THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX.
Jon Bois1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2021–2025
commentary · general · evergreen · 2021–2025 on HN
Jon Bois tells the story of a 2008 bodybuilding forum thread in which users spent a weekend arguing over how many days are in a week. It is episode six of his Pretty Good series for SB Nation.
Shared as the definitive retelling of one of the dumbest online arguments ever.
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3 comments from Hacker News
> Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: ▶ this video
Hm, if they switched the schedule up a little and had a workout every other day (with a rest day in between) they could have been working out 4-5 times per week. If anyone's unsure about the maths on that then don't worry, "you don't count the day you're on when you're counting days " ;-) ▶ this video
LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: link -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: ▶ this video * Time Cube: link -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.