You know, just because your short term memory is only ten seconds long, there’s no need to rewrite the whole conversation everytime.

Because of your stubborn refusal to actually read anything I’ve written, I copy it back down in hopes that you’ll see your own words and actually continue reading beyond the end of the quote. Though, admittedly, it’s not going well at the moment.

Noon, midday or the number of hours is anything but arbitrary.

Noon is not, correct. Midday is not, correct. But while the fact that we’ve assigned any particular celestial event a number is more logical than a horoscope, it’s no less arbitrary. Are you truly suggesting that our lives would be significantly different if we all grew up in a world where a new day began at noon, and so we called noon 0000? Or if we began a new day when most people woke up, and so we indexed noon at 0600 so that people could wake up at 0000?

Yes, you going into that world from this one would be startled (or, judging by your tone here, deeply offended), but any version of you that grew up in that world would think it very normal and logical.

You being ignorant of the reason doesn’t make you right, it makes you ignorant.

Interesting. Because I’ve given actual facts here proving me correct about the reason for these things, but you continue to assert that I’m wrong and there’s definitely a reason (even though you won’t say what it is).

Notice anything about the divisibility of the numbers? No…?

You mean the fact that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6? That is a nifty coincidence, isn’t it? Definitely super useful. Good thing the Egyptians liked twelve constellations, huh? But it wasn’t in any way intentional. Might be why it caught on, though.

Apologies, I do understand your country is going through a tough time.

Thank you, I appreciate it. It, uh…it’s not great over here.

Like I said, I’m not your history teacher, and you are just completely ignorant of the subject. You have to know how dumb you are though, but your ego just keeps ripping right through.

I just went to look it up and see if I’d somehow misremembered from the books I read a while back when I was hyperfocused on the subject. But lookie there! “In ancient Egypt the flooding of the Nile was, and still is, an important annual event, crucial for agriculture. It was accompanied by the rise of Sirius before the sunrise, and the appearance of 12 constellations across the night sky, to which the Egyptians assigned some significance. Influenced by this, the Egyptians divided the night into 12 equal intervals. These were seasonal hours, shorter in the summer than in the winter. Subsequently, the day was divided into intervals as well, which eventually became more important than the nightly intervals. These subdivisions of a day spread to Greece, and later to Rome.” (emphasis mine)

Egyptians liked the stars and thought those 12 constellations were important, so they divided up the night into that many hours. Just like I said.

See I could teach you. Then you’d pretend you knew it all the time.

I probably wouldn’t need to pretend, since you’re pathologically resistant to actually reading what I write. In fact, you’re probably going to reply to me about how “no, you idiot, it’s because the Egyptians thought that a particular set of 12 constellations were important!” next, aren’t you?

See, you keep on asserting your intelligence and telling me I’m wrong, but then just leaving the assertion there by itself and telling me to do my own research. It’s not my job to prove your point for you, though. That’s up to you.

You’re just a pseudointellectual

I believe I already answered that assertion in the affirmative, yes.

and didn’t even click “timekeeping in other cultures” when he did his pathetic Wikipedia browsing.

Actually I did click that one just now! and it proves that whole thing I said in some other comment about how other cultures have different timekeeping systems which means that it’s not inherent and is actually totally arbitrary! But since you didn’t read that, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you didn’t know.

Which is exactly why you insist on your silly kittle ignorance.

Here’s a dramatic paraphrase of our interaction so far.

Me: “I mean, A isn’t any more or less logical than B.”

You: “YOUR AN IDIOT A IS OBVIOUSLY MORE LOGICAL THAN B OMG YOU SHOULD BE SHOT”

Me: “What? That’s a strange amount of rage for something so mild, but what reason do you have for your opinion?”

You: “LOL NO IM NOT MAD UR JUST TRIGGERED IDIOT. A IS OBVIOUSLY MORE LOGICAL THAN B AND I DONT NEED TO TELL YOU MY REASON BECAUSE YOUR SO DUMB YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF STUPIDHEAD. OMG YOUR SO MAD AND TRIGGERED LOLOLOLOL”

Me: “That…isn’t actually a reason? See, here are a couple of reasons.”

You: “SEE YOU DONT HAVE ANY REASONS AT ALL LOLOL TRIGGERED, A IS OBVIOUSLY MORE LOGICAL THAN B”

Me: “What? I just gave you reasons, did you not even see them? Here, have some more. And why do you keep yelling the same thing over and over again?”

You: “KEK YOU ARE IGNORANT, A IS OBVIOUSLY MORE LOGICAL THAN B, U DONT KNOW ANYTHING, DONT HAVE ANY REASONS LOLOLOL”

Me: “…blink twice if you’re in danger, bro.”

You’re plain wrong. I will tell you eventually how badly, but now I’m just gonna sip on your dumb juice. So sweet.

Ok, this is going to sound like an insult, but it’s actually an honest question: are you literally a pre-teen? Because all this time I had been assuming you’re an adult, but if I’m dealing with a child I should probably recalibrate my expectations. It would certainly explain your ludicrous position, your bizarre rage disguised under the laughter, and the phrase “dumb juice.”