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!
We live in strange times. I was gonna write his profile picture is perfect for this quote, because of the simultaneously smart and goofy face he's making. But then I thought people would think I meant because he's black. That made me a little sad.
Wow, this comment has created some backlash... Let me give some background. I visited a certain meme site for many years, where maybe half of the community was very toxic. Although the memes were good, and there were a lot of cool people, I ultimately left for that reason. If I had made my original comment there, it would definitely have created a flood of 'funny' jokes about black people. So I 'caught' myself when posting, and made the comment about that. And as some people have pointed out, I could indeed have used the word 'expression' instead of 'profile picture' and avoided the whole thing. Oh well. Now, let's all be friends again.
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But why only school supplies? It gives for free anything you can carry i guess
Considering the physical shape of most of the security guards here in the UK (and the fact that there are "no f*cks given" about doing a good job securing the premises) the odds are in favour of those who chose the "five finger discount" route out the door...
Our politicians and Corporations steal from we the people every day. I'm not stopping any one stealing from evil corporations. I won't convict them in a jury trial either. The wealthy are the true parasites on society. "When the people run out of food, then they will eat the Rich".
In San Francisco they give out free everything because taking things without paying is no longer a crime
Walmart is NOT worth the2priceaper by two professors at Pennsylvania State University found that U.S. counties with Walmart stores suffered increased poverty compared with counties without Wal-Marts. They hypothesized that this could be due to the displacement of workers from higher-paid jobs in the retailers customers no longer choose to patronize, Wal-Mart providing less local charity than the replaced businesses, or a shrinking pool of local leadership and reduced social capital due to a reduced number of local independent businesses. Dr Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System", said in a lecture at the University of Melbourne on September 18, 2007, that a study in Nebraska looked at two different Wal-Marts, the first of which had just arrived and "was in the process of driving everyone else out of business but, to do that, they cut their prices to the bone, very, very low prices". In the other Wal-Mart, "they had suc
But they are free to whomever shoplifts, right? Which was the point to begin with.
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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.
