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> bodybuilding.com Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online [0]. It’s so good, the Wikipedia entry [1] has a section devoted to it. [0
by sgarland 2y ago
> bodybuilding.com
Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online [0]. It’s so good, the Wikipedia entry [1] has a section devoted to it.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/https://forum.bod...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com
- sensanaty 2y agoMy personal favorite rendition of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqylqmDl0Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqylqmDl0Mw (Mega64 - Flame War Theater - "Full Body Workout Every Other Day?")
- sgarland 2y agoThis is amazing, thank you.
- ethbr1 2y agoI had to watch that at 2x to keep the thoughts-per-second above catatonic. In the same vein, for those who haven't seen it, the classic "Is soup a drink?" debate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU Somewhere, there are ancient Greek rhetoric teachers spinning in their graves.
- Modified3019 2y agoThat was a treat, thank you. Cultured gentlemen such as yourself may also appreciate: >Intellectuals Solve Life's Big Mysteries | Big Brain by Tom and Don [nsfw discussion] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYzzS7PwG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYzzS7PwG8
- cwmma 2y agoFor the record this is an example of the "Fencepost error" where the last item in a range gets double counted as the first item in the next range and is incredibly common in dyscalculia (the math version of dyslexia) as people will have "visual number lines" in their head that cover ranges of numbers but the ends get double counted, so there will be a 10-20 number line then a 20-30 number line. I suspect TheJosh had something like that with the week where he visualized it with Sundays at both ends but lacked the self awareness to realize that this was not a universal representation.
- ethbr1 2y agoAs the quip goes, there are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y agoThat's three though.
- recursive 2y agoThat's the neat part.
- emmelaich 2y agoDepends what you mean by the name "three"
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y agoor "neat"
- fetzu 2y agoNot if you start counting at zero!
- throwaway2037 2y agoI never saw this before. Thank you to share. Truly, this is peak Interwebs.
- butterlettuce 2y agoIf a woman ever asks what men’s locker room talk is like, just show them that post. We really are a simple bunch.
- mrguyorama 2y ago[flagged]
- Der_Einzige 2y agoSo basically it’s very gay?
- mrmlz 2y agoI've never seen balls touch in a locker room so definitely not gay.
- justinator 2y agoThat IS dumb -- everyone knows there are 8 days in a week. Sunday to Sunday -- you can count it on your hands!
- andrelaszlo 2y agoWell, the thing is that if it's Sunday you can't know if it's the Sunday at the end of the week or the Sunday at the beginning of the week. Therefore, each Sunday is in two weeks and should be counted twice, 8 + 2 = 10 days in a week. Don't feel bad, a lot of people miss this.
- justinator 2y agoPhewah. I feel like you just upgraded my entire life!
- ren_engineer 2y agolol that was a bait thread, this is the same place that had a discussion on whether a pitbull could defeat the Sun if it snuck up on it at night
- wcfields 2y agoDo you have a link or reference to this? I'm going to be thinking about this for weeks now.
- Modified3019 2y agoI found some fragmented search scraps earlier today which I saved. The thread is possibly: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=170324391 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=170324391 (now defunct) The link title was "Pitbull vs Sun, Pitbull wins because.... - Bodybuilding.com Forums" The link text preview was "it just has to attack in the night time when the Sun is sleeping. amirite or is there a way for the Sun to win?" Unfortunately this is not in archive.org or archive.is
- adamrezich 2y ago> In 2015, Vice News contacted mathematician Joanna Nelson for a resolution, and she said that TheJosh would have to schedule his workouts in two-week chunks, claiming a week is seven days from Monday to Sunday. Why was a mathematician necessary for this assertion?
- anigbrowl 2y agoBecause if you ask an economist you'll get two answers, neither of which will be helpful.
- wolrah 2y ago> Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
- artursapek 2y agoI love this thread so much
- hsuduebc2 2y agoI need to thank you for the web archive post. The argument was amusing as it was dumb.
- blackhaj7 2y agoLaughing my head off reading through this. Thank you