My take on the argument "There's always two sides to every story"!

[Buckeye]

I recall an old Russian expression that someone is "lying like an eyewitness".

 

[Chet]

Not so, A quadratic equation has two solutions. Either two distinct real solutions, one double real solution or two imaginary solutions.

I must have been sitting next to Marylou in class that day.

Edit:
I got to wondering if I ever had quadratic equations. Luckily, I still have my math book from 50 years ago. I checked the index and there they were in Chapter 6. There were hand written notes here and there so apparently I had read the material and also passed. I have not thought of them since.

 

[horseless carriage]

I must have been sitting next to Marylou in class that day.

She must have been a worthy distraction. There again, quadratic equations are not on most people's bedtime reading list.

 

[Dana]

She must have been a worthy distraction. There again, quadratic equations are not on most people's bedtime reading list.

If the discriminant is positive , then the quadratic equation has two solutions.
If the discriminant is equal , then the quadratic equation has one solution.
If the discriminant is negative , then the quadratic equation has no solution

 

[Irwin]

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that there must have been a wee bit of racisim there, or the "N-word" wouldn't pop out of someone's mouth, no matter how antagonized they were. "Idiot," "a**hole," or something in that line, but the "N-word," no. Not unless there's some racism. For most of us, that epithet is so off limits that it wouldn't just pop out.

I agree that most of us would never use the N-word, no matter how frustrated or full of rage we became. It's become the equivalent of verbal manslaughter, and we know the consequences for uttering the word. We'd forever be branded a racist. Similarly, we'd never use a derogatory term for a gay person, an overweight person, a short person, etc... unless we were utterly obnoxious and unsavory. But that doesn't mean the thought doesn't cross our minds when we're trying to devise a way to retaliate against people who have done us wrong. We just show restraint and make use of our impulse control. Some people aren't able to control their impulses and just blurt out whatever comes into their minds in the heat of the moment.