Life sucks

[reanjr]

No it isn't.

Only at the South Pole is the South Pole 25,000 miles away. Everywhere else, it is something less.

It would certainly be a geologic curiosity were it 25,000 miles away from everywhere.

Once you hit the South Pole, if you continue to walk south, you will go nowhere. Any direction you walk will be north. And even if you did take a step north, you would then walk back to the pole to continue your journey south.

 

[Frostmarrow]

i think Gay left out his K.

he meant 25K.

wouldn't 25K bring you right back to square one?

Who's Gay?

(Now, this is getting silly. The point is I figured out where he came from with the, albeit flawed, information provided.)

 

[reanjr]

OK. 25 miles south of anywhere that isn't the North pole brings you in space, at the vertical of the South pole. Right?

Actually, this kind of illustrates my point (incorrectly, but nonetheless...). If you set a vector that at your starting point was south, and continued along it for 25,000 miles, you would end (from Sweden), in space. If instead, you adjusted your vecotr so that you were continually walking south, you would end up at the South Pole and could continue no farther. You would end up at the South Pole. Either way, Sweden is not 25,000 miles south of Sweden. Try checking the longitudinal circumfrance at that latitude and use that value east or west instead. The joke will work better and be less obvious.

 

[Frostmarrow]

But if you left your compass at home it would work, right?

To sum up: We knew right from the start when the books were published that someone, somewhere, was going to make a misstake and pick the wrong one. Now it has happend. Luckily Tric can return the book for a refund.

 

[HiLiphNY]

I dunno. . .picking the wrong book and then blaming others. . . In my country we call that a Dummy Tax! laff.


Big fan of AU/AE here.

 

[Belen]

IMO, the standard PHB is better. I like the fact that it's not only b/w, also. *rolls eyes*

Activating my emotional vent chambers helped, and I am no longer in danger of overloading my aggression inhibitors.

Well, nice to know that you're basing your opinion of appearance and production values rather than content.

 

[iwatt]

It costs nothing to be polite.

I agree with the sentiment. But to me the truer aphorism is that it costs more to be a jerk.

Some of us have a a hard time not being abbrassive .

 

[Tric]

I dunno. . .picking the wrong book and then blaming others. . . In my country we call that a Dummy Tax! laff.


Big fan of AU/AE here.

Bah. They're asking for trouble when they name their books like that.

Well, nice to know that you're basing your opinion of appearance and production values rather than content.

It's nice to know you're basing your opinion on missing important words.

I agree with the sentiment. But to me the truer aphorism is that it costs more to be a jerk.

Some of us have a a hard time not being abbrassive .

Again, I never said I wouldn't be polite. What I did say was that I didn't have to be polite to get my refund.

 

[Belen]

I agree with the sentiment. But to me the truer aphorism is that it costs more to be a jerk.

Some of us have a a hard time not being abbrassive .

I agree. Especially when someone starts a thread with intent to flame.

 

[reanjr]

But if you left your compass at home it would work, right?

To sum up: We knew right from the start when the books were published that someone, somewhere, was going to make a misstake and pick the wrong one. Now it has happend. Luckily Tric can return the book for a refund.

But that's not the point! Oh, wait... yeah it is...