LIKE I WAS SAYING

I reminded them yet again that my answer (where you take an extra tablet on 4 of the days) equates to the correct total number of tablets. The only thing they could come up with was "Have you tried?".

So I bought 28 polos and each day I ate 2 or 3 polos and kept a record on facebook of how many polos I had eaten and how many I had left. I showed this record to my GP and he went through my record and confirmed that my answer had worked! But the group wouldn't ackowledge that it had worked. So I thought I would try my answer again but this time keep a visual record of how the number of polos goes down each day as I removed the polos in order to eat them (see video diary).

I thought that if I kept a visual record of how the polos went down each day that it would be more difficult for them to deny that my answer works! But how does the saying go "You can make something idiot proof, but they will just build a bigger idiot!". That is what they did....


THEIR "OBJECTION":

They saw that I hadn't bothered to film myself eating the polos that I removed from the table. They noticed this and jumped to conclusions, they jumped to the immensely stupid conclusion that I wasn't eating the polos that I was removing.


EXPLANATIONS WHY THEIR "OBJECTION" IS IRRELEVANT

There are various ways of explaining why their "objection", that there isn't film of myself eating the polos that I removed from the table, is irrelevant:


I concentrated on the first day where I started with 28 polos, ate two polos and had 26 polos left.

Explanantion A....

In the video I start with 28 polos on the table. I moved two polos away from the main lot allowing them to see that there are 26 polos left behind in the main lot (see photo A). At this point is should be obvious to anybody who isn't an imbecile that if you then eat those two polos you will be left with those other 26 polos!

There are probably intelligent primates who understand that after eating those two polos there you will be left with those other polos over there!


Explanation B....

I have removed 2 polos from the table with my hand, leaving behind 26 polos on the table. All I have to then do to complete the proof of the statement "I start with 28 polos, if I eat two polos I will have 26 polos left" is to take the 2 polos I'm holding in my hand and put them into my mouth and eat them! Therefore, that is what I am going to do - I'm going to eat them. Refusing to eat them makes less than no sense!


Explanation C....

I could have lent in so my face was in camera shot, and then removed the 2 polos with my mouth and swallowed them in camera shot. 

What does it matter if you remove the 2 polos with your mouth instead!