saying really stupid things??

[bonj2]

I was on a walking holiday in the Pyrenees with my sister. We were planning a walk high in the mountains when she asked the tour guide if he thought the sun would be shining above the clouds.

For my part I have some of the cognitive weaknesses typical of dyslexia (esp. pronunciation) so I'm also prone to reading things very literally. For years I had been calling kitekat 'kite cat' (like the thing you fly on a windy day) rather than 'kitty cat'. Eventually I heard someone else say it properly and the penny dropped. I always thought it was an odd name for cat food.

I say 'minestrone', not 'minnie-stronie'

Don't confuse genuine ignorance or stupidity, with mere verbal trip-ups. The speaker may well have meant to say "When is Friday 13th this year?"* A valid question, if the questioner is superstitious. And he/she merely substituted "month" for "year" in an accidental slip. I've done that often enough, myself, when speaking. Call me stupid if you must!

*Techie stuff: the 13th of at least one month in any one year, sometimes as many as three, must fall on a Friday. Moreover, counted over a long enough time period, the 13th of the month falls more often on a Friday than on any other day.

I doubt that tbh.

 

[Pete]

*Techie stuff: the 13th of at least one month in any one year, sometimes as many as three, must fall on a Friday. Moreover, counted over a long enough time period, the 13th of the month falls more often on a Friday than on any other day.

I doubt that tbh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#Occurrence

The distribution of the 13th day over the 4,800 months is as follows:

Day of the week ......... Number of occurrences
Sunday ..................... 687
Monday ..................... 685
Tuesday .................... 685
Wednesday ................ 687
Thursday ................... 684
Friday ....................... 688
Saturday ................... 684

The figures are accurate. I verified them for myself (using a piece of software) ages ago.

 

[Dave5N]

The figures are accurate. I verified them for myself (using a piece of software) ages ago.

If you still have too much time on your hands, there's plenty of jobs 'round here needs doing.

 

[Pete]

Offer them to Bonj. I reckon he's counting up on his fingers even as I type. Bonj, if you're reading this, you've got to tot up all the days of the week over four hundred years. Got that? Four hundred years.

 

[Dave5N]

Bonj, loosen them shoelaces...

 

[Dave5N]

BTW Pete, why?

 

[bonj2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#Occurrence


The figures are accurate. I verified them for myself (using a piece of software) ages ago.

ah, but it's purely coincidence, as it's over a specific 400 year period you've chosen. It may be different over 28 years, or 3,139 years, or 4,125,713 years.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Hey, here's a thought for Pete and Bonj ... It Doesn't Matter.

 

[Dave5N]

Hey, here's a thought for Pete and Bonj ... It Doesn't Matter.

spoilsport.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

How did you know my middle name?

 

[Dave5N]

thm?

 

[4F]

Don't confuse genuine ignorance or stupidity, with mere verbal trip-ups. The speaker may well have meant to say "When is Friday 13th this year?"* A valid question, if the questioner is superstitious. And he/she merely substituted "month" for "year" in an accidental slip. I've done that often enough, myself, when speaking. Call me stupid if you must!

*Techie stuff: the 13th of at least one month in any one year, sometimes as many as three, must fall on a Friday. Moreover, counted over a long enough time period, the 13th of the month falls more often on a Friday than on any other day.

This was from the same person that thought Nelson Mandela worked for a parcel company and that Africa was in South America !! I can assure you it was stupidity

 

[Kirstie]

My other half has a work colleague who is so dizzy she thought that Winston Churchill was Britain's first black prime minister and that Hitler 'wasn't a very nice person'...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

... and that Hitler 'wasn't a very nice person'...

Well, she's right on that score.

 

[Speicher]

This is a different kind of stupidity, or is it?

My nephew very recently asked me to sponsor him on the Three Peaks Challenge in the Lake District in early May. (Forty miles in one day) I politely expressed surprise that he was doing this, and asked him how often he does long distance walks. He replied that this would be his first one.

Oh, says I, what is the longest distance you have walked in one day so far?

"Eight miles, last weekend", he said, "in Leicestershire". Apparently he has calculated that because eight miles took him about three hours, he should be able to do forty miles in about eighteen hours. Is he very fit, and participating in other demanding sports? - No. Why does he want to do this? He says that last year, to impress his boss, he agreed to drive the mini-bus for the participants, but got bored with all the hanging around that was entailed. I did not bother to ask him if this year he was going to drive the minibus and do the Challenge. I do not think I should challenge his mathematical skills. Just in case it is relevant he is 39.