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flamingos-cant @feddit.uk

5d ago

<3

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That is clever.
- Could you explain it for the thickos like me?
  
  The answer is that you type 2 characters to make a heart, which are the less than symbol < and 3, when together make a heart <3 And that's only 2 characters, which is less than 3. So the answer is both the instructions on how to type a heart and the number of characters required to type a heart.
  
  <3
  
  <3 looks like a heart on its side. Mathematically speaking, it means less than 3. And since it's 2 characters, that means the heart is less than 3, or <3
  Edit: I love how three of us decided to explain at the same time in three different ways.
  How many lemmings does it take to explain a joke? At least 3, it seems!

This feels like something Neil deGrasse Tyson would write.
You can kiss yourself in the mirror. But only on the lips.

When I met the woman who is now my wife, instead of using <3, she would use <&. This reminded me of the graphic of the mouse from the classic game Rodent's Revenge. As a result, sometimes instead of saying more traditional expressions of love - textually or verbally - we will simply say "mouse heart."
- It vaguely looks like an anatomical heart that way
  
  True!

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- 🫀
  (OpenBoard android)
  
  ♥
  (Alt+3)

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I’m old enough to remember when S2 was the common way to draw a heart..
..which ironically is also less than three characters!

♡

I wish I could double up-vote this. It deserves it.

No the shift key counts too, it takes 2 to make the ‘<‘ plus one more for ‘3’.
- Characters, not keystrokes
  
  Plus, I'm a programmer and type <>, (), {}, and [] enough that I have them bound to non-shift keys. So even if we were counting keystrokes, it'd still be fewer than three on my keyboard.

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