• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 months ago

            yeah but like, you don’t need to specify that one individual is naked. If that’s a required factoid of the statement, the engineer, mathematician, and physicist should also be naked. But there’s no mention of that.

            Now i don’t have much experience in relationships, particularly inter personal ones, but to my knowledge, you are generally clothed most of the time.

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              7 months ago

              You are overthinking it. This is just a premise to setup the joke that an engineer deals with approximation while the other two give up because they’ll never reach 0.

              It could be a bowl of ice cream for all that matters, but people like corny jokes, so that’s it.

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                7 months ago

                no i understood that part. Unless the naked woman has something to do with that part of the joke itself, then i don’t know why it’s mentioned.

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            7 months ago

            no i just don’t fucking understand why the naked woman matters here.

            Could be fucking anything, a pile of a billion dollars. Three turtles, or a goat, it’s the same joke.

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              I don’t think it’s the same joke when it’s three turtles or a goat, because the joke is “I think I can get close enough…to engage in unspecified sex acts with this woman.”

              You think the same chemicals that turned the frickin frogs gay is responsible for this aversion to sexual thoughts? “Could it not be a naked woman? That clutches my pearls.”

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                7 months ago

                “I think I can get close enough…to engage in unspecified sex acts with this woman.”

                that’s what i would assume, but then again it never states anything, so this is like walking into a fucking storage shed and seeing a colonoscopy going on. It’s just fucking weird.

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              7 months ago

              Exactly, it’s the same joke regardless so why get bent out of shape over it?

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                7 months ago

                i mean yeah, i guess so, but that’s not what im confused over.

                I just want to know why specifically it was written with a nude woman? It never alluded to anything in particular.

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                  7 months ago

                  Is it really that confusing? If it had said there was a pot of gold the implication is clear that the person who reaches it will be rich. You ask “why a nude woman?” and the answer is simply because, just like being rich, desiring a sexual partner is a common desire.

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                    7 months ago

                    A pot of gold explaining the rules to you about it ringing a bell would definitely be even more suspicious than a random naked woman.

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      7 months ago

      Only straight men are mathematicians, physicists and engineers. This is why the joke is framed this way.

      See: responses from OP, valiantly defending his choice to “piss people off”, instead of noticing the joke is just yet another reminder that men are default.

      After all, sexism is over, and STEM isn’t hostile to women/non-heteronormative people. It’s all in our head.

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        Hi there friend, I am here to inform you that many woman also like the titty. Gay girls exist my friend, and the gender of the three professionals is never specified.

        I’ll assume ya ain’t trying to be homophobic my buddy but I hope you keep that in mind for future refference.

        Edit racism comment was another guy, sorry, very tired

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          I’m not going to spend much time engaging with your comment because you didn’t read mine well.

          I did not mention race.

          I included mention of gay folks (see non-heteronormative). The “joke” doesn’t work unless the stem major desires being very close to a naked woman, so I don’t find your mention of gay men to make sense.

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            You did a racism. You did an imperialism. You did a nationalism. You did a xenophobia. You did a white fragility. You did a weak apology. You did no growth. This makes it abundantly clear you don’t understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of your offenses

            /s

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        that’s the vibe i’m getting, but it’s a really fucking weird premise for a hypothetical regardless.

        “there are a fisher, a farmer, and a welder in a bar, on the other side is cthulhu” is basically how it’s worded