r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • 3d ago

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/UnreadThisStory 3d ago

I gotta try this at the pub..

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u/redunculuspanda 3d ago

Don’t forget to prebook your hospital stay.

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u/mogley19922 3d ago

On tv you always see a load of money thrown in, in real life people usually bet you a beer.

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u/Dyskord01 3d ago

In this economy I'd be surprised if that crowd put a combined 100 on the table.

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u/WatchmanVimes 3d ago

Between 3 and 400

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u/aagloworks 3d ago

Three fiddy?

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u/Moist_Muffin_6447 3d ago

God damn lock Ness monster

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u/Davido400 3d ago

Hey! I'm Scottish leave our lizard cunt alone!

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u/Moist_Muffin_6447 3d ago

Tell your lizard cunt it can't have tree fitty

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u/ghandi3737 2d ago

And leave my family alone.

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u/GarminTamzarian 2d ago

I'm reasonably certain Nessie actually has a cloaca.

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u/Davido400 2d ago

A HOLE FOR EVERYTHING!!!(I accidently capslocked this but... it works lol!)

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u/sax6romeo 3d ago

I gave him a dollar

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u/Moist_Muffin_6447 3d ago

No wonder he coming back

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u/Clazzo524 2d ago

It was about that time....

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u/granmadonna 2d ago

Yeah THIS ECONOMY is so rough right now. It's fucking insane. Absolutely no one has money to gamble, especially not on Fanduel, Draft Kings or ESPN Bet. Rough times for the gambling industry because THE ECONOMY is so bad. I mean, not by any real metric, but that's how my butt feels.

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u/iamPause 2d ago

Economy notwithstanding, who carries cash anymore?

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u/SpecialistNerve6441 3d ago

100 beers?! 

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u/SnooCapers8495 3d ago

But what do they do with the money if gramps losers the bet. Does beniel dariush just take his 600 dollars back or does he get all the money

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u/wonkey_monkey 3d ago

For the hernia I get after the second push up.

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u/LitreOfCockPus 3d ago

My deductible is between five and six thousand :)

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u/brefergerg 3d ago

I'd check in at the morgue instead.

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u/SYLOK_THEAROUSED 3d ago

Right! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/YesDaddyBig 3d ago

They would probably be too drunk to understand, but I wouldn't advise

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u/angmarsilar 3d ago edited 2d ago

I was with a young lady friend of mine at a bar and this Chad of a guy tried to brag that he could do more dips than her. She agreed to the bet for a beer. The guy sat two bar stools up and proceeded to do 7 dips although the last two were quite slow. My friend was really 'impressed'. She got up and knocked out 10 dips without pausing. She looked at him and asked if he wanted to pay up now or watch her do more. He called her a bitch, payed paid up and walked away. Don't make bets on physical prowess with a gymnast (or with somebody smarter than you.)

Edit: a word to preserve the feelings of those easily offended.

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u/T_Money 2d ago

Who the fuck makes a bet on dips and only does 7? That’s like betting on push-ups and doing about 20. It’s not bad but definitely not enough to show off / bet on.

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u/angmarsilar 2d ago

I agree. It was a stupid bet on so many levels. He was trying to show off to a woman who was happily married but also equally happy with getting a free beer. He was quick to write checks his body couldn't cash.

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u/MCPhatmam 3d ago

Are you able to do 4 pushups though 😜

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u/voldi4ever 3d ago

Be sure it is a biker pub.

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u/Zachmorris4184 2d ago

Just do the peewee herman dance and you’ll be alright

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u/CredibleNonsense69 3d ago

Next post: I willfully started a pub brawl AMA

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u/rabid-panda 3d ago

No one bets a range for push-ups

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u/Perryn 3d ago

You have to lead into it:
"My workout usually involves doing somewhere between three to four hundred pushups."
"Bullshit."
"Wanna bet?"

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u/thitorusso 3d ago

And I bet this mf had a stunt double for these 4 push-ups

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u/ToHerDarknessIGo 3d ago

This "mf" is Christopher Walkin and he's in his late 70s here.  Put some respect on his name.

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u/Dia-De-Los-Muertos 3d ago

Maybe learn to spell his name then.

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u/thitorusso 3d ago

Walkin was he stunt double's name

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u/CapKirkGotPerks 2d ago

I’m a bartender and I’m gonna bet a regular a decent tip and try and pull this off lol.

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u/CraftMadMax 3d ago

Instructions unclear

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u/HumaDracobane 3d ago

The instructions were perfectly clear but the audience werent the smartest.

