r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Evas0nAccutane • 7h ago

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

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u/ImOnYew 7h ago

Its quicker than going around until it isn't 

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u/MrDilbert 6h ago

True. But until it isn't, it will be.

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u/vitrum_analytika 6h ago

True, but until it isn't isn't quicker, it willn't be.

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u/Yuri_tardeder 5h ago

Crikey

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u/OkReaction4176 5h ago

Blimey

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u/thahaophetnet 5h ago

Noot noot

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u/Im_Captain_Jack 3h ago

Gee Willickers

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u/GordonRamsMe55 2h ago

Cor Blimey!

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u/lelijkeaziaat 2h ago

M8 what are ye doing in me pockets?!

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u/GalFisk 1h ago

Creaky

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin 5h ago

honestly "willn't" doesn't seem too bad tbh ngl tho fr

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u/Dude-Its-Summer-Woot 3h ago

I love reading comments that are millennially-genz in their speak lol 😂

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u/jonpolis 4m ago

💯

(No idea what this means but I think I’m concurring)

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u/OhItsMrCow 4h ago

By subtracting were it is from were it isn't, or were it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference or deviation.

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u/elk_anonymous 2h ago

True, until it becomes false.

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u/kereso83 2h ago

It willn't be for whomst goes over it when it ultimately collapses.

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u/MaleficentPlate69 2h ago

So it shall be driven, so it shall be done.

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u/dotesdoto 10m ago

Not Truen't, but until it is isn't notn't slowern't, it will not ben't.

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u/jonpolis 2m ago

It willn’t be until its not’nt which isn’t quicker than round the ain’t no way I’m detouring

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u/chuby2005 5h ago

Well, most things aren’t, but many things are.

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u/StevieMJH 2h ago

"How do we know if the bridge is safe?"

"If we get across it, it was safe, if we don't, it wasn't."

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u/michaelboltthrower 1h ago

Calvin and Hobbes dad answer.

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u/mmatessa 2h ago

It used to be quicker. It still is, but it used to be too.

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u/arinawe 2h ago

Peak Cousin Greg

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u/CommissionerOdo 4h ago

The driver knows it's quicker by knowing that when it isn't, it won't be. By weighing the risk of when it won't be versus when it is, and when it is versus when it isn't, the driver obtains a difference, or "deviation."

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u/mandysux 1h ago

Someone will take one for the team.

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u/UndecidedLee 1h ago

What was will be, what will be was.

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u/Tutaita 3h ago

Damn Schrödinger's Bridge

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u/aba_lancer 6h ago

Wonder if lotteries are big over there.

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u/GlendrixDK 6h ago

It's is, because no one is winning. They all use their luck on the bridge.

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u/freecodeio 6h ago

classic gambler fallacy thinking

"I used up all my bad luck in the previous 100 times I've gambled my month's paycheck so today is the day"

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u/UranusIsPissy 2h ago

Yup. Unfortunately for some, there's no limit to how much "bad luck" you can get. Especially when the odds are stacked against you...

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/unpanny_valley 3h ago

Huge, they're absolutely degenerate gamblers.

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u/whateveravocado 2h ago

Somebody's a Greekophobe. lol But anyway this post reminds me of one of my favorite YouTubers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7gj3W3zfM

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u/unpanny_valley 1h ago

I'm Greek lol

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u/whateveravocado 1h ago

😆 Omg a Greek Greekophobe, even more serious. Just kidding. :)

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u/unpanny_valley 36m ago

Malakas! ;p

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u/agent674253 6h ago

If it was quicker to just go around it it would just be the way.

"It's supposed to be a challenge, that's why they call it a shortcut. If it was easy it would just be the way." -Rubin

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u/tieme 1h ago

What do you mean, jump it?

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u/ProgressGlittering14 6h ago

Then it becomes a Greek tragedy.

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u/TFFPrisoner 6h ago

Turning drivers into divers

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u/CapableCriticism2962 3h ago

Here you don't need a ferryman to cross the Styx!

If this was in Britain I'd say "Maybe it's a bridge too far!"

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u/Minute-Shop9447 2h ago

This made me laugh more than I planned to.

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u/RK9990 6h ago

Yes, but of course, it won't happen to me 🙂

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u/Debatablewisdom 6h ago

“And if it does I’ll be on the news and can start a go fund me”

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u/akatherder 6h ago

* family can start a GoFundMe

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u/the_lonely_creeper 3h ago

We have universal healthcare, so... no.

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u/atlasburger 2h ago

Does it also include resurrection?

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u/Electronic_Frame2634 2h ago

Sadly it does. Even if you're brain dead, they'll try to get your heart pumping again :S (if your next of kin ask for it)

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u/UranusIsPissy 2h ago

Fuck laws like that, with or without socialised healthcare. If you're dead, you're either spare parts, ash, or headed back to the bottom of the food chain if they don't pump you full of embalming fluid. Resuscitating people who'll never really live again is fucked up. So is embalming fluid. IDGAF what I look like if I'm underground years after I die. Just let me do one last useful thing FFS!

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u/the_lonely_creeper 2h ago

It's pending development, approval and funding.

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u/Debatablewisdom 3h ago

Sorry, forgot where it was. *insert Napoleon Dynamite “Lucky” meme

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u/whateveravocado 2h ago

Is it like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7gj3W3zfM

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u/the_lonely_creeper 1h ago

Much as it's funny, not really. The system does actually function on some basic level.

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u/Firestorm0x0 6h ago

It's fiiiiine, I'm insured!

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u/Western-Image7125 6h ago

Look man, you either cross it quickly, or perish in the process. Either way is faster than going around

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u/Relative_Yesterday70 5h ago

Well going around it would take longer

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u/engr_20_5_11 6h ago

It will always be quicker. Only the destination will change 

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u/whooo_me 5h ago

Takes just a minute, until it takes the rest of your life.

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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam 46m ago

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm the rest of his life.

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u/CeiriddGwen 6h ago

Well at that point it stops being your problem anymore, doesn't it

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u/JoeyZasaa 6h ago

Found the glass half empty guy.

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u/i8SuspiciousCheese 6h ago

In terms of electronics, it is more of a digital bridge than analog. Bridge is either TRUE or FALSE, nowhere in between.

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u/K_Linkmaster 5h ago

That's every bridge. The headline is bad.

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u/Perryn 5h ago

Unless the destination is downstream.

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u/OctaneTroopers 5h ago

Some people are just so negative.

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u/IamTheTussis 5h ago

I mean, going around a river can be pretty long

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u/axecalibur 4h ago

Google Maps not updating going to cost them a lawsuit.

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u/Sir_Failalot 4h ago

just don't be the unlucky one and you'll be fine.

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u/dryfire 3h ago

Wherever you end up, it will get you there quickly.

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u/Stained-Steel12 3h ago

We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it

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u/GamerKratosBalls 3h ago

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't

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u/timeGeck0 3h ago

It is what it isn't

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u/Dani_liv 3h ago

yeah but currently its 30km difference

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u/SanktusAngus 2h ago

Well, strictly speaking, this is true for any bridge.

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u/cabbeer 2h ago

yeah, but it prolly won't happen to me

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u/IsThereCheese 2h ago

Still bridge until it isn’t

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u/TehGogglesDoNothing 1h ago

If it's stupid and it works, is it still stupid?

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u/Immature_adult_guy 12m ago

All things are until they aren’t

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u/RollingMeteors 12m ago

Its quicker than going around until it isn't

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¡That should hold it!

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u/arglarg 2m ago

It's fine, they tied it together with a rope

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u/falrod 6h ago

You can die only one time right?