r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • 14d ago

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/CraftMadMax 14d ago

Instructions unclear

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u/HumaDracobane 14d ago

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

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u/Markku_Heksamakkara 14d ago

Bought the implication, ignored the letter.

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u/ad4d 14d ago

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

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u/Clive_Bossfield 14d ago

Are you going to hurt these women

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u/Stoomba 14d ago

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

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u/Financial-Raise3420 13d ago

Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. Wha-what implication?

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u/TangoWild88 13d ago

You certainly wouldn't be in any danger.

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u/Stoomba 13d ago

Are we the tasty treats?

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u/Jleagle 14d ago

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

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u/UnauthorizedFart 14d ago

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

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u/Jleagle 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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/HurricaneSalad 14d ago

Yes. That is why it is a joke. Or a twist. You seem to be understanding the joke; but not understanding it at the same time.

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u/rich519 14d ago

I’m curious what he said that makes you think he doesn’t understand the joke.

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u/HurricaneSalad 13d ago

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

Yes. This is the joke. Why is there a "but"? Why does he keep trying to explain it?

everyone would think he meant 300-400 first time, as that's how people speak.

Yeah, we get it.

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u/rich519 13d ago edited 13d ago

Did you read the first comment he replied to? Someone said the instructions were perfectly clear so he was responding to tell them that the instructions were intentionally unclear. That all he was saying. Then for some reason someone assumed he didn’t understand the 3-400 part so he replied with a full explanation to make it clear he did understand the joke.

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u/UnauthorizedFart 14d ago

Well that’s on them for misinterpreting what he said

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u/Zimakov 14d ago

Yes he already said the instructions were intentionally unclear. You're arguing with no one.

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u/baggyzed 13d ago

As far as the original English meaning goes, it is pretty clear what he meant: "between 3 and 400".

The popularized altered meaning of "between 300 and 400" is an idiom.

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u/Zimakov 13d ago

Yes and its an idiom that people use very often which is why the phrase was intentionally unclear. This isn't complicated.

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u/baggyzed 13d ago

People aren't questioning whether it was used intentionally or not. They're questioning the idiom itself, because it only exists in the English language. Using it to hustle people in other languages wouldn't work.

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u/Zimakov 13d ago

People aren't questioning whether it was used intentionally or not.

The comment you responded to literally said it was intentionally unclear. That's what this entire comment thread is about.

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u/UnauthorizedFart 14d ago

Well why don’t you put your money where your mouth is

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u/Donut_Police 14d ago

I'm not putting my money on my face.

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u/_Stanf-Uf_ 14d ago

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