Is it sort of like a “timeout” button? Like when you have to be at work at 8am, but you are miserably hungover when you wake at 7:26am? You can pause time, vomit a few times, sleep for a few more hours, get up, have a full meal, drink coffee, read the paper and then…Time In! It’s 7:27?
Groundhog Day is one of my all-time favorite movies, so any thread on it immediately grabs my attention. Before I even read the OP post I tried to figure out what “the opposite of Groundhog Day” would mean and can’t figure it out. After reading the OP I think the problem is that his scenario has nothing to do with any “opposites” of GD. That’s a bad description of what the OP intended. I think what is intended is that there is some triggering event that causes the day to reset to the start of GD and I assume, like in the movie, Phil retains the memories of his past GDs. Obviously, Phil would figure out what is that triggering event after a few iterations, and that he would then have control of when and where he resets his day if he wants to. IMO that would ruin the movie since a key plot element is that Phil had no control over his GD restarts which was what forced him to take advantage of those multiple GDs to become a better person. If the OP is asking if the scenario can happen in real life, who knows? AFAIK no one has figured out how to navigate the space-time continuum yet to relive a day.
Hogground Day. Duh. Eternity in a meat-packing plant.
But she was actually living the “same day” over and over again (due to the ministrations of her family and the community). So the opposite of Groundhog’s Day is… Groundhog’s Day? It’s its own opposite! Like cleave!
That’s what the person says to themself before they had their coffee or before they had read the paper.
Sort of. Like when you have to be at work at 8 am… you just know its going to be a bad day. You ask youself: Do I drink my coffee before work, during the coffee break, during lunch, or do I drink my coffee after work? You might conclude, for example: If I drink my coffee after work that will “negate” the bad day. Or if I drink my coffee before work, I will be prepared for whatever happens.
That’s the point: To become a better person. Yes, in GD, Phil has no control over his GD restarts. In the opposite of GD, Phil would have control over his restarts. He would be able to restart the day when he finished reading his newspaper or when he finished drinking his coffee.
Since I don’t have any idea what the OP is on about, I’m wondering why the dude in Groundhog Day didn’t try to bring about the apocalypse. I think I’d try over and over to see how far I could get into the nation’s arsenal, trying day after day after year after century until I’d figured out the exact pattern of behavior that would let me press the red button before midnight. Then, if the day ever ended and I got to go back to the real world, I’d be like a superspy.
Wouldn’t that be like the Adam Sandler movie Click?
IIRC the Bill Murray character couldn’t leave Punxsutawney, PA because the roads hadn’t been cleared from the blizzard the night before. I suppose he may also have been supernaturally prevented from leaving the town in the same way that he was prevented from moving on to the next day. In any event, he was stuck there and wouldn’t have been able to get near any WMDs, etc.
That’s still not the “opposite” of GD. Check the dictionary for the definition of “opposite”. Maybe you meant a “variation” on an aspect of GD. Regardless, my point is that if Phil had control over when he restarts the day, the movie wouldn’t work. Then your question about whether a person, in real life, can experience the phenomenon of restarting a day whenever he wants is kind of, shall we say, ridiculous? Have you known anyone who’s rolled back time like that?
I still have no idea what the OP is about, despite several posters’ valiant attempts. Thanks to other posters, though, I’m stuck under my desk in the fetal position, horrified at the prospect of a Groundhog-day like nightmare of watching a continual stream of Adam Sandler movies and being unable to do anything to break the loop.
At least it’s not Rob Schneider.
I can’t imagine why, if spectacular suicides were already proven not to work, anyone would imagine that a bigger boom (nuclear blasts) would do any better
But, if I had to spend every day watching Sandler and Schneider movies, destroying the whole universe would be worth it if it worked.
I’m not sure whether to quote T.S. Eliot or Dylan Thomas–both seem appropriate.
Then again, I think Oppenheimer made the right choice.
We are indeed fortunate that Robert Oppenheimer was of sufficient genius to foresee Rob Schneider movies and begin to develop the technology to stop them. But our political leaders have lacked the moral courage to Push the Button.
More like caffeine.
I don’t understand this post. I understand that you work; however, I do not understand your concept of “morning paper” and “dinnertime”. Do you mean daily paper? Do you mean you always have dinner after work? What if you get a call after work regarding an emergency? What if you didn’t work on a particular day? What if you had a heavy lunch?
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
Phil would have control over when he restarts his day and a person, in real life, can experience the phenomenon of restarting their day whenever they want.
DrFidelius explained that he use to get the daily paper but does not get it anymore because he doesn’t want to “read my morning paper at dinnertime.” :dubious:
I do not understand why DrFidelius doesn’t want to read his daily paper at dinnertime or after dinner. He can’t read the paper in the morning or at work. That’s understandable. He stopped getting the daily paper because he doesn’t want to read the paper after work. Does that sound like a reason? When I said that a person, in real life, could experience the phenomenon of restarting the day, I didn’t mean someone literally rolling back time. I meant someone coming home from work or going to a cafe after work, reading their paper or drinking their coffee. Once they finished drinking their coffee or finished reading their paper, they have, in effect, re-started the day because they re-peat the same thing every single day.
I’ve read a lot of pretty incomprehensible threads over the past decade of reading this board, and this is up there with the best of them.
There appears to be several axioms at work here:
- An atom bomb will destroy the collective works of Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler.
- It would be worth it.
- Nobody has any idea what the OP means.
Is that about right?
So how is that restarting the day? Isn’t that just going home and drinking coffee?
Other than a lot of atom bombs, that’s a pretty good summary.
I agree. I am still totally mystified by what the OP is trying to say. Even with the words being in English, a language I understand pretty well.
I thought the opposite of GH day would be like “Where the hell did my week go?” year after year after year after year…
Is this like some sort of koan where the Zen master asks what the opposite of a tree is to blow the students’ minds?