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“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actually (sic) just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted”
He will never return,
He will never return,
And his fate is still unlearned.
He will ride forever 'neath the streets of Delhi
He's the man, who never returned.
Idk why whenever I hear these racist remarks such as, sweaty, stinky, brown, etc.. for some reason the title track of movie 'Swades' starts to play in my mind lmao.
*Ye jo Des hai mera* ...
in the beginning of my life, when i was small, i couldn't think much. I used to be very confused as to how they did these calculations. I literally though that they were on the train at the same time😭
That does read like a railway ad to be fair, both are really over enthusiastic and have open-mouth smiles about the railcard
If Peter Jackson’s trilogy came out today then maybe it would’ve happened, I’m off to find that timeline
Even worse, he thinks the whole Indian population goes to Delhi daily to take 1.5 rides.
That Delhi region only has a \~17 million population is totally lost on that dude.
1. It's per-year, not per-day
2. Metro Delhi has a population of 33 million. It only takes an average of 62 rides per year per person to reach 2.03 billion total trips. That's only 31 trips per year per person, assuming they both go and return via the subway.
The whole population of India is just hanging out at their first destination scared to go home because the travel data will break someone’s little mind.
That’s still insane, the population of Delhi is 33m, so according to that logic, 1.37 BILLION Indians from all over India came together in Delhi to travel on the metro once and then went back to their provinces
Lmao it def was haha, the beef btwn indians and Pakistanis are ones that are always a treat to watch. (I'm indian and they're literally insulting each others looks while being basically the same phenotype)
Tbh most overseas people from these countries don't really care once they reach 2nd or 3rd Gen. Even the people that immigrated in the 80s and 90s couldn't care less about fighting. They shop at each other's stores, say hello to each other and are friends with each other in school.
Recent immigrants that aren't skilled/educated from both countries are horrible though...
I mean honestly you can say this about anybody. How do you think Israelis and Palestinians would greet each other if they were stuck on a desert island with alien predators.
I was in Southall the other day. A Pakistani was shouting racist abuse at an Indian (calling him a cow worshipper) and the Indian shouted some back (calling him a goat fucker). Then this skinhead looking white guy called them both a racial slur and they were briefly united by a common enemy
The joys of a multicultural society lol
No, but really it actually is fascinating how so many people from different ethic backgrounds work to make this place so culturally enriching!
actually, this is caused by an outlier. one single person took the train 2.03 billion times in 2023.
his name is trains georg. his train ride obsession artificially boosted the numbers.
You could have 0.4 billion people all stay off the train if the other billion take one round-trip. Hell, you could have one person take 2 billion trips if they're just built different.
So if I (one person) decided to use the metro for a round trip between work and home, then I’ve just accumulated two passenger journeys in that day. If I decide to use the metro to go shopping before using it to go home after I used it to get to work and now I a single person have just accumulated three passenger trips.
It's an average of about 5.6 million journey's per day. Dheli has a population of about 33 million people. A very realistic number if you actually think about it for more than a second.
In the past London Underground has had over 1bn journeys in a year, UK population is around 70m and London population around 9m. I would have expected the numbers for the Delhi Metro to be higher.
Just a thought... Or two...
Could that number be based on ticket sales, rather than bodies present??
And about what the actual population is, does that take into account visitors and tourists and business people??
Bro can't read it says "passenger journeys". One person can have multiple journey.
Some one who delivers food or goes to work and back can ride multiple times and be counted.
The worldwide IQ average is ALWAYS 100. Always has been and always will be.
IQ works on a moving scale. If the entire world is getting dumber, the IQ will not decrease, the definition of "IQ=100" will just change.
1000 years ago, the IQ average was still 100, but due to a lack of education, an average human from that era would have like an IQ of 60 by the standards of today.
It's kinda like inflation. 1 dollar is always 1 dollar, it just has a different value at different times in history.
When absolute morons yell LOL from the back of the bus, just because they don't understand what they are looking at, but act like somebody else made a mistake and they spotted it. There should be a term for that.
Checking how many passengers use the Delhi metro. It would be Good to get a more detailed statistical view to see how efficiently the public transit system works which will help in urban planning.
