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Being publicly wrong in “real time” is one of those experiences so deeply uncomfortable that one tends to remember it at night for the next few decades. However, as humans, we can still find great ways to “enjoy” when others make the sort of mistakes that would mortify us.
There are few things funnier than someone being deeply convinced that they are right when they are blatantly incorrect. So get comfortable, since we’ve put together a lovely list of folks digging their own grave with utter confidence. Upvote your favorite posts and be sure to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments down below.
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Ellie Ahmed 3 months ago
...you realise it was a joke, right? I would give it a like
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Don't listen to me 3 months ago
America isn't a country either its a continent. The USA United States of America is a country.
joann fielding 3 months ago
North America is a continent, as is South America. Each have several countries. There. Fixed it. 😉
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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 months ago
Argued with my younger sister (in her 30s at the time) that Africa was not a country. She bet me $20 I was wrong. So I looked up "how many countries in Africa?" She was confused. Africa is a continent you d***e, comprised of 54 countries. Pay up.
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David Morgan 3 months ago
What have musical instruments got to do with anything?.../s
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
That tells us a lot about the level of knowledge most people have about female anatomy. [sigh]
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Lee Gilliland 3 months ago (edited)
Betcha he couldn't draw anything close to a woman's anatomy.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I expect men to lack any interest in learning female anatomy, but when women don't know what a vulva is (and there are plenty), I wonder what exactly is being taught in s*x ed besides abstinence.
Jonathan Garratt 3 months ago
You "expect men to lack interest in female anatomy" - only the gay ones mate, the rest are VERY interested!! 🤣🤣
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Uncle Schmickle 3 months ago
Gosh ... how did BP let through the v word, as well as the p and t words !
RamiRudolph 3 months ago
At least he's right about men having a pénis and women having a vágina.
David Morgan 3 months ago
Well, since the vulva is a specific thing, people who know what it is should be free to use the term. Are you seriously advocating that people use incorrect generalities just so other people who don't know the term, don''t feel patronised? How do you talk to your patients - ask them if they have an owie?
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Ellie Ahmed 3 months ago (edited)
Unless they're a colorectal surgeon who is regretting they didn't perform a patient's a n a l fistulotomy sooner. Then the saying works. Otherwise, no.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
Plot twist - it was an email from their proctologist regarding hemorrhoids.
michael Chock 3 months ago
People act like language has rules. It's literally noises we make that others understand. As long as people understand what you mean, it's language. Once enough people understand it, it's part of an official language. That's why it's called "language arts" and not "language law".
There's a certain kind of bite that comes from being wrong to other individuals. Whether confidently getting it wrong in a meeting, butchering a word you've only ever looked at on a page, or strongly stating something that gets shot down the moment you say it, the embarrassment bites more sharply than you can imagine.
And for some inexplicable reason, these always seem to happen when you are in bed, running on repeat in your head as you lie on your back staring at the ceiling, wondering why your brain decided to run the "Personal Humiliation Greatest Hits" on repeat at midnight.
#4
Oxford Ranch 3 months ago
I found that button. At 25 years old I had a complete hysterectomy. (Forgive my terrible spelling)
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KrazyChiMama 3 months ago
If it’s optional, I’d like to cancel my subscription to menstruation, Please!!! And menopause too, I’m not satisfied with hot flashes, night sweats, and random panic attacks! :D
xolitaire 3 months ago (edited)
Didn't you hear? All of us women can control our period by sheer force of will and switch it on and off whenever we want. If it happens at work, we do it on purpose because we are nasty and lazy.
Savannah greenleaf 2 months ago
I knew I missed a day in orientation. Mine never worked right.
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Jack Smith 3 months ago
Believing "Menstruation is optional" must be the reason we have a 'tampon tax" here in the U.S. I guess if the senile old men that run this laughingstock of a country think it's optional then feminine hygiene products are a luxury, thus taxable. JFC we're not gonna survive the boomers...
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
They got a point there , if men had periods , all the stuff needed would be free lol
#5
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Why does anyone care if they've been frozen or not? Not sure why that's a selling point
arthbach 3 months ago
Freezing changes the texture of some things, but I'm happy with frozen meat.
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Inigo Montoya 3 months ago
I know, right? What's next, trucks with freezers?!
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JayWantsACat 3 months ago
This is my all time favorite example of this. IIRC, bro kept on doubling down and would not admit he was wrong.
Verena 3 months ago
So they waste food. Ground beef, even when constantly stored in the fridge, turns bad extremely fast, within a day or three. So everything they cannot sell on the day it getscdelivered to the respective restaurant, goes to the dump. I don't mind eating meat, but I do mind killing animals only to dump them. Freeze it, so no food is wasted.
joann fielding 3 months ago
Nope. Worked there. Unused burger meat is used for the chili.
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Saltypepper 3 months ago
Unworked at Wendy's we did not ever freezenthe meet we only kept it in the fridge
michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
"Never frozen" means nothing when it's also never seasoned and then held in a steam cabinet after its cooked.
KrazyChiMama 3 months ago
There was a time when I thought Wendy’s had the best fast food burgers of all the chains. Now, they seem to be putting more filler in that fresh, never frozen beef. It wasn’t too far off from the impossible burgers (plant based protein) I’ve had at other places in terms of texture. For the price, it’s absolutely not worth it.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago (edited)
The last fast food business I patronized was a Wendy's close to work, but about three years ago the burgers went from 'good enough, maybe even good' to cafeteria-like steamed pudding. Then I retired, saw no more fast food ever, and lost weight.
