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I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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Bollocks!
Sharks are fish. You can't poo poo the word fish, just because there is no good taxonomic group. There are a group of animals people call fish, although, many of them are not at all close to each other on the tree of life. Sharks are part of that group, therefore sharks are fish.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 8:09, 1 reply)
Just because you've called something a fish, doesn't make it a fish.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:03, closed)
Surrealist lolz

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:31, closed)
Yes, it does. That's how nouns work. Stones for instance are called stones, because we call them stones.

(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 11:16, closed)
No it doesn't. We could call an apple a stone but it would still be an apple.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:02, closed)
No, if everyone started calling an apple a stone, after a while the definition would be added to dictionarys.
Give it a couple centuries, and you'd have to look in a historical thesaurus to find out that stones used to be called apples.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:14, closed)
You lot need to read some Wittgenstein
That'll clear it up.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#Lan
(InflammableHound may be recorded for training porpoises, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 23:09, closed)
I was thinking more Kripke and Putnam.
And then they could perhaps come back and explain Naming and Necessity, because I've never managed to get through it.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:16, closed)
Course it does, just like how calling you a bumlord makes you a bumlord.

(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 11:19, closed)
Witty really isn't your thing is it you complete buttfuck?

(I helped save b3ta! The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:05, closed)
I LEARNED FROM WATCHING YOU, DAD :(

(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:26, closed)
If you love fish so much why don't you marry one?

(I helped save b3ta! Major Turd for tonight only, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 16:19, closed)

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