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How long do you need to look at a picture before you get what's going on in it, Pandas? According to researchers at MIT, the human brain can process visuals in 13 milliseconds. So, you're supposed to get what's in a photograph before you even blink.
But is that really the case with the pics from the r/hmmm subreddit? They usually have no context, feature some detail that's just a tad bit off, or confuse you in general. If you're a fan of weird stuff on the Internet, you'll probably appreciate this newest collection of random as heck pics, so, scroll away!
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Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Reminds me of the time I took a picture of my dog sitting next to a sign saying NO DOGS.
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The Scout 9 months ago
Depends on the actual problem. I very nervously ignored this light for half a year at my last car - only to get told by an amused mechanic later that the only thing wrong with it was a short circuit in the engine warning lamp...
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Julia Mckinney 9 months ago
I think the pumpkins are trying to tell you something. I'd suggest a mechanic needs to check out your car.
Billo66 9 months ago
It's an '03 Chevy Venture van with 250,000 on it. It's just tellin me, I'm tired boss.
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Nikki Gross 6 months ago
I have several friends and relatives that are mechanics, I'm sending this to all of them for Halloween ideas. They'll love it!! 😂😂😁
MAKtheknife 9 months ago
I see Drunk Robot, a Key Sinking in the River, Can't Remember the Oil one, and THIS.
13 milliseconds are hardly enough to fully understand the pics from the r/hmmm subreddit. You might need to do some double or triple takes to fully get the meaning and notice what's really going on there. But people like that kind of stuff on the internet: the r/hmmm subreddit has over two million followers (or internet aesthetes, as they call themselves).
If you're unsure what qualifies for a "hmmm" image, the subreddit has some guidelines. They claim that hmmms are supposed to be textless and rely on the visual only. A good hmmm, according to the subreddit, will "make you think about the context, do a double take, invoke a deeper meaning, or just leave you thinking about how or why they exist."
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Seedy Vine 9 months ago
If they really wanna be different they should park upside-down!
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Daniel Atkins 9 months ago
Has to be photoshopped Barn Swallow nest are not big enough for a cat.
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Lyoness 9 months ago
"We have an ongoing hostage situation...the suspect has demanded catnip and a squeaky mouse within the next hour or, and I quote, 'I start tossing birds over the side!' Pspspsps has had no impact so far."
bart simpson 9 months ago
That's not a hostage situation. It's Garfield protecting his friends from Bruno, the neighborhood bully cat who wants to have the birds for lunch.
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Panda Cat 9 months ago
They return to the same nest every year. I loved having barn swallows on my patio.
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On the weird side of the internet, ripe with communities like r/lowrescrops, r/internet funeral, and r/mildlyinteresting, the r/hmmm subreddit stands out for its dedication to aesthetics. "hmmms should be aesthetic and meaningful, avoid anything that is merely r/mildlyinteresting," the subreddit's bio states.
It's no surprise, then, that the community has "internet as an art" in its description. Thus is the art of the internet: random, nonsensical, sometimes confusing, self-referential, and doused in sarcasm. So what if it takes us a few moments to understand what's happening in a picture? We've got nothing but time to procrastinate when we're online, right?
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Nea 9 months ago
My husband works for citibank and I cant wait to buy this now. Lol.
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Riley Quinn 9 months ago
One of my clients was bed-ridden, didn't have much time left. His wife worked, but wasn't earning enough to cover the mortgage plus other expenses. After decades of on-time payments, they fell behind 4mths, and Bank of America foreclosed on their nearly paid off home. Friends came together to pay the arrears plus a few future payments, and the bank said no. They were forced to move. So yeah, burn baby burn.
David Houde 9 months ago (edited)
If you ever had to deal with BOA, you would feel the same way. My wife and I did when her parents both passed. We had to submit the same paperwork no less than a dozen times. Each time it was filled out exactly how they told us to fill it out. Each time the person looking it over told us something was wrong (that the previous person told us to put on the forms). Each time we had to take the form it to A DIFFERENT BANK to have it notarized, because we didn't have an account with BOA and they wouldn't notarized anything for you if you didn't have an account with them. Plus after opening the estate claim at BOA, my wife, her sister and myself all ended up with BOA credit cards opened in our names. None of us applied for one. Just a terrible company. I haven't found any redeeming qualities about them.
