Overheard (July 2020)
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lol $$$$
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If you're in, I'm in. Master server builder here @Potato2017 you've seen my servers
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@The-Rogue-Blade Yup
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Ok if you guys give the go ahead I'm starting in a few days
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I don't use discord.
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Overheard from the Wednesday 7/8/20 live stream
"Hello! Bananas, broken calculators, mobius bread and questions regarding the color of t-shirts await you in this live stream!" --- X.
"Keyboards DO NOT taste good." --- T.
"Late by 24 hours and 10 seconds." --- S. (After not knowing that the live stream schedule changed)
"Remember when he had live streams every day..." --- P.
"There was a time in my life when I also was afraid that I would get sucked up by a vacuum cleaner..." --- Prof. Loh, musing about vacuum cleaners
"Humans are too fat to get sucked in." --- B. (musing about Prof. Loh musing about getting sucked up by a vacuum)
"A vacuum cleaner cleans vacuums." --- C.
"Lightning bolt = 21 gigawatts." --- L.
"The final reason why kids should do chores is that it gives them other things to do than play video games and watch TV." --- P.
"Lasers can trick cats in vacuum cleaners." --- A. (The vacuum cleaner discussion gets serious.)
"Vacuum cleaners scare cats, and cats scare some humans, so therefore vacuum cleaners scare humans." --- T.
"Welcome to Ask Physics Anything! I'm your host, Po-Shen Loh, and I only know math, so now let's see if I can answer a physics question." --- Prof. Loh
"And then you have to yell at the cat to go away... actually, you don't have to do that, because the vacuum makes the cat go away." --- Prof. Loh
"I once heard that if you put your lightbulb in your mouth, you'll never pull it out again." --- M.
"Human vs. vacuum." --- Prof. Loh, doing a serious calculation
""Big motion of machines." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- T.
"AMA = Ask MOP Anything." --- K.
"SFFT = Simon's Fattest Fat Chicken." --- W. (Regarding Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick)
"SFFT = Simon's Favorite Fat Turkey." --- W."Does anyone know if dogs can eat onions? ik it's random but it's important." --- D.
"We need PFFT = Po's Favorite Factoring Trick." --- M.
"Did you guys know that giraffes have really long tongues and sometimes use their tongues to clean their ears!" --- M.
""So it's like bigly negative! Bigly. Bigly is a word now." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- M.
"It's better than 'hugely.'" --- E.""No, it's too pretty." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- W.
"In the same way, you can get better at non-math if you have a math background." --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question, "How to improve in math from being a non-math background?")
"Um.... sorry, I was eating a banana. What was this?" --- I.
""What kind of nonsense question is this?!?" --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- F.
"Proof that Po-Shen Loh is a minion: He likes bananas (and so do minions), he wears yellow (and so guess what else is yellow? That's right! Minions!), and he wears glasses (one step away from goggles)." --- A.
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I would quote you on some of these, but these are all really really funny
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Prof. Loh did an AMC 8 2015 Problem 25 in the live stream today (he did this sometime in May too).
"Prof has bad memory" ---M. -
Overheard from the Friday 7/10/20 live stream
"I am eating a banana right now." --- S.
"Po has the FOV (field of vision) of a bird." --- P.
"Imagine if a random person clicks on this video and is shocked at what we are doing!" --- A.
"Our eyes are longer than they are tall." --- V. (On why a computer screen has aspect ratio 16:9)
"Why don't we all turn into owls?" --- F. (On how owls have a wide field of vision)
"LUMP + BROKEN CALCULATOR + BANANA = GREEN SHIRT." --- V.
"The world would litterly explode." --- S.
"BLAH is the new lump." --- T.
"What is BLAH \( \times 5?\) BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH! BLAH is a legit number.... This thing.... has BLAH BLAH in it.... \(0 \times \) BLAH! It's gone!" --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- V.
"BLAH times negative one is HALB." --- Prof. Loh
"Here's a question that I don't know how to do, that looks cute." --- Prof. Loh
"American yellow cheese: A key ingredient in the McDonald's hamburger... no, McDonald's cheeseburger." --- Prof. Loh, after looking at the picture of a rotated square shaded yellow, fit into the square with corners cut out.
"There something called cheddar, and then there's something called American cheese." --- Prof. Loh
"AMERICAN YELLOW CHEESE! TURN IT INTO A SHIRT, ADD HIS REGULAR SHIRT, and IT'S A GREEN SHIRT!" --- V.
"No, it's actually a mash of of mustard and bread!" --- A.
"AMERICAN CHEESE IS NOT CHEESE." --- E.
"The benevolent American cheese." --- J.
"McDonald's cheese." --- T.
"That lumpy square looks like a square pillow. "American yellow cheese," --- Prof. Loh replies." --- V.
"This is.... AMC cheese?" --- T.
"Burger King Ph.D." --- L.
"Never heard of American cheese, I'm Singaporean." --- S.
"YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE OF CHEESE." --- E.
"My fish died today." --- S.""Some ridiculously skinny rectangle." --- Prof. Loh" --- V.
"Skinny Recti" --- I.
"Squiggly Straight Lines = LUMP" --- V."The Prof. Loh brain is so cool, it's prob bigger than the Empire State Building." --- K.
"(_) bag of Doritos don't make me spill them." ---- S.
"If you do run over rise by accident you will still get the right answer." --- Prof. Loh, describing a slope problem, where \( \text{slope } = \frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}.\)
"The return of the epols." --- T."This, by the way, is a very depressing problem.... A fly is just going to go back and forth until......... I mean, we all think about the cars, but what about the fly?" --- Prof. Loh
"The fly crashes in the car and gets swatted at a red light by the driver." --- V.
