Me: Now listen to me, for example, if I take three cans with 1 % mango in each and pour them into a big bottle, It will have the same taste, and it will still be 1 % mango in it.
french dude: Haha, no no, Myleen, that makes THREE percent. You have three cans, right.
Me: ... Yes, you have three times the amount of mango, but you also have three times the amount of the other liquids in the cans, consequently there is still just one percent mango.
The two other french people: *silence* .... Well, yeah.. she's right... in THEORY
Maybe it works for DRINKS.. but not for everything
Several frustrating minutes later one of them delivers this killer line
French guy: Okay, it might be logic, but that doesn't apply to real things.
Math has got nothing to do with reality.
I spent the rest of the evening being upset about this enormous ignorance, so vast that it doesn't even see itself.
Of course all previous lines were delivered in french, and of course I was not quite so eloquent.
But peu importe.
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That is rather monumental.
A couple of weeks ago I had a similar experience. A creationist started talking to me while I was waiting for the bus. He tried to convince me that the chances for life evolving "all by itself" were so small as to be impossible. Never mind the wrongness of his ideas; the funny thing was, when I pointed out to him that a very low probability, even extremely low, is not the same as zero probability, he backtracked quickly and claimed that math, in this case, had nothing to do with reality!
I laughed at him, got on the bus and tried to forget. This kind of stupidity rubs off on one and makes one feel appreciably stupider for some time...
I now have a reason more to laugh at French people, right after their mother tongue and their pronunciation whenever they dare utter even the simplest of words in whatever foreign language. Superb! :D
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