Don't underestimate a crazy lady with a chainsaw

[poetstorm]

Thanks to Hurricane Irene, I got to learn how to use a chainsaw for the first time! It was both scary and fun at the same time, and much easier than I thought it would be. :D

 

[eclipse0]

Chainsaws cut through limbs like butter! Tree limbs and various other kinds of limbs...

[hazelkrs1]

Every time I hear the word chainsaw now I always think of that scene in The Office where... well it'll take too long to explain and clip would be funnier. Might post clip at home later

[poetstorm]

Chainsaws cut through limbs like butter! Tree limbs and various other kinds of limbs...

 

Haha...I was trying not to think too hard about that. LOL

 

Every time I hear the word chainsaw now I always think of that scene in The Office where... well it'll take too long to explain and clip would be funnier. Might post clip at home later

 

Please do! I love the Office. :D

[eclipse0]

Chainsaws cut through limbs like butter! Tree limbs and various other kinds of limbs...

 

Haha...I was trying not to think too hard about that. LOL

 

 

To respect a tool is to make certain you use it properly and take all necessary safety precautions.

 

The first two rules of handling a firearm:

 

1. Always treat it as if it were loaded.

2. Never point it at something you don't intend to shoot.

 

If everyone who ever handled a firearm followed those two rules, there would be no gunshot accidents. Even safety instructors take these rules for granted, which is baffling to me. The guy who taught my safety class when I was getting my license shot himself in the thigh while climbing a tree with a loaded pistol...

 

If you treat everything with the potential to cause harm with the respect it deserves, then there's nothing to fear except the idiots out there who don't respect them.

[Talmanes]

Yeah, but then we wouldn't get nearly as many funny youtube videos of rednecks shooting themselves :D

[eclipse0]

Ah, the good ol' Darwin awards

[Deak]

I worked at a camp over the summer as a lifeguard and one of my best friends there is from Australia and I love his term for rednecks. Bogins (long o). It's awesome and now I refer to all rednecks by the Australian term for them.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you may underestimate the number of people who intend to cause harm...

[eclipse0]

hence the term 'idiots' ;)

[Netbattler11]

Half of the people in the world are of below average intelligence.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

that comes up again and again in my work, and people still find it difficult to accept. 50% of us. and often the better 50%.

[eclipse0]

It's actually less than that. You're forgetting that if you're averaging intelligence, then there's a percentage of the population that is exactly at the average, which is neither below, nor above the halfway mark. Since it's a bell curve, that number actually has the largest number of people in it. Which means it might be even more than just 1 percentage point of the population at large...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you're forgetting the 40 points you get on the TONI-III for recognizing and responding to your name....

 

when we say average, we are talking about +/- 1 standard deviation from 100, or a range from 85 to 115.... think about that next time you're frustrated with someone who can't catch onto say, math issues, real quikcly.

[Netbattler11]

I thought the average was the exact middle. With the bell curve, i guess it depends how big you're slicing it. If you have just a line dividing the two halves, or including people on a certain number.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you always have to account for errors in testing, and that's why we use the standard deviations. +/- 1 SD is considered safely within average.

 

you'll do this in stats class at some point.

[eclipse0]

Math is a skill set that not everyone has, and just because you don't have it, doesn't mean you're below average either. It's the difference between being left brained and right brained. I have no artistic ability what so ever, because I'm a math geek. I spent all my time playing with calculators (mostly trying to learn all the prime factors of 80085 & 58008) instead of playing with paint, crayons and play doh. So I didn't spend any time developing my right brain and spent it all on my left brain. Therefore I have no prejudices against those who don't get math unless they have prejudices against me for not being able to color within the lines :)

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

well, and don't tell anyone i said this, but on a straight IQ sort of line, i'd say most of DM is above average cause we're heavy readers and typers and too weird not to be. the math frustrates me cause i didn't use to have the dumb in it that i do now, though it was never my very best subject.

 

i mean general population. and i can't hold any of that against anyone, cause really, it's like holding eye color or height against them. just the cards we're dealt.

[eclipse0]

well, and don't tell anyone i said this, but on a straight IQ sort of line, i'd say most of DM is above average

 

I'd say that's a fair assessment

[Netbattler11]

I have no artistic ability what so ever, because I'm a math geek.

 

Exactly. Only instead of playing with calculators, i'm constructing computer programs.

[inferno]

Thanks to Hurricane Irene, I got to learn how to use a chainsaw for the first time! It was both scary and fun at the same time, and much easier than I thought it would be. :D

 

 

you could be the female version of the texas chainsaw massacre guy!! *runs as far as possible*

[Leyrann]

(mostly trying to learn all the prime factors of 80085 & 58008)

 

Why should you?

 

But I must say I learn the list of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on by heart too...

 

And, Dave, don't forget she can make gateways...

[eclipse0]

80085 spells BOOBS on a calculator and 58008 spells BOOBS if you look at it upside down...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

lol

[Netbattler11]

Seems like a good reason to factor them.