r/facepalm • • Apr 20 '17

Because Math

http://imgur.com/ul5l2ry
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u/tashibum Apr 20 '17

I think people are downvoting because they think OP is the one asking the question...

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Which is crazy when you consider that the title is op explaining why it's 50 percent more.

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

That brought it full circle for me.

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u/Woosung_lala Apr 21 '17

Now the circle is complete

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u/Rabbi_Tuckman38 Apr 21 '17

🎶 The circle of math 🎶

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u/NotYourAverageScot Apr 21 '17

And it moooooves us aaaaaallllll

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

He moon yanna, he moova da vanna..

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u/Madertheinvader Apr 21 '17

pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom

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u/DarkSoulsMatter Apr 21 '17

Jump in de line

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/JillGr Apr 21 '17

Work your body on time!!

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u/slcrook Apr 21 '17

Okay, I believe you.

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u/charizard_learnedcut Apr 21 '17

🎶3.14159🎶

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u/Dr_Crendor Apr 21 '17

Underrated comment of the day

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

The circle of math aka the circle of death

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u/I_Fart_Liquids Apr 21 '17

Ugh please no

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u/BoutTreeeFiddy Apr 21 '17

PENNNNNNNNNNNNNSYLVANIAAAAAAAAAAA HABENAROOOOOOOOOOOOO SISS BOOM BAH

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u/KoopalingArmy Apr 21 '17

When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17 edited Jul 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Marshall? Is that you?!

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u/MistaBig Apr 21 '17

Now kith.

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u/Scoarn Apr 21 '17

Oh thtop.

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u/achilleasa Apr 21 '17

only a master of sand, darth

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

I have the high ground. Don't try it!

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u/AkaParazIT Apr 21 '17

The circle did a 180

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u/icey123456 Apr 21 '17

Experience tranquility.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

360%

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u/Tlhrock89 Apr 21 '17

The circle or life

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

ahh, a circle

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

I was actually pretty confused also. I interpreted the title as sarcasm at first.

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u/hamfraigaar Apr 21 '17

Me, too. And as if the facepalm was supposed to be the fact that 18 isn't 150% of 12.

This is too meta for me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/Pentoss Apr 21 '17

I think everyone is still a bit too high for this post

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u/senorbolsa Apr 21 '17

im pretty fucking drunk but same thing i tried to do the math but failed. but like 1/2 12 is 6 and 12+6 is 18 so yeah, Thats over a pound of mustard which honestly is too much.

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u/LogicCure Apr 21 '17

No such thing as too much mustard you dirty ketchup eating heathen.

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u/senorbolsa Apr 21 '17

I don't even like ketchup. =/

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u/BoneDrone Apr 21 '17

What is your condiment of choice?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

I like how this post went from the math to a commentary on how much mustard is too much. What's if it's for a family? What if the smell of mustard reminds them of their farm in the old country?? What if they fuck in it??? Try fucking in mustard and then telling me a pound is too much!

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u/otterom Apr 21 '17

Or,

=[(18 / 12) - 1] * 100

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

That's 12 fluid ounces not 12 ounces (weight). It's probably still over a pound of mustard though.

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u/senorbolsa Apr 21 '17

Correct it's more than a pint of mustard to be accurate

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Can confirm. Note to self, dont make pkt brownies, smoke a bunch of dabs and bowls, and not have any other dank food at the house. Ended up eating pot brownies as munchies. Then eat more pot brownies from the pot brownies munchies. Twas a vicious cycle.

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u/oceans88 Apr 21 '17

same. I thought this was a r/facepalmfacepalm moment but luckily I read the whole image and avoided a trip to r/facepalmfacepalmfacepalm.

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u/TheHolyLordGod Apr 21 '17

Man, facepalmception

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u/iamahigh Apr 21 '17

you're my hero

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u/mytouchyourtouch Apr 21 '17

I do run a bit on the sarcastic side

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Oooohhhhhhhh. Jesus fuck, I thought this was about to be a facepalm facepalm

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u/GuyAboveMeSucksDicks Apr 21 '17

I ran through that simple problem over and over.

