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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Can I join the screaming party? *inhale* *SCREAM*
Load More Replies...Yeah i loved her reaction! Not many teachers would do that
Load More Replies...Someone in class with me did this... instructions said " write a short story and be creative".. The classmates literally wrote write a short story and be creative. He got a 20 for creativity. The teacher wasn't happy but couldn't help but laugh.
Where is the story in this copied sentence? Not even creative. Fail from me too.
Load More Replies...The teacher may did the exercise thinking if someone would answer this answer. ;)
Load More Replies...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.
One of my fav memes was when trump tweeted stop the count, and someone replied a picture of the count going ah-ah-ah
Haven't seen it, but can absolutely imagine that. Also now I'm laughing out loud and my cats are looking at me strangely. 1 cat 2 cats ah ah ah
Load More Replies...IMHO (never humble), I think a lot more people need to take Sesame Street a lot more seriously I think our would be a better place for it
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
Load More Replies...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.
should we really be training sharks to use bicycles? Why not get them into biathlon and give them a gun while we're at it?
Load More Replies...The Shark will have the aerodynamics, but will it's fins reach the pedals. 🤔
They have two penises so with the right adaptations...
Load More Replies...Here! I just invented a bicycle for sharks! Ta-dah...! Sorry.... Ta...dah. Ta...dah
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."
I feel like the once enviable skill of map making has been reduced to a graphic design program.
Load More Replies...Or alcohol. Well… I guess just never trust a Glaswegian.
Load More Replies...that is so close to how my hair looks XD (and i can confirm it is hard to see sometimes)
As the Beatles song goes"He must be good looking ,for he's so har to dee".
I certainly remember The Dead Milkmen! "Punk Rock Girl" was quite catchy. (Are we showing our ages yet??)
Load More Replies...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!
I heard if 24 hours have passed in India, it will be a new day there.
I am from India and I attest this statement!
Load More Replies...I had a Trumper on Twitter trying to convince me Trump is as a matter of fact my president whether I like it or not. Im German
It's like Americans forget other countries exist sometimes...
More like “Americans are extremely used to hearing people delude themselves about who won the 2020 election, so when they hear ‘not my President’ they usually assume that it’s a whining MAGAt.”
Load More Replies...It's funny how all that #notmypresident thing is seen differently depending on who the guy is.
Travis looks like he used whiteout to brush his teeth..
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!
Load More Replies...Indeed, this is the most logical and also only correct answer to this question.
Load More Replies...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 ~
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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
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🙄
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...My excuse? I don't have a mortgage sized loan from my parents.
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.
Load More Replies...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...
White genocide is something the white nationalists in the US keep whining about. They see the slowly declining majority of whites in the US as a form of genocide (I'm not joking). So, yeah, in that regard, I can see why someone would "dream of it", when it means the "white" strangle-hold on US culture will slowly be rescinded. In this context, no one is talking about murder. It's a satire of the stupid white nationalist paranoia. In my humble opinion.
Bingo. It's a joke about all the ridiculous "great replacement theory" wackjobs
Load More Replies...That username ....... how unpleasant. I can imagine the uproar if we altered just one word.
In my opinion, there should be an uproar regardless. Genocide is genocide.
Load More Replies...First pun is "metal" - type of music, actual steel/iron/copper etc. Second pun is "blacksmith" - one who works with metal, famous Black people with the surname "Smith"
Load More Replies...By these definitions, in order to be racist, one has to believe that one's own race is superior. Otherwise, one is prejudice? Do I understand this correctly? Screenshot...4d-png.jpg
Pretty sure wanting to kill every member of another race counts as racism.
Load More Replies...A Blacksmith is a trade...Will Smith and his kids Jaden and Willow happen to be Black. Play on words. Then there is a horrible username.
