Poll of the Day > "42 is almost 50"

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yea

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I saw your first attempt.

Are you 42? I'm 42. I look great and feel great. Standing, moving and lifting for 60 hours a week cooking food for others is a great workout.

Plus the 12-16 oz curls at night help.

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It depends on the context.

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^ this
42 is almost 42.1 when making a precise judgement.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

I saw your first attempt.

yeah, not sure if typo or autocorrect, but it didn't quite work the way i'd intended so it had to go.

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What is 6*6+6?

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Towel?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Were you taught how to round numbers in elementary school?

So... what you're saying is 42 is almost 40?

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Zeus_LLC posted...

So... what you're saying is 42 is almost 40?

well Zeus, *checks yellowed, elementary school notes*...its certainly closer to 40 than it is to 50.

i mean time doesn't ordinarily run backwards, but 42 would still be closer to 40 than it is to 50 even if it did.

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When compared to 10's yeah.
But when compared to 50's? Like, 0, 50, 100, 150, and so on.
Seems like it rounds up to 50 to me.

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Do you want to round up?

There's a change shortage while everyone is spending more time than ever at home while using contactless payment, but all the coinage has evaporated?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Do you want to round up?

There's a change shortage while everyone is spending more time than ever at home while using contactless payment, but all the coinage has evaporated?

poor people are hoarding all the coins, like duh!

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Age aint nothing but a number -Leonardo Decaprio

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holy shit you are so butthurt about everything lmao

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

poor people are hoarding all the coins, like duh!

So they can spend it later?

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You basically have one foot in the grave.

Mead posted...

Age aint nothing but a number -Leonardo Decaprio

Coffee in a turtle cup!

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No. Some folk on the net say I'm middle aged when the wrinkles on my balls say otherwise.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

holy shit you are so butthurt about everything lmao

Lmao he really is

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wolfy42 posted...

Coffee in a turtle cup!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/50/5a/34505a5fac5b5c9be8b518a6bd5994a9.png ?
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42 is closer to 50 than it is to 30

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get off potd man you're too old

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rent free

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I saw your first attempt.

Are you 42? I'm 42. I look great and feel great. Standing, moving and lifting for 60 hours a week cooking food for others is a great workout.

Plus the 12-16 oz curls at night help.

I'll be 41 next month so i have a bit over 13 months to go

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Revelation34 posted...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/50/5a/34505a5fac5b5c9be8b518a6bd5994a9.png ?

Sweet cup, but you can only drink a slow roast coffee out of it.

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Have you started yelling at clouds yet?

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BlazeAndBlade posted...

I'll be 41 next month

Oh a scary one - Friday this year!

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Far-Queue posted...

42 is closer to 50 than it is to 30

lol that is what I said in another thread and came here to say.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Were you taught how to round numbers in elementary school?

I was. Which is why I know you always round down if the last digit is less than 5.



SunWuKung420 posted...

i mean time doesn't ordinarily run backwards

Not yet, anyway.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Oh a scary one - Friday this year!

lol friday the 13th also the day i turn 41 lol ( only just noticed it's on a friday this year ahahah)

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42 can certainly be rounded to 50, if you're rounding to the nearest multiple of 25 or 50. Use of the word "almost" in a context where numbers only ever increment upward also creates the rule of only rounding up, in which case it becomes a question of whether or not 42 is close enough to 50 to justify rounding it, rather than a question of direction.

That means it basically boils down to a question of "is rounding to the nearest 25 reasonable in this case?", which is going to be a subjective judgement, but can be defended in that dividing a human lifespan into quarter-centuries creates a reasonable number of subdivisions that roughly line up with major life stages. It can also be defended by saying that 40's and 50's tend to be pretty similar if we outline life stages with decades instead (one is usually settled into professional life and their living situation and doesn't make any major changes during those two decades, barring any mid-life crises that stem from that sense of stagnancy).

It can be refuted by saying that the start of that 2-decade period feels very different from its midpoint, for the person actually experiencing it, especially where those life stages are not as clearly demarcated by decades as people like to think they are. In that regard, equivocating them doesn't make much sense, but that's generally going to be a sentiment held more by people in that range than by people well outside of it. Basically, you aren't going to think that 42 is nearly 50, but a 30-year-old isn't going to see much difference.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

^ this
42 is almost 42.1 when making a precise judgement.

So you're saying 42 is almost 42.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm 42. I look great and feel great. Standing, moving and lifting for 60 hours a week cooking food for others is a great workout.

You missed out alcoholism.

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Hey winter, remember when I said you tell lies about me, thanks for proving me right.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Hey winter, remember when I said you tell lies about me, thanks for proving me right.

You did miss it out though.

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Another way to look at 42, you're about halfway between high-school graduation and retirement.

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yeah, funny shit here. i eat meals regularly too like a normal person instead of crying for help due to a newfound anorexia for sympathy. fuck me, right? I don't rely on a simp army to get my back.

I'm a terrible person. I know.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

yeah, funny shit here. i eat meals regularly too like a normal person instead of crying for help due to a newfound anorexia for sympathy. fuck me, right? I don't rely on a simp army to get my back.

I'm a terrible person. I know.

So you're upset Jen gets more attention than you here?

JigsawTDC posted...

So you're upset Jen gets more attention than you here?

Nobody is upset over that.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Nobody is upset over that.

literally. this is just sad at this point. what's next? a cutting topic?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

literally. this is just sad at this point. what's next? a cutting topic?

Anything that gets her attention.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Nobody is upset over that.

It just seems kinda weird to reference an unrelated topic out of the blue with a vaguely passive aggressive hostility. It's not out of character for Whiskey to get hot and bothered over something arbitrary! I mean, isn't this whole topic's existence because someone made fun of him for being "nearly 50"?

JigsawTDC posted...

It just seems kinda weird to reference an unrelated topic out of the blue with a vaguely passive aggressive hostility. It's not out of character for Whiskey to get hot and bothered over something arbitrary! I mean, isn't this whole topic's existence because someone made fun of him for being "nearly 50"?

Meh.

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This is just sad

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JigsawTDC posted...

It just seems kinda weird to reference an unrelated topic out of the blue with a vaguely passive aggressive hostility. It's not out of character for Whiskey to get hot and bothered over something arbitrary! I mean, isn't this whole topic's existence because someone made fun of him for being "nearly 50"?

oh, not just someone Eeyore. someone that thinks coming at me will fill the empty void in her soul that a good meal would help fix, and has her simp army parroting her impotent quips. After like a decade of this game, I'm just upping the ante.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Anything that gets her attention.

bingo.

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Whiskey seems to have a vendetta. Not sure why.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

oh, not just someone Eeyore. someone that thinks coming at me will fill the empty void in her soul that a good meal would help fix, and has her simp army parroting her impotent quips. After like a decade of this game, I'm just upping the ante.

Wouldn't upping the ante be something more like a direct callout and some actual biting remarks, rather than a post in a topic she likely won't even look at or respond to? If you guys are going to go at it, you should at least really let loose for our entertainment instead of this passive aggressive faux-vagueposting.

JigsawTDC posted...

Wouldn't upping the ante be something more like a direct callout and some actual biting remarks, rather than a post in a topic she likely won't even look at or respond to? If you guys are going to go at it, you should at least really let loose for our entertainment instead of this passive aggressive faux-vagueposting.

Post #20 would more or less blow your case completely out of the water though, wouldn't it?

*eats a taco*

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