Somewhere around 2/28 to 3/1

[tookashirototheknee]

I would like everyone to join me in wishing a very happy birthday to Liminal Space's best six-and-a-half year old, Takashi Shirogane!

Happy birthday, dude. If I could make things, I'd make you a cake.

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[bite_the_hand]

Oh! That makes more sense.




...But was that really the least confusing way to keep the calendar accurate?

[claudiometer]

I didn't make the thing, dude, don't ask me. That was a good few hundred years before my time.

[bite_the_hand]

Wait, so they've had a few hundred years to fix this, and they still haven't figured this out!?

[claudiometer]

I'm not even sure how they worked out the planet's typical orbit ends after a quarter of a day most years in the first place.

[bite_the_hand]

...Good point.

[He pauses to think for a moment.]

I guess I can understand it getting left for so long. It's confusing and annoying but it's nothing life-changing for most people. So all of the really smart people were busy making things like electricity and hot showers, right?

[claudiometer]

You're probably not far off.

[She's just. Not gonna open the can of worms that is Daylight Savings.]

[bite_the_hand]

[That's all that Eren says to Claudia about Leap Years. But as he talks to Shiro, the topic changes to something else. Something even more confusing and much more than just annoying. So he shortly begins to speak to with her again.]

Claudia, please tell me color coding babies is just something that went weirdly wrong with Shiro's world and not a common thing...?

[claudiometer]

I wish I could, dude. I really do. It's people trying to make gender be what they want it to be and not acknowledging that it's a fuckload more complicated than what parts you're born with, basically. People are trying to push back, but it's... really, really entrenched.

For added 'fun,' it actually started with the reverse color scheme. I don't know when it changed or why, but when people first started this bullshit it was 'oh, girls are too delicate to wear pink, put that on your baby boys.'

[thornsofmalkav]

Originally, girls were blue because it was the color of the Virgin Mary and boys were pink because it's a lighter version of red, which is the color of blood.

I'm also not entirely sure why they swapped though.

[bite_the_hand]

How does this just keep getting worse!? How!?

[thornsofmalkav]

Because our world cluster is dumb sometimes.

[bite_the_hand]

[There's a long pause. Then, finally,] All that stuff I said about how stupid that Leap Year thing is? I take it all back. This is the stupidest fucking thing I've heard.

[claudiometer]

Yeah, at least leap years aren't completely counter-intuitive. Feeling like your baby's nonexistent manliness will be threatened if you put them in pink is just dumb.

[bite_the_hand]

What the hell is wrong with pink!?

[Is it possible to groan in frustration over the Network? Because if it is, that's exactly what Eren's doing right now.]

[claudiometer]

[And pretty much no one who grew up with this can blame him.]

Hell if I know, dude. At least you're learning about it from people who don't know why it's a thing either?

[bite_the_hand]

That does help, yeah. If someone tried to tell me this bullshit was a good thing, I'd have to punch them. [And anyone that thinks he's joking about that doesn't know Eren very well.]

[claudiometer]

I sure wouldn't blame you.