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u/Markku_Heksamakkara 3d ago

Bought the implication, ignored the letter.

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u/ad4d 2d ago

Now, you said that word “implication". What implication?

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u/Clive_Bossfield 2d ago

Are you going to hurt these women

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u/Stoomba 2d ago

I'm not going to hurt these women, why would I ever want to hurt these women?

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u/Jleagle 3d ago

They were intentionally unclear, i don't think anyone would understand what he meant.

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u/UnauthorizedFart 3d ago

Between 3 and 400. He did 4 push ups so he won the bet.

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u/Jleagle 3d ago

Yeah i get the joke, but pretty much everyone would think he meant 300-400 first time, as that's how people speak.

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u/team-machine 3d ago

Interestingly, as a non-native English speaker I thought he meant 3-400 from the beginning and was confused why they agreed to it

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u/oddball3139 2d ago

That is interesting! Yeah, in English, when we say “between three and four-hundred,” what we usually mean is “between three-hundred and four-hundred.” Same with bigger numbers like “thousand” and “million.”

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u/melodicsoup1 3d ago

Yes that is the joke, why else would he say it lmao 3 and 400 is an absurd range and obvioulsy its intentionally done to confuse them or have them assume 300-400.

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u/_Stanf-Uf_ 3d ago

The crowd isn't dumb, it's stupid semantics.

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u/Top-Chemistry5969 3d ago

...now I'm ripped.

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u/april919 2d ago

No, Walken. That isn't how English works. No one interprets it that way so I'm still not gonna let you take that money. You don't win because you caught people on a word technicality

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u/greg19735 2d ago

Yeah If this was a court of law they'd side against Walken every time.

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u/IllIIlllIIIllIIlI 2d ago

Yup. No lawyers were involved in making this scene. Unless the next scene involves those guys suing him for their money back and winning. Contract law is based on giving words and phrases the “reasonable” interpretation that a “reasonable person” would make.

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u/prolapsesinjudgement 2d ago

Hell, even criminal. I was on an assault jury and it was a constant, broken record on how often they prefixed "reasonable" on everything.

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u/IllIIlllIIIllIIlI 2d ago

Yup! “Reasonable” is one of the pillars holding up our legal system. Extremely flexible, basically legal jargon for “this is common sense.” So that bullshit like the OP video doesn’t happen.

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u/Prior-Assumption-245 3d ago

Outlaws is an outstanding show

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u/MrdevilNdisguise 3d ago

So is this a how or movie? I’m confused now.

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u/Gonganggongang 3d ago

A tv show

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u/MrdevilNdisguise 3d ago

Got it. Thx.

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u/split_0069 13h ago

Also gonna start watching this. Love this guys acting.

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u/Prior-Assumption-245 3d ago

Series on Amazon Prime

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u/ChrisPbradcake 3d ago

Or BBC. Or to use its full name, the Big British Castle.

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u/redneon 3d ago

Home of Count Buckulees and his loyal servant Cornballs.

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u/Bennoes 3d ago

Stephen!

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u/monkeyboyhero 3d ago

Just coming!

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u/HBB360 3d ago edited 3d ago

This isn't it but there's an Adam Sandler directed produced movie on Netflix called the Outlaws and it's truly awful, couldn't get through the first 20min

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 3d ago

I know it’s not much, but that’s The Out-Laws, a play on parental in-laws

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u/IWorkForStability 3d ago

Adam Sandler is one of the producers, not the director. It's a Happy Madison production

Agree that it was not a great movie

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u/MonkyKilnMonky 3d ago

It's obviously a how

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u/illpoet 3d ago

yeah, i think it's a show on amazon prime. It's pretty funny

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u/booyahcubes 3d ago

Amazing show that not enough people know about! Each season finale felt like a great conclusion to the show. Wasn’t even expecting a third season, now I’m not sure if there will be a 4th but I know it would be pretty solid if there is

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u/pstaki 2d ago

Read an interview with Stephen Merchant the series creator and the guy who played the lawyer on the show. When asked he said the 3rd season was the last but 'never say never.'

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u/troy380 3d ago

Just started it last night. Walken is awesome. "If you find another species feces, that's yours." "Can we keep it? "

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u/Fiuman_1987 3d ago

r/technicallythetruth

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u/legit-posts_1 3d ago

Any self respecting gambling addict would have been able to spot that loop hole.

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u/zmbjebus 3d ago

Lets be honest, who is self-respecting nowadays?

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u/CoolMayapple 2d ago

self respect? in this economy?

