Okay – so now our family is trying to work out how many people we DO meet in our lives (noting a genetic potential for one side to reach 100). We would include everyone – even if we rule out more than half of them on the basis of gender, age, visa barriers, and familial relationship.
Not as many as you. It was a good estimate of how many people you could come across, but we had to restrict things a lot when we (hubby and I) realised that we had to somehow handle the problem of attending the same events many times in the five years before we actually met – even though his friend married my friend during that time (I wasn’t around for any wedding). It ruled out counting chances from gazing across a crowded room. We ended up with around 100 per year for him, and less for me (small country town for the first 8 years).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuRdSx_UIQ
Ha! This reminds me of Tim Minchin’s “If I didn’t have you”…
Nice – I’ve seen one or two of his songs but didn’t know that one. The second verse is a more elegant, rhyming version of this joke!
Ok, I’m a bloke, but that’s me on the right !!!!!
Heh. For what it’s worth, I like to think of those characters as gender-neutral
Okay – so now our family is trying to work out how many people we DO meet in our lives (noting a genetic potential for one side to reach 100). We would include everyone – even if we rule out more than half of them on the basis of gender, age, visa barriers, and familial relationship.
Well, let me know what you come up with! My estimate was very crude
Not as many as you. It was a good estimate of how many people you could come across, but we had to restrict things a lot when we (hubby and I) realised that we had to somehow handle the problem of attending the same events many times in the five years before we actually met – even though his friend married my friend during that time (I wasn’t around for any wedding). It ruled out counting chances from gazing across a crowded room. We ended up with around 100 per year for him, and less for me (small country town for the first 8 years).
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW </3 you totally ruined the moment there