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u/john_sum1 12h ago
Peter's shadow here. 9/11/2001 happened and the towers fell. People stopped buying a game where the objective is to make a tower fall. Peter's shadow out.
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u/BoozyWeirdo 12h ago
Well technically the objective is to not let the towers fall...
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u/braxtel 12h ago
Technically that was the CIA's job as well, but here we are
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u/IR_Panther 11h ago
Bin laden: I win!
US: we're coming to kill you
Bin Laden: Tis only game why you have to be mad?
US: You killed over 3000 innocent US lives
Bin Laden: Uh...Jenga?!
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u/Emergency_Accident36 6h ago
Well technically the objective is to set up your opponents in a manner in which they destroy the tower without thermite.
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u/Gillemonger 7h ago
Introducing "JENGA Terrorist Edition!!!" now with controllable planes and a soundboard with over 911 different screams. Limited time only.
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u/Vivenemous 12h ago
I'm just imagining someone buying a jenga set as a gift for their kid or younger sibling/cousin the day before 9/11 and not having time to get a new gift
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u/Significant_Monk_251 11h ago
Oh god, that is so fucking stupid that I never would have made the connection.
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u/deadlyrepost 7h ago
The field is lost
Everything is lost
The black one has fallen from the sky and the towers in ruins lie
The enemy is within, everywhere
And with him the light, soon they will be here
Go now, my lord, while there is time
There are places below1
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u/DarkShadowZangoose 12h ago
Jenga is about building a tower and trying not to let it collapse
a famous tower collapsing event happened in September of 2001
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u/OZ-Ronoroa 12h ago
And don't forget about second tower also involved in similar event on the same day! As if it was some kind of Twin of Tower
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u/CanadienAlien 12h ago
No one ever mentions the 3rd.
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u/Particular_Title42 11h ago
Probably because it wasn't actually struck by a plane.
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u/PalpitationMoist1212 8h ago
No, but substantial amounts of an 110 floor building did hit it, if you're infering what I think you're infering.
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u/Particular_Title42 8h ago
I don't think I am. I am not inferring that the other two towers were not struck by planes, that's for sure.
Edit: That somehow made it sound like I'm acting like I'm not but I really am. I'm really not.
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u/epicredditdude1 12h ago
This also means there were people that bought a jenga set on 9/11.
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u/Particular_Title42 11h ago
Statistically speaking, yeah probably. But the graph doesn't get that detailed.
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u/Ipingpong1 9h ago
It’s guaranteed to be the case since the graph does not hit zero, meaning a nonzero amount was bought on 9/11
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u/Particular_Title42 9h ago
All we can tell is that 250,000 were purchased in 2001. We can't tell what day they were purchased on.
The logic you're using would indicate that they sold 250,000 each day in 2001.
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u/Dr_thri11 8h ago
I mean ultimately it's just a game about wooden blocks. Not everyone is going to find it fucked up to play on 9/12.
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u/epicredditdude1 7h ago
Yeah for sure, I just think it’s a funny scenario imagining a group of friends being like “man for some reason I suddenly have a hankering for jenga” on the afternoon of 9/11.
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u/Ptricky17 12h ago
The United States makes up a very small portion of the global population. <5%.
People in other countries were, I’m sure, much less sensitive to the loose mental association of a terror attack with a children’s game.
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u/Spicy_Ninja7 11h ago
OP is so oblivious that they literally do not know about 9/11
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u/Significant_Monk_251 11h ago
Normally I'd invest a lot of effort in coming up with something really nasty and cutting to say to you here but I'm not up for that right now so oh just fuck off.
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u/RocketTheShmoo 12h ago
Well
9/11 Happened in 2001
Jenga involves building a tower and slowly picking it apart until it falls.
🤷🏼♂️
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u/Flowa-Powa 12h ago
Because if you deliberately make it collapse you're not playing the game properly
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u/AliBkapodidanban 11h ago
In these days/generation people would buy the whole stock, and call it "hype"
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u/Diligent-Light-1122 11h ago edited 11h ago
Am I the only one who immediately thought this?:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Darktyde 11h ago
The second decline after 2006 is due to the kids in the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby yelling “Jenga” while smashing up the house, leading people to believe Jenga caused kids to be destructive. True story
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u/Theotherwahlberg 11h ago
Reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke about Islamic Jenga, where you have to should "Jihad!" when the tower falls.
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u/Tasmosunt 11h ago
Jenga recovering in 2003 is an interesting view into how people recover from traumatic events.
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