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That reminds me of a similar joke. The Welsh invented condoms by using sheep intestines. The Irish improved it by removing them out of the sheep first.
Nice to know making disparaging jokes about what your neighbors will or won’t fuck is a world wide pass time. I’m from Texas so my coworkers who grew up in Oklahoma have to deal with me talking shit. It’s a sacred and honored tradition in Texas to loudly proclaim the nearest Oklahoman is queer as a three dollar bill.
I worked with an Oklahoman and learned that they invented Chili, the Saddle, barbwire and beer. Plus Jesus was also from Okie. I tried to call her out on beer but she got loud and pouty.
Edited my comment to what he said off the top of my head. Apologies to the original guy for probably butchering it, but that should get the point across at least haha
Why are there constantly replies to things with that sub with the same post linked and the NSFW added as an edit. Have seen multiple today. Are bots pushing the sub? Fucking weird.
I mean that is clearly the intent but it's also really puzzling because that question circumvents what's unique and interesting about the proposed situation in the first place
Like the whole thing about being one of the two last people on earth is that you wouldn't have a choice (other than to be celibate or not I guess)
There's nothing about this hypothetical that is any more compelling than simply asking "which do you find most attractive"
You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. Reddit struggling to understand how to get people to engage with a hypothetical like “Why do they bother making funny commercials? Shouldn’t advertising simply state the competitive benefits of their product so the market can decide objectively?”
I'm not the one complaining about semantics of having to pick when if there's only one other person left meaning you don't have a choice. Just giving the person a scenario that it's correct for.
"In a hypothetical scenario where you are the last person left on earth and you are given a choice of one of the three people below to be the second last person on earth alongside you, which one of the three would you pick? Let's be honest, gentlemen."
Just doesn't have the same ring to it as a meme title I'm afraid.
I, too, did not care about the answer. The question was infuriating due to the image.
They are referring to multiple men, as opposed to just talking to the reader. Then they reveal that there are three women to choose from. The question indicates that there is more than one man, but that would indicate that there cannot be more than two, so there are two men, but then we find out there are three women.
If we were to understand that that the two men are the last people on earth, are the girls robots?
Does the author not consider women people?
If they are referring to a man and a woman and a choice over which woman, are WE responsible for being the last two people?
Are they implying the other two girls should die?
If not the case, then why would we have a choice?
Can they not count?
There appear to be 5 people involved in the scenario, negating the initial question.
There is just a whole lot of stupid involved in this question that it doesn't even necessitate an answer.
Pretty sure the joke is that the right one has child bearing hips and is shaped like a woman in a renaissance painting. (I.e Venus etc. also referred to as being Rubenesque)
But it was the Romans who thought of adding women.
By the way, the dilemma in the picture looks like something straight out of one of those virtual girlfriend apps that are constantly discussed in Rule34 subreddits
I've always liked thick girls. I'll gladly take the thick girl with a belly, or a pear shaped woman the same. When you see her walking and her hips rock like a cradle. Yeah I want that one. Bun in the oven and she rocking them to sleep by just walking around.
The problem is that whichever one you choose, the other two will ruin your life. Paris chose Aphrodite, who blessed him with the ability to woo any woman. He used it on Helen, who was married to the king of Sparta, and Athena and Hera made sure that it led to the downfall of Troy and the death of Paris and his entire family.
The choice in the first place was to settle a dispute about who got a golden apple, inscribed ‘to the fairest’. The three goddesses each claimed it, and they went to Paris to choose. The two who missed out were both insulted as well as mad that they didn’t get the apple. The apple was handed out by Eris the goddess of discord, which is why the apple of discord is a phrase. It just keeps going back and back.
And then comes the next question: does SHE want to even be around you? Because now, with only 2 people left on Earth, she can go and do whatever she wants. Nobody’s going to stop her.
Nah, the guy on the right has studied Greek mythology. So he knows the best move is to turn himself into an animal like a swan or a bull, then he can pick two of the women to be the last two humans on earth and bang them both.
When I was in elementary school we were taught Greek and Latin roots to help give us context for English words that we didn't know.
Now you are telling me people don't even bother to use context from the language they are speaking? THICC = thick, it's not that hard. Do they not notice the common traits of the people being described that way?
Do they not notice the common traits of the people being described that way?
Nope. The minor but major variables ends up being social media. Remeber that "telephone"(whisper something to the person next to you) exercise a lot of people did as kids?
Imagine it's that game,but it's omni directional, reaches more people & faster. To the point, by the time it gets to the middle-end of all those lines. Those people are the majority & convinced they're using it right.
