Comments on: A spoonful of sugar might help this lesson in Newtonian physics go down

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:55:52 +0000

Toilet trained? Why? They have adult diapers, and mine fit comfortably enough!

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000

“Hangs down along the wall” makes it harder for the kitten to unroll the entire roll of TP in a fit of catnip-induced glee. Other than that, no one needs to care! One of the debates in life that always makes me think that we have too damn much free time to be worrying about stupid things.

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:50:55 +0000

BYO.

That’s my solution, I do not partake in work communal anything if at all avoidable… aside from being an anti-social louse myself, I have crawled under enough slobscum desks (I work in IT) to put me off trusting ANY OF THEM for even basic presumptive hygiene.

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:46:50 +0000

No Worries, Elf. I presumed you simply liked things a little more… challenging. eyebrow wiggle the likes of which I have no IRL skills for

By: Clumber

Clumber — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:45:13 +0000

Tell me about your mother. What age were you toilet-trained?

By: Somebody Else

Somebody Else — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:19:56 +0000

Reminds me of the great toilet paper debate: do you load it so that it comes over the top of the roll or so it hangs down along the wall?

Either solution will work, but the first note-writer (it could only be a female) clearly has a decided preference.

I love how she seems to think that insulting her audience will win their obedience … I’d like to see a graph showing the number of befuddled spoons over time … Bet you a nickel it increased after her thesis was posted.

By: barista lifer

barista lifer — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:27:43 +0000

huh. i was trying to think of a similar passive-aggressive note just today to put on our sugar bowl at work. people don’t give a crap about the clearly marked clean/dirty spoon containers. grrrr!

By: English 101

English 101 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:56:51 +0000

…inTO sugar…

By: Iri

Iri — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:11:17 +0000

wtf is the Hénon map supposed to have to do with water in a spoon?
As that’s part of chaos theory, one can only suppose it’s a veiled slur on the behavior of his co-workers…
I.

By: Earl Hamsher

Earl Hamsher — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:02:14 +0000

p.s.
i would be tempted to just scrawl the word “c$%t” in red marker across the lesson in newtonian physics

By: Earl Hamsher

Earl Hamsher — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:00:12 +0000

a wet spoon in sugar can ruin it by making it a solid lump. however, a wet spoon in coffee wouldn’t ruin the whole canister especially if the lady would just fling most of the water off first. additionally, it’s better to have a scoop specifically for coffee that stays in the canister, not a spoon.

By: TickleMyBambo

TickleMyBambo — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:28:20 +0000

Yeah, sexist remarks gets nobody anywhere in life. It could have been a man that left the spoon bepuddled, or it could have been a woman. Who honestly knows? Fact is, sombody or maybe a whole lot of people are doing it and it’s pissing the notewriter off but jumping to the conclusion of that a man is doing it just makes the notewriter look like an ass.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:15:15 +0000

If you stack the spoons up, the upper spoon displaces the water of the lower. So you end up with just one sacrificial spoon that everyone knows to avoid. There’s some equations which describe displacement of water by a given body, but in the “physics equations which are irrelevant” spirit of the original note, I’ll instead note that the resistance of the stacked spoons would be equivalent to the difference in voltage divided by the current passing through the stack.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:08:30 +0000

You have confused “minor in physics” with “ten minutes searching Google”. It’s an easy mistake to make, as both of these things are similarly impressive on a resume.