r/AskReddit • u/gnaan • Jul 13 '15

What socially unacceptable things are you OK with?

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u/AprilXIIV Jul 13 '15

I guess /u/Cum_on_doorknob would know all about D deficiencies.

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u/delineated Jul 13 '15

Are you Mike, perchance?

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u/AprilXIIV Jul 13 '15

Nope.

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u/delineated Jul 13 '15

Oh darn, you have the same birthday.

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u/TetrisJenga Jul 13 '15 edited Jul 13 '15

Let's assume that you know that Mike uses Reddit.

Now take the number of accounts on Reddit, which is around 36,000,000. Divide that number by 365, which gives you 98,630 (we will round that to 100,000). Now we can work out that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance that the person you just replied to was Mike.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Hi

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '15

Thats wrong. Birthday probability is fucked up. Look up on wikipedia and you'll see.

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u/TetrisJenga Jul 13 '15

In that case a specialist will have to take over as my maths skills don't extend past basic multiplication and division.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

So you're saying there's a chance?

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u/Words_are_Windy Jul 14 '15

The chances would be much better that it would be a Mike, just not the Mike the person actually knows.

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u/Jiggahawaiianpunch Jul 14 '15

But Mike is a fairly common name, plus the (vast?) majority of Redditors are men, so I'd say there was a slightly better chance of him finding a Mike, tho not necessarily the Mike

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u/BeneGezzWitch Jul 14 '15

This made me laugh so hard my husband asked if I was peeing

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u/Psylink Jul 14 '15

Well, were you?

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u/BeneGezzWitch Jul 14 '15

Damn near. I was in a fit of that kind of laughter that self perpetuates. I only stopped when I spilled my fizzy water.

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u/LostSoul1797 Jul 14 '15

Damn... That burns like his pee.

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u/DeadFetusConsumer Jul 14 '15

HAHAHAHAAHAH THAT WAS SO FUNNY OMG HAHAAH