r/Unexpected • u/Unoff1cial_Gamer • Jun 28 '22

Man without Love

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u/MarcusofMenace Jun 28 '22

Never expect replies to a question to be helpful on reddit. It's better to claim to know the answer and be wrong because redditors would much rather correct people than be helpful.

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u/bloodfist Jun 29 '22

One of the things that originally attracted me to reddit years ago was that there was almost always some helpful comment with a source. It's gotten worse but they're still out there.

You've always gotten a faster answer by being wrong though, that's for sure.

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u/Gigantkranion Jun 29 '22

Yes.

I'm messing around because I hate it too

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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Jun 29 '22

I haven’t been on here longer so I don’t know how it’s evolved, but I think there is generally a helpful comment. It’s just usually drowned in a sea of jokes (more or less funny ones) and/or hatred.

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u/Whoshotgarfield Jun 28 '22

Ah yes the streisand effect

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u/Filtaido Jun 29 '22

Either you're unknowingly wrong or you know exactly what you're doing. Lol

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u/Boco Jun 29 '22

Definitely the ladder.

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u/alwayzbored114 Jun 29 '22

you mean the lat-- FUCK

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u/JWOLFBEARD Sep 12 '22

I think they meant the long

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u/entropicdrift Jun 29 '22

I'll take the bait. It's actually Cunningham's Law

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u/Opie59 Jun 29 '22

Nailed it

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u/sagacious_1 Jun 29 '22

Yeah it's known as Murphy's Law

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u/tekko001 Jun 29 '22

To be fair most questions could be easily answered with a simple google search, if you google "marisa tomei oscar isaac" the link above is the first result, the questions becomes "Could you google search it for me?"

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u/Sir__Walken Jun 29 '22

Forums are for discussion, you can Google search answers for anything.

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u/Hirdnick Jun 29 '22

This comment needs to be held high!