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Behind this reaction lies our socially conditioned hard wiring. People lived in groups, and mere survival sometimes hung on how well we were succeeding in them. Being wrong, especially out there in public, happens to feel like a crack in that social standing. It whispers this unspoken message: "Maybe I'm not as competent, educated, and capable as I thought." Sure, nobody's actually banishing us from the tribe anymore, but our brains still experience these moments as some kind of social threat.
#7
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Who on earth believes that by knowing a number plate any random member of the public, out in public, can look up the address of any driver going past??? (yes, I got the joke)
ॐBoyGanesh 3 months ago (edited)
It’s weird how when I was growing up, your name, phone number and address were published in a huge book called “the white pages” and they were left on the porch of literally every single address. You knew where everyone lived & what there number was, but had no idea what they did or liked and had no info regarding their personality or character. Now, you know everything they like, everything they do every aspect of their personality and character, but it’s considered a gross invasion of privacy to know their address and their phone number. Granted, there’s a good reason to keep these things private with doxxing & stalking. It’s just weird how it’s so opposite.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
When were plate numbers private? I mean, they adorn the front and back of most vehicles that are cruising in public. Not the same as posting someone's SS number or telephone number.
Jonathan Garratt 3 months ago
I keep the number plate on my car covered at all times for this reason 🤦
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Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
Someone caught this on the original post that wasn't on BP.
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michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
I am confident that it's ramparts. It's a term from when fort defense was all the rage and people would both charge (running) the ramparts while the panicked defenders would defend (running on) ramparts. So, when something is running rampart, it's a massive mess that could easily end in complete destruction of the town.
Billo66 3 months ago
Oxford Dictionary: RAMPANT: (especially of something unwelcome or unpleasant) flourishing or spreading unchecked. For example, "political incompetence is rampant"
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Public mistakes also encroach on one of our earliest self-protection instincts: "impression management". Most of us put a lot of effort (overtly or in hiding) into creating what other individuals see in us. We want to seem competent, nice, and confident. When we are eminently wrong, it feels as if we are watching a laboriously designed image fail and twist before our eyes, and we imagine that all the other individuals saw each pixel warp. Actually, most people probably forgot right away, but our own sense of self does not allow us that much leeway.
#9
xolitaire 3 months ago
This always triggers my trauma from realizing that the plural of beef is "beeves". I am still in denial.
Tim Douglass 3 months ago
Grammar checkers for English are doomed to fail spectacularly. It's just not really a rule-based language.
Rick Murray 3 months ago
The grammar/spell checker in Google Docs is pretty lame too, offering to replace plurals with singles because it's too dumb to read around the word to get context.
Public mistakes also encroach on one of our earliest self-protection instincts: "impression management". Most of us put a lot of effort (overtly or in hiding) into creating what other individuals see in us. We want to seem competent, nice, and confident. When we are eminently wrong, it feels as if we are watching a laboriously designed image fail and twist before our eyes, and we imagine that all the other individuals saw each pixel warp. Actually, most people probably forgot right away, but our own sense of self does not allow us that much leeway.
#10
Jack Smith 3 months ago
Completely wrong and absolutely certain... On brand for someone who thinks trump is the best and Biden was the worst 😂 too much faux news ..
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Exactly. What Stephen King meant is: US history clearly not you are strong point, Danno. /s
KrazyChiMama 3 months ago
Imagine trying to grammar check Stephen King!?! I’d love to see his response! :D
Earonn - 3 months ago (edited)
I mean, yes, an author can make a spelling mistake. Having written books doesn't make him infallible. Just one should make *really* sure that it's the author who made the mistake, and not oneself...
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Dan St John 3 months ago
You can't fix all the stupid in the MAGA, the best you can do is ignore it.
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I like this response bc it crosses all nationalities, ages, and genders. No language barrier with this gesture.
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Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I realize you probably don't do 3D modelling, but that would be Blender, not photoshop. Although he obviously didn't create the individual 3D models, I'm sure he yanked them from some random site. Still, the amount of effort that goes into proper lighting and rendering in Blender shouldn't be underestimated. It is, at times, a ridiculously big pain in the a*s to work with rigging and lighting in Blender. So, probably not modelled from scratch, but it's important to remember there's a reason why people get paid big money and all they do is either rigging or lighting work with models.
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Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
How many sides does a triangle have? “It’s a solid shape. No way of knowing how many sides there are. Could be any number.”
Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
How many wheels does a tricycle have? “Could be 3, 4, 5, 6. No way of knowing. Don’t always believe prefixes.”
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The haunting quality of these memories, especially at night, is a quirk of how the brain works. When we’re trying to sleep, the distractions of the day are gone, and the brain has space to wander. Unfortunately, it often wanders toward moments that triggered strong emotional reactions, because those moments were tagged by our mind as “important.” Embarrassment, being a mix of shame and surprise, leaves a particularly sticky tag. The mind replays the memory as if it is trying to caution you not to make the same error, even though the mistake was harmless and took place years ago.
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KrazyChiMama 3 months ago
Well, it’s because she’s a Pisces and she doesn’t feel an emotional connection to science and empirical evidence! /jk :p
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Unfortunately I am a Leo, and we Leo's do not believe in astrology.
Annik Perrot 3 months ago
And we Tauruses know that astrology is a bunch of bullshît.
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Stardust she/her 3 months ago
I swear to god if anyone believes astrology over astronomy then they’re dead to me. Astronomy as a field has existed for as long as man could gaze at the heavens, astronomy is the reason astrology exists
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
Astrology was just an early version of astronomy. Old gods get new jobs.
