Notable bits of Facebook handicapation

[AromaniaFTW]

if you have any english language and logical thinking skills, you'd see that the author was 2 when his brother was half of his age. When he says that now he's 100, he means that 98 years ago he was 2. 98 years ago, his brother was 1. Now, his brother is 99, 98 years later.

By "NOW i am 100" he doesn't mean "Now i'm 100, calculate that". You can see this if you think normally and don't see things in weird, unreasonably dumb ways. Do you expect the author of a dumb image spam macro to think that way? It's a very simple trick question.

[Ad Bot]

[Name is Unavailable]

Can we just agree that the question is stupid and Facebook is stupid and people are stupid and move on?

[Cool Boi]

[Port]

I have never heard anybody say "Xmas" in an even slightly serious way

[Momentum]

I have never heard anybody say "Xmas" in an even slightly serious way

ive heard people get offended over xmas

[Maxwell23461]

ive heard people get offended over xmas

those people need to be shot with a dart that is poison.

[Port]

I have never heard anybody say "Xmas" in an even slightly serious way

Correction: I have never ever heard anybody say "Xmas" in real life, only "Christmas"

[Maxwell23461]

Correction: I have never ever heard anybody say "Xmas" in real life, only "Christmas"

Can't you edit?

[Ipquarx]

If any of you genuinely think they were being serious, you're nuts in the head.

[Decepticon]

I have the feeling some of these are fake, but I just got it off of google images, and plus i'm pretty sure it's 99.

[Night Fox]

It's 100% fact it's 99. You can only get 148 if you assume the riddle has incorrect tense which is a wild assumption to make. If someone asks me if 2+2=4 I wouldn't assume they meant 2-2=4 and tell them no.

there's no way to know whether he meant half his two-year-old age or that, when he was two, his brother was half his current age

[Tonkka²]

Just looking at the name of the "Teen Swag :]" loving channel whatever breaks my Swaggot Mcfriend meter.

[Mysteroo]

Saying "half my age" can mean the same thing as "half of my current age." The "When I was 2," is only necessarily affecting "my brother," not "my age."

That would be like arguing that the sentence
"When I was 2, that car was the same color as my hat,"
has to imply that the hat existed when he was 2. Which isn't necessarily true

[ShadowsfeaR]

Saying "half my age" can mean the same thing as "half of my current age." The "When I was 2," is only necessarily affecting "my brother," not "my age."

That would be like arguing that the sentence
"When I was 2, that car was the same color as my hat,"
has to imply that the hat existed when he was 2. Which isn't necessarily true

No where does the riddle say "I'm 100 and my brother is still half my age". The riddle also never said his brother is always half his age. You can only apply the half to the sentence it was designated in because of literary tenses.

there's no way to know whether he meant half his two-year-old age or that, when he was two, his brother was half his current age

Above. People are only getting it wrong because they are (a) stuck in the though of halves or (b) overcomplicating or over thinking it.

[Mysteroo]

No where does the riddle say "I'm 100 and my brother is still half my age". The riddle also never said his brother is always half his age. You can only apply the half to the sentence it was designated in because of literary tenses.

I don't think you understand what I'm saying at all...

I'm not even talking about the idea that his brother is always half his age. I'm not talking about the method that ends in his brother being 50, I'm talking about the method that ends in his brother being 148.