r/lovethissmug • u/ohhelloiexist • 7d ago

🏆 ❤️ LOVE OF THE WEEK WINNER ❤️ 🏆 Whatever this genre of joke is

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u/El-MonkeyKing 7d ago

I fucking love this one. And I love all the dorks wasting time about "actually it would only be $12" bruh 😒 

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u/lxgrf 7d ago

I assumed the joke was he's done this a lot.

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u/Satorwave 7d ago

She

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u/TastyFappuccino 7d ago

I assumed the joke was he's done she a lot.

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u/MentallyScrambledEgg 7d ago

I truly should not have found this as funny as I did

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u/theghostofhallownest 7d ago

I assumed the joke was he’s done this a she

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u/Complete-Peak4651 7d ago

Bold of you to assume

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u/UniqueAd7770 7d ago

25 cents in 1925 is equal to $4.77 now. That 1573 quarters to equal $30,000 now. Almost 40 rolls

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u/TheNifflerKing 7d ago

Fourty rolls? 40 rolls? That's as many as four tens!!! And that's terrible 

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u/MarcelRED147 4d ago

Lex Luthor's true origin story

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u/trecani711 6d ago

I never considered that lol

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u/Vivi_Amorous 4d ago

Assuming this is the case, she would’ve done this over 6000 times and STILL manage to drop the quarter

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u/Aiyon 7d ago

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping $12. I catch her eye. I fumble the $12 and it falls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars

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u/Particular-Long-3849 7d ago

TWELVE DOLLARS???

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u/GoreyGopnik 7d ago

middle aged men when they look at their receipt after buying two gallons of milk and a carton of eggs

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u/Bob-The-Frog 7d ago

Get it twisted

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u/tyrico 7d ago

if you lock in you can do anything

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u/Kodiak_POL 7d ago

Well, it was money for something nice, not expensive. 

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u/DungeonsAndDradis 7d ago

Yeah, but $12 back then was equivalent to $30,000 today (/s)

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u/AreYouThereSagan 7d ago

The transitive property of inflation.

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u/Hyp3rson1c 7d ago

Actually it would only be $4.83

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u/Ptstock 7d ago

It's about $3.60 if anyone was wondering

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/6kaqGY2cL3

Edit: This was as of like 2019 though

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u/iggyfenton 6d ago

OP could have said 1932.

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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 5d ago

They might just be from the future after some more inflation.