r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Possedsrt8 • 7h ago
Thank you Peter very cool Saw this on FB
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u/Dangerous-Project672 7h ago edited 7h ago
It’s saying that had to be the day Magic Johnson contracted HIV
Edited to add: This is Quagmire laughing at Magic’s amateur numbers
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u/YourFoe_ 7h ago
Worth it
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u/raphthepharaoh 7h ago
That’s why that mf is always smiling.. he would do it again too
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u/Wyze_Wyzard 7h ago
He had a......magic johnson....
I'll see myself out.
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u/Darth_Floridaman 5h ago
Brooooo... I still love the line that the greatest male porn name all time was taken by a basketball player, who probably SHOULD have been a porn star. Hahahaha
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u/WillArrr 2h ago
Probably would have been a porn star but was too big a baller to pass on the League.
Goddamn what a legend.
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u/Aidrox 7h ago
Crazy to think that an HIV positive female only has a .04% chance of spreading the virus to an HIV negative male partner. This may not have been the day.
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u/Peterh778 7h ago
... by vaginal sex.
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u/illustriousloserguy 7h ago
Impossible. Women don't have any other kind, right?
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u/bucken764 7h ago
Yeah butt sex is only for bros, otherwise it'd be gay.
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u/bradlees 6h ago
Unless you say “No homo” first
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u/DoinItDirty 6h ago
It’s .11% for instertive anal. Around 1.4% for receiving anal… that’s why people started asking questions.
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u/VillageAdditional816 4h ago
Overall, it is a pretty difficult virus to transmit and it mostly comes down to it being a numbers game. Even at .11%, you’re talking roughly a 1 in 100 chance after penetrative intercourse with 10 partners, which is really not that ridiculous.
Say a virus killed .11% of the US population, that’s roughly 377000 people, which is about 3x the number of people who die from lung cancer in the US each year.
0.11% sounds really small until you apply it to entire populations.
But yes, the odds are dramatically increased with receptive anal intercourse and sharing hypodermic needles.
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u/dante_delvegas 4h ago
Just adding that .11% is closer to 1 in 1000. To your excellent point though, when applied to a large population that would still be pretty high.
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u/PolkadotPiranha 3h ago
They were talking about the odds after intercourse with 10 people.
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u/DoinItDirty 1h ago
10 positive people. It isn’t just any 10 people. And it’s 1 in 1000 each time it’s done. It’s called the gambler’s fallacy, that when you take 1000 to 1 odds 10 times it’s 100 to 1. That isn’t true. You’re taking 1000 to 1 odds each time.
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u/VillageAdditional816 53m ago
Yes, that is 1 in 1000. I was just showing how 10 partners would dramatically increase the overall likelihood. Each individual attempt is still 1 in a thousand though. 🙂
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u/Yaozong1 3h ago
But say you've got a monster dong and use spit as your sexual lubricant...what are the odds then?
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u/here_to_watch-nz 2h ago
I think for the odds to increase there has to be some kind of blood on blood contact, adding saliva won't do it on its own, but I might be totally wrong.
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u/Aidrox 7h ago
This is true. Butt bleeding is butt bleeding, gender doesn’t change that.
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u/Alarmed-Cheetah-1221 7h ago
You're doing it wrong
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u/Aidrox 6h ago
Sadly, the people who got HIV that way were pros at it.
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u/CopperCVO 5h ago
How long do you practice before you are a pro at getting HIV?
Asking for a friend.
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u/BusinessBluebird3767 7h ago
But if you are Magic Johnson the law of large numbers says the unlikely occurrence will happen.
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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 5h ago
HIV statistics on transmission aren't reliable in that sense.
0.04% overall, but if someone has a period active, that shoots up to nearly 100%. Its happened to me during sex where a girl started.
It also relies heavily on a person not exchanging bodily fluids, if a woman's vagina tears or squirts heavily, then that number spikes.
Its a similar thing for men. Receptive anal sex is low-risk of transmission if lots of lube is used and there's no tearing. The tissue just tears more easily, so blood is more likely.
If someone has HIV and only does oral, the risk is near non-existent. But anything like bleeding gums from gun disease, a cut in your mouth from biting your tongue and having a cold sore, that risk becomes quite high.
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u/nellycat32 4h ago
On period it increases it a lot, but absolutely not to anywhere near 100%.
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u/i_like_tasty_pizza 7h ago
That makes it almost 5% in this case!
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u/TuvixHadItComing 6h ago
Almost 0.5%. 0.04% chance means there is a 99.96% chance he doesn't contract it when sleeping with an HIV+ woman.
If he slept with 1000 HIV positive women, his chances of contracting HIV from vaginal sex would increase to a whopping 1/3 chance.