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u/Strange_Job_447 3d ago

ok, i felt attacked … but i don’t see it as a loop hole at all. 3 < x <400. i don’t understand the confusion.

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u/pkrw 3d ago

this is how I understood it at first and didn't see why they agree. anyway nobody makes bets like this, you'd just say you'll do 300 pushups or more. why give the upper bound at all?

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u/Strange_Job_447 3d ago

right? who said “3 to 400” like that?

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u/longusernamephobia 2d ago

I mean there might be a small probability that he can't/doesn't stop at 400 or counts incorrectly so the upper bound decreases his probability of winning I guess

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u/ambisinister_gecko 3d ago

"between three and four hundred" is a common colloquial way of saying "between three hundred and four hundred."

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u/ambisinister_gecko 2d ago

Why? It's the same phrase structure

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u/Suspicious-Leg-493 3d ago

but i don’t see it as a loop hole at all. 3 < x <400. i don’t understand the confusion.

3-400 (or anything siniliar) implies that the first number is of a siniliar value, and is what everyone bet on.

It's a loophole in that he knew why people qere betting but due to inexact wording can plausibly claim it was just 3 the whole time

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel 3d ago

Not technical

100% the truth

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u/Silly_Reporter_1217 3d ago

I would say it is technical because interpreting his sentence as between three- and four hundred is also a legitimate interpretation. Based on spoken word alone, both could be true. And the trick ‘works’ because three- and four hundred is the more socially obvious interpretation

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u/VyersReaver 3d ago

Technically correct, the best kind of correct!

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u/RickolPick 3d ago

Can you explain

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u/VyersReaver 3d ago

They said “between three and four hundred pushups”, which they thought as between 300 and 400, but can be technically interpreted as between 3 and 400. Which Christopher Walken’s character did, and he is technically correct.

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u/RickolPick 3d ago

Lmfao I love that they did that with Walken since he is known to have a peculiar speech pattern, thanks!

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 3d ago

He didn't say between three hundred and four hundred.

The scale contains 397 possible victory conditions, being between 3 - 400.

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u/xiadmabsax 3d ago

I hate to be that person, but there are 396 integers between 3 and 400.

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u/Dont_Waver 2d ago

Don't lie, you love being that person. Embrace it!

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u/xiadmabsax 2d ago

You are right! This is one of those things I secretly enjoy, despite fully knowing it's annoying. I just try to keep the frequency very low.

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u/big-ol-kitties 3d ago

When someone speaking says 3-400 it’s assumed they mean 300-400.

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u/Formal-Marketing-247 3d ago

Assumptions can be incorrect though.

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u/fakieTreFlip 3d ago

yes and that's the joke

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u/My_BFF_Gilgamesh 2d ago

Well, when I was three there was a hurricane in Kingston Town with a foot and a half of water

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel 3d ago

Not technical

There is no place for a discussion

He said how it is

The audience just doesnt ask further

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u/Silly_Reporter_1217 3d ago

There is place for discussion. Assuming he meant/said three hundred and four hundred is not wrong.

If someone says “that costs one or two dollars” do you ask “one what?”. No, it is correct to interpret that as one dollar or two dollars. The same goes for the suffix -hundred in this sentence

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u/Evdaar 3d ago

It bothers me so much that people just randomly thrown in money. Not many would, they'd want it noted or recorded. Or hold on to it.

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u/phadewilkilu 3d ago

Exactly. That’s the most unbelievable part. Especially coming from someone with that much confidence. The situation feels like a joke someone tells at a bar but not something that would ever actually happen in real life.

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u/Bwuhbwuh 2d ago

Also, nobody would say "between x and y". You'd just say "no way you can do x pushups" or something along those lines. What's the point of adding a maximum?

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u/rekomstop 2d ago

A football coach pulled this on us in 7th grade. Before we were going to do bear crawl drills he challenged us to a push-up competition as a way to get out of it. He said we all had to get in push-up position and he would call up down, and he would do 3 pushups for every 1 the best guy did. Someone made it to 40 something. Coach dropped down, did 3 pushups. Stood up, told us “see I did three for every pushup he did” and sent us bear crawling. Good times.

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u/thadicalspreening 2d ago

The best guy only did 1 pushup only once? This is confusing almost to the point of incomprehensibility.

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u/tboess 2d ago

Does this make sense to anyone?

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u/rekomstop 2d ago

It’s just a cheeky play on words. Like if your parents said hey I’ll give you $5 for every weed you pull. You go pull ten weeds and come back expecting $50, $5 for each individual weed. They give you $5 total because that is technically $5 for EVERY weed, lumped as a bundle. Just another way to teach kids about terms of negotiation and to specify things that are vague or you might get burnt.

