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I figured out that there's a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don't get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're one of the lucky 10000 today

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally learnt about the lucky 10000 yesterday on here! So that was a 10000 moment for this fella over here as well! :-)

#10000ception ;-)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd like it to be the lucky 400 thousand but I guess it's not that snappy

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

The 10 000 is a reference to the original post, will have to find it. Saw it on here yesterday perhaps. :-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My link has the comic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What group am I in if I am part of two independent lucky 10k events in a single day?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(Odds of being in one)² = (1/10000)² = 1⁄100000000?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

How crazy is this thread is for someone to hear about clown cars AND the lucky 10,000 for the first time.

That number must be smaller

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This comment is blank in the @voyagerapp but when opened in a browser, not logged in, it shows a video player with no video to play?

Anybody else experiencing this? :-/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OP uploaded an iOS incompatible/malformed video.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Captain America saying "I understood that reference"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you cap! Now you can fly away!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gif is playing fine on my phone via vger.app

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Randall Munroe calculated that there's every day the lucky 10000 (in the US, 400 thousand globally) who learn something for the first time that is very known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're one of them today. Jk, I don't think it applies specifically to this, this isn't well known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the analogy of a clown car is pretty widespread? And the lucky 10,000 is back of the napkin guestimation, I think it's allowed an order of magnitude on either side, and one should not feel bad for being part of it, you're in for learning and learning is (or should be) fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, I meant that not knowing about the 10K didn't really make him part of the daily 10K

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

its a reference to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand](this xkcd)