So very proud of my wife!

[T J]

So yesterday my wife came home with a story that made me so proud of her... and at the same time sad for the general populace. Ok, so recently we were watching a wonderful BBC documentary about our solar system, particularly Jupiter, Saturn and their moons. Apparently my wife was talking with a co-worker (Female mid 50's) about Titan, Enceladus and the like then my wives co-worker piped up with,

"Wait a minute! Our moon is universal! Our moon is the only moon in the universe! What are you talking about?!"

Apparently at that point my wife let her have it (as politely as possible). Informing her (much to the co-workers chagrin since there were other people there too) not only are there hundreds of moons just in our solar system but they are common place through out the universe.

She got home and asked me how can people walked around this Earth and be that stupid or just that unaware of wonderful universe around them, even close to home. I simply smiled, proud of my wife.

Just wanted to share.

 

[Switch]

She got home and asked me how can people walked around this Earth and be that stupid.

Ignorant, not stupid. And there's little reason to be aware of something that has absolutely no bearing on one's life.

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I do wonder how someone can reach such an age and be so utterly uneducated. I mean, really, not knowing other planets have moons? That's like not realizing there are countries outside the USA. Hey, wait a minute...

 

[Finn]

She got home and asked me how can people walked around this Earth and be that stupid.

Ignorant, not stupid. And there's little reason to be aware of something that has absolutely no bearing on one's life.

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

Oh Brother! Not another thread with funny ideas of what people should know.

I doubt that many people actually know what A4 paper standard is, including those with doctorate degrees....

 

[Cheapjack]

What that co-worker may have been getting at, was that our Earth has only one moon? And, it is rare, for that?

It would have been more worrying if she said she had only one moon. And offered to show it to everyone.

 

[Switch]

Oh Brother! Not another thread with funny ideas of what people should know.

<- - - - The point


<- - - - Your head

I doubt that many people actually know what A4 paper standard is, including those with doctorate degrees...

Given that it's the standard paper size used everywhere except the United States, I expect a few people might recognise it.

 

[Finn]

I doubt that many people actually know what A4 paper standard is, including those with doctorate degrees...

Given that it's the standard paper size used everywhere except the United States, I expect a few people might recognise it.

So? How does the understanding of a standardized paper format term indicate a high quality trait for a wife?

 

[Franklin]

She got home and asked me how can people walked around this Earth and be that stupid.

Ignorant, not stupid. And there's little reason to be aware of something that has absolutely no bearing on one's life.

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

A4? What happened to the first three standards?

 

[Shatnertage]

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

Do you work for Dunder Mifflin?

 

[Switch]

I doubt that many people actually know what A4 paper standard is, including those with doctorate degrees...

Given that it's the standard paper size used everywhere except the United States, I expect a few people might recognise it.

So? How does the understanding of a standardized paper format term indicate a high quality trait for a wife?

It ... doesn't. Nor does knowing any other fact. Intelligence is what matters, not knowledge. Ignorance alone is not a sin. Pride, on the other hand, is certainly one of the seven.

She got home and asked me how can people walked around this Earth and be that stupid.

Ignorant, not stupid. And there's little reason to be aware of something that has absolutely no bearing on one's life.

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

A4? What happened to the first three standards?

They're around. Actually the series starts at A0, so, first four. A4 is the 'standard sheet of paper' size, closely resembling the US Letter size.

Each in the series is half the size of its predecessor, allowing sheets of smaller standards to easily and efficiently be created from larger ones by folding them in half. The length:width ratio of all sheets in the series, by which this property is enabled, is Sqrt(2):1

And it comes, very appropriately, from Germany.

Now go forth and use this knowledge for good.

 

[T J]

I do wonder how someone can reach such an age and be so utterly uneducated. I mean, really, not knowing other planets have moons? That's like not realizing there are countries outside the USA. Hey, wait a minute...

Yeah, lots of people aren't big on geography either. If it doesn't effect their daily lives, who cares? Sad but true.

I was recently told by a young woman of Mexican decent at my work, "I don't even know what white people eat!"

I just wasn't sure how to respond to that one but she was nice so we just moved on in the conversation.

There is this mentality if it doesn't effect us in our daily lives we don't pay much attention.

But in the end, moons are cool!

 

[B.J.]

Why am I picturing Squiggy's butt?

 

[T J]

 

[Cheapjack]

Tonight, Mrs Cheapjack and I will be probing Uranus.

 

[Finn]

^Save that for that Crab Nebula thread

 

[Franklin]

Given that it's the standard paper size used everywhere except the United States, I expect a few people might recognise it.

So? How does the understanding of a standardized paper format term indicate a high quality trait for a wife?

It ... doesn't. Nor does knowing any other fact. Intelligence is what matters, not knowledge. Ignorance alone is not a sin. Pride, on the other hand, is certainly one of the seven.

Ignorant, not stupid. And there's little reason to be aware of something that has absolutely no bearing on one's life.

Personally I wouldn't marry any woman who couldn't tell me from which country the A4 paper standard originated.

A4? What happened to the first three standards?

They're around. Actually the series starts at A0, so, first four. A4 is the 'standard sheet of paper' size, closely resembling the US Letter size.

Each in the series is half the size of its predecessor, allowing sheets of smaller standards to easily and efficiently be created from larger ones by folding them in half. The length:width ratio of all sheets in the series, by which this property is enabled, is Sqrt(2):1

And it comes, very appropriately, from Germany.

Now go forth and use this knowledge for good.

Oh. My. God. There IS an answer!

 

[RJDiogenes]

When I was a senior in High School, they offered a course in Astronomy. Since I had been interested in Astronomy pretty since I was gestating, I signed up for it, desperate to have a class that wasn't mind-numbingly boring. By the end of the semester, nobody in the class had yet learned the names of the planets in the Solar System. Granted, there were nine in those days....

I'm constantly appalled at the ignorance of the common people. Especially the ones who are aggressively ignorant.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

A4? What happened to the first three standards?

As Dr. Richard Daystrom once explained, "Well, you see, the standards one through four were not entirely succesful. But this one is. A4 is ready to take control of the ship."

 

[Franklin]

A4? What happened to the first three standards?

As Dr. Richard Daystrom once explained, "Well, you see, the standards one through four were not entirely succesful. But this one is. A4 is ready to take control of the ship."

Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing! CORRECT ANSWER! In the words of David Letterman, "Once again, Paul, you have crystalized my thoughts, exactly." (I mean this IS a Star Trek board, right?)

 

[Amaris]

When I was a senior in High School, they offered a course in Astronomy. Since I had been interested in Astronomy pretty since I was gestating, I signed up for it, desperate to have a class that wasn't mind-numbingly boring. By the end of the semester, nobody in the class had yet learned the names of the planets in the Solar System. Granted, there were nine in those days....

I'm constantly appalled at the ignorance of the common people. Especially the ones who are aggressively ignorant.

I remember back in middle school, my science teacher asked us to name the nine planets. As I was the only one who had his hand up in response, he picked me. So I had to stand up, and say the names of the planets. I named them all, in order. My science teacher was impressed, which means either his expectations for our class were very low, or I did a lot more reading than my fellow classmates. What was the saddest part? One of the kids in class stands up and says "ha! you forgot the Sun!" in a tone of mockery. I'm not joking.

Just as (what I consider) a neat aside, I still have an old science book that talks about Jupiter's 12 moons.