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[@NekolatheDruid]

Me screaming "OREGANO" in my kitchen was embarrassing and I'm glad I'm home alone tonight😂😂

[@mad_hatt]

For me it was Ontario 😂😂

[@theGypsyViking]

Othello.

[@alluusio]

Oreo, outro

[@LoremIpsum-dp1li]

OwO

[@seriokan2971]

overdo, outdo

[@VTPPGLVR]

“People fake autism for resources.” WHAT RESOURCES, KYLE?? 😑

[@captainzany42]

I want to know where he's finding those resources, too.

[@patriciaspeer990]

Me, knowing how in rural and small parts of Canada and the US (- heck, even in urban parts, how hard it is to get resources for Autistic and Neurodiverse people, but I digress-) and myself being ADHD/OCD, my husband Dyslexic, and my son Autistic: "SHOW ME THE RESOURCES! I SHOULD BE SWIMMING IN THEM!" hahaha :P But seriously, this is a problem for sure. It is why my family moved from rural small town Northeastern Ontario to a city of 200,000+ people.... :P

[@AliceBunny05]

Exactly.. like there are pretty much 0 resources for anyone with autism over the age of 18.

[@crimsonnin2]

"Are the resources in the room with us right now?"

[@GayNStuff]

oh my god- I saw this and though, "Of course, minecraft."

[@emoryogglethorp8180]

"Actually teen pregnancy and abortion peeked in the 90s, just like Kirstie Alley" my goodness, doctors usually be treating third degree burns, not giving them out LOL

[@lorensammons1083]

I love Mamma Dr Jones!!

[@galaxychill9578]

however, they do cauterize if needed

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

When the vaccine first came out and everyone was getting it, a woman at my job said, "I know ten people who got the vaccine and it gave them cancer!" My reply was, "You know ten people with cancer?" We did not work in a hospital or anything like that. That's a lot of friends with cancer!

[@SoraQuill]

X’D okay im glad the app has this weird stalkerish option to see other people’s comments on a channel, you’re hilarious and awesome

[@muted__dreamer]

thats crazy its like how my mom didnt vaccinate me as a kid(i was too young to remember, im vaccinated now) because it would give me autism jokes on you, mom, i was already autistic

[@Yamislittleangel55]

My friend worked in a Care Home during the Pandemic, but she told me all her colleagues there were anti vaxxers. When the vaccine was available, not only was she the only one to ask for it, but her colleagues made the DUMBEST excuses to convince her not to take it. Something like “oh, you’ll get your limbs amputated!” “Oh, you can’t have children!” “Oh, you’ll get sicker!” I laughed when she told me this.

[@mintygrey]

About the Baker's Dozen! It used to be illegal for bakers to state that their product was however many grams in weight and then undersell the weight. If they had 12 50g donuts, and they charged for that, and the package weighed any less than 600g, they'd get a whacking great fine. It was cheaper to just chuck an extra bun into each packet to be safe.

[@bboops23]

This is actually still a common practice in places. I used to work at a movie theater and we had orders of 5 chicken tenders. Most employees put 6 in just to ensure the customers didn't complain about a small one.

[@stephanieborah4388]

14:59 OREGANO, OREO, OVERDO, OUTRO, OUTDO, ONTO, and MANY OTHERS. Like, there are SO many COMMON words they could have used to prove the op wrong and they didn't hit a single one of them

[@robinsparrow1618]

common misconception, but "many others" actually neither starts nor ends with 'o'

[@saros_system]

​@@robinsparrow1618 XD.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

But I’m wondering what the hell they were even thinking. Did they really think that OP said ‘nothing starts with O’ and just started listing every word they could think of?

[@Lizard_Ri]

I think the most important word is "O"

[@AmarisFrede]

👏👏👏

[@Nautilus.119]

"Nobody calls a duck a bird" in which world do they live?!! Some human brains are fascinating.

[@koira163]

honestly I think it's because people desperatly try to defend their statements, even when they know they are wrong.

[@pichu7945]

What funnier is that penguins can be classed as ducks by that dudes definition

[@Nautilus.119]

@@pichu7945 that would then lead to the fight with the 3 million penguins...that could as well just be ducks with that definition

[@Angel42836]

And a platypus can be a duck too even though it is a mammal

[@elyzabyth]

I once had to explain to a group of people that ducks have legs. There is some weird mystery surrounding ducks in peoples minds

[@lazmanonearth]

The man who thinks women can just "turn off" bleeding like a tap... If he ever gets a cut his female coworkers should be like "You don't need a bandage for that, just TURN OFF THE BLEEDING like you think women can."

