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Well I'll be. Today I learned.

Little bit of international enlightenment never hurts.

And jeez people, lighten up. Not everybody is guaranteed to be aware of your vernacular. To me it quite literally had a touch of incedulity to it.

You try to accept that another human being could miss someone with a bloody zebra walking by with them anywhere because they were staring at a smartphone!

I wasn't trying to be snide or clever. I just honestly thought he was describing the most unlikely scenario I could ever imagine running into happening to him because someone was that damned intent on checking their feed!




I agree - honest (and hilarious) mistake.

>You try to accept that another human being could miss someone with a bloody zebra walking by with them _anywhere_ because they were staring at a smartphone!

I would believe it easily:

https://youtu.be/Ahg6qcgoay4

(Classic attention test.)




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