Choices, smoiches

I'm not sure why you think it would be worth $5 to chop off your fingers.

>>8087965
>$5.000,00
You realize that the fact you used a decimal point makes this five dollars?
The answer is no, not for $5, not a chance.
>tl;dr You're a fucking sub-educational mong.

>>8087976
Or toes. Just one digit.

>>8087981
In some countries its inverted so this would translate to 5,000.00 which

>>8087965
is still only fucking five thousand, so no

>>8087981
Im sorry, but youre wrong. What does those zeroes after the comma means?

>>8087965
Apparently you can live without your pinky toe. I need the money more than I need something I can live without, so yes.

>>8087997
And by "live" I mean walk/run/swim/etc completely normally.

>>8087987
>In some countries its inverted
Your intellect is inverted you fucking retard.

>maiming yourself to eat what is essentially a pork-like product

>>8088010
>no actually they aren't wrong
>NO NO NO YOU'RE DUMB FOR KNOWING THINGS

>>8087965
>$5

>>8088012

No, you'd be maiming yourself for the purpose of the money. The eating is incidental.

>>8087981
Americans use , to separate thousands and . to start decimals. Europeans use . to separate thousands and , to start decimals.
OP is an European, is all.

>>8088010
It's an idiotic system to use a comma instead of a full stop in order to break up denominations. A full stop is more appropriate when changing while a comma for just breaking up the digits to make it easier to read.

America wins again.

I think this is a really bad deal but at the same time I badly need that sort of money right now so yeah, i'd give up a pinky toe.

>>8088025
You get it.
>>8088028
You seem delusional.

>>8088063
Nope. The American system is much more logical

I could do with the money but my balance is extremely important as is dexterity. So I'd probably pay up to $10,000 to get my finger back.

To chop it off a pinky finger though I'd need closer to $300,000

A thumb and we are looking at $5,000,000

>>8088068
Sure thing. Like gallons, quarts, cups etc.
You keep telling yourself that, if thats gets you through your life.
Nope, son. Metric way, is the way.

If I could get away with only losing a pinky toe and could safely remove it with no risk of infection, then sure. 5K would be worth it.

>>8088080
>somehow the Imperial system of measurements is linked to using full stops and commas in monetary notation
You're a grade A idiot.

Protip: Americans learn both the imperial and metric. All students are taught metric in primary school.

>>8088028
But you're not American. Were you one, you'd have said 'period' not 'full stop.'

>>8088068
I don't think either is more logical than the other. I mean Greek uses a semicolon as an interrogation point. The only reason you'd say it's more logical to use than an interrogation point is because you're used to ? implying a question rather than ; (they use · where we would use ;)
My language uses « in place of your " and neither is superior to the other. The point is: it's entirely arbitrary what marks are used for what purposes in a given language or culture and arguing over which is better is an exercise in futility because none are.

>>8088094
And still you fail to comprehend the meaning of 5.000,00?
Or just drunk and looking for some internet argument, so at least theres something going on in your petty life?

>>8088095
>But you're not American. Were you one, you'd have said 'period' not 'full stop.'
You don't need to be American to see that the American system is a lot better.

>I mean Greek uses a semicolon as an interrogation point.
This whole point is irrelevant. Periods and commas are used for the same purpose in most (if not all) European languages. The full stop is used to end a sentence and show transition into the next while commas are used within sentences to make parsing a sentence easier. This translates directly in the American system where the full stop ends a denomination and shows a transition into the next while the comma makes the number easier to parse (1,000,000 vs 1000000). The European version is reversed.

>>8088108
>And still you fail to comprehend the meaning of 5.000,00?
I never failed to comprehend the meaning of 5.000,00. Where did you get this information from?

seeing as I make around $4k per week, probably not

>>8088088
But you have to eat it! Could just put it in some soup, I guess.

>>8088110
Some languages use neither to separate thousands, opting instead to use a space. Rather than
1.000.000 or
1,000,000 they'll use
1 000 000
It makes just as much sense as using either the comma or the full stop. Again: it's completely arbitrary. Why argue over our myriad differences culture to culture when we can all agree on the most important things in life: Muzzies are a plague on the earth who need to be destroyed and Albanians are untrustworthy.

>>8088134
It's like one bite, and I'm open to trying new things, including human flesh.

>>8088137
>Some languages use neither to separate thousands, opting instead to use a space. Rather than
You're not understanding my point, but I really don't care anymore.

