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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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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 136 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're one of the lucky 10000 today

[–] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 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 ;-)

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 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

[–] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 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. :-)

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

My link has the comic

[–] xorollo@lemmy.world 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?

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 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

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 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? :-/

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

OP uploaded an iOS incompatible/malformed video.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[–] toybastard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you cap! Now you can fly away!

[–] heyfrancis@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Gif is playing fine on my phone via vger.app

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 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.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 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!

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 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)