MPH Posted 29 October 2013 Posted 29 October 2013 You have probably seen some Giraffes appearing on facebook... Or not if you cant be bothered with that sort of thing.... If so yes we know its stupid Bah humbug ..move along! Well a few days ago someone posted a riddle. Get it right and you are well clever.. get it wrong and you have to turn your profile into a pic of a Giraffe for a few days. I got it wrong. It was clearly written to fool people/ Anyway, here it is: The Great Giraffe Game!...The deal is I give you a riddle. You get it right you get to keep your profile pic. You get it wrong and you change your profile pic to a Giraffe for the next 3 days. MESSAGE ME ONLY SO YOU DONT GIVE OUT THE ANSWER.Here is the riddle: 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?Remember... message me only. If you get it right I'll post your name here. If you get it wrong change your profile pic. So thinking I was clever I messaged the person ' The door' Apparently I was wrong. The answer was 'Your eyes' I got it wrong. Sneaky I thought.. never mind its a bit of silly fun/ I changed my pic and then shared the status. To my horror lots of people got it right but a few didn't of course.. But I had this one friend who refused to accept he was wrong and insisted it was the door his excuse was that since you are already awake you'll already have your eyes open. Seeing the error of my ways, I argued back and explained that the very first thing you do when you wake up is open your eyes. He ended up getting quite upset! So I just want to check with any of those who are neurologically/ cognitively minded ( no pun intended) Is my friend right to be so upset that ( in his words) ' The riddle is so wrong'?
MikeyT Posted 29 October 2013 Posted 29 October 2013 I answered with door. But I did not change my photo to a giraffe!
MPH Posted 29 October 2013 Author Posted 29 October 2013 I answered with door. But I did not change my photo to a giraffe!
Beliall Posted 29 October 2013 Posted 29 October 2013 I answered eyes. and argued and refused to giraffe my Facebook. the argument being, if your eyes are closed, how do you know the time, or whos at the door etc.its stupid and wrong
MPH Posted 29 October 2013 Author Posted 29 October 2013 I answered eyes. and argued and refused to giraffe my Facebook. the argument being, if your eyes are closed, how do you know the time, or whos at the door etc.its stupid and wrong Well the explanation as to why eyes is correct is that the riddle is a narrative that you are reading after the event but with no knowledge at the time of the event of sho is at the door I was also told that They shouted through the letter box calling your name to get you out of bed.
StanSP Posted 29 October 2013 Posted 29 October 2013 Is this what Facebook has become?! It's about as bad as those 'like if you hate cancer' shite.
SystonFox Posted 29 October 2013 Posted 29 October 2013 Ya can feck off with ya bit strips too. Bunch of cvnts
MPH Posted 29 October 2013 Author Posted 29 October 2013 Is this what Facebook has become?! It's about as bad as those 'like if you hate cancer' shite. must admit I felt very dirty putting up a picture of a giraffe... but thank goodness there's no Facebook posts about a death list and who you think is going to die that year. . Or people posting pics of their favorite planes or boobies.. that would be just plane silly!
Vlad the Fox Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Arse. The door bell ringing and waking me up at that time, I'd shit myself.
Captain... Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 That is nonsense, if the answer is eyes then the wording is wrong. By saying you wake up, present tense, it implies a narrative, the next step in the narrative is that it's your parents implying that the narrative has progressed and the present is you now having woken up are at the door or looking out the window to see who it is, the act of waking up is now in the past. The question what is the first thing you open? Is in the present, and in the narrative of the riddle the present is after waking up and finding out who is at the door.
AoWW Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 I simply can't be arsed. So I'll just post a pic instead.
MPH Posted 30 October 2013 Author Posted 30 October 2013 That is nonsense, if the answer is eyes then the wording is wrong. By saying you wake up, present tense, it implies a narrative, the next step in the narrative is that it's your parents implying that the narrative has progressed and the present is you now having woken up are at the door or looking out the window to see who it is, the act of waking up is now in the past. The question what is the first thing you open? Is in the present, and in the narrative of the riddle the present is after waking up and finding out who is at the door. ccould it not be that the narrative went from being a first person narrative to to more or a story narrative back to first person? I'm being devils advocate here... I said door too...
Finnegan Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Reading this thread you can literally feel the intelligence drain from humanity.
Captain... Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 ccould it not be that the narrative went from being a first person narrative to to more or a story narrative back to first person? I'm being devils advocate here... I said door too... No, because it is not at any point first person, you could argue that it shifts from second person narrative, to third person, but that makes no sense, if it was all done in the third person it might make more sense. But it is the fact it says: "...and you wake up." An action that at the point of completion of the sentence is now in the past as however you read it the narrative has moved on and you have woken up, and unless you can wake up without opening your eyes your eyes are already open at the point of saying "you wake up".
ozleicester Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Reading this thread you can literally feel the intelligence drain from humanity. hehe
davieG Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Reading this thread you can literally feel the intelligence drain from humanity. Perhaps the giraffe's are more intelligent than humans can comprehend and are having a good laugh at this topic, see AoWW's post for evidence.