>>8088137
Lol, yeah, beats me. We all know we have different ways of putting decimals. Is it a big deal?
I guess, if nothing is going on in your life.

>>8088144
I got your point. What you're failing to get is that your point is, for lack of a better word, pointless. You're growing upset over the most minute of minutiae.
People differ from you and your culture. Others are like you and your culture. I suggest you get yourself a deck of cards.
>and deal with it

>>8087965
for 50,000 id cut off and eat someone elses and eat them.

for 500,000, id cut off my own, and eat them.

>>8088170
So you really did miss my point. Oh well.

Depends how long i could milk workman's comp for, really. Less than 2 years and it aint worth it

Not for $5 $500 or $5000 but for five million? Maybe. If it was my pinky totally thumb totally not any other fingers no way

>>8088183
The only point you have is to the top of your skull, you pinheaded dolt.

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>>8088224
>completely fail to comprehend a point after it being spelled out for you multiple times
>call someone else an idiot

Op here. I got this idea from some Roald Dahl short. "Man from the south"
I even remember some shorties where the person betting his fngers, ended up with a few on each hand.

>>8088191
For five million you can have 5 toes and 5 fingers.

Shit, Ill even cook them up nice for you according to your own preference.

Assuming you're a Eurofaggot or Aussie and therefore wrong and mean $5k, I would chop off a little toe if I could get really fucked up first. Assuming I could consume it any way I wanted, I would dice it and put it in gelcaps.

>>8088228
But he's right. You don't have a point. As I said earlier: you're point, as valid as it may be, is essentially also pointless because you're getting bent outta shape over the most nothing of nothings. I wish I had so few problems that I could spend time being upset about punctuation like you do, Anon. #jealous

>>8088243
inb4 he throws a 'tism tantrum over using a hashtag on 4chan

>>8088243
>>8088248
I think he'll likely get pissy at me for using 'you're' instead 'your.' Let's see which one gets his panties in a twist!

>>8088243
It seems you Europeans are too dumb to comprehend a simple parallel. I'll try to explain it with as few words as possible.

American system[1]:
>. & ,
>writing & money
>same function[2]

Retard system:
>. & ,
>writing & money
>opposite[3] functions

[1] www.dictionary.com/browse/system
[2] www.dictionary.com/browse/function
[3] www.dictionary.com/browse/opposite

>>8088264
Where did those Americans come from, exactly?

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>>8088264
>doesn't understand that he's just proving anon's point
tell us more :^)

>>8088271
Non sequitur

>>8088278
His point was that it's arbitrary. I pointed out why it isn't and that there is a logical parallel between the functions of full stops and commas in writing and monetary notation. This is undeniable and objective fact.

Europe 2.5k of civilization,birth of democratity

America. 500 years, my gun is bigger than your gun, also I like junk food.

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>>8088283
>misses anon's point
>claims anon missed his point
tell me more (^:

>>8088289
>Yurop is older so its illogical monetary notation system is better :))

Flawless European "logic"

>>8088297
>Denying objective fact
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're trying to save face and aren't actually this delusional

>>8088303
Keep digging

>>8088314
>No argument

>>8088322
Im sorry, who are you again?
Ask your question, and I may answer?

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you idiots will argue over anything

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>>8088303
>argues it's illogical
>'besides illogical, it's just arbitrary and none of it really matters so long as you understand what's being said in op'
>admits to understanding what's being said
>still argues that it's illogical
please, tell me more ^_^

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>>8088362
Dont we all love those amerikooks?
They seems selfasured, but actuually.
They are like Trump, all, words, small dicks.

>>8088362
You're mentally deficient if you think illogical is the same as incomprehensible.

>>8088371
You type worse than a sub 80 IQ nigger. Try to at least learn English before trying to demean others.

>>8088428
No. Im doing fine. No need some punk to tell me how to thimk.

>>8088439
Well, whatever it is you're doing isn't working. You come off as a total moron.

>5 million to chop off a digit
I would give it some serious thought

50 million and I wouldn't even have to think, just give me the knife right now

>>8088459
You kids. Give me 50.000,00 and I happily chop of my foot pinkey

>for five dollars

Stopped reading there.

>>8088472
god, why so cheap? that's like 5 years of booze. you'd rather have booze than all your toes?

>>8088475
Oh 50.000 dinares.?
Aka 50k dolores.

