Keith Houchen Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 15 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: A couple of weeks ago I spent the day before my wedding arguing with my Dad because he refused to go for a meal at an Italian restaurant as he thought pasta was "pointless". Is he a supply teacher by any chance and appears at the end of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 I had a long argument with a cousin about how you say the word "biopic". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 24 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: Is he a supply teacher by any chance and appears at the end of this? No, he's in his 50's but not that racist. His reasoning was because it's "just flour and water". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 I was at the playground with my eldest a few years ago, and there were two young lads there having a very heated argument about whether a boat was the same thing as a ship. They're the same in so far as they're both methods of transport that involve going across water, but are they the same-same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 3, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 3, 2021 "John Thaw only has one leg". Hywel held that position for years. And we argued it for fucking years. He had polio as a child but was a fucking biped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted December 3, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2021 Off topic but I always liked that they wrote into endeavour a reason for Thaws limp as Morse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted December 3, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 3, 2021 3 hours ago, wordsfromlee said: A couple of weeks ago I spent the day before my wedding arguing with my Dad because he refused to go for a meal at an Italian restaurant as he thought pasta was "pointless". Haha I love that one. Have heard "why would I order pasta? I can make that at home" before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted December 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2021 13 hours ago, Your Fight Site said: My uneducated take would be that the combination 1 through 7 being drawn is just as likely from a statistical standpoint as any other combination. It’s just seven balls from a pool of whatever the Lottery uses these days. So I think there would be two events you’d be looking at the possibilities here. What is the possibility of getting 1–7 (or any other run of numbers)? The same as drawing any other combination. But the chance of drawing a run like that versus the chance of drawing a spaced-out run of numbers is lesser, because there are far more non-sequential combinations as there are sequential combinations. Park life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2021 The probability question reminds me of another one that’s likely to be familiar with many players of mobile games, concerning “drop rates” e.g. loot crates/chests/crystals etc than have a % chance to win particular content. People getting irate that if the chance is 10% they don’t get the content on the 10th crystal and claiming the “drop rate” is a lie. Well…. no, that’s not how it works. Just like the chance of heads or tails is 50% but if you toss the coin twice you aren’t guaranteed tails just because the previous toss was heads. If you open 9 crystals without success but the 10th always gives you the content that means your “chance” has improved to 100%…. except it hasn’t, it’s 10%, just as with the previous 9 attempts. Not sure if I strayed a little from “stupid arguments” to “stupid people” but there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted December 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2021 The gambler's fallacy, aka maturity of chances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 4, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 4, 2021 5 hours ago, air_raid said: The probability question reminds me of another one that’s likely to be familiar with many players of mobile games, concerning “drop rates” e.g. loot crates/chests/crystals etc than have a % chance to win particular content. People getting irate that if the chance is 10% they don’t get the content on the 10th crystal and claiming the “drop rate” is a lie. Well…. no, that’s not how it works. Just like the chance of heads or tails is 50% but if you toss the coin twice you aren’t guaranteed tails just because the previous toss was heads. If you open 9 crystals without success but the 10th always gives you the content that means your “chance” has improved to 100%…. except it hasn’t, it’s 10%, just as with the previous 9 attempts. Not sure if I strayed a little from “stupid arguments” to “stupid people” but there you go. A lot of games do give you an increased percentage chance with each consecutive unsuccessful drop these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted December 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2021 I guess it's the difference between an [x] in [y] drop rate, and actual percentage odds of something happening. If there's a 1 in 10 drop rate it means you should get at least 1 of these, ideally not damaged, in every 10 attempts to get one. I think this is more to try and sell the loot boxes in bulk though, ie if you buy a pack of 10 they guarantee at least 1 premium item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 I remember someone asked a question about arguments and a bunch of maths nerds descended. Poor fucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2021 I'm just hoping for it to degenerate into "he's 28 until he becomes 29" territory tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Or kebabs/chippys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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