Load More Replies...Friends, it's tumblr - that username isn't serious or literal. It's obviously satirising the racist myth that there's a white genocide happening - popular amongst bigoted white people in South Africa (and it seems to have spread to the US). I'm white. I'm South African. Can confirm there is exactly zero white genocide here. This username is amusing. We're so damn sick of this racist nonsense that it's great to see someone mocking it.
Smiths Island is an island in Plum Creek, next to Lake Erie (Michigan USA) 🤷♀️. Unless of course Smith is just your pseu-diddlyoo-donym :)
Load More Replies...This is how everything that tastes good should be called
Load More Replies...Your quote would have been even funnier, if Pizza Hut were the ones asking! ;oP
Load More Replies...Hey, I didn't get shot in the leg in da Nam for this nonsense!
Load More Replies...His grandpa would have been 1 year old when the war ended. Talk about the Infantry!
Load More Replies...Mitch Headberg as "Frank" at The Hub, to Kelso: "Man, I didn't lose a leg in Vietnam just so I could sell hotdogs to teenagers!"
OH SNAP! Thats whats wrong with the dumbwits today........they don't READ what was written, they IMAGINE what they read as what THEY wanted it to say.
Uhhhhhhh, I know every phone number too! Need to write that on my resume
Oh yeah? Well, I know EVERY HOUSE ADDRESS NUMBER! >:D
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...staring at dead dinosaurs for hours and hallucinating? :D
Load More Replies...This general though has come up in my life several times recently. Those of us with aphantasia have a very hard time understanding that most folks experience thoughts and memories differently than us. And, without speaking for anyone else, there's a solid chance that we've never had the conversations necessary to understand that. How often do people sit around trying to describe what it means to them when someone says "picture this..." and then make the careful observations necessary to understand that we aren't doing the same thing inside our heads? I found an article on this very recently -- the last month or so -- and was totally flabbergasted to understand that most people actually SEE things when they imagine or remember.
It bothered my too. I felt like I was being cheated. Then I convinced myself that they were lying. Make them prove it. Thinking of them as lying bastards makes me feel much better.
Load More Replies...I think about this all the time. It messes with me.
When I read, I see the story in my head like a movie. I thought others did the same.
nope, I can't "see" anything in my head unless I'm asleep and dreaming. Otherwise it is all black. My imagination is blind.
Load More Replies...Technically, hallucinating to some writer's creative intellectual property recorded on the dead pieces of wood...
Hey, I have one of those, the microscope, have not seen it in 10 years, wonder where I put it?
She is pretty and has big boobies. Why is she fishing for compliments?
I guess if you get used to being complimented, you start to crave it every day. I think it'd be nice if thousands of people thought I was hot.
Load More Replies...I would really like to know what this woman is driven by. What she thinks. How she sees herself.
Seeing this post is about technical truths.. 1) a car 2) thoughts 3) a mirror :p
Load More Replies...ma'am stop trying to smuggle turbotrains under your skin they're endangered
what's with the open mouth pout??? coz if your trying to look like a mindless inflatable- you win.
Reminds me of my dad's go-to answer when he was asked "how did he/she/it die?". His reply: " they stopped breathing. " Every. Single. Damned. Time.
I don't even understand the premise. Why would you appreciate a guy in a pair of grey sweatpants? What's so special? Why sweatpants? Why grey?
its a new thing that started last year about being able to see a guys size because of wearing grey sweatpants. Its the most seen colour for sweat pants
Load More Replies...I don't know a heterosexual woman alive who doesn't prefer to see a man in a grey SUIT.
Aside from the preference. I'm a woman. I don't dislike men in grey sweatpants (I would never judge anyone for the clothes they wear), but I don't particularly like them either. Just as you (the poster) would probably not expect your date to be well groomed and well dressed. And would never dream of turning down a woman just because she is wearing sweats, has unwashed and unkempt hair, not showered, no deodorant, no make up to hide blemishes or bags under the eyes, wearing clothes that should have gone in the washer about 3 weeks ago. Likely still living at home with her mother. All is fair and you can totally expect and demand the perfect woman. As long as your "perfect"woman is a reflection of yourself
I like a fit guy in scrubs with no underwear thank you. Much more revealing.
