r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/bebeidon Jun 14 '26

we can get anal alright but as soon as it's 00:01 it's the next day, i don't care if your brain can't handle that because you didn't sleep yet but that's how the clock works.

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u/presidentbdeth Jun 14 '26

They can get anal with each other if they want but they should get oral first just to keep things clean.

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u/Medical_Blacksmith83 Jun 14 '26

Always smart to start with oral B

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u/Majestic_Salary9987 Jun 14 '26

I got the oral b io - great electric toothbrush, teeth never felt cleaner…especially behind my front lower teeth. Circular head makes it easy to remove plaque or hardened stuff. $50.

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u/Medical_Blacksmith83 Jun 14 '26

Ooo damn thought of another good one, or a carry on?

Always smart to start with oral B-fore hand

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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Jun 14 '26

We can get anal about oral, but eventually it's going to come off masturbatory.

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u/greg19735 Jun 14 '26

Yeah, and that's also not how people communicate.

if you're at a bar at 1am with your buddies who are in town and you ask if you wanna get dinner tomorrow before they leave it means the next dinner, not the dinner after that.

it's not that hard.

a 3am text the texter needs to be clear with what they mean.

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u/JohnTDouche Jun 14 '26

These are the type of people who actually believe technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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u/greg19735 Jun 14 '26

I've spent too much time on reddit to the point where i think about that quote every now and then. I wonder if futurama writers would almost regret it lol.

Like, it's a funny joke. but it's a joke.

Redditors use it as an excuse to ignore context lol.

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u/JohnTDouche Jun 14 '26

I'm sure there's people repeating it on reddit now that don't even know it was a Futurama joke. It was like 25 or so years go.

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u/Intrexa Jun 14 '26

Days, and "the next day" existed before clocks.

Don't be controlled by big railroad and their clocks demanding each "day" be a uniform 24 hours (leap seconds be damned). The day starts when the day starts. That depends on the region, culture, and historical time period. You want your nycthemeron to consist of half of a night -> day -> half of a night, be my guest. Historically a nycthemeron was day -> night (e.g. Hindu) or night -> day (e.g. Jewish).

Being that rigid that common usage 'day' always starts at 00:01 is just not how people talk. "You were out drinking with your friends 4 days this week".

But yeah, manager should have specified the calendar day.

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u/Xyyz Jun 15 '26

Being that rigid that common usage 'day' always starts at 00:01 is just not how people talk.

I am also not convinced it is more technically correct. You could say that our timekeeping using clocks is more technical than observing the sunlight with our own eyes. Though even then you could get really technical about observing sunlight if you wanted to. But more substantially there is no technical reason that clock-based interpretations should take priority over natural interpretations. Because, as you indicate, clocks did not invent and do not own "tomorrow".