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teekesselchen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany886 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-28 00:52:08
October 28 2010 00:17 GMT
#1
Finally - A forum entry almost killed me from laughing. After all these unfunny trolls, it just took some carelessness to create a real joke!
From German Readmore.de Offtopics:

BoOMuKl posted: "Here's a link for you that there are approximately 430,000 thousand millionares in Germany. (...)"
SadSadWorld posted: "Cool, 430 million millionares in Germany with only ~80 million habitants. Nobody gonna copy that! O/ ger"
BoOMuKl posted: "Well, me and my calcified thinking don't see what you want from me. "430.000 thousand" I wrote and not "4,300,000 thousand". You almost got me there..."
SadSadWorld posted: "Right, because then it would be 4,3 billion..."

Rumor has it that he's still wondering why everyone's laughing.

*
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
Meta
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States6225 Posts
October 28 2010 00:23 GMT
#2
That reminds me of this story I read about some verizon representative not understanding decimals and overcharging some dude 100x the amount they advertised.

here it is:
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
good vibes only
Keniji
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Netherlands2569 Posts
October 28 2010 00:48 GMT
#3
On October 28 2010 09:17 teekesselchen wrote:
Finally - A forum entry almost killed me from laughing. After all these unfunny trolls, it just took some carelessness to create a real joke!
From German Readmore.de Offtopics:

BoOMuKl posted: "Here's a link for you that there are approximately 430.000 thousand millionares in Germany. (...)"
SadSadWorld posted: "Cool, 430 million millionares in Germany with only ~80 million habitants. Nobody gonna copy that! O/ ger"
BoOMuKl posted: "Well, me and my calcified thinking don't see what you want from me. "430.000 thousand" I wrote and not "4.300.000 thousand". You almost got me there..."
SadSadWorld posted: "Right, because then it would be 4,3 billion..."

Rumor has it that he's still wondering why everyone's laughing.


Fun fact: What BoOMuKI said is actually correct. Though it is (probably) only based on a translation error.

The english "430.000" is equivalent to the german "430,000". The meaning of "comma" and "point" is switched in the german language.
teekesselchen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany886 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-28 00:53:31
October 28 2010 00:51 GMT
#4
On October 28 2010 09:48 Keniji wrote:


Fun fact: What BoOMuKI said is actually correct. Though it is (probably) only based on a translation error.

The english "430.000" is equivalent to the german "430,000". The meaning of "comma" and "point" is switched in the german language.


Ok, that's a translation error by me, sorry. I just copied the text and left the numbers, thanks for spotlighting it.
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
snorlax
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States755 Posts
October 28 2010 01:51 GMT
#5
people are really dumb T_T this is either kind of sad or a not so annoying roll either way w/e the world continues :3
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-28 04:25:31
October 28 2010 04:24 GMT
#6
I went into a liquor store once, to get a bottle of water... and the guy behind the counter was talking with a customer about how big the lotto was getting out here in CA... it was like 50 million at this point.

I shit you not, the next part of the conversation developed into: "It's getting close to a billion." "How many millions are in a billion anyways?" "I think its 100..."

They were genuinely confused. They exchanged a couple more lines, but that is all I can remember verbatim... so when I couldn't take it anymore... I just piped up "One Thousand. There are 1,000 millions in a billion."

The funny thing is, they looked at me like I just made it up, both if them!! I think they were pretty sure I had made it up, because they hadn't heard of "One Thousand Millions" before.

*facepalm*
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
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