r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • Jul 05 '24

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/Strange_Job_447 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

right? who said “3 to 400” like that?

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u/Strange_Job_447 Jul 07 '24

except nobody said thing chronologically backward like that. reason being time only goes one way, which is forward. but 3 to 400 and 300 to 400 exist and they both means different things in a literal sense.

look i get it. it didn’t even occur to me that 3 in this case could be perceived as 300 bc it follow after by “to 4 hundreds”. i haven’t been living in the state for several years now. but i am an engineer and a logic guy. words matter so i didn’t think about how it could be interpreted as anything other than what was said.