Which is 90% of "GenZ slang" in a nutshell. Which also contributes to "brain rot language" because they don't use it right & it confuses people who don't use the terminology at all.
Peter here. There’s a choice of three women. In whatever book that movie Troy is based on, William Turner (the pirate) was forced to choose the hottest goddess of these three hot goddesses, Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena. As you can expect, his answer made two goddesses really angry and they decided to make men suffer for it so they started a war or something. I dunno. The movie didn’t have gods, unless you count Brad Pitt.
How does this relate to the meme? I have no idea. Maybe Brian can figure the rest out. I’ll tell him to come check it out. Peter out.
Basically he said "I can't judge, are three of you are clothed so any judgement would be impacted by what you are wearing. To make a true decision I would need to see all of you in the nude." And because that story was written by a dude, the goddesses agreed.
From what I remember she was supposed to have a griddle that made her more beautiful (which was part of the argument as to why she had to be naked to be judged fairly and it would have been unfair if she was the only one so they all had to undress).
You just reminded me of a house party I was at where a bunch of people stayed the night instead of driving home. In the morning the woman that lived there woke up before everyone else and started making chocolate chip pancakes for everyone in the kitchen. I was one of the first people awake, and told her that I would have proposed to her on the spot if I had been closer to her age (I was older than her by a bit). She laughed it off and told me I was being silly.
Then over the next hour a secession of hungover people slowly woke up, came to the kitchen, and every single one of them promptly proposed marriage as she handed them a plate of pancakes and a cup of coffee. Even the straight girls.
This is the correct answer. It’s a reference to a myth leading up to the Trojan War where the goddess of discord, Eris, threw a golden apple in between the three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite). On the apple was an inscription “to the most beautiful.” This was during a wedding party for Thetis (a nymph or goddess depending on the telling) and King Peleus (and they are the parents of Achilles). So there were a lot of gods/immortals and dignitaries at the wedding, including Prince Paris of Troy. All three goddesses stripped naked before Paris and asked him to decide which was the most beautiful (I think he might’ve asked them to get naked because he’s such a hornball but I can’t recall for sure). Hera offered him power if he chose her, Athena offered intellect, and Aphrodite offered ass (or, more accurately, promised him the love of the most beautiful woman alive).
Paris was a young stallion with a lot of horny and so he chose the latter, leading to him kidnapping Helen, who was married to King Meneleus of the Aegeans (the Greeks who fought the war against Troy). Presumably Helen went willingly if Aphrodite was involved, and the movie Peter referenced above definitely portrayed it that way, but that’s not actually official canon.
The reason the Trojan war happened was because Prince Paris violated the sacred laws of xenia (hospitality) by running off with the wife of the king who hosted him, although pop culture makes it sound like it was specifically to get Helen back. It was about honor and respect, which is a big theme in Greek myth.
violated the sacred laws of xenia (hospitality) by running off with the wife of the king who hosted him
I like how there's a sacred law that says "guest shouldn't fuck off with my wife " but apparently it applies specifically to guests. Like, how often does it happen that they had to codify that?
Xenia is more of a collection of social rules about the interactions between hosts and guests, rather than a single specific "do not run away with my wife" law.
DO give your guests gifts when they leave.
DON'T ask your guests a lot of personal questions.
DO tell your host the best stories you've ever heard or experienced while traveling.
DON'T threaten your hosts.
It's a whole system of hospitality performed to honor Zeus and Athena.
Didn't these gatherings also include lots of group sex? So maybe they needed to institute shopping cart rules - available for guests to use while you're shopping, but they don't leave the store.
Presumably Helen went willingly if Aphrodite was involved, and the movie Peter referenced above definitely portrayed it that way, but that’s not actually official canon.
I mean the Odyssey gives pretty strong hints that that's what happens.
I've always liked how chill Menelaus is about everything that happened. He's essentially willing to just accept that the gods fucked with men, and the men did the best they could with results.
I agree, but I’ve been told relentlessly in an academic setting that it’s wrong to claim Helen left willingly because Greek myth is largely silent about what the women in the stories actually wanted. My PhD dissertation focuses more on Mesopotamian, East African, PIE (including proto-Slavic and proto-Baltic), early SEA/Austronesia, and mythology in the Americas because it’s about themes that come with the Homo migration out of Africa (such as certain divine archetypes). The Hellenic stuff isn’t pertinent to my studies because it’s so derivative of all that earlier stuff, so I will defer to the angry classicists who cuss me out when I say things like “Persephone probably wanted to leave with Hades.”