>>8088494
fifty thousand united states dollars
much too low for permanent mutilation
what third world country are you from?

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>>8088428
It can't be incomprehensible if you already said you comprehended it, kiddo. But please: tell us more. :^)

Id lose a pinky and eat it for $5000 if all my rehab and medical costs are covered too.

>>8088448
>You come off as a total moron.
Says the guy experiencing a category 5 sperg out because people use different arbitrary conventions in different parts of the world.

Kek. Your self awareness must be nonexistent.

Not that guy by the way.

>$5,000

This should only take you about a month to make at a job, if you haven't just completely spent your teens and 20s fucking up and being stupid. No, one month's worth of money is not nearly enough to cut off a finger or toe.

>>8088028
I'm going to agree that the American system is better.

When writing text, the period signals more complete or severe grammatical and conceptual distinctions between two statements, whereas the comma signals a closer connection.

With numerals, the connection between the 5 and the first 0 of 5,000 is closer than the connection between the last 0 and any fraction that would fall to its right. This usage follows naturally from how the marks are used in writing words.

>>8088577
I never said it was incomprehensible. I said it was illogical. Brush up on your reading skills, retard.

>>8088620
Non sequitur

>>8088749
Holy shit someone who gets it.

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>>8088757
>i never said it was incomprehensible
>>>8088428
>you think illogical is the same as incomprehensible
>>8088362
>argues it's illogical
>'besides illogical, it's just arbitrary and none of it really matters so long as you understand what's being said in op'
>admits to understanding what's being said
>still argues that it's illogical
please, tell me more and try again ^_^

Jeez guys, i was somehow seeing this coming. .
Are we enemies?
Seems like some1 hates every1

>>8088791
You seriously need to learn to follow the conversation and look up the words you're struggling with.

>>8087965
Not for $5. Not for $5,000. Up the offer to $100k and I'll think about it.

>>8087965
No, 5000 is too little

>>8088757
>pointing out you are yelling other people are morons while acting like a moron is a non sequitur

Keep digging moron.

>>8088825
Look up non sequitur

>>8088813
I think we can bargain with you.
>>8088820
So, you're negotiable?

>>8088117
I take home like a quarter of that, and still FUCK no.

>>8087965

no. maybe for 1 mil. $5,000 is barely a few months' rent

>>8087965

Nope. My toe is worth more to me than that.

I value standing and walking normally for the rest of my life. Also the chronic hurt that comes with injuries like that isn't worth just $5,000.00.

There's also something called dignity involved, I guess I'm not that poor.

$5k? Hah, no

>>8088860
Thing is. Some people are really that poor.
Mayby not selling their soul.
But some pinky?

>>8088831
Why? I know what it means.

Your behavior indicates you have zero self awareness. Which is a conclusion that strictly follows from my argument; screaming about arbitrary bullshit while calling other people a moron makes you look like moron.

And the distinction is still between arbitrary conventions.

And you are continuing to look like an even bigger moron imagining no one else on this board understands basic stuff.

not for that little, but on a non-edgelord level, ive always been curious what human flesh tastes like. im not gonna kill someone or pay someone else to kill someone to try, but its still a taboo that piques my interest

>europeans
lol

say hello to mohammed for me

>>8088810
>i understood but i'm still gonna argue about it being illogical!!!
>'if you understood, then it doesn't matter if it's illogical.'
>it's illogical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>'okay, but you said you understood, so it doesn't matter if it's illogical. and the punctuation points are arbitrary anyway.'
>non sequitur!!!!!
>'okay, but you said you understood, so why are you getting upset about it if you understood?'
>it's illogical!!!!!
>'okay, but so what? you understood so why does it matter that it's illogical?'
>you're dumb!!!!!!!

>>8088889
I explained several times why it wasn't arbitrary. You're a lunatic.

>>8088897
Look up the difference between illogical and incomprehensible.

>>8088900
Not him, but it is arbitrary. The comma and dot originally meant opposite things, but Aldo Manuzio had a monopoly on vellum printing in the 15th and 16th centuries and he preferred the comma for pauses and dots for full stops. Because he basically owned all written word during this important period in the infancy of the press, his influence held a lot more water than the literal millenia of handwriting that preceded him.
His system is just as arbitrary as the opposite system that preceded it.

If you notice, countries and languages that use commas as decimal points have a much, much, much longer history of accountancy and bookkeeping than those that do not, dating back to before Manuzio's arbitrary hijacking of punctuation.

