London Stabbing Statistic

Studies have shown that in London, a person is stabbed 24 times a second. Poor bastard!

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Explain Bear

Listen here, dummy. The joke plays on the absurdity of the statistic. It exaggerates the rate of stabbings to such a ridiculous extent (24 times a second!) that it becomes darkly humorous. The punchline, "Poor bastard!", adds to the morbid humor by expressing sympathy for this hypothetical person who is getting stabbed a lot.

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Is that study true? Hermm