"Maybe the fly is used as a cushion to prevent the cars from crashing." --- S.
"According to physics, the fly won't get hurt." --- B.
"People ask what is the fly, not how is the fly." --- D."My important discovery states that we are living in a simulation or also known as a virtual world beyond our conscience." --- P.
"I don't know, I never pay attention to this, except I sort of do." --- Prof. Loh
"You get 37.5 points for doing nothing!" --- Prof. Loh (on the AMC 10 grading system which gives 1.5 points for a blank answer)
"Wow!! This is a nice test." --- W."We have a nuthouse here, I guess." --- T.
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Overheard from the Friday 7/17/20 live stream
"My brain has rotten due to the lack of Ask Math Anything." --- S.
""Raisinable." -- Po-Shen Loh 2020" --- I.
"SHMICK ZAT LICK BOOTON." --- K. (Smack that like button)
""I try to answer questions." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- K.
"20 K Subs!" --- T.
"The ONE TIME there are technical difficulties." --- E.
"He is HACKING ahhhhhh..." --- A.
"HE IS A HACKER OMG LOL" --- A.
"Infinitesimal is the opposite I think." --- D. (In answer to the question, "What is the opposite of infinity?"
" sin(gerine) ÷ cos(gerine) = "tan" (gerine)" --- B.
"Why is π infinite? My teacher's not that bright. Please help." --- A.
"If I recall, I think the proof that π is irrational is pretty difficult." --- Turtlelink, moderator""Ouch!" --- Po-Shen Loh." --- E.
"QUIZ QUESTION: Which YouTube setting creates a psychological rebirth?" --- E.
"I love the rain sound effects. Very relaxing." --- Z.
"QUIZ QUESTION 2: Which country has never been defeated in a war?" (Answer: Canada)
"1.) Canada - United States 8,893;
2.) Kazakhstan-Russia 7,644;
3.) Argentina-Chile 6,691
4.) China-Mongolia 4,630" --- R.
(On lengths of longest borders between neighboring countries)"CALCULUS ALERT! PLEASE STEP OUT OF THE CALCULUS ZONE!"
(When Prof. Loh started talking about the question, "Find all the possible values for \( ln{(e^x)}.\) )"What is seen in the middle of March and April that can't be seen at the beginning or end of either month?" --- T. (Answer: the letter "r")
"Did you just ask me to define an undefinable real number?" --- Prof. Loh, in answer to the question, "Can you give me an example of an undefinable real number?"
"I have a question. How many countries have fought wars with animals?" --- A.
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@debbie wow Turtlelink was there?
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@RZ923 Yes... he was!
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Overheard from the Friday 7/24/20 live stream
"It's an hour after \(\pi\) time." --- S.
"Yeah Po the god of math." --- B.
"Cyclic quadrilateral EPIC!!!" --- S.
"I can NEVER in my life draw to-scale circles (without a compass)... They are always extremely lumpy... That's why I sometimes mess up problems... cuz of my not-accurate drawings." --- M.
"Yes yes yes this one this one this one should be a parallelogram." --- J.
"OH I CREATED A THEOREM TO PROVE WE ARE IN A SIMULATION." --- P.
"Basically, we aren't real but we are living in a mind illusion stating that we are being controlled by a higher species and/or we don't exist." --- P."Three normal dice. That sort of rhymes with three blind mice. But that's totally unrelated..." --- Prof. Loh
"There's almost half a chance that someone is watching who has their birthday today, so happy birthday \(\frac{159}{365}\) people!" --- D.
"Fun fact: If you had wings, you could technically fly on Titan without mechanical power." -- T.
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Buy roombas for chasing cats, not for cleaning. You crazy if you buy one for cleaning because the only thing it does it bump everything in your house
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Overheard from the Friday 7/31/20 live stream
"We should get a negative second timer." -- T., in response to Prof. Loh being late
"Bananas are extinct." --- E.
"Strange corner of the internet that lacks green shirts." --- T.
"Highest like-to-dislike ratio I've ever seen!" --- T.
"Yayyyy there are still live streams! Even if it's only once a week, it's better than nothing!" --- M.
"This guy also runs the free site expii if you're stuck with no classes; not as advanced as his "daily challenge," but it's something." --- S.
"I am an oldie." --- C.
"Join the Nassau County Gavel Club." --- J.
"Who here remembers the "Earth disco ball" Po-Shen Loh discussed a long time back?" --- T.
"Who remembers the mobius hamster wheel he drew?" --- A.
"DA GREEN EQUASION." --- I.
"Mayonnaise is the best instrument." --- T.
"Infinity signs but screwed." --- A. (describing Prof. Loh's diagram of the absolute value function problem asked in the livestream)
"Why did you do a video about football?" --- A. (regarding Prof. Loh's video here)
"Everyone ask Siri: What is \(\frac{0}{0}?\) Siri will be savage." --- S.
"Siri says I have no friends." --- T.
"Siri is a bully. He should get detention." --- A.
"Siri can be both a female and a male." --- A.
"I loved daily AMA...." --- A.
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@debbie said in Overheard (July 2020):
"OH I CREATED A THEOREM TO PROVE WE ARE IN A SIMULATION." --- P.
"Basically, we aren't real but we are living in a mind illusion stating that we are being controlled by a higher species and/or we don't exist." --- P.They're still going on about this!??
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If we are in a simulation, I hope whoever's running it releases a new vaccine update with a lot more vaccines for diseases, and that whoever is using the simulation would be nice enough to give us those features.
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@debbie said in Overheard (July 2020):
"Who remembers the mobius hamster wheel he drew?" --- A.
Who remembers my Möbius Doughnut I asked him to draw?
(PS the hamster will be very tired on the möbius hamster wheel)Very Interesting
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@RZ923
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