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Cristi nah 3 months ago
The zodiac constellations exist, another different thing is their influence on our lives
Bec 3 months ago
CBS 'News' did a story about the increase in people following astrology and frankly I was concerned that CBS's attempt to counterbalance the story was to talk to a young astronomist who just shrugged and said the two things were different. There are many scientific ways to debunk astrology - like it makes assumptions about constellations being fixed, or having people try to choose their sign or predictions when they are not labeled (my friend did this with her middle school science students 30 years ago). If you want to reference astrology as a fun thing, that is fine, if you are paying someone hundreds of dollars to do a chart or advise you - you are getting scammed.
michael Chock 3 months ago
I wonder when someone breaks it to them that astrology is branched off of astronomy. What do you think the star in star sign represents?
Jude Corrigan 3 months ago
Doesn't astrology use the positions of the planets to work out readings? So astrologists have been using astronomy before scientists.
#14
Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
When a mommy chicken and a daddy chicken love each other very much...
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
That’s why conservatives say, “She got herself pregnant.” Right, Jethro. All by herself. 🙄
Inigo Montoya 3 months ago
It's all about how you dress, of course. Mini skirt? Pregnant! Your fault, girl.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago (edited)
I keep a small flock of ducks and am regularly asked about when "they were born." I expected to see society decline in my lifetime but I failed to anticipate the amount of banging my head against the wall it would entail.
Ace 3 months ago (edited)
Turkeys (but no, not chickens) are actually capable of parthenogenesis, where a fertilized egg is produced without any male involvement.
Inigo Montoya 3 months ago
All that male strutting and posturing will now look like insecurity to me.
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Rednose 3 months ago
If you can get a fertilized egg without a rooster, you might be eligible for the pullet surprise.
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
This is hugely important to understand, as it can save us from having the wool pulled over our eyes. Say we're told looking at tins of shoe polish reduces the chance of toe nail cancer by 50% - sounds great, doesn't it? But we've no idea if it's great until we know what the chance of toe nail cancer was usually. If it was 15% then a reduction to 7.5% is worthwhile, but if it was 0.05% then a reduction to 0.025% really isn't enough of a shift for keeping all those tins of Kiwi out.
NJ P 3 months ago
We've been bombarded by sales signs touting 50, 60, 70% off. But we're never told 'off what?'
SM 3 months ago
Even better are the ones that say, "up to xx% off". Last time I checked 0% qualifies.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
An increase OF 80 percentage points takes your chance from 10% to 90%. Increasing it BY 80% takes 10% to 18%.
michael Chock 3 months ago
The response is correct. 50% × 0.8 = 40%. If you had a 50% chance and increased it by 80%, 50% + 40% = 90%. You find this by dividing 90% by 1.8.
Puppy Dancing! 3 months ago
Those numbers only work for 50%. Not for <1%to49%, and not for 51% and higher.
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Anonymouse 3 months ago
I always laugh when I see various milks for this reason - whole milk is generally less than 5% fat. So, for example, 2% milk is actually closer to 50% or more of normal milk. Most people don't know this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_content_of_milk
There is also a perfectionist impulse in all of us that can't stand the idea that "everyone" screws up sometimes. We measure our previous selves by today's standards and forget that the "you" at the time did not have the benefit of hindsight. Instead of viewing the event as a normal human hiccup, we rerun it like an habitual personality quirk preserved in amber.
#16
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Finding someone attractive doesn't have to mean you find them sexually attractive. There are other attractive things about people.
Sofia 3 months ago (edited)
I propose to ban all definitions and group all under the name of "people". Who gives a duck who you go to bed with if is old enough and willing...
Jaya 3 months ago
Banning those words is super inconvenient. If I wanted to find other bisexuals to talk about our experiences, I'd have to search for "people who are attracted to both men and women" instead of just "bisexuals". If I wanted to read a lesbian book, I'd have to say "book about a woman who loves women" instead of just "lesbian". It's like banning the names of all music genres, and just grouping them all under the name of "music". Then you can't just say "I like metal" but you'd have to describe what metal music sounds like. Words are convenient, banning them just hinders communication.
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Ryan Mercer 3 months ago
Oddly, this is a philosophical argument. Is a thing defined by its action, intention, utility, or something else? The catholic church defines homosexuality by the act itself. This is why they say it is a choice. Because you can choose not to act on homosexual desires. But obviously this is an incomplete interpretation, as dogma often is.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
If you are going to be technical about it then you would be bicurious rather than bisexual?
Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
No? If someone is a virgin they can still be homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. I don’t think physically having s*x changes your sexuality. Surely it’s who you’re attracted to that matters.
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Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Edwina Currie. Just sayin'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella-in-eggs_controversy
Gavin Johnson 3 months ago
She lives near me, she doorstepped me prior to an election, assured me that HS2 wasn’t a massive waste of money and that we’d have an awesome rail system…. Roll on a few months, costs rocket, they cancel the northern section, we’re building a rail cul-de-sac and her predictions are shot to pieces. She also talked through the silence during a local Remembrance Service, she likes the sound of her own voice, she’s a t***t.
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Generations of us kids used to eat the leftover cake mix out of the bowls. How did we survive?
Snazzy Smurf 3 months ago
We survived on hot metal slides and lead paint. We can survive just about anything
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michael Chock 3 months ago
Just inject the dough with bleach. If it works with covid it will work with salmonella.
