• I’ve got an even better one: the circle! Yes, it predates even the enigmatic hexagram! Want your mind blown? Even the Universe follows its laws! Look into the sky and behold the moon! In the holy shape of the circle…

    Aww, shit. I can’t keep this crap going for long before I lose interest in mocking these asshats.

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      Oh man, wait until I tell you about lines. They can be straight, or curved. Curved enough, they make a circle. Three straight ones, and you get a triangle. And they’refucking everywhere.

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      Glad it’s not just me who gets irrationally annoyed when it turns out being dangerously stupid is hard, if you’re not incredibly stupid.

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      What is this mysterious symbol? What did it mean? Why did it suddenly arise across civilizations in the late 1900s, then just as mysteriously vanish? Find out on: Lost Mysteries of The Schoolyard on the History Channel.

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      I always thought it would be a fun short story, probably just a dialogue between two people, where someone convinces the dean of a European art school that this young kid who’s applying isn’t great yet, but he shows promise and could be molded into a great artist and at the end, it turns out it’s a time traveler and the kid is Hitler.

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    There’s no way that more than one culture would figure out that 2 triangles inside each other looks cool