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lamasery
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Can’t you just make ten… one larger?
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aragilar
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They're referencing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
(and you're one of today's lucky 10000:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
).
MattPalmer1086
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I think they are also riffing off the spinal tap scene, where he says "can't you just make 10 louder?".
lamasery
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I was mainly doing that, and more-obliquely making use of math/CS dork jokes like "1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1".
cassianoleal
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I think that's what your comment parent is referencing as well
MattPalmer1086
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Looked like they missed that their parent post was already doing that. As another poster points out: wooosh!
iainmerrick
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Can’t you just make the first post say “whoosh”, and have that be the post?
MattPalmer1086
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Haha. But this post is one more :)
rikkert
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whoosh
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