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⚐ ReportCollection of Certified Rose Moments since BlairBash last went down: // Rose: on Wednesdays we take the parallel postulate, on Thursdays we take postulate 5'... Dylan: and on Fridays we play the cure! // Rose: why are you doing that? Are you doing that because i was doing it? Are you making fun of me? Class: *no answer* Rose: alright! // Rose: Kline is just Klining all over the place // Rose: You actually like Morris Kline? Is that why you whispered? Vera: yes Rose: weird // Rose: This is in my nightmares, I stop talking for one second and all the teenagers start talking, this is what I have nightmares about. // Rose: What was I talking about? I love my job, nightmares... // Rose: so what are Europeans doing around 1550? Rose: they're exploring, colonizing, killing people... Rose: they're building a lot of ships, and they're-- Student: mercantilism Rose: mercant--yeah all that stuff. // Rose: we can't do everything today because what will we do tomorrow? // Rose: if someone's calling it a principle or a doctrine that's how you know they're bullshitting you. Rose: the doctrine of "give me $20"
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⚐ ReportRose: some years people get this too quickly and ask me "Mr Rose what is 'straight'" and I just have to go "oh *shit*"
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⚐ ReportDylan: Veritasium had a video on that Rose: Oh cool. I hate that guy he's my rival.
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⚐ ReportRose: this is now a postulate its...who the hell is this guy? Rose: ah! it's pasch's postulate! or pasch's axiom. or something. Veena: paschtulate
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⚐ ReportRose: one student told me he was "tweaking out" Rose: and that could mean like anything
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⚐ Report// On the application of reason to geometry, talking about the Pythagoreans. Rose: "Let's say I found 20 people, and put them in a room with food and water for a month, and asked them to prove geometry." Rose: "I'm a cult leader, and they're all committed to me." Rose: "They may define something, they might rebel, I don't know." // Later... Rose: "What might be something that might be, like, hard to figure out?" // Mutters from the class. Rose: "True. Hard stuff is hard to figure out." // Later, proving that sqrt(2) is irrational by contradiction, reaching the crux of the proof. Rose: "Now, a strange sense of weirdness -- cue the "Woo-o woo-o" music -- descends upon you."