2018. A "special" year. True or False?

[AES]

My wife got a strange message from one of her girlfriends here yesterday. It seems that arithmetically speaking, 2018 is a strange year, with a "funny" that occurs only once every 1,000 years.

The trick: Write down your birth year. To that add your present age (in years). The answer is always 2018!

Does this work for you too? (We both tried this and it did work, and same for a couple of others whose details we knew - e.g. her sister, my brother, etc).

AND if it IS true, why are we only hearing about this at almost the end of the year? (Normally I would have expected such "funnies" to be circulated via the internet etc, in January 2018, not in December). Or are we both just very slow?

 

[Rorschach]

I see that one pop up every year usually around new years day. :lol:

 

[ScaredyCat]

The trick: Write down your birth year. To that add your present age (in years). The answer is always 2018!

Hopefully you're joking...


... but I can't actually tell from your post.


Out in December because by then most people will have had their birthday by then.

Next year, after your birthday, do the same - magically the answer will be 2019, then the
Next year, after your birthday, do the same - magically the answer will be 2020...

It's how birthdays and age work...


.

 

[AES]

Thanks all.

No this wasn't a joke, I confess I posted in all naïve innocence.

Yes, it's absolutely obvious (when someone points it out to a thicko like me) but I'd never seen/heard this "joke" before, and although we both tried it on other people's dates of birth, it never occurred to either of us to try it out on years other than 2018.

(Retires as gracefully as possible, wiping large quantities of egg off his face not to mention other bodily regions). For me> (hammer) (hammer) (hammer) ("wake up Laddie")

 

[AES]

Just to add to the above:

My good lady passed the original message on to a different girlfriend. Like the responses here, the answer came back "Yes, OF COURSE. That's how birthdays work you know!"

Well, good to know that SWMBO is equally short in the brain cells department! We're well suited it seems!

(It's just SO obvious when pointed out, but 'onest injuns, neither of us "fell in" when she first got that message). Ah well ...........

 

[Bm101]

It's a miracle!

=D>

We've all had our moments mate.
Think yourself lucky you don't spend your life living in the moment like my 'supervisor'. #-o
This is a man who upon seeing a nest about 4 floors up a sheer external marble clad building from a window cleaning cradle, stared, pondered idly for a while, (pretty sure i heard tiny rusty gear wheels clicking somewhere and saw a tiny puff of steam ejected from one ear), opened his mouth and uttered the legendary line.
'You have to admire them though don't you?'

Me: What? Admire who?

'Rats'.

Me: Eh?!?

'Well you have to admire them. The Rats. Getting all the way up the front of this building to make their nest. It's pretty amazing how they manage to climb up the marble?'

Me: (silently in my head: Dear God, What's he going to come out with now?)

Me: What Rats Steve?

Me: (silently in my head: What. Fu..ing. Rats?!? For. The. Sake. Of. God. What. Now?!)

And he points at this nest. It's a bird nest. Its made out of twigs. It's your classic birds nest. Not some confusing tropical one made from mud and decorated with shiny objects and a stage to perform mating dances.
If you asked a 5 year old to draw a bird nest, this is the nest they would draw (badly).

Me: (silently in my head: Whaaat the actual Fuuu....!!!!??!!?!)

Me: Riiiiiiighhht.... Ok...... And what makes you think that's a rat's nest Steve?

He points. The act of pointing make it more true in his mind. Empirical fact. Proven.
'Look. Rats Eggs. Amazing.'

This is a man who has gone his whole life, nearly 50 years mind, without realising that (without the odd freakish Aussie exception, yes I know, I know), that mammals don't lay eggs. It's possible he's hazy on the whole subject of mammals in general. Birds are probably somewhat of a surprise too. Not sure he's even aware of fish. Other than that they have Fingers.

This man is my supervisor.
So what does that make me.

Well TBH, in truth, it makes me a puppet master. He suggests a method of work. We suggest a sensible way. He listens and then tells us how we are to proceed. #-o Really.
But, my God, it's draining.

So anyway!
If, you are feeling a little daft. Don't.
Hold it in context with real mind numbing depressing stupidity.
Things ain't so bad mate. You could be coming to work with me. And Steve.

:wink:

 

[Tasky]

AES - Next time you're at the hardware shop, could you pick me up a few things?

Elbow Grease
Camouflage Paint
Tartan Paint
3ch of Fallopian Tube
A Cyrillic Pencil
A mercury rod
Some snew
A Long-stand and Long-weight
A hard-punch

 

[AES]

Thanks for that Bm101. Gave me a laugh AND made me feel a bit better for being a "dimbo".

