlee.

[halfeye]

Only the British would call private schools "public".

They are public in the sense that anyone who can pay the fees can go.

Unlike the private tuition of e.g. royalty.

[Metastachydium]

Drop the U from color!

Petition to change your name to HalfTangibel!

[Peelee]

They are public in the sense that anyone who can pay the fees can go.

They are public in the sense that they are not public is, in fact, the silliness being pointed out.

If "just pay money" makes something public, then everything is public for enough money.

[Anonymouswizard]

They are public in the sense that they are not public is, in fact, the silliness being pointed out.

If "just pay money" makes something public, then everything is public for enough money.

I've yet to find something in America you don't have to pay money for.

[Peelee]

I've yet to find something in America you don't have to pay money for.

Note to self, AW has never been in America.

For reals, though, public parks right off the bat. Public museums, lile all the museums in DC. The public zoo in DC. Just a ton of things in DC, actually, its kind of got an enormous amount of public stuff by virtue of being the capital.

[halfeye]

They are public in the sense that they are not public is, in fact, the silliness being pointed out.

If "just pay money" makes something public, then everything is public for enough money.

I don't particularly endorse or like it, but that is where the name comes from, similar to public house, you can drink at home, but if some random walked in, you'd probably ask them to leave.

[Anonymouswizard]

See also: public transport.

Oh, sorry. I forgot that the US hasn't invented it yet.

[Peelee]

See also: public transport.

Oh, sorry. I forgot that the US hasn't invented it yet.

Metro trains are a lot more feasible when they only need to run for a tenth of a mile (i assume Brits fly for any great distances over a quarter mile. Or just never travel that far out).

[Jasdoif]

I think it's weird that there's never been an X-Men comic that's used Chi (χ) as part of one of the Greek Letter classification systems sed for describing powers.

I'm imagining lots of new readers seeing the Chi symbol and being like "Oh that's what the X in X-Men stands for" and understandably missing the point the writers are going for.

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See also: public transport.

Oh, sorry. I forgot that the US hasn't invented it yet.

Also yeah, I forgot the US is a country made up of 50 Scotland's, part of Canada, and Hawaii.

[LaZodiac]

Friend and I went to a local Wal-mart to pick me up a barbie as kind of a rite of passage thing.

And when we pulled into the parking lot, there were police because an active shooter situation was going on.

I am so ******* tired.

Jesus christ! I'm glad you're okay, but that's unbelievably awful...

Not even Gamma or Delta? Now Epsilon, that's a pretty uncommon one to see. (Also most people probably know π.)

Plus Chi will be mistaken for X.if written in Greek letters, as well as qi if using the anglicised spelling.

Thinkin' about Kingdom Hearts and how the round about reason why every blade is a key is because of the like, six degrees of separation from it and the greek letter Chi.

[Rater202]

Plus Chi will be mistaken for X.

That's kind of the point.

Xs, crosses, quincunxes, and other variations of that shape are recurring motifs for mutants.

You'd think that since they're using Greek letters for stuff they'd use the one that looks like an X for something.

Maybe give an actual letter to the people classified as "Beyond Omega" since there's clearly a guideline for classifying people as that.

Like... For sure they've used alpha, betta, epsilon, and omega and I've seen unsourced claims that they've used gamma and delta.

[Lord Raziere]

See also: public transport.

Oh, sorry. I forgot that the US hasn't invented it yet.

well anyone pay to get on a bus to get transported to somewhere in my county and a ferry that you also pay to get on that is practically vital to my local communities commute, and are both called public transport, then no we have invented it, but you still have to pay to get on.