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They'd probably do it no more than ten times.
by dwaite 6y ago
They'd probably do it no more than ten times.
- Cerium 6y agoI sure did it more than ten times, but quickly learned to be careful and insert the finger slowly into the moving fan.
- edelans 6y agoI'm afraid you missed the joke here =)
- jodrellblank 6y agoI can't tell if they missed the joke about losing 10 fingers and having to stop there, or if you missed their joke that you can insert the same finger multiple times as long as you only lose a bit of a finger each time.
- adolph 6y agoAll the above forgot toes
- abiogenesis 6y agoThose are not fingers (at least not in English).
- injidup 6y agoIn German we have "hand shoes" for gloves :)
- konart 6y agoYou just broke my mind Russian mind.
- m463 6y agoin spanish aren't fingers and toes interchangeable?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothey're actually interchangeable anywhere as long as you have a talented surgeon.
- jodrellblank 6y agoThis chain has got me wondering how we count in base 10, but we don't have 10 fingers instead 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Maybe we have 10 digits, but digits can be fingers or toes so we really have 20 digits. Is there a word in English which exclusively means hand-digits or fingers+thumbs or digits-toes?
- efreak 6y agoBecause people don't usually don't on their toes? It's easier to bring your hands into view than your feet.
- bayindirh 6y agoIn some extreme cases they can go up to ~20. But after 25, it becomes really a corner case.
- smileysteve 6y agoAssuming now tongues, toes, or ears.
- hnick 6y agoI just feel bad for all the kids who won't feel the joy of talking into a fan and making a funny voice :(
- m463 6y agotoo many things have been lost or gimped. Chemistry sets, m-80s, model rockets, playgrounds, coaster brakes, whatever kids did before "play dates" and anything intricate with small parts.
- danielbarla 6y agoThere were probably too many things lost from "our" (n-1th generation) childhood too. Things like marveling at the first TVs, playing with unspent WW2 ammunition, etc. I'm sure each generation has its own things that they miss and think are detrimental to have lost, however I'm not sure that overall it's worse for the current generation. Hard to say. Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual. I guess some things get better, some worse, change is the only constant.
- metiscus 6y ago>Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual. Would you be as good of a programmer today if that was true? I remember spending an entire week trying to figure out how strings worked in QBASIC, when I was in 5th grade. There was no internet and I only had the Apple IIGS Basic manual to work with. I tried and tried and tried and eventually figured out that it had something to do with those $ symbols. Eventually I got the hang of it. I guess the point is, that challenge and struggle with simple things helped me develop the attitude to overcome truly difficult things later. Maybe this is more just memories of childhood than anything..
- danielbarla 6y ago
- kovac 6y agoIf you are really committed, you should be able to go up to at least 20 :)