>>8088904
You still miss the guy's point which is: if you get it, why do you care that it's illogical?
You spent six hours arguing about dots while everyone is laughing at you. Let that sink in a minute, spergmeister.

>>8088931
>if you get it, why do you care that it's illogical?
This is irrelevant to the discussion.

>>8088924
If we were living in the 1300s your post might have been of some relevance.

Brush your teeth OP

>>8088958
I do. Twice a day. You?

>>8088941
It's not irrelevant if that was the point from the beginning and you keep on glossing over it.

You keep screaming that it's illogical as though wasting seven hours of your day yelling about dots isn't.

>if we were in the 1300s
No. If we were, you'd either be using a comma as a decimal point or you'd be illiterate and have no use for written numbers.

Also, if you were a smurf, which smurf would you be?

>>8088992
>It's not irrelevant if that was the point from the beginning and you keep on glossing over it.
It wasn't.

>The rest of the post
Nothing

Thanks for playing.

>>8088996
>that wasn't the point!
Yes it was.
What smurf would you be?

>>8089009
>Yes it was.
No it wasn't. The discussion started with my post. Anything not addressing the main points of my post are irrelevant.

>>8088144
>i don't care!!!!!!!
>>8088996
>but i'm gonna spend seven hours telling you how much i don't care
lol

>>8089009
>>8088992
he'd be friendless smurf
no one likes him. literally no one. once, he got caught by gargamel and gargamel was like 'ew' and wouldn't eat him. and he doesn't get to fuck smurfette.

>>8089021
>A total of maybe 15 minutes interspersed in a 7 hour period is the same as 7 hours straight of posting
Hint: You're guilty of the same thing

>>8088900
I have posted a total of two or three times ITT while you have been REEEEEEEING out till hair grows on your palms and spouting Latin which you partially understand at best.

Punctuation and the demarcation of thousands and decimals is arbitrary, and the fact that others use a different system doesn't mean it is illogical or inconsistent.

Ffs you are probably the type of person who supports the imperial system because it is based on 'units which are meaningful to people, such as the length of their foot'.

not even for $5,000 no

$50,000 would be temptting

>>8089068
Missing the point yet again. My argument is that one system parallels language while the other doesn't. A cartographer can paint landmasses blue and water green and people will still know which parts are land and which are sea due to the repeated exposure to the shapes. Just because people can comprehend it doesn't mean it isn't an illogical choice to do so.

>>8089013
>I am the center of my own world and am therefore the center of everyone else's
>I am the only person equipped to tell what is relevant and what is not

Like I said earlier, zero self awareness.

>>8089079

>accountancy isn't a language all of its own

So what comes after the decimal in the Anglophone tradition is part of a separate number? And not intrinsically linked to the numbers before it?

Good to know.

>>8089082
The discussion started with my claim, therefore that is the claim that is examined in an argument. Anything outside of that is irrelevant to the argument. This is basic, ground floor knowledge.

>>8089096
>this is a formal philosophical examination and shouldn't be expected to follow the rules of conversation

>if it compromises your point it is ipso facto irelevent

>if it undermines your fragile sense of worth, it is not criminally so

Oh am i laffin

>>8089086
In a paragraph periods separate sentences that are intrinsically linked to each other. Try again.

>>8089108
The difference of an order of magnitude of ten is the same whether you are talking about the difference between one hundred and one thousand, or one tenth and one.

Also, with figures, the number is understood to be unity in a tighter way the paragraph is.

Your tortured parallels and autistic metaphors are the only support you can muster. Except perhaps for occasionally howling irrelevant at the moon.

But have fun, I have better things to do.

>>8089129
>The difference of an order of magnitude of ten is the same whether you are talking about the difference between one hundred and one thousand, or one tenth and one.
Superficial distinction

>Also, with figures, the number is understood to be unity in a tighter way the paragraph is.
Both are expressing whole ideas. One just more complex than the other.

>>8087965
>permanently mutilate yourself for less than two month's pay worth of money
Who would do this?

>five dollars to cut off and eat your own finger

Do you also live in such a 3rd world shit hole that you'd sell your daughter into sex slavery for a case of vodka?

no. would not. maybe someone else's.

>>8089033
>implying everyone calling him an idiot and saying that he's missing the point that it's all pointless anyway are all the same person
lol

>>8087965

I mean... Can you walk without your pinkie toes?

If so, I guess I just made a cool ten thou.