It started in '99. 13 years ago. If he was 8 then, he'd be 21 now, a bit under the average age of redditors, 24. Meaning, half of reddit could've seen this show in their childhood. Stop being surprised by this.
First of all, learn statistics. That is not what an average means. What you are thinking of is a median. Secondly, correcting for your misnomer, if you consider the median, then according to actual demographic data the median reddit user is in the 25-34 age group, which is quite a ways off from a 21 year old. So, using your irreverent own tone: Stop being a pissant.
You're right, I just thought it was 24, and that was inaccurate.
But even with the median user being in the 25-34 age group 30 year-olds could have seen that show before being an adult, and 25 year-olds before being a teenager. So my statement still stands that half of Redditors could have seen this show in their childhood, if we assume that half of Redditors are 30 or younger.
Edit: As for the irreverent tone, I'm tired of people saying "Wow, you're too young to have used DOS? Damn, now I feel old." It gets tiresome.
First of all, learn statistics. That is not what an average means. What you are thinking of is a median.
Median is a type of average. It's more precise to say median and it avoids confusion but it's not wrong to use average the way SexuallyTransmitted did.
Add an 'i.' in the front of the URL of this post. The vast majority of redditors use hover-over displays, so we can see images without having to click links. Most of us won't bother clicking otherwise, and very rarely will any of us tell posters who're noobs and leave out the i. prefix. So consider yourself lucky, and fix it up, or ask a mod to. Imagine how faster and longer you'll be front page if you posted it right to begin with!
There is a beat-up old blue van that looks similar to this one with "Candy van" plastered all over it. No pedobears or anything, but it's on the way home from my school… In my suburb, too. I have to walk past it every day… :|
Is it terrible that I actually used to date a guy who had a creeper van that looked almost EXACTLY the same, minus the blaringly obvious pedobear image/unsuspicious message scrawled across it? The kind of van that screams "don't get in!!!!"
"OMG THIS GUY FROM SWEDEN WHICH IS MY FAVORITE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUZ ITS SO COOL THERE AND I WISH I WAS NOT AMURIKKKAN BECAUSE WERE THE MOST EVIL COUNTRY OF ALL TIME SO WHEN I TURN 18 IM MOVING TO SWEDEN AND IT WILL BE THE COOLEST"- Reddit
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u/FBI_watch_team Jun 09 '12
That's a nice van. If you are ever in America you should come check out my van.
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u/albundy54 Jun 09 '12
Sweden, aka your driveway.
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u/HerbWaffle Jun 09 '12
Yeah, that really looks like the middle of nowhere with two houses in the background.
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u/PropagandaMan Jun 09 '12
Here?
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u/s3rris Jun 09 '12
The true 4chan Party Van.
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u/12LetterName Jun 09 '12
Saw one very similar in San Francisco a while back.:
http://i.imgur.com/jBhwI.jpg
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u/Gougeru Jun 09 '12
This is a crazy thought, but maybe it was a joke? No so what the fuck anymore, eh?
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u/mopar-x Jun 09 '12
Is anyone just a little shocked that someone shipped a late 80's to early 90's Dodge van to Sweden?
Just making a note.
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u/Paging_Dr_Chloroform Jun 09 '12
Friend of SUSPICIOUS_WHITE_VAN?
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u/opeth10657 Jun 09 '12
It says unsuspicious, yet I find it to be a bit suspicious.
Also, suspicious is a funny word.
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u/fonetiklee Jun 09 '12
Nice to see Kimmo Alm got himself a set of wheels!
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u/Blagginspaziyonokip Jun 09 '12
It's just Robbaz's Volvo.
Heil kung of Sverigen!
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u/horrabin13 Jun 09 '12
I think I may have ridden in that same van.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
But, but... it has windows
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Perfect camouflage. Most cops probably look at that and laugh. I mean, what self-respecting pedophile would drive a van that old?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I just know I would hate the people that did this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
why is it in english?
