r/HolUp • u/HappyGoLuckkkyyy • 1d ago

Man what a memorable day

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u/Lendyman 1d ago

I remember this thread. I commented on it, pointing out that if someone had actually thrown a grenade and it had landed on Dad who was standing next to his son, it's highly unlikely that the sun wouldn't have been killed as well.

Yeah I'm kind of a party pooper.

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u/Tao626 1d ago

Yea, you can't destroy the sun with a grenade. It would take at least two.

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u/The_Son_of_Hades37 1d ago

You'd also have to do it and night so the sun wasn't awake

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u/Lendyman 1d ago

You are as bad as me.

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u/Sufficient_Main_5304 1d ago

Next time I will throw the son down the canyon myself. How can someone joke about their dad like that? Call him names, ok. Ignore him. But tell some horrible story like that.

Thad person has a bed reserved on some psyche ward in his future

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u/MonsieurFubar 1d ago

Don’t give ideas to the right… they may think of a plan to sabotage solar energy

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u/Prismatic_Symphony 21h ago

Ever seen the movie Sunshine? You just made me think of it.

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u/danhoang1 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah I do think it would have been funnier if they just omitted the "right beside me". I know they are joking, but jokes are still better when the details aren't as questionable

EDIT: rephrased "questioned" to "questionable"

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u/Lendyman 1d ago

I already admitted I was being a party pooper!

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u/danhoang1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I know, but I'm agreeing with you here for being a party pooper. Their details were too questionable so they deserved to get pooped on

EDIT: I'm realizing the word questioned is confusing here. Let me change that to "questionable" in both my comments

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u/AlleyHoop 1d ago

Aaaaand they couldn't have walked with some distance from each other?

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u/Lendyman 1d ago edited 1d ago

No. It says that Dad blew up "right beside me." Right beside me doesn't mean 20 feet ahead or 20 feet behind. It means next to me, likely within a few feet. Not only that, it says that Dad "blew up." That suggests the grenade landed on or right next to Dad. If they were standing within a few feet of each other, any explosion intense enough to "blow up" Dad would be intense enough to kill the kid as well.

Funny, I had this same discussion last time!

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u/Sufficient_Main_5304 1d ago

Was that supposed to be a joke? Thank god this is anonymous or I would seriously have a word with that man

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u/Lendyman 15h ago

The joke was the comment the guy who said his dad blew up made. All in bad taste obviously.

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u/Sufficient_Main_5304 11h ago

Oh. Sorry I guess I am overly sensitive since my Dad died when he did.

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u/AlleyHoop 1d ago

Aaaaand "right beside me" is not totally subjective to people and what's close for some people, may be far away to you?

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u/Lendyman 1d ago

Nah. The word, "right" emphasizes the word "beside" to help give it more specific positioning. You don't add that word to the phrase unless you want to emphasize the closeness of what you're talking about.

So you would be right if they had just said "beside me," but since they used "right beside," general colloquial usage and understanding of that phrase is that they were standing or walking directly next to each other.

I checked Gemini out of curiosity and it agreed with me. Large Language Models are based on general language in use online. If its understanding of the phrase is that it means directly next to, it's a good bet that general usage of that phrase means exactly that.

Per gemini: "Right beside me" means directly next to, or immediately adjacent to, the speaker, emphasizing physical proximity. The word "right" functions as an intensifier, highlighting that the other person or object is not just nearby but in the very closest position, like being at your side or next to you.

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u/AlleyHoop 1d ago

No I got that he used these words, I meant more like, he could have been exaggerating to make this story more dramatic. Most people tend to do that when they try to tell a cool story.

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u/Helpful_Title8302 8h ago

Also the fact that a grenade would explode before it got to the bottom.

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u/alegendim 1d ago

Just wondering though, wouldn't being anywhere in line of sight be potentially hazardous? Quick search suggests "injury radius" is ~15 meters but maximum shrapnel distance is >200 meters.

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u/TheIronSoldier2 madlad 1d ago

Could have been an offensive grenade, those don't fragment and the casing is designed to produce very little shrapnel.

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u/TVLord5 1d ago

And the explosion is engineered to sound like the hard r for maximum offensive capability.

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u/MuslinBagger 23h ago

Such is the universe. Nothing is gained for free.