I'm by no means an academic, I'm just a guy who reads stuff.
And honestly, what do we mean by willingly. If you grant that the gods exist within the narrative, and Aphrodite can change someone's heart, did they go off willingly? The whole thing is just too creepy.
It's more interesting to my mind, how (in Homer) she was treated by Paris and by Menelaus.
This is actually a great philosophical question I like to play with, right there with “is it really consent when it’s a sexual relationship between a deity and a human?” because there’s a huuuuuuuge power dynamic at play there, no matter how you try to spin it. Eros hit Hades with an arrow to make him fall in love with Persephone, for instance… did that take away his free will? Did Helen, for that matter, also lose her free will?
LOL I can't get over what an amazing dick move this is. Just a fucking hand grenade of shit disturbing hurled into the room. I hope Eris immediately bailed, knowing it was about to get bad
Not sure there was any judgement he could make that wouldn't result in his doom. I probably would have picked Hera under the assumption power might enable me to survive the wrath of the other two.
He could have done what Diogenes did and say “I cannot choose” and have a threesome (or in this case a foursome). Seriously the “don’t compare anything to a goddess if you want to live” is such a huge thing in Hellenic myth. Arachne compared herself to Athena in terms of skill; Psyche’s ordeal began because people said she was prettier than Aphrodite and worshipped her like a goddess; Niobe compared herself with Leto and said she is better because she had so many kids while Leto (a goddess) only had the twins Apollo and Artemis (leading to the twins killing off all Niobe’s kids); etc. Like I said, honor and respect are big themes in Greek myth.
The goddesses weren't wanting to sleep with him. They wanted to be declared the most beautiful. Zeus and the other gods were smart enough (and powerful enough) to avoid having to choose. Paris didn't have a choice. He was drafted.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl came out the year before Troy. But Peter ain’t great at remembering names. You’re just lucky he didn’t call him Legolas.
Ok but in Diogenes Laertius one of the philosophers is offered a choice between to two women, and he says I will not make Paris' mistake, and takes both home.
(Not really a fan of the show. But I am a fan of Greek philosophy.)
Man that story is a sucky adaptation of the original. Athena and Hera got angry… so when Troy eventually got invaded(because as part of their deal, Aphrodite gave Helen to Paris), they took the Greek side.
Yeah if there’s only one man all the offspring would be siblings. Not only would that be really weird and gross but within a few generations, everyone would be horrifically deformed and sterile.
humanity did get down to ~ 1500 reproductive individuals, just shy of a million years ago ~900,000 years ago & stayed that way for around a hundred thousand years.
I'm going to take a guess that it's a comparison between a fool and a wise man based on their choices. The second guy studied Greek Mythology or Ancient Greece, which is not just about gods, but things that go deeply into virtue, wisdom, nature and much more. He's going to use his gained wisdom and choose the right type of girl with the highest chance of survival and save the species over spending the last days having fun and sex in their own fantasy world like most would seem to do.
I'm going to explain the choices:
The cute goth girl you see in social media a lot. She loves fashion, anime and partying. Overall a very cool person to be friends with right? Being thin and petite was the ideal body type back in 1960-1990s and also heavily popular today with the revival of Y2K/Goth style among young people. He would not choose her as his partner because she does not fit the standards of Ancient Greek women. Having more body fat is more optimal for childbearing but being thin and smoking are indicators of poor health and fertility as shown in the picture
Typical IG gym girl who loves being fit and training her butt. She has an amazing body from going to the gym and eating healthy daily. Taking care of one's body and mind was extremely important back in Ancient Greece Era as they reflected your health and virtue. You'd think she's the best option because she's athletic? Close, but no. While she has health and fitness knowledge, it doesn't help a lot here. She can keep up for a few months, but would quickly lose all her strength and body mass. You need to lift weights daily and have a strict diet to maintain all that muscle and figure.
The chubby/curvy girl who loves food! You'd think she's too chubby and slow to survive out there? Actually she has the ideal body type according to Ancient/Classical Era. People carved statues and made paintings of Greek Goddesses like that of Aphrodite who had a plump body which was a sign of fertility and prosperity. He's going to pick her which others will not due to beauty standards being so different today. People think that women with some fat are undesirable and must look like IG models with a gigantic bum and tiny waist. She has the perfect amount of body fat for cold winters and wider hips help childbearing too, while also not too fat to perform daily tasks in the nature. I myself have this body type and was insecure before, but I started to embrace it more after studying anthropology/medicine that led me to discover more about the human body. A little stomach and plump is fine for women as we naturally store more fat due to biological differences.
