WWTBAM Bored

This normal, supposedly safe activity can get you fried!



If you do it in a vacuum chamber.

We'll all have to be more careful when we're

Spoiler

taping our watches.

Wow! That's very interesting.

gsabc wrote:We'll all have to be more careful when we're

Spoiler

taping our watches.

Spoiler

Rec

This reminds me of my bar hopping days, when I would learn some little factoid, mention it to a lady whose attention I had captured, and she would say "

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Wow! That's very interesting.

", and turn and talk to someone else.

Rexer25 wrote:This reminds me of my bar hopping days, when I would learn some little factoid, mention it to a lady whose attention I had captured, and she would say "

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Wow! That's very interesting.

", and turn and talk to someone else.

Which reminds me of when I taught high school physics before I was married and at social occassions I found that whenever I mentioned that I taught HS Physics, they would inevetably say 'I HATED Physics!' and turn away. After a number of times I finally caught on and would just say 'I teach' then the exchange would always be:
'What?'
'High school' I would respond.
'Which subject?'
'Science' would be my answer.
'Really which one?'
'Physics'
'I HATED Physics' boom

It never occurred to me to outright lie.

---Jay

frogman042 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:This reminds me of my bar hopping days, when I would learn some little factoid, mention it to a lady whose attention I had captured, and she would say "

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Wow! That's very interesting.

", and turn and talk to someone else.

Which reminds me of when I taught high school physics before I was married and at social occassions I found that whenever I mentioned that I taught HS Physics, they would inevetably say 'I HATED Physics!' and turn away. After a number of times I finally caught on and would just say 'I teach' then the exchange would always be:
'What?'
'High school' I would respond.
'Which subject?'
'Science' would be my answer.
'Really which one?'
'Physics'
'I HATED Physics' boom

The proper response to that was "You obviously never had me as your teacher."

I used to get that sort of reaction when I told people I was a chemist, but it was usually cushioned with a "Wow, you must be smart!" comment or expression.

I used to get that sort of reaction when I told people I was a chemist, but it was usually cushioned with a "Wow, you must be smart!"

Well, they had it half right.