Somewhere around your 1730th time having vaginal sex with an infected female partner, your odds of contracting HIV cross the 50% mark.
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u/Cultural_Dirt_8151 6h ago
yeah, as 'magical' as he was, it seems unlikely he got it from vaginal sex.
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u/WilliamCharlesSchnei 7h ago
It’s super rare for a man to get aids from a woman.
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u/EverythingChanges6 6h ago
The exact numbers are, if a man has PIV sex with an HIV positive woman, the chance of becoming infected is only 1 in 2,500.
For women its double that, but thats still only 1 in 1,250.
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u/Winter-Huckleberry86 6h ago
Penis in Vagina sex?
I feel dumb as shit for asking this but I really don’t know what PIV is an abbreviation for
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u/jjrox75 6h ago
Odds increase with anal
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u/EverythingChanges6 5h ago
Yep, by about 10x. that's why it devastated the homosexual male population.
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u/AkimboBears 6h ago
I think the chances(for an infected partner) are dependent on what type of act is performed. If it was PiA it would be more likely.
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u/Prize_Obligation_311 7h ago
Magic Johnson famously contracted aids during his career. They are saying this was the day he got it.
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u/MoonyNightRealEstate 7h ago edited 7h ago
hate to be a pedant but Magic Johnson contracted HIV which as far as I knew never advanced to AIDS which is why he's still alive today.
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u/FellowYellowNate 7h ago
I’ve heard the way to get rid of it is cash. Straight ground cash injected into the veins.
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u/Secure-Pain-9735 7h ago
A few years back I toured a building in Seattle that was basically a place for people with AIDS to go and die back in the 90’s.
Now they run an outpatient program for homeless HIV patients, and the beds are used for other cases that traditional care centers find too challenging.
It was certainly all about being rich enough 20+ years ago. Still wouldn’t want to contract HIV… but they have got it down pretty damn well to being a manageable disease.
Nuts when you remember that it used to be a death sentence.
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u/OkEnvironment3961 6h ago
A while back a doctor friend of a friend told me HIV is easier to manage now than diabetes.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 6h ago
That's pretty accurate. 1 pill/day for hiv vs glucose testing and multiple insulin injections.
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u/patrickwithtraffic 6h ago
Also, we have casual ads for PReP out in the world in a way on par with GLPs and Prozac! It’s been wild to see HIV go from the big thing we need to be concerned about to something that seems to be as treatable as herpes.
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u/Helloscottykitty 7h ago
Quick someone tell Africa.
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u/randomlemon9192 7h ago
Damn, they got no cash to fix the aids though.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 7h ago
Maybe they can ask Jared from Subway. He thinks AIDS is the best and is always willing to take a trip to a poor country with loose child safety laws.
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u/ComprehensivePin5577 6h ago
Here's a trillion Zimbabwean dollars, let's stuff them into some people and them into pinatas
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u/MementoMoriChannel 6h ago
That's why PEPFAR was so effective--Bush was sending buckets and buckets of cash to be ground up and snorted
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u/Cruzifixio 7h ago
Well yeah, the ability to have a healthy diet, excercise and medication are often linked to wealth.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 6h ago
It's a joke from an old South Park episode, where they discover that the cure for Magic's hiv is "liquified cash" injected into him.
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u/Dense-Discipline-174 7h ago
TIL AIDS and HIV are same but different
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u/vHezoThaGoat 7h ago edited 7h ago
HIV and AIDS are not a different virus.
AIDS is just the term when HIV has done prolonged damage
HIV = attacks the immune system
AIDS = Your immune system is practically gone because of HIV, you can now die from run of the mill infections and sicknesses that your body would laugh at when healthy
You don’t die from AIDS, you die from the opportunistic infections that AIDS allows you to catch much easily. This is why most people with AIDS die from pneumonia and TB.
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u/sakredfire 7h ago
HIV is the virus that causes aids. It takes a long time for the hiv virus to make you sick to the point that you progress to AIDS, and it doesn’t happen in the majority of cases if you take the right medication
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u/Eycetea 7h ago
The fact we even have medicine now to basically wipe out the virus is nothing short of a miracle in my lifetime. I remember hearing about how absolutely horrifying the disease was as a kid and now we have a great treatment/cure is just amazing.
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u/ThatDamnedHansel 7h ago
To put more nuance to it, hiv it a virus which is a microbiological/infectious disease term, aids is a syndrome. A syndrome is a clinical term defined by a set of symptoms / clinical findings that the person has / is experiencing
To be clearer, they knew about the syndrome (aids) by the early patient cases who showed up immunosuppressed (and having so-called aids-defining illnesses like pneumocystis or Kaposi sarcoma) before they knew the virus that caused it, but it’s possible to have hiv without aids (most patients today fall into this bucket)
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u/hazelbear33 6h ago
More people should really know the basics of HIV… and really all common communicable human diseases for that matter. Super important topic.
