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THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX.

Jon Bois · 1.6M views · 2016-02-18 · 18:13

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Jon Bois tells the story of a 2008 bodybuilding forum thread in which users spent a weekend arguing over how many days are in a week. It is episode six of his Pretty Good series for SB Nation.

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Shared as the definitive retelling of one of the dumbest online arguments ever.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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wolrah · 2025-04 · Strong recommendation

> Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: [VIDEO]

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smcl · 2022-09 · Joke / meme

Hm, if they switched the schedule up a little and had a workout every other day (with a rest day in between) they could have been working out 4-5 times per week. If anyone's unsure about the maths on that then don't worry, "you don't count the day you're on when you're counting days " ;-) [VIDEO]

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1_player · 2021-05 · Reference

LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: [LINK] -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: [VIDEO] * Time Cube: [LINK] -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.

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