You can appreciate the fit guy for other reasons. Does he help his elderly neighbours? Volunteer at a charity? Save injured animals? Then I appreciate him, too! I don't have to be attracted to him.
This is like the Miss Universe contest. Lacking participants from the rest of the Universe.
Lol! I always celebratey mom on my birthday for the same reason.
My kids tried that once, and I countered with... well then on all of your birthdays I would like a gift. They said with abject horror "WHY??" I said because without me you wouldn't be here" and their dad said "Boom mic drop" lol I got flowers and cards. hahaha
Not if your train is late and Sally has 5 apples though...then you're into quantum physics
Load More Replies...It's a trick question. For me it would take two hours, $10,000 and the fire dept standing by.
... And, everyone around will need earplugs because I'll be screaming, at the top of my lungs, in fear, the entire time!
Load More Replies...It would need a gun pointed to my direction and still it would be a big nope Nope Nope Nope
So, you’d prefer be shot in the head rather than cross a bridge that’s likely to be no problem at all?
Load More Replies...I'm afraid of heights too, but I don't think tranquilizers are a good thing for that particular bridge!
Load More Replies...Crimea! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aipetri-bridges Get ready, there's more than one!
Load More Replies...By my calculation; if the bridge were standing between the hills on a heavy windy day, I would say...…depends the amount of fear you have,
Now I'm baffled at the fact it would only take about 0.25 % of the human population to do this.
This must be the latest version of "if all the chorus girls in the West End were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised"
Because of the ear I'm thinking that something is not working well with the photo!
Load More Replies...I thought he had big ass ear lobes, but then realised that it's his heel. Lol
Once I figured out that it was his heel, it lead me to another question: why is he barefoot in a hair salon?
Load More Replies...I don't even know why show a photo, just say you want a cut like 98% of the guys in the Bachelorette.
Still not as bad as the pic of the little boy who wanted the Dr. Phil style of hair —- and the parents obliged. Does the answer NO ever cross a parents mind anymore?
Calling b.s on this one, the hair in the face particularly around the eye doesn’t look right, definitely as if it had been edited
Don't care, it's still a good joke. No I'm not a dad
Load More Replies...They are very much standard questions on any worksheet for people who's learning to count.
Load More Replies...I always hated ignorant, vague questions in school. Ain't it sad that the kids are smarter than the teachers???
Well technically...discovering nirvana in Buddhism is realising nirvana is nothing special to begin with.
Well, technically it didn't end in 1896, but before 1896 started. So, the answer is wrong.
I feel like these are either scripted or genius, because I see this handwriting that more than likely belongs to a young child, and then these incredibly witty answers! So yes, I think these are either really smart kids or their parents/older siblings/the taker of the picture/some older person is telling them to write these things down.
With all these genius kids.........WHERE are they as adults??? Did they catch the Stupid?
?Where? What you wrote would be "Bayern", which is NOT how you pronounce Björn.
Load More Replies...I had a conversation with a few guys the other day about whether socks are gay. I was actually flabbergasted that they said literal socks were gay.
homosexuals are kinda gay tbh facts don't care about your feelings
No, because 22nd isn't the 2nd, if it was then a lot of people are going to be pissed they didn't get silver medals .
Load More Replies...About 31,536,000 seconds are in one year. As per a leap year it's about 31,622,400 seconds. Yes i used a calculator. Yes i'm bad at maths.
The ten things they hate about them.....but they don't hate them. Not even a little, not even at all 😢
Not to mention one or both could be a woman 🙃
Load More Replies...Two people in separate places, +thinking about each other with intense passion, writing a poem about it, +then sharing it with the world. Some people never know a love this big <3
They can be picky eaters, like what if they only keep on eating bacon forever. I bet 600 pounds is a small number.
