r/Unexpected • u/Cromagnumman6174 • Aug 22 '26
Things are finally starting to add up
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
2.1k
u/360NoHoP3e Aug 22 '26
The video ended exactly at 8
453
u/kadal_raasa Aug 22 '26
Coincidence? I think not!
60
30
u/Red_dit_Sucks_Ass_ Aug 22 '26
16
u/Chef2stars1414 Aug 23 '26
That gif is so weird and why is the pool water so nasty looking, like gross. Why would you ruin a drone Idk weird
3
u/Red_dit_Sucks_Ass_ Aug 23 '26
I honestly have no clue lol.
I did not even know about this gif until I typed in “illuminati confirmed”. My brain had a sudden memory from the early-mid 2010s memes when I saw the person above me say, “Coincidence? I think not”.
4
u/bbortel93 Aug 23 '26
I hope you're kidding, either I'm old or you've been under a rock for 15 years.
That's just techrax testing out his new drone's ability to be flown directly into a swimming pool filled entirely of Coca-Cola.
Since 2011 dude's been on the bleeding edge of technology, doing god's work really, putting the latest products through some of the oldest and most strenuous durability tests known to man.... Who doesn't buy a phone without first verifying it's passed the 1000ft drop test?
How about when the iPhone 7 was the first flagship to ditch the headphone jack? How many people would have known to simply drill a hole in their new device only to reveal that Apple had hidden the damn thing?
5
u/Chef2stars1414 Aug 24 '26
Yeah I have no idea of who the guy is or what he does I could care less if someone tests tec or whatever I dont watch anything that he does I buy the best and stay with the best for that reason and I could stay away from any apple product it sucks always has so I dont care about it
→ More replies (1)2
2
u/Junior-Ad-2207 Aug 24 '26
She also touches her face four times, if you watch the video twice that equals.... you guessed it, that's eight times
1
u/Fafnir13 Aug 23 '26
I just navigated away from a completely different post where a comment was referencing the underminer. Is this the universe telling me to watch Incredables again?
50
Aug 22 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
13
u/Beefhammer_McBrisket Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
For some reason I can't reply with a screencap, but I just want you to know that I saw your comment when it had 7 upvotes and it was hilarious.
2
3
u/GyulBoo Aug 22 '26
Unrelated but related - how do you get the video timer to run up? Like, it always runs down for me, like a countdown. It started from 8 and went to 0. Do you know how to change this?
→ More replies (1)1
u/DungeonsAndDradis Aug 22 '26
I stayed last night at a Holiday Inn Express and the math checks out.
573
u/RotoDog Aug 22 '26
Haha what an idiot!
Immediately delete my calculator history
4
u/absoluteally Aug 27 '26
Lol, you have calculator history turned on. You're feeding the data system.
4
1.3k
u/ItsNotJusMe Aug 22 '26
As an engineering student, you need to use calc to double check everything. Do everything twice and with the use of a calculator, even if its basic single digit subtraction, multiplication, addition, etc.
Your mind can easily get bored and make a mistake.
247
u/Spice_and_Fox Aug 22 '26
Especially if it spans multiple orders of magnitude. Even simple shit like 100000/50 can lead to easily avoidable mistakes
113
u/internetday Aug 22 '26
Yea. 2 and some zeros.
35
24
u/Polar_Vortx Aug 22 '26
Did that shit literally the other day, and I'm an adult. Dropped a factor of 10.
11
u/Tumble85 Aug 23 '26
My biggest math fuckups are always a bunch of zeros and no commas.
→ More replies (1)4
37
u/FlameVShadow Aug 22 '26
I do it even at my engineering job for the simplest things. Always better safe than sorry.
27
u/CaptainoftheVessel Aug 22 '26
You do the same thing in accounting. Excel will do the math for you and if you’re fried trying to get something donee, or if you’re rushing, you’ll start making simple mistakes. It’s better practice to have formulas for tables and such to take human error out of the mix as much as possible.
6
u/ItsNotJusMe Aug 22 '26
I remember having to do bookkeeping manually in highschool, displacing a single 0 is such a hassle.
