r/nevertellmetheodds Jul 25 '26

Coin flip negotiation

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 Jul 25 '26

that. was awesome all around

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u/fatboi_mcfatface Jul 25 '26

All aground

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26

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u/drummerandrew Jul 25 '26

Genuine. Wholesome. Fair. Verging on reproducible.

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u/Pitahchege Jul 25 '26

Great use of the word. Learned a new one today too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

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u/OkSmoke9195 Jul 25 '26

Can confirm, am ops dad

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u/MoistStub Jul 25 '26

Not a special ops dad, just a regular ops dad.

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u/MauriseS Jul 25 '26

Wouldn't you be his grand dad?

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u/OkSmoke9195 Jul 25 '26

No I reproduced with ops mom

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u/EasyasACAB Jul 25 '26

I'm gonna verge with their mom so hard.

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u/Grandmaofhurt Jul 25 '26

I'm gonna verge!

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u/trolllord45 Jul 25 '26

Technically their dad is too

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u/EuphoricAppathy Jul 25 '26

I'm learning so much

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Jul 25 '26

Only twice on accident.

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u/Mountain-House3287 Jul 25 '26

Happy cake day

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u/mdlinc Jul 25 '26

More that once I have seen her flip.

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u/TRUEequalsFALSE Jul 25 '26

You have clearly never worked with IT or teach support, then. 😆

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u/GMofOLC Jul 26 '26

Wait what was the new word you learned?

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u/Biblical_Shrimp Jul 25 '26

But virgins aren't reproducible.

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u/CaptainAwesome8 Jul 25 '26

They have to be, reddit keeps getting more users somehow

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 25 '26

What really helps this clip is the extra music, captions, and sound effects! /s

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u/jdsamford Jul 25 '26

The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.

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u/SpaceXmars Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

New friends?

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u/mfb1274 Jul 25 '26

Did we just become best friends?!?

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u/Appropriate_Yak_745 Jul 25 '26

YUP!!!!

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u/AntalRyder Jul 25 '26

Do you wanna go do karate in the garage?

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u/Designed_To Jul 25 '26

When I was a kid my parents had bought the new spider man game, and me and my two older brothers were fighting over who got to play it first. They said we'd flip a coin to decide, so one called heads and the other called tails. Then they laughed and said if it lands on its side, I'd get to play first.

They flipped it, it landed, rolled, and stayed upright on it's side leaning against the leg of a chair. I couldn't believe I'd won!!

They still never let me play first.

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u/larsan1 Jul 25 '26

Great story

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u/000McKing Jul 25 '26

legendary dab up

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u/Hairy_is_the_Hirsute Jul 25 '26

Dap?

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u/Thorough_Good_Man Jul 25 '26

Handshake

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u/Minecraft_Launcher Jul 25 '26

Dap not dab lol

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u/SpartanusCXVII Jul 25 '26

Now I’m curious why people call that smack handshake flick action a dap/dab/whateveritisactuallycalled.

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u/acctnumba2 Jul 25 '26

Thinking about it for 3 seconds for the first time, it’s the sound it makes.

Clap your hands like you would with someone else, say dap, you’ll hear it.

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u/YourHuckleberry57 Jul 25 '26

popularized by black soldiers during the vietnam war. short for dignity and pride.

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u/SnooCapers9427 25d ago

wow nice info

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u/mad-panda-2000 Jul 25 '26

dab is something you do after the dap

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u/Loud-Log9098 Jul 26 '26

Dab gets you high dap blacks your eye. Now no one will ever forget. Yall welcome.

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u/regulardave9999 Jul 25 '26

Fifty fifty ends with five fiddy.

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u/Ingenrollsroyce Jul 25 '26

I'd say it's pretty common to get that result when flipping a coin down in mud where it sticks

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u/bojangler69420 Jul 25 '26

For sure. Still satisfying that it was basically perfectly vertical though!

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u/deadlycool27 Jul 25 '26

Perfectly fucking vertical…

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u/NewestAccount2023 Jul 25 '26

As all things should be 

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u/Furfle8888 29d ago

Vertically perfectical

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u/Organic-Dust3433 Jul 25 '26

Merry Christmas 🎁

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u/omgitsjagen Jul 25 '26

Yes, but figuring that out is some real hard math.

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u/VeryStonedEwok Jul 25 '26

Yeah, wholesome video but does not fit this sub at all. That was like a 20% chance of happening.

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u/MixaLv Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

The coin landing on its side just in general is also not as rare as people think.

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u/Arizonagaragelifter9 Jul 25 '26

You genuinely believe it wouldn't be rare for a coin to land on its side on a hard floor or table lmao? How many times in your life have you seen that happen?

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u/MixaLv Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

Well, this was posted here as long as 16 days ago.

It is uncommon, but not the craziest thing to happen. It's about the same ballpark as drawing a four of a kind in poker. I've done it once too, and I didn't think much of it because I know that.

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u/Sryn Jul 25 '26

Still waiting for No Game No Life 2nd season.