[@minimaladjacent]

rep party has a lot of ignorance on biology apparently if a "true rape"- "we can shut that down" ( JUST NOT ovulate, "swallow a pill ends up in the vagina", "ectopic pregnancies can be reimplanted", ONLY sluts get abortions as birth control, NO complications non are wanted pregnancies and need them. facepalmsssss. on top of refusing any social programs and healthcare. sex ed is definitely lacking.. even what I learned in hs was severely lacking.. myth of virginity, functions and what things look like, that parts on both sexes can have varieties, plus the crass "grower or a shower" might help a lot more self conscious boys if they knew things are different and that's normal and ok. That we aren't always simply XX OR XY there are variations in that too. kids after me eventually got taught a lot more but a lot of push back like you see in the states "think of the children" smh. I learned a lot bc I have pcos and infertile and being curious about biology since before I could read. MDJ def helps a lot too.

[@starrywizdom]

The part that really burns me is that the guy tells women to "respect your male coworkers" when HE clearly has no respect for female workers, or he'd take the time to find out that his ideas of basic biology are insanely incorrect!

[@something_strange3086]

"just hold it in"

[@JootjeJ]

Fun fact: medieval monks used to consider ducks, swans, beavers, etc fish, so that they could still eat them on the days that no meat was allowed.

[@SingingSealRiana]

They where very desperate, but also, they are not that wrong, there is this thing in taxonomie where you never stop being the thing you evolved out of so birds are dinosaurs and humans and birds are fish... I hate it

[@russelhundchen8000]

Also they ate ducks and because there is a larval stadium from crabs that they thought where fruits that evolved into ducks and therefore ducks were plants by thier logic.

[@Jordan-kq3qw]

The reason you buy a bakers dozen of donuts is so you can eat one in the way home and still have a full dozen when you get there.

[@sirius767]

I got stuck in a strongly conservative rabbithole. Because I'm young and impressionable, it changed my world view and made me transphobic and even a little bit homophobic. I recently realized how irrelevant, wierd and just incorrect the things i "learned" from the rightwinged american channels like PragerU and Ben Shapiro was. I stumbled upon The Click's channel and something with the non-political and nice feeling made me stay. That lead me to your content. I have used it to kind of "rehabilitate" from the hate I had. Thank you for explaining everything so that even I can understand!🙂

[@sheersternfeld1914]

Thank you, my friend. I know a lot of people that were in that position, and I know it's difficult to change the way you taught.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

I went through a similar thing during the anti-SJW era of KZbin. I held transphobic and homophobic views. I was very lucky to grow out of that phase. Character growth is a great thing.

[@pemanilnoob]

I know that feeling. Years ago I used to watch all sorts of channels, when I was too young to form my own opinion or have enough thought about things. I thought “hm yeah this video says stuff in a high and mighty way, they must be right, like my parents” So I thought fatphobia wasn’t real, that furries were the scum of the earth, and that people who do “cringe” stuff online shouldn’t be allowed to live. Obviously now I’ve realized that, no, that’s just stupid. Honestly think I didn’t know I was on the trans spectrum for most my life due to that. But idk. I probably hid my special interest from myself and everyone due to the judgy tone of those videos too. So glad I don’t watch those awful videos anymore

[@Jack-er1sc]

this is great! proof that people can change. welcome to the light haha

[@SlothDaan]

Thank you for sharing. I sometimes get said that some phobes just refuse to listen to reason. It's great to see people can learn and grow ❤

[@AstronomicalJelly]

"jk rowling is the first author to write about class struggle" karl marx is rolling in his grave

[@Jordan-kq3qw]

We hooked him up to a generator and now we solved the global energy crisis. Keep him rolling.

[@wingedyera]

I was thinking Dickins in the category of literary works but yes Marx works

[@katyamcadams]

​@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jzJK is a literal murder supporter and admitted nazi.

[@intercat4907]

@@wingedyera Dickens. And John Steinbeck. And Shakespeare. And every Black American novelist in out history. Your turn. (smh)

[@macaronsncheese9835]

At best, I could MAYBE see her being one of the first to portray class struggle in a children's/YA directed series, where poverty might be more sugarcoated, romanticized, or just plain not really touched on, but even then I'm pretty sure she isn't THE first.

[@alaz3766]

Mama Doctor Jones’ clap back to Kirstie Alley is one of the funniest and most savage things I’ve seen on the internet. Love the scientific snark 😂

[@JoRiver11]

Yes! I don’t think that I even heard what came after that because I was basking in the glow of that burn.

[@rachelann9362]

MDJ is an AWESOME Doctor. She’s a huge advocate for all. And she has no issues clapping back when it’s appropriate. Some people you just can’t educate into being accepting.