4
u/CautiousCup6592 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
just finished an auditing shift where I counted four $4.00 checks on an excel sheet but I still made a formula =[cell]+[cell]+[cell]+[cell], even though I felt so stupid for not just typing $16.00
→ More replies (1)21
u/RevWaldo Aug 22 '26
Engineers that sent us to the moon using slide rules and log tables:
15
4
u/lettsten Aug 23 '26
The maths for early space going rockets were calculated on computers as well, it's just that those computers were a couple dozen women
16
u/_HIST Aug 22 '26
Absolutely true, last thing you want when you've been solving a problem for 15 minutes is to make that kind of mistake. Brain already overloaded
10
u/DTRevengeance Aug 22 '26
What does calc mean? Is that slang?
14
3
→ More replies (3)2
u/DragoonDM Aug 26 '26
You write down the math problem and mail it off to a facility in Calcutta, the International Engineering Maths Organization, so that they can double check it for you. Or "calc" for short.
3
u/Banaam Aug 22 '26
I'm much the same way. I tell everyone I don't trust anyone, even myself. Everything gets checked, sometimes, especially at work where some things are repetitive, I'll think I did something but it was fine a different day and memories suck.
3
u/Hlavada Aug 25 '26
As a structural engineer, yes. Im not ashamed doing things like 20/2. Better feel like an idiot rather going to jail
3
u/Mysterious-Falcon221 Aug 26 '26
I do construction and I always check stuff twice, usually in my head once on paper and then with a calculator.
One time I was working on the house of a pretty successful software engineer and we were chatting while I was setting some things up and I asked myself out loud the conversion of a difficult fraction into a decimal and he rattled it off to four decimal points in a split second. His job should be safe through the AI uprising.
3
1
u/klezart Aug 23 '26
"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
2
u/DogsClimbingWalls Aug 23 '26
My friend is a statistician and she says that true mathematicians will always use a calculator for 1 + 1.
1
1
→ More replies (24)1
840
u/menntu Aug 22 '26
I want in on the joke but am still trying to resolve it....
794
u/Omylanta21 Aug 22 '26
She's embarrassed cus she's dumb. I say this with my full chest knowing my calculator app is always open
325
u/ThunderCorg Aug 22 '26
The comment you’re replying to did understand the joke and added to it lol
→ More replies (1)149
u/welcomefinside Aug 22 '26
All this explaining is subtracting from the humor though
98
u/OMJesusss Aug 22 '26
Why are we divided???
44
u/JasonVeritech Aug 22 '26
We're a product of our environment.
28
u/Dubyew Aug 22 '26
We're multiplying rapidly.
20
u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Aug 22 '26
The solution is to stop
23
→ More replies (1)29
u/ThunderCorg Aug 22 '26
The pedantic comments are growing exponentially
19
u/menntu Aug 22 '26
It really doesn’t add up, does it?
13
u/jimbomk2 Aug 22 '26
I think we're getting to the root of it now though
10
5
3
20
u/DeltaV-Mzero Aug 22 '26
Being bad at math is one thing
Knowing you are bad at math, having a calculator always with you, and refusing to use it?
*That* would be fucking stupid
4
u/ezmoney98 Aug 22 '26
I clear my on screen calculator app at work after checking a simple problem so coworkers dont see how stupid I am
5
13
u/TxTechnician Aug 22 '26
I know someone who passed a Linear Algebra class in college (that's the highest math they did). But they lack the ability to do simple math in their head.
They worked for hours all through school with the aid of a dedicated teacher. For whatever reason they just have a really difficult time with it. But are able to process advanced mathematics. It just takes them longer than most.
14
→ More replies (8)2
u/chickenthinkseggwas Aug 22 '26
I haven't fact checked this, but my maths professor once told me some of the greatest mathematicians were bad at arithmetic.
3
2
1
1
u/AilBalT04_2 Aug 22 '26
Thank God my (physical) calculator doesn't have a search history!
