For context this is in the UK drill community where they talk about gang shi in the uk
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  • 46 points DeepStatic

    He got three 3s.

    3 x 3 x 3 = 27

    Given the up/downvotes in your screenshot I'm thinking you sided with the "9" comments, which ironically makes you confidently wrong.

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    8 points ZigTheGing

    Got em!

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    3 points NickholeClark

    Yes except the actual post just says 3 times 3. Not 3 × 3× 3. Because I'm pretty sure they are supposed to be added together. Which would be 9. I could be wrong. But that is what I'm getting from the screenshot.

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    2 points DeepStatic

    No it doesn't. It says "if u times them together" (sic) 

    (Why is this thread suddenly getting a load of activity?)

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    5 points GrouchyDefinition463

    Because this sub was mentioned in a recent AIO post. And this is the first thread in this sub

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    2 points Open_Air_893

    Same lol.

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    2 points NickholeClark

    I'm not sure about others. I just haven't been on reddit much lately and am getting caught up on stuff now.

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    1 points Best_Entrepreneur466

    Original says I got three 3s …

    If you times three 3s together it is 3x3x3

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    1 points LostWithLeon

    🤣

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    1 points ADDICT2001

    Three 3s would mean 3+3+3 though

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    8 points RelevantChallenge139

    “If u times them together” …

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    4 points Few_Round_7769

    That is if you add them together, not times them together.

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    1 points get_jigy

    Wasn't my screenshot btw

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    1 points carrotboyyt

    A little bit late, but that's called 3 in the power of 3.

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  • 13 points Ashgenie

    If you add them together you get 9, if you times them together you get 27.

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    -1 points Realistic-Roll-4283

    No it’s 6 , and 9 respectively.

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    1 points Ashgenie

    It says three threes not two threes.

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    1 points Realistic-Roll-4283

    It’s confusing how he said it makes it seem he said “three threes” but then his comment back is 3x3 so I think the original was ment to be “I have three times three”

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    1 points Ashgenie

    Im assuming this was in the context of GCSE results so I'm pretty sure they were saying they got three 3s on their exams.

    9 is the highest you can get so the joke is if you add those together you get a 9 because 27 would be meaningless in this context.

    However they only got three 3s in their GCSEs so it sounds like maths probably isn't their strong point.

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    -2 points Skinn2Win

    Confidently wrong

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  • 3 points maamijustworkhere

    The 3 threes is starting to make sense now not sure

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  • 3 points RelevantChallenge139

    This is so ironic 💀 “if u times them together” IT IS 27!! You may want to double check who you upvote & downvote before then adding a screenshot of it to r/ConfidentlyWrong 😭 because you are in fact confidently wrong

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    1 points get_jigy

    Not my screenshot

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  • 2 points Virtual_Tea6341

    The longer I look at this the more confused I get

    and what's a mandem?

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    1 points Jaffadxg

    Mandem is slang for group of friends or in this case, a group of people. I’m pretty sure it comes from the Caribbean more specifically Jamaican. Because between late 1940’s/early 1950’s we had a lot of people from the Caribbean immigrate over to the U.K so a lot of Patois integrated into U.K slang

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    1 points Spare-Protection-598

    "Dem" means "them" or "those", "man" means men.

    So it literally means "those men"

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    3 points Skinn2Win

    It's the UK version of "y'all"

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    1 points Spare-Protection-598

    No, it's the MLE or patois way of saying "the boys". I was just breaking down its root.

    It's a common but far from universal way of speaking in the UK.

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    1 points chunkychickenxp

    It's basically an abbreviated version of man and them, in reference to a group of people. If you wanted to write it "correctly" it would be man'd'em, dropping the an in and, and the th in them.

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    1 points Midnight-Rants

    Me: These replies to you are fascinating (I love learning languages).

    Also me: not me thinking it came from some sort of gargoyle universe thingamabob. #clueless

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  • 1 points chrometitan

    He got 3 to the power of 3 instead lol

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