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Dec. 9th, 2017 07:51 pm
1000 лет назад визирь буидского эмира Басры, Абу Али аль-Хасан ибн аль-Хасан ибн аль-Хайсам аль Басри – нашел объем тела, ограниченного плоскостью z=1, и поверхностью z=x2+y2 (параболоид вращения):
В числе учеников Аль-Хазена (так имя ибн аль-Хайсама – латинизировали) – были принцы и представители исполнительной власти поплоше.
Сколько премьер-министров/вицепрезидентов/губернаторов сейчас могут найти объем эллиптического параболоида? Такие вообще бывают?
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Date: 2017-12-10 04:22 pm (UTC)It’s always the thing that doesn’t get smashed? So why don’t they make the planes out of the same stuff?” The audience roared with laughter at how stupid scientists were, couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag, but I sat feeling uncomfortable. Was I just being pedantic to feel that the joke didn’t really work because flight recorders are made out of titanium and that if you made planes out of titanium rather than aluminium, they’d be far too heavy to get off the ground in the first place? I began to pick away at the joke. Supposing Eric Morecambe had said it? Would it be funny then? Well, not quite, because that would have relied on the audience seeing that Eric was being dumb—in other words, they would have had to know as a matter of common knowledge about the relative weights of titanium and aluminium.
There was no way of deconstructing the joke (if you think this is obsessive behaviour, you should try living with it) that didn’t rely on the teller and the audience complacently conspiring together to jeer at someone who knew more than they did. It sent a chill down my spine, and still does. I felt betrayed by comedy in the same way that gangsta rap now makes me feel betrayed by rock music. I also began to wonder how many of the jokes I was making were just, well, ignorant.
Восхитительно
Date: 2017-12-10 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: Восхитительно
Date: 2017-12-10 07:26 pm (UTC)С уважением
Date: 2017-12-10 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: С уважением
Date: 2017-12-10 09:59 pm (UTC)доебулева логика
Доебаться до оппонента, принципиально не понимаю, что он говорит о чем-то совершенно ином.