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I found this comfortable. thank you news editors.
I very excites.

Coincidence FTW!

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Isn't there a Disney movie about this?

Question: "Is it fate, destiny?"
Answer: It is meaningless randomness that humans read into.

I would assert that while we can agree that this is totally random and nothing inherently special, it still is somewhat uplifting to see this sort of thing happen.

Absolute meaningless randomness but kinda cool randomness nonetheless.

haha, excellent

photoshop

>> ^deathcow:

photoshop


Yeah I agree, there were a few suspicious pixels, and I've seen a few photochops in my time.

coincidence? More like the world's youngest stalker.

While this is cute and touching and all that, I must point out the total math fail in the media reaction here. What are the odds that two people who passed each other at Disney in childhood should be later married? Pretty damn high I'd wager. In fact there must be dozens of such couples in the world. The place has been there for decades, attracting millions from around the world - this story was inevitable. If one of them had been from North Korea I'd be a little more impressed, but geez, most Canadian kids go to Disney in Florida at least once. Of course NOW this could never happen due to post 9/11 border security...

The reason this is remarkable is that it was captured on film.

I've probably crossed paths with millions of people, but outside of my friends and family, how many am I in a picture with? Very, very few.

If you counted each picture of you as one frame of a film, you would need 1,440 pictures to make a one minute long movie. Even though that number of photos seems high, let's assume it's a reasonable average (remembering they probably met early into digital photography). These two people crossed paths during the one minute of theirs lives that's recorded on film.>> ^oileanach:

While this is cute and touching and all that, I must point out the total math fail in the media reaction here. What are the odds that two people who passed each other at Disney in childhood should be later married? Pretty damn high I'd wager. In fact there must be dozens of such couples in the world. The place has been there for decades, attracting millions from around the world - this story was inevitable. If one of them had been from North Korea I'd be a little more impressed, but geez, most Canadian kids go to Disney in Florida at least once. Of course NOW this could never happen due to post 9/11 border security...

That's not my point. If you knew this couple personally already, then yes the odds of them specifically being captured on film this way would be pretty damn low. However, my point is that it is likely that there are couples in this circumstance, and as humans are built to pick out things they think are unusual, eventually one instance would appear in the media, so we should not be surprised or impressed at all that this has taken place.

It's not magic or karma or anything, it's just probability. If you flip a fair coin 10 times and it's always heads, that seems weird (even though each flip is an independent event). However if you flip a coin 10^9 times, getting 10 heads in a row is to be expected many times.

As for who you are in picture with, in a place as popular and camera-clogged as Disney Land I think there are many times more photos you are in that you are not aware of, than photos you are in that you do know about, and I'm just talking about tourist snaps, not surveillance cameras. You also don't know that they didn't cross paths many times that day, as tourists often travel a similar route through such parks, but again since they didn't know each other, that would not have been noticed. They may have sat in adjacent tables for an hour at lunch for example.

Perhaps it's just me, but I simply don't see this as that remarkable. >> ^handmethekeysyou:

The reason this is remarkable is that it was captured on film.
I've probably crossed paths with millions of people, but outside of my friends and family, how many am I in a picture with? Very, very few.
If you counted each picture of you as one frame of a film, you would need 1,440 pictures to make a one minute long movie. Even though that number of photos seems high, let's assume it's a reasonable average (remembering they probably met early into digital photography). These two people crossed paths during the one minute of theirs lives that's recorded on film.

Holy shit, is there a "most annoying buzzkill" award?

>> ^Xax:

Holy shit, is there a "most annoying buzzkill" award?


Buzzkill he may be, but it is true that this misunderstanding of probability is what leads people to believe in fate and miracles and various other pseudoreligious things and so forth.

Happenstance is still cool.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Xax:
Holy shit, is there a "most annoying buzzkill" award?

Buzzkill he may be, but it is true that this misunderstanding of probability is what leads people to believe in fate and miracles and various other pseudoreligious things and so forth.
Happenstance is still cool.


Oh for crying out loud. What a bizarre crusade you people are on.

OMG!!!! AMAZING!!!! DISNEY MOVIE PLEASE!!!

the poop that makes the news these days, sigh...

All of them?

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Isn't there a Disney movie about this?

Even if it is about probability, that is just as astounding as fate or miracles, that'd be like winning the lottery twice or something!

Relax people. It's a fun little story. Good lard.

OK, I went back through all my photos of when I went to Disneyland when I was a kid -
Not one photo has my current wife in the background.

At the same time - she turns up in a lot of our honeymoon photos in which we went to Disneyland together.

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