EPTI guess they don't teach math in Mongolia
lol mongolians
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Luddite
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I guess they don't teach math in Mongolia | ||
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Piste
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SnowFantasy
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You definitely should've taken that discount. Where they nice socks at least? | ||
l10f
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Biff The Understudy
France7890 Posts
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konadora
Singapore66170 Posts
...actually, I don't think I would. Don't trust the quality, man  | ||
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Bill Murray
United States9292 Posts
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economist_
Vietnam719 Posts
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
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popnfreshspk
United States93 Posts
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XinRan
United States530 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:30 economist_ wrote: Nice that from one person you extrapolate to the whole country Yes, nice job, except you got the country wrong. This guy is clearly an American trying to hustle money out of you, because we all know only American math can be that bad. As an American, I know first hand. 4/3 people at my school failed math! | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France7890 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:38 XinRan wrote: Yes, nice job, except you got the country wrong. This guy is clearly an American trying to hustle money out of you, because we all know only American math can be that bad. As an American, I know first hand. 4/3 people at my school failed math! Wwell, in this case it's more mere logic than proper math. But I laughed at your reasonement.  | ||
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:30 economist_ wrote: Nice that from one person you extrapolate to the whole country If you read carefully he's not actually making fun of Mongolia, just that one particular person, who happens to be from Mongolia. | ||
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d_so
Korea (South)3262 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:40 Nytefish wrote: If you read carefully he's not actually making fun of Mongolia, just that one particular person, who happens to be from Mongolia. when i carefully read the title of the thread it refers to the Mongol ethnicity in the plural | ||
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:40 Nytefish wrote: If you read carefully he's not actually making fun of Mongolia, just that one particular person, who happens to be from Mongolia. thanks man. Geez i was just trying to tell a funny story, didn't realize people would get so offended by it. | ||
alffla
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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konadora
Singapore66170 Posts
On March 09 2010 23:23 floor exercise wrote: It's true, the title is a sweeping generalization and I for one am deeply offended. The Mongol Empire was the most racially diverse empire to ever conquer half the known world, and you can be sure if a man improperly calculated a discount when selling socks to Genghis Khan he would not be making a blog on the internet with the implication that his entire people were bad at simple arithmetic. ![[image loading]](http://rlv.zcache.com/thumbs_up_you_like_this_bumper_sticker-p128096592726024722trl0_400.jpg) | ||
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StarN
United States2587 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sklar/teaching/s09/cis3.5/who/francisco/mongol-2.jpg) "Apologies, my warrior made a miscalculation. Here's the actual deal: I'll take those socks back off you. For precisely 0 dollars." | ||
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PitoKapangitans
United States8 Posts
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SuperJongMan
Jamaica11586 Posts
Now I'mma check it oot. | ||
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Aerox
Malaysia1213 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105157 | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
On March 10 2010 00:40 Myrmidon wrote: Maybe he was just on-the-fly price adjusting. Since the OP was not interested in three pairs for $10, one pair for $3 was a safer sell? to be honest this is probably what happened. His English wasn't very good. | ||
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Comeh
United States18918 Posts
On March 10 2010 00:29 Aerox wrote: *ahem* http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105157 Fucking epic. Mongorians apparently are masters of deception. | ||
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koreasilver
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On March 09 2010 23:23 floor exercise wrote: It's true, the title is a sweeping generalization and I for one am deeply offended. The Mongol Empire was the most racially diverse empire to ever conquer half the known world, and you can be sure if a man improperly calculated a discount when selling socks to Genghis Khan he would not be making a blog on the internet with the implication that his entire people were bad at simple arithmetic. 5/5 | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
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Slunk
Germany768 Posts
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Robinsa
Japan1333 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:38 XinRan wrote: Yes, nice job, except you got the country wrong. This guy is clearly an American trying to hustle money out of you, because we all know only American math can be that bad. As an American, I know first hand. 4/3 people at my school failed math! Good one. I actually laughed out loud reading it! | ||
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zealing
Canada806 Posts
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aegisabcde
United States145 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
Kinda rude... | ||
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Art.FeeL
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On March 09 2010 22:10 Luddite wrote: Today I was walking down the street, when a random guy comes up to me and says "Hi, can you help me? I'm a student from Mongolia and I need to raise money so i'm selling socks". I thought that was kinda interesting, and I did actually need some new socks, so I agreed to buy a pair. He got excited and said "you can get a discount! $10 for 3 pairs!" I said no, I only need 1 pair, and he was like "oh, 1 pair is $3." I guess they don't teach math in Mongolia That's called generalization | ||
flamewheel
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Southlight
United States11767 Posts
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lone_hydra
Canada1460 Posts
But I really think he hussled you good. I'm pretty sure he realized the math is wrong if he was an international student and all. | ||
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Chromyne
Canada561 Posts
On March 10 2010 03:16 Southlight wrote: So how are the socks? Actually, this is what I really want to know. | ||
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PiePie
United States248 Posts
On March 09 2010 22:10 Luddite wrote: Today I was walking down the street, when a random guy comes up to me and says "Hi, can you help me? I'm a student from Mongolia and I need to raise money so i'm selling socks". I thought that was kinda interesting, and I did actually need some new socks, so I agreed to buy a pair. He got excited and said "you can get a discount! $10 for 3 pairs!" I said no, I only need 1 pair, and he was like "oh, 1 pair is $3." I guess they don't teach math in Mongolia Well there was a generalization, "I guess they don't teach math in Mongolia." Also the title clearly says "lol mongolians" which is pretty much generalizing the entire population. Just saying, don't defend the fact that you didn't make a generalization, defend why you did it and give good reason. I'm a neutral party. How are the socks? | ||
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BadBinky
Finland649 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.timewarp-toys.com/troll.jpg) | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
'why u trying to sell socks to get outa korea? no one in their right mind would wanna leave this place' | ||
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lone_hydra
Canada1460 Posts
On March 10 2010 05:47 Rekrul wrote: have been approached by lots of these ppl selling socks in korea always from random countries 'trying to get back home' 'why u trying to sell socks to get outa korea? no one in their right mind would wanna leave this place' Unless you are approaching the age for mandatory army service. | ||
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
make his day | ||
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
you mess up my warr! actually, some supermarkets do that too. I've seen some articles on consumerist where they have a "deal" in which they sell bulk items for more than they would cost individually. | ||
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