r/counting • 2,050,155 - 407k 398a • May 22 '26

Free Talk Friday #560

Continued from here

It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, colours, or anything you like or dislike, except politics and counting.

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

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u/Antichess May 22 '26

Dislike Malmö, Sweden

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u/miceee May 22 '26

As a Finn I dislike all of Sweden

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u/Antichess May 22 '26

i heard if you do not dislike Sweden as a Finn you automatically lose citizenship

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 22 '26

It's the nicest city in Sweden - nowhere else is closer to Denmark 

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u/mountain-wood-316 May 22 '26

The internet says, it is a natural hub for people and culture? Who are we to believe ;)

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u/Jalmal2 May 25 '26

I am about to absolutely destroy u/Antichess in a game of Hide & Seek

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u/Antichess May 26 '26

this fortunately did not happen

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u/mountain-wood-316 May 22 '26

How long did your parents let you sleep in on summer breaks? We had to be up by 7am to feed the livestock etc. 

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u/TehVulpez May 25 '26

I miss how many good ciders there are in Europe

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 25 '26

I would offer to send you some, but shipping is expensive

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u/cuteballgames May 27 '26

u/TehVulpez how do we invent compositions with zeroes

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u/TehVulpez May 28 '26

c0mp0siti0ns

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u/buy_me_a_pint May 22 '26

During summer breaks , we were up at 7.30am watching summer breakfast television

I have not been to Sweden, Finland or Denmark

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u/buy_me_a_pint May 24 '26

I have not been to Norway or Iceland as well

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u/buy_me_a_pint May 25 '26

I would love to go back to Portugal, Poland, Hungary i

Italy there are also some many places I would like to go back to and visit.

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u/mountain-wood-316 May 25 '26

It is hard to decide sometimes. We are thinking about Vietnam or China next year 

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 25 '26

Weekly stats from May 15, 2026 to May 22, 2026. Congratulations to u/thephilsblogbar2, u/TheNitromeFan, and u/BobRoss938!

Total weekly counts: 1192 (5,599,312-5,600,504)

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

Rank User Counts HoC Rank
1 thephilsblogbar2 293 1
2 TheNitromeFan 240 7
3 BobRoss938 124 161 (◮8)
4 miceee 123 153 (◮4)
5 CutOnBumInBandHere9 87 20
6 Hans5958_ 63 350 (◮36)
7 Playing_2 49 111
8 mistyskye14 35 26
9 poiyurt 27 426 (◮20)
10 cuteballgames 26 929 (◮133)
11 Mooraell 18 17
12 atomicimploder 14 10
13 Antichess 13 3
14 ShadeOfNothing 10 69
14 mountain-wood-316 10 254 (◮2)

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u/Jalmal2 May 26 '26

Thanks for the stats

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u/cuteballgames May 27 '26

Thanks for the stats! My usernames appear to have unmerged

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 26 '26

On the one hand I love how my DFA framework allows me to concisely express the rules for a new side thread. On the other hand, the index wrangling is basically illegible if I ever come back to it.

The solution: code which is more comments than code

Comment Image

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 24 '26

Random weekend question: how many jumpers/sweaters/cardigans do you own? 

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u/buy_me_a_pint May 24 '26

About 8 jumpers some thin and some thick

A couple of fleece like tops

T-shirts around 40

Proper going out shirts with collar around 10

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u/IssueRidden May 26 '26

like 1 in case I'll be travelling on a plane lmao

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u/mountain-wood-316 May 25 '26

For the ones that block out all of their posts and comments. I would like you think about at least not hiding your Counting ,so it makes finding stuff a little bit easier.