The greatest understatements of all time

Feb 7, 2014 1:57 PM

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Tis but a flesh wound ()

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"I might have a slight addiction to Imgur" - me, a year ago

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Famous last words.

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Oh shit on face on #3 is priceless

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I always get excited when I see a Jeffrey Dahmer reference. Ahh my serial killer genetics.

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"This post is pretty good." Me upvoting this amazing post.

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"This post has features which are of acceptable interest"

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"This post is pretty good." - Imgurian bezluka upvoting an amazing post after viewing a front page post about the greatest understatements.

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"This comment is pretty good." Me upvoting this amazing comment.

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Then you can thank Buzzfeed, since this is directly from there.

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"We have an anomaly." - Challenger accident

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Just so you know the controllers for challenger weren't watching the TV monitor of the shuttle, when it exploded all the saw was (1/2)

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You know it's bad when a calling something a major malfunction is an understatement

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"We have had an anomaly" is the best way of saying; There is no way in hell we can even begin to comprehend what has happened here.

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drastic changes in speed, sudden course alteration and signal loss, it was literally numbers on a screen, hence his lack of empathy (2/2)

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So they were not even watching the fucking flight in the fucking flight control center. I'm not sure what even to capitalize here.

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"Danger zone!" - Sterling Archer

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3/10 armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through

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I should make you aware, Flight 9 was able to restart it's engine and make a safe landing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuxqBp-CXw

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not available in my country :'(, any others?

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You tried to run Hola as an extension?

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Watson and Crick didn't discover DNA, just its double helix structure- though Rosalind Franklin's work was what proved the structure.

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Quick reminder that Watson and Crick souldn't be credited for the discovery of DNA. They couldn't have done it without Rosalind Franklind.

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Guys Jeffrey dahmer just messed up that one time

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Ik what's so wrong with dissolving organic tissue in plastic containers with industrial acid?

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Watson and Crick posted the research as their own after Rosalind Franklin hinted the structure (which she found in her own research).

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'tis but a scratch!

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scratch? your arm's off.

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no it isn't

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It's just a flesh wound!

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"I hope I haven't bored you." - Elvis Presley, last words.

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Was this before or after he was taken by aliens?

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"I never expected to be someone important." -Also Elvis. Not understatement, but refreshingly humble.

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OUTSIDE OF #2, LIFE SEEMS TO BE BETTER WITH A MUSTACHE.

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*The crew of Apollo 13 had grown some facial hair during the flight as there wasn't down time to shave in the days following the emergency.

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WELL HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND INSIDE POOP ANYWAY?

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you missed a chance to use the "it's too dark to read" joke

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TIL it's "we've had" a problem

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"I've made a huge mistake"

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isn't that from the young american that killed his mom and sister?

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Was Henry Stanley a pastafarian?

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I was thinking more like Magic Conch, honestly

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- Watson and Crick talking about Rosalind Franklin's discovery of DNA

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Thank you.

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I was just thinking that, good call

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"LEEEEEEERRROOOOOYYYYY JENKINNS!!" -Leroy Jenkins

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"We're gonna be in the Hudson." -Sullenberger, pilot US Airways Flight 1549

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Not so much an understatement as it was sound reasoning on his part.

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I imagine... "...if someone could come get us? That'd be greeeeeat."

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If I happen to meet my soul mate in the process... that'd be fate.

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700 Miles of tropical forest in the Congo. Zanzibar is a tiny island off the coast of Africa.

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Zanzibar is only roughly 65 miles across at the farthest two points.

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Yep, Dr. Livingstone was found in Tanzania, not Zanzibar.

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To be precise, Zanzibar is an independently governed part of Tanzania. However you are right about him being found on the mainland.

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Well, there's a lot of the same letters.

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Rosalind Franklin >> Watson and Crick

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Well seeing how her partner betrayed her abd she was too lazy to submitted her findings for a long time a decent amount of it is her fault

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YES YES YEESSS!!! fuck those thieving bastards...

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Rosalind Franklin = Watson and Crick

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Franklin didn't discover DNA nor its structure. She simply took the photo that made it possible for W&C to figure it out. A collaborator

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A significant source who got not credit or recognition for years because she was a woman. Watson and Crick are class A dickheads.

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Watson is a dickhead. Crick's actually a relatively cool guy who admitted Franklins contribution. When I say Watson is a dickhead (1/2)

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(2/2) I mean beyond the current point. My research mentor worked with him once and said some things... and stuff...

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Naa they're class B at best. Thomas Edison was a class A dickhead.

