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Have you ever noticed that people in particular fields (CS, medicine, physics, philosophy, law, etc.) have their own lingo that makes them sound smart to people who didn't study that particular field? Academics are bad at this. Shoot even Starcraft has its own lingo to differentiate the "haves" from the "have-nots".
I want us all to throw out the smartest sounding thing we know from whatever field it is. However you do have to say SOMETHING. It can't just be nonsense.
I'll start:
The definition of "Romaticism" according to my philosophy/literature professor
"Romanticism is the discovery, then expanded intuitive understanding that the self and the other exist in a categorically interdependent imperative, that the nature of the real is non-systematic and transcendent, and that value is simultaneously coalescent with the absolute, yet experientially radically individuated."
LoL, his final exam was: "Using TWENTY passages from Romantic literature and philosophy, illustrate the validity of this definition."
Lots of students crapped their pants that day. 
I'll post some more later from medicine and economics since those are my two main fields.
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dude i'd ace that exam np
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Fair enough, but to what purpose?
So we can learn these word-by-word and then try to sound smart ourselves when we speak to mere mortals? I mean, either you have a vocabulary (and understanding of a certain thing) that makes you capable of forming such phrases or you don't. I don't see how random references from different fields would help anyone.
But maybe it's just me. :/
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
It all comes from the heart and bubbles forth... - Ragnar Birko, 2007
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1584 Posts
Sup guise lets have buttseks.
- Sea.Really
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"Well I'm kind of on a budget, so I'm looking for cheap, but flavorful, penis"
-Adam Yamaguchi
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what does this have to do with falling in love with one's sister?
oh yeah, romanticism.
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Braavos36374 Posts
"I found the way that a merine beat a lurker
I think it's no problem if the lurker isn't under land."
--dragon_lil
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On December 13 2008 05:34 CubEdIn wrote:
"Well I'm kind of on a budget, so I'm looking for cheap, but flavorful, penis"
-Adam Yamaguchi
rofl
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I don't feel smart when I'm talking about Maths around people who don't study it, it feels more like I'm talking in a foreign language.
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"ln(e^n) = e^(n-1)"
- Emeraldsparks, Putnam Examination
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Norway28654 Posts
"I found the way that a merine beat a lurker
I think it's no problem if the lurker isn't under land."
--dragon_lil
hahahaha thats the funniest post ever on tl
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public class HelloWorld
{
pubic static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] statements = new String[7]
statements = {
"Romanticism is the discovery, then expanded intuitive understanding that the self and the other exist in a categorically interdependent imperative, that the nature of the real is non-systematic and transcendent, and that value is simultaneously coalescent with the absolute, yet experientially radically individuated.",
"It all comes from the heart and bubbles forth...",
"Sup guise lets have buttseks. ",
"Well I'm kind of on a budget, so I'm looking for cheap, but flavorful, penis",
"what does this have to do with falling in love with one's sister?",
"HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR",
"I found the way that a merine beat a lurker
I think it's no problem if the lurker isn't under land."}
System.out.println("Hello World!");
intelligence(statements);
}
public void intelligence(int go)
{
System.out.println(go[(int)(Math.random()*go.length())]);
}
}
EDIT
I'm not going to keep this up to date...
n*x&(n-1)?
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+ Show Spoiler +No known species of reindeer can fly; BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children -- persons under 18 -- in the world; BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds.
Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons. Traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
- OmgIRok
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On December 13 2008 05:57 ilj.psa wrote:+ Show Spoiler +No known species of reindeer can fly; BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children -- persons under 18 -- in the world; BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds.
Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons. Traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. - OmgIRok
Hahaha, that is the best quote I've ever read in my life.
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Finally my teamliquidian forum knowledge pays off.
I almost got mugged one night walking to my car on campus, and well, if I'm gonna get mugged, the fucker is gonna bleed. Yeah, I have that mentality of where I refuse to go down without taking someone else down with me.
-RPF, forum failure
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On December 13 2008 05:57 ilj.psa wrote:+ Show Spoiler +No known species of reindeer can fly; BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children -- persons under 18 -- in the world; BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds.
Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons. Traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. - OmgIRok
OMG!
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The more cheese, the more holes. The more Holes in the cheese, the less cheese. Thus: The more cheese, the less cheese.
+ Show Spoiler +No of course not... I've just heard it again recently and it's funny
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