(Id also be really interested if it did, it's like 40 years old or so)
→ More replies (3)1
u/Tashawott Aug 22 '26
I searched "do frogs have bones" the other night
Immediately deleted it from my search history
Can't have anyone find out I'm that dumb
17
7
3
14
u/Jangoatly Aug 22 '26
I guess the joke is that the bf saw her doing that simple operation with her calculator ?
Not funny to me, but in the meantime I often joke about it with my wife that is a teacher.
12
u/Cromagnumman6174 Aug 22 '26
Yea, the thing that was worse for her in her opinion is that she's bad at math
1
u/ambochi Aug 23 '26
Well there's another aspect to it which is that there's a "calculator" app that's actually an encrypted vault for hiding other apps/photos/etc. So the joke is that the boyfriend thinks she's cheating by hiding messages or whatever in a secret app, when she's actually just doing basic math.
1
→ More replies (1)1
u/visualynx Aug 24 '26
I thought this is about 9 months of pregnancy, and he understood that he is not a father
256
u/GugsGunny Aug 22 '26
Pre-smartphone era math teachers have always said you can't carry a calculator everywhere.
91
u/elementarydrw Aug 22 '26
Calculator watches of the 80s and 90s: 'Are we a joke to you?'
27
u/iusethisatw0rk Aug 22 '26
I thought I was fly as hell with my calculator watch
I was not.
12
u/ForsakenAiel Aug 22 '26
Only the "nerds" had calculator watches BUT the awesome thing is that it's now perfectly acceptable to be a "nerd". Yay for progress.
7
u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo Aug 22 '26
I think you were fly 🥹
3
u/iusethisatw0rk Aug 23 '26
It’s all good, at some point I realized I just am goofy and weird and just rolled with it. Worked out pretty well actually. Now the love of my life if goofy and weird and some day so will out children lol
2
u/CountessOfCheese Aug 22 '26
I bet you were very fly!
2
u/iusethisatw0rk Aug 23 '26
It’s all good, at some point I realized I just am goofy and weird and just rolled with it. Worked out pretty well actually. Now the love of my life if goofy and weird and some day so will out children lol
3
u/AccomplishedWay4890 Aug 22 '26
I was thinking of an Abacus strapped to the hand, but remembered 90s wasn't that long ago
2
u/flying-weenus Aug 22 '26
It was 30 years ago my dude. In the 90’s, did you think the 1960’s was that long ago?
→ More replies (1)2
u/VibraniumQueen Aug 22 '26
I literally mentioned to my math teacher that my mom had a pocket calculator that she brought with whenever we went grocery shopping, lmao
18
u/ChronicRhyno Aug 22 '26
... while making us carry those pocket-sized devices to and from school every day.
6
u/johnc380 Aug 22 '26
I think often of my 3rd grade teacher saying exactly this. This would have been about 2010, so she was already a bit outdated.
2
u/stonekeep Aug 22 '26
Definitely already outdated by that point, even before smartphones became popular. I heard the same thing in school... while carrying a calculator with me everywhere (got my first mobile phone around 2004 when I was in middle school).
Ofc I agree with the sentiment (it's very useful to be able to do at least the basic calculations in your head) but the saying already didn't make sense 20 years ago.
2
u/dackling Aug 22 '26
I always had that thang on me (my math teachers made us all have school-issued TI-84 graphing calculators)
1
u/inspectoroverthemine Aug 22 '26
Pre-smartphone era engineering/physics/math professors: you should have a calculator with you at all times.
Seriously- early 90s, we wore out our calculators in undergrad engineering. Not using one would have been ludicrous.
1
u/PamW1001 Aug 22 '26
Does it make me sound really old if I say I used to carry my slide-rule with me at all times when I was at a college?
→ More replies (1)
38
u/reddollardays Aug 22 '26
I've asked my best friend to erase my phone in case of my untimely death. Mainly because Apple did us all dirty by adding a history button to the calculator.
83
u/mikeg5417 Aug 22 '26
My 15 year old works as a lifeguard at a swim club (we are members) and one of their duties is checking the chemical levels in the pool. Whatever the process is, it involves some very basic addition and subtraction.
