"Damsel" > wrote in message
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> "Shaun aRe" > said:
>
> >"Damsel" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >
> >> I fear math. At least anything beyond filling in a bowling score
sheet.
> >
> >heh, I used to hate math, my teacher said to my parents that I was thick,
> >useless at maths - I passed my Physics exam at school, and it was about
50
> >or 60 % transposition of formulae. When I went to Uni for a while, I flew
> >through my maths course, and should have definately taken the higher
level
> >block - I am not good at it, but when I start learning, I pick it up OK
and
> >start to enjoy it, lack of shitty, self serving teachers (like at high
> >school) permitting.
>
> I was good at it for one year in junior high. I just happened to have a
> teacher who was able to communicate in a way that I was able to learn. I
> did well enough that year that I was tutoring half the other kids in
class.
> But that was my fifteen minutes of math fame.
>
> I have to understand *why* math works. I know this probably sounds odd,
> but I don't trust formulas and other "truths" at face value.

Oh no me either! I have to understand how almost *everything* I deal with
works - drives most people I know utterly nutz sometimes...

> I have to
> work it all out the long way. I have yet to run across anyone else who
has
> a basic mistrust of math. LOL!
>
> My dad and I used to drive each other insane. He was a mathematical
genius
> (helped his college professors figure out the things that they didn't
> understand), and I was, literally, learning disabled in that area. Many,
> many tears were shed at that kitchen table.

LMAO! Like t was the end of the world huh? - Aren't people funny like that!

> >> You humor isn't always obvious, and that subtlety
> >> isn't typical of the average joe.
> >
> >Well I *am* English ',;~}~
>
> True. There's very little English humor that I find funny. I generally
> "get" Monty Python, but many of the others leave me cold.

Such as? I'm *not* talking sit-com 'humour' here as most of it, wel it just
isn't!

Oh - used to love MP myself, but, I'm kinda sick of most of it now -
over-exposure I guess...

> I do have to
> check into Black Adder. I want to see Hugh Laurie acting ridiculous.

Heheheh, yeah - I love BA myself!


Shaun aRe