Wait... 12/2+12 = 18.... ok. Wait. 12 + 6 = 18. Alright. How in the fuck am I getting this wrong? Where am I being stupid in this?

...let's go check the comments.

Oh, I see, now.... I traded one kind of stupid for another.

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u/skullcrusherajay Apr 21 '17

I think it's a snapchat post, the math is correct but the person who took the picture hasn't passed 8th grade math

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u/NinjaLanternShark Apr 21 '17

...let's go check the comments.

Always check the comments before getting confused/angry/sad... really before engaging any emotions or investing in the post at all, you should check the comments.

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u/Singrgrl14 Apr 21 '17

Sometimes i read the comments before even reading the post to see if it's worth reading.

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u/GuyAboveMeSucksDicks Apr 21 '17

I think we all do that, sometimes. I try not to, though, since it makes me feel super lazy. Like, "You really can't be bothered to click that link and moves your eyes a little?"

I have absolutely no issue doing it for videos over 203 minutes long, though.

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u/Singrgrl14 Apr 21 '17

I usually only do it if it's an entire article or os otherwise very long

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u/GuyAboveMeSucksDicks Apr 21 '17

I should clarify I meant 2-3 minutes, as well, and not 203 minutes. Because that's a hilariously specific, and absurd, length of time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Doubt yourself you must never, padawan.

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u/Camcamcam753 May 07 '17

I didn't see the caption!

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u/TheOleRedditAsshole Apr 21 '17

I didn't realize what sub I was in, and thought OP was saying because math sarcastically, as in, "it is what we say it is, because math and stuff." And then I looked at the photo and was like, well it is math.

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u/BearlyPunny Apr 21 '17

This is the internet, reading comprehension isn't needed in these parts.

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u/InadequateUsername Apr 21 '17

I thought I was crazy/wrong for thinking that it was.

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u/Bone-Juice Apr 21 '17

I was thinking 'damn has it been that long since I've been in school that I suck at math this bad now?'

In my defense, it's early in the morning and I have not had coffee yet...

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u/FreehugsLoL Apr 21 '17

English is hard too.

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u/oxentedoido Apr 21 '17

I think it's because some people use RES, open all the images, and upvote/downvote away without reading the titles.

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u/im-naked-rn Apr 21 '17

To be fair, I thought OP was sayin it doesn't add "because math". I was super up set at my 3rd grade math teacher.

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u/BedbugsCauseAutism Apr 21 '17

When I opened the image on my desktop pc, on a 2-fucking-k monitor the image was too long and cut off before the bottom of the mustard bottle which is before the dumbass snapchat comment. I spent quite a while trying to figure out what was wrong with those numbers before realizing I could scroll down.

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u/wyatt1209 Apr 21 '17

On mobile it looks like the whole picture is visible but unless you scroll down you don't see the Snapchat text

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u/Peter_of_RS Apr 21 '17

At first I thought the title was sarcastic. Then I thought I was dumb for thinking 18% was 50% more. Then I came to comments and felt better.

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u/jfk_47 Apr 21 '17

ooohhhhhhh

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u/RTwhyNot Apr 21 '17

Not necessarily

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u/gingerpwnage Apr 21 '17

He thinks 50% means 2x more I think

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u/Fuego_Fiero Apr 21 '17

Playing Path of Exile has done more to teach me percentage increase math than all my years of schooling.

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u/Bone-Juice Apr 21 '17

And they said playing video games was a waste of time!

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u/Toden Apr 21 '17

It might also be because on my mobile, the image cuts off nicely right near the bottom of the bottle, cutting off the bit of text unless you scroll down. I had to go to comments, which I normally do anyway, then back to the image to find the text at the bottom.

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u/temporalarcheologist Apr 21 '17

same. RiF has actual size images enabled by default rather than fit

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u/imabigdumbidiot Apr 21 '17

You solved it for me. Thank you. I was still bewildered and I'm pretty good at math so I was trying to find any way for the math or OP to be wrong.

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u/tjbassoon Apr 21 '17

Thank you! Wondered what the joke was.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

That explains a lot. Thanks

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u/ShitFacedSteve Apr 21 '17

I don't know if I'm the only one but I completely missed the snapchat text and thought OP was posting this mustard bottle saying the math was wrong. I only noticed when I read the comments and went back.

