This is what happens when geometry majors finally snap! Topology—where mathematicians decided that counting holes in objects was a legitimate career path.
In the regular world: "This is a coffee mug."
In topology world: "Actually, this is a donut that hasn't accepted its true identity yet."
Topologists spend decades creating elaborate theories just to prove that if you stretch, twist, and deform something without tearing it, it's still basically the same thing. Revolutionary stuff! Next they'll tell us water is wet.
The bottom images perfectly capture what happens when you ask a topologist for directions to the grocery store. "Hello I would like" → *incomprehensible math equations* → "apples please"