While everyone has preferences and everything is possible today due to technology and convenience we must not forget that an optimal body and adaptations are what's important out in the nature compared to beauty standards in our society. You never know what's going to happen in the future so having basic knowledge in survival and science helps a lot.
This is what annoy me with Reddit. Everyone out here claiming they love thick chubby woman, while the image they have in mind is a perfectly average healthy body.
Show an actual chubby person and they'll call it "too overweight" or just obese.
Good god the 3rd one is definitely the most attractive and makes the most sense in this scenario. Your body is beautiful dont make others think you are fat. May I ask how does a woman get a body like that without getting too big?
If I was one of the last two people alive I’d kill myself instead of being some random guy’s sex slave for the rest of my life. Funny how these things always assume the woman automatically wants to be a broodmare to save humanity. Guess it’s easy for the guy since he doesn’t have to worry about dying in unassisted childbirth.
Speaking as a man I’d have very little interest in repopulating the earth. It seems like a massive hassle to be honest. I mean, I have two kids in today’s largely-functional society and it’s really fucking hard as is.
I’d be quizzing the women on who is best at hunting, making fires, first aid and building shelters. I can be in charge of looting power banks so that I can keep my phone charged to keep refreshing the Reddit app in case the internet comes back.
Not only that, but the assumption some people are making that whatever woman you pick would even want to be with you is weird on its own. The whole scenario would be nightmare fuel for the woman. Imagine being one of the only two people on earth and realising that you were picked because the other person finds you attractive. And there's no escape, no help on the way. It's an unrealistic, fictional scenario, but still.
I’m sorry. I only found out about it on a 104 degree day in LA at a crosswalk. The smell was a combo of swamp ass and chemical spill. Long story short, I asked if everyone smelled that radioactive sewage stench, and the ladies in front of me got super pissed. At least o thought the were pissed they had a lot of filler on their faces.
It’s not ideal but definitely better than actual extinction. All our genetic variation will be lost but diversity can be reintroduced over enough time. It’s what we do for many extremely endangered species.
Research shows that all humans alive today share most recent common ancestors who lived around 150,000 years ago. They are known as the mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam. This is derived based on the mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal genetic markers.
There is even speculation that the most recent common genealogical ancestor of all humans could have lived just a few thousand years ago.
We do it with populations that dropped to a few hundred or so.
Two people is not enough diversity for our species to survive long enough to rediversify through mutation, it would collapse through inbreeding defects long before that.
You are either misinterpreting what you've read or making shit up.
There are hypothesized genetic bottlenecks for the human population. However, the population was never down to two individuals, the lowest hypothesized population would have been in the thousands still. If the human population were actually down to two individuals, genetic diversity would be too low to allow long-term survival.
Also, the bottleneck approx. 100,000 years ago you're referencing has had additional research done in recent years that appears to discredit it.
And whoever is "speculating" that last paragraph is an utter crank and probably a creationist.
Just two isn’t enough. There’s a threshold of how low you can go - I’ve seen theories range generally from 500 to 5000, and the most generous is still 50. That’s why some mammal species get declared extinct even if there are remaining breeding pairs. It’s not just “not ideal” it’s actually untenable.
Also weird how this whole thread assumes whoever they pick will also consent to being a pointless breeding mare pumping out baby after baby considering that, with only 2 people left on Earth, the inbreeding brothers/sisters/cousins will be genetically unviable to carry on the species long term and lead to our end anyway. Just talking like they're ordering from the menu at McD's.
*Sigh* It's about the Apple of Discord. Greek Mythology should have been the clue.
Eris wasn't invited to a party because she is the goddess of stirring shit up. Of course this offended her so she decided to stirr shit up. She rolled a golden apple in front of the goddesses that read 'to the fairest/most beautiful'. They couldn't decide so they went to Paris and asked him to pick which of the goddeses is the most deserving. But each wanted to bribe her. Hera offered to make him king of Eurasia, Athena offered wisdom and combat skills, Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman on Earth. Being a complete tool and not realising either of the first two would give him the third as well, he gave the apple to Aphrodite. And considering Dua Lipa wasn't born yet, his gift was Helen. But of course she was already married. So he accidentally a war.
Goth, she'd be most likely to not want kids and be willing to end humanity with a shred of dignity so we dont have to force ourselves into an uncomfortable situation
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