Teacup Café XXXII

[shesabrandybuck]

old and wrinkly? No way! Youre young and full of life! Not saying old and wrinkly people arent full of life...


I did change it, I realized I used the wrong form of 'since' haha

[Empress_Flynn]

Lol... aww... you're not a hag! You're just... mature!

[katya]

Lol. Mature, is it? Well, at least the good news is in elf terms I don't think there are old hags. So I'll always be an elf lady.

[Empress_Flynn]

Mature is good when it comes to cheese!

And you make a good point... elf ladies are never hags!

[shesabrandybuck]

hooray for the elf ladies!!
Anyway, Survivor comes on at 8 then the debate! I dont know why I put an exclimation point after the debate because I probably wont watch it AND now there is no Office this week
I'm off to shower. I wanted to get to 500 tonight, but oh well. I'll just have to write nine posts tomorrow! Which isnt that hard... I mean we already are at 60 something posts in this new teacup and its barely started!

G'night fellow mooters!

[Empress_Flynn]

Have fun with the shower and night night! See you soon, Link!

[katya]

Good night Link! Have fun with the Survivor and the shower and then the comfy pajamas (right?).

[shesabrandybuck]

Yes, the comfy pjs hahaha. (no, not comfy peter jacksons!)
Night everyone!
(8 posts tomorrow)

[Coffeehouse]

Night to all who are leaving!

Whooo I'm tired after waitering for 8 hours now! Full restaurant tho and that's always fun 40 min till the debate yeyeye

[Empress_Flynn]

Oh I dunno... I think Peter Jackson would be pretty comfy

[Nurvingiel]

Empress_Flynn, you can change your title to "Elf Lady" if you want. People have done that before but I don't think it's an "exclusive" title.

Why yes Shesabrandybuck, I did start the Teacup! My proudest Mooting achievement, along with having the honour to be your co-presdient.

Hey, in the previous Teacup you asked about Roman numerals. Allow me to explain the system. There is a single numeral for only some numbers, and they are combined to form all numbers.

1 - I
5 - V
10 - X
50 - L
100 - C
500 - D
1000 - M

To represent other numbers, these are combined in a certain order following rules. You never have more than three of the same character in a row. So 4 is not IIII. Four is shown like this: IV. The I to the left of V represents "five minus one". Similarly, 9 is IX.

So the rule is that if a smaller numeral is to the left of the larger numeral, that amount is subtracted from the larger numeral. 9 = IX. If the smaller numeral is to the right of the larger one, it is added to it. 11 = XI.

Here are the first ten numerals so you can see the pattern:

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X

Now, you combine both the "left = subtract" and "right = add" rules to make larger numbers. 19 is XIX or "ten plus nine". Also, if two numerals of equal value are beside each other, they are added. 20 = XX.

These rules don't just apply to the I, V, and X numerals. 40 is XL, or "fifty minus ten". 900 is CM. The current year 2008 in Roman numerals is MMVIII. I was born in MCMLXXXIII (1983).

As you can see, the Roman numeral system has its problems. One, math with these numbers is pretty much impossible. There's no logical system for it, so Roman engineers probably did math in their head. This is impressive when you consider what they built. Or maybe they used Arabic numerals for math, I don't know.

The other problem is large numbers get really stupid. Anything more than 5,000 is dumb because M, as far as I know, is the largest number. Makes you wonder how Gaius Justus (fictional Roman guy) described the size of his legions. "We currently have MMMMMMMDXLVI troops, having taken significant losses of MMCDXII in recent battles..." Maybe they just wrote the words out in letters.

Hey, sometimes Roman lads were given names based on their birth order. I wonder if young Secundus (second son) had the nickname II as a kid?

There are advantages to Roman numerals though. For one thing, they look nice on analog watch faces. And we still use upper and lower case numerals for lists in academic writing. (Depending on the type of list you write either i, ii, iii, iv etc. or I,II,III,IV etc.)

[The last sane person]

*ATTACKLE!* Hey, already four new pages in the Empress's new Teacup. Rock on my little spammers!

Off I go into the realm of Oblivion.

[Empress_Flynn]

Hell yeah, Sane! We're keeping the fire burning for you!

[katya]

Now I have that song in my head. "We didn't start the fire! It was always burning since the world's been turning...."

[Empress_Flynn]

Haha... "Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio..."

[Coffeehouse]

Originally Posted by katya

Now I have that song in my head. "We didn't start the fire! It was always burning since the world's been turning...."

Hehe.. well now that song is in my head!!! What have you done Katya!

[katya]

It always reminds me of this commercial for Star Trek though. "It's the next generation on your favorite station...."

[Midge]

Originally Posted by shesabrandybuck

Haha I feel like we are at some slumber party
I cant cant cant wait till it happens to me! I've got a while though.....hopefully haha.

Originally Posted by Empress_Flynn

Lol yes of course he's a cutie! If you know who David Tennant is (he's Doctor Who) he looks a lot like him...

And we've been together for.... about a year and half... which seems fast when I write it out like that lol

Originally Posted by katya

Yeah, but I understand. I've been with mine for 2 years and we pretty much decided we'd get married someday a long time ago too. Just not really in the position to do so quite yet.

I'm sorry I missed this conversation. I'm much in the same boat as Katya, but I am having patience problems.. considering my dad won't even consider letting us get married till 2011, and we're not in any position to do so anyway.

Link, I met my boyfriend in high school; when we were sophomores. Fortunately for us, we didn't start dating till we were seniors (dating since 10th grade and no marriage? I'd die!) But when we were first dating, my dad kept telling me not to get too attached to him, because I might just meet someone better at college. I always appreciated the mountains of support I got from my parents... [/sarcasm].

Originally Posted by shesabrandybuck

I've been thinking, yes, cause I am a loser and have nothing else to think about LOL. Im thinking something with Link, haha typical

Hyrulian Saviour? I like it... Or even ... *snicker* Zelda Lover! Hee heee.. but seeing as how you are a girl, that might not work well. But it's still funny to me.

Originally Posted by Empress_Flynn

Oh I dunno... I think Peter Jackson would be pretty comfy

No offense, but this was just weird.

[Nurvingiel]

Now I've got Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" in my head too. This is fine by me, I love that song.

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Nurv, they grouped, that's all.

You wouldn't say "We have eleven thousand troops" even now. You'd say "We have 12 battalions." In Roman times, you had legions. Here's wikipedia:
The size of a typical legion varied widely throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4,200 legionaries and 300 equites in the republican period of Rome, (the infantry were split into 30 maniples of 120 legionaries each), to 5,200 men plus auxiliaries in the imperial period (split into 10 cohorts, 9 of 480 men each, plus the first cohort holding 800 men).

Centurions...commanded a century.

Lovely system. Of course, my view of mathematics was shaped by some abberant teaching, young.