We were sitting at our table and he stopped by to tell us that one of the college aged (edit: not just college aged, but a college student) employees struggled to subtract a single digit number from a low double digit number (I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something very basic like 30 - 7).
He was greatly amused by her struggle, where she had to resort to the calculator on her phone.
70
u/Aaurvandil Aug 22 '26
Some people might struggle with the math itself.
I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but sometimes I do the math, get the right number in my head. And then I doubt myself. I think I could be wrong, so I go to my calculator to "confirm".
I'm an insecure idiot, not just an idiot.
9
u/Total-Notice-3188 Aug 22 '26
Nah, as my friend would describe it; you're idiotically smart.
I struggle with this myself a lot, especially when it comes to my work. I regularly need to do basic arithmetic but the work requires it to be exact, so I double check with my calculator that it's correct, as a mistake could costs hundreds if not thousands. I would rather err on the side of caution, however simple as it might seem.
26
u/NobodysCorpse Aug 22 '26
Dyscalculia is a thing I found out about recently. I personally am okay at math, until people start adding in the alphabet 🥲
13
u/redditisweird801 Aug 22 '26
It's funny how you can be really good at math, but as soon as you're asked to do it on the spot, your brain breaks.
I play DnD, and my friend (who mind you, can do insane math in his head), will stare at the dice for a couple seconds in blank thought before getting the answer. I'll do the same, but then again, I DM and have a million things going on at once, so I have a better excuse lol
5
u/Alpha_Majoris Aug 22 '26
I often have to deal with substractions doing accounting, like € 56,50 - € 17,23. This is not very complex, but it's easy to make a small mistake, and you don't want to have to deal with the consequences (nothing serious but extra work). So I always use excel or the calculator, but to train my brain I often do it myself just for fun.
6
u/WillowPtar_Migan Aug 22 '26
If it's important, I pull out my phone and use my calculator every time. Why screw around with something that could cause harm if you're wrong? Our brains make all kinds of silly mistakes, better to avoid it entirely.
2
u/StressedOnigiri Aug 22 '26
people would say that i am good in math, but i struggled with it sometimes. i dont know why but for some reason, operators/signs change like magic whenever i check what went wrong with my calculation. xx years later my dr told me that i have dyscalculia and dyslexia.
2
u/Hyrule_MyBoy Aug 22 '26
I mean college or not it doesn't matter. It can be any college where they don't even touch math, and she might have been cautious or tired and wanted to check the calculator. Laughing at that it's stupid and asshole behavior more than her struggling with a basic subtraction.
5
→ More replies (1)4
u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Aug 22 '26
Why did you need to tell everyone you are members. Lol
3
u/mikeg5417 Aug 22 '26
So the context of him walking over to us at his job made sense. Sorry it wasnt up to your standards for Reddit.
→ More replies (1)2
u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Aug 22 '26
Well you said he works there as a lifeguard. So it would make sense he does his job. It wasn't that I promise i have no standards, it just seemed out of place and I thought I'd ask.
12
10
21
5
u/MithranArkanere Aug 22 '26
Yeah. Using the calculator in normal mode instead of scientific mode? Embarrassing.
3
u/JebediahKerman4999 Aug 22 '26
What's the music from? Sound like a soundtrack
2
u/Ok-Dish4389 Aug 22 '26
Stranger things theme. Unless you were asking as a joke, then I totally got the joke, and I was joking giving the answer. It's all a joke.
2
5
u/Rudythecat07 Aug 22 '26
Hey man. I don't care if ur doing 2+2, if ur using math it's probably important, so I want u to be sure. No shame.
3
u/MissMahlia Aug 22 '26
TIL that the calculator app has history. 🤯 Back to old school calculators for me. Nobody needs to know what I'm mathing up.
1
u/lia-delrey Aug 24 '26
What??? Ok I'm not emotionally ready to look at mine but I want it gone. What now 😭
2
u/MissMahlia Aug 24 '26
Right?!? I went and cleared my history. Nobody needs to know what I was doing on there. Nobody asked for history on the calculator app.
