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  • edited April 2013
    Err...I'm not that sure, but I think he or she is asking about some sort of viewing or recording devices (time travel, maybe?) are dependent on the "Frame tale" style of storytelling (For example, The Princess Bride movie, where the Frame tale is the grandfather telling the kid a story while he's sick). The second part is asking if the sort of storytelling opportunities a framing story provides give you cause to read ahead to find out how problems are solved, and if it's a good method for presenting necessary information by using the characters in the framing story to ask appropriate or necessary questions in the place of the reader/viewer.

    But I don't know. This honestly took me longer to even attempt to decipher than I'd care to admit. I think the biggest question is if Your Sci-fi teacher can actually write in something more closely approximating English. It's like he or she wrote shorthand notes about what question they'd like to ask, and then forgot to put in all the extra words.
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  • edited April 2013
    I Googled "Plausibility Devices" and got jack shit. Did your teacher give you a definition to use? I can think of two or three possible definitions that fit the component words, but I need some more context to figure out which one is correct.

    Are these the questions you were given?: http://isu.indstate.edu/jakaitis/Martian Odyssey SQ.htm
    Post edited by Drunken Butler on
  • This sounds to me like one of those questions/essays I would have gotten 100% on in college and still had no fucking idea what the bullshit they were talking about was.
  • edited April 2013
    I Googled "Plausibility Devices" and got jack shit. Did your teacher give you a definition to use? I can think of two or three possible definitions that fit the component words, but I need some more context to figure out which one is correct.

    Are these the questions you were given?: http://isu.indstate.edu/jakaitis/Martian Odyssey SQ.htm
    Only the first and third ones, all the others were different.
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  • edited April 2013
    More online class material, from Sociology 80:

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    We are not required to answer these questions.
    Post edited by Walker on
  • What's WTF about that?
  • We need to teach boys to not be shitheads and not be violent to anyone that doesn't deserve it.
  • Random font changes, capitalization, color, punctuation.
  • We need to teach boys to not be shitheads and not be violent to anyone that doesn't deserve it.
    Girls can follow along too.
  • I think with girls, as a culture, we need to teach them to be violent to people who deserve it. The domestic abuse problem we face isn't only indicative of a problem with us raising boys to be too violent, but also raising girls to not be assertive enough.
  • I want to know who told the U.S. Attorney's office it was okay to use this font. And then fire them.
  • I want to know who told the U.S. Attorney's office it was okay to use this font. And then fire them.
    Whoever decided to use that font is deceptively good at their job. In an effort to make concerned Americans less meddlesome in their affairs, they have tried to make their document as painful to read to the demographic most likely to interfere. Nitpickers.
  • A significant number of the letters connect to each other, making it extremely difficult to read, period. An aesthetically unpleasing font is one thing. A font that actively works against being read is an abomination unto good governance.
  • Oh yeah, I remember that. He was asking /r/sex about a day before if it would give him a yeast infection.
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    So bothersome.
  • Why is an iced cake in the oven?
  • Why is an iced cake in the oven?
    Because Jesus.

  • Why is an iced cake in the oven?
    Pretty sure that's not an oven. Looks like a product cooling rack. Might be in a walk-in cooler of some sort.

  • Why is an iced cake in the oven?
    Pretty sure that's not an oven. Looks like a product cooling rack. Might be in a walk-in cooler of some sort.
    Oh, that makes perfect sense then. Glad we cleared that up.
  • when my boss accidentally drew a set of male genitals as a suggestion for the new brand of a customer, stands back ans says "ahhh, thats a great cock 'n balls, isnt it?"
  • when my boss accidentally drew a set of male genitals as a suggestion for the new brand of a customer, stands back ans says "ahhh, thats a great cock 'n balls, isnt it?"
    I'm not sure if it was accidental, or if she just really, really understands your customer base.
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