[Caael]

Why do people come up with such stupid things that actaully serve little to no purpose?

Things so far I have pondered the actual function of

Chihuahuas, the dog. What is the point in these quivering wrecks? They are more of a decoration than a pet. Useless

Surds, the mathematical term. Never in my education have I come across a more pointless topic. Why we need to know if a number is irrational or not is beyond me. Why do we need this in later life? So we can discuss the actual use of surds. Useless

Anything incredibly pointless you know of?

[TheEnglishman]

Sequels. Why take a fairly good movie and create an awful follow up?

[Aquamarine]

Having Logics as a school subject. Why do people have to ponder everything and make a science out of everything? Talking about why people think logically is completely useless if you ask me. And I have to learn this crap!

[Caael]

Shot glasses. Why drink tiny amounts of alcohol when you can drink lots in 1 go?

[Eugine]

Me111, on Feb 25 2007, 05:30 PM, said:

Sequels. Why take a fairly good movie and create an awful follow up?

For money, money and more money. :D

Caael, on Feb 25 2007, 06:14 PM, said:

Shot glasses. Why drink tiny amounts of alcohol when you can drink lots in 1 go?

I guess people just can't handle it in one go.

[Wiflewood]

Caael, on Feb 25 2007, 09:23 PM, said:

Surds, the mathematical term. Never in my education have I come across a more pointless topic. Why we need to know if a number is irrational or not is beyond me. Why do we need this in later life? So we can discuss the actual use of surds. Useless

Wait till A Level Maths; you'll do everything in surds then. In fact, its not so much the issue of whether they're irrational or rational, its the rules that go with them that you use. Such as: Square root A x Square root B = Square root AB.

I agree on the subject of shot glasses though, especially Shot glass chess sets. First of all, why use shot glasses in the first place? Why not use a normal glass and half fill it? As for shot glass chess sets, why not buy a cheaper, normal chess set and 2 glasses?

[Eugine]

Replying to the surds point (For some reason I didnt read it before), on the contrary surds is one of the most important concept in maths. If you remove a number from it's surd from, most likely it wouldn't express it's true value. Much like changing a fraction to a decimal and rounding it off. So to be very precise (ie have the EXACT value of a number), the surd form must be used.

[Toasty]

^ Even though I'm not sure if we've learned surds yet (might have a different term for it here in the states), I agree with that.

Now the one thing I find pointless are shrinks, aka therapists, aka psychiratists, aka any other name there might be for their pointlessness. They don't know what they're talking about EVER, they never help anyone, and all they do when they're not acting like they know what they're talking about is say "Yeah, mhm, how does that make you feel?"

[Lemontime]

Sounds like toasty is denying his feeling.
Psychiatrists are essencial on some peoples lives..
What ARE pointless are cars!!

[PDM]

Caael, on Feb 25 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

Chihuahuas, the dog.

Joe has a chihuahua, and if you bad mouth it, he'll suck yo' dick

[Elliott]

Caael, on Feb 26 2007, 09:14 AM, said:

Shot glasses. Why drink tiny amounts of alcohol when you can drink lots in 1 go?

Because shotting something makes you drunk faster, it's like having a whole can of mixed drink in one mouthful. Plus it's fun to do it with friends in a circle, counting down and whatnot.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Well actually shot glasses never worked too well for me... Just having a beer of 6 works better for me. :D

Anyways, I find math useless. I don't have it anymore at my school, but I've always wondered where the hell you'd ever needed it for in later life... Except if you wanna be a math teacher for some unknown reason. >.<

[Split Infinity]

Caael, you're school's curriculum must be closely in step with Australia's, because my class started learning about surds today. Rational/irrational numbers and crap.

[Caael]

Yes. Yes they are. And we keep using them in lessons! WHY?

[Aquamarine]

You know what's pointless? Life. You study, learn and work all your life and then you die. Why? I'm not saying we shouldn't die, thank God we have to die, I'm wondering why we have to have so many obligations in the short time we have? Why can't society just let us enjoy our life as we see fit and in the fullest?

[Giro888]

We live. We die. If you ever figure out WHY, please tell me.


Psychiatrists are a stupid idea. Talking never helps you get out of being crazy- they just say they are no longer cuckoo. :D

[Xelina]

Why are people so proud of themselves...

There alwasy will be someone better at you sonner or later...

[Euron]

... homework :wacko:

[Elliott]

Aquamarine, on Feb 27 2007, 09:36 AM, said:

You know what's pointless? Life. You study, learn and work all your life and then you die. Why? I'm not saying we shouldn't die, thank God we have to die, I'm wondering why we have to have so many obligations in the short time we have? Why can't society just let us enjoy our life as we see fit and in the fullest?

Studying can help to find a job that pays you well in order to "life as we see fit and in the fullest". Money makes the world go around, and work gives you money, so you can live a life of 'happiness'. Extensive studying I find is pointless, but there is always options to drop out of school and follow other pursuits. That's the way the world works, don't agree? Kill yourself now, no one is forcing you to endure life if you think it's pointless.

[Aquamarine]

I agree with you, Agatio. But I wouldn't want to kill myself, since I personally love my life. I was just saying what I think I think about it, overall. Life, as a whole(not MY life), is full of misery and sadness. Everyone says that it is the greatest gift one can get, but I think that varies greatly. For someone life is something they would never change, but for somebody else it is nothing but a curse. THAT'S why I say life is pointless, though not useless.

