the real deal for anybody interested in the sauce https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

2008 days-in-a-week debate

This is so stupid I love that it has a Wikipedia segment about it.

2014 thread refuting user's murder and manslaughter accusations

Excuse me. What.

Setting this hilariously stupid debate aside, it really is inconvenient the week has 7 days.

We humans are creatures of habit, and like to do things on the same days every week - either because regularity helps our schedule, or simply because we're all perhaps a little OCD.

I personally wash my hair "every other day" so to keep a fixed weekly schedule I have to either miss two days in a row (not happening) or wash two in a row (which is what I do)

So I totally understand the desire to want "every other day" things on the same days of the week AND still also perfectly spaced, even though that is an impossibility.

It's just that tiniest bit unsatisfying.

I didn't realize Wikipedia covered bodybulding.com forum beefs.

This video about it is just as legendary imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4

I fucking love that a mathematician was consulted on the matter

Web forum software bumps up a thread to the top of the board when a user posts a reply to the thread. This enables lengthy long-lived debates to take place. It gives a lot more opportunity for good ideas to be presented on a topic compared to reddit or lemmy which cycles posts off the front page hours or days after being posted. But trolls can easily derail the entire purpose of the forum by insisting on always having the last word in an off-topic, manufactured debate that eventually draws the entire userbase in.

Absolutely flawless ragebait troll if it was one.

I lost so many brain cells reading this for the first time and I've never regained them

Fascinating read.