Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

The connon-sensless genius picks up a collectors guide to G1 Transformers toys and snorts at everything from 1984 onwards
"These toys are horrioble" he says
"They are from the early 80's; the engineering wasnt that great" i say
"LOOK AT IRONHIDE!" he groans
"Yes" i say with asigh "He and Ratchet have always been 'vans with faces'"
"Why were they so horrible?" he asks
"Because they came from Diaclone stock; the animators pretty much turned all the 'dorky' toys into 'cool' robots" i say
"Why didnt Hasbro make 'better' ones he asks"
"Like i said a moment ago; engineering a toy to look just like the animation model in the 80's would have been next to impossible"
"Hasbro tried to do something like that a few years later with a line of toys called 'Action masters' but they couldnt transform and as a result, nobody wanted them"
"That was stupid" says the common senseless genius, in the same tone he uses for D&D lore arguments
The common senseless genius then flips through the book to the toys from the 1986 movie. He points at
Kup and Rodimus
"Well these things suck" he snorts
"Thats because it was Hasbro's first attempt at engineering toys by themselves without Takara's help" i say
"Well why didnt they just build a time machine" scoffs the common-senseless genius
"What?" i ask
"Hasbro should have built a time machine so they could go to the future and use modern engineering to make non-sucky transformers" smiles the genius
"So what your saying is a toy company should funnel all its resources into time travel so they could engineer perfect grade toys for Reagen era kids?!?" i ask
"Yeah" says the common-senseless genius
"Time travel isnt all that complicated" he says
I was on the verge of kicking him so hard he would have reached 88 miles per hour

Were you talking with a child?

No, an astro physics graduate. Despite possessing the brain power to tell you the width of the known universe in cubits, he has ZERO common sense

Sounds like he's just trolling the gak out of you to me.

I've known Physics grads who forget that they need to put fuel in their cars (or water, oil, etc).

I know CompSci grads who can't change lightbulbs.

"Common sense" isn't common anymore. It's so rare it's a frikkin' superpower

Even Albert Einstein couldn't tie his own shoes, or so I've heard.

@ chromedog
One of my mothers cloesest freinds is a teacher and he's ruined about five lawn mowers because he keeps pouring petrol into the wrong tank

ITT An astro physicist is being criticised for thinking G1 Transformers toys look gakky.

It doesn't take a genius to see that G1 'formers are gakky looking toys from a bygone era.

Luckily companies like hot toys and Sideshow are around to make eighties transforming toys look fabulous.

@ Mr Burning
Like I said in the story; he was a grown man, complaining about TOYS from the Reagan era. He also flies into rants over Kenners star wars toys which were out in the previous administration

 Skymate wrote:
@ Mr Burning
Like I said in the story; he was a grown man, complaining about TOYS from the Reagan era. He also flies into rants over Kenners star wars toys which were out in the previous administration

Which is worse: a grown man complaining about TOYS from the Reagan era, or a grown man complaining about RANTS about TOYS from the Reagan era?

 Skymate wrote:
@ chromedog
One of my mothers cloesest freinds is a teacher and he's ruined about five lawn mowers because he keeps pouring petrol into the wrong tank

I'm puzzled by this one.
My lawnmower only has the ONE tank (It is an old 2-stroke mower, though. About as old as me. Still works, and still does the job.)
How do you put fuel in the wrong one?

 chromedog wrote:

 Skymate wrote:
@ chromedog
One of my mothers cloesest freinds is a teacher and he's ruined about five lawn mowers because he keeps pouring petrol into the wrong tank

I'm puzzled by this one.
My lawnmower only has the ONE tank (It is an old 2-stroke mower, though. About as old as me. Still works, and still does the job.)
How do you put fuel in the wrong one?

HYPERBOLE!

Umm seen a large number of astrophysics students fail to light a BBQ...

Academic brains and sense/life skills not match always.

 Skymate wrote:
The connon-sensless genius picks up a collectors guide to G1 Transformers toys and snorts at everything from 1984 onwards
"These toys are horrioble" he says
"They are from the early 80's; the engineering wasnt that great" i say
"LOOK AT IRONHIDE!" he groans
"Yes" i say with asigh "He and Ratchet have always been 'vans with faces'"
"Why were they so horrible?" he asks
"Because they came from Diaclone stock; the animators pretty much turned all the 'dorky' toys into 'cool' robots" i say
"Why didnt Hasbro make 'better' ones he asks"
"Like i said a moment ago; engineering a toy to look just like the animation model in the 80's would have been next to impossible"
"Hasbro tried to do something like that a few years later with a line of toys called 'Action masters' but they couldnt transform and as a result, nobody wanted them"
"That was stupid" says the common senseless genius, in the same tone he uses for D&D lore arguments
The common senseless genius then flips through the book to the toys from the 1986 movie. He points at
Kup and Rodimus
"Well these things suck" he snorts
"Thats because it was Hasbro's first attempt at engineering toys by themselves without Takara's help" i say
"Well why didnt they just build a time machine" scoffs the common-senseless genius
"What?" i ask
"Hasbro should have built a time machine so they could go to the future and use modern engineering to make non-sucky transformers" smiles the genius
"So what your saying is a toy company should funnel all its resources into time travel so they could engineer perfect grade toys for Reagen era kids?!?" i ask
"Yeah" says the common-senseless genius
"Time travel isnt all that complicated" he says
I was on the verge of kicking him so hard he would have reached 88 miles per hour

Tell him if he continues to insult the greatness of Transformers, you will pelt him with metal hot wheels until he repents of his many and varied blasphemies. If that doesn't work run him over with the GI Joe Jeep (the real one when GI Joe was a manly man who fought da commies and sharks and stuff and not some shrunken five in tall plastic doll).

