/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4138797
because life isn't a sitcom

>>4138802
I think he's asking if people find an autistic guy funny, why don't people find us funny? The answer, OP, is that we're not autistic. You don't know what austism is, and this isn't science related.

because I'm not autistic. u mad?

>>4138810
Yea you are.

>>4138797
I do have tons of friends who think it is hilarious.

>>4138832
No you don't. You don't have any friends.

>>4138840
I have tons of friends. A good amount of them love the big bnag theory. It is a funny show.

>>4138855
NO IT'S NOT

>>4138855

>funny show
>particle/astrophysicists talking about particle/astrophysics on a lower-than-basic level

>>4138863
It's a fucking autistic guy saying stuff an autistic guy would say. And every once and awhile he'll say "herp, quantum mechanics, derpdy string theory, duurr hurrr Schroedinger's cat" and people laugh at it. Like, those aren't jokes, those are just things. He's just naming things, and people are laughing at them. It's fucking stupid and I hate it!

>>4138807
i think it's the opposite in that the guy on the show is not autistic, merely a character on TV

if you have ever met a real autist they either don't talk or are huge ass holes, and not because they belittle your intelligence, just that they show no empathy

>>4138855

>>4138882
It's really unfair to take all the horrid moments of a tv show and put them into one picture.

I could make any show look bad by doing this.

>>4138896
Those are the jokes, my friend.

Never watched a full episode. The clips I've seen made it look like complete shit.

Bazinga.

>>4138896
Then take all the good moments out of the show and put them down.
Chances are they'll resemble an everyday discussion between an arcanine and a /sci/entist, or have nothing to do with science or geeks/nerds.

Actual quotes from imdb:

Leonard: [discussing Sheldon's work] At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to get the math to work.
Sheldon: I didn't invent them. They're there.
Leonard: Yeah? In what universe?
Sheldon: In all of them, that's the point!

***

Sheldon: I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.
Leslie: [sarcastically] Ouch!

***

Sheldon: [Ongoing expression when Sheldon is at the door]
[Knock-knock-knock]
Sheldon: Penny.
Sheldon: [Knock-knock-knock]
Sheldon: Penny.
Sheldon: [Knock-knock-knock]
Sheldon: Penny.
Sheldon: .

***

Sheldon: You participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow effects your personality.

***

Leonard: I'm going to the movies with Penny. I don't want her to think that I think it's a date.
Sheldon: Do you think it's a date?
Leonard: No, but she might think I think it's a date even though I don't.
Sheldon: Or you might think she thinks you think it's a date even though she doesn't.
Leonard: Are we overthinking this?
Sheldon: Not at all.

***

Sheldon: bazinga

Has anyone watched this show with a dumb/average person, and do they get the jokes like

Leonard: [discussing Sheldon's work] At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to get the math to work.
Sheldon: I didn't invent them. They're there.
Leonard: Yeah? In what universe?
Sheldon: In all of them, that's the point!

>>4138940

>>4138949
I've watched it with my parents. I know they don't get it, but they laugh anyway because nerds are talking.

>>4138940
>Sheldon: You participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow effects your personality.
>effects your personality
>effects

OH GOD, THAT'S SO FUNNY I BURST INTO TREATS.

>>4138961
To effect can also mean to cause, retard.
But in this case, yeah, that's probably a misspelling.

Community is a way better show.

>>4138967
You mean affect?

>>4138967
It's "affects", you scrotumface.

>>4138975
It could effect your personality. If you don't know that, you're not as good at English as you think.

>>4138975
Less common is a verb meaning “to create”: “I’m trying to effect a change in the way we purchase widgets.”

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html

>>4138975
>>4138973

Jesus Christ.
In this case, both affect and effect would make sense, because effect has a more obscure meaning, "to cause." Affect would work too, because affect means "to influence."

>getting into arguments about grammar and spelling
>try to convince me you're all not autistic

seriously guys...

>>4139003
THERE SHOULD BE A COMMA AFTER THAT "SERIOUSLY."
WHERE IS THAT FUCKING COMMA?

>>4138991
But is it causing something? It's affecting something, for sure. Also, I googled both "affect your personality" and "effect your personality" and the latter never shows up.

>>4139013
Caps should only occur at the beginning of a sentence and in proper nouns.

That's because there aren't many cases in which people actually mean something CAUSES someone's personality, but astrology really does hold that star signs pretty much create your personality. Ergo go suck a dick.

>>4139018
That's why we said it's pretty unreasonable to assume that's what was meant, because it wouldn't make sense for them to use "effect" as a verb there-- that's when everyone came in saying EFFECT ISNT A VERB AT ALL SCROTUMLIPS

>>4138991
"Affect" can also mean an emotional characteristic, such as blunted affect. Which is something that most of this board has.

>>4139018
If you're talking about astrology, people think that the stars, from birth, have decided their fate and destiny. So, yeah, it's causation.

>>4139032
I get it now.

Point is if this whole conversation was put on TBBT the live audience would have shit their pants.

>>4139020
You missed major words in titles, the pronoun "I", pronouns referring to God, adjectives derived from proper nouns, all words in the name of a place (not necessarily just the nouns in the name), and acronyms. It's also common to use capitals as a form of emphasis, when none other is available.

>>4139032
What if it's just the seasons and the stars are just referential?

>>4139063
What if it's just mystic bullshit, with no truth whatsoever?

>>4139129
What if science has shown that personalities are affected by the season, and certain trajectories in life are also more probably around certain times of year.

What if you're just hating because it makes you feel superior without doing anything but rationalizing away any questions.

>What if, you're just as ignorant as those you claim to hate?

>thread begins by giving attention to anti-intellectual shows
>30 posts later every response is entry level philosophy bullshit

>>4139165
>personalities are affected by the season

You mean people are happier when there's more sunlight? Who would have fucking thought.

>>4139186
And yet, and yet, that doesn't even have anything to do with personality, because it affects everyone, not just people born then! So yeah, that's why we're dismissing this shit. It's not because it's mystic bullcrap, but that it's mystic bullcrap with no foundation in truth.

>>4139186
No, that devlopment of personality is susceptible to early childhood.

Fuckin' christ, are you trying to be completely ignorant of human development, or did someone tell you that reality is merely a mathematical probability.

>>4139202
so you're hopping aboard the moron train too eh?

People's personailties are immutable by their environment?

How quaint.

>>4139223
Sure, people's personalities are mutable by environment. What are we arguing, here, that astrology is bull, or that personalities probably show significant correlation with birth season or month?

>>4139228
No, that the weather, the seasons, are large scall imprinting devices, as such, they are likely to imprint large scale personalities on people who develop key personality traits at the sametime.

You can argue all you want about _when_ people get imprinted, but waving your hand and claiming that theres no cycle to development is just stupid.

Infact, completely disregarding shit like that makes you more ignorant, because as can be demonstrated here, you've automatically narrowed down the possibilities of social progress and understanding.

No one's advocating hippy bullshit here, but spiritualism doesn't just come out of arbitrary circumstances.

>>4139257
You seem to miss my point. My point is not that there's probably some truth related to something in astrology. My point is that astrology is mystic bullshit with no basis in fact. My point is not that mystic bullshit never has basis in fact. My point is that astrology is mystic bullshit that has no basis in fact. My point is not that personalities might have variance based on the season of birth. My point is that astrology was made up 70 years ago, has no testable predictions, is internally inconsistent, has violently opposing interpretations, is a tool used by con artists to ply their trade, and is mystic hippy bullshit with no basis in fact.