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Animats on Feb 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

The start may be a semi-random event. It's the escalation that gets it out of hand.

Someone did this as a joke in 1959. See "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals"[1] They got the purity cycle going.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Indecency_to_Naked...

rolandog on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

Well, it's a relief that the world has always been absurd.

HenryBemis on Feb 5, 2020 | [–]

Monty Python came to mind when I read the above wiki article, but the use of the word "absurd" was the nail! :)

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