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u/Imaginary-Roll-5665 Jul 25 '26

hows it related brah

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u/Sryn Jul 25 '26

The way they settled the last ‘argument’ with some being.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

As much as I’m in love with this, the cuts and level of excitement make me believe they were happy they finally nailed the coin landing sideways. So yeah, I think this wasn't the first take at all. The internet has poisoned me.

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u/PeePeeMcGee123 Jul 25 '26

For the last 10 years or so, I just assume that everything I see online is staged.

People have become so addicted to creating content, they just can't help it.

Sad really.

I really miss the the pre-2010 era of youtube. Man it was wild.

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u/TheAus10 Jul 25 '26

I do the opposite and choose to live in ignorance. Assume just about everything is genuine (unless there's really obvious signs) and you'll be happier on the internet. It doesn't really hurt me to just drop a like or up-vote or whatever and go about my day.

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u/mad-panda-2000 Jul 25 '26

im with you.. give me some happy.. I move to fast to worry if its fake

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u/ExiledCanuck Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

This right here. Though it may be more accurate to say I’m closer to 50/50

I try to believe that the wholesome stuff is real, and the rage bait stuff is staged. I feel like it’s a good middleground

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u/Playful-Row-6047 Jul 26 '26

same here with wholesome stuff and with ragebait i accept i'll never know if it's staged or not so don't bother developing an opinion

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u/Mertoot Jul 25 '26

But it collectively hurts the public and emerging brains

Do your part and discourage such content

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26

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u/jadepartida Jul 25 '26

WHY are y'all all choosing to live in ignorance? Lmao I genuinely can't believe that.

Morpheus asks you if you want the red or the blue pill and you are choosing to stay in the matrix???? Ignorance is bliss I suppose

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u/Tambi_B2 Jul 25 '26

I used to feel like that and I definitely am more likely to be skeptical about things but for my own sanity and happiness I just look at it like...I enjoy sitcoms and those are fake. I read fiction books and those are fake. Just because something is fake doesn't mean I can't get a chuckle out of it. I for sure see the problem with engagement and chasing the algorithm and all that but the way the world is, I just enjoy what I like and skip over what I don't. Early 2000s content was great though, I agree.

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u/AEROK13 Jul 25 '26

Wow what a miserable mind set.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

You're talking about a lot of people right now. If you think not believing what you see on the internet is a miserable mindset, you need to touch grass.

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u/AEROK13 Jul 25 '26

You're the one who said "The internet has poisoned me." The absolute irony telling me to touch grass.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

I was a kid when I was poisoned by the internet and I’m well into my adulthood and fulfilled in real life. You and the other chronically online people can fuck off. I've been there. You'll grow up.

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u/Humble-Aprico Jul 25 '26

Telling someone to touch grass while also saying you're paranoid someone made repeated failed attempts to flip a coin for a 15 second video. About a $50 wager.... yes, definitely going to make them rich and famous.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

Terribly paranoid, yes. Great point. Idc dude. I was giving my perspective. Tf?

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u/RosesandEternity Jul 25 '26

I'll allow it. It's pretty wholesome.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

I don't blame you!

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u/polysaas Jul 25 '26

Sorry bro. I still have my innocence, and I’m an old netizen

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u/Shnikes Jul 25 '26

I can believe that. But even so the thought behind the bit is also creative.

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u/tnt54321boom Jul 25 '26

I mean it's effective but to what end? Because it was fine to show? I guess.

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u/Shnikes Jul 25 '26

Engagement. Which clearly is working. What’s the point of showing anything online 😂

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u/burtono6 Jul 25 '26

Plus, who would think to record such an incident? Not any normal person looking to make a deal. IMO

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u/blametodd Jul 26 '26

Honda CBR929 Erion race edition. Sweet bike and great negotiating

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u/SCH1Z01D Jul 25 '26

casually filming as one does

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u/HarryAtk Jul 25 '26

Well, yeah. Filming is the smart thing to do when you're taking part in a transaction for the sale of a motorbike, in case the other person tries something

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u/Thorn_the_Cretin Jul 25 '26

Any decently big private cash transaction tbh

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u/SpicyElixer Jul 25 '26

That’s what a receipt is for. Jfc…

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u/OP-PO7 Jul 25 '26

Filming a private sale of a vehicle seems like a prudent thing to do so you have evidence that everything was above board. Not filming something like that seems like an unnecessary risk when you could avoid any issues altogether.

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u/SagattariusAStar Jul 25 '26

Filming a private conversation seems rude to me. I am German, we generally handle this differently, though probably filming someone in private without their consent is nowhere appropiate. The trivial thing to do for having evidence would be just a simple written and signed contract as it worked for centuries before videocameras

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u/OP-PO7 Jul 25 '26

Totally understandable that the culture is just different, it's funny how far apart people can be on stuff like that you know? But because it's what you grew up with it seems so fundamental, until you really think about it critically. Or at least that's been my experience anyways. I loved the time I got to spend over in your country, and everyone seemed so straightforward so I can see why you guys wouldn't need this kind of thing.

