I recently noticed grmpy getting scientific in the “Is there a physicist in the house?” thread that DJ so kindly pulled up in order to delete something… way to go, little man…
Anyway. It reminded me of a similarly weird, totally unprovable thought experiment that I foisted on my father when I was 16. (By way of background, my dad had a PhD in English Literature and was a cutting edge 90s computer programmer. Just so you know how sharp this guy was.)
I said:
. Let’s assume that your entire digestive system is one long tube with a single beginning orifice and a single ending orifice. It curves and twists and turns, especially in the intestines, but we’re working with a generally solid tube without branches or turn-offs. (There might be branches and turn-offs in real life. For the purpose of this experiment, forget 'em.)
. Let’s assume you can bend like Plastic Man and contort your entire body into position or shape you want without harm to yourself or physical pain.
. These having been assumed, if you shoved your head, which contains the single beginning orifice (i.e. your mouth) into your rectum (i.e. the single ending orifice), where exactly does it go? Does it turn you inside out?
I asked my dad, and he told me to go and do something outside. At 3 AM, I woke up to use the bathroom. Dad is in the living room with Grey’s Anatomy open on the coffee table, surrounded by Post-It notes and sketches. He looked up at me, his eyes haunted, and said, “I don’t know son. I just don’t know.”
HAHAHAHA!!! Your dad rules. As for the answer, you would create a circle and as you continued crawling up your own tube as far as you could go, that circle would get tighter and thicker with the tube filling itself up with your own tubeness until you just couldn’t go any further and all that was left to show for your experiment would be a thick meat-based donut with concentric meat tubings wrapped around more meat tubings. Your head would never come out anywhere because once you started the endeavor, you will have already closed off the “exit” (as it was used for an “entry”). So, no, you wouldn’t turn inside out. You’d just become a nice pure meat human Cinnabon.
I don’t want to start a new thread for it, and I suspect the same target audience that ponders the eternal snake trip of man up his own anus may care about this rant, so . . . WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH OUR NEW QUARTERS?
Look how fucking stupid George looks. I had to Google it to confirm it was even still him on the quarter. Nice mullet.
Shit was still okay in 2020 (we’ve had the same Washington on quarters for a zillion years), but in 2022 we apparently just gave up aesthetics altogether and replaced George with this other meat-necked goon.
No, sorry. I was showing the NEW NEW quarter on the right, as compared to one from just a year or two prior. I think the other side is still different state motifs (some of which are also cringey as fuck).
