Thursday, 9 May 2013

May 9

More writing as procrastination!  This time, we're going to talk about one of the strangest places I've encountered on the internet.  And I like that.  It's here: http://www.reddit.com/r/fifthworldproblems/

What's a fifth world problem?  Well:
  • My cat failed to land on its feet and now my floor is expanding downwards to compensate. 
  • I made a deal with a powerful trans-dimesional being for 1000 years of life. Now I'm a tree.
  • I've dyed my hair a color that isn't in the visible spectrum.
And other such wonders, including my personal favourite: "Someone just told me my exact velocity and now I'm lost."  It's a physics joke.  And incredibly funny, if you're wondering. 
What on earth is it going on about? Well, it not being on earth is sort of the point.  The idea is that having access to the fifth dimension gives some degree of control over the first few.  But its become more of a novelty zone for playing with logic and paradox and other fallacy.  To great success: it has 36000 subscribers and is one of the more active communities with a number so comparatively small (the largest subreddits are over 1 million). I've spent about an hour this evening being cracked up and bewildered, and having my horizons expanded, or at least my imagination.  Another place that cracks me up is here: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/page/735
It's called garfield minus garfield, and is exactly that.  Which amounts to Jon posing deep and alarming questions to himself.  And I can't even handle it.
Anyway, that's all for now!

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