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| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---they are zipping around on scooters with L plates, and many of them seem to have never driven anything on the road before these things --- End quote --- wonder how many have bothered with there cbt |
| Kim Christensen:
--- Quote from: PlainName on June 30, 2023, 10:55:27 pm --- --- Quote ---"Just think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that!" --- End quote --- Pedantically, average is not necessarily the halfway mark. You could have an average where most of the population are above it ;) --- End quote --- Well, since Carlin was telling the joke to an "average" audience, he avoided the word "median" so as not to confuse them. :-DD |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: PlainName on June 30, 2023, 10:55:27 pm --- --- Quote ---"Just think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that!" --- End quote --- Pedantically, average is not necessarily the halfway mark. You could have an average where most of the population are above it ;) --- End quote --- Well George Carlin was a comedian, not a mathematician or engineer. It's meant as a joke obviously, but there is some truth to it. |
| gnuarm:
--- Quote from: PlainName on June 30, 2023, 10:55:27 pm --- --- Quote ---"Just think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that!" --- End quote --- Pedantically, average is not necessarily the halfway mark. You could have an average where most of the population are above it ;) --- End quote --- If you are measuring IQ, it is symmetric with 100 being, median, mean and mode. Some comedian said, "Consider that half the people have IQs below 100!" |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on June 30, 2023, 11:16:37 pm --- --- Quote from: PlainName on June 30, 2023, 11:03:51 pm ---Speaking of road accidents, it occurred to me the other day that the rates in UK towns is surely set to rise significantly. Reason being the food delivery guys (and maybe gals, but they all seem to be guys) - they are zipping around on scooters with L plates, and many of them seem to have never driven anything on the road before these things, partly because they weren't old enough and have just upgraded from a bicycle. Some of them seem to think it's a workable alternative to Dignitas. --- End quote --- Oh, they're an ever increasing nightmare. As is the easily availability of 'e-scooters' (daft electrically powered vehicles with no construction or use standards applied..). --- End quote --- Electric scooters are illegal. They cannot be used on roads as they are unlicensed and unapproved vehicles and the cannot be used on pavements because they are vehicles. But as we don't have enough police in this country they are not being taken off the idiots that ride them and destroyed. I really don't know why their import is even allowed, the justifiable use for them only on private land is so near non existent that it is the sole legal caveat for them to exist, yet people openly purchase them as a means of transport. |
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