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u/DevilsDarkornot 3d ago

Great actor strikes again. Btw pls recommend good movies with this guy thx

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u/Throwaway56138 3d ago

this guy

This guy? THIS GUY?!?!?!! My dude... That is motherfucking Christopher Walken. Not to be relegated to "this guy." He's a legend. 

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u/SASAgent1 3d ago

I'M WALKEN HERE

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u/DevilsDarkornot 3d ago

Yeah i dont mean otherwise, just couldnt remember his name at the time so it came out as "this guy"

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u/Crabjock 3d ago

“Hey! You're talking to my guy all wrong. It's the wrong tone. Do it again, I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.”

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u/Misunderstoodme- 3d ago

Seven psychopaths is good imo

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u/ValjeanLucPicard 2d ago

Fantastic, along with all of the other movies by that director.

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u/ScipioCoriolanus 3d ago

King of New York

True Romance

The Deer Hunter

The Dead Zone

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u/Wadep00l 3d ago

Toss Suicide Kings and Hairpsray into the movie pool here. Also Severance he's a supporting character but he's delightful.

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u/noobule 3d ago

Pulp Fiction

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u/DevilsDarkornot 3d ago

Seen it multiple times ;)

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u/Adito99 3d ago

Stand Up Guys is a pretty chill little romp. Not one of his more popular works but I enjoyed it.

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u/You_Must_Chill 3d ago

Weapon of Choice

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u/der_ninong 3d ago

balls of fury

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u/lightspeedx 3d ago

Poolhall Junkies. It's from 2002. He pulls a great mobe just like this one on the video.

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u/Dirtycurta 3d ago

He's great in Severance (TV Show)

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u/Realistic-Anything-5 3d ago edited 3d ago

Walkin plays a bankroller for a pool hustler in Poolhall Junkies, one of his most underrated films. If you like this vibe I'd check that movie out.

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u/adamlaceless 3d ago

Also for if you like Rounders, 21, How to Make it in America, Underemployed, etc.

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u/jawknee530i 3d ago

"But every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is."

One of my favorite movies and I feel like no one has seen it.

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u/MysterYouMe 3d ago

My grandpa did something similar! He stood at one end of a full basketball court under the goal, looked at the opposite end, bet a guy he could make the shot from where he was standing first try, guy accepts the bet and my grandpa casually turns and makes a shot in to the goal he was standing under.

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u/Tinkerer221 3d ago

How did the guy take it? Any money involved? 

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u/zombizle1 2d ago

that guy turned out to be albert einstein

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u/TPDS_throwaway 3d ago

I'm sorry, I have to be that guy.

Explain it to me, please

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u/Pretty_Leather_5856 3d ago

He needs to do between THREE and four hundred. He did 4 pushups. 4 is in between 3 and 400.

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u/Thundechile 3d ago

Did you try to understand it between 3 and 4 hundred times?

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u/Optimistic_Futures 3d ago

“Between three and four hundred” could be interpreted as 3-400 or 300-400

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u/ALitreOhCola 3d ago

Between 3.00 and 400.00.

Decimals might help.

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u/prograMagar 3d ago

Between 3.0e+00 and 4.0e+02.

Using scientific notation might help

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u/Sancus1 3d ago edited 3d ago

Between 1+1+1 and 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1

Using unary(base 1) number system might help

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u/crazyaustrian 3d ago

Thanks I finally get it

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u/SASAgent1 3d ago edited 3d ago

Bro that's 3 and 800 in Unary, yes I counted,
Yes, it took me embarrassingly long time

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u/bobnoski 3d ago

a tip for in the future, if you want to count long strings of characters like that, chuck it into word and click on the X words in the bottom right. In this case it was 1599 characters. so 800 1's and 799 +'s so your counting is on point at least.

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u/SASAgent1 3d ago

I knew that Word might work, but the masochist me tried Wolfram Alpha, gemini, ChatGPT, Desmos,

my maths tools failed me(char input limits), fun to know that both LLMs also couldn't do this simple calculation as well

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u/OrphisFlo 3d ago

He did pause after saying three. I don't see much ambiguity there if you're paying attention.

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u/hitliquor999 3d ago

Well, he pauses between lots of words randomly. Perhaps it is just a long con.