As for embarrassments. The Boy more than once had interesting mishaps, like going to high school forgetting he had only one shoe on, walking out without pants. As we speak during off break he returned and forgot tennis shoes so now he's wearing mine. That figures. Eat my pork chops, drink my tequila, now steal the shoes from my very feet!

 chromedog wrote:
I've known Physics grads who forget that they need to put fuel in their cars (or water, oil, etc).

I know CompSci grads who can't change lightbulbs.

"Common sense" isn't common anymore. It's so rare it's a frikkin' superpower

Being a graduate doesn't necessarily imply intelligence. Achieving a high level of education has more to do with affluence, and having a "supportive" family, than it does any kind of mental agility. In fact, intelligence can work against you when it comes to education, as those with very high IQs are more likely become bored and distracted/drop out. Mensa is full of people with ordinary remedial jobs, who devote their immense brain power to solving sudoku puzzles, while "lesser minds" that stayed in school, try to cure cancer. C'est la vie.

Also it's super fun to paint the brainiac nerds as social or technical incompetents. Especially on a forum full of people who play with toy soldiers.....

OP "genius" just sounds like a flat up buffoon.

As an Astrophysics graduate myself, I'm curious as to what class of astrophysics degree this person has got where he thinks that time travel backwards in time is not only possible but simple.

Because every introductory course to relativity should teach you that to cross from a time-like to space-like trajectory (which is required for any worldline to travel from an event in the future to one in the past) requires moving faster than the speed of light, which is impossible.

 Frazzled wrote:


Tell him if he continues to insult the greatness of Transformers, you will pelt him with metal hot wheels until he repents of his many and varied blasphemies. If that doesn't work run him over with the GI Joe Jeep (the real one when GI Joe was a manly man who fought da commies and sharks and stuff and not some shrunken five in tall plastic doll).

Hey!

Don't be knocking the 80's Joe. 80's Joe was the superior Joe, keeping the world safe from an Evil Terrorist Organization Determined to Rule the World!

We all know what 60's and 70's Joe was up to, with those life-like beards and "kung-fu" grips...just jerking around with his buddies while out on safari. 80's Joe was shooting and dodging red and blue lasers while giving the world an enema full of 'Murica!

Ok, so my stupid anecdote isnt as funny as i thought it was. I'm sorry

I'm pretty sure a lot of my transformer toys were pretty darned awesome...





(Admittedly I only had about half of him)

(I had enough various constructicons and things to make the combined one, but not all of the same type - I used him as my Galvatron toy to fight my Optimus.)

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Sounds like he's just trolling the gak out of you to me.

This was my take home message as well If he's an astrophysics grad and he's telling you time travel is easy enough for Hasbro to have done it to get future tech, err, yeah, I'm pretty sure he's messing with you.

chromedog wrote:I've known Physics grads who forget that they need to put fuel in their cars (or water, oil, etc).

I've known mechanics who have done the same, some people are just absent minded I've broken stuff because I forgot to tighten a bolt, doesn't mean I don't know how to tighten a bolt or didn't realise that a loose bolt would cause failure, I just forgot to tighten it

I know CompSci grads who can't change lightbulbs.

Well if they studied computer science, they can't be all that bright to begin with

But you can only know what you've been taught. I've known guys who got top marks in engineering without knowing how to tighten a bolt, but they're smart and once you teach them how to do it, not surprisingly, they can then do it.

The scary one isn't the engineering students who don't know how to use a drill when they've never been taught how to use a drill, it's the ones who manage to get through 4 years of engineering and can't design a simple mounting bracket, don't understand the pros and cons of aluminium vs steel, couldn't tell you how much force you need to balance a simple structure, don't understand how or where a vibrating part is going to fatigue, etc etc. That's stuff they are taught and still manage to not know after 4 years

@Compel
Yes, they were marvels for the time. Or atleast my younger self thought they were.
My stupid story is meant to be about a guy who [despite his numerous degrees and qualifications] couldnt comprehend engineering limitations in the early 80's and just assumed everyone knew as much about theoretical physicas and astro physics as he did.
I feel horrible. My stupid anecdote has come around to shoot me in the back like a shokk atak gunn

 Skymate wrote:
My stupid story is meant to be about a guy who [despite his numerous degrees and qualifications] couldnt comprehend engineering limitations in the early 80's and just assumed everyone knew as much about theoretical physicas and astro physics as he did.

And you're sure he wasn't just trolling you?