It is the 21st century

Odradek · 2014-09-27 13:23:29

We still design public desks for right-handed people. A full 10% of the population are inconvenienced by this to a fair degree.

wtf, school system?

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 13:23:58

It's what society deserves for its continued use of stupid abbreviations.

I mean, who uses "cop" when it's CLEARLY short for Chief Of Police.

0/10 society, try again when you realize that a plane is a surface and an airplane is a vehicle.

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 13:43:47

honestly i don't think chairs with fixed desks are ever going to not suck

Princess Alice · 2014-09-27 13:51:05

Every classroom I've been in recently has had at least a couple left-handed desks thrown into the mix. Maybe my school is just more forward-thinking than yours, I dunno.

Also, yesterday I was in a classroom where someone had put a left-handed desk against the left-hand wall. How is anyone supposed to sit there? Idiots.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 16:04:19

I've seen left-handed desks (and sat in them before), and even seen classrooms with mixed right-handed and left-handed desks, too.

That said, civilization, where are my flying cars? And my sky walkways?

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 16:18:55

criminalscum · 2014-09-27 16:27:25

Yeah, it's the 21st century if you assume that the world started with Jesus' birth. Disgusting Christians.

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 16:28:08

criminalscum said:
Yeah, it's the 21st century if you assume that the world started with Jesus' birth. Disgusting Christians.

I am offended by neither term.

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 16:30:07

"assume" is indeed pretty inoffensive

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 16:31:02

Klinotaxis said:
"assume" is indeed pretty inoffensive

It makes an sume out of s and a.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 17:21:31

wasn't jesus born in 4 bc anyway

Previous Calica · 2014-09-27 17:39:46

something like that, yeah, since herod died around 4 bc and jesus was born while herod was ruling

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 17:45:58

In my religion, we are taught that the exact date of His birth was April 6, but we don't know the year.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 17:49:41

close enough

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 17:53:53

Same for us.

I should know the exact date. Part of the various interpretations of the SDA involves Daniel predicting the birth of Jesus, and that sounds like it requires exact dates.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 17:57:02

and that, my friends, is why we celebrate Christmas in July!

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 18:48:42

-Looks up Seventh Day Adventists on Google-

Man, they hate you guys, too?

Stupid internet.

Obā-san · 2014-09-27 18:51:24

seventh day advent children

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 19:10:05

^^ Do they? I haven't kept track of our Internet cred lately.

Doesn't matter. We still have cornflakes to our name

Obā-san · 2014-09-27 19:22:06

things i know about 7th day adventists

* saturday

* breakfast cereal

* christian mortalism

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 19:40:43

That is more than most of the uninitiated population.

Here, have your own set of Ellen G White Stickers

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 19:41:46

The most famous figure in our church's history is a woman. A female church leader, for that matter. I just realized that.

Bet the Seventh Day Baptists can't brag about that, huh?

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 19:45:52

all i know about seventh-day adventists is:

1. they go to church on saturdays

2. something about proselytizing?

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 19:49:06

what i know about mormons:

1. they have an additional book to the bible, said to have to do with what jesus did after coming to america

2. they basically dominate the state of utah, culturally and politically (and they are mainly conservative)

3. moroni, joseph smith, brigham young, harry reid, mitt romney, and ken jennings

4. they have really awesome religious buildings, including one that houses one of the world's largest organs, and they frequently deck the steeples with a golden statue

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 19:49:39

That is a thing that we do, yes.

Have a novelty nonalcoholic beverage dispenser.

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 19:50:23

exaltation

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 19:50:38

oh, SDAs also don't drink alcohol?

cool.

i forgot to add, mormons don't drink alcohol, coffee, or various beverages. so say what you will about their politics, at least they have some idea of how to live healthy lifestyles.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 19:51:20

also, some of the more conservative mainline protestant denominations seem to regard mormons as insane crazy hellspawn fuckers or something

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 19:54:42

i didn't know jennings was mormon

Imipolex G · 2014-09-27 19:55:42

we were promised jetpacks

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 20:02:45

Imipolex G said:
we were promised jetpacks

Elder Packer hates jetpacks and won't let us research them.

(Explanation of joke: ELder Boyd K. Packer is the grumpy old man of the church.)

(Explanation of culture around joke: ONly I can make jokes like this, because i'm Mormon.)

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 20:07:48

Our dietary restrictions are similar to the Mormon ones.

We also follow the Leviticus 11 rules, and White's writings promote vegetarianism, along with a number of health stuff.

A good deal of her stuff got confirmed with 20th century health science, iirc.

Klinotaxis · 2014-09-27 20:16:01

if you ever feel sad about jetpacks just imagine a time traveler from say 1950 coming up to you and asking about your phone

NOW EXPLAIN MOSFET MOTHERFUCKERS

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-09-27 20:19:32

Aliroz said:
It's what society deserves for its continued use of stupid abbreviations.

I mean, who uses "cop" when it's CLEARLY short for Chief Of Police.

0/10 society, try again when you realize that a plane is a surface and an airplane is a vehicle.

It's actually short for "copper," in reference to the material that constabulary helmets used to be made out of, particularly in London. I thought that you were aware of this fact.

Obā-san · 2014-09-27 20:21:42

i am pretty sure aliroz was making a joke

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 20:22:29

-Foghorn- that's a joke, son. Flew right over your head, it did -/Foghorn-

Aliroz · 2014-09-27 20:23:02

Sredni Vashtar said:

Aliroz said:
It's what society deserves for its continued use of stupid abbreviations.

I mean, who uses "cop" when it's CLEARLY short for Chief Of Police.

0/10 society, try again when you realize that a plane is a surface and an airplane is a vehicle.
It's actually short for "copper," in reference to the material that constabulary helmets used to be made out of, particularly in London. I thought that you were aware of this fact.

I am aware of this fact.

(That's why I chose that fake etymology for my straw-self to be angry about.)

Yarrun XIX · 2014-09-27 20:23:32

Another sucky thing about this phone. Can't do HTML Format jokes.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-09-27 20:25:07

Klinotaxis said:
if you ever feel sad about jetpacks just imagine a time traveler from say 1950 coming up to you and asking about your phone

NOW EXPLAIN MOSFET MOTHERFUCKERS

well, basically, we discovered that it is far easier to transmit information than it is to transport matter.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-09-27 20:26:16

I apologise.

I am bad at humour today. u___u

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