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
Idiot! We men OBVIOUSLY hit the window with our heads! /s
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By sliding across the hood and jumping in the windows, like we were raised to
I was once driving through serious middle-of-nowhere-backwoods Maine to meet family for Christmas. It was about 1 degree outside, and I needed to take a leak. Pulled over on this rural road, with no houses in sight, didn't put on my coat, since I was just jumping our for a few seconds. Left the rental car running to keep it warm, did my business, went to open the door...locked. With the keys inside. Car running. Took me about 5 seconds to realize my only option was to kick in a window. Chose the little triangular one in the back seat - figured it would be the cheapest option, and wouldn't let too much freezing air for the rest of my drive.
I thought men jumped through the window or broke the windshield and hopped in 🤣
Dukes of Hazard style, hoping you can put the windows down and fit.
Sounds like you’re against equality. No surprise really.
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I dated a guy who insisted on opening my car door for me. Even though he meant it a chivalry act, I found it very demeaning as someone who is obsessed as being treated as an equal functional human being. There is a deference between being polite such as holding a door open for someone behind you and being treated like someone who needs extra special treatment for no reason other than being a woman.
My husband always opens my door for me, unless it's just easier. We were at Home Depot and a young couple next to us was exiting their cars as my husband opened my door to get in and she scolded her boyfriend for never doing the same. Poor kid, he looked so embarrassed. I have a feeling he started doing it soon after. My husband could pass as a biker in the right gear but is a softie and a gentleman. Usually...lol
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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
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.
