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Mini
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Jan-07-03, 11:13 AM (EST)
 
"Very boring"
 
   I must tell ya that I HATE MATHS. and you created one 'o the most borin' sit's . THIS SITE SUCKS!!!x(


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
Very boring Mini Jan-07-03 TOP
  RE: Very boring Vladimir Sep-08-03 1
     RE: Very boring Michele Nov-20-03 2
     RE: Very boring Ralph Boles Nov-20-03 3
         RE: Very boring LC Nov-20-03 4
             RE: Very boring pilar Jan-30-04 11
     RE: Very boring DP Nov-23-03 5
         RE: Very boring Vladimir Nov-24-03 6
  RE: Very boring Math Lover Nov-25-03 7
  RE: Very boring G Nov-26-03 8
  RE: Very boring peter pan Dec-16-03 9
     RE: Very boring JP Dec-27-03 10
  RE: Very boring tiffany bloomer Feb-03-04 12
     RE: Very boring Monica Feb-06-04 14
  RE: Very boring MATH IS FUN Feb-06-04 13
     RE: Very boring gradtat931 May-04-04 16
  RE: Very boring jaesaces Mar-15-04 15
  RE: Very boring nonno fresh Sep-16-04 17
  RE: Very boring don't mind Oct-14-04 18
  RE: Very boring Paul Arnone Oct-15-04 19
     RE: Very boring rewboss Oct-17-04 20
         RE: Very boring Paul Arnone Oct-19-04 21
             RE: Very boring Pilar Oct-27-04 22
  RE: Very boring becas Oct-30-04 23
     RE: Very boring Pilar Nov-01-04 24

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Vladimir
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Sep-08-03, 05:54 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Very boring"
In response to message #0
 
   You know what I hate? The moon. Will somebody turn off the moon? I am trying to sleep. }>


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Michele
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Nov-20-03, 12:31 PM (EST)
 
2. "RE: Very boring"
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   Vladimir, an amusing response.

I find this a fab site ... most fun one I have found in months!

;)


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Ralph Boles
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Nov-20-03, 03:41 PM (EST)
 
3. "RE: Very boring"
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   Vladimir,

I am deeply offended that you hate the moon. I am from there, so i have some deep feelings about it.

;)


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LC
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Nov-20-03, 01:56 PM (EST)
 
4. "RE: Very boring"
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   the bored are boring. instead of criticizing the poor valdimar who has put time and effort in developing a web sight, why don't you develop a better one. if your not up to that, perhaps you could provide some suggestions to him that would actually change the situation to motivate you in learning math. use your brain, maybe you won't be so bored.


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pilar
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Jan-30-04, 09:50 AM (EST)
 
11. "RE: Very boring"
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   >the bored are boring. instead of criticizing the poor
>valdimar who has put time and effort in developing a web
>sight, why don't you develop a better one. if your not up
>to that, perhaps you could provide some suggestions to him
>that would actually change the situation to motivate you in
>learning math. use your brain, maybe you won't be so bored.

it's site, not sight.
web site
ok?
and another thing, "your" means that something belongs to you, you're, means you are (verb to be).
"if YOU'RE not up to blah blah" would be correct.
it annoys me to see how native speakers have such a horrible usage of the lenguage.


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DP
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Nov-23-03, 04:24 PM (EST)
 
5. "RE: Very boring"
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   Vladimir,

Thank you for creating such a wonderful site.
I am currently studying geometry in school and find this site to be the most helpful. Keep up the great work :-)

Regular Visitor,

DP


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Vladimir
Member since Jun-22-03
Nov-24-03, 09:15 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Very boring"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-24-03 AT 09:19 AM (EST)
 
Hello DP and LC,

Thank you for the compliments, but I am not the one to receive it. This site, Cut The Knot!, was developed in its entirety by Alex Bogomolny (the moderator, the only charter member, whose name shows up with a little chess pawn in posts). When I found the site, it was fully developed. I am only a regular visitor and admirer of the site, just like you. While I am honored that some of my posts in the CTK Exchange were deemed worth inluding in the site proper, this amounts to perhaps 0.1%. I am sorry for being so overbearing as to create such impression in anyone. Or perhaps I did not, perhaps you just mixed up the names, Alexander - Vladimir? :)

Regards, Vladimir


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Math Lover
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Nov-25-03, 09:35 AM (EST)
 
7. "RE: Very boring"
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Well, that figures. People who are dumb generally shy away from
math sit's.

