Parent: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
Cueball: Oh, jeez. Probably.
Parent: What!? Why!?
Cueball: Because all my friends did.
Cueball: Think about it — which scenario is more likely:
Cueball: Every single person I know, many of them levelheaded and afraid of heights, abruptly went crazy at exactly the same time…
Cueball: …or the bridge is on fire?
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Title text: And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently ‘my friends are all foolish and I won’t be like them’ and not ‘are my friends ok?’.
danketaz Premium Member 11 months ago
Wile E. did it.
ibFrank 11 months ago
I think it matters how they landed.
Yakety Sax 11 months ago
It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the extreme, sudden deceleration.
Cornelius Noodleman 11 months ago
Don’t fly to close to the sun.
fuzzbucket Premium Member 11 months ago
Jack Benny still lives.
RobinHood 11 months ago
Winslow is a Democrat, they do that all the time
Silly Season 11 months ago
Parent: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
Cueball: Oh, jeez. Probably.
Parent: What!? Why!?
Cueball: Because all my friends did.
Cueball: Think about it — which scenario is more likely:
Cueball: Every single person I know, many of them levelheaded and afraid of heights, abruptly went crazy at exactly the same time…
Cueball: …or the bridge is on fire?
✁
Title text: And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently ‘my friends are all foolish and I won’t be like them’ and not ‘are my friends ok?’.
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Explain XKCD
1170: Bridge
Ignatz Premium Member 11 months ago
“…ALL my friends?”
“Uh, yeah.”
“…They ALL killed themselves?”
“Yes.”
“I might.”
rossevrymn 11 months ago
This wasn’t wisdom, when my parents said this stuff 55 years ago.
christelisbetty 11 months ago
Since you seem to be his only friend………..