9. Going On A Tangent
Every Friday, this Ph.D. math student would go to a happy hour at a bar with friends from his department to play some pool. One Friday, they were playing rather badly, but then again, they weren’t trying their hardest. They had probably been trying to sink the last three balls for four rounds by this point when a guy at the table next to theirs sauntered over. He proceeded to tell the four math grad students that pool is as “easy as identifying tangent lines. It’s all about the tangent lines”. After about two minutes of this guy explaining this to them, a friend chimed in, saying, “Yeah, we’re all working on Ph.D.’s in math – we know plenty about tangent lines. Let me give you a counterexample to explain why you’re wrong.” That’s when the guy’s eyes widened. After that, he didn’t say much.
9. Going On A Tangent
8. Happy Birthday
At a bar with a friend, this person got to talking with a girl who was there on her 21st birthday. He and his friend congratulated her before buying her a round. Soon after, they got into a conversation about the original settlement in South America thousands of years ago. The girl then, incredibly arrogantly, said that there were people there and that he was white-washing history. Again, he explained that he’s not, and there were no human beings there until they migrated there. She insisted he was wrong, saying that invaders wiped out the indigenous populations. He disagreed, saying that happened thousands of years later. She accused him of mansplaining. This guy was at a loss, so he simply said, “Okay, well I’m sorry. She then yelled at his female friend, “How are you friends with him? God, what does he even do, like, sell socks?” He’s a geographer.
8. Happy Birthday