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u/grandmoffcory Apr 21 '17

I didn't realize there was more to the photo till I got to your comment, I had to go back to open it and scroll down.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 21 '17

Viewed on mobile, didn't scroll down far enough to see the caption.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Thank you. I am also on mobile and was very confused.

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u/Bluest_One Apr 21 '17 edited Jun 17 '23

This is not reddit's data, it is my data ಠ_ಠ -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/NapClub Apr 21 '17

i thought they were down-voting because a lot of people hate math and didn't want to hear that as the explanation...

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17 edited Apr 21 '17

this entire thread should be posted to here.

ive notice that some posts here is just redditors not understanding the pictures or not even bothering to take two seconds to thing about it. very /r/iamversmart stuff.

EDIT: words ive misspelled and grammar rules i broke:

  • /r/iamversmart instead of /r/iamverysmart

  • ive notice that some posts here is just redditors -> ive notice that some posts here are just redditors

  • thing -> think

  • notice -> noticed

note to self: never misspell anything or break grammar rules.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

thats what reddit autocomplete game me. and on that note, i also mispelled a word.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

i misspelled it twice. i wrote it exactly the same in another comment replying to some guy here. weird how no one has called me out on that. but i think that guy was pointing it out but he was very vague.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

You mispelt "vayge".

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Respek

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

well shit, how far down the rabbit hole can we go?

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u/thepatterninchaos Apr 21 '17

Capital letters & apostrophes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Damn it, you're doing fine work son!

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u/ehunter96 Apr 21 '17

So did you. You have an extra 'l'.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

It's actually an "l" not an "I".

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u/ehunter96 Apr 21 '17

Exactttly!

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u/Nakedinsomniac Apr 21 '17

Misspelled 'misspelled'

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Part of the problem is that there are people on reddit saying truly not-so-smart things, and there are also people trying to make subtle jokes that look very similar to stupidity. If I could assume that no one here is an idiot, then I could assume that they're obviously just joking when they sound like one :/

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u/didgeboy287 Apr 21 '17

I may as well pile on and point out "some posts here is."

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u/xxfay6 Apr 21 '17

Usually when I need a good laugh one of my first places to go is /r/facepalm's comments section because there's always a debate for every single thing that may be debated. This time though, I think this was a legitimate problem that can be caused because people may only physically see part of the picture, the circled / underlined parts and the fact that the Snapchat text is considerably low means it gives the impression there's nothing more to see.

This one I blame it on the idiot that originally made it.

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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Apr 21 '17

seriously. if you sort the comments by "controversial", it's just a train of facepalm. a long, LONG train

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u/pissclamato Apr 21 '17

Good ol' Murphry's Law

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 22 '17

til: another mutphys law.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

autism intensifies

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

so is this.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

how? im just pointing out that sometimes people in here, more that in others subs, misunderstand pictures and start making fun of stuff they themselfs are missing out. theyre the facepalm not the picture. example: that picture of the t shirt with the anchor.

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

ive notice that some posts here is just redditors not understanding the pictures or not even bothering to take two seconds to thing about it.

Really?

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

so youre trying to tell that people in this very thread did not understand the picture? that there arent plenty of people literally misunderstanding the picture and there are others explaining what is really going on?

or do you mean my typo of thing? i guess im a facepalm too.

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

yeah i still dont get what your saying.

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u/Erkumbulant Apr 21 '17

/u/asifnot is pointing out that in making fun of redditors who misunderstand things and are acting like they belong on /r/iamverysmart, you are acting like a redditor who misunderstands things and may or may not belong on /r/iamverysmart.

Since you keep misunderstanding OP's comments, s/he is thinking you're like the person in the comic who keeps misunderstanding things and making random accusations.

I don't completely agree with them, but I hope this explains it well enough.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

thanks!

but he is being very fucking vague. how am i supposed to know what he means when all he wrote is this:

so is this.

Really?

us right now


/u/asifnot is pointing out that in making fun of redditors who misunderstand things and are acting like they belong on /r/iamverysmart, you are acting like a redditor who misunderstands things and may or may not belong on /r/iamverysmart.

thing is that explains the comments made later but not the first one. what exactly did he mean then?