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Unfortunately, women and girls are losing their basic human rights of owning their own bodies now. So the number may go up again.anti abortion people are just anti-women. It’s just part of patriarchy trying to control every aspect of a women’s life. We still can never be president of the US while a white man can commit terrorism and still be allowed to run. The gap is definitely widening for women’s equality. We already can’t retire until we’re 100 while white and Asian men can retire before 65. I’m sick of it.

[@StefanePreston]

She is savage on Twitter. Absolutely epic.

[@missnaomi613]

I love MDJ! She's not only brilliant, but she's so good about using inclusive language!

[@melvin9888]

It annoys me so much when people with NO medical knowledge or experience as someone with the condition say “most people fake autism” do they know how difficult it is to get diagnosed with it, clearly not. “More resources” hell no people have to fight to get the bare minimum in support and accommodations. I am autistic myself and even in my very privileged position with a well off family and supporting parents we still had to fight to get schools to offer what they are legally REQUIRED to give. Luckily my mom is a former lawyer and former sped teacher so she knows her way around the the laws and regulations but we still had a hard time getting what I needed, it’s much more difficult for people without the resources I grew up with to get what they need.

[@TabbyWaddell]

which is why even being poor as we are I just stay home and homeschool mine. Also, Florida.

[@AliceBunny05]

it's really unfair as well because these people have no idea how many people are missed simply because most of the studies were done on little boys and therefore won't look exactly the same in little girls or older individuals. At least a few clinical autism centers in america do have statements saying they support self identification and they find it's actually rather accurate, including the university of washington. There are also experts who have worked with autistic people who can identify and explain how those who are afab generally present differently than those who are amab. My favorite source for this is the podcast episode with Dr. Donna Henderson as a guest called autism in girls and women (lack of inclusivity unfortunately) where she goes through the diagnostic criteria and what that may actually look like and how it has looked like in some of her clients. Generally the consensus is that unlike many other mental differences, disorders, illnesses, etc autism is pretty much exclusively diagnosed from it's external presentation based on the criteria, instead of the internal experience which anyone who's autistic will tell you, is a huge part of it. And generally, with girls the outer presentation is not always as stereotypical as with boys, and it's essential to get further insight into their inner experience to see how the differences really affect them.

[@nyx4506]

Periods can be the most dysphoric thing for me, listen, if I could turn it off it'd never come back on again

[@BLOOSTR1KZZ]

Cannot begin to explain how loud I laughed at abortion being 'corrected' to ADORPION 😭😭😭😭😭

[@sheersternfeld1914]

It sounds like a Pokémon.

[@Milk-ck1wv]

ngl I thought it was gonna be racist for some reason. Like "deportation"

[@Omnywrench]

Must of been written by Coach Z

[@Trixie_Lavender]

​@@sheersternfeld1914Skorupi can evolve into the Dark/Poison type Drapion or the Bug/Fairy type Adorpion

[@Seek1878]

@@sheersternfeld1914 More like a pokemon attack move

[@WombatMan64]

The person writing all the words starting with "o" but not ending with "o".... really did *outdo* themselves.

[@arushi_kun]

Just noticed OutdO

[@MachaMongRuad]

"No words start and end with O" *immediately thinks of Ohio*

[@denosoor1515]

Oregano

[@cycymaca]

Outdo

[@silly-goofy-little-goose]

Oreo

[@SuperJJParker]

Outro

[@Liggliluff]

Ohio isn't really a word, it's a name. You could just make up a name like "Olo" and count that. But it should be an actual word, such as other have suggested: outdo, outro, overdo. Oreo is also a name and wouldn't count.

[@veggiet2009]

NEWS standing for "Notable Events, Entertainment and Sports" is called a backronym, where someone takes a word and makes an acronym after it.

[@sn0wblake]

ah yes. notable events, wentertainment and sports

[@goober1.2.3]

@@sn0wblaketheres a better version of this, it goes "notable events, weather, sports". kinda stupid lmfao but it goes better

[@aandafunlist2824]

@@goober1.2.3 Well at least its not NEES

[@kataevellei415]

The number of people who think periods can just be turned on and off is just scary.

[@arbington]

Adorpion sounds like the name of a D&D character.

[@prageruwu69]

adorpion, the baby-saving orc

[@sheersternfeld1914]

Or a Pokémon.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Could also be a hybrid Mortal Kombat character, a ninja who throws a rope dart that transforms opponents into babies.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

It really does

[@TheSeventhOutlaw]

Adorable scorpion. 🦂❤

[@tornado_music24]

"Most cases of autism are fake" "All cases of gender dysphoria are fake" My nonbinary autistic ass: 💀💀💀 Edit: what's with these existential crises in the replies?

