Could you experience the opposite of Groundhog's Day?

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Not sure where to put this. Groundhog’s Day. The film starring Bill Murray. You know. Phil wakes up at 6:00 AM on February 2nd and then, as I remember, at 11:59 PM, instead of switching over to 12:00 AM, February 3rd, it goes back to 6:00 AM, February 2nd. Ok. Instead of having the ability to get away with stuff like Phil got to do, with the opposite of Groundhog’s Day you would have the ability to overcome stuff or not let stuff effect you.

So with the opposite of Groundhog’s Day, the day for you would start, in theory, as for everyone else, at 12:00 AM; however, the day would not commence until you did something like finish reading your paper or finish drinking your coffee. Not like OCD; rather, like some kind of Nietzschean overcoming of the rain, the changes of co-workers, family, friends, power outages, things that happen in your life, things that happen in the world, things that don’t happen, ect.
“Sir, sir, your wife’s having her baby!”
“I haven’t finished my coffee yet!!”

“Boss, the President’s been shot.”
“Ok. I’ll read about in the newspaper tomorrow.”

“I’m sorry. There was nothing I could do. She’s gone.”
sips coffee in hospital waiting room “Mother?” finishes coffee, looks up, goes to the doctor “Thank you for taking care of her during her last week on earth. I know they looked out for her comfort during this time.”

“Excuse me, we need to evacuate the building! There is a fire. Go out emergency exits here.”
folds newspaper, proceeds to emergency exit, exits building, opens newspaper, continues reading
“Aren’t you concerned about the fire?!”
“Why should I be? Everyone has evacuated the building, firefighters have been dispatched, they have the situation under control. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to finish reading my paper.”

“Everyone! Get down on the ground. This will be over as soon as we get what we want and then you will get out. That’s what you want. Now who’s…”
sips coffee sigh “This is going to be a long day.”
These are all different, disparate examples. Yet the common link is that the person is not affected by the events to the extent that the person hasn’t finished reading their paper or hasn’t finished drinking their coffee. In other words, for this to work, the person needs to have coffee or read the paper. It doesn’t necessarily matter what it is, only that the person must. do. it. every. single. day.

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Honestly, I have read through the OP twice and I don’t have a fuckin’ clue what you’re asking, or saying, or claiming, or…?

Maybe I’ll have to read it again and again and again…

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Please finish reading the paper and drinking your coffee so we can get on with this day.

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I think there’s a magic amount of ketamine that would render it immediately and intuitively apprehendable. I’m pretty sure it’s just a hair away from the magic amount of ketamine that stops an elephant’s heart cold, though.

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Nope, not getting it at all.

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I got that the OP has a magic newspaper. I don’t understand how it works from the examples, or see how it’s the opposite of Groundhog Day.

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The OP appears to mean the character is either not emotionally affected or not physically affected by events.

The former sounds closer to autism than anything else I can think of at the moment. The latter still just makes him a dull Juggernaut.

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I’m thinking the idea is that in GD everything keeps repeating until some outside force determines you can move on, but in this Day you have the power to put things on hold until you want to deal with them.

Or something.

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I have the opposite of Groundhog Day in my real life. Every day brings something different for me to deal with, and it does not always wait until I have had my coffee. [Disclaimer - I do not get a morning newspaper. I used to, but they stopped delivering it before I needed to leave for work. I do not want to read my morning paper at dinnertime, so I cancelled my subscription. Their own damned fault.]
(I also do not understand the OP.)

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Yes. The former. What would the later be, someone like Phil Conners? Remember that Phil Conners on Groundhog’s Day was not physically affected by events, either.

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He was physically affected at the time, he just got reset each morning along with everything else. I’m thinking more of a guy who gets a nuke dropped on him and he’s still sitting there in the crater, reading his newspaper.

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do you mean like Bush when he was told about 9/11?

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Do you mean Phil wouldn’t be able to change the outcome of the day, no matter what he tried? The world is immutable to his actions, no matter what?

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Yeah, Great Debates does seem to be that way, doesn’t it? Going on and on, until some moderator closes the thread out of sheer disgust or ennui.

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Monitor.

You (bwahahahah)

owe

gasp

me.

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I’d say the opposite of Groundhog’s Day would be like that movie with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, where she could live a day normally, but forget it happened by the next morning.

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Wasn’t that the plot of Momento?

(Not to be confused with the Sandler film 40 First Dates)

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Or, kind of like Memento.
But, not really.

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No, but he’d be immortal.

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YES!!