WHY IS WORLD

[kaberett]

Sometimes, when you are bimbling around Cambridge at night, you overhear conversational snippets to the tune of "Yes, but you see, the problem is, there aren't enough unicorns left in the world."

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On the other hand, sometimes you get "No, I genuinely do admire Rupert Murdoch."

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In unrelated phrases I have uttered this evening: O WELL I GUESS I'M DRINKING RACISM TEA THEN :D

Comments

[alexwlchan]

My immediate thought is to try to work these into a bit of supervision work. XD

(I’m only half-joking; one of my exams last year contained a discussion on the relative merits of unicorns and man-eating dragons.)

[kaberett]

Do Not Ask about the physical/theoretical chemistry course where I ended up using turtles as an algebraic symbol.

[ghoti]

can i gently prod you into telling the story then?

[kaberett]

Uh. So. Quantum thermodynamics. SO MANY MATHS. SO MANY TEDIOUS EQUATIONS WHERE YOU HAVE TO DO FUCKTONNES OF CALCULUS AND THERE'S AN _ENTIRE LUMP OF CONSTANTS_ THAT YOU HAVE TO BE REALLY, REALLY CAREFUL TO NOT MISCOPY HALFWAY DOWN THE PAGE.

... I decided turtles were easier and less likely to leave me desperately bug-hunting.

[ghoti]

i should totally try that some time!

maybe i should start with fishens though. those are quick to sketch...

[naath]

Did someone run out of letters...

IWinoLJ/DW related a story where a person giving a presentation had used some symbolic notation on a PP presentation; but the Computer at the presenting-place had not got the right font and showed all the complicated maths symbols as wingdings. Apparently after a while it becomes quite easy to follow.

[noldo]

I used little smiley faces as a variable

...during my SURF presentation

... :D

[kaberett]

ilu

[sorrillia]

Well, yes. An evil spirit of Murdoch's caliber can only be maintained in human flesh through a regular diet of unicorn blood. And with the diminishing number of them in the world, that's not really practical anymore...

[alexseanchai]

Wikied Richard Murdoch. Failing to see either the admirable or the unadmirable. Did you perchance mean Rupert Murdoch?

[kaberett]

Correct.

[mustela_nivalis]

I want the story on the tea comment, or I will assume you have been buying all your rooibos from time-traveling pro-Apartheid companies.

[sorrillia]

While I don't endorse anything by Harry Turtledove, I do have to wonder if that was an intentional _Guns of the South_ reference?

[kaberett]

Um. Blah blah blah hilarity blah college MCR blah only non-caffeine tea is ~jungle tea~ and REALLY EXOTICISING. Kind of like this though I can't tell if that's actually the jungle in question.