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
I've been eating raw cookie dough my whole life. If I'm baking cookies or cake and the dough or batter doesn't taste right, the cookies or cake won't taste right. I'm 70 so I've escaped the ill effects of raw eggs/unsensitized flour for a long time.
LuLuBelle 3 months ago
Plenty of people smoke cigarettes and never get lung cancer, but that doesn't mean smoking cigarettes is a good idea.
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
It's that texture. You just don't get it without the egg.
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Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
So raw PROCESSED cookie dough ...no, home made? Done it for years.
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Squirrel Chaser 3 months ago
Potassium is the letter K in the table of elements...
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Overlying that is the "spotlight effect", our intrinsic proclivity to grossly overestimate the degree to which other people notice and remember our mistakes. Most people are really too busy concentrating on their own mistakes to pay attention to ours. Nevertheless, our brains relive the episode as if the whole crowd is still watching, still judging, still talking about "that time you used "ironic" when you meant to use "coincidental"."
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Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Well, that there is a drawing of the rare and little known lined lion. True fact. Wouldn't lie to you :).
Blackmoon The Dragon 3 months ago
The word box even says it up at the top!!!
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago (edited)
Lions are famously stripey like in the picture of a tiger...
Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
I wonder how many tests the teacher marked before realising. Or if they thought every single child in the class got it wrong.
SourQueen 3 months ago
So many teachers are overworked, they are exhausted. It might have been quite a while before the teacher realized their mistake. I would be embarrassed to know that so many parents were going to see that.🤦🏼♀️😅
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Puppy Dancing! 3 months ago
Scary that the teacher didn't read the possible answers listed at the top
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
Must be an ''anywhere in America'' school.
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Miki 3 months ago (edited)
Lovely,.. And now imagine how much will you like them when you will have to clean them.
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The shame lingers not because the incident was disastrous, but because it nudged against something deep: our phobia of not fitting in, of being seen as stupid, of not having social capital. And though those anxieties are correct on some primal survival level, they're completely disproportionate to most contemporary situations.
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
Is education illegal in the US. Well, the state of Oklahoma is puting in a teacher qualifying test to bar non-conservatives from being hired.
Nikole 3 months ago
This is going to happen everywhere as “education” will be left up to the states. Weeeeee are fúcked.
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Spencers slave no more 2 months ago
Same s*x relationships have been legal in Turkiye since 1858, although same s*x marriage is not legal. Being LGBT+ is also legal. Just because they are a majority Muslim country does not make them intolerant. Some Western countries could learn a lot from Turkiye.
Load More Replies... Cougar Allen 3 months ago
Austria was Hungary, took a piece of Turkey, fried it in Greece. Along came Italy, kicked it into the Mediterranean Sea, where it became the island of Sicily. —poem my grandmother taught me.
Vera Diblikova 3 months ago
Austria was Austria, Hungary was equal part of Austria-Hungary empirium. But nothing against your grandma.
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
The flying dinosaur outside my window earlier was born just a few months ago, and is currently preparing for an epic journey to the other end of the planet.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Growing up watching Allo Allo I learnt French, German and Italian. It's all in the accent.
Andrew Burke 3 months ago
Good moaning! I was pissing by the door, when I heard two shats.
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Khavrinen 3 months ago (edited)
Do you suppose this is the same person from the "tri doesn't mean three" one?
Cuppa tea? 3 months ago
So biblical means phone call not only between two people, but multiple?
The irony is that these moments make us more lovable, not less. People tend to trust those who can laugh at themselves and rebound from mistakes. But the brain at 2 A.M. doesn't care about perspective, instead, it's replaying a loop of that quality you called your teacher in class.
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ShyWahine 3 months ago
Did YOU pay attention in biology class? Skin color is determined by dominant or recessive genes
Daniel Atkins 3 months ago
Just for laughs the shadow makes it look like the kid has a moustache.
ॐBoyGanesh 3 months ago (edited)
We adopted our son at birth, because his father died before he was born & my best friend died immediately after his birth. His bio parents were Latino/Black & Native American/ White. I’m as Dutch as can be & my husband is also pale white. We’re both men. More than once we’ve been asked if we’re his biological parents given our complexions. It’s nice people look past the gender, but to overlook it for the sake of racial compartmentalizing is silly. Clearly, neither of us bio males are his biological mother. 🤷🏼♂️
3 months ago
broski might need to get his eyes checked that or he needs to go back to 5th grade
#26
Spidercat 3 months ago
Or shìtting, pìssing, shaving, showering, eating, caffeinating, nicotine...ating... sitting motionless on the sofa trying to summon the energy for another day etc.
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liam newton-harding 3 months ago
This is like the celebs with kids who post, “we all have the same 24 hours”…no, you have a chauffeur, nannies, cleaning staff, personal chefs, and a whole slew of personal assistants that are there to make your life easier…we do NOT “all have the same 24 hours”.
BlackestDawn 3 months ago
Or put in another way: We may have the same 24hours but we do not have the same amount of things we need to do ourselves.
Load More Replies... michael Chock 3 months ago
Someone needs to tell influencers that what they do for a "job" is what we all to do to relax after work.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
With all that extra time, Coach, perhaps you should start studying math books.
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Trillian 3 months ago
Well they do compete in the Eurovision song contest ...
Load More Replies... Anonymouse 3 months ago
PLUS - the unemployment rate is NOT actually the number of unemployed people, it is a construct that removes large numbers of people as "no longer searching", for example pretty much ALL unemployed homeless people are no longer included in the unemployment rate...
