Joke's on you! I only use dark mode when I post!
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
I didn't get the logic, please (I know it's a joke, I didn't get it. Helppp)
Hold on, here's my moment! I get to explain a joke!
See, the first statement is factual: photons travel through spacetime faster than soundwaves.
In the second statement:
If a person is considered 'bright', they are considered to be clever. This has a double meaning as light is also considered 'bright'.
Hearing someone speak in this instance refers to the popular idea that you don't know how intelligent someone is until you open a dialogue with them. This is in the same league as someone quoting the well-known idiom: "It is better to be silent and to be thought of a fool, than speak and remove all doubt" - (Origins unknown)
The joke is that the "bright" light (carrying its other meaning, implying the person may be intelligent) with which you see a person reaches your eyes before the sounds of their unintelligent brains spew forth from their mouth and reach your ears.
Edit: I'm also somewhat intoxicated, so I hope this made sense and didn't send you into a spiral of becoming even more confused.
Wow that's a very detailed response, thanks! What I was missing mostly was the bright=clever, now I get it!
“Bright” is often used to mean “intelligent”, so someone can appear bright before you hear them speak and realize they’re dumb as rocks. Because light travels faster than sound, so she’s saying you see their brightness before you hear their stupidity.
That's the part I was missing. Thanks!
No problem!
Taken another way, this is why many intelligent deaf people who can speak, don't.