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RockRaven

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5. Someone like Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan or Jim Al-Khalili or Brian Cox

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:00 PM

Monday

could sit down with you and have a very interesting conversation about "nobody knows what magnets are" and actually explore that premise and the ways in which it is true. And that would be interesting and enlightening and entertaining.

But none of that has anything to do with this dumbshit blowhard asshole, and his stupid mouth noises. What he means by that is "I don't fucking understand whatever simple top-line shit they just told me about -- even after they dumbed down as much as they possibly could."

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Guess who said "Nobody knows what magnets are" [View all] Tanuki Monday OP

Magnets are inhabitants of the planet Magnum. Everybody knows that. Dave Bowman Monday #1

Is that the Magnum that Dirty Harry carried, House of Roberts Monday #6

Tom Selleck speak easy Monday #15

It's past your bedtime, Grampy. Drink your warm milk then lights out. Diamond_Dog Monday #2

He must have been neglected as a child. CentralMass Monday #3

A psychopath for a father and a emotionally vacant mother nt Javaman Monday #9

Well he IS an insane clown after all. johnp3907 Monday #4

Someone like Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan or Jim Al-Khalili or Brian Cox RockRaven Monday #5

. Hassin Bin Sober Monday #7

It's all slurred word salad all the time now. ananda Monday #8

Too bad his uncle only spent time not telling him Johonny Monday #10

They're as mysterious as the tides. nt eppur_se_muova Monday #11

There are magnets in radios and televisions? Disaffected Monday #12

There used to be magnets in old style TV picture tubes, and pretty much all speakers have magnets in them. patphil Monday #18

Yeah, I considered CRTubes but they are never Disaffected Tuesday #20

WTF is he babbling about? bif Monday #13

INSANELY STUPID AND INCOHERENT BLATHER THAT ALSO CONTAINS PURE LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Celerity Monday #14

DunningKruger Warpy Monday #16

What a freaking idiot Grim Chieftain Monday #17

China has a monopoly on magnets. Botany Monday #19

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