Kirby: how do you take a high five back
Chris: atmospheric vacuum
Chris: created by sudden removal of palms
Kirby: have we found a test case
Chris: strictly hypothesis
Kirby: well have we considered the alternatives
Chris: well in order to determine what negates a high five, perhaps consider what a high five gains
Chris: maybe the only way is to neutralize palm skin impact by surrounding it with the same
Chris: so you must "five" the entire rest of your bodies
Kirby: now therein lies the tricky part
Kirby: you can give a five with your hand (assuming a normal human hand)
Kirby: but when you take it away, there are only 4 limbs (loosely defined as protrusions from the torso) remaining
Kirby: perhaps
Kirby: the key is to simply video-tape a high five
Kirby: and play it backwards
Chris: cheat
Kirby: with the sound still going forwards
Chris: thats like saying super man rotating earth backwards un-does reality
Chris: or saying burning a polaroid makes the subject die
Kirby: this somehow is reminding me of braid
Kirby: which is another reminder to remind you to buy the game already
Chris: oh that thinger
Chris: oh man i got the solution
Chris: we are looking for a "high negative five"
Chris: so the two humans must get their fingers forcibly flipped inside out - crammed into their bloody fists
Chris: and smack said fists together
Kirby: solid
Kirby: i was hoping you were going for the play on words that i just thought of
Kirby: namely we get baked and attempt to purchase something with a check that is written for $5 more than is in said checking account
Kirby: and thus the high five is undone
Chris: linguists is always an escape route
Kirby: cleverness / lame puns are their own reward
Chris: dan is arguing this with me too
Chris: he insists that you must cut off fingers
Chris: but thats just a sum of zero fingers
Kirby: that ruins - yes
Kirby: 5 plus or minus zero is still 5
Kirby: BUT
Kirby: okay bear with me
Kirby: if one of the parties cut their fingers off - to make zero - and then the impact of the resulting palm slapping caused one party to multiply - asexually at the cellular level
Kirby: it would result in five, multiplied by zeor
Kirby: zero
Kirby: and thus the high five is reversed
Chris: now we have a discrepancy
Chris: so - during all of this fiving, time is passing. so there is a chronology. during said chronology, nobody specified if the fiving has addition/subtraction or multiplication effects
Chris: because if time = just additive, then all you did was generate a high 2.5
Chris: because half of the necessary 10 fingers were in play
Kirby: son of a bitch
Kirby: clearly what we are dealing with has huge implications
Chris: i am at the very limit of my life's accumulated knowledge