I just looked on another board and saw this:
QuoteAnyone else see this post on facebook? I'm late with it and just saw it yesterday but the bizarre factor is rather big..
from fb
do you know the significance of 111 yesterday's date 1/11/11? Take your birth year (last 2 digits) + CURRENT AGE + 1 = 111. Try it!!!! It's true! (got it from a friend)
It's true..why is it true. anyone know?? What's even stranger is that my husband and I have numbers that mirror in this year 2011. His birth date is 1954 and he will be 57 this year, while my birth year is 1957 and I will be 54 this year..
Is that not BIZARRE..
I feel like I might cry.
Oh my god you guys
Take TWO
and add TWO to it
you get FOUR
NO SHIT I'M SERIOUS IT'S TRUE
WHY IS IT TRUE!??!?!
This is why I don't go to other boards.
Even our dumbasses are superior.
How many people with birthdays in January you think will send her messages letting her know it didn't work for them?
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on January 14, 2011, 07:20:44 AM
How many people with birthdays in January you think will send her messages letting her know it didn't work for them?
A lot.
And a lot of people with kids under 11 will message her to say it works for them, but it doesn't work for their children ZOMG MILLENNIAL CRYSTAL BABIES!
I wonder if I could totally blow their minds by telling them that every year on their birthday, they can subtract their age from the current year and LIKE MAGIC, the result will be THE YEAR THEY WERE BORN!? SPOOKY!!!!!
Needs more 1's. They love 1's.
Hey, guess what 88+22+1+=? :lulz:
DUDES ZOMG, ON JANUARY FIRST (1/1) if you SUBTRACT your AGE PLUS 1 (That's THREE ONES!) from the current year, you end up with...:tinfoilhat: THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN!!!!!!
How do ALL THOSE ONES know what year you were born in?????
Any numbering system is going to have tricks like this dependent on what number you count to before you go to the next decimal position. You could blow these people's brains showing the the trick with multiples of 9.
No, No, show em what happens when they divide by zero!
FUCKING MATHEMATICS. HOW DOES IT WORK?!
In related news, today is 1/14/11.
Did you know that date only happens ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS!?
There must be something very important about those numbers, if they occur so rarely on a calender.
Quote from: Richter on January 14, 2011, 12:57:53 PM
Any numbering system is going to have tricks like this dependent on what number you count to before you go to the next decimal position. You could blow these people's brains showing the the trick with multiples of 9.
Hell, you don't even need multiples of 9, you could easily blow their brains by jamming a gas capsule in their eye sockets.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 14, 2011, 01:50:40 PM
In related news, today is 1/14/11.
Did you know that date only happens ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS!?
There must be something very important about those numbers, if they occur so rarely on a calender.
It's a key to a parallel universe where it is 1/14/11 EVERY DAY! We just need someone to open the wormhole.
It may be quite controversial, but Mr. Language thinks we should promote this esoteric knowledge as widely as possible, starting as early as 1st grade.
HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST WE DAMAGE OUR CHILDREN WITH ARITHMATIC!
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:teabagger1:
I am imagining a future world where application of these mysterious formulas bestow upon us great powers, like flying machines and distance communication.
:hashishim: :jihaad: :mccain:
Shit man. Math is for commies. And fascists. And Muslims. You know the ARABS invented zero and algebra, don't you?
Real Amurrrricans don't truck with that bullshit.
Fuckin' numbers.
(seriously, this doesn't even work if you haven't had a birthday this year, anyway. Even if you're stupid and think it's amazing, it doesn't even work!)
(( I asked an acquaitance of mine to do it for her very young daughter when she posted it. She was all "well, it's still 11! It's CLOSE ENOUGH! AMAAAAAAAAAZING!"))
Quote from: MisterDiskord on January 14, 2011, 04:16:20 PM
Shit man. Math is for commies. And fascists. And Muslims. You know the ARABS invented zero and algebra, don't you?
Real Amurrrricans don't truck with that bullshit.
Fuckin' numbers.
(seriously, this doesn't even work if you haven't had a birthday this year, anyway. Even if you're stupid and think it's amazing, it doesn't even work!)
(( I asked an acquaitance of mine to do it for her very young daughter when she posted it. She was all "well, it's still 11! It's CLOSE ENOUGH! AMAAAAAAAAAZING!"))
It only "works" if you haven't had a birthday yet this year. Actually, it "works" either way, if by "work" we agree to mean "add numbers together to get a predictable outcome".
And it's still just simple addition, and I don't get why people find it so mind-blowing.
Law of fives. Find a way for a string of functions to end up in a recognizable number sequence, either the same digits repeating, or clustered, or sequential (111, 232323, 12345), and some people will think that "means" something.
Quote from: Richter on January 14, 2011, 12:57:53 PM
Any numbering system is going to have tricks like this dependent on what number you count to before you go to the next decimal position. You could blow these people's brains showing the the trick with multiples of 9.
I don't even feel like this could count as a "trick". Adding the number of years since you were born to the year you were born gets you... to now. I mean, fuck, people. Just... FUCK. :x
Today I saw a license plate that said GCW-5401!!!
I mean WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 14, 2011, 08:10:39 PM
Today I saw a license plate that said GCW-5401!!!
I mean WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!
:aaa:
DID YOU KNOW...
If you add together any two Prime Numbers, the sum will always be even?!?!?!?!?!?
THAT'S SO WEIRD!
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 14, 2011, 08:10:39 PM
Today I saw a license plate that said GCW-5401!!!
I mean WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!
Dude, you know what the means right? RIGHT?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on January 14, 2011, 08:25:11 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 14, 2011, 08:10:39 PM
Today I saw a license plate that said GCW-5401!!!
I mean WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!
Dude, you know what the means right? RIGHT?
G-g-g-gaasp!!! Not THAT!
Quote from: Nigel on January 14, 2011, 04:13:03 PM
I am imagining a future world where application of these mysterious formulas bestow upon us great powers, like flying machines and distance communication.
BURN THE WITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the time 11/11/11 rolls around, most people won't need to add the 1 to make their age plus last two digits of their birth year come out to 111. ZOMG AMAZING!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 14, 2011, 05:19:15 PM
Law of fives. Find a way for a string of functions to end up in a recognizable number sequence, either the same digits repeating, or clustered, or sequential (111, 232323, 12345), and some people will think that "means" something.
(http://www.originalalamo.com/images/roadshowtour/closeencounters.jpg)
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on January 15, 2011, 05:59:50 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 14, 2011, 05:19:15 PM
Law of fives. Find a way for a string of functions to end up in a recognizable number sequence, either the same digits repeating, or clustered, or sequential (111, 232323, 12345), and some people will think that "means" something.
(http://www.originalalamo.com/images/roadshowtour/closeencounters.jpg)
IT MEANS FOOD FOR MY STOMACH!!!!!
Quote from: Don Coyooooote on January 15, 2011, 06:07:37 AM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on January 15, 2011, 05:59:50 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 14, 2011, 05:19:15 PM
Law of fives. Find a way for a string of functions to end up in a recognizable number sequence, either the same digits repeating, or clustered, or sequential (111, 232323, 12345), and some people will think that "means" something.
(http://www.originalalamo.com/images/roadshowtour/closeencounters.jpg)
IT MEANS FOOD FOR MY STOMACH!!!!!
NOT IF I GET TO IT FIRST, YOU DAMN DIRTY SCAVENGER! :argh!: