• flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I’m serious, I really don’t get what this is about. That the research they’ve been doing isn’t fun? But why would this one scientist say this? Doesn’t make much sense and I clearly don’t get the joke. Maybe someone can explain?

        • 10_0@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Their implying that they want to have sex tonight, but Sun’s explanation works as well. But who is in the lab at night?

        • sundray@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          It’s a joke about the difference between doing something for work, versus doing very nearly that same thing for fun. For example: there are many mechanics who work on cars all day, but spend their time off working on their own project cars for fun. Myself, I work in IT all day, and the go home and mess around with my home server for fun. Here you have two researchers who spend all day researching, and then are presumably going home and researching for fun, which is a silly extension to this concept.