Daniel Atkins 3 months ago
Right it is based on how many are filing for unemployment benefits.
Load More Replies... Steve Kadner 3 months ago
As of July 1, 2025, minimum wage in Australia is 24.95 AUD. 1 AUD converts to .65 USD. So in freedom dollars, Australia's minimum wage is $16.22. Not sure of the date of this tweet.
Load More Replies... Mary Peace 3 months ago
There's a country called Austria, that's in Europe! Also learn to spell 'adjust'.
Panda'sMom 3 months ago
Australia uses "Australian Dollars" like "Canada Dollars" completely different exchange rates.
Finally, being publicly incorrect humiliates us because it momentarily shatters the armor around the self-image we present to the world. And those late-night rewinds? That's just your brain, wrongly trying to "protect" you from repeating the error, while keeping you awake all night in the process.
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Bec 3 months ago (edited)
As a teacher, you know what is great? Generative AI can write my students papers, they can Google answers to all of their questions, but I get to create quizzes in sh1tty learning management software in which I may, occasionally, have an error, or if it is a short answer question, students must enter exactly one of the options I program in, so an extra space or having 50 vs. 50.0 will result in the computer grading it as incorrect. Cut us some slack please
michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
The computer science department should have asked the math department how to use the testing software, because something here isn't adding up.
#29
The Scout 3 months ago
It is meant like the decal saying "Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8." If you look up that particular line of scripture, it reads "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
Cougar Allen 3 months ago
Even if that prayer is answered it won't help. The entire line of succession is members of the Former Republican Party, and I suspect Putin has compromat on every one of them.
Load More Replies... Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
I think they’re saying, “I hope he dıes soon and they are reunited.”
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Stannous Flouride 3 months ago
Let me kick the man and woman out of my bed and I'll look it up.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
The video was very obviously sarcasm so the people who liked that comment were just playing along the joke
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Philly Bob 3 months ago (edited)
When you can ride several bikex at a time. With no seat.
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Jonas Fisher 3 months ago
English teacher here. I confirm that this is correct: Apostrophes never make a word plural. I do a short lesson on it with my older students every year.
BossyCloud 3 months ago
I appreciate that you teach them that! It's always annoying when people use them for making last names plural too. Like the Johnson's family.
Load More Replies... Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
I don’t mind wrong grammar. I think it’s funny to see apostrophes used incorrectly on street signs and shop signs.
Caffeinated Ape 3 months ago
There used to be a blog called "Apostrophe Abüse" that detailed entertaining examples of that. There was one for unnecessary quotation marks as well IIRC.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
I've donned all my personal protective equipment and I'm about to run around the corner for safety. But: apostrophe's and plurals? Er, yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrophes_(%22greengrocers'_apostrophes%22)
Ace 3 months ago
Just because lots of people have been getting it wrong for a long time doesn't make it any less wrong.
Load More Replies... Bec 3 months ago
It was pointed out to me that in the Midwest we have a habit of adding an 's' when referring to stores, e.g. I'm going to Kroger's or Meijers etc. I didn't even realize it is Meijer and not Meijers because not saying the 's' sounds weird.
Mary Peace 3 months ago
I thought it was an abbreviation of Kroger's store, because you're talking about the store that belongs to Kroger.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Space man or not, he was a bloody good cyclist, shame he resorted to cheating to win all those tour de France.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Neil A. backwards is Alien. Do what you will with this new found knowledge.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I may have the mind of a child, but I know the difference between ferry and fairy.
michael Chock 3 months ago
A ferry tail is called a wake, and he definitely had one. What's the point?
Phantom Phoenix 3 months ago
Although this is a reply for the post about homonyms, it seems appropriate to leave it here... Tail & Tale - yes, Fairy & Ferry - almost but not quite. What picture, what meaning does someone make in their head out of "ferry tail"?
Ace 3 months ago
I'm picturing a large boat with a long rope trailing behind it.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
😂😂 all I can think of is riding a ferry boat with this long furry thing floating behind.
Freddy M. (He/Him) 3 months ago
But you see they used the word "whomever", and must then be smart
Karen Bryan 3 months ago
I don't think I've ever seen a ferry tail, but then I don't know much about boats.
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Stannous Flouride 3 months ago
The top one is a Kwikset KW1, the lower is a Schlage SC1. With those keys and that image it would be easy to make a duplicate but picking the lock is faster.
WindySwede 3 months ago
"Hi this is the lockpickinglawyer, we will open this with a ***** and and rubber hammer, there we go, it's open. A low security lock folks". Prop something like that, with knowledge you don't even need a key.
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Papa 3 months ago
Same here. I couldn't help but think "With all that's going on in that post, the type of metal is what the reply focused on?"
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
I raise that offer by a pound of Brussel sprouts!
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UKGrandad 3 months ago
White gold is an alloy of gold and either nickel or palladium. The other 'coloured' golds - yellow, green and rose/pink are made by alloying gold with copper and/or silver in different proportions.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
Indeed. Similar to the concept of brass, except brass uses zinc as the white metal. You can get a far range of colors and other properties depending on the ratio. Unlike gold, though, you get more of a reddish copper color if you have low white metal content. 3 parts copper to 1 part zinc (roughly) is what produces that nice yellow color everyone is so familiar with.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
I've always thought diamonds were boring, and people are dumb for still believing in a DeBeers ad (1938) claiming they are rare and worth 2mths salary. Talk about being duped by an advertisement.
