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Dull Men’s Club

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Re: Dull Men’s Club

#21

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks. i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.

Only if you don't have cats. If you have cats, "under" is the only sane choice.

If you have cats you’ve willing given up your sanity.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#22

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks. i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.

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Re: Dull Men’s Club

#23
post #4

Aw man, this sounded like just my kind of place. But... > It’s a sentiment eagerly embraced by The Dull Men’s Club. Several million members in a number of connected Facebook groups strive to cause dullness in others on a daily basis. Apparently I'm too dull to even have a FB account. I know it's a bit tongue in cheek, but in the name of maximum dullness, something with UX closer to this site seems much more appropria…

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Re: Dull Men’s Club

#24

Reminds me of the proof that all natural numbers are interesting. If there is some set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a minimal element of that set. It being the smallest uninteresting number is interesting which is a contradiction.

Why aren't all numbers in the set uninteresting? Did someone make a mistake when defining it?

Perhaps the minimal element should be removed from the set; there will be plenty of members that still remain.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#25

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks. i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.

There must be a confounding variable: are you an engineer-type?

What traits are correlated with overing?

Do underers look at the world differently?

And it is a false dichotomy. Some people just don't care what direction when they replace the roll - what's a suitable name for that clade? And then there's the people who use the floor and ignore the holder.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#26

Reminds me of the proof that all natural numbers are interesting. If there is some set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a minimal element of that set. It being the smallest uninteresting number is interesting which is a contradiction.

My algebra 101 professor made this exact argument.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#28
post #24

Reminds me of the proof that all natural numbers are interesting. If there is some set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a minimal element of that set. It being the smallest uninteresting number is interesting which is a contradiction.

Why aren't all numbers in the set uninteresting? Did someone make a mistake when defining it? Perhaps the minimal element should be removed from the set; there will be plenty of members that still remain.

Serious response? In that case the set still has a smallest member which can then be removed, if we keep going eventually there will be no uninteresting numbers remaining.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#29

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks. i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.

Mine is in the under configuration, due to being near an AC vent that will sometimes unspool the whole roll in the over configuration.

Re: Dull Men’s Club

#30
post #8

The Dull Men's Club group of facebook is actually oddly interesting. I would classify it more as a group who point out the very small oddities of every day life that are not very interesting. There is a post where someone saw two geese with 42 bay geese, another where the rental company fixed a door with a piece of pool noodle. Its more like a "huh that's kind of weird I guess" group.

I had to block it because I realized it just completely overtook my feed and 99% of it was in that "interesting but ultimately forgettable within 30 seconds of reading it" zone that's filling up social media. I mean it lived up to its name - it's very "dull" if vaguely interesting.
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