It's a wonder you were able to post here.
Who helped you, Mini?
Btw, this thing you're looking at now is called a monitor. MONITOR.


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G
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Nov-26-03, 01:42 PM (EST)
 
8. "RE: Very boring"
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   Hi all,

My personal experience here was fun, especially from rather
active participation in the 'monkey wrench' of the Bradley
conjecture. May be participation is the key.

It lasted for 2 months with it's inevitable arguments, mistakes,
expectations and the intrigue and mystery all culminating in a
tickling the senses feeling of discovery, which happen to be more
fun for me than 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' serials combined.

Anyone capable to prove otherwise by very complicated
multiplications and divisions ( or any other trick, excluding a
round trip to infinity ) may be the first to cast a medium size
stone at me.


G.


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peter pan
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Dec-16-03, 09:16 AM (EST)
 
9. "RE: Very boring"
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   >I must tell ya that I HATE MATHS. and you created one 'o the
>most borin' sit's . THIS SITE SUCKS!!!x(


fly away


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JP
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Dec-27-03, 11:01 PM (EST)
 
10. "RE: Very boring"
In response to message #9
 
   This is a great website! I first found the website a few weeks ago when I was looking up something in geometry. Then google took me here. The discussions in the forums are all very interesting and educational. Thank you for making such a great website Alex!


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tiffany bloomer
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Feb-03-04, 07:01 PM (EST)
 
12. "RE: Very boring"
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   :+ }> i love math but this is boring!!!!!!:'( :(


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Monica
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Feb-06-04, 03:24 PM (EST)
 
14. "RE: Very boring"
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   Math is fun And you made a good web site and learned a lot Thanks a lot for helping me learn from a game now math is my best subject.:7 ;)


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MATH IS FUN
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Feb-06-04, 03:24 PM (EST)
 
13. "RE: Very boring"
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   MATH IS FUN AND MAYBE YOU DONT LIKE IT BUT ITS BETTER THEN DOING NOTHING OR DOING HOMEWORK YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT YOU ABLE TO LEARN SOME PEOPLE DONT GET TO LEARN YOUR LUCKY JUST LIKE ME SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD AT LEAST THANK PEIPLE THAT WE GET TO LEARN LIKE OTHER PEOPLE x(


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gradtat931
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May-04-04, 07:25 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: Very boring"
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I am teaching myself Maths designing my own syllabus. I am at the begining of my journey but I have or dare to peruse other sit's such as Wolfram for Galleries and Vizaulizations of Functions. I dont have GCSE or a level Maths, but I pray this site like the Wolfram galleries and others besides are open to peeps like me who only want to teach themselves, prior to eventaully doing above.
My Course does things others dont do. I have started a weblog on Live Journal. www.livejournal.com/users/grslad898_6lwda so it with great trepidation that I put my toe in the water. I reckon by seeing big the simpler becomes less threatening.
Maths boring?? It'seems a pure science and anyway its a Gateway topic for all the other disciplines.
I live in an Intellectaul Desert no peers no achievers nearby. I live in Supported Housing. So if Maths is boring I need my head seeing too.
I will most probably shrink and die if you view my site but with widespread innmmeracy I think it better to learn how to light the Mathematical torch. And this site hopefully is a mathematical playground for my learning.

Supported Housing Tenant
On the margins of Society (UK) in so many ways
My circumstances don't add up.
My family pioneers I will too!


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jaesaces
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Mar-15-04, 07:06 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Very boring"
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   this site is for people who like math and if you dont like it...leave!


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nonno fresh
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Sep-16-04, 01:52 PM (EST)
 
17. "RE: Very boring"
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   I am currently in my last year of a math degree and have realized why maths can be so boring. You see when i first started i was reckless, hence my life had many problems that were ongoing simultanously. At this point i found maths to be rewarding, as i could do the maths.
(At this point i didn't live my own life,as i was dependent on others)

However i have recently foung the girl that will be with me foever and we are now engaged to be married. I am actually living my own life and not worring about others so much. Thus life is good.

One small problem i've lost my interest in maths...just can't get motivated.

If anyone can help break the boredom im all ears.
In return I'll write on......


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don't mind
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Oct-14-04, 05:16 PM (EST)
 
18. "RE: Very boring"
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   y r u on this site then, f u don't like maths i don't c y ur spending ur time on it. i h8 maths and i no dat im on it but its only 2 do a h/w and im sure dats prob the reason y ur on it'so don't slag, it prob has helped u in sum way


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Paul Arnone
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Oct-15-04, 01:30 PM (EST)
 
19. "RE: Very boring"
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   I find math to be more of sport for the mind than anything. Math in it's own ways is a very fun subject, but at the same time, yes it does have potential to be boring. If you don't like, "maths" and you want to express your feelings with stupid exclamation points and the unecessary capitalization of words, then you must be another 'woe is me' teenager or college frat-boy who thinks the world revolves around him/her.

I just want to bring a concept called, 'reality' (oooooooh, scary...) to the topic. If you will look past your d*ck and look at the computer, guess what is allowing you to go to this site or any other site you may visit? This other crazy concept called (get ready, it'll blow your mind away) 'mathematics'. Oh may God, imagine that! Who would have guessed that math has been the foundation of all modern technology for the past 50 or so years? As it would seem, not you. Now go away before I prove your unlimited supply stupidity again. Haha, tool.

On a side note, people who use phrases like 'sum' instead of 'some', or 'y' instead of 'why' should go away too. It's not like you use up all your energy typing a couple extra keays, you just sound dumb and illiterate.


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rewboss
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Oct-17-04, 08:29 AM (EST)
 
20. "RE: Very boring"
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   >Now go away before I prove your unlimited supply
>stupidity again. Haha, tool.

Not wishing to butt in here, but the thread was started in January 2003 by someone who, it'seems, went away long, long ago.

>On a side note, people who use phrases like 'sum' instead of
>'some', or 'y' instead of 'why' should go away too. It's not
>like you use up all your energy typing a couple extra keays,
>you just sound dumb and illiterate.

Skitt's Law: A post correcting someone else's grammar or spelling will itself contain errors. I have counted six grammar and spelling errors in your post, and at least one idiomatic error.


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Paul Arnone
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Oct-19-04, 08:25 AM (EST)
 
21. "RE: Very boring"
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   Blow, I don't care how many errors I may have typed in there. I'm just trying to make a point and I should of thought about the fact that at some point in time someone who has nothing to do with thier time is going to come around and complain at something without reason. Oh my, look at that I spelled some basic words wrong. Well, yeah that sums it up. It couldn't be a typo... no no no... I must have been spelling words like 'keys' wrong my whole life, yup that's the answer.

Also, I wasn't correcting grammar. I was just saying that people who type short (y instead of why) are dumb and about as useful as gothics. Also, how many times did you go over your reply to check for spelling errors? Saying zero would be a lie (I don't spell check hence the grammar and spelling problems, I'm too lazy). In fact don't say anything. Also, 'Skitt's Law' isn't a law. You're correcting my reply yet, I don't see any grammar errors in your reply. I had some typos, you contradict what you say, (or what Skitt's Law says anyway) leave it at that. Now go away and shove your Skitt's Law.


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Pilar
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Oct-27-04, 06:50 AM (EST)
 
22. "RE: Very boring"
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   Well, hello evereyone.
I don`t send my opinions here very often, but this time i just couldn't help myself.
I'm still in two minds about how to consider the world: funny or just plainly depressing.
Today and after reading this whole conversation i'm inclined to the second one.
Paul, I must say I agree with you.
Ther has been a point not taken into acount by this other guy, and that is I (or Paul, in this case) am free to correct everey single person's grammar, even if my grammar is not good.
Why?
Because one thing has nothing to do with the other.
It's like when you call someone ugly, and then there's always some jerk that goes "uh, don't you look at yourself in teh mirror as well?"
Well, I don't care if i'm ugly as well, the thing is that you are.
And all this providing that Paul's grammar wasn't good, which is not the case.
Is a typo so difficult to recognize?
And for anyone who may think that talking about language has nothing to do with math, get the hell out of here.
The issue is to be intelligent.
Whether it is in mathematical knowledge or the language you speak.
You make me sad.
All of you.
Instead of Paul, you are ok.
Not sending you my best wishes;
Pilar


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becas
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Oct-30-04, 10:28 AM (EST)
 
23. "RE: Very boring"
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   Then don't loose Your time - go to the bar or watch TV !!!


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Pilar
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Nov-01-04, 10:51 PM (EST)
 
24. "RE: Very boring"
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   >Then don't loose Your time - go to the bar or watch TV !!!

I would, but I consider this a moral duty.
I owe it to myself.
Thanks for the advise anyway, but i can assure you I have plenty of time to study, take my school and extra-curricular tests, go out with my friends and boyfriend, watch tv and go to the bar.
See you.
Pilar.


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