BTW, your boss reminds me of a very senior bloke from a big bank international bank that I was once working on behalf of. I took him to look at "his" aeroplanes - they were leased by the bank to an airline that went bust. In the pre airfield visit briefing I explained to him that "his" aeroplanes have 3 engines ("big holes" - one on each wing and one at the back in the middle - which was exactly how I explained it to him BTW). On the way across the airfield we passed a row of someone's else's aircraft, also parked like his. "Are those my planes?" he asked. "No, they've only got one somewhat smaller hole on each wing". And I asked if could he imagine getting 250 pax into an aeroplane obviously only big enough to be carrying no more than about 120 at a push - also in my briefing. "No", he couldn't see those 3 big holes either. Around the corner of the next hangar there were a couple of his aeroplanes parked - complete with a big hole at the front of each wing and another at the back in the middle - AND about "10 times" bigger than the aircraft we'd just passed. All just as I briefed. His only comment was "Ohhh". (Should have been "Duuuuhhhh" I guess.

Thanks to Tasky too for the list of "long waits"! I was an apprentice once too you know, and was at various times sent off for many of those in your list. OK, my "2018" falls into much the same category, I admit it.

But as said, 'onest, neither Sylvia nor I "clicked" when we first saw that message yesterday. Dumb yes, definitely, but I shan't be beating myself up for it any more. Life's just too short!

 

[Fidget]

AES - Next time you're at the hardware shop, could you pick me up a few things?

Elbow Grease
Camouflage Paint
Tartan Paint
3ch of Fallopian Tube
A Cyrillic Pencil
A mercury rod
Some snew
A Long-stand and Long-weight
A hard-punch

Couple more

A sky hook
Skirting board ladder

 

[Vann]

For us it was:
Striped paint;
Long weight (as mentioned above);
Left handed screwdriver/hammer; &
A tin of vacuum - for cleaning ('vacuum' cleaner - sounded perfectly logical to me - I got most of the way to the store before that one clicked ).

Cheers, Vann.

 

[Fitzroy]

I’m based in Aberdeen and we had a new lad join the team from Birmingham. He went on for a couple of weeks about being amazed at the size of the pigeons in the town, it turned out he was talking about the seagulls and honestly had no idea they weren’t pigeons. Baffling how people go through life so oblivious to the natural world around them.

F.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Square post holes are quite hard to come by. My uncle, in the mid '50s having just joined the navy (forged signatures, he was underaged) was on a train over Dartmoor when he persuaded a London lad that a sheep was the controller of the herd because it had a radio aerial and received information from the farm - it had a bramble stuck to it.

 

[Tasky]

Dumb yes, definitely, but I shan't be beating myself up for it any more.

You don't have to - That's what you've got us lot for!!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

On a different tack - 2018. A "SPECIAL" YEAR. TRUE OR FALSE?

Special for me - the first year for six years I've not been in hospital for part of it. :lol:

 

[OscarG]

I’m based in Aberdeen and we had a new lad join the team from Birmingham. He went on for a couple of weeks about being amazed at the size of the pigeons in the town, it turned out he was talking about the seagulls and honestly had no idea they weren’t pigeons. Baffling how people go through life so oblivious to the natural world around them.

F.

We used to have a girl working for us years ago who didn't know where beef came from. I thought she was joking when she asked "beef, yeah but what animal does it come from?".

I was gobsmacked, I'm staring at her big round stupid face, desperately searching for traces of sarcasm or humour.....no....oh boy she's serious.

I love the idea that she sees these enormous black and white things walking about in fields and has no idea what they are!

 

[finneyb]

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We used to have a girl working for us years ago who didn't know where beef came from. I thought she was joking when she asked "beef, yeah but what animal does it come from?".

I was gobsmacked, I'm staring at her big round stupid face, desperately searching for traces of sarcasm or humour.....no....oh boy she's serious.

I love the idea that she sees these enormous black and white things walking about in fields and has no idea what they are!

'enormous black and white things' - that'll be a Holstein - a dairy cow !

Brian

 

[TFrench]

He points. The act of pointing make it more true in his mind. Empirical fact. Proven.
'Look. Rats Eggs. Amazing.'

I'm more impressed that you didn't fall out of the cradle laughing at him.

In a similar vein, our new apprentice won't eat eggs because they're "chicken's periods". Happily eats noodles, and loves the white crunchy bits in an eton mess.... :lol: #-o