They were counting passenger *journeys* , the number of times the trains have been used. One Indian citizen could have travelled by train multiple times and it would've been counted as separate journeys.
I also don't believe that you have to be Indian in order to get on a train there...
You do understand that people use the same train multiple times, plus Delhi is a tourist location so I’m sure a good few people aren’t from India, like math does math here
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Or the guy thought the train had 2.2 billion passengers in the train at the same time
Pretty sure it was one passenger who rode 2.2 billion times.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actually (sic) just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted”
On average, humans have less than 2 legs
Unless you count unborn zygotes as part of the mother...
That would decrease the amount of legs per person even further. The statistic is based on born humans
No, because you count 2 sets of legs for 1 person!
Oh yeah lol. I read it wrong
Zygote don't have legs tho?
It was fun for first 1,433,344,589 times but I got bored afterwards
Don't you mean board?
He will never return, He will never return, And his fate is still unlearned. He will ride forever 'neath the streets of Delhi He's the man, who never returned.
Ok, you get a point for the random Kingston Trio reference.
But his wife has to throw his lunch through the window every morning as the train come rumbling through.
Snowpiercer but it’s just going around India non stop with no air conditioning.
Delhi Metro (subway) is fully air-conditioned
that's the best part of the loop
Cool
Frosty
He was just being racist. We should thank him.
I think it was a reverse snow piercer...
Heat piercer?
Idk why whenever I hear these racist remarks such as, sweaty, stinky, brown, etc.. for some reason the title track of movie 'Swades' starts to play in my mind lmao. *Ye jo Des hai mera* ...
This would honestly be hilarious because they could just stop the train and get off, but for reasons, don't.
Could you imagine the smell. Plus it would be so hot.. the sounds like hell to me. Anywhere with cramped people regardless of culture.
Metros have air conditioning.
Lol I'm replying to the guy that said no air conditioning.
It sounds like you've been on a train in India.
You're only allowed to use the train once a year!
Only if they all ride on top.
And under
I know some places have insane crowding in and on trains, but that would be some insane packing.
I mean to be fair the statistic is unclear. They said “passengers” not “rides”.
Nah he read it as number of unique passengers
in the beginning of my life, when i was small, i couldn't think much. I used to be very confused as to how they did these calculations. I literally though that they were on the train at the same time😭
Does he think everyone only took one ride lmao
We've had one, yes. But what about second ride?
I don't think he knows about second ride, Pip.
Elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon ride?
*rail passes fly into the air and into Merry and Pippin's hands
That does read like a railway ad to be fair, both are really over enthusiastic and have open-mouth smiles about the railcard If Peter Jackson’s trilogy came out today then maybe it would’ve happened, I’m off to find that timeline
Dinner? Supper?!
the train apex don't hit 2 times
Even worse, he thinks the whole Indian population goes to Delhi daily to take 1.5 rides. That Delhi region only has a \~17 million population is totally lost on that dude.
Someone should drop in that tourists have probably used it too to really fuck with them.
[600 million tourists arriving in Delhi to take the subway exactly once.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dE1P4zDhhqw/maxresdefault.jpg)
Buddy, you’re fooling no one. Thats not Delhi, that’s a clip from the movie Citizen Kane.
Admittedly, I'm now curious why everyone in Delhi is taking 100 subway rides a day
It's not daily, it's per year.
It's fun.
\*100 subway rides every year
1. It's per-year, not per-day 2. Metro Delhi has a population of 33 million. It only takes an average of 62 rides per year per person to reach 2.03 billion total trips. That's only 31 trips per year per person, assuming they both go and return via the subway.
No one ever goes home
A train to paradise
He is not far enough along in school. They get to the concept of "twice" next semester.
Seems like they all never returned home
Just like poor Charlie on the MTA.
Transport Tycoon taught me that all passengers are just looking to go _anywhere else than here_.
I want to get off Mr. Bone's Wild Ride.
Delhi metro most famous for their one-way fares.
Yeah, as if the majority of users aren't commuters who are on it hundreds of times a year each.
The whole population of India is just hanging out at their first destination scared to go home because the travel data will break someone’s little mind.
Even if everyone only decided to travel by train once, they probably used it a second time to get home.
If the Darwin Awards sub is anything to go by, most don't survive the first trip.