Catlady6000 9 months ago
Oh dear, my mom had an account there, very small, +- $500. I've been debating whether to bother
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GenuineJen 9 months ago
The artist's name is Alex Schaefer. He's well known for painting banks on fire. He is also one of the creators of the video game Spyro the Dragon! Love the dragon/ fire connection :D https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Schaefer
2WheelTravlr 9 months ago
Well, that absolutely takes this awesome to the next level.
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Seedy Vine 9 months ago (edited)
This sh!t bank will sit on your paycheck for a whole week before cashing it, even if you have an account. Burn baby burn!
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Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
Bottom left is the only way he can afford that truck.
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Vivian McBride 9 months ago
I've seen plumber vans where the driver Is sitting on the, um, "throne", but this is the first barber one I've seen.
Joots (shants/jorts) 9 months ago
“Gotta find a way to make money on this, its simply TOO GOOD!” (for ITYSL w/ Tim Robinson fans)
Mary Peace 9 months ago
I hope this barber is a quick worker, because the customer doesn't sit in a chair, he has to sit with his legs underneath him.
If we were to treat these confusing images as art, then there's no shame in having to look at them just a bit longer than usual. Yet that's not to say that people tend to look at paintings for very long. One survey, for example, found that people look at a painting for an average of 17 seconds.
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Lara Verne 9 months ago
I would hang this painting above my fireplace. But I don't have fireplace.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Need to get fireplace. Move to new home if necessary, or have pretend fireplace without fire.
Load More Replies... veirdbuttrue 9 months ago
I love this painting because the cat looks exactly like my cat and my cat is exactly this fierce!
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Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 9 months ago
The Void has arrived. All shall bow before my mighty Voidness.
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Hayhaypaula 9 months ago
The different looks on the faces of the doggies is very amusing! The one at the bottom middle of the pic wants to know if we're seeing this too?
Nikole 9 months ago
I’m pretty sure these were the beagles who were rescued from a horrible medical testing facility. <3
Lil be lil 6 months ago
You're right and poor doggies probably afraid of humans faces.
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The Louvre claims that most visitors look at the Mona Lisa for about 15, and a survey from the MET found that people look at an artwork for about 32.5 seconds. Do those 17 or 32.5 seconds allow us to fully understand a work of art? Depends on the person, of course, but the same goes for confusing internet images.
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Jrog 9 months ago (edited)
And yes, that's for sure AI. it's one of a set of images showcasing image generation from geometrical prompts fed through ControlNet, generated with Stable Diffusion. It was published on September 2023 by reddit user Ugleh
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Timothy Martin 9 months ago
It's called "Spiral Town" but I think they missed the obvious name choice: "Concentricity"
David Goostree 9 months ago
This isn't one of those images that squinting is required ... quite the opposite.
Lil be lil 6 months ago
They were told that the world was round and this is the artists conceptualisation.
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Beak Hookage 9 months ago
I was having the most wonderful dream! I think you were in it!
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JB 9 months ago (edited)
(Maybe just me…) This looks like an artistic drawing of a full symphonic orchestra tuning up in preparation to play! Everybody doing their own thing. A dissonant cacophony. Then that guy up front taps his little stick. Momentary silence until he waves that little stick and, suddenly, the noise turns into a melody, a harmony, until dozens if not hundreds are playing music together that can make you cry. And I wonder how living as a human can be so confusing, messy, confrontational, but we can do this together.
Janissary35680 9 months ago
I love the sound of a symphony orchestra tuning up. I don't find it cacophonic at all. If you listen carefully, you can catch individual (generally brass and woodwind) players running through little snippets (typically the difficult bits) of what's on the program. It's like an overture to the whole concert.
