• @Croquette
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      151 month ago

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

      • KillingTimeItself
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        -11 month 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
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          11 month 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
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            01 month 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.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        -141 month 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
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          181 month 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
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            -141 month 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
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              161 month ago

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

              • KillingTimeItself
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                01 month 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
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                  11 month 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
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            -21 month 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              131 month 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                1 month 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
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                11 month 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.