I love how watching TV is consistently labeled as “doing nothing”, because that’s really just what it is. I like to call it a pseudoactivity. The brain is indeed intensely busy, but then again in such a passive way, it’s a mind-boggling paradox.

Thank you kind Sir. But acshially… “The word in English was originally spelled gantelope or gantlope,[7] but soon its pronunciation was influenced by the unrelated word gauntlet, meaning an armored glove, derived from the French: gantelet.[1] The spelling changed with the pronunciation.” I.e. not “the same” word, per se. The fact that they are two completely different words, accidentally spelled the same, is the solution to this riddle. And I bet my Austrian pair of buttocks that a majority of native English speakers is unaware of that fact, believing instead that the type of gauntlet in this meme actually has something to do with armored gloves.

I’ll never understand why these are called “gauntlet”

Woah. That’s me, looking at this and typing a comment, right now. I shouldn’t be here. Bye!