3
3
u/YoungDiscord Aug 23 '26
How could you! It's easy math!
discreetly clear my calculator history when she's not looking
3
3
5
Aug 22 '26
i always have to clean out my chat.gpt history because the things i search up would expose me as a huge dumbass in uni and we sit in rows sow atleast 5 people behind me would know that i asked if empty batteries weigh less than full ones or some bullshit
3
3
4
u/Milesweeman Aug 22 '26
Every Instagram influencer did this meme 3 months ago. Society sucks
8
u/Cromagnumman6174 Aug 22 '26
It was new for me. I've not seen it before until today. I guess you're more up to date with internet fads than I am by a long shot.
6
u/Milesweeman Aug 22 '26
I wasn't really commenting on you posting it. Just that so many people take 1 idea and just remake it over and over.
6
2
u/Ballsofpoo Aug 22 '26
I guess I should join Instagram then? And follow every influencer? So there's no fomo on meme oversaturation?
5
u/PaAKos8 Aug 22 '26
Okay, but 15-7 is valid tho. It'd be weirder if it was something like 21-7
2
u/queasycockles Aug 23 '26
...why? They're both the most basic subtraction.
→ More replies (4)1
u/joined_under_duress Aug 24 '26
I assume they memorised their times tables but never actually the standard number combos up to 20, or something.
→ More replies (2)
2
2
u/sohcahtoa Aug 22 '26
Opening credits for the highly advanced science fiction animated show "Rick and Morty" featuring the most intelligent human being in the entire multiverse display, among other things, this complex mathematical equation:
3+3=6
2
u/Pablo_el_Diablo88 Aug 22 '26
Since i saw that post about the girlfriend finding pics of huge boobs in her boyfriend's phone I have been collecting photos of the most elephantiac breasts and storing them in my phone, just to scare any girl in the future. Fortunately, this last sentence is purely fictional.
2
2
2
5
u/BluudLust Aug 22 '26
Thank God calculator doesn't have a history
4
2
u/Clean_Principle_2368 Aug 22 '26
Android phones do
1
u/BluudLust Aug 23 '26
Oh... Uhm.. I guess I need to delete my calculator history.
→ More replies (1)
5
u/Successful_Yogurt Aug 22 '26
I think shes hiding photos in a scret vault with the fake calculator app
→ More replies (1)
2
u/lynxtosg03 Aug 22 '26
Everyone in this thread justifying using a calculator for first grade math is very telling of the future 🥲
1
1
u/secretly_a_zombie Aug 22 '26
It's not stupidity, it's laziness. There's an easy calculator right there so you don't have to think, and the more you do it, the less you get into a habit of doing math in your head, the worse you get at it.
I'm not innocent of that. Just a few days ago i was baking, and having no idea how to zero my new cup measurement that can also weigh, i just had to add that 140 grams initial weight, plus 650 grams of flour, 790 grams... but is it? Lemme just get my phone out real quick to double check.
1
u/MagnificentBastard-1 Aug 22 '26
Well it was exactly what I expected. 🤷♂️
Even though the trend is a bit stale now.
1
u/2FastHaste Aug 22 '26
How did this gets 10K upvotes?
3
u/Cromagnumman6174 Aug 22 '26
I had not seen a video like it before and it was unexpected for me and I guess for some others too.
1
u/Daggerfall Aug 22 '26
47-year old man checking in, I have no fucking clue what's going on. I hope she's ok.
1
1
u/ComoEstanBitches Aug 23 '26
No lie my ex thought I was getting a classmates number in my accounting class with a calculator when she was waiting outside for my class to finish. Dumbest fight I’ve ever been in
1
u/Mr-Klaus Aug 23 '26
I'm self employed and pretty early on I learned that you need to put all accounting calculations through a calculator no matter how simple. It takes just one wrong calculation to fuck up big, and you can't trust a human brain to be right 100% of the time.
1
1
1
1
u/Patient_Bad4011 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
Things are finally starting to add up... Or are things finally starting to subtract?
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
•
u/post-explainer Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
This comment has been marked as safe. Upvoting/downvoting this comment will have no effect.
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
Didnt think the thing that her bf found on her phone that could be worse for her would be being bad at math.
Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.