while we're all waiting for the dough…
I'LL TAKE "STUPIDITY" FOR $1000, ALEX
got an email from my sister today. she wrote…
>and I am here to see it now. Cool.
at first, i couldn't figure out to what she was referring. then i noticed the footer at the bottom of the email…
>Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>This October has 5 Mondays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. Happens every 823 years.
my mind reeled.
how many people read this and thoughtlessly accepted it without question? because their "smart"phone says so? SMH
should be fairly obvious it happens, on average, every seven years, every time october first is a saturday.
january first must fall on one of seven weekdays. that makes seven possible non-leap yr calendars
taking into account leap years, that makes fourteen possible calendars.
one of the seven non-leap yr calendars will have october first fall on a saturday.
one of the seven leap yr calendars will have october first fall on a saturday.
since there are fourteen possible calendars, but leap years happen ever four years and october is after february, the first day of october will cycle thru the days of the week in an irregular fashion, but in the long run, october first has to fall on a saturday twice every fourteen years, or once every seven yrs on average, or ONE HUNDED AND SEVENTEEN TIMES in 823 yrs.
without even thinking about calendars at all, anyone could use the app on their phone/puter to click backwards, and thereby discover that it happened most recently in 2016. the only thing that is required is to question "authority." especially when it is so obviously ridiculous.
before 2016 it happened in…
2011
2005
1994
1988
1983
1977
1966
1960
1955
1949
1938
1932
1927
1921
1910
1904
1898
1892
1887
exactly 20 times in the past 140 yrs.
imagine that.
and if you look at the yrs in that list, you can see the pattern in the number of yrs skipped. from this, you could go backward without the use of an "app" and list all 117 times it occurred in the past 823 yrs, then write to the millennial retards at samsung and berate them for placing greater value on diplomas than brains and common sense.
is it any wonder the world is in the shape it's in?
next time a phone or a TV or the internet tells everyone to put on a mask or get a booster, what will most people do? i wonder.
to be fair, my sister is usually smarter than this. she didn't think about it because she had already categorized it as unimportant.
MORAL OF THE STORY: NOTHING IS UNIMPORTANT.