Bec 3 months ago
Our wedding rings are tattooed on, $50 because that was the shop's minimum fee and it will never get lost or caught on anything,
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J Gunn 3 months ago
What drives me nuts is the rhodium plating on white gold. Why even bother with gold, if you want such a stark white color, that wears away and has to be replated again and again? Bleh
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Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
Silly question but how is gold edible? I don’t understand putting gold flakes on food or in drink. Okay, it’s pretty, but surely it’s not digestible.
KrazyChiMama 3 months ago
But doesn’t everyone want shiny gold flecks in the bowl every morning? :D
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Okay, occasionally people mix up the modern scientific use of the word 'element' and the olden days use: fire, earth, air, water. The Chinese (I believe) also have metal. But how on earth did they decide salt was an element?
Ellie Ahmed 3 months ago
I think some people just conflate salt and sodium, which is an element. Probably in part because we interchange the words salt and sodium so much in nutrition
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No, it isn't. It's just in a format (thin enough or small enough pieces) to be easily swallowed. You can eat virtually anything if it's prepared properly, but it's still just plain gold.
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Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
The first statement makes me so confused. Humans have existed for 3/4 of the time the universe has?
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 3 months ago (edited)
I had a physics exam where the a was “which of the following is NOT a unit of time?” And from the options given I wrote Parsec and Lightyear which were the only correct options. Teacher had the audacity to mark me wrong and tried arguing wiith me. This was last week and I’m in highschool
David Macbeth 3 months ago
All sorts of wrong. In reality, if the whole lifespan of the Earth were to be represented as a 24 hour day, humans only appeared at 10 seconds to midnight. And that's just the Earth, a reasonably young planet.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Must an American because we interchange time and distance. "I live about two hours outside of Chicago." Or "It's only ten minutes from here."
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Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
That's when the Gregorian calendar officially replaced the Julian calendar. Ten days were removed in the process because the Julian calendar incorrectly measured the lunar year.
Remi (He/Him) 3 months ago
Such bs. The Christian calendar starts with the supposed birth of Jesus and with the year 1. That's the change from the Julian calendar that had the year length wrong to the more accurate one
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
Teacher: "Two negatives make a positive, but two positives never make a negative." Student: "Yeah, sure."
Jane Hower 2 months ago
Give this some serious thought - BOTH ways of saying actually mean the same. How much do you care?? I 'could' care less, but what's the point - because I actually couldn't care less.
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
For all of those that do have some deficiency in their colour vision there are two digits, made up of two different shades of green. If you can differentiate both shades of green from the orange you can see 74, but if can only differentiate the bright green you will see 71.
Blackmoon The Dragon 3 months ago
I saw 71 at first but then when I paid more attention I saw 74
Riley Quinn 3 months ago (edited)
I'm going with orange, but I'm biased since orange is my favorite color. BTW, the fruit came first. People used to refer to the color orange as red.
Kenny Kulbiski 3 months ago
Easy. I don't see anything but a bunch of dots. Yeah I'm colorblind.
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Spidercat 3 months ago (edited)
What happened on the 9th of November 2001? I must have missed that one.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
That photo looks a lot more like the Lujiazui district of Shanghai than Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lujiazui
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
February 16, 1968, the date when Senator Rankin Fite completed the first 9-1-1 call made in the United States in Haleyville, Alabama.
Stannous Flouride 3 months ago
911 was introduced in the US 1968, in California in 1973 and in Los Angeles in 1984. Before that they would have dialed "0"
joann fielding 3 months ago
If you could get through the party line to dial 0. IYKYK.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Um, I was in 10th grade when they introduced it, the year MLK and Robert Kennedy were shot. 1968.
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Becky Samuel 3 months ago
Ugh. That's one of the only misspellings that actually gets to me for some reason.
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Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
LLMS are TERRIBLE for math. At all. They apply weights to words (or in this case numbers) If you give it the statement 56 x 75 = y and ask for the value of y, all it's going to really consider is that the suitable answer is a number. If you're lucky, the training data contains enough iexamples of 56 x 75 = y and then someone listing the value of y to know that the value of y is 4200. If it doesn't the AI will pick what it perceives a pattern to determine the answer. When training an LLM, the AI develops it's own methods of categorizing words as values, which is why they're ridiculously good at picking up patterns that humans don't notice, but frequently give the wrong answers to math questions. There IS a reason it gave the answer it did, but it probably has nothing to do with what the math problem calls for. The work around for this is that they effectively teach the LLM to recognize math programs and then plug that problem into a sub routine.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
That is to say it effectively recognizes a math problem, pulls up python (or some other programming language) and then lets the code do the math for it, rather than the AI trying to do the problem step-by-step.
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Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
That 'mommy' cow has a pretty distinct pizzle. Yes, that is what it's called. Thus, it's either a bull or a steer. A male bovine is never a cow.
Doug Moyer 3 months ago
But in common vernacular, 'cow' is the generic term for both genders. (And, yes, it is obviously a bull, but that's not my point...)
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Emilu 3 months ago
Forget that; I would not want to be *milking* that cow!
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I find it funny that even though they don't know how to tell the difference between a male and female they just doubled down with bs facts. They probably believe brown cows make chocolate milk.