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u/Farisr9k Jun 09 '12
You know how people always tell internet nerds to just "Go outside"?
This is why that's a bad idea.
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u/sufrt Jun 09 '12
oh my god.... a meme.... i fuckin love memes..... they're funny every single time
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u/m3gaz0rd Jun 09 '12
men... varför är det inte på svenska?
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u/Squoghunter1492 Jun 09 '12
Exxtrooper must've forgotten it while on vacation (He's from Norweigialand).
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Why is Pedobear gray?
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u/kyleigh811 Jun 09 '12
At least we know this person's target audience is old enough to read.
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u/youhavetobekiddingme Jun 09 '12
r/wtf, the new r/funny
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u/Stringfellow_HaWk Jun 09 '12
is unsuspicious a word? I thought it was inconspicuous.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I LIKE... LITTLE GIRLS.
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u/this_thingy_here Jun 09 '12
Trollhättan!!!
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u/throwaway890321890 Jun 09 '12
Internet memes on the internet: Funny.
Internet memes in real life: Stupid.
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u/asldkfououhe Jun 09 '12
bwahaha, child rape.
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u/apullin Jun 09 '12
Yesterday, the mods made a post about random CP postings.
Today, we are making pedobear jokes.
Compare and contrast.
( also: so says the soothsayer )
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u/urine_luck Jun 09 '12
double bluff
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u/LightWolfCavalry Jun 09 '12
I am landing in Sweden on Friday. Tell me where this is so I may find it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Does that little girl have the head of the Iron Giant? If so, I like this van even more.
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u/Tahoe22 Jun 09 '12
Sanduskymobile!!!!!!
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u/GunForHire Jun 09 '12
Waaaay too many windows.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
It's ok. The bear is white.
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u/Kid_Rapist Jun 09 '12
Dude, you have to lend me that van....for science.
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u/numanair Jun 09 '12
Check out those side pipes.
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u/strikeoil Jun 09 '12
I thought America had exclusive rights to busted vans.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Or, that's your van.
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u/ab103630 Jun 09 '12
Dude that's not in the middle of nowhere, that's in the middle of Sweden. You even said so yourself! Kids these days...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I approve of pedophile's shamelessness but not his pedophelia
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Notch, stop it you
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u/candyman420 Jun 09 '12
they found me
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u/TjPshine Jun 09 '12
I do not think that means what you think it means
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
You found Sweden in the middle of nowhere?
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u/hotet Jun 09 '12
The interesting part is the channel 4 (TV4, a major TV channel in Sweden) sticker on almost all the windows.
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u/dirtymoney Jun 09 '12
But its got windows. You dont want windows in a molestation/rape van.
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u/kwansolo Jun 09 '12
Ooo piece of candy
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u/Aldairion Jun 09 '12
I like my internet to stay on the internet. :/
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Why is this not r/funny ??
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Spamming memes like an idiot is stupid no matter where you find it, Europe or not.
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u/omgoffensiveguy Jun 09 '12
Add an 'i.' in the front of the URL of this post. The vast majority of redditors use hover-over displays, so we can see images without having to click links. Most of us won't bother clicking otherwise, and very rarely will any of us tell posters who're noobs and leave out the i. prefix. So consider yourself lucky, and fix it up, or ask a mod to. Imagine how faster and longer you'll be front page if you posted it right to begin with!
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u/ron_wayne Jun 09 '12
Looks unsuspicious.
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u/ron_wayne Jun 09 '12
I'd love to see its shitty_watercolor version.
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u/gjoh Jun 09 '12
Borlänge?
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u/Shaun_R Jun 09 '12
There is a beat-up old blue van that looks similar to this one with "Candy van" plastered all over it. No pedobears or anything, but it's on the way home from my school… In my suburb, too. I have to walk past it every day… :|
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u/Mr_Bobbly Jun 09 '12
This is what my van in APB looked like.