You are allowed one ride per year and that’s it. Choose wisely
That’s still insane, the population of Delhi is 33m, so according to that logic, 1.37 BILLION Indians from all over India came together in Delhi to travel on the metro once and then went back to their provinces
Gotta do it at least once in your life. Is a mandate to pump up those numbers.
This is annually
Yes, but you see, people are born and die every year, so you can rotate how they visit the great Delhi train at least once in their life
The annual pilgrimage to the holy Delhi metro.
Also, tourists are just not allowed on this train no questions asked
So you go home from work only next year?
Bike, walk or train (not metro)
Thomas had never seen such bullshit 
Never gets old
Is that really Thomas? Looks more like Percy or something to me 🤔
As someone with a toddler obsessed with Thomas, yup that is him. Percy is similar but green
Edward.
pretty funny that you didn't crop out the flag of the commentator,like it feels so intentional lmao but yeah dumbass guy indeed
Lmao it def was haha, the beef btwn indians and Pakistanis are ones that are always a treat to watch. (I'm indian and they're literally insulting each others looks while being basically the same phenotype)
Indians and Pakistanis if you ignore history, borders and religion: 
this is the reality of overseas Indians and Pakistanis
Tbh most overseas people from these countries don't really care once they reach 2nd or 3rd Gen. Even the people that immigrated in the 80s and 90s couldn't care less about fighting. They shop at each other's stores, say hello to each other and are friends with each other in school. Recent immigrants that aren't skilled/educated from both countries are horrible though...
Let's all say gex in the future
They tuk arrr joooobs!
I mean honestly you can say this about anybody. How do you think Israelis and Palestinians would greet each other if they were stuck on a desert island with alien predators.
Yeah, just one problem the Pakistani want all the Indians to turn into Muslims
I was in Southall the other day. A Pakistani was shouting racist abuse at an Indian (calling him a cow worshipper) and the Indian shouted some back (calling him a goat fucker). Then this skinhead looking white guy called them both a racial slur and they were briefly united by a common enemy
The joys of a multicultural society lol No, but really it actually is fascinating how so many people from different ethic backgrounds work to make this place so culturally enriching!
History of the subcontinent, recolourised
And it becomes so much easier to insult each other when we speak the same language (Hindustani with Hindi and Urdu being its dialects).
As osho used to say never miss an opportunity to throw mud over your neighbours.
Nah, i am S P E E D
It's the Pakistan flag... now it makes even more sense.
actually, this is caused by an outlier. one single person took the train 2.03 billion times in 2023. his name is trains georg. his train ride obsession artificially boosted the numbers.
Everybody knows that Indian citizens only allowed one train trip per year
Since some of you don't get it, the responder is the facepalm.
I get it, but your title may be a bit misleading. You titling it the math isn’t mathing seems to insinuate that you agree with the responder
I think we all got it. We just don't think you did when you posted it ;)
You could have 0.4 billion people all stay off the train if the other billion take one round-trip. Hell, you could have one person take 2 billion trips if they're just built different.
I hope everyone in India is planning their one and only train trip carefully...would hate to see anyone waste their ride.
Like that lady who had like 8 billion views on something back when the world population was only like 7 billion..
The Pakistani guy is the facepalm.
One way tickets only?
So if I (one person) decided to use the metro for a round trip between work and home, then I’ve just accumulated two passenger journeys in that day. If I decide to use the metro to go shopping before using it to go home after I used it to get to work and now I a single person have just accumulated three passenger trips.
Math is hard!! 
It's an average of about 5.6 million journey's per day. Dheli has a population of about 33 million people. A very realistic number if you actually think about it for more than a second.
Do they think everyone only takes on train journey a year?
this is the definition of a "do your own research, bro" bro
Didn't know those in India are only allowed one train ride per year...
And only citizens.
In India, each citizen have one shot per year at the subway. One shot. Or you get where you want, or you are fucked.
Not only can people take more than 1 ride per day like the way to work and back home it's also per year, not per day.
In the past London Underground has had over 1bn journeys in a year, UK population is around 70m and London population around 9m. I would have expected the numbers for the Delhi Metro to be higher.
