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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by shortscreen on Monday May 09 2016, @09:02AM
This reminds me of the time I was studying Japanese at lunch and a woman looked at my notes and asked what kind of math it was.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 09 2016, @04:07PM
and a woman looked at my notes
There's a common thread here that women are culturally permitted very few conversation starters beyond this. I'm not trying to complain about it SJW style I'm just saying that as a single guy I experienced this myself, women love to look at what guys are reading or their homework as one of the very few culturally permitted ways for women to make a first move on a guy. "hey stop paying attention to that book or homework and start paying attention to me". It not some kind of iron clad law like out of D+D manual, its just an observation from real life that's truer a lot more often than not.
I suppose ugly guys wouldn't have much experience with girls flirting with them, but I got pestered quite a bit when I was young and single despite personally having no interest in bothering young ladies about their own books or homework. Because guys have plenty of socially acceptable first moves beyond "hey baby, how bout that Fourier transform?"
Its asymmetric and "oh you're a girl doing math so you must need my manly help" isn't going to work very well with the ladies. Even if that's not what you say, that's how they'll hear it if a guy stares at their homework and starts talking to them. Or they'll get all cranky about how he just wants to stare at my chest jiggle as I draw big integral symbols. Seriously its asymmetric and usually does work F to M and not so much M to F as a conversation starter.
This is before you whip out the men are from mars women from venus, pseudoscience, where a guy is going to think talking about the problem means cooperating to solve the problem, whereas the girl is going to see it as a pickup line. Which observationally isn't too inaccurate or pseudoscience, interestingly. So maybe that is the right way to look at the world in that instance.
I haven't seen a picture of the lovely lady from the story. I wonder if there's more to this story along the lives of the above paragraphs. Like she tried to flirt with him while he's working and he's like "sry no porkers" or something about her race or whatever, and this was her revenge that got WAY out of hand.
I mean, you're provided a story that's ridiculous and an alternative that smells like a slice of real life, Occam's razor and all that, I think it far more likely the woman was offended by how he blew her off rather than she was terrified of diffeqs and now thats its totally blown up its circle the wagons time to insist on being scared of diffeqs, rather than admitting she tried to ask him out for coffee and he responded by calling her fat or WTF actually happened.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @05:42PM
Oh you insecure little fascist man...
...I'm not trying to complain about it SJW style...
and then our self-described pretty boy goes on to whine about it for several paragraphs. Can't we just stick to the facts instead of fantastical speculation such as
...he's like "sry no porkers" or something about her race or whatever...
Tone it down chum, either the posting or the drinking. This is not a constructive way of dealing with getting rejected by women.