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Edit: I accidentally refreshed the page and it offered alternative questions for ID validation, such as high school of graduation and SSN. But it's still absurd to expect someone to even humor the premise of the prompt.

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[–] scholar 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Weird question but at least there's an N/A option at the bottom

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The purpose of these questions is to verify your identity; they have your DoB, and are asking the question to confirm that you are who you say you are, so if you answer N/A when the correct answer is one of the other 4, you'll be denied access to whatever you're signing up for.

All that said, "What month were you born in?" would have been a much better question for the reasons OP notes.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 1 day ago

All that said, “What month were you born in?” would have been a much better question for the reasons OP notes.

We were discussing this in the atheism community and the advantage of zodiac sign over birth month is that there is not an even overlap between months and zodiac signs, so 30% of people will be born in a different month than the one associated with the sign. I'm one of these. I was born near the end of the month so the sign I would be associated with is not the sign people associate with the month.

Don't get me wrong, I think this was a stupid security question, but it's less stupid than it first sounds because of that.

[–] Squorlple 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From what I begrudgingly know about astrology, "Does not apply" would only pertain to people who haven't been born yet or who were born outside of the solar system. Knowing if "None of the above" applies still requires knowledge of how the arbitrary categories correspond with the calendar.

[–] Zachariah 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] captainlezbian 1 points 21 hours ago

Well yeah, Dulcinea is hitting on the Ninth’s cavalier

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 1 day ago

Bah. My star sign stays the same in this adjusted version. And I don't even get a horse racing tip.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was going to praise this guy for beating Weird Al to the punch by 4 years, but the Zoloft and phone jokes give it away as a fake (or at least not from 1995).

[–] Acamon 6 points 1 day ago

Zoloft been in use since 1991, and "Is that your phone?" was a perfectly cromulent thing to say in the 90s, meaning "do I hear your land-line ringing?" not "is that your pocket computer on the table there?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There are more than four signs, it could be N/A if you were in the other eight.