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Ibix said:
Tree is a number in some Irish accents...
Tree(4) is a number, and a rather large one
 
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Borg said:
The whole apples, oranges and bananas being equal to 4 reminds me of a previous post of mine.
A tree is a unit. I always used it when I wanted to demonstrate that a unit is part of an exercise, or that different units cannot be added:

> ##3m+4m=7##
< ##7## what? Trees?

> ##2m^2+ 3m^3=5##
< ##2## trees and ##3## bushes are what?
 
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BillTre said:
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That also works for decades of your life, 0–10 years old, 10–20 years old, etc
 
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DrGreg said:
That also works for decades of your life, 0–10 years old, 10–20 years old, etc
I don’t recall the citation but I remember reading somewhere that a human has experienced half their perceived lifespan by age ~22 (and that’s without time dilation, physicists make relativistic shenanigans if they please?)
 
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pinball1970 said:
It took me a while
It relies on knowing that an incel is a male who can't see why despising all women who won't have sex with him on demand might be off-putting to women, assumes that attitude won't shine through every interaction he ever has with a woman, and then blames all women for him not having any luck with the ones he tries with.
 
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Ibix said:
It relies on knowing that an incel is a male who can't see why despising all women who won't have sex with him on demand might be off-putting to women, assumes that attitude won't shine through every interaction he ever has with a woman, and then blames all women for him not having any luck with the ones he tries with.
Actually it was the fig / date / date plus excel part that clicked it.
I saw a true crime program on an incel person who decided to kill as many people as possible by driving his truck on the pavement as fast as he could.
Very disturbing.
A very good channel on YouTube that shows interviews then applies criminal psychology techniques.
 
pinball1970 said:
I saw a true crime program on an incel person who decided to kill as many people as possible by driving his truck on the pavement as fast as he could.
Well this took a dark turn...

Happened here in T.O. Canada is smaller than US by an order of magnitude, so ten dead to us is like 100 to America. We just don't get this level of violence up here.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Well this took a dark turn...

Happened here in T.O. Canada is smaller than US by an order of magnitude, so ten dead to us is like 100 to America. We just don't get this level of violence up here.
That's the one. This guy is very good, in depth analysis.
 
Not all math puns are terrible...just sum
 
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Johnny Yuma said:
Not all math puns are terrible...just sum
You asked for a collection of 10/10 jokes, but that's just 1 joke.
 
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The triangle finished the discussion with the circle "You are pointless!"
 
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BillTre said:
Cut the two apples in half with a single stroke.
This gives four halves.
Throw one away.
Less dark than my approach...
 
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