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Valerie Page 9 months ago
Leonard Cohen's Tower of Song was my immediate reaction. Love it ... and Thanks Darius S !
keyboardtek 9 months ago
I found him here: http://andyamholst.com/2022/02/22/zwei-notenblaetter-2/
Load More Replies... Our brains might be able to categorize the objects in a photograph in milliseconds, yet we're not quite able to understand its full meaning that fast. Just like we need to look at a painting for longer than 30 seconds, we might need longer for that meme or confusing pic in order for our brains to be able to decipher it.
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Spidercat 9 months ago
Clever. Two people can have separate keys for different locks and both can open the door.
Sky Render 9 months ago
Actually not a bad idea! If you keep the keys separate, you can have a backup way to get the door unlocked should you lose one of them.
Pamelot 9 months ago
@CP - Wow, yeah, that crazy thought zoomed into my head while looking at it for 15 seconds (milliseconds?).
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anna sheikh 6 months ago
Shouldn't you be able to open the door even with the horse shoe and both padlocks? I dont see the horse shoe stuck in anything else its just hanging there. Or am i stupid??
Nikki Gross 6 months ago
Did anyone ever stop to think that just maybe they have a REASON for why they're using 2 different locks? It's unfair to judge someone, when you don't have any idea on why they felt that using 2 different locks is necessary. This could easily be done on Construction sites to lock up tools or equipment. A Farmer or Rancher can use the same methods to help lockdown gates, because stealing horses, cattle, chickens, hogs, etc., is actually a very REAL thing. It could help keep idiots out of paddocks and fields, especially stupid fūcking teenagers, because yes that is also a thing. I come from a long line, on both sides of my family that is country folk. So, you can call that a Redneck or Hillbilly thing, but we're a helluva lot smarter then you give us credit for.
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
Reminds me of what a 1930s actress had engraved on her ankle bracelet - "Heaven's above".
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Broccoli 9 months ago
now give this to a flat earther or one of those people who believe in those insane conspiracy theories and watch them write a whole essay saying evolution is fake
Mike Rodrick 9 months ago
If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.
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The way we see and interpret images is quite fascinating in general. The amount of things that happen all around us and bombard our visual senses is enormous. Our eyes also don't see a stable image all the time: we walk, move our heads and eyes, and even blink, so, the visual input changes constantly. Yet why is the image of the world around us always so stable?
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Khavrinen 9 months ago
Of course. He knows where all the "bad" girls live.
Load More Replies... Valerie Page 9 months ago
I posted before I saw your comment. Only Brits would see it
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Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
When he was a little kid his mom wouldn't let him play in the mud
She who must not be named 9 months ago
Didn't even see the guy at first, they should use this for camouflage 😅
She who must not be named 9 months ago
Should probably rephrase that. I clearly saw the outline/shape of a person. Didn't realise it was a real guy until I zoomed in on the eyes
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In 2022, researchers were able to somewhat answer that question. Our brain doesn't analyze every single visual snapshot. Instead, it has a stabilization mechanism. Our brains perceive the average of what our eyes have seen in the last 15 seconds. It's sort of like living in the past: the brain consolidates all the visual input it receives into one impression every 15 seconds.
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eric p 9 months ago
It's obviously Vegas or some other tourist trap. Real disney characters are forbidden from removing their heads in public
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Anna Svensson 9 months ago
Call me crazy, but it never occurred to me that there would be a man in the Minnie costume...
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago (edited)
Although clearly not a Disney performer, this shot does pretty much sumarise Disney.
Liz Butt 9 months ago
OMG. Is that you Minny????? My whole world is now in ruins. Minny is a GUY!!!!!!!!!
Valerie Page 9 months ago
Me too ... and I'm nearly 80. Is nothing real in my life I now wonder !
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Tiffany 9 months ago (edited)
What if it was their last meal they choose and not something they eat everyday?
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Kit Black 9 months ago
That can't be accurate - the strawberry shake actually has strawberry all through it. There's a fillet of fish and nobody eats those.On the other hand the half empty fry bag totally tracks
winterwidow87 9 months ago
I love how the comment right under this one is of someone appreciating Fillet o' Fish 😂
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Mary Peace 9 months ago
The tardis is a square, at least on the outside. . .
