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xkcd #2821: Path Minimization (startrek.website)
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Link to comic: https://xkcd.com/2821/

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[–] 77 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

Alt text.

Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Now I want to see someone swimming with a cone of ice cream in each hand.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    As an Aussie, I don't see why that is unusual. You use your feet. But if it's only two icecreams, then you hold them both in one hand and swim with the other one. All I can say about this one though is that this is a very flat beach: Waves would ruin the icecream pretty bloody fast. Must be a river or something.

    Do people not swim with icecreams in other countries?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Do people not swim with icecreams in other countries?

    Never heard of anyone doing it no, so probably not? 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Huh. Stuff I never expected to be unique to Oz.

    Swimming with something that can't get wet is not unheard of here. I sometimes swim a book over to somewhere to read, or a phone to a good place for a photo too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    See, that IS completely unheard of here! If it's not supposed to be wet, we wouldn't dream of swimming with it!

    I don't know if it's because you guys are born excellent swimmers like Norwegians are with skiing, but I don't know ANYONE who wouldn't assume that swimming with something invariably means getting it wet 😄

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