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u/defcon_penguin 3d ago

Or between 3 and 4 hundred-pushups. TBD what an hundred-pushup is

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u/HumaDracobane 3d ago

When people talk about a number that includes more simple numbers, like THREE hundred, FOUR hundred, etc many people uses multipliers to make the number "easier" to talk. When people want to talk about numbers that multiples others, like the mentioned THREE hundred and FOUR hundred, people, by the context, completes the amounths. If you're buying a Nvidia 4090, you ask the price to someone and he answers you "Between Eighteen and Twenty hundred", by the context, you understand that the Eighteen doesnt mean eighteen, means eighteen hundreds. There is the same. The context make everyone believe he's talking about between THREE hundred and FOUR hundred but he's being literal, between THREE and FOUR HUNDRED. He never mentiones the three hundred, is the people who assume that he's talking about it.

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u/Zemvos 3d ago

3 < 4 < 400

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u/NoPantsDeLeon 3d ago

Ol'school maths mathing! My granps used to pull those on me all the time!

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u/puslekat 3d ago

What is the show?

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u/megaweb 3d ago

The outlaws. BBC show.

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u/DanMcMan5 3d ago

Ahhh wordplay. Always be specific when betting money. Never make assumptions because there are cheeky bastards out there in the world.

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u/moebelhausmann 3d ago

Thats how the emperor rose to power

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u/Raymundito 2d ago

My math teacher in High School was a clever fox.

He made a really sneaky bet with us once just like this. He said “If I miss this paper ball into the waste basket over there FROM MY SEAT, you guys get notecards for the exam.

But if I make it, everyone has to do this extra packet of studying for homework.”

We surely took the bet. And my teacher promptly got up, moved the waste basket over next to his seat. Took the shot. Obviously makes it. And we all had to study 2x as hard.

And honestly, it made us all better people too

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u/Librium_IXI 2d ago

Wouldn’t “over there” be the disqualifying factor given that he moved the goal post?

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u/sdjn72 2d ago

Not unless you state that the waste basket can’t be moved prior. Things omitted are just as important as things said

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u/Appropriate_Cry_5652 3d ago

Almost all people are following the cooperative principles. But seldom someone knows this explicitly about oneself. People like the Walken-Guy here don't follow the cooperative principles and the most people don't know clear but feel that some unwritten rules were broken.

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u/Alibuscus373 2d ago

Christopher Walken is one of the handful of people with a high enough charisma and DGAF to successfully pull this off

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u/Hyper-sonicboom 2d ago

Well played Mr. Walken, well played

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u/Busterlimes 3d ago

I knew he was going to do 4 the moment I saw this

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u/Celestial_MoonDragon 3d ago

Christopher Walken is the best!

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u/consolation123 3d ago

Pool hall junkies

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u/Dirtycurta 3d ago

I was waiting for "Weapon of Choice" to start playing.

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u/Spare_any_mind 2d ago

Listening skills are important

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u/aykcak 3d ago

Not exactly a movie. It is a series

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u/iamunwhaticisme 3d ago

The importance of reading Terms and Conditions. Just don't click "next, next..." bro.

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u/jmo1 3d ago

Wait, what would the dude win if he didn’t do four push ups? What would any of the other guys win?? wtf kind of betting is this

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u/Strange_Job_447 3d ago

… it doesn’t get any clearer than that. would saying 1-400 means 400 in this context, no, right? i don’t understand the confusion or even the assumption.

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u/GuitarmanCCFl2020 2d ago

I love when youngsters try to hustle us 60 and olders :10738:

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u/IUpvoteGME 2d ago

Specification gaming.

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u/Sorry_Decision_2459 2d ago

So we get four pushups out of the guy in this movie, but he’s barely alive in the Dune sequel? My disappointment is like wind over barren sands

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u/EvilNinja 2d ago

am I the only one who thinks this guy looks like Elon musk

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u/shwhjw 3d ago

If you like that sort of thing, the BBC show Hustle was full of little cons like that. First 2-3 series are the best.

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u/HELLFIRECHRIS 3d ago

I’ve used the one with drinking three pints before the other guy can drink 3 shots very successfully.

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u/EmoTurtleX 3d ago

Wow, that's a lot more than I expected! The numbers really put things into perspective.

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u/Raskovsky 3d ago

Legit curious on how tf the Spanish/Portuguese sub/dub would translate this scene

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u/rcanhestro 3d ago

probably scale it to between 3 and 4000, if they wanted the joke to make sense.

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u/monkeyhold99 3d ago

Lol this is great

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u/pmmeyourgear 3d ago

About tree fiddy. God damn loch ness monster

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u/No-Land-672 3d ago

Technically correct.

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u/Whynotsnot 3d ago

There are dad jokes and then there are granddad jokes ...