Well this statement is false. My son is autistic and a very picky eater. But what he does like to eat are things that aren't healthy and what he doesn't like are a lot of the healthier foods. You can be a picky eater and still be overweight.
He never sugar coated or coddled anyone. He was very upfront with them and called out family and friends who enabled the bad eating habits. No nonsense doctor for sure.
Dr. Now can be brutally honest. "I've been meticulously following the diet." "No, you haven't because you're 3 pounds heavier than 2 weeks ago."
Load More Replies...I am a very picky eater and I am very overweight so this doctor is wrong.
If it's cold outside and you don't go outside is it still cold outside?
You know its raining outside if you go outside without an umbrella and come back home wet. Unless you fell in water
No, you don't know that, you're just missing the heat from the inside.
I think there is that kind of thing, but I'm not sure, a doctor or pharmacist would know more (edit: just saw a comment below about the clinical trials)
Load More Replies...I mean, some men do take birth control because they're trans and haven't had bottom surgery, either yet or not planning to for various reasons (including: desire to be a dad at some point, surgery is expensive).
If that was possible it would be interesting to see if afterwards they would demand to have the whole control of their own uterus.....
Load More Replies...Women they only test on women and they don't care about the side effects but when they did test a male birth control in men they decided they were too dangerous for the men to take bc they had the same exact side effects that women's BC have. They don't care if women commit suicide bc of birth control but they found it horrible for men to feel that way.
Load More Replies...And the most important!!! You don't know the end!! It's a surprise even for you
Well, in my nightmares, they usually end with me in bed.
Load More Replies...I once told my husband that I enjoy some of my nightmares because it's like an immersive horror movie. He just stared at me for a while.
My nightmares are audio book versions (I don't see anything when I dream).
We should really debug this from the next generation of the artificial race.
How much do you need to shave off the third sausage to get under three?
Judging from the way he answered, he probably looked up from his paper at her and said "Ok ,saw you"
And when you're proven otherwise, you don't mind, so it's a win win, basically
You can't be proven otherwise. I mean, you can think that you are dying, but if you do, you'll never know.
Load More Replies...That is actually a good argument to prove a point in a debate about the difference between causality and correlation.
What, ALL of the windows in my house move, and, I think in most houses.
Don't forget the words that are spelt the same, but pronounced differently. Or the words that are pronounced the same, but spelt differently. Basically, the English language is Sean Bean
I like to use 'ough': an unthoughtful rough-handed baker coughed in the dough: it was no good to be put through the oven, so ought to be put in the trough under the tree bough that is tough to access
Load More Replies...Strictly speaking - the Roman alphabet. English is not the only language to use these letters
technically untrue. you can be smaller than a whale and bigger than another whale. So the 2nd biggest whale in the universe surely defeats this one as there are for sure no whaleS bigger than it.
You made me learn lol! The Fin whale is that whale (2nd biggest)
Load More Replies...But I have 2.25 legs, one just hangs around tho and isn't used much anymore.
Load More Replies...Actually the average amount is below 1. Babies don't have all the bones an average skeleton has. And there is tons of people who are missing limbs or other parts of their body.
Untrue. Pregnant people are considerably out numbered by non pregnant people.
Why would that make it untrue? If you have 1 pregnant woman and 99 non-pregnant women, the average number of skeletons per body would be 1.01 (multiples not included).
Load More Replies...Think about it for a minute. How is it possible for two people to go to each other's funerals? Only one of them can attend a funeral, because the other one is now dead.
Load More Replies...we went from 2019 to 2021 in Just a week or less. Everything feels like yesterday at this point.
Really??? To me it feels like it's been 5 years or more! I feel like we are in a loop
Load More Replies...Maybe, depends on the age of your followers, I’m sure atleast 1 could make it to 106-110 years old
Oldest known living person at this moment is Kane Tanaka with 118 years according to Wikipedia and she's no exception.
Load More Replies...You only need about 11.5% of the alphabet to spell it
Load More Replies...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.
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.
