@velexiraptor @FirstProgenitor well the bottom aint the one studying the hole

@FirstProgenitor actually no, a shirt has four holes

pants have three

i'm not sure how they're counting but it looks wrong to me ​

@00dani @FirstProgenitor if u extend the bottom hole of a shirt and make it the outside it works, think of like a long circle skirt with two extra holes

Same with pants but the reverse you can bring the main opening down and bunch up the legs to make that shape

@00dani @FirstProgenitor nah, it's right, its just hard to visualize

imagine taking the outer circumference of the pants and stretching it up and down

@hierarchon @FirstProgenitor ​

huh

@00dani @FirstProgenitor doesn't a shirt have only 2, unless you count the button holes?

@patterfloof @FirstProgenitor i was wrong before, but a shirt actually does have three holes, not two: one for your head and one for each pawb

@00dani @FirstProgenitor but the head hole only exists when it's fastened, that also gives you a waist hole :)

@patterfloof @FirstProgenitor there's a head hole, two pawb holes, and the other end of all three holes is shared

imagine turning a garbage bag, which topologically has zero holes, into a shirt. you'd need to punch exactly three holes into it

@00dani Ah thank you, the garbage bag explanation works perfectly for me!

@00dani @FirstProgenitor yeah and the shirt should have four no?

@moiety @FirstProgenitor yeah, pants have three holes in them and shirts have four

socks and cup of coffee are correct though

@00dani @moiety @FirstProgenitor ... But if you shorten the legs of the pants, they will come to resemble the two-hole donut shown.

Same if you shorten the length of the shirt, it eventually collapses into a three-hole donut.

@Griff @moiety @FirstProgenitor yeah i knowww i got it wrong ​

@00dani Okay, cool, just wanted to make sure I was understanding it right. |3

@moiety @00dani i think it's like

pants: the big shared end -> 2 leg ends

shirt: the big shared end -> 2 arm ends and head end

(cleavage window not included)

@carcinopithecus @moiety yeah that's right, i topologied wrong

the meme is correct

@carcinopithecus
And coffee cup is sock for coffee.
@moiety @00dani

@jhulten @carcinopithecus @moiety a coffee cup is a torus because it has a handle

socks don't usually have handles

@00dani @jhulten @moiety i have this most cursëd mental image right now of a coffee mug that's topologically identical to a regular one but the hole is the mug rather than the handle

@00dani @carcinopithecus @moiety The handle. Of course.

@FirstProgenitor I have Issues with it though tbh

@RussellsBarbershopQuartet @FirstProgenitor yeah wait that's not how you'd deflate a shirt

@velexiraptor @FirstProgenitor my issue was the coffee actually but I think they mean the handle on the mug

@moiety No, the picture is right: topologically, a (normal) shirt has three holes.

Consider how many holes does a straw have: it may look like 2… but it's really just one: a straw is (topologically) just a very long donut ☺️

@dragon @FirstProgenitor there is zero(0) difference between a mug and a donut.

@FirstProgenitor mika you said you didn't know what it means

@00dani @FirstProgenitor yes, we’re just transplaining it to you Mika, it comes from a good place

@FirstProgenitor bottomology

@FirstProgenitor Sorry I only saw the boost and not the rest of the thread.

@FirstProgenitor topology, isn't that the hedge cutting science

@FirstProgenitor everything i learned about topology i learned through memes and that's way better than any explanation

@hoppet @FirstProgenitor
Wait till you are subjected to the actual math, you'll wish you never heard the word

@FirstProgenitor I absolutely adore this "shut up everyone!" cri de coeur.

@eigenellies behold' a topologists mug

@FirstProgenitor @eigenellies this is actually more like a pair of pants, in that it's 2 holes

@laurie @FirstProgenitor i messed up okay???? im sowwy

@00dani @FirstProgenitor its not just u !!!

@Sorl @FirstProgenitor but what if someone has a hole in their sock?

@RedC @FirstProgenitor The hole in the mug is the handle