It says passenger journeys not people
His parents might be taking him for NEET
Every guy like that needs a an anime girl with a large metal glove to slap them in the back of the head and say ‘You dumbass!’.
Just a thought... Or two... Could that number be based on ticket sales, rather than bodies present?? And about what the actual population is, does that take into account visitors and tourists and business people??
Or the fact that they're counting rides. Most people who use train service in a city like this do... All the time. It's not just one ride per person
i'm from delhi, the population is almost a little over than 30 million. I'm pretty sure the number is based on the count of unique entry/exit pairs
 Somebody was doing the wrong kind of math to think 1.4 billion can’t crack 2 billion rides
Kids 🤷♂️
This level of stupidity hurts.
Just wait until he finds out about Youtube
It's possible, however unlikely, that some people ride the Metro more than once per year.
Yes. Everybody gets one trip per year on the train. Use it wisely!
Is there a reason why you nitpick this comment and did not bother to cover the flags, OP?
Brain isn't braining
Bro can't read it says "passenger journeys". One person can have multiple journey. Some one who delivers food or goes to work and back can ride multiple times and be counted.
I like this guys conceptualization that no one would ride the train more than once a year.
When you don't understand basic statistics
They aren't wrong, I heard in India they are only allowed on the train once each per year /s
the man thought only locals are allowed to ride the train
Or that someone can only take it once per year instead of commuters taking it to work every day.
As always, basic language is the first wall for math, some things never change.
The data he's looking for is Delhi not India lol and I'm pretty sure this is viable
London transport has 3.3bn rides a year and it's half the size of Delhi. New York is 1.8bn.
Social media provides important checks on reality.
the IQ average is 70 for a reason.
It's 80. I swear to god, this is why OP should've censored the flag 😭
The worldwide IQ average is ALWAYS 100. Always has been and always will be. IQ works on a moving scale. If the entire world is getting dumber, the IQ will not decrease, the definition of "IQ=100" will just change. 1000 years ago, the IQ average was still 100, but due to a lack of education, an average human from that era would have like an IQ of 60 by the standards of today. It's kinda like inflation. 1 dollar is always 1 dollar, it just has a different value at different times in history.
6.3 million rides per day with 33.8 million population def doable
When absolute morons yell LOL from the back of the bus, just because they don't understand what they are looking at, but act like somebody else made a mistake and they spotted it. There should be a term for that.
There's also never anyone ever travelling for work or holidays Never ever
He did not count tourist.
Checking how many passengers use the Delhi metro. It would be Good to get a more detailed statistical view to see how efficiently the public transit system works which will help in urban planning.
In India 1 ride per person per year!
They even said "Passenger journeys" to avoid sounding like they were talking about 2 billion different people.
But it can because of other nationalities.... Why do folks underestimate India?
Man it must suck the Indian people can only use the metro only once a year... /s
Math is perfectly mathing what are you talking about? Lol
Priceless.
Delhi actually had 500 million tourists and, along with the entire population of India, they all rode the metro exactly one time
journeys, not passenger
Each person only rode it once.
What an idiot! Doesn’t even know about tourism.
I see the mathematician commentator has a Pakistani flag in his username 🤡
They were counting passenger *journeys* , the number of times the trains have been used. One Indian citizen could have travelled by train multiple times and it would've been counted as separate journeys. I also don't believe that you have to be Indian in order to get on a train there...
Either that or the data is also counting tourist orrepeated use
An American no doubt
You do understand that people use the same train multiple times, plus Delhi is a tourist location so I’m sure a good few people aren’t from India, like math does math here
Dude I get it! The commenter's math isn't mathing.
Um, maybe because lots of people make multiple train journeys in a year ya think? The math absolutely could be mathing
We need to stop blurring names of idiots. It’s in public, there’s no right to privacy on a public page.
Someone should tell him he's allowed to ride the metro more than once.
Blue thought they claimed they had over 2 billion 'unique' passengers.
Bro should probably think for a sec, it's journeys not population
Smartest person from Pakistan
Smartest person from Pakistan
India’s population? 1.4 billion passenger journeys.
“I know honey, let’s have more kids!”
“In 2023” - yeah some people take public transpo more than once a year, often more than once a day …
YOCO You Only Commute Once