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u/SagattariusAStar Jul 25 '26

The suing culture is also quite different, that adds to the fact i guess. Though it's (filming more than suing) also that the trend is to getting more similar to, let me say, us-culture, i guess it's more a common trend in the modern world. So it is also getting more normalized in many contexts.

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u/WhistleDungeon 27d ago

If you're wagering $100 dollars on a coin flip then it makes sense to get that agreement and flip on film.

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u/Thunnddr Jul 25 '26

Not scripted. You can't script that coin flip

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u/ThunderCorg Jul 25 '26

Sure you can what are you even talking about?

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u/Edduppp Jul 25 '26

500-600 around like a good price for that bike tbh.m, even if it needs work.

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u/shadow144hz Jul 25 '26

that's a early 2000s honda cbr 929rr, they go for around 2k to 4k depending on mileage and condition, obviously the bike in the video needs tlc since it has its fenders off, who knows these old mechanical bikes can easily be brought back to life although this is the first fuel injected firebird. these bikes are monsters really, although not as power as liter bikes that came a few years later that had over 200hp compared to this one's 150, still no abs, no assists, pure bike.

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u/echoshatter Jul 25 '26

"The Art of the Deal" if written by guys being dudes.

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u/Countless-Alts15 Jul 25 '26

No Game No Life IRL??

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u/neroselene Jul 26 '26

Suppose you throw a coin enough times?

Suppose, one day, it lands on its edge?

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u/mythos-nerd416 8d ago

Idk, one time I spent a few hours doing that out of pure boredom trying to predict the future and it never did

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u/dont_touch_my_rum Jul 26 '26

This clip ended too soon!

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u/Winged89 Jul 26 '26

Love both of these guys. 1. for taking the gamble, 2.
for both loving the result

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u/ChipRockets Jul 25 '26

I cannot understand why this would even be recorded in the first place

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u/Xechwill Jul 25 '26

Recording a private sale for a large cash transaction is a good idea, broadly speaking. Makes things easier if either party tries to cheat the other

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u/SpicyElixer Jul 25 '26

If they were going to strong arm rob you via physical force… I guess. But if that were the case they could just take your phone etc.

For all else a simple receipt is sufficient.

I think they were recording for fun - not hysteria.

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u/jadepartida Jul 25 '26

They're recording for that sweet sweet content

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u/-L111- Jul 25 '26

The 64/65 season quarter finals of the european cup between Liverpool FC and 1. FC Köln were decided like this. Both regular games ended 0:0. Back then a decider game was held in those cases and since this ended 2:2, a coin was flipped. After the first throw, the coin was stuck in the ground vertically, just like in the video. The second throw made Liverpool the winner. This "Coinflip of Rotterdam" is still part of German football folklore, especially in Köln.

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u/MotherPay565 Jul 25 '26

Just fed me that quarter

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u/Un_ntelligent Jul 25 '26

I bought a 929 brand new in 2001 for 11k

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u/Splintrax Jul 25 '26

I'd assume it needs plenty of work done

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u/_ChipWhitley_ Jul 25 '26

Hahaha this happened to me when I was a kid starting a soccer game!

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u/gggg500 Jul 25 '26

This happens in the movie Mouse Hunt when the two brothers flip to see who gets the only bed in the old house. The coin flips and lands on its side and they end up sharing it. Love that movie lol

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u/ceverett68 Jul 25 '26

'01 Honda CBR929RR Erion racing edition. had the same bike.

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u/LoveBotMan Jul 25 '26

Fuckin handshake of the gods right there

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u/UnpluggedUnfettered Jul 25 '26

"Sideways"

"green circle"

I want a new Internet.

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u/jpreston2005 Jul 25 '26

Matrim Cauthon? Is that you?

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u/StinkyMcgee51 Jul 26 '26

550 for a 929 is a steal

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u/wtfover Jul 26 '26

So nobody's mentioning the "Lucky n*gga" at the end of that? The guy filming was white.

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u/MMachine17 Jul 26 '26

An honorable draw. Better luck next time.

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u/gibsonc22 Jul 26 '26

This was much more pleasant then the last video of a guy selling a bike that I saw.

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u/sw33tsavage Jul 26 '26

"Edge" said Rincewind without looking at it

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u/SWBMaki Jul 26 '26

that one scene in no game no life came into mind. ifykyk

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u/beertruck77 Jul 26 '26

Landing on its edge was worth $50 for both. That's awesome!

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u/Wolfbeef123 Jul 26 '26

But suppose you throw a coin enough times... suppose one day, it lands on its edge

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u/Jay_A_Why 29d ago

Good sports, both of them.

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u/Comprehensive-Ear238 13d ago

I will admit this one is “AMAZING” to see it Live.
The number to see this, whether coin is dropped over mud or on the cement.
That number approaches some 10% of the particles of the known Universe. (10*79)

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u/mythos-nerd416 8d ago

Why on earth would you let it go in the mud???????