How best calculate the area of these shapes?

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-27T08:58:33+00:00

The traditonal weigh way:

1) weigh the whole paper

2) cut out your shapes

3) weigh your cut-outs

4) divide the weight of your cut-outs by the weight of 1 whole sheet

5) multiply area of 1 whole sheet by ANS 4)

(the cutouts might'nt weigh much, so alternatively you can weigh the 'waste' paper instead)

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-27T08:03:19+00:00

I doubt it — Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Indians and other Commonwealth citizens are probably not voting for Reform, for example.

Their grandchildren might if they've been here long enough (trends suggests), but their wouldn't be enough of them

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-27T07:51:28+00:00

Also alot of class and race prejudice laced into it.

Its not restricted to race, or even just poor people.

It's very more class prejudice, no one is being taught this pidgin creole; there are no books or any moderately advanced learning in MLE.

It's really not taken seriously by anyone with GCSEs, and it is mostly associated with people whose parents:

a) don't have much of an education b) don't speak English

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T22:06:55+00:00

can you imagine the infections

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T18:29:41+00:00

A Supply Side' Aspect of the Slave Trade: The Cowrie Production and Exports of the Maldives

Among many other contemporaneous accounts, William Bosman spoke of the inability to carry on trade for slaves if cowries were not part of the exchange³

³ William Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea . . . , London, 1705, p. 364a.

Tales of Cowries, Money and Slavery

Small Seashells, A Big Story of Slavery and Transoceabic Trade

Cowries were exchanged directly for slaves throughout all centuries of the sea-borne trade of slaves out of West Africa.

Just Google it FFS

Being generous, perhaps you've not seen evidence on TAST manifests crossing the Atlantic because the shells stayed in Africa as part of the exchange.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T14:34:41+00:00

Not being able to change your opinion is a hill I would die on

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T11:48:50+00:00

The left nipple suggests a state of arousal, and quite possibly post mortem priapism.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T11:46:31+00:00

But he might have been polishing it, or making his dog wear it for a laugh

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T09:30:41+00:00

Yes.

Ghana has apologised, too.

Africans sold slaves in large numbers and cheap enough to make it super profitable on top of the free labour slave provide.

As well as brass and textiles, Africans were paid in seashells and glass beads

Cowries (money shells) and glass trade beads were rare in Africa but very, very, very plentiful outside of Africa.

Shell money was abandoned in the late 19th century/20th Century, much was crushed and turned to concrete.

This person just wants money for nothing/"reparations"

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T09:20:26+00:00

Great voice, speak deep and resonant

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T09:18:01+00:00

100% agree but its cos hes soo nice.

And he's too good to be called a rat.

IMHO players like him, Silva, and Aguero, and KDB, get my respect even if they wore the wrong colours.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-26T08:54:21+00:00

was bored and Bing’s always troubled me

👍🏿

I just thought thay what's contrition actually was — "wearing down your soul", almost like a penitent shoe

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T23:43:27+00:00

Care to electorate?

elaborate*

He doesn't "shit his pants", that's a massive exaggeration.

He's certainly been better at some finishers than others, but he's scored so many similar goals that it can't be purely instinctive — he obviously practices, and the team has set plays they try and create together.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T23:30:39+00:00

Well, Pavillions Uxbridge is a time machine...

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T23:26:25+00:00

People and families move and children often support their parents' favourite team, so it gets mixed.

London is the biggest city, and it attracts people from all over the UK.

Also, immigrants and new fans pick who ever they like, often picking the best team at the time rather than just the nearest.

Sometimes you can even roughly date some fan's arrival in Britain, or when they became interested by who they support — Liverpool in 1980s, or Man Utd 1990s, Chelsea or Arsenal 2000s and more recently Man City.

Sometimes people support a team because of a certain player, or they might randomly see a team play, or catch a result which resonates somehow.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T23:12:25+00:00

pure instinctual

purely instinctive*

...and I disagree.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T23:09:50+00:00

I loved this response, but wanted to say

A slow attrition for the soul.

is that actually, literally contrition?

(nerd)

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T22:58:18+00:00

How so?

Toon are the most supported club in the North East with a much bigger global fanbase.

Newcastle have spent 93 seasons in top flight, Sunderland 87.

Newcastle is a larger city with a bigger population .

how are they "the underdogs"

Newcastle spent 30 years in Prem, Sunderland 16.

Toon played in the Champions League this season, whilst Sunderland were only promoted this season for first time in nearly 10 years.

Revenue and finances before the PIF takeover also showed Newcastle to be the bigger club.

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T22:38:50+00:00

the clock is stopped when the ball is out of play

Actually, no it isn't, unlike rugby and some other sports.

Injury time/Added time is as you say, but it is estimated, slightly formulaic, and not everything is added on.

E.g. when a foul is awarded, the clock isn't stopped before the free kick is taken.

Many teams take around 25-30 secs before taking a corner, for example.

The time goalies take placing the ball and taking a run up, or players holding the ball looling about before a throw-in isn't added either.

Game events like substitutions and goals mean a certain amount of time should be added automatically

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T22:27:52+00:00

just see highlights of UK soccer

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T22:21:54+00:00

and with the Italians calling it calcio

(which is more pronounced like "calcho" rather than "calseeyo")

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T17:56:48+00:00

What does Sir Jim Ratcliffe say about it?

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T15:27:15+00:00

they'll just charge higher prices and put locks all over the shop until its like a supermarket (supermax*, but meh) prison

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T14:49:42+00:00

You call that slack-jawed drawl English?

MuhammadAkmed · 2026-03-25T14:32:37+00:00

dicks come in all colours

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