Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 19, 2024

Looked it up, Abercrombie & Fitch was originally a sporting goods store.

60 million are retired.

That leaves 240 million to do the work.

There are 95 million in school.

Which leaves 145 million to do the work.

Of this there are 22 million employed by the government.

Leaving 123 million to do the work.

61 million are disabled.

Leaving 62 million to do the work.

15 million are collecting unemployment.

Leaving 47 million to do the work.

40 million are of working age, but not working and not actively looking for work.

Leaving 7 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces.

Which leaves 4.2 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 900,000 people in hospitals.

Leaving 3,300,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 3,299,998 people in prisons.

That leaves just two people to do the work.

You and me.

And there you are,

Sitting on your a$$,

reading jokes !!

Soon after, Hemingway was arrested for murder and sentenced to life. OK Ok, I just made that up.

What, me worry?

That is 3 Billion more people then we should have. We already have seen mass migration, when the fresh water starts to run out in places wars will be fought

Not sure the Hemingway item gets into BION territory. After all he had to buy it somewhere. It could just as easily been McCaysville Drug and Gun.

2 billion more than the earth can support.

I just had to yawn when I saw this picture of the doggy yawning.

2024: 8,200,000,000

Doesn’t look like a dog.

It made it look like Hemingway commit suicide…it was accidental while cleaning his gun.

Fun Fact : Just 100 years ago in 1924, the world population was less than 1.9 Billion.

Contagious yawning should be a topic of research

Before getting up from my chair while reading the comics, I will often stretch and wake the muscles up, and my dog lying next to me will do the same on cue; but he doesn’t get up. He just continues to lay there in front of the fire.

From Population Connection dot org

We became a world of 8 billion in 2022. After passing the 7 billion milestone in 2010, it has only taken 12 years to add the latest billion.

When Did the World Population Reach 1 Billion?

Until the Industrial Revolution began, birth rates and death rates were both very high, which kept the global human population relatively stable. In fact, it took all of human history, until around 1804, to reach 1 billion people. Modern medicine and sanitation played heavily in reducing mortality rates—especially among infants and children—but there wasn’t yet a reliable way to reduce fertility (the first modern contraceptive, the birth control pill, wasn’t introduced until 1960). The drop in mortality while fertility remained unchanged caused the beginning of what is now known as the J-curve (see below). With more people surviving to adulthood and then having kids of their own, the human population started growing exponentially.

When Did the World Population Reach Other Milestones?

It took 123 years to reach 2 billion, and only 33 years to reach 3 billion. The last several billion milestones (4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 billion) were reached in 14, 13, 11, 12, and 12 years, respectively. The UN projects that it will take 15 years to reach the 9 billion mark and 21 more years to reach 10 billion.

The Balancing Act

While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75 year old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to Donald Trump and his role as the President.

The old farmer said, “Well, as I see it, Donald Trump is like a ‘Post Tortoise’."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post tortoise’ was.

The old farmer said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that’s a post tortoise.”

The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb a-ss put him up there to begin with!”

Nothing hard to believe about buying a gun at Abercrombie and Fitch. When Hemmingway was alive the store sold them regularly (obviously).