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Watson and Crick did not discover DNA. Holla at Rosalind Franklin.

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if someone wants to know... the british flight survived. the pilots tried to and were successful in getting the engines back running.

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trying desperately to find a video/audio link!!

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youtubve link posted

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unavailable in my country! :(

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google british flight volcanic ash

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Thanks! I WAS wondering about that!

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I was afraid to look it up.

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Barely, the insides of the engines were basically coated in glass.

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Truth. Volcanic ash is not to be messed with. Worse: it's all but invisible as you fly through it so pilots have little way of knowing.

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Here's the wikipedia sorce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

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From Wiki: One passenger Charles Capewell, scrawled "Ma. In trouble. Plane going down. Will do best for boys. We love you. Sorry. Pa XXX"

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British Airways video.... not available in my country... England -_-

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hahaha. maybe he blocked it so that bbc or discovery doesnt block it XD use proxy.

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Valid point sir!

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"ground control to Major Tom"

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I'm not completely sure why I thought of this, but I'm glad someone else did too.

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Pic #3.. It'll all make sense.

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take your protein pill and put your helmet on

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Ground Control to Major Tom

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Are we just going to ignore the fact that his name was Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon?

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Is it me or does Cosmo look like brad Pitt if brad didn't have botox

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Kramer? Cosmo Kramer!

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Assman!

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I'm trying NOT to ignore the fact that this son of a bitch took someone's seat on a lifeboat, because he was loaded.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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His only had 12 people in a boat made for 65. They said him and his wife paid the officers off to save themselves and their staff.

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Duff Man, oh no!

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Uh, no he didn't. The boat he was in was launched less than half-full. He was invited into the boat by the officer (Murdoch).

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The evacuation was very poorly organized- I can't blame someone, assuming they didn't physically throw another person out of the lifeboat

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Wasn't he on the side where not a lot of people were currently looking and the crewmen were desperate to get anybody on the lifeboat?

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He was allowed into the boat by 1st officer Murdoch (who was allowing men all night) and the boat left half-empty anyway. Not his fault.

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Nah, he was on this door, but he wouldn't let anyone else on, even though there was totally room.

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W&C didn't discover DNA, they figured out its structure. They knew it coded for genetics and what it's made of, just not how it was built

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Yep. It was discovered in the late 19th century, I think, but described as a useless filler.

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What I've heard they're both quite the asshats, one of them are currently trying to use DNA to prove some races inferiority.

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Watson is the bigger/eugenicist asshat. Crick did some very good work afterwards.

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Watson was a douche. And he did very little actual work in discovering the DNA structure. If Franklin and Crick had been paired up, they

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would have discovered the structure much sooner.

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They figured out the structure after taking credit for Rosalind Franklins experiments.

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they didn't take credit for her experiments. Without her experiments they would have never figured it out. But without W&C (1/2)

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, Rosalind's experiments wouldn't have made sense. Two pieces of the same puzzle

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I was looking in the comments to make sure this one was here already. Good job.

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They didn't know that DNA was where/how genes were encoded. Well, Watson "knew" it in that he was utterly convinced of that fact without

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you're right. I made this to explain some things

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having any supporting evidence. It wasn't until the discovery of the structure that people saw how it can be used as a storage of genes.

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common misconception, W&C didn't steal Franklin's work; her co-worker did and gave it to W&C. her co-worker was awarded the Nobel prize

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Because prizes can't be awarded posthumously. Franklin was dead.

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Watson is a fucking weasel. Fuck that douche.

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Go watch "Photo 51" by PBS. Watson is still a douche. He pissed a lot of people off writing his book. Trashing Franklin's name. He is an ass

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Totally agree. He stole my car stereo.

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yeah, they figured that out when they "borrowed" Rosalind Franklin's work

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Yes! She took the x-ray structures of it, they just wrote a one-page paper on what it looked like.

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It was a bit more complicated than that

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Work which killed her.

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Are you confusing her with Curie?

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inform yourself. RF wasn't on the verge of figuring it out before W&C came along and stole it; She gave them the last piece of the puzzle

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She didn't give them shit. Wilkins did...and it was complete Bullshit. They were actually ordered to stop working on it before.

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second to last paragraph

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It was Wilkins that took Franklin's work and showed it to Watson and Crick. All three won Nobels and so would have Franklin if she was alive

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"stolen" is the key word. They didn't steal anything. People are just buthurt because she didn't receive a Nobel prize posthumously

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Isn't gaining access without permission stealing? And Nobel prizes can't be given posthumously

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They used the pictures without her permission, sounds like stealing to me

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