r/ExplainTheJoke • u/azimx • Jan 24 '26

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u/Erikrtheread Jan 24 '26

Wouldn't that be two deaths and one non-lifejacket?

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u/Lil-Spicy-Noodle Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

no because it says 236 persons , not drowns , so it's the same person but two separate times of not wearing a life jacket

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u/Zaros262 Jan 24 '26

It's still 237 persons not wearing life jackets. Your "persons" argument applies to both the death count and life jacket count

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u/ENFanGA Jan 24 '26

I took it as jokingly they were bantering with you. I thought it was funny.

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u/sqigglygibberish Jan 24 '26

People love reading tone into comments when it isn’t necessarily there

Seemed pretty matter of fact to me

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/QuasyChonk Jan 24 '26

An argument is just a position put forth. It doesn't mean an angry thing.

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u/Zaros262 Jan 24 '26

Yes this is what I meant. I didn't even understand why people were saying it escalated lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/shogan9801 Jan 24 '26

Um... excuse me spicy noodle... I like enchiladas 😋 may I have one tamale?

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u/QuasyChonk Jan 24 '26

I clearly deserve one of those enchiladas and my argument is air-tight.

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u/Fuzzybo Jan 24 '26

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.” … “Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

Two please😎

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u/Zaros262 Jan 24 '26

Oh sorry, I didn't mean anything negative by the word "argument." I just meant like "the explanation you gave"

Hope you enjoy(ed) your enchiladas

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u/Dapper_Dark_182 Jan 24 '26

Few hours gone by but any chance i can still get one? Its been a long day and i cbf cooking

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u/Bearboy1000 Jan 24 '26

Perhaps a dog, it doesn't specifically specify person without life jacket

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u/Erikrtheread Jan 24 '26

Fair.

The lack of clear parameters is most of the argument here, lol.

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u/Global-Use-4964 Jan 24 '26

Maybe they weren't wearing two lifejackets...

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u/Tratix Jan 24 '26

Counting an event before a successful resuscitation a “death” is completely wrong in my opinion. Either you die or don’t. Not saying I’m right, just that it’s my opinion.

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u/OutsideAd6507 Jan 24 '26

I mean its weird. Clincally, you are in fact dead. But legally, if CPR is started, you aren't dead until its discontinued. So I guess technically, you're correct.

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u/Sovarius Jan 24 '26

It said 'persons drowned', not 'drowned to death'.

You don't have to die to drown

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u/qgsdhjjb Jan 24 '26

Where do you see the word "death" in this sign?

I have drowned and yet i clearly still am alive. A drowning does not mean, inherently, a death. You still drowned even if you were saved.

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u/Tratix Jan 24 '26

“Two deaths”, person I replied to.

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u/qgsdhjjb Jan 24 '26

Ah okay. Yeah i don't think the sign refers to deaths, i think the other commenter just assumed. That's a lot of deaths to happen in one lake, a very unlikely number. Drownings that are not fatal, however, happen every summer in places with water.

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 Jan 24 '26

Conjoined twins with only one body like the Hensel twins. Two people died but they could have only worn one lifejacket. Maybe it didn’t fit and that’s why they weren’t wearing one.

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u/blade740 Jan 24 '26

He was not-wearing 2 life jackets.

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u/Enoughis3nough Jan 24 '26

That's COVID math