CD Mills 3 months ago
I've been around livestock all my life, that is NOT a cow! There looks to be a cow on the other side of the tent in one pic though. While some livestock breeders do artifically inseminate their cows, the majority buy or raise their own bulls. Cows are no less of a liability than bulls, in fact they are more likely to cause you harm for two main reasons. Those reasons are; one, you have one bull for every 25* cows to breed. There are simply more cows so they are more likely injure you just by the numbers. Two, the main reason a cow would injure you is if they feel you are too close to their calf. A bull doesn't give a f about a calf. Hell, even a calf can hurt bad you under the wrong circumstances. *This can be whatever number your boss likes
J J 3 months ago (edited)
That's one h***y hefer. Really? I can't refer to something having horns as being h***y? But then it let's me type out h***y.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
NJP, is a man a male woman? EDIT: why the downvote? Man and woman are to humans as bull and cow are to bovines. A bull is no more a male cow than a man is a male woman, or a ram is a male ewe.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 3 months ago
All I can say is " holy cow ". But, I'd really like to know about the goat in the chair.
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David Morgan 3 months ago
That's bulimia...at least, according to Zoolander.
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Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
Astronomers would *love* the Starlink constellation to be a myth... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Impact_on_astronomy
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
Not only that, but every other self-respecting dictatorship wants a constellation of their own.
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roepi 3 months ago (edited)
Tell that to astronomers. Muskernet is practical in remote places but it's also pure orbital pollution.
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Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
The band named itself after a friend's Burmese Blue cat named Procul Harun. They misheard the name and spelled it wrong.
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Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
Whilst a teenager is anyone between 13-19 years old, I think a lot of people think at 18 they are an adult and therefore no longer a teenager. It’s wrong but I think that’s quite a common belief.
lise duhamel (That_U_Scully) 3 months ago
It is a legal definition in my country, in most provinces the age of majority is 18 and the meaning is they are considered an adult and may vote, serve in the military etc.
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Ryan Mercer 3 months ago
According to teen beauty pageants, a teenager is between the ages of 17 and 23.
David Morgan 3 months ago
Yet another reason beauty pageants are stupid, they do not know what the suffix 'teen' means.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Mekailah, you're wrong. It was hard, else they wouldn't have gotten pregnant.
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Bad enough the US uses the nonsensical Imperial system, but why can't we use the 24 hour clock (or US military time) since it avoids ambiguity.
Tabitha 3 months ago
Not even one of those people was 100% right. The last one doesn’t count because they didn’t expand their answer past “No”.
Moving Enigma 3 months ago
Sigh, the first answer is correct. Ante meridiem and post meridiem.
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
This is a Brit being an idiot. While we say 'hot flush' I'm sure most people are aware that Americans say 'hot flash'
Spidercat 3 months ago (edited)
I am British and was not aware the Americans say Hot Flash. You'd (general you not Roxy, who is also British) actually be surprised how little we care about American English. The majority of the English speaking world uses British English and America are actually the outliers in terms of spelling, phraseology and grammar. Not a criticism at all but just an observation.
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Spidercat 3 months ago
Personally, I'm a Secondary Vegetarian...I only eat animals that are vegetarian.
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Phantom Phoenix 3 months ago
If you're actually on Tinder to find a date, you might want to use a better photo. e.g you could recreate this one with the toilet paper hung correctly on the holder...
Michael Largey 3 months ago
No woman has contacted her because they have better things to do with their time.
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Chuck 3 months ago
Still, pretty cringe thing to say. Who talks like that?
Load More Replies... Philly Bob 3 months ago
Look askance, Just a glance, Just enough, To incite the wrath, Of her confidante, Strong though gaunt, And that′s how to get your a*s kicked.
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Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
Could be that one is 2.37 lbs and the other is 3.67 lbs in weight, maybe?
Phantom Phoenix 3 months ago
Dear USA, why are you calling Pork *Shoulder* a "Butt" roast? Please be advised, shoulders and butts are different things.
Zoe Vokes 3 months ago
I have never heard of a butt roast before but would have assumed it was roasted butt cheeks.
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Doug Moyer 3 months ago
Well, all official government history is being scrubbed so no American can feel bad about the past, so...
Anonymouse 3 months ago
Interesting fact I learned today - more slaves were shipped to South America than North America, because the life expectancy there was only SIX MONTHS! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2016/11/21/the-slave-trade-in-the-u-s-and-brazil-comparisons-and-connections/ When faced with the numbers of the transatlantic slave trade, U.S. citizens are frequently surprised by the fact that less than 400,000 enslaved Africans were carried to North America out of the more than ten million people that were disembarked by slave ships in the Americas between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. (For estimates of the transatlantic slave trade, see www.slavevoyages.org). Of all major American regions of slave disembarkation, British North America (after 1776, the United States) was ahead only of the Danish Caribbean during the whole period of the transatlantic slave trade. At the other end was Portuguese America (after 1822, Brazil), which received almost five million enslaved Africans!
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Talking about the number of slaves who went directly from Africa to North America leaves out the many were shipped to the West Indies slave markets and then taken to North America after being purchased there..
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Entomologists study insects. Etymologists study the origin and history of words. Ornithologists study birds. You're on the internet. Open a new tab and verify whether you are talking sense or out of your butt.
Sofia 3 months ago
and landing on our food... and getting back all the times we send them away
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Past is preposition, i.e. indicating position of one thing relative to another, in the same way as in, under, behind, etc do
David Clark 3 months ago
Well in actual fact passed is the correct term as in 'passed this point' if the sign were to say no parking past these hours then past would be correct but when referring to movement as one of the commenters specified then past is incorrect and passed is correct. Past=Time, passed = forward motion. I passed my exam, moved forward. In my past I was an idiot referencing previous life
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Steve Kadner 3 months ago
"A person from Brazil is Latino but not Hispanic because Brazil's official language is Portuguese. "
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Arthur Waite 3 months ago
If the racecourse consists of 'the tallest building', then I think I'd bet on the snail.
