A legendary thread. We have never settled how many days there are in a week.
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.
Ideally I would wash my hair every five days or so, but because our weeks are seven-day long I wash them every seven days and deal with having slightly greasy hair for two days.
Sometimes I wish the Revolutionary calendar had worked out. It had 10-day-long décades instead of weeks; that would have been awesome for my hair.
I consider the weekend to be one day unit so if I work out Saturday it counts Sunday too. I can only imagine the firestorm that would erupt if I said that in the bodybuilding thread.
I just wash every other day.
get out of here with your reasonable pragmatic standards.
To make matters worse, you can’t even go by the calendar and do “every odd date” or “every even date” because some months end in an odd number (31) and the following day, the next month begins with an odd number.
I didn’t realize Wikipedia covered bodybulding.com forum beefs.
And talk about how it’s considered the most unessential and useless debate of all time as it’s covering it.
It’s a part of internet lore at this point.
This video about it is just as legendary imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
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.
I fucking love that a mathematician was consulted on the matter
Absolutely flawless ragebait troll if it was one.
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I lost so many brain cells reading this for the first time and I’ve never regained them
Fascinating read.
