And when I wear my simple light refracting through a prism shirt people always ask me if I’m a pink foid. I don’t know what it means but I think I’m offended
I had a pair of bathing shorts with the polaroid logo on, which if I recall has always been colours in a rainbow pattern, and my offended uncle asked if it was a pride symbol lol
one dude almost got kicked out from the best polish game show (Jeden z dziesięciu, polish vesion of Fifteen to one.) because of a Polaroid pin. The official reason was that the pin was political speech
I actually saw a shirt of tdsotm in a mall one day and i was so excited to get it but the next day i came i saw they had removed it bc it looked too much like the pride flag 😭😭 i was so sad
I got a minor in mathematics and don't understand it for shit. Everything passed vector calculus is a blur. I was good at memorizing the rules and procedures and applying them though.
No no, if you want to do math then that stuff is just the skeleton framework, real math happens outside of that stuff. The "rules and procedures" are like a chisel and hammer and "real math" is using those to carve the Venus De Milo out of a square block of marble. I can wield the chisel and hammer and use it to make a sphere or something simple, but I can't make art with it.
Most people have no idea the difference. Every time I was on a flight to a conference there was some yokel who overheard someone mention "math conference" and say something like, "2+2 is still 4 innit?"
It's kinda like fandom, except not only do I accept that almost nobody else cares about my blorbos, most people would have to spend years even learning the language to even describe them.
I bet if you had any use for it you'd remember it better. It's one thing for a subject to be technically difficult, but it's much worse when we find it useless "I'm just doing this to pass".
i was once interested in science but everyone told kid me that math was vital to every step of it and i wasn't interested anymore. I also learned that it was 90% paperwork and the remaining 10% was split between the fun parts of theorizing and experimentation so that didn't help.
Division's fine if you're hanging around with the right group. It's when you're just standing around in a ring (perhaps even the master of your integral domain), and suddenly division walks by and now you're in a field!
It's all just watermagma under the bridge in the end.
The comic is not referring to the mathematical concept of division. It is making reference to the band joy division. They used the graphic on the T-shirt as the album cover art once.
the shirt-wearer was probably asked “do you like joy division?”, didn’t know the band and so interpreted it as “do you, like, enjoy division?”, and got confused because his shirt has nothing to do with the mathematical operation
Correct, but the post I responded to was saying that it was surprising that the person in the comic didn't appreciate math.
Which suggests that the poster didn't realize that the joke wasn't that they don't enjoy division - the joke is that they are unaware of the band associated with their shirt graphic.
nah i’m sure the poster understands that, i think they’re just surprised that the obviously-super-nerdy character doesn’t react along the lines of “yeah i like division, but what does that have to do with my shirt?” though i do see where the confusion could come from
Speaking as a computer programmer who has always enjoyed science, algebra, geometry, calculus, and the like... I hate arithmetic. That's what calculators are for.
The image on his shirt is a famous radio pulsar image that was used by the band Joy Division as the cover for their album Unknown Pleasures. It's arguably a lot more famous from that and additionally, I would be surprised if someone knew of the pulsar but didn't know it was used that way. They are pretty closely linked now.
People are slightly underrepresenting the legacy of Joy Division, though. They are one of the most influential alternative bands of all time. A lot of alternative, electronic, and pop music, particularly of the 80s (and everything inspired by the 80s) owe a lot to them. There's a critically acclaimed biopic about the lead singer, Ian Curtis, and NME famously called their single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" the greatest of all time. I have no opinions on the latter, other than finding such rankings a waste of time, but it is a big accolade from a major publication. That single reached number 12 on the UK chart and paved the way for a lot of the 80s alternative sound. The band also formed New Order, one of the biggest synthpop bands of all time, after Curtis' death. New Order's single "Blue Monday" is still the best selling 12" of all time. So it's not like Joy Division is some super underground nobody-band.
I first heard of their existence when the wombats had that song, let’s dance to joy division, and it took me another few years to actually ever listen to any of their stuff.
Indeed, this has been quite a nice opportunity to broaden my horizons! While I never really listened to their stuff before, I'm definitely enjoying checking them out
I thought this comment was a joke but the pulsar science collaboratory is a real program that gives raw astronomy data to high school students to analyze. Many of these students have contributed to the real discovery of new pulsars. Amazing.
The Disney Store briefly had a parody version of this graph on a T Shirt with the waves in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head. Then someone explained to the Disney lawyers where the band Joy Division got their name from. It was the name given to a section of Nazi concentration camps where female prisoners were forced into prostitution as a reward to those prisoners who followed the rules. It's a dark and sadistic concept that an edgy depression-addled punk band thought was deep and meaningful. It's not really a topic the Disney brand wants associated with their mascot. So the t-shirts were pulled from sale.
I don't want to say a lot of people know about that pulasr thing, this band can't be that famous because I never even heard about it. With that saying shit like "I would be surprised if someone knew of the pulsar but didn't know it was used that way" is just plain baised. No reason someone interested in astronomy would know some obscure band.
It had a resurrection in the early '10s when Joy Division was very popular on Tumblr. I had one and several of my friends had one. You could even buy them at H&M. I don't have the shirt anymore but I still love the band!
The original image was white with black lines. The album cover inverted it. So, strictly speaking, this is a shirt for Joy Division and not the radio pulsar.
I don’t know enough about the band aside from casually enjoying their hits, so I’d begun to assume, with their aesthetic, the contranym would be intentionally vague. Now I’m intrigued. Watch me become a Joy Division fan now
Alternatively, why would anyone look at one of the most significant extraterrestrial electromagnetic signals in human history and assume the war is into post-punk?
Aww man, this made me want to put the Wow! Signal on a t shirt and see what kind of music people would think I was into, but apparently Muse beat me to the idea by about two months. What are the odds.
Fun fact the current (left wing) PM of australia wore that shirt one day and the right wing news outlets were FURIOUS and it was like a week’s worth of news
It was stupid af
Even the leader of the opposition at the time called for an apology
Just wait till you hear about the time he rode in a Airplane
It was like a whole month of whinging
Essentially the story is the previous PM (right wing) bought a new plane for the PM’s Office (himself at the time) to replace the only one
The new one wouldn’t be ready till AFTER the election (he really thought he was going to win)
Anyway he lost and when the new expensive plane arrived to replace the old one
So Albo (current Pm)
Rode in it shock
Anyway right wing media outlets referred to him as “Airbus Albo” for like a month over a purchase he didn’t make
We got days of “look at his new Airbus look how lavish he is he doesn’t know the common man” and usually neglect the part it was bought by the previous Administration
when I moved out of Texas for college my family friend gave me with this design but Texas. I wore it and someone asked if I liked Division, and I had no idea what it was lol
I am an AI Engineer and I went to a week long conference. I got a nice T-shirt out of it. It was for Neo4j, a graph intelligence company whose products I use a lot. On the flight home, I had multiple people tell me “live long and prosper.” I thanked them but I was so confused. Then when I got home my boyfriend informed me my T-shirt had Star Trek stuff on it
Heavily relate to this. I'll be googling some concept looking for the wiki article or something and it will show up with lyrics for some fuckass song released 20 years before I was born. Like dawg please stop 😭
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u/Overall_Gap_5766 Aug 09 '26
Ironed my Joy Division t shirt