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Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Except, as a 60+ yo man, I can verify your bladder will be FAR more active with coffee, there by negating the water.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I have to actually agree with zosmcosh_ on this one. They're both wrong and right, but mostly wrong because they aren't aware of why they're right. So obviously caffeine in general is a diuretic. However, they did a study and found that -habitual coffee drinkers- actually get about the same amount of hydration out of a cup of coffee than they would out of a similar amount of water. Your body builds a physical tolerance towards caffeine, which makes it less effective as a stimulant but also less effective as a diuretic. A habitual coffee drinker could follow zosmcosh_'s advice and still come out on top, or at least not be dehydrated. Judging by the sheer quantity of pop I drink and the color of my pee (I work in a foundry, it's actually standard procedure to check the color to check your hydration level), I'm inclined to believe this would also apply to pop-drinkers.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Water is water. Okie-dokie, then grab yourself a nice, tall, refreshing glass of sea water.
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Sofia 3 months ago
cant you guys switch off the main switch and cut off the electricity from the whole house?
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
That would be the *correct* way to do it. Could probably get away with flipping a few of the breakers if you're knowledgeable about the electrical layout of your house. I'd still probably just play it safe.
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Oh, I want these nitwits to pull the prongs out with uninsulated pliers. Preferably while standing in a bucket of water.
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The Scout 3 months ago
Well, until 1997, Mongolia actually had a navy. It was merely ceremonial, though, as there is no need to defend a totally landlocked country from the sea. It was more a reminder of times past, when they actually had a big fleet in the 13th century. The contemporary Mongolian navy had exactly one ship, which was stationed in a lake.
Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Being the world's largest landlocked country, Mongolians would have to drive to a boat dock first.
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Riley Quinn 3 months ago
Funny, not 5 minutes ago, my neighbor and I were both saying how we think Elvis sucks because he never credited Black musicians for the songs he recorded, and bc he was a pedoph!le. He deserved dying on the toilet bc he was constipated.
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S Mi 3 months ago
That last information....please know that any drinking in pregnancy can have negative consequences for baby. Actually certain effects will happen if you drink during a specific few *days* of pregnancy. If you drank before you knew, you can still make a huge difference by quitting as soon as you find out.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Wait till your child gets to be about three. That's when you'll need that drink.
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Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
This is just creepy. No one needs a tattoo vowing their allegiance to a sibling. Gives very Alabama or we play banjos type of vibe.
Novlette Williams 3 months ago
It's Alabama, they're probably married (to each other) with kids.
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Fungus John 3 months ago
thank god they circled all the comments, I might have accidentally looked at the bottom of my shoe trying to see where the mistake was.
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CD Mills 3 months ago
Colored pencils in the right hands could make that. I'm not sure who the Premier colored pencil artist is though.
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Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Ice Road Truckers disproved this. Faster you go, you displace water ahead, when it runs out of room, BOOM, ice explodes.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
Thank you, I actually had no idea either way 😂 Guess I never really thought about whether to drive fast or slow on ice (well, over water, anyways)
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Roxy222uk 3 months ago
The US uses 'liquor' where the UK would say 'spirits' (as far as I can work out). Liqueurs are a spirits that have been flavoured and sweetened.
Spidercat 3 months ago
There's an Off Licence out there with a Casino attached to it...sign says "Liquor in the front. Poker in the rear."
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Stephanie Did It 3 months ago (edited)
Blonde A: How do I get to the other side of the river? Blonde B, on opposite shore: You ARE on the other side, dummy!
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Oerff On Tour 3 months ago
Probably the THIRD most toxic snake in the world. The most toxic snake in the world is the President of the United States
Tabitha 3 months ago
I understand he smells like the toxic waste filling his Depends.
Load More Replies... Spidercat 3 months ago
Well let me chuck a grenade on all of this nonsense...The Eastern Brown is the THIRD most venomous snake in the world...No 2 is the Coastal Taipan and No 1 is the Inland Taipan...and Venomous means dangerous if it bites you...toxic/poisonous means dangerous if you bite it.
Hmmm hmmmm 3 months ago
I mean they probably are poisonous but you unless you're eating that snake it's largely irrelevant
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Spidercat 3 months ago
Don't bother with it Nathaniel. Too long and Timothy Chalamet is overrated...
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cugel. 3 months ago
People think sherbet is spelled sherbert, which red doubled down on.
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Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I was going to argue that it's a pretty wide genre, but after looking through the list, I uh... I get it. It's a wide genre, but I can't find it in my heart to consider Jimmy Buffet rock.
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Stannous Flouride 3 months ago
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
NJ P 3 months ago
I am embarassed at how stupid people are, especially when Google is right at their fingertips. Cannot believe these people will be running our busunesses and government. No hope for the future.
Gavin Johnson 3 months ago
Some of these people live near you, some of them get to vote for your political leaders! Eeeek.
Ryan Mercer 3 months ago
Some of them are joining ICE because they're feel'n the vibes.
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NJ P 3 months ago
I am embarassed at how stupid people are, especially when Google is right at their fingertips. Cannot believe these people will be running our busunesses and government. No hope for the future.
Gavin Johnson 3 months ago
Some of these people live near you, some of them get to vote for your political leaders! Eeeek.
Ryan Mercer 3 months ago
Some of them are joining ICE because they're feel'n the vibes.
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