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[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 140 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I had to look up what "holy shit two cakes" was referring to. I thought I recognized it but I couldn't remember off the top of my head what it was.

[-] thesprongler@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago

You're one of today's lucky 10,000! And so am I, so thanks for linking it!

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 points 5 months ago

I think this one is a lot more than 10,000... Or maybe a lot less? I'm not sure how the math works for things not everyone knows.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The answer is always 42.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

You have to divide then multiply

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I literally had never seen it! And now I'm one of today's lucky 10,000!

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

And I another!

Wait, how many people had actually seen this before?

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I haven't. This is new. Cool.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I make indie games as a hobby and that is such a reassuring comic.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

But forty cakes is as many as four tens, and that's awful

[-] Debo@lemmy.world 134 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why is Tumblr getting the credit when it’s an XKCD comic that has the message, not the platform.

[-] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Semi-relevant story time!

A couple weeks ago I was watching a favorite Youtuber, 12Tone, deconstructing a song I wasn't aware of. During the intro he made a joke about trying to explain the song, then stopped, saying everyone already knew what the song was. I had no idea at all. So I went and listened to the song and looked up a bit more about it.

Due to some weird convergence of chance and Matrix-esque internet dodging that I didn't know I was doing, I somehow missed out on the phenomenon that was Mr. Brightside.

It's a really good song and I had the fortune to be one of that day's lucky 10,000.

[-] stelelor@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago

I don't doubt you and I don't judge you but... HOW

[-] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Seriously no idea at all. My wife, who doesn't generally care for music at all was very well acquainted with it. It was just one of those one-in-a-million things just seemed to happen.

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

That's the best because the song is phenomenal, and I never listen to it now because I've heard it too many times. You truly have been given a gift there!

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Do you ever wish you could go back and listen to it for the first time again?

[-] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Every time I hear it I’m transported back to a grimy pub in the student union, dancing on the table and beyond drunk on snakebite and youthful abandon. Truly one of my happiest memories, not for what happened that day but just how young and happy and free I felt!

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Absolutely I do. I wish this with a lot of things, particularly TV shows/movies.

[-] Darkblue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Huh, and today I am a lucky 10,000. Had to google the song, never heard it. Thanks for you anecdote and my subsequent discovery!!

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

What country are you in? It seems to be way bigger in the UK; at uni, there was a program where some American students from either Princeton or Stanford would come to my uni for a term, and reflecting on their bemusement in the club when Mr Brightside came on always makes me laugh.

Most of them were familiar with the song, but altogether unprepared for how nuts the club went when it came on. It's such a meme that even an old punk like me can't resist singing along.

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

40 year old Canadian here. When that one comes on, I'm belting it out like it's 20 years ago and we're up in the club lol.

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I took am one of the lucky 10,000. Guess I have some googling when I get back home.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 26 points 5 months ago

That's the first I've heard of this. I must be one of today's lucky 10,000.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago
[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, I'm still waiting for my solid gold trophy.

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago

Yay XKCD!!!

[-] djasee@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you for posting this!

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