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Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodyb

Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

wging 8y ago
It is reviewed at length by the incredible Jon Bois (you might know him as the author of 17776): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
ericol 8y ago
This is priceless. Thank you.
jedberg 8y ago
This is like an argument about 0-based vs 1-based arrays.
- hopler 8y ago
  But that's a style choice, not a mathematical error.
bavell 8y ago
Wow that thread is gold hahaha! Bodybuilders making a classic programming off-by-one fencepost error https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
- loser777 8y ago
  Yes! I have been looking for a name for this type of error for a long, long time. |{i, i+1, i+2, ..., n}| = (n - i) + 1 is a little clunkier to say
  - gerbilly 8y ago
    Also known as an 'Obiwan error'.¹ 1: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html
  - bavell 8y ago
    Glad I could help! So satisfying to find a concise name/explanation/rule/heuristic for describing complicated phenomena. ^_^
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edgarvaldes 8y ago
I love finding and reading these classic threads again.
imjk 8y ago
Thank you for sharing. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. This was my previous favorite bodybuilding thread: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&pa...
- m-ee 8y ago
  That's up there with the original frogtech bulk https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&pa...
sharadov 8y ago
Unfuckinbelievable!
hbosch 8y ago
Omg, this is awesome. I love this quote: > "You don't count what day it is when counting days, I just explained that. If today is SATURDAY, it's not 2 days until SUNDAY now is it?" The sheer concept that Sunday to Sunday = 1 week versus Sunday to Saturday = 1 week is kind of bending my brain.
- hombre_fatal 8y ago
  "Sorry to hijack, but Josh dude how are you arguing with a calender?" "He is in Josh world. The g'damn dumbest world in the universe!" Classic. Reminds me of arguing Xbox vs Playstation as a teen on neogaf.com.
  - codesushi42 8y ago
    This whole article takes me back to the late 90s/early 2000s gaming message boards when NeoGAF was simply "Gaming Age Forums". A lot of shit talking, and some on-topic discussion about gaming every now and then. What a wonderful time to have been a teen.
    - baud147258 8y ago
      Shit talking/posting on gaming forums do still exists. I joined a 20-year old forum 2 years ago and some thread are funny and some threads are on-topic
  - TheHypnotist 8y ago
    Just so I'm clear we're all team Justin, right?
- neRok 8y ago
  Sun -> Mon = 1, Mon -> Tue = 2, Tue -> Wed = 3, Wed -> Thu = 4, Thu -> Fri = 5, Fri -> Sat = 6, Sat -> Sun = 7 So Sun -> Sun = 7 days = 1 week! OP's mixing duration with a "period" of time.
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maxxxxx 8y ago
Very funny. I also am often in a discussion where I develop some theory about something and only after a while start thinking "Huh? What am I talking about? This makes no sense.". Happens to the best of us.
vertline3 8y ago
I have a feeling the guy is trolling.
tfandango 8y ago
Hilarious! Reminds me of the classic Fark streetlight thread, which sadly has lost all of it's images looks like: https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-picture-of-I-thought-it-was-a-planet-but-it-looks-really-weird https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-...
eBombzor 8y ago
A WEEK IS NOOOOTTTTT SUN-SUN!!!! IT'S SUN-SAT, S-E-V-E-N-DAYS!!!! Sun-Sat is only 6 days?! Sunday ONE Monday TWO Tuesday THREE Wednesday FOUR Thursday FIVE Friday SIX Saturday SEVEN Arizona public schools=FAIL Oh my lord that is hilarious. Another hilarious thread from bbf: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&pa...
PlasticTank 8y ago
Now the ultimate argument for gym goers, do you count the bar? http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg
rhegart 8y ago
My favorite thread of all time. Always gets me a laugh
jansan 8y ago
This seems to have taken the role of the Onion's Outkube project: https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-away-all-moronic-int-1819573050 https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-... It was actually implemented and comments were just going wild. Here is one thread on the WaybackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com/go_/?p=245#comments http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com...
rofo1 8y ago
Thanks for that, extremely entertaining, fun to read! :) "That's terrific you have alot of money. Can you lend me $800? I'll pay you back $100 every other day for 2 weeks. Sound cool?"
flukus 8y ago
This is probably the funniest forum post of all time, it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title here, unfortunately it ends on a depressing note: > My point was proved by smarter people, if you take a single week, not two weeks, just a single week, and workout every other day, you can workout 4 days a week, the end, stop bitching.

Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

wging 8y ago

It is reviewed at length by the incredible Jon Bois (you might know him as the author of 17776): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4

ericol 8y ago

This is priceless. Thank you.

jedberg 8y ago

This is like an argument about 0-based vs 1-based arrays.

hopler 8y ago
But that's a style choice, not a mathematical error.

bavell 8y ago

Wow that thread is gold hahaha! Bodybuilders making a classic programming off-by-one fencepost error https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

loser777 8y ago
Yes! I have been looking for a name for this type of error for a long, long time. |{i, i+1, i+2, ..., n}| = (n - i) + 1 is a little clunkier to say
- gerbilly 8y ago
  Also known as an 'Obiwan error'.¹ 1: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html
- bavell 8y ago
  Glad I could help! So satisfying to find a concise name/explanation/rule/heuristic for describing complicated phenomena. ^_^

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edgarvaldes 8y ago

I love finding and reading these classic threads again.

imjk 8y ago

Thank you for sharing. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. This was my previous favorite bodybuilding thread: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&pa...

m-ee 8y ago
That's up there with the original frogtech bulk https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&pa...

sharadov 8y ago

Unfuckinbelievable!

hbosch 8y ago

Omg, this is awesome. I love this quote: > "You don't count what day it is when counting days, I just explained that. If today is SATURDAY, it's not 2 days until SUNDAY now is it?" The sheer concept that Sunday to Sunday = 1 week versus Sunday to Saturday = 1 week is kind of bending my brain.

hombre_fatal 8y ago
"Sorry to hijack, but Josh dude how are you arguing with a calender?" "He is in Josh world. The g'damn dumbest world in the universe!" Classic. Reminds me of arguing Xbox vs Playstation as a teen on neogaf.com.
- codesushi42 8y ago
  This whole article takes me back to the late 90s/early 2000s gaming message boards when NeoGAF was simply "Gaming Age Forums". A lot of shit talking, and some on-topic discussion about gaming every now and then. What a wonderful time to have been a teen.
  - baud147258 8y ago
    Shit talking/posting on gaming forums do still exists. I joined a 20-year old forum 2 years ago and some thread are funny and some threads are on-topic
- TheHypnotist 8y ago
  Just so I'm clear we're all team Justin, right?
neRok 8y ago
Sun -> Mon = 1, Mon -> Tue = 2, Tue -> Wed = 3, Wed -> Thu = 4, Thu -> Fri = 5, Fri -> Sat = 6, Sat -> Sun = 7 So Sun -> Sun = 7 days = 1 week! OP's mixing duration with a "period" of time.
- deleted 8y ago
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maxxxxx 8y ago

Very funny. I also am often in a discussion where I develop some theory about something and only after a while start thinking "Huh? What am I talking about? This makes no sense.". Happens to the best of us.

vertline3 8y ago

I have a feeling the guy is trolling.

tfandango 8y ago

Hilarious! Reminds me of the classic Fark streetlight thread, which sadly has lost all of it's images looks like: https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-picture-of-I-thought-it-was-a-planet-but-it-looks-really-weird https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-...

eBombzor 8y ago

A WEEK IS NOOOOTTTTT SUN-SUN!!!! IT'S SUN-SAT, S-E-V-E-N-DAYS!!!! Sun-Sat is only 6 days?! Sunday ONE Monday TWO Tuesday THREE Wednesday FOUR Thursday FIVE Friday SIX Saturday SEVEN Arizona public schools=FAIL Oh my lord that is hilarious. Another hilarious thread from bbf: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&pa...

PlasticTank 8y ago

Now the ultimate argument for gym goers, do you count the bar? http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg

rhegart 8y ago

My favorite thread of all time. Always gets me a laugh

jansan 8y ago

This seems to have taken the role of the Onion's Outkube project: https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-away-all-moronic-int-1819573050 https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-... It was actually implemented and comments were just going wild. Here is one thread on the WaybackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com/go_/?p=245#comments http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com...

rofo1 8y ago

Thanks for that, extremely entertaining, fun to read! :) "That's terrific you have alot of money. Can you lend me $800? I'll pay you back $100 every other day for 2 weeks. Sound cool?"

flukus 8y ago

This is probably the funniest forum post of all time, it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title here, unfortunately it ends on a depressing note: > My point was proved by smarter people, if you take a single week, not two weeks, just a single week, and workout every other day, you can workout 4 days a week, the end, stop bitching.