Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by simonh on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:41PM (#32976595)

The point of comical absurdities like this is precisely that they appear comical or absurd if you don’t know the reasons for them being the way they are. That doesn’t mean there are no reasons, it’s just that those reasons aren’t necessary or even relevant to appreciating the apparent absurdity.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by narag on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:00PM (#32977791)

FWIW, I wasn't trying to explain why it isn't funny, but why I don't find it funny. YMMV.

Nobody needs to know all those annoying details, but once you know, the joke doesn't work so well, at least it didn't for me.

Also I believe that the Moon deserves some respect. It makes nights less scary, inspires whimsical humans and provided a convenient way to measure middle-length periods of time when a precise calendar hadn't been developed... many moons ago.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by foobarian on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:58AM (#32983185)

I find it pretty juvenile. It's like when a rookie dev first faces some production codebase and starts wanting to rewrite everything.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by drekipus on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:08PM (#32977359)

Many people going to read this thread and think "yes, everything is completely backwards and nonsensical, I hate all forms of historical traditions and reasoning"

I'm also making a comical absurdity just fyi. Do people like this exist? I don't know

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by dwighttk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:58PM (#32976791)

Perhaps… but the author presents as if telling the reasons but the reasons are just absurd

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by fknorangesite on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:01PM (#32978184)

Don't bother dissecting the frog; this website is populated mostly by sticks in the mud.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by avereveard on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:24AM (#32982802)

yeah, but one could lead the time explanation with that. the alien sure picked an uninformed chap to learn about time.

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