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I was at a friend's house yesterday and they were talking about how they feel like their dishwasher doesn't really work, and I got to reveal to them that dishwasher pods are basically a scam and that whoever told them to just throw the pod straight in was also giving them garbage advice. so here's a video in case any of you are also in need of some information about dishwashers

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what-even-is-thiss

The rule for making an English compound word that you didn’t know that you know is that the first word describes the second word. The second word in the compound word is more important.

For example a bluebird is a bird that is blue. A birdblue would I suppose be a blue that is bird but it certainly doesn’t mean the same thing as bluebird whatever it is.

An airplane is a plane that is in the air. A planeair just isn’t anything. Maybe it would be the air inside of a plane.

Or perhaps it would be plane air with a space in it. Because we kind of just make compound words all the time like Germans do but sometimes we put a space in there. Where you put the space kind of doesn’t stop it from being a compound word.

So think to yourself. What would be the difference between a clockdog and a dogclock? Or, a clock dog and a dog clock. Very different things, right?

what-even-is-thiss

Not every language does this. This is a very Germanic language thing that English does.

Which is why if someone calls English a Romance language they’re talking out of their ass. A Romance language can’t invent a clockdog or a birdblue off the cuff. Absolute fakenewsinventor of them.

what-even-is-thiss

You probably invent compound words/phrases all the time if you speak English. Like the recent slang thing of calling yourself an enjoyer. A cat enjoyer. A pillow enjoyer. A Mario enjoyer.

It would kind of be the same thing if you took out the space. Marioenjoyer could absolutely be a word and almost every fluent or native English speaker in the world would immediately know what it meant even if they’d never heard it before.

ceekari

another good compound is henway. a wayhen is nothing, but everyone recognizes a henway

mad228228

What’s a henway?

ceekari

oh, about five pounds worth of updog

abbiistabbii

So I want to get a load of those "A trans person peed here and nobody was hurt" stickers, not merely for the punk activist reason of sticking them in places where I peed, but also so I can stick them in baffling, unreachable places.

Top of the Forth Bridge? There. Inchmickery, an island that does not have a regular ferry service? There. The ceiling of some very very tall building? There! I want you people to see the sticker and go "why did she pee there" and then "How did she pee there".

burins

thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

burins

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

maykitz

northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

via @somni

hometoursandotherstuff

She's trying.

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cutecipher

as a feminist i support recreational abortion

cutecipher

i have mixed feelings about competitive

cutecipher

*maddest ive ever been, eye twitching* thats baseless. its something else actually.

charl0ttan

dog i gotta move like yesterday

fullmetalfisting

ok this is gonna sound insane but when i was in high school we made a drink that we called a “fuck you” which was black coffee, crushed up adderall, and fireball whiskey.

fullmetalfisting

The fact that young people make it past their late teens/early twenties is a miracle

garbage-empress

sadclowncentral

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.