Talk:3223: Inflation Timeline

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Sexy?

What about the regular/sexy thing? -- 2a02:26f7:e344:4000:c000::f (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_inflation 155.33.87.241 19:14, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I would say this is an application of the "today's lucky 10,000" concept, but this probably doesn't qualify as a thing that everyone knows by the time they're an adult so the number is probably lower. But I hope this experience of learning something new is still as fun as Coke and Mentos! Dextrous Fred (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
Not so sure closing this gap in knowledge would really count as "lucky", but each to their own. 204.77.3.72 00:07, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
definitely not a sentence i expected to read on xkcd. raeb 05:33, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
Since economic inflation is money becoming more worthless and therefore de-facto vanishing, it would be better represented by body deflation. That is - character becoming increasingly more gaunt and skinny, until only pile of bones remain (or if cartoonish, until he becomes thinner than fishing line and collapses into a point). Dunno what sort of weirdo would use images of starving people (e.g. victims of nazi death camps) for sexual gratification. --User 8496351 (talk) 07:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)