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Comment author: LucasSloan 12 May 2010 07:45:17PM *  3 points [-]

9 I am fascinated by dates.

This question really threw me. Is it asking me if I like having romantic dinners or if temporal co-ordinates are interesting?

Comment author: thomblake 12 May 2010 07:46:30PM 4 points [-]

I hadn't considered they might be talking about 'romantic dinners'.

Comment author: SilasBarta 12 May 2010 08:28:08PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I first thought it meant romantic dinners, then realized that, since temporal coordinates have numerical content that autistics might be obsessed with, they probably meant the latter. (Also, they would have phrased a question about the former a bit differently.)

Comment author: taw 12 May 2010 08:13:52PM 0 points [-]

Thank you - that was my first thought too, and it really made no sense in the context, only after brief cognitive dissonance (or in Internet parlance, "a brief wtf") I realized what they were really asking about.