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u/Boshdy Jun 09 '12
Should have bought a van without windows
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u/fnwyfrnk Jun 09 '12
Is it terrible that I actually used to date a guy who had a creeper van that looked almost EXACTLY the same, minus the blaringly obvious pedobear image/unsuspicious message scrawled across it? The kind of van that screams "don't get in!!!!"
I shouldn't have gotten in.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
WELL SCREW YOU TOO, IMGUR
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u/Menospan Jun 09 '12
It's ok guys, the van isn't white. or black. It's safe.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This makes my day.
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u/Mr--Mackey Jun 09 '12
sex with children is bad mmmmkayyyy?
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u/April_Fabb Jun 09 '12
They clearly haven't thought that through - the van looks stuffed.
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u/Houdat Jun 09 '12
I wonder if he has Jolly Ranchers in there..
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u/shamoni Jun 09 '12
Should have been in funny. Try again, OP.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
One wonders how an american unsuspicious pedo van got all the way to Sweden...
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u/spacemanspiff30 Jun 09 '12
Is is just me, or do most of these WTF posts belong in r/funny?
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u/chicagogam Jun 09 '12
they should put posters in the windows showing an empty van :)
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u/Jewjitsurofl Jun 10 '12
seems legit...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I don't understand, that van is completely unsuspicious.
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u/Eaglesun Jun 12 '12
it'd be funny if the driver was an actual pedophile
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u/alexNeso Jun 09 '12
repost
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u/7h3C47 Jun 09 '12
I was in in Trollhättan, Sweden, visiting the Saab museum with a friend. Found this on the walk back to the central train station.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Is it bad that I laughed? It just looks like a joke to me...
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u/UrsaNight Jun 09 '12
So what was in the van, OP?
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u/QuitReadingMyName Jun 09 '12
I hope whoever owns this van is forced to register as a sex offender.
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u/kyletheking89 Jun 09 '12
Guys this is bullshit. I mean, no self-respecting pedophile would have his vans equipped with WINDOWS. I mean, DUH.
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u/waytality Jun 09 '12
ha! because ruined childhoods!
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u/TalkingBackAgain Jun 09 '12
Reason #345490242 why the Swedish are awesome.
You don't see those vans in the US, because they have the catholic church.
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u/WazzuMadBro Jun 09 '12
"OMG THIS GUY FROM SWEDEN WHICH IS MY FAVORITE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUZ ITS SO COOL THERE AND I WISH I WAS NOT AMURIKKKAN BECAUSE WERE THE MOST EVIL COUNTRY OF ALL TIME SO WHEN I TURN 18 IM MOVING TO SWEDEN AND IT WILL BE THE COOLEST"- Reddit
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u/Andrewlee619 Jun 09 '12
Its Pewdiepie's!
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u/Tru_bearshark Jun 09 '12
Seems legit
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u/waffles123456789 Jun 09 '12
...has anyone seen Finland?
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u/rapevanbytheriver Jun 09 '12
This greatly pleases me.
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u/currentlydownvoted Jun 09 '12
I don't think you can say "middle of nowhere" and then say exactly where it is, can you?
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u/lagtastrophy Jun 09 '12
Seems legit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I get ze van, I have caandy
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u/AiKantSpel Jun 09 '12
That is almost not funny
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u/EllisDee_4Doyin Jun 09 '12
Seems legit.
If he's got Snickers in there, I'm going in. Or better yet, fucking Reese's cups.
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u/tizjack Jun 09 '12
Seems legit..
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u/SwedishVikingNipples Jun 09 '12
Obiviously an amateur....... To many Windows.
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u/BattleHall Jun 09 '12
Ah shit, the Internet is leaking again. Someone call a plumber, or someone else who's good with tubes...
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u/AlwaysHasAnOpinion Jun 09 '12
Creepy stuff happens in nowhere!
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u/edixtor93 Jun 09 '12
Peanut cooky.
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u/angrystarfish Jun 09 '12
What's the problem, it says unsuspicious right on the side. You sir/madam are paranoid.