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Klaudia Goldstein 9 months ago
If you click on the name at the bottom left of the picture, you will find the solution (not as exciting as it seems).
Trying to interpret every single visual stimulus that happens around us all the time would simply make us go mad. "If our brains were always updating in real time, the world would feel like a chaotic place with constant fluctuations in light, shadow and movement," the study's authors wrote. "We would feel like we were hallucinating all the time."
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Beverley Brown 9 months ago
Looks like someone shook them up before the dots had finished setting.
Sven Grammersdorf 9 months ago
The second one from the top is not right. Two opposite faces of a die should add up to 7, but that one has 5 and 2 next to each other instead. The same is true for the one below it, 4 and 3 should be across from each other, not adjacent.
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Alex Boyd 9 months ago
I looked it up after seeing things like this on a camping trip. What they're doing is called amplexus; the male clings to the back of the female, so that when she released her eggs, he's right there to fertilize them. Typically all the females in a given area have their cycles synced up, so if you're there on the right evening, you'll hear and see dozens of frogs making their way toward the water and amplexus-ing away. The males are in a hurry to grab a female, and aren't always discriminating--sometimes they'll grab onto a male, or an amphibian of another species, or end up facing the wrong way, but once they're latched on, they don't let go until the process is complete. This is actually one of the better scenarios; the big one in front is a female, so when she lays her eggs, all these guys will do their thing, and they can move on with their lives.
SmooshieFries 9 months ago
🎶You do the Froggy- Doggy and you turn yourself around, and thats what its all about🎤
That's one of the reasons why we don't notice subtle visual changes, say, a person aging. The researchers claim that this visual smoothing by the brain is also responsible for us not recognizing stunt doubles in movies sometimes. "The brain sticks to the past because the past is a good predictor of the present," they claim.
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Sky Render 9 months ago
Sometimes you have to improvise when you don't have a cannon and you're trying to faithfully recreate the 1812 Overture!
Panda Cat 9 months ago
Only the bullet hitting something is percussion, otherwise it’s an air instrument. A piano is percussion because the hammers hit the strings but a harpsichord is not because the strings are plucked. I suspect there’s no bullet so it’s not even really percussion. Poor orphan instrument, whatever it is.
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That's Leopold Mozarts's "Jagdsymphonie" ("Hunting Symphony"). Leopold was Wolfgang's dad, and he was not shy in using weird instruments or using stuff in an unexpected musical way. The Jagdsymphonie calls for hunting horns and cymbals (in the photo), a string complement, "gunshots" and three hound dogs (often a recording is used).
Michael Largey 9 months ago
I'm glad they're finally doing something about those people who always walk in late for the concert.
But the past probably won't help you interpret the images from this list. Still, let us know which ones you liked the best by upvoting them, and don't forget to comment which ones confused the most! Also, if you'd like to see more contextless pics from the r/hmmm subreddit, head over here, here, or here!
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Sandella 9 months ago
It's a scene shot out of a (ps2 maybe) game judging by the original post on reddit. As proven by the lack of shadow on the weapon.
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CP 9 months ago
Glad to see I didn't have to be the first to make a FF7 comment.
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Sky Render 9 months ago
Plot twist: the actual code is 2607, they deliberately wore down those keys to throw people off.
ToGo 9 months ago
3 is the most worn down, likely a 4 digit code with two 3's. Only 12 combinations to try.
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Child of the Stars 9 months ago
I'm all for not discriminating based on hairstyle, but surely this wouldn't be allowed for safety reasons, right?
Catherine Maven 9 months ago
At least he's making it clear what REALLY matters to him ISN'T his brain ...
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Earthquake903 9 months ago
I did this once to a copper gas line. But I kept bending until it broke and went and told my mom what I did and that it smelled like rotten eggs. She was.. unhappy.
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Hile Troy 9 months ago
Dude in the back does look pretty Colossal with that lens. ik :)
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Joanne Hudson 9 months ago
And that is how I got torn cartilege in my knee playing basketball at work.
