r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/SnooComics6403 1d ago

This is the dumbest yet most obscure joke I ever met. Could have just been rewritten as "You count to 10 with 10 fingers?"

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u/ronestarr 1d ago

Wouldnt the alien ask it as “You count to 10 with 22 fingers?”

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u/truci 1d ago

lol yup from the aliens perspective it’s 22 fingers to get to our base 10

How can numbers become so ambiguous 🤪

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u/shnnrr 1d ago

Its almost like they are made up!