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[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago

Not for long.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope they keep the pope away from any antipopes lest we have a catastrophic explosion in Rome.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, my ass is staying in Canada.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

His not interested on you he got his sacristans for that.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Statistically speaking there is more than 1 skeleton inside everybody.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Statistically, a human has fewer than two arms, two legs, or two eyes.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

...and more than two nipples.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The average human has one boob

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you ignore man-boobs, sure.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Let b denote the average number of boobs per person. It can be shown that 1 < b < 2^1^.

^1^ it is known

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah well, what about that girl from the documentary Total Recall?

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

But fewer than how many fingers, is the real question (that I couldn’t actually find an answer for).

[–] Klause@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is there really more people missing limbs than with child?

I'm confident enough to say a living human at least more than one head.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean I guess you could include fetuses, but they aren’t actually part of the mother’s body, and would already count on their own, so while “skeletons inside” is a truthful statistic to include fetuses for, they don’t add limbs so counting them seems dishonest for this one.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Hey relax, it's not a bone, it's just an additonal corpus cavernosum inside you. SCNR

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

are luxury bones part of the skeleton?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

For a while it was four, but then Nazi Spanish Inquisition pope died.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The big one ate the smaller one.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 13 points 5 months ago

I couldn't get my head around that stat, thinking that on average it was the current pope and the next pope (who doesn't know it yet) in the Vatican; or whether it counted the remains of popes gone by.

Then I saw the metric area of the Vatican and it made a bit more sense... but not by much.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whenever someone says, "Statistically....", you know they're about to say some dumb shit that is an ignorant misinterpretation of statistics.

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Statistically, that is true.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 12 points 5 months ago

The highest pope density in the entire universe.

Unless you acknowledge the space pope, obviously.

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Statistically, there are a million me per square km in the square meter around me.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

does that include antipopes, and do those count as -1? also do popes and antipopes annihilate when they kiss?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

👉 👈 could we kiss under the popelear explosion cloud?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

Wow, that's even higher papal density than Luxembourg!

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Actually the typically recognized person as the pope is not in the Vatican city. Which means the number of pope's in Vatican city is 0. https://youtu.be/RMf4OtC7SXY

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Always 2 too many.

-- a Roman