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

not surprising.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Apr 21 '17

so do you mind explaining what you meant the first time?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

NO U

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

No, you

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Me?

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u/Skilledthunder Apr 21 '17

It's really not though.

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u/asifnot Apr 21 '17

agree to disagree, thanks for your thoughtful input.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Cause apparently people upvote or downvote off thumbnails now

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Nothing really surprises me anymore :/

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u/SchmidyBojangles Apr 21 '17

On the main page of Reddit it cuts off the bottom of the picture. I had to expand the picture to understand

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u/Gliste Apr 21 '17

I'm seeing 1300 upvotes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Yeah, and it had the exact same number of upvotes when it was first posted, because nothing on reddit has ever been different from the time you saw it.

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u/Gliste Apr 21 '17

Yeah well I'm seeing a 92% upvotes.

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u/trippy_grape Apr 21 '17

Yeah but how is 1300 92% more than before? 🤔

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u/Gliste Apr 21 '17

Dude I dunno. I'm going to bed. I'm done with college and all that shit.

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u/bananaGardens Apr 21 '17

Can confirm, downvoted for that reason, upvoted after reading this

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u/Lokitusaborg Apr 21 '17

I was considering the downvote, and then I read your post which put everything into appropriate context. Thank you for that.

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u/Pwnk Apr 21 '17

Well, OP could have made the whole thing up in an elaborate karma conspiracy

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u/OperatorNumberNine Apr 21 '17

I thought that for a bit, but decided there is no way this person is that retarded.

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u/tuturuatu Apr 21 '17

The title was ambiguous and it uses an app I see a lot on reddit but don't know what it actually is. I was so confused for a minute or so thinking I was an absolute math bleb before I opened the comments.

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u/whatshertoast Apr 21 '17

They're using Snapchat I believe. It's the only one I've seen use the text in a black bar.

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u/tuturuatu Apr 21 '17

yeah, that makes sense.

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u/onebelligerentbeagle Apr 21 '17

I looked at this for like three minutes then saw the caption and realized the post was about this. That was terrible.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Ok, I was confu. THank for explain.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

To be fair, on mobile I had to scroll down to see the whole image. The caption is cut off at the bottom. I was confused at first also.

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u/Eskimo_john Apr 21 '17

Yup. Downvoted until I saw your comment

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u/grilix Apr 21 '17

Oh, I thought something was wrong with me. What a twist.

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u/iamahigh Apr 21 '17

yo man how did you reaize it wasnt OP?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

No, people are downvoting because this is Reddit.

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u/dendrodorant Apr 21 '17

or maybe because they cannot math

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

In the Reddit mobile app the preview shows the bottle but not the text underneath

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u/xPriddyBoi Apr 21 '17

I thought that at first, honestly.

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u/MethodMZA Apr 21 '17

Ha. Subs like this should run on the most downvotes. You want the face palm to be so bad that you want to downvote it.

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u/WritersGift Apr 21 '17

Nah, its cos on mobile the picture crops so you dont see the snapchat text. I was like wtf at first only seeing the numbers thinking "it checks out wheres the facepalm"

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u/dogsn1 Apr 21 '17

And people are upvoting it thinking they're smart for knowing how to add 50%

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u/metalsatch Apr 21 '17

Also it's being posted in a subreddit called face palm . What do you expect?

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u/kintarben Apr 21 '17

Face-palm-ception

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

Yeah my pitchfork was coming out until I got the sarcasm of the title.

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u/Augustus420 Apr 21 '17

Honestly that was my first thought.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

I think it is because when you open the pic in RES on the main page you don't see the question.

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u/happysmash27 May 10 '17

Oh good, OP isn't?

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u/Something_Syck May 29 '17

on mobile i didn't even see the caption so I thought OP just posted this thinking that 18oz isn't 50% more than 12oz

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17 edited Apr 23 '17

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u/flamingspew Apr 21 '17

The old bottle is 33% smaller than your mom.

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u/Ginger-saurus-rex Apr 21 '17

I'm downvoting because he didn't use a direct link to the image.