If finding parallels is the game, then this Twitter account is the winner.
It's called "True, I Guess..." and it shares — you guessed it — pictures of things that are technically true. It sounds simple, but believe me, just a couple of its tweets can make you question both your existence and the world around you.
Are nightmares dreams? Or free horror movies that you produce, direct, and star in? Do you have a skeleton inside you? Or are you (the brain) inside of a skeleton?
Continue scrolling and you tell me!
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A few months ago, my colleague Jonas wrote a piece on a subreddit with the same kind of energy as this Twitter account. Check it out if you haven't already!
Back then, Jonas compared these "obvious" remarks to dad jokes and I gotta say, I probably agree. Dad jokes are simultaneously beloved and maligned, deeply ingrained in the intimacies of family life, and yet universal and public enough to have a cult following.
By hitting a window with your bare fist in the regular manly fashion of course
If there's one thing that describes dad jokes, it's wordplay. You know it goes, "Hey, do you know what time my dentist appointment is? Tooth-hurty." "Why do they always build fences around cemeteries? Because people are dying to get in."
Stanley Dubinsky, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and the father of two young-adult sons, is a real enthusiast of dad jokes, mostly of the non-pun variety; he likes to deliberately mispronounce words sometimes, just to hear his kids groan and scoff exasperatedly.
"I take a little bit of perverse pleasure in causing them some embarrassment when I speak," Dubinsky said. "Your kids are embarrassed by you anyway, so the next best thing [to them laughing in earnest at your jokes] is to level with that."
But Dubinsky is also a linguist and the co-author of the book Understanding Language Through Humor, and as he explains it, there's a particular type of wordplay that gives a joke the dubious distinction of being a dad joke.
"Most jokes rely on some semantic ambiguity or grammatical ambiguity. The things people call dad jokes are the ones where the ambiguity is crushingly obvious," he explained.
Which is also the case here!
They kind of were, what the child has done is write the letters of the word in alphabetical order, at which point they're not words, so they've not done what was asked... although, they've still proven then understand alphabetical order!
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Indeed, this is the most logical and also only correct answer to this question.
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Obviously the child has mastered the actual subject. I hope he7she got extra points!
Trust me, those of us that thought in such literal terms, as children, did not get extra points... Usually our papers were just marked down , frequently ridiculed, often ostracized... The strongest of us made "success is the best revenge" our motto and moved on.... regrettably, some were not so fortunate ~
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What s/he did is actually a much higher performance of the same skill that the original task was supposed to test
Absolutely, what kid has done is way harder than what the actual task was.
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they understand what alphabetical order means. as far as i am concerned PASS
To give it credit, this shows a mastery of alphabetical order.
This is me doing my school work and homework. Never allowed to ask if they meant it literally or if they wanted the answers they taught us to memorize. Got a couple bad grades for doing what was asked on tests. Got the best grades in highschool without studying much because I learned what they wanted to hear instead of actually answering questions to the best of my ability. I would like to thank my teachers again for always putting me down, always ridiculing my questions and curiosity and becoming part of the reason why I am andwho I am today
Ooof I did this with some very long words when I was about 8 and homeschooled. My mom felt so bad for me, she didn't even make me redo the assignment she just explained how to do it next time.
My brain processes that way. All my life! Audio dyslexia. Thankfully, with age I'm so much better at thinking through a few scenarios before I act! True story!
That took extra effort, so extra credit should be given for following instructions.
OMG, I laughed so hard I scared my cats! I hope the teacher gave this kid an A+.
My dad, an electrical engineer, threw in the towel thinking he had lost the ability to think because he could solve a third grade math puzzle. No one could. It was a word problem written so poorly no one knew what to do. This is the same man who tried to teach me algebra a few years earlier. After 10 minutes he was so frustrated, telling me I should have gotten what he was explaining. I told him 10 minutes and being 40 something may mean he has to slow down a bit. I don't know how I never had algebra in school.
Judging by the handwriting, it was probably written by a young child who doesn't use a dictionary yet and therefore doesn't relate the concept of alphabetical order to the first letter of a word. Also, the lines next to the each word are confusing. They could have write the three given words in a row and lines below it.
Written, I know. There isn't an option to edit a comment.
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I would have to sing myself the abc to be able to complete this task even in the way it was requested, stupid ask anyway
The letters of the word are written in alphabetical order; the task was to write the whole words in alphabetical order (e.g. "royal" would go first).
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But it is. It says to write the words in alphabetical order. It does not say to write the letters in alphabetical order.
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Uhhhhhhh, I know every phone number too! Need to write that on my resume
They can be picky eaters, like what if they only keep on eating bacon forever. I bet 600 pounds is a small number.
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This made me laugh! I love when people are way too literal lol
As a wise cartoon character once said, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I love you for loving futurama enough to have that quote on hand.
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I love stuff like this. It's refreshing and lightheartedly genuine. Makes ya smile and feel good kind of stuff. We don't get to much of that kind of stuff now a days. So this absolutely was enjoyed.
This made me laugh! I love when people are way too literal lol
As a wise cartoon character once said, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I love you for loving futurama enough to have that quote on hand.
Load More Replies... I love stuff like this. It's refreshing and lightheartedly genuine. Makes ya smile and feel good kind of stuff. We don't get to much of that kind of stuff now a days. So this absolutely was enjoyed.
