what is with americans and hyperbole?

oh sorry... He is a communist, fascist demon seed who is going to destroy this country with his evil health plan. Oh yeah and he isn't even qualified to be a communist, fascist demon seed because he's really a Kenyan who gets off on human sacrifice. Better?

you know, that is dull. americans need to be sillier than that dawn. i had better have a look at the other discussions in here to get laughs today then

you forgot to include 'psychopathic mutant space alien'

I shudder to think what the 'square on the hyperbole' is equal to but, there are hyperbolae in mathematics as well. Imagine one of those double cone things that we used to play with using a string between two sticks - I think they were called 'Diabolo' - and imagine taking a vertical slice through the blessed thing but just off centre. The cut edges would be a hyperbola.

I actually enjoyed graphing and writing the formulas for hyperbolas and parabolas back in my younger days. I found them to look rather poetic. I was intrigued by the similarity of terms.

come to think of it you might be right. don't triangles have a hyperbole? we had to do horrible equations with them in school i seem to recall.

oh my goodness. i am not telling you to STOP doing this. please don't, it's hilarious.

well sheesh, I was wondering.... if we stopped what would you have to complain about? I promise I will never stop!

it's not complaining my dear. it's mickey taking.

Yeah, but we also outnumber you by about 250 million so there are a lot more voices screaming it.

nah. americans use hyperbole infinitely more than we do .

Don't worry, MOST people find it hard to understand why he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. It's usually awarded for actual performance rather than potential. We can only hope that, with hindsight, it will be seen to have been justified. Most of the rest of the world is suffering from the recession and the debt which is partly or wholly due to it. I think that it is only in America that the President is actually being blamed for its effects. Other governments are seen, variously, as handling it well or not (and there is some concern that, in the UK, the new Government may not have taken the best path). It appears that Americans, while claiming that they live in a democracy, think of their president - love him or hate him - as some kind of emperor or dictator, apparently forgetting that all policy and legislation has to pass through two houses before it becomes an actuality.

You are right....people here tend to blame or praise the president on what happens...when enfact congress has more power than he does. I actually blame this congress and the last one for all the BS we are in now. But sence the president is the "poster boy" for the government he usually gets all the blame or credit.

it looks frenetic. a bad economy does bring out this sort of thing, and politicians always take advantage of people being worried to further their own agendas.

it's like a creme brulee but more so. hyper more so in fact.

i feel ill. basic arithmetic gives me a rash, i really do not need to know about horrid things like imaginary numbers.

I thought about hyperbolic functions and how I miss them. Seriously. They were funny. Maybe I should read my math books again this summer, especially Kreyzig. 700 pages of formulas. Who needs crime novellas when you can read about converging time series and imaginary numbers? Maybe I should write a crime novel about converging time series? Or complex numbers? Imaging someone stealing your imaginary part? You wouldn't be complex anymore!

i know. i say the same thing over and over again, 24 hours a day, 8 days a week, and every single time it goes in one ear, rattles around for a bit, then straight out the other at the speed of light.

depending on what those theories, reasons and links are that does not need to looks silly. of course if your theory was 'obama is the reincarnation of hitler' with the reason 'he can grow a moustache and isn't it suspicious he doesn't?' with a link to a youtube video made by your cousin just before he was sectioned, then ok. that might look silly, as no doubt would be the intention.

ok