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!
It's not a lie they started from a garage but they had tons of money behind, to build as many garages as they wished if something went wrong🙄
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Yeah let’s feather the pockets of politicians with more tax dollars. Great idea.
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The level of entitlement in the original post is staggering. Many, many people do not have a garage at all. And many more simply cannot spare it for running a business because they already rely on it for storage, because their house is small, for example. If your parents can clear out their garage and donate it to you to use you are very blessed and should be aware of that.
garages before 1990 were Massive because of big boat sized cars.
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You can definitely tell the conservatives on here, they are the ones defending the rich and telling everyone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Not mentioning that each and everyone of these people were upper middle class and receive substantial amount of money from their parents. The conservative party, the party of welfare. And low education. Socialism for me, but not for thee.
None of them were on welfare and I'm sure they were fairly educated my guy.
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So, really the answer here is, "my excuse is that I don't have rich parents".
And connections in business via parents or otherwise. Gates’ mom got him connected at IBM.
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My excuse? I don't have a mortgage sized loan from my parents.
All these inspirational memes, then a guy comes around and destroys it in 1 sentence.
If you open the garage and there are piles of money from their parents-maybe it's true.
It greatly helps to have affluent parents to send you to the best schools in the best neighborhoods, and the ability to have those same affluent parents pump money into your business. This is the case in each example shown. They weren't rags to riches stories for any of them.
A house that size with a garage is like 2 million dollars where I live
Ours is a bit too full of "Stuff" to even get creative in there.......2 sons, many years, and a lot of clearouts. It's so sad. It's a very lovely garage and could be quite inspiring
I don't have uber rich parents who can loan me millions, like the parents of these people did?
Yeah bs , that's not true at all. Most of the men who creating these mega companies came from wealthy families and were given a good deal of money to start their business. Like Trump and his "small loan of a million dollars" from his father
I started a storage company in my garage. Of course it's all my stuff so...
Or a house, if you’re a millennial. Or worse, a garage IS your house.
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.
