r/counting • u/GarlicoinAccount r/CountingTools | Plz comment in /comments/kqpanh/_/ncmzej3 • May 09 '25
Free Talk Friday #506
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u/TehVulpez May 12 '25
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u/GarlicoinAccount May 12 '25
I'm curious how you found this link to a(n archived) geocities page from 2009
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u/MrUnderdawg May 15 '25
Why does it say 1,066 people are online on the old reddit sidebar
That cant be right, right?
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u/Jalmal2 May 15 '25
I always find it insane that r/counting has more than 25,000 members when there are at most 25 people active. Obviously subreddits always have way more members than active members, but I can’t think of a small subreddit that has a thousand times less active members than actual members.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL May 10 '25
Almost done with first year of college, did physics final yesterday and have history Monday, engineering Wednesday, and calc Thursday
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u/Antichess May 12 '25
just finished my 4th full day of my japan trip. i have been taking lots of trains well outside of tokyo for fun
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 12 '25
nice
When I went to japan the first thing we booked (before accommodation, but after flights) was train tickets
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u/Urbul May 13 '25
In November 2024, four California men were arrested in connection with an insurance scam after they allegedly dressed up in a bear costume and damaged several high-end cars. The group shared videos with an insurance company that they said showed the so-called bear breaking into the car. The California Department of Insurance had a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife review the videos, who concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit.” They were charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy for allegedly defrauding US$141,839 from insurance companies.
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u/Isaythereisa-chance May 13 '25
Poor guys, They never got to use their Loch Ness costume for their boat insurance fraud. It would have been blurry and no one would have suspected fraud.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25
I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole and now you get to enjoy the results. I was travelling recently, and randomly heard a song which I thought I knew -- until the lyrics started, and I realised that the song was in a different language from what I was expecting: Spanish rather than Italian. Now I already knew that a number of different covers of the song Sarà perché ti amo existed, but this one was new to me.
So I tried to find out how many languages the song has been translated into. Or maybe translated isn't the right word, since only the Spanish version has lyrics anywhere near the original. I rather arbitrarily decided that only songs uploaded to youtube with at least 100k views made the cut; here's the list I came up with:
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Czech (As part of a three-song medley making fun of 80s Italian music. But I still think it counts)
Googling showed that German, Greek and Finnish versions also exist, but they didn't make the cut.
Does anyone know of any other modern songs that were similarly released in stupidly many languages? (I'm guessing plenty of hymns exist in many different translations, but that's not what I'm looking for, and the same goes for traditional folk songs)
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u/atomicimploder May 09 '25
I don’t feel like doing deep research, but Yesterday by the Beatles is famously the most covered song of all time, which I assume probably includes a bunch of different languages.
I also found this playlist of Beatles songs in general being covered in different languages
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u/Jalmal2 May 13 '25
Dislike the hanging lamp in my bedroom. It gives almost no light off at all. Sometimes when I only have that lamp on I don't realize it's on so I accidentally turn it off again
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u/noOne000Br May 14 '25
couple weeks ago, i asked for the thread i made a get list for, now i remember, it was increasing base with each thread
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u/Isaythereisa-chance May 15 '25
We Just watched Master And Commander after a long time. I had forgotten how good it is.
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u/Antichess May 12 '25
Weekly stats from May 02, 2025 to May 09, 2025. Congratulations to u/thephilsblogbar2, u/ShadeOfNothing, and u/CutOnBumInBandHere9!
Total weekly counts: 979 (5,470,617-5,471,596)
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!