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To feel angry at this fraction?

53 replies

TheDuchessofBoxford · 18/06/2015 00:06

I am more angry than I should be to see someone on my Facebook say that their fringe is covering 6/8 of their face!

AIBU if I comment '3/4! It's three effing quarters!!!!!'?

OP posts:
PurpleDaisies · 18/06/2015 08:49

I hate fractions like pi/4 but I know that's irrational...

BitOutOfPractice · 18/06/2015 08:52

OP I was directing my wind yer necks in comment to the people wth the Hmm faces and those thinking "is it really that bad?" comments on here, not you

47/50 of MNers get it!

FruChristerOla · 18/06/2015 08:54

Why does a fringe covering 6/8 (3/4) of her face make me think of Cousin It from The Addams family? Grin

TTWK · 18/06/2015 08:56

There are 3 types of people in the world. Those who can count and those who can't.

LurkingHusband · 18/06/2015 08:57

PurpleDaisies

I hate fractions like pi/4 but I know that's irrational...

Maths puns are a sine of madness ...

PurpleDaisies · 18/06/2015 08:58

Grin Lurking

WixingMords · 18/06/2015 08:59

So she lied about the fraction as well as not using the lowest common denominator?

De-friend immediately!!

LurkingHusband · 18/06/2015 09:00

Sorry, went off on a tangent there. Back now.

LadyCuntingtonThe3rd · 18/06/2015 09:10

Actually thought that it might have to do something with proportions of the face in drawing. As a - human body is in total 7 lengths of their head. But then I googled and face is only split in to 3 parts.
So I guess they are just oddball and not really good at maths and cannot judge the lenght of fringe by looking at it

UniS · 18/06/2015 09:28

Are they a meteorologist? I believe cloud cover is measured in octets ( eighths).

SaucyJack · 18/06/2015 09:30

There are two types of people in the world.

Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

TwinkieTwinkle · 18/06/2015 09:34

I couldn't do it. I couldn't resist saying something!

Lweji · 18/06/2015 14:34

Maybe she meant 6/3?

BlackeyedSusan · 18/06/2015 14:42

vindicated, I tell you, vindicated. dd got a hard stare for not simplifying..

so YANBU.

LurkingHusband · 18/06/2015 14:54

Lweji

Maybe she meant 6/3?

Argh, my eyes !!!!!! If there's one thing worse than an unsimplified fraction, it's an improper one !

Sallyingforth · 18/06/2015 14:55

You can have any sort of fractions on MN.
But the last I heard, Netmums doesn't allow vulgar fractions.

SayThisOnlyOnce · 18/06/2015 14:57

You sound fractious and crochetty.

VivaLeBeaver · 18/06/2015 14:58

The most important question is surely....does it cover her face 6/8 vertically or 6/8 horizontally?

Because either she looks like Sia with hair down to her top lip or she has a bad side parting.

Pumpkinpositive · 18/06/2015 15:01

Who in their right mind says"6/8" about anything?

I'm going to. Starting from now. And I am very talented at Ze Deadpan.

Is 7/8 wrong? Cos 3/4 is not 7/8.

Lancelottie · 18/06/2015 15:02

Bet someone's already posted this...
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary and those who don't.

SomewhereIBelong · 18/06/2015 15:03

In the world of estimation and approximation 6/8 implies a finer grade of approximation was used than 3/4 (half , 5/10 or 50/100 or 500/1000 - when approximating you'd assume a higher degree of accuracy was provided if 500/1000 was quoted)

profpoopsnagle · 18/06/2015 15:04

I like 6/8. It sounds far more exotic than 3/4.

TTWK · 18/06/2015 15:24

Why do bookies quote odds of 100/30 instead of 10/3?

Lweji · 18/06/2015 15:25

or 9/12

Or 75%. Why would 75/100 be ok and 6/8 not?

LurkingHusband · 18/06/2015 15:39

TTWK

Why do bookies quote odds of 100/30 instead of 10/3?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds#Gambling_usage