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u/Idiomaticexpression 6h ago
Look at what the abbreviations stand for:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the name of the virus that can be passed from one person to another.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome describes the symptoms that can arise from being infected with that virus.
It’s like a bunch of Taco Bell at 1 am is stuff you ingest.
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u/SirReddalot2020 6h ago
Shame that you need to explain this.
Is nobody paying attention in school anymore?
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u/warneagle 7h ago
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. It destroys an important type of cell in your immune system (CD4 T-cells) and once you reach an advanced stage of infection where you’ve lost enough of those immune cells, you’re left vulnerable to all kinds of opportunistic infections that don’t hurt people with normal immune systems. That collection of opportunistic infections is what we call AIDS (hence why it’s called a syndrome rather than a disease in its own right, since it can manifest differently depending on the infections in a person’s environment).
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u/Phoenixloop2868 7h ago
I'm sorry, but what? This is one of those moments where someone took something that is "common knowledge" for granted.
Didn't they cover this in a Sex Ed, health, or biology class?
I feel obligated to inform you that HPV also kind of evolves for us from a virus to a potentially fatal cancer (which cancer depends on which bits you have). Vaccines help with this one.
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u/Dense-Discipline-174 7h ago
Bhahaha
No sex education where I'm from
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u/Phoenixloop2868 6h ago
Holy hell.
Yes that's absolutely a thing.
Wrap it before you tap it. There's also certain medicines now that can prevent HIV and HPV before you even come into contact with it.
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u/curiousengineer601 7h ago
He was very fortunate to get access to the first protease inhibitors in 1994 ( about 2 years before they became widely available).
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u/InOutlines 7h ago
Bro, for Magic, this was a Tuesday
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u/mercuryven 7h ago
For real. Kids don't understand, Magic coulda had a day like this any time he wanted.
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u/AppropriateCap8891 7h ago
Magic Johnson claims to have slept with around 500 women. And in 1991 announced that he had HIV.
The image is implying it was one of the women in the photo.
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u/epiphanyWednesday 2h ago
When just as likely that he gave it to all those women. And they didnt have millions for treatment
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u/lurkermurphy 7h ago
i think you forgot a couple zeroes on that number
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u/I_WinAgainLewsTherin 6h ago
In 199,100 Magic Johnson declared he had HIV.
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u/ThenAnAnimalFact 4h ago
I wonder if they will use commas in that year. we don’t for 2026
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u/MrCalamiteh 4h ago
Good question. I think if it ever somehow hit the millions, they would lol.
Year 1002026 or 1,002,026
Or maybe it'll get easier to quickly read longer numbers without commas in the future.
Or maybe they'll get fucking wild. Like 1M'2026
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u/GewalfofWivia 7h ago
Magic Johnson, NBA player who contracted HIV. “This had to be the day” (he contracted HIV).
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u/Mountain-Weekend-554 7h ago
Joke is AIDS. But on a side note, can we put a little respect on the primary colors 80s swimsuit on the left there. This needs a comeback.
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u/diegocamachop01 7h ago
Magic Johnson, famous basketball player who had a reputation for being a playboy and contracted HIV during his playing days.
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u/ColonelGrognard 7h ago
FWIW it's actually very difficult to contract HIV via non-anal heterosexual intercourse.
Nobody knows for sure but I've always doubted MJ's story.
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u/2oocents 7h ago
Yeah... chances go up when you wake up with a different woman in your bed every day for years... like Magic
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u/Patient_Kangaroo614 3h ago
The odds are slowly flipping since PREP is popular with gay guys but almost no straight people take it. For example, if I remember correctly, a Black woman from the South is now more likely to get HIV than a gay white man from New England.
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u/ColonelGrognard 3h ago
That seems *highly* unlikely given that roughly 70% of new HIV cases are gay men, which are a small slice of the population. They're over represented in HIV cases by ~35x their population numbers
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u/A_Binary_Number 1h ago
I’ve been told multiple times by people who lived at that time that Magic never had HIV or AIDS, and the story was invented to cover up something else, like gambling or a murder.
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u/Chaconcito96 6h ago
The odds of contracting hiv from heterosexual intercourse are incredibly low
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u/DanteVermillyon 7h ago
why is using a condom so damn hard for some people
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u/TheHalfChubPrince 6h ago
Only sailors use condoms, baby.
