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[DooKSucks]

We had a discussion in here awhile back after some teenage girl got killed by 2 coyotes about whether anybody thought they could kill two coyotes with their bare hands in a life or death situation. I think that video answered the question...

I went outside to smoke a cig around 1am before Thanksgiving, had that feeling you get when something is behind you and turned around to see a damn coyote in the middle of my front yard, spotlights on, just staring at me like a dumbass. I jumped back startled then the coyote got startled and ran away. We have them all over the neighborhood and the golf course at the club on the other side of the neighborhood. So, I’ve seen them, but I’ve never been that close to one.

[DooKSucks]

he'd been waiting to whip some coyote ass for years

https://x.com/interesting_aIl/status/17 ... 20582?s=20

It’s hard to be certain, but that looks like it was a decent sized coyote.

[Tree]

Bet he curbstomped that bitch at the end.

[hedge]

That dumbass poodle didn't know whether to bark or run...

[Tree]

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[hedge]

He looks like he's tweaking in that picture...

[Jungle Rat]

Invest in gold. Now.

[eCat]

gold futures says they expect it to rise $300 in 2024.

Are you hearing a bigger jump?

[Jungle Rat]

If interest rates drop a couple times this year (which I expect) I see it doing more than $300.

[Jungle Rat]

It's at 2041 today.

[hedge]

If you have 23 random people in a room, what do you think the chances are that two of them share a birthday?

[aTm]

It's only one step from here to glory in the bingo halls, Hedge...

[Jungle Rat]

Chupame la polla

[sardis]

If you have 23 random people in a room, what do you think the chances are that two of them share a birthday?

It's a very good chance. My Business Statistics professor started the semester with going around the room of 25 of us and asking for our birthdays. Sure enough, two people had the same birthday. He says that every class in the last 8 years he taught there was always two people who had the same.

I don't understand the math behind it. I got a C- in that class. the only C of my college career. Probably deserved a D.

[eCat]

I was born in early September

My guess is dad was fucking on New Years eve



I took statistics over the summer in a condensed course in college. I studied more for that class than any I ever took

and the answer is two people from the same town could be born on the same day going back to a power outage 9 months before

athletes on a team could share a birthday because kids born later and held back for the year are athletically superior to other kids born early and thus will likely be on teams together

[hedge]

What does being held back have to do with 2 people having the same birthday?

[aTm]

At 23 its roughly 50/50 and at around 40 or 50 people its extremely likely that there will be a matching birthday.

It seems like the odds should be like 23 birthdays out of 365 possible days or (like 6% chance), but in reality its about comparisons of birthdays, and with 23 people you're comparing 253 different combinations of birthdays, any one of which might match.

If you ever buy like Mega Millions or Powerball tickets and you get like the ticket with 5 quick picks or whatever, you have like 25 regular ball numbers on there, but there will almost always be duplicates on your sheet even though there are like 75 possible numbers (or whatever it goes to now) and despite the fact that duplicates also can't exist within each group of 5.

[hedge]

So you're saying there's a chance??!!

[eCat]

What does being held back have to do with 2 people having the same birthday?

well god damn, I ain't got time for all that

[Dave23]

Both my wife and son have 9/9 birthdays…there’s definitely merit to the NYE fucking theory…or Christmas Eve, take your pick…

Or, in my case…birthday sex…back when that was a thing…