[Elliott]

Aquamarine, on Feb 28 2007, 09:32 PM, said:

I agree with you, Agatio. But I wouldn't want to kill myself, since I personally love my life. I was just saying what I think I think about it, overall. Life, as a whole(not MY life), is full of misery and sadness. Everyone says that it is the greatest gift one can get, but I think that varies greatly. For someone life is something they would never change, but for somebody else it is nothing but a curse. THAT'S why I say life is pointless, though not useless.

I agree 100%. I'm fairly nihilistic in my philosophical view on life, but at the same time I'm realistic and think we should make the most of what very little time we get.

[Alex the Adept]

Know what's useless? Stories. I mean, why write a short story when you can write a book and get more money and stuff like that?

[I'm Always BROKE]

Face it people: ALOT of stuf people think of is useles. Really, I can't think of any idea at the moment which I consider usefull...

[Mars Djinni]

Alex the Adept, on Mar 4 2007, 08:08 AM, said:

Know what's useless? Stories. I mean, why write a short story when you can write a book and get more money and stuff like that?

Movies are pretty much short stories. Unless there are sequels, you gotta cram everything into about two to three hours. Look what happens to Harry Potter, trying to cram a novel into a movie. So a short story would technically be a movie script.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Yeah, but if a picture tells more than 1000 words... Then how many words would a whole movie tell? Sure it's not as easy as that, but I wouldn't say that movies have less detail than books. In alot of movies, the small details are still there... but the watcher should have eye for it. ;)

[Sea of Time]

Mars Djinni, on Mar 4 2007, 11:24 AM, said:

Movies are pretty much short stories. Unless there are sequels, you gotta cram everything into about two to three hours. Look what happens to Harry Potter, trying to cram a novel into a movie. So a short story would technically be a movie script.

I still marvel today how they fit Lord of the Rings into three movies, and still made it great. Harry Potter has been put to shame by Peter Jackson and the writers for those movies.

[Hinoa]

DiddyKong, on Mar 4 2007, 02:22 PM, said:

Yeah, but if a picture tells more than 1000 words... Then how many words would a whole movie tell?

If you count a frame as a picture, and assuming a frame rate of 60 fps and a movie length of 90 minutes, that's *pulls out calculator* 324 million words from the pictures alone. And then you need to add in the script. Any questions? ;)

Alex: The point of short stories is that sometimes, you just don't want to read an entire novel. And sometimes, there's not enough story for a novel.

[PDM]

DiddyKong, on Mar 4 2007, 11:22 AM, said:

Yeah, but if a picture tells more than 1000 words... Then how many words would a whole movie tell?.

About a thousand.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Hinoa, on Mar 5 2007, 06:51 PM, said:

If you count a frame as a picture, and assuming a frame rate of 60 fps and a movie length of 90 minutes, that's *pulls out calculator* 324 million words from the pictures alone. And then you need to add in the script. Any questions? :(

That being said, a movie tells just as much about the story as the book. Sure, a movie like Harry Potter hardly gives any "memory flashbacks" or whatever you call them in books, but some movies add alot of detail into the story.

[Split Infinity]

Agatio, on Mar 1 2007, 08:00 PM, said:

I agree 100%. I'm fairly nihilistic in my philosophical view on life, but at the same time I'm realistic and think we should make the most of what very little time we get.

But it's all for nothing, isn't it? When you die, in the unfortunate case that there is no afterlife, you simply forget all of your experiences, and your entire life no longer matters. Sure, you may benefit future generations, but they'll come and go over time as well, until the eventual stage that the sun expands, the point at which humans will probably be on Omega 41 or something.

[Aquamarine]

Humans will destroy themselves and this planet way before the Sun expands enough to kill us.

[Split Infinity]

That's something of a morbid outlook, isn't it?

[Aquamarine]

Morbid possibly, but true nonetheless. A nice lie is far worse than a bad truth.

[Split Infinity]

Perhaps not, if the realisation of that truth is beyond our lifetimes.

[Toasty]

The apocalypse is going to happen in July this year. There, live on that.

[Aquamarine]

OH NOEZ!!!! I just hope it's after the 5th of July. I hope the apocalypse won't happen before my birthday...

[Alex the Adept]

THAT would hurt.
Another useless thing- money. It's just a bunch of slips of paper you use to buy stuff. PEOPLE GET NOSTALGIC OVER PAPER! :P

[TheEnglishman]

Try living without it then. It'll be very difficult.

[Alex the Adept]

Just barter. The Indians survived with it. Why can't we?

[Aquamarine]

Because our society is too complex and greedy.

[Shikonaurum]

Because that type of "change" would be looked up as "regression." And people don't like change, especially of the regressing sort.

Not to mention that it's pretty hard to barter straight-on these days. Some occupations just don't have much going for them.

[FlamingDuck]

Plus, speculators would go out of business. Not that we really care.

Most of the stuff that comes out of Japan is pretty useless. I saw a site with a bunch of stupid stuff on it from Japan.

[Shikonaurum]

Yeah, we could live without Sony TVs and most RPGs. Not likely, but we can.

And I agree, most other things from Japan are pretty pointless. Cool gadgets, but pretty pointless. I guess that's what happens when you're not allowed to have an army?