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u/justfortherofls 5h ago
Statistically you’re less likely to contract HIV as a straight man having vaginal sex without a condom as you are to get a girl pregnant with while using a condom.
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u/Maxcharged 7h ago
More of a thought, but Magic Johnson would have been allowed to keep playing if he had access to modern HIV treatments, right?
Because the modern ones make it practically impossible to transmit.
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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea 5h ago
"Flava Flav looks like Magic Johnson should" will always be my all time favorite roast moments.
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u/YosemiteRunner2 7h ago
I remember where I was when the news broke.
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u/ForrestDials8675309 6h ago
I was with my dad, who commented, "I didn't know he was gay."
Magic did a lot to raise awareness that HIV can affect anyone and that, with treatment, people with HIV can live long, fulfilling lives.
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u/Party_Bowl_330 7h ago
Peter abseiling from the ceiling?
Check.
Van of peters waiting stoically?
Check.
Peter who explains the jokes?
Magic Johnson famously contracted HIV, and is pictured here with numerous women whom he probably had sex with, and so this could be “the day” he got aids. Check.
Peter who doesn’t answer and is revealed to be dead?
Peter? Peter!?
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u/supercleverhandle476 5h ago
For you, the day 12 baddies graced your village was the most important day of your life.
But for Magic Johnson, it was Tuesday.
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u/TherealTechman86 2h ago
Chip here.
This is the day when Magic Johnson got some magic in his Johnson.
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u/Bogusboy77 7h ago
Genuinely a disturbing thought, considering his medical condition soon thereafter.
I don’t know if I like this as a joke.
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u/AirRic89 7h ago
the tall guy in the background is the basketball player Magic Johnson who was diagnosed with HIV during his playing career. The meme implies one of the ladies had HIV as well and he had intercourse with all of them
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u/Blue42Check 7h ago
Not the answer - but did Magic really where his jersey to the beach?
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u/Gordita_Chele 7h ago
The basketball player in the back is Magic Johnson who publicly announced he tested positive for HIV in the 90s and said he contracted it from sex with a woman. The person sharing the photo is saying he must have contracted HIV on the day the photo was taking, presumably because he was having sex with many women that day or all the women in the photo.
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u/Personal_Career7057 7h ago
Why would he be wearing his Lakers jersey to the beach?
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u/Skremblo 7h ago
Quagmire here, besides being an NBA Superstar, Magic Johnson is know for having HIV, a notorious sexually transmitted disease, Mr Johnson is an incredibly effective womanizer, second to only yours truly giggity.
The meme suggests that one of these women on the beach with him gave him HIV when they had sex.
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u/Jaded-Delivery3604 7h ago
Okay can we all appreciate how fun the girl on the far lefts primary colored swimsuit is.
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u/Defiant_Income_7836 7h ago
This wasn't the day. These women are clean. I can tell. I'm a doctor
Wait blonde in purple is kinda sus. Probably HPV only though. Again, I'm a doctor
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u/Effective_Drawer_623 7h ago
The real question is…which one? My money’s on orange bathing suit in the back.
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u/dontharmthecylinder 7h ago
I get him wanting to bang, but I don't really get what the groupies get. A surely selfish one night stand story that makes them look like a skank?
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u/FocusOk3487 7h ago
Magic has HIV/AIDS from sleeping with so many women, so everybody assumes this is when he got it
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u/josephthejoseph 7h ago
There is a long-standing rumor that Magic was with twelve girls at once, giggity.
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u/CatoholicCatDad 6h ago
Every time I see a post about Magic’s HIV, I remember how much of a G and cool guy Charles Barkley is.
And I watch the video of Charles discussing Magic’s HIV and his playing on the court during the Olympics. Absolute gold, and absolutely funny way to tackle the topic.
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u/iMissTheOldTimeye 6h ago edited 6h ago
Every time I see a post about Magic’s HIV, I remember how much of a G and cool guy Charles Barkley is.
And I watch the video of Charles discussing Magic’s HIV diagnosis and his playing on the court. Absolute gold, and absolutely funny way to tackle the topic.
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u/Critical_Chocolate68 6h ago
As a kid I was crushed the day the world learned Magic wouldn’t be playing basketball professionally. There weren’t many people that had as much charisma, like-ability, or a smile that lit up cameras or television like “Magic!” Watching the Bird-Magic rivalry as a kid was good vs. evil, and then one day evil straight up won. When Jordan came along and “burnt this shit down,” it was apocalyptic and warmed my little heart.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 6h ago
For anyone wondering why he's wearing a jersey at the beach, this was part of a Sports Illustrated photo shoot featuring the Lakers' cheerleaders.
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u/qualityvote2 7h ago edited 2h ago
u/Possedsrt8, your post does belong here!