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"I thought India just gave us 0."
That's a bit rude.
What about Chess and Chicken Tikka Masala 😛
Ha.
To be fair I did state the importance of that single contribution.
You forgot snakes and ladders btw.
The @Intellectualist on Twitter and Threads is a site that just pokes fun at Republicans/right wing Americans for their lack of curiosity, casual racism, and double standards. Its an endless parade of this sort of stunt. A post from them asking folks in 2024 about anything nuanced (or not for that matter) to do with the middle east is inviting people to demonstrate their ignorance, that's what the question is designed to do, and it looks like it achieved it.
I mean you could open the thread a bit wider on why anyone would actually vote on a twitter poll anyway, but this fishing trip got the catch it was looking for.
So you’re happy to believe in one type of racism but not another.
I'm speculating and theorising, not believing in anything. I'll believe it when it's evidenced.
And in some countries users use their native language rather than English which further limits those who will read. Along with the fact people follow locally, except maybe in the 51st state.
English is the de facto language of the Web. Something like half to two thirds of the Web is in English depending whose stats you believe, the rest is a smattering of various different ones around 5% and falling.
If it weren't for those bloody Ay-rabs preserving knowledge from classical Greece, Europe could have dodged the renaissance and avoided making all those pornographic nudie statues that are corrupting Americas youth.
Leonardo you dirty sod, I'm looking at you.
like asking people to refill the indicator fluid on their BMW.
Ah, that’s why their indicators never seem to work, they’ve run out of paraffin! Explains everything. 🤣
The numbering system we use is frequently referred to as Arabic numerals
I just call them numbers. I had no idea they were Arabic in origin. I’ve either learned something new today or I’m a massive ****ing racist. Anyway US schools are far too busy teaching active shooter drills and creationism to bother with foreign stuff.
Aren’t these surveys just done by ‘intellectual’ groups to make their members feels smug that they know the formal names and the ‘common’ people don’t?
Pretty much. Allowing people to feel smug about knowing a word.
I will admit I do it as well. My daughter is learning the guitar and her mum / my partner doesn't know what a hammer on is. Ooh how we belittle her lack of knowledge.
If it weren’t for those bloody Ay-rabs preserving knowledge from classical Greece, Europe could have dodged the renaissance and avoided making all those pornographic nudie statues that are corrupting Americas youth.
Yeah, how very dare they be the guardians of knowledge during Europe's dark age.
I just call them numbers.
The squiggly things you write on paper are numerals. They are used to represent numbers, which are abstract concepts.
My daughter is learning the guitar and her mum / my partner doesn’t know what a hammer on is.
There's also the reverse of the hammer on, which I won't make a joke about seeing as it's your daughter.
The squiggly things you write on paper are numerals. They are used to represent numbers, which are abstract concepts.
Indeed. I only learned the difference after a spot of judicious googling because of this thread.
I will admit I do it as well. My daughter is learning the guitar and her mum / my partner doesn’t know what a hammer on is. Ooh how we belittle her lack of knowledge.
I'm assuming that your partner isn't Joni Mitchell? (I've just spent a while wondering which famous female guitarist to name. Depends on the age-group, I guess, so would Nancy Wilson be more relevant? Bonnie Raitt? St Vincent is surely too young for STW? Sister Rosetta Tharpe may just about be trending on here 😀 )
The squiggly things you write on paper are numerals. They are used to represent numbers, which are abstract concepts.
I don’t give a shit what the correct term is. Still numbers to me and I will continue to call them numbers because that is how 99.999999999999% of people refer to them.
How is 3 the magic number.
Why do we have phone numbers? House numbers? The number of the beast?