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[WWGD]

Ok, "Year-end bonus", not "Rear-end bonus", makes more sense now.

 

[WWGD]

The benefits of 0 divisors. #FirstWorldIssues.
Why is the number of days in a week a prine number, unlike number of degrees in a circle or other composite?
Say I want to shave every 3rd day . No matter what weekday I start, I won't be able to use the same days of the week because 7 is prime. If I shave Monday, then I also shave Thursday, then Sunday. And then Wednesday.

 

[jbriggs444]

The benefits of 0 divisors. #FirstWorldIssues.
Why is the number of days in a week a prine number, unlike number of degrees in a circle or other composite?
Say I want to shave every 3rd day . No matter what weekday I start, I won't be able to use the same days of the week because 7 is prime. If I shave Monday, then I also shave Thursday, then Sunday. And then Wednesday.

Same reason as 17 year cicadas. It is to evade the beard predators.

 

[Ibix]

Are we lucky that we have a moon with an orbital period with a low number of convenient sized divisors? 28 days can only be divided by 2, 4, 7 or 14. If it orbited every 40 days or something then some countries would have gone for 8 day weeks and others for 10.

 

[fresh_42]

The benefits of 0 divisors. #FirstWorldIssues.
Why is the number of days in a week a prine number, unlike number of degrees in a circle or other composite?
Say I want to shave every 3rd day . No matter what weekday I start, I won't be able to use the same days of the week because 7 is prime. If I shave Monday, then I also shave Thursday, then Sunday. And then Wednesday.

$3 \nmid 28$

Blame the Babylonians and the Semitics. But there is a solution for you. Since you cannot return to the days when moon orbited Earth faster, maybe you can wait until it is far enough that it takes $30$ days. Then you can introduce a week of $6$ days.

 

[Klystron]

..."lose skin solution", an unusual product.

Motorcycles?

 

[WWGD]

Motorcycles?

Maybe in France , but not in Toulouse ( Scraping the bottom).

 

[WWGD]

Same reason as 17 year cicadas. It is to evade the beard predators.

Is that like one of those movies, attack of the killer (shaving?) razors?

 

[WWGD]

$3 \nmid 28$

Blame the Babylonians and the Semitics. But there is a solution for you. Since you cannot return to the days when moon orbited Earth faster, maybe you can wait until it is far enough that it takes $30$ days. Then you can introduce a week of $6$ days.

Done, we'll wait for that. I like practical solutions ;).

 

[WWGD]

Talk about practical solutions. Note to self: Ask one question at a time when texting. If you ask 2 or more,
you may receive an answer for each but the order of the reply may not match the order of the questions.

 

[fresh_42]

Talk about practical solutions. Note to self: Ask one question at a time when texting. If you ask 2 or more,
you may receive an answer for each but the order of the reply may not match the order of the questions.

Í like questions with an OR. They are usually so easy to answer.

 

[Ibix]

Í like questions with an OR. They are usually so easy to answer.

"Gimme your lunch money OR I'll beat you up"

An example of the bullyin' OR.

 

[fresh_42]

"Gimme your lunch money OR I'll beat you up"

An example of the bullyin' OR.

But that's an order, not a question. The question would be: "Would you consider to give me your lunch money or shall I beat you up?" in which case yes or no is still the only solution, depending on the fitness of whom has been asked.

 

[WWGD]

Im not particularly knowledgeable in zoology or entomology or whatever may apply burt I am still having trouble understanding how flies can have an emirate.

 

[WWGD]

I had to put up my biggest, phoniest smile when person next to me at coffee shop pulled power cord from my PC ( my PC battery is not working): No, no problem (AAAAGH...)

 

[fresh_42]

I have listened to two press conferences about covid-19, one held by the RKI and one held by politicians. Guess which one made sense and which one contained just hot air!

 

[WWGD]

Interesting sentence:
Megan Markle is not one of the successful Sussex exes.

 

[skyshrimp]

I want a 98" UHD TV.

I have a 55". The 75" is a nice size. The 82" is very nice, but a 98" will be amazing.

 

[WWGD]

I want a 98" UHD TV.

I have a 55". The 75" is a nice size. The 82" is very nice, but a 98" will be amazing.

You can design your life around some of the 300+- channel lineups and just watch tv all day. There's all- movie , channels, sports, sitcoms, variety. Kind of funny is the issue of the time you spend looking at the tv guides containing the listings; takes at least 10 minutes to cycle through the list of shows in 300+ channels.

 

[WWGD]

@Klystron : there was a good book a while back: Politically Correct bedtime stories. A bit exaggerated but funny I thought.

 

[WWGD]

I don't know what's more worrisone: that I mixed Nostradamus with Houdini in a story I was telling or that either no one noticed or at least did not bother to tell me.

 

[Ibix]

They didn't bother because, although they knew such criticism would put you in an awkward spot, they predicted you'd get out of it.

 

[WWGD]

They didn't bother because, although they knew such criticism would put you in an awkward spot, they predicted you'd get out of it.

Wow! This precisely appears in his letter* 6022 random pensorius on Frenchus and me.

EDIT:*To be pretentious, in the Quatraine 6022.

 

[zoki85]

I heard kind of thunder today. Thought it was lightning in a mid of a sunny day. It was just a fast meteor:

 

[WWGD]

I heard kind of thunder today. Thought it was lightning in a mid of a sunny day. It was just a fast meteor:

Cool. I hope there won't be at some point a confusion with a missile attack.

 

[WWGD]

Is Youtube needing Lithium?
Manic :" Best Day of my Life" is followed by depressive: " Boulevard of Broken Dreams".

 

[fresh_42]

Why do the aliens actually only grab the somewhat stranger specimens of our species?

 

[Ibix]

Why do the aliens actually only grab the somewhat stranger specimens of our species?

See https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/roswell-and-the-aliens-invading-since.984554/post-6302834

 

[Adesh]

Why does greek letters look like little insects? For example you see $$\xi \\ \zeta$$

 

[fresh_42]

Why does greek letters look like little insects? For example you see $$\xi \\ \zeta$$

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