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!
Uhhhhhhh, I know every phone number too! Need to write that on my resume
The Bible tells you that you can pray anywhere. So, yeah, churches aren't essential.
not only are churches non essential, they are detrimental, well at least all the propagation of bullshit that goes on inside of them is anyway.
I won’t type what I am thinking about some people in some churches being abusive in a way which might lead to pregnancy, sooooo, as long as those people in church continue to act inappropriately (You get the ideas, I don’t think I need to finish)
More people outside of churches are rapists but I guess this website is just for people to take a dump on all religion while saying everyone else is judgmental.
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Every church in my area has been happy to do live-streamed sermons and encourages people to wear masks and wash hands on their little billboard thingy.
Why don't they pray for COVID to end? Isn't god all-powerful? Please invest in science and education, not churches. Churches and gods are less than useless, they're detrimental.
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Abortion clinics? Or specifically planned parenthood? Planned parenthood is a doctors office. Technically so are abortion clinics though
Ryan you have no say in what a women does w her body so you can't do s**t about it. It's women's healthcare if you don't want to get a woman pregnant bc she might choose to have a legal safe healthy abortion than get a vasectomy that's your body and you can choose not to participate. Or how about we force you to have a vasectomy would that be better? Bc I think it would. I would love to force you to have a vasectomy so you can't kill a living breathing woman.
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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.
