i'm basically explaining the difference between "unlikely" and "impossible" to you right now, which i don't think i should have to do, so i can only assume you already understand this, and that you're just being semantically imprecise or deliberately obtuse

Quote from: dahuterschuter on October 26, 2021, 05:53:37 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on October 26, 2021, 04:32:29 PM

Quote from: dahuterschuter on October 26, 2021, 04:23:29 PM

Out of 100 people it's guaranteed one will

it isn't guaranteed, there's no way to be sure of that

otherwise, you're sadly correct

It is though.  in fact it'd probably be many.  Every person who realizes that the choice it trusting 99 other people completely, or not, is not going to blindly trust 99 other people randomly selected from the population.

it's not necessarily about trust—it's also about you, personally, NOT wanting 99 people to suffer for all eternity and understanding that you have the power to prevent that

do you know how easy it would be for me to find 99 people who would take the second option? even if i had a hard time, if you assume any number of people would share my mentality, there's no reason to suspect that it would be impossible for 99 others to feel the same

the furthest you can go is "it's overwhelmingly likely"—you can't guarantee it any more than i can guarantee the opposite

if it was 100 dahuterschuters on this island, then you'd be wise to choose the first option, but not everybody is you (or someone like you), and that's the point—i'm sure there have been countless stories written about this level of myopia

make me

Ben Affleck lost a lot of weight.

Thanks for all the quotes bros I like when the little exclamation mark lights up

Nothing super noteworthy that I can think of.

I’ve been spending a lot of money recently, so I might just try to chill.

I (think I) got invited to a friend’s bachelor party next week where they’re going to Georgia. I’ll probably pass though because they were saying it would cost 1k-2k just for admission. Not sure if that includes the plane ticket and everything.

We’re going to have a big poker tournament/Halloween party on the 23rd so that should be cool.

My friend group is in a softball league and I’ll usually go watch them on fridays.

Also I’ve been tailgating browns home games on sundays.

Just moved into a new apartment recently so still getting settled.

Quote from: Coomer on September 28, 2021, 07:20:41 PM

Still no gf

I decided to accept my fate and embraced the simp life years ago.

tbh I think cunt is the term for female.genitals that I find the least gross sounding.

Quote from: Coomer on September 08, 2021, 11:53:13 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 05, 2021, 04:32:47 PM

probably my least favorite english word

What's your favorite

when i first learned what it was, i loved it so much that i made it my username

Quote from: Coomer on September 09, 2021, 12:01:27 AM

Also describe in a bulleted list why the word "cum" is your least favorite word in the English lexicon

i actually don't know if it's my least favorite word, but it's way down there

• I'm usually opposed to disliking words for their meanings, because it's not the word's fault that we've defined it that way, but I take exception to this word because I really hate thinking about semen, and that's what the word makes me think of
• General dislike of any sexual slang words (I don't have as much of a problem with "semen" because it sounds more clinical, but it's still not great—it's a rare instance of a concept that I would prefer to talk about euphemistically, if at all)
• Homophones with "come," which opens the door for a lot of obnoxious and sophomoric puns
• Homonyms with the the Latin word "cum," making it impossible to think of common terms like "cum laude," or even everyday words like "cumbersome," "cumulative," or "cucumber," without also thinking of semen (I also feel bad for anyone whose last name is "Cummings")
• Phonetically, it sounds excessively blunt and vulgar, almost as gross and unpleasant as the substance it is defined as
• General bias against any 3-letter words, especially when two of them are my least favorite letters
• "C" is the most vestigial letter in the English alphabet, needed only for the "ch-" sound (which it needs the "H" for); every other C-related noise could be replaced with "K" or "S"
• "U" is the ugliest vowel; synesthetically, I've always associated it with a pale pink hue, like a pig, and I conceptually associate it with things like stupidity and filth (disclaimer: pigs are actually rather intelligent and clean animals, but due to childhood associations, I still unfairly tend to file pigs under "filthy" and "stupid")
• "M" is a letter I don't necessarily have beef with, but it's not doing the word any favors here, because it's a soft bilabial following a harsh voiceless velar plosive, almost like the word is proud and welcoming of its own vulgarity
• Posseses no redeeming qualities; for all the things I dislike about it, I'm unable to think of anything that I do like about it, which, in itself, is another thing to dislike about it

the biggest reasons would have to be its tendency to destroy words that are phonetically adjacent to it—if someone calls to me, and i say "i'm coming," i always wince internally and brace myself for some kind of stupid cum joke, which never happens, but when it does, i can't wait to cringe at them to let them know just how unfunny and disgusting they are

probably my least favorite english word