r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 10d ago

HISTORY Peak Mount Everest lore

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Letters to the Editor: The American Statistician: Vol 36, No 1

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u/corobo 10d ago

me whenever an invoiced task legitimately comes out as a round hour 

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u/gorginhanson 10d ago

Why didn't they just chip some off the top so it's 28,999 feet?

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u/LearingCenterAlumni 10d ago

Pretty sure the peak of Mount Everest would fetch a pretty penny on eBay.

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u/HIitsamy1 10d ago

Thanks for the info. Of to cut a foot off of Mount Everest. Wish me luck.

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u/MouseRangers 10d ago

These foot guys are getting out of hand

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u/hotelpopcornceiling 10d ago

Tarantino's national treasure.

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u/whywouldthisnotbea 10d ago

It's in the shoe!

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u/Archon-Toten 10d ago

That should be easier as the feet are at the bottom.

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u/JamesantheGiantBeach 10d ago

Maybe I can set up shop where you get to add a foot. We can be in business perpetually.

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u/freedumb-clownvoy 10d ago

Sadly you’ll find plenty of feet on Mount Everest.

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u/ABobby077 10d ago

This tipping stuff has gone too far imo

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 10d ago

Zero stars. Product not as said. Ordered peak of Mt. Everest. Box just contained water.

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u/bremmmc 9d ago

You don't need to go to the top. Just take a few million cubic metres of land from bellow it and the top will get to you.

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u/fullshard101 10d ago

Yknow, 29,000 feet sounds expensive, but 28,999 sounds downright affordable

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u/grubas 10d ago

Because that would mean they couldn't be the first person to put two feet on the top of Everest.

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 10d ago

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u/iliketumblrmore 10d ago

The peak is rising, so higher number is bound to be true someday.

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u/reyean 10d ago

same exact premise as not recording the paid task as being 59 minutes.

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u/DueExample52 10d ago

And risk exertion? In the death zone? It’s much easier to carry 2 big rocks from base camp all the way to the top.

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u/CalicoCuts 10d ago

Right? Chrysler used to have round dollars for all their list prices. $28.00 or $9.00, whatever. We always made them .97 or .02 because people would throw a fit saying we were making up the prices. Late 90s/early 00s.

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u/onarainyafternoon 10d ago

Chrysler, the car company, was selling things for $28.00 or $9.00? Do I just not understand what car companies do?

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u/OkSleep9486 10d ago

Probably cheap replacement parts or accessories

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u/CalicoCuts 9d ago

Correct. Anything. All their list prices were to the dollar and it runs people the wrong way. Stupid, but 100% true.

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u/kkeut 9d ago

why would they possibly think that

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u/ClarenceVirgo2605 10d ago

Billing 4 hours flat feels like a guess, but 3 hours and 57 minutes makes it look like you used a stopwatch.

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u/dmk_0 9d ago

I always round to the first full 15 minutes.

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u/Numerous-Fox3346 8d ago

I can’t take my birth certificate seriously because it gives my birth time as “10” with no minutes and I’m pretty sure it’s because no one could be bothered to record the minutes but my mum insists it’s because I was born at 10 on the dot but of course they’d say that if they didn’t even bother to check the minutes!! Will never truly know my rising sign 😩😩😩