On the extremely rare occasion when I have the misfortune to be performing a mathematical calculation, I take enormous pleasure in carrying out the operations exclusively left to right unless indicated otherwise by brackets, which is the correct way to indicate this. If you want me to do a calculation separately, put brackets around it or bugger off. It’s your choice, really

Hear hear

Thanks I take enormous pleasure in never doing any maths at all ever, largely for reasons like this 😌

I think this is very stupid for a number of reasons. Why is there an order of operations that supersedes the direction the operations are written in? That’s at best dim witted and at worst deliberately misleading. Grog write left to right. Grog read left to right. Grog do sum left to right.

There is absolutely no reason in the world why anybody should have to know that division comes before subtraction. That’s fucking insane, man. What is the point of writing things down if you’re only going to do them in a set order anyway? May as well have a big jumble of letters and numbers and symbols on the page at that point, like who cares. The whole point of writing things down is to express concepts. Can’t do that with any kind of nuance if you’re going to read it one way anyway, no matter how you write it down. That would be like saying you always pronounce certain letters at the start of words even if they’re in the middle. Completely nuts.

I’m only going to say this once but if I’m doing a sum and you want me to do it in a specific order, use brackets. That’s what brackets are for. Don’t expect me to do things in a predetermined order because I literally can’t be bothered and I will never care enough to do that. I’m already doing a sum so don’t push it, okay bud

What the fuck kind of statement is that eh? Fucking hell man

Probably too small to be seen by officer flossy

Cool but what if it got out but then decided to go for brunch first and met a cute but overworked and slightly ditsy bit of positive matter, thus setting the stage for a light hearted but ultimately sincere romantic comedy drama

Believe it or not, 2001 was forty-five years ago

Fuck me this is an absolutely outstanding meme what-ho old chap old fellow old fruit I must say hmm mmhmm yes indeed

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This one is very nice :)

It’s all fraud all the way down, unfortunately

Oh wow look it’s election fraud. Committed by the serial fraudster and the compulsive liar. Who could have predicted this.

I can’t get over how everything is labelled like why even have a picture at that point man it’s not a metaphor or even a simile it’s just a descriptive paragraph

I actually sprained my ankle trying to read this thanks x

Your package from CERN plc inc has been picked up by the courier and is now in transit. It is not possible to cancel this shipment.

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The headlines again: truck overturns westbound on the A6 south of Paris, eye witnesses report ‘dark shapes’ among the wreckage

More after the break. Experts weigh in on the A6 crash, roads still closed so expect heavy traffic if you’re heading east or west from Dijon.