Whatâs crazy is this might not be the weirdest accidental shot I have seen.
When you take up Archery, you shake Murphy by the hand.
Your sense of what is or is not Probable is opened like a wrecking ball to the Third Eye.
I have seen and managed a ârobinhoodâ more than once. Iâve seen it happen like five times.
Itâs when you split your arrow by hitting the very end of it, dead on, with ANOTHER ARROW. Less than a square centimeter of target there. Just by total freak chance. Nearly impossible to do by trying but it HAPPENS all the time.
âOne in a million chances crop up nine times out of tenâ- Guards! Guards!, Sir Terry Pratchett
#take an archery course and a stats course at the same time and you may Ascend into levels unknown
If nothing else, due to losing your last tenuous hold on sanity because stats, and taking your newfound archery knowledge to live in the woods free of any society that has discovered the discipline of Statistics.
The wild thing about the robinhooding is that the Mythbusters tried - in at least two separate episodes! - to create the perfect circumstances for a robinhooded arrow. They mechanised it, they got their equipment set up perfectly, they had the perfect arrows⊠and they just couldnât do it.Â
Meanwhile, at my first archery competition, I was watching the top level archers while my group was having a break, and i got to see first hand a robinhooded arrow happen. So every time i watch those episodes and watch the Mythbusters conclude that itâs impossible, Iâm tearing my hair out because i have literally watched it happen.Â
OK now Iâm curious- Typically when people start expiriencing âThis isnât how statistics worksâ type-phenomena, itâs because we misunderstood how likely the event was in the first place and the factors that contribute to it.
This would mean doing something like having everyone at an archery contest count how many shots they take that day and then comparing the total to the number of unusual shots- Perhaps robinhooding is not a one-in-a-million shot but it IS a one-in-one-thousand shot.Â
Additionally, âone-in-a-millionâ does not necessarily mean that something will happen once for every million occurrences. It means the chances for each occurrence is 1 in 1,000,000. It may be that the first five occurrences all result in the one-millionth result. It may be that in 5 million occurrences the one-millionth result never happens at all.
Large Numbers absolutely SCREW AROUND with probabilities regardless of whether the statistical likeliness was accurately calculated.
Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.
Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.
It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.
okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where heâs going to be a sex pest, namely: âDo you know where the term âblow jobâ comes from?â
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Manâs Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you canât just say âoh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940sâ without first explaining that âblowâ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain itâs fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. iâm sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didnât realize he wasnât looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe donât start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
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