Vacamion Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Facebook is great: Helen has uploaded 53 photos in her album "4 women in a pub getting drunk and pouting a lot" Like" if you want to help this Cancer Stricken Baby "Sympathy Fishing": Person 1:"sigh" Person 2:"whats up" Person 1:"ill PM you babe x" Blue Eyed People are sensitive, kind and wise. Like if you have a Blue Eyed Person in your life. We are giving away 500 BMWs / Ipads / Koh-i-noor Diamonds - Just "Like" and "Share" for your chance to win Jeremy just completed level 1875 on Candy Crush Saga Grandma Ellen "liked" Barclays Saving Schemes [no she bleedin didn't] You have been tagged in a photo [hangover fear ahoy] Sons are loving and kind. "Share" if you love your son [picture of a candle or poppy] "Like" if you suppport our brave troops "Dad, you would have been 68 today, I miss you, but I know you are with the angels in heaven" [so, the afterlife has broadband, does it?] "I have a hangover" posts. "I have a cold" posts. "Friday, yippee" posts "Monday, boo" posts "I had a baby, I've posted photos of it nearly every day for the last 3 years. Here's a blurred photo of it in my kitchen this morning" etc photos Ditto Dog. Ditto Cat. "Right, I'm having a clear out of FB friends who never contact me" [they never do, this means "please contact me"] Captioned Pictures / Memes shared about "Mom", "the GoP", "Color", "The Bloods" etc from a FB friend you have in Eyres Monsell One like = one pray I've just been for a run, the details are stored with Runkeeper. Here is a map and the elevation and the distance. You are welcome. Ditto "I've just been for a bike ride...." "God really exists" [if a funny poster on an internet site doesn't convince you about the way the universe works, what will?] Ditto "God really doesn't exist" Jim has invited you to play Farmvilles Here's a picture of what I'm having for tea. No really... Please share with Facebook your name, date of birth, places you hang about, people you associate with and stuff you like to buy. We won't do anythng evil with this. Honest. "Just off to have a colonoscopy. Hope it isn't as painful as last time..." "Ooooffff that colonoscopy was painful, here are some pictures..." What's not to like??? [apologies for ranting on - compiled whilst on a boring train journey]
sphericalfox Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 Facebook is great: Helen has uploaded 53 photos in her album "4 women in a pub getting drunk and pouting a lot" Like" if you want to help this Cancer Stricken Baby "Sympathy Fishing": Person 1:"sigh" Person 2:"whats up" Person 1:"ill PM you babe x" Blue Eyed People are sensitive, kind and wise. Like if you have a Blue Eyed Person in your life. We are giving away 500 BMWs / Ipads / Koh-i-noor Diamonds - Just "Like" and "Share" for your chance to win Jeremy just completed level 1875 on Candy Crush Saga Grandma Ellen "liked" Barclays Saving Schemes [no she bleedin didn't] You have been tagged in a photo [hangover fear ahoy] Sons are loving and kind. "Share" if you love your son [picture of a candle or poppy] "Like" if you suppport our brave troops "Dad, you would have been 68 today, I miss you, but I know you are with the angels in heaven" [so, the afterlife has broadband, does it?] "I have a hangover" posts. "I have a cold" posts. "Friday, yippee" posts "Monday, boo" posts "I had a baby, I've posted photos of it nearly every day for the last 3 years. Here's a blurred photo of it in my kitchen this morning" etc photos Ditto Dog. Ditto Cat. "Right, I'm having a clear out of FB friends who never contact me" [they never do, this means "please contact me"] Captioned Pictures / Memes shared about "Mom", "the GoP", "Color", "The Bloods" etc from a FB friend you have in Eyres Monsell One like = one pray I've just been for a run, the details are stored with Runkeeper. Here is a map and the elevation and the distance. You are welcome. Ditto "I've just been for a bike ride...." "God really exists" [if a funny poster on an internet site doesn't convince you about the way the universe works, what will?] Ditto "God really doesn't exist" Jim has invited you to play Farmvilles Here's a picture of what I'm having for tea. No really... Please share with Facebook your name, date of birth, places you hang about, people you associate with and stuff you like to buy. We won't do anythng evil with this. Honest. "Just off to have a colonoscopy. Hope it isn't as painful as last time..." "Ooooffff that colonoscopy was painful, here are some pictures..." What's not to like??? [apologies for ranting on - compiled whilst on a boring train journey] you've been thinking about this too much.
Vacamion Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 you've been thinking about this too much. I started thinking about how much I hate FB and got carried away.
Smudge Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 I refuse to play those games but the first thing I would open, if awake, would be my mouth to say "Who the **** is that a 3 am in the morning."
Vacamion Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 The first thing I open every morning is my brap cheeks... poor Mrs Vac. I agree with CPF's analysis that it is an incorrectly framed problem.
Alf Bentley Posted 30 October 2013 Posted 30 October 2013 That is nonsense, if the answer is eyes then the wording is wrong. By saying you wake up, present tense, it implies a narrative, the next step in the narrative is that it's your parents implying that the narrative has progressed and the present is you now having woken up are at the door or looking out the window to see who it is, the act of waking up is now in the past. The question what is the first thing you open? Is in the present, and in the narrative of the riddle the present is after waking up and finding out who is at the door. Spot on! Furthermore, the narrative has progressed to the extent that you know that they are there for breakfast. Unless you've had a shouted exchange through the window/letterbox (unlikely), this implies that you have already opened the door as well as your eyes. It further implies that you have already opened your mouth to have a conversation with them, along the lines: "What the **** are you doing here at 3am?"; "We're here for breakfast". So, it all comes down to the meaning of "first". Does this mean the first thing that you open in a sequence of events following your doorstep conversation? Or does it mean the first thing that you open that you have not already opened at least once? If the latter, the answer is "the kitchen door". If the former, the answer is "your mouth", as you say: "The food's in there; get it yourself if you want ****ing breakfast at 3am! I'll see you in 8 hours!" The next thing that you open is your bedroom door as you go back to bed for 8 hours.
fazzyfox Posted 2 November 2013 Posted 2 November 2013 But why would a giraffe's parents be ringing a doorbell, I don't understand?
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