transcript:
cat mum: what’s 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually …?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah … so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy’s being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes!
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Part of why I left Imgur was to escape these shitty, unfunny comics.
I hate that they’re now starting to infect Lemmy! What do you people like about these fucking comics so much? Why are they fucking everywhere? I just don’t get it.
Oh no…
The 6 7 meme has now done three things:
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Not only has It has evolved it’s chimera-ed with another meme (42) which is a much older meme with a lot of resilience.
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This chimera of the two memes is an intergenerational mix between those that grew up and read/listened/watched Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and the Ticktok generation. This now means that this meme is no longer just something one generation “gets” it’s crossed the boundary and both can now enjoy it for the coincidence.
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The intergenerational conversation can now go like this:
"6 7 "(gestures with hands)
“(Sigh) Yes… But do you know what’s 6 x 7?”
(Uses calculator app) " …42?"
“42! The answer to life, the universe, and everything!”
“What?”
“Look it up.”
(*Searches and reads) “Oh… Woah, that’s crazy.”
“Yeah… Woah”
I fear that 6 7 is a meme that will now last much longer than expected.
Still, it might generate some new Douglas Adams readers, which is a good thing.
Naw. As with anything, once adults start going 6 7 the younglings will abandon it as if it were Plague.
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I never saw the connection!
If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!
Avocato?
Kinda looks like him, doesn’t it?
I’m sorry, I don’t accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.
This was the first place my mind went when I found out about 6 7
6-7= -1
Guys it’s -1!!
IT ALL TIES BACK
<Godzilla enters the chat> KReeeon? [translated: 6-7?]
67?
Is this some new Gen-Alpha-Speak that I’m too (Older-)Gen-Z to understand?
It means about as much as “23 skidoo” which you’re also way, way too young and Gen Z for
Ever hear the joke “why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 ate/8 9”? Well kids these days are really into that joke to the point that they will go crazy if you just mention 6 and 7.
Yes.
Be thankful and don’t look into it any further!
Oh no… there’s a word in my native tongue that sounds similar to 67, 碌柒
💀
That’s it. That’s my official headcanon definition for it. Pretty sure Gen-Alpha kids in Hong Kong are already laughing at the “67” “meme”.
FYI, it isn’t “67” as in “sixty seven” but “6 7” as in “six seven”. Two separate numbers.
Yes… 碌柒 is the same syllables as 六七 (Six Seven), but with tones 1 and 6 instead of 6 and 1
Sixty-seven would be 六十七
Ah, thank you for explaining the language rules. I just inferred from how it was typed in the comment. The link it sent me too was a bit confusing it seems without at least basic understanding of the language, which I’m not educated in.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Towel
I wonder if we will be friends
Oh no, not again.
It’s funny that Arthur even suggests “What’s 6 times 7?” as the ultimate question. At least in the movie. It’s been a while since I read the books.
I think they find out in book 3 or 4 that that’s the question, but it’s been years since I’ve read them.
Sort of.
The mice decide that they’ll just choose the question “how many roads must a man walk down?” and be done with it.
Arthur divines that the question is “what is six by nine” but that gives the wrong answer, because the question itself is wrong.
Wasn’t there a part in a later book, where they find the question on prehistoric earth?
He was on prehistoric earth when he figured out that he could try to “print out” the answer since he was part of the program and got “what is six by nine”, so that may be what you’re thinking of
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
A fun afternoon.
Sorry to be pedantic, but wouldn’t this be the correct line:
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the
answer to theultimate question of life, the universe and everything!42 is the answer
Sorry to also be pedantic but, mathematically speaking, 42 is equal to 6×7, so they are essentially the same thing said in different terms.
STOP!!! IF WE KNOW THE QUESTION AND ANSWER THE UNIVERSE WILL RESTART AND BE EVEN WEIRDER
If 6x7=42 than 6x7 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. According to my math teacher at least
Now let’s prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.
I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?
No, IIRC Arthur was trying to rearrange letters to figure out the question, but the closest he got was something like “What is six times nine?” which is definitely not 42.
6+7=13
13!
It’s everywhere!
What does 6,227,020,800 (=13!) have to do with anything? /j
42 / 2 is 21
ITS ALL CONNECTED
21 + 2 is 23 OMG!
OH SHIIIT!!!
~(i have no idea what 21 refers to)~
an infamous video of an older brother filming his younger brother
older bro: you stupid!
young bro: no i not!
old: whats 9+10?
young: 21
old: you stupid
It was my age when i found out toasted bread in a peanutbutter sandwich is much better than untoasted. I’d say that’s significant enough to be part of the ultimate answer.
Ever make a pbj like a grilled cheese? Toast is great, but grilled is soo good
Bitcoiner dog whistle
Oh no, cringe…
That is 3x7, or 7 7 7. The divine number!
21 is also 10+9
U stoopid!
I’m out of the loop. The 42 reference I get, but the 67 reference I don’t. Please release me from my suffering.
This is just what I’ve heard, but apparently 67 comes from a rap song called Doot Doot by Skrilla. The 67 is a reference to the 10-67 police code for a report of death.
Allegedly. I doubt the kids are saying it for any reason though.
Saying 6-7 and random times is the gen-alpha “lulz pancake waffles XD”
*holds up a spork*
OMG so random!
RAWR XD >w<
1337 h4x0rz on teh internetz ROFL
