Jenga, when the sales fell.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
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I'm sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein
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...𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens, and I wonder 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
I doubt this data is actually available, right?
Oh crap. You are right. Now I feel angry if this is fake data.
I also STRONGLY doubt over 200.000 Jenga sets are sold yearly in the US.
There's over 100m households so that's only like 1 per 500 per year
I could see 200,000 tbh. They're popular in craft breweries.
Lol. That’s so specific, but yeah they are.
Jenga Jerry is an outlier, and should not be counted.
9/11 was the 9/11 of the Jenga business
9/11 was the 9/11 of 9/11s
It was a poor reference to a quote from the TV show Community. The half Palestinian character Abed says that his father's falafel restaurant had been struggling for a while because "9/11 was pretty much the 9/11 of the falafel business"
I'm tired, so I hope that's why I don't get it.
Anyone willing to explain this one? I'm pretty sure I'll face palm myself, but it just isn't clicking on my own lol
Jenga was taboo after 9/11. Sociology!
If you could have heard the slap to my face, you would have thought a tower fell
Ok, what is Jenga?
Edit: answered
If the tower falls you loose.
Does that mean in a Jenga sense the war on terror was instantly won after the towers had been fallen?
A game where a tower of rectangular blocks are stacked, and players take turns trying to remove one block at a time without toppling the tower.
Ok, what is a block?
Edit: answered
A long rectangular boi
Ah, thanks! Hmm, how did we call that in swiss, 20 years back?
I still haven’t been able to play Plague Inc after COVID.
Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.
I always remember the old web game. It was a bitch to get to Madagascar. Inspired the meme:
Ooooo that’s VINTAGE
Got a nice taste to it
Love it.
Now I wonder how this graph would look like for Stephen Kings "The Stand" during the pandemic.
Did people want to read a book about a flu-like pandemic wiping out humanity or rather not?
It seems like people did. 'The Plague' and Contagion did very well.
The game “Plague Inc” spiked in popularity, so the devs rushed out a game about saving humanity instead of destroying it lol
Didn't that mode already exist in the game?
"They're just like us."
They tried to move the stock with a two for one deal, but somehow it only made things worse!
Wait where's Saddam