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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

i still don't see what the point is.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Because a sexual relationship requires 2 people to touch, so it is a relatable setup.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 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.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Were you neutered as a child?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

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."

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

You objection is noted Mr. Spock. Man your station, please.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

also, if the woman is naked, does that mean the mathematician, engineer, and physicist are also naked? Because that would make a lot more sense.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

The mathematician is naked, something about pure and direct truth. The physicist is wearing a bow tie, chippendale cuffs and a banana hammock. The engineer has on his new invention: Assful chaps.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

i like this interpretation of it.

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 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.

[-] Rev3rze@feddit.nl 12 points 5 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.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

i would definitely be more suspicious of it. This is probably another paradox frankly.

[-] Rev3rze@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

It's a pot of gold. Obviously there's a leprechaun involved who will be presenting the riddle.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Makes sense. But that would not make me less suspicious.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

i think it would make equally as much sense, if not more, if the word naked was just removed.

It's just fucking shoehorned into it.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I thought it implied an erection.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

that could be it.

[-] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Could be fucking anything

Like a naked woman.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

i mean yeah, that's one of the options. Could also be an orphan source.

[-] 0x10097110@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

The engineer will never reach her, but his boner will.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

im pretty sure most people have arms. An engineer almost certainly does.

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