why asians are so good at math (2763 hits)
Category: HumorRating: 1.1 on 15 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by headlight (View user info) at 2004-02-27 22:49:23 EST
Our friend Quoc is asian, probably one of the cooler asians I know and I'M asian...that says a lot. I'm from India by the way and yes I AM Indian...anyhow...he's ORIENTAL I should say. That makes more sense. He's of the oriental persuasion and he's always been pretty good in school.
Today my boyfriend and I went over to his house to give him his birthday present. We don't go over to his house much because it's a honkin' 5 miles from our house (pshaw..we're lazy). Usually we don't see his parents there but tonight, sitting beside his sister on the couch was his father, who seemed to be plotting the distruction of the world. I also imagined he talked like one of the Chinese workers from the game Command and Conquer : Generals.
Anyhow...(I might say that alot). We hear his mom in the kitchen so we don't say hi or anything to her. We just go in his room. Quoc is reading here on Ubersite and in between rants he says, "If you see my mom make sure to say hi, she bitches about that." My boyfriend...the interesting person he is...wanted to know how to say it in Vietnamese.
Quoc proceeded to his desk drawer and pulled out a calculator and asked, "How old is your mother?" My boyfriend was kind of thrown off guard and began to laugh a little......and he didn't remember his mother's age...
"38", I said. He punched a few numbers into his calculator. Then he said something along the lines of, "Jao Back". Which, obviously means...."hello".
We were both wondering what the Hell he was doing so we asked.
Apparently, he had to calculate how much older his mother was than boyfriend's mother in order to give the right kind of greeting. That way his mom knew how old my boyfriend's mom was... No wonder Asians are good at math...they have to bust out the calculator everytime they say hello. Maybe Germans are unfriendly because they are also lazy....they'd rather ignore you or flip you off then do the math.
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Submitted by oriental as well <seamonkey913.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-03-22 12:01:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
this was really funny although could only be written and appreciated if you're asian as well.
i had me a good laugh
thanks
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2004-02-28 20:49:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Iliked this, I kinda realy liked this.
U R NOT WE TODD IT
Submitted by Lucifer_Industries (user info) at 2004-02-28 15:11:21 EST (#)
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We have German neighbors on my block. Last year they expanded their lot and took over the neighbors houses on either the side of them. I am forming a Resistance.
Malone
Submitted by jyrka (user info) at 2004-02-28 10:49:30 EST (#)
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umm if he needs a calculator to make a simple subtraction like that, he's probably not good at maths at all
Submitted by ThatOneGirl (user info) at 2004-02-28 10:20:54 EST (#)
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The story was amusing, but if anybody says "grammer" one more time, I am going to cry!!!
Talk about irony, seriously...
Submitted by squattail (user info) at 2004-02-28 08:31:39 EST (#)
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Hey, you aren't asian if you are from india. It is called the indian sub-continent, where sub is no idle prefix. Only shitty british people call indians asians, but if you call indians asians, where is it going to stop? We don't call all thsoe shitty arabs asian, so why should curry get the special name?
Submitted by PeopleAreStrange (user info) at 2004-02-28 08:18:36 EST (#)
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Mad
Submitted by Slypher (user info) at 2004-02-28 00:39:31 EST (#)
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Funny, but remember, I've neve rrated a -1 Or a +1. Guess I'm just an extremist.
Submitted by headlight (user info) at 2004-02-28 00:24:49 EST (#)
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*those* would have been the better words...DAMN MY FUCKING GRAMMER TONIGHT
Submitted by headlight (user info) at 2004-02-28 00:23:39 EST (#)
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the Germans I've met...this was not meant to be racist or anything...i've been to Germany and they aren't as friendly as americans..perhaps that would have been the better words
Submitted by canuckistan (user info) at 2004-02-28 00:08:30 EST (#)
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Germans are unfriendly ?
Submitted by Kracka (user info) at 2004-02-27 23:26:52 EST (#)
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you actually used "pshaw"? as in waynes world "pshaw, right"?
the Black Ninja laughs
Submitted by headlight (user info) at 2004-02-27 23:12:33 EST (#)
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Yeah my grammer sucked. It's usually way better. I had to go back and do a lot of editing at the last minute and didn't pay attention.
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-02-27 23:03:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
In oriental Asia, the relative lack of vitamin D in their diet as children affects the math centres of their brains and naturally stimulates it's abilities, and in extreme cases makes their heads look like light bulbs. It's a medically poven fact. Actually I just made it up.
Submitted by chipolatte (user info) at 2004-02-27 22:51:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I actually found this entertaining and with a point, but you're going to get blasted for sure. Next time use better grammer, and you'll be good.