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Riley Quinn 9 months ago
I wish I knew the person who had this done, so I could sneak in and shave them bald while they slept. But badly. Like a 4yo would do it.
Bec 9 months ago
My brother had to start getting their elderly cat shaved down because he couldn't keep himself clean anymore
Load More Replies... Julia Mckinney 9 months ago
This looks like a cat breed with little fur and that someone photoshopped the face and paws of a regularly furred cat onto it. It doesn't look like someone shaved the cat.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Agreed. The R.H. side of the furred cat's face extends too far beyond the more bald cat's face.
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Nikole 9 months ago
Why the fúck would anyone do this?? Cats use their fur to regulate their body temperature. I’m so sick of people doing stupid things to pets because they think it’s funny.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
I hope it was for a medical reason :( Kitty doesn't look like a longhair, so it shouldn't have needed a shave due to matting.
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Ron Man 9 months ago
Before you cry about how cruel this is... This is a shave done by a vet as a part of treatment for ringworm.
MotherofGuineaPigs 9 months ago
I had a elderly cat that had to get shaved (due to grooming problems and a distinct hatred of the brush), but never her head, tail or feet.
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Feathered Dinosaur 9 months ago
Having a baby can be tedious... Btw my mom smuggled a phone into the delivery room, too, when I had my c-section lol
Nads 9 months ago
Maybe the surgery haven’t started yet. You only need to wear a mask inside an or after the surgical fields are in place. (Not sure ig i used the correct english words)
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Mark Hastings 9 months ago
My wife had a surgery to remove a device that had been implanted for blood clots. Because the route to where the device was located went through the heart, she had concious sedation during the procedure. It was not a pleasant ordeal.
Sandra Bartsch 9 months ago
I am more worried about the doctor on the left who is wearing his mask wrong
Cybele Spanjaard 9 months ago
Epidurals are usually bliss for below-the-waist surgeries..however, this mum is a bit well over the top checking her messages during the surgery. In what future will her baby have/a cell phone always next to him/her and mum taking half notice of the child when feeding or other baby needs? She should be pleased her face does not show ..I guess dad took this photo or someone close to be there
Catherine Maven 9 months ago
"Doctor! Doctor! What should I DO?" ... "Nothing, madam. You're not qualified." (MP MoL)
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G A 9 months ago
Is the very small man famous? Or is it the large man? I can see who is in the original but i don't get the reason why?
Bec 9 months ago
My first guess was the larger claiming he's done great volunteer work
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pineapple87 9 months ago
This must be a section that can be moved up or down for maintenance. Why you would need that is beyond me, but the different structure of the tracks would indicate something like that. Either that or photoshop/AI
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Who am I, where am I 9 months ago (edited)
I do really love it when people use the skeletons for outside decorations even if it's not Halloween 👏🏼
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M O'Connell 9 months ago
No, she's a model who also happened to grow up on a farm, this is a screenshot from a video of her operating the equipment.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
For anyone who does not know: The guy on the left is dressed up as Green Lantern, a superhero whose powers stem from his magic ring (not kidding.) He can basically "summon"/create anything he can imagine with his green ring, and the things he creates are always green in color. The joke here is that the guy in the green bodysuit is pretending to be a Green Lantern ring construct.
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Schmebulock 9 months ago
Hope those sprinklers never go off or that dumpster will catch on fire!
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Julia Mckinney 9 months ago
I saw this in a Star Trek Next Gen. episode once. Don't step on it!
ThatAussieIdiot(He/Him/Aussie) 9 months ago
Don't worry! I've seen someone play CHANGED! I know how to handle this!
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Paul C. 9 months ago
Just so I don't get in trouble, I will just say that they are two very attractive young women and step away from the keyboard!
Auntriarch 9 months ago
I just hope the girl on the right doesn't have to run for a bus
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Michael Largey 9 months ago (edited)
New first line in an old joke - "A black man walks into a Trump rally .."
Tele Avision 9 months ago (edited)
New first line in an old joke - " A black man walks into a gay rally..."
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Mike F 9 months ago
I'm ashamed to say it took me WAY too long to get this.
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