"They all add up to 96 OMG"

[simoid]

Many on my facebook/twitter feed said:

Jonjo Shelvey gets sent off on 38:58

Steven Gerrard scores on 45:51

Rafael equalises on 51:45

Robin Van Persie scores the penalty on 80:16

Each minute adds with it's seconds to make 96.

The collective gullibility of society never ceases to astound me.

[zac510]

It's not really gullibility is it? It's just an observation of coincidence?

[simoid]

zac510 said:

It's not really gullibility is it? It's just an observation of coincidence?

<Insert Joker pic here>

[ewenm]

It's only gullibility if people think that those coincidences mean something.

[simoid]

P.S. the incident times are made up.

[zac510]

simoid said:

P.S. the incident times are made up.

Ah.. important detail

[mattdaniels]

Football reports don't normally go down to an accuracy of a second when reporting events. You could make anything up for the seconds as long as you got the minute correct.

[g3org3y]

So how does this affect the Mayan prophecy situation!?

[StottyZr]

zac510 said:

simoid said:

P.S. the incident times are made up.

Ah.. important detail

Which was heavily implied by it being so obviously bogues.

I think we have some FB repost sheep on here too

[ewenm]

StottyZr said:

Which was heavily implied by it being so obviously bogues.

I think we have some FB repost sheep on here too

Not following soccer, I have no idea if things are reported/recorded to the second or not. I suspect if you went through each of the matches this weekend you could find co-incidences enough not to need to make up data. That's the beauty of cherry-picking data points and statistics.

They don't mean anything of course, there's no underlying cause of the coincidences to get people excited.

[pilchardthecat]

g3org3y said:

So how does this affect the Mayan prophecy situation!?

It's just a glitch in the matrix. The Mayan prophesy is when they turn it off.



/hokum-pokum bullst

[MercuryRises]

They all add up to 96.

There are 5 of them.

Add the 5 to the 6 and you get 11. This would then give you a 9 and an 11.....

It's far too easy to find "hidden meaning" in coincidence

[Pommygranite]

simoid said:

Many on my facebook/twitter feed said:

Jonjo Shelvey gets sent off on 38:58

And just like the findings, not Liverpools fault

[simoid]

Did you know that "Mark Ibrahim Halsey" is an anagram of "Munich Air Crash"?

[Beefmeister]

If you take the phrase 'America loves everyone, all over the world', take out loads of letters, add in some other letters and move them around a bit you get...

'All Muslims are terrorists'

[Mini1275]

Beefmeister said:

If you take the phrase 'America loves everyone, all over the world', take out loads of letters, add in some other letters and move them around a bit you get...

'All Muslims are terrorists'

[Dav_s]

Beefmeister said:

If you take the phrase 'America loves everyone, all over the world', take out loads of letters, add in some other letters and move them around a bit you get...

'All Muslims are terrorists'

Ha ha!!

[MadMullah]

Beefmeister said:

If you take the phrase 'America loves everyone, all over the world', take out loads of letters, add in some other letters and move them around a bit you get...

'All Muslims are terrorists'

we've worked hard at it.

its something i can finally add to my CV