[@PGOuma]

Dang, double homicide 😔😔😔

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

You must just ✨️N O T E X I S T✨️

[@prageruwu69]

double skull emoji'd

[@tornado_music24]

@@MURDERPILLOW. (poofs out of existence) Well then... 🫢

[@wwall8159]

Also poofs out of existence

[@InevitableSecrets]

If you invest $1 million in an account that will pay you .1% that’s $1000 of interest you will be getting. so what in the MLM hell is this six dollars a month thing?!?

[@ErutaniaRose]

Every person who’s autistic: “What resources???“ A lot of people are diagnosed later in life or cannot attain one due to costs, medical bias, or wanting to move abroad and have human rights. A lot of autistic kids are put into abusive ABA “therapy”. Bar autistically trained nutritionists, sensory aids, and fidgets, there really are not many resources, especially once you become an adult.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

"Would you rather get paid $1 million right now or $6 every month for the rest of your life?" "I'd rather get paid $1 million every month for the rest of my life." "Okay-- No, wait, wait!"

[@Nautilus.119]

The way the balloons don't only have the "D" and "A" letter issue but also "birhtay"...that person does not seem to have taken a second moment to look and think 😅

[@zoarsnowpaw3549]

$6 a month for the rest of your life is $72 a year. it would take roughly 13889 years to make 1 million dollars.

[@PNWVet]

I literally did the same math. Give me $70 per day and you may sway my choice

[@CorwinFound]

There are these types of questions all over the internet and usually the correct answer is B. Because they are usually framed around compounding results. So the "typical" option is, "Or would you rather $6 _doubled_ every month for _x_ time period." In this case, at 18 months you hit $1.5M. But a flat $6 per month... That's two drip coffees. Not exactly life changing.

[@mikecattel]

1 million right now and put into a saving account could generate over $4000 a month

[@erinjohnson7329]

Or $6 an hour whatever you're doing takes just under 20 years... though the value of $1,008 (weekly gain) in 2004 was very not the same as the value of $1,008 in 2024.

[@ConstantChaos1]

To be fair I'm pretty sure this is an edited version, I think in the original the 2nd amount was more like 50-200 ish but it's still stupid as hell

[@Oshroth]

25:10 The cause seems to be people treating "millions" as the unit. Matt Parker did a video on it and basically these people's thought process is: Start with 21 million penguins / 6.6 million people Ignore the units -> 21/6.6 Round to a whole number -> 21/7 Calculate sum -> ~3 Add the units back -> ~3 million penguins People also do it a lot with money

[@llawliet1931]

Thank you! That does make sense. But in this case the Pinguin:ppl ratio is still the wrong way around with this assumption.

[@mungosiffphryyt3123]

Absolutely loved Jamie's expression when somebody posted that rowling was the first person to write about class struggles. 😆😆

[@bglas8562]

As someone (female presenting nb) who has autism spectrum disorder as well as a 9 year old, I can definitely tell you that I still have autism lol

[@mackthompson616]

well maybe if u were a woman u would Lose it 😂 /joking

[@JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Especially just knowing it’s genetic and we’re still here😅

[@LilChuunosuke]

My parents were those types of people that thought autism was a symptom of poor discipline and that as long as they didn't tolerate that "behavior" under their roof, it would somehow...magically go away?? Yeah no I still walk to the bathroom with trex arms. 😂 I've only become MORE tistic with age

[@nothumanjustWill]

ah so you had a home birth /j

[@bglas8562]

@@nothumanjustWill what makes you say that?

[@graceheyser]

Oreo is a word that begins and ends with o

[@mahimahi339]

hahaha beat me to it

[@LieseFury]

oratorio onto oregano

[@golwenlothlindel]

Also "oregano". Admittedly, "oreo" is a brand name and "oregano" as well as the name "Orlando" are Italian. "Ohio" is from Ojibwe. It's not a pattern which would naturally occur in modern English words (at older stages of the language final vowels were much more common and this pattern occurred frequently), but it does appear in borrowed words and abbreviations which have become words.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Ohio

[@pichu7945]

Ontario

[@JAPSERLMFAO]

3:15 as someone with autism and a sibling with higher needs, YOU DONT GET MORE RESOURCES. YOU GET LESSS. dude the medical system hates us. It’s not just a US problem either. I’m Canadian and I had to wait 5 years to get a diagnosis and then another 3 before I could get any semblance of support, and I’m considered lucky in that sense.

[@LilChuunosuke]

Frrrr for many insurance plans, the only autism "assistance" they provide is ABA therapy for children! Autism assistance and accomodations for adults are practically nonexistent and are rarely if ever covered by insurance. Heck, I've heard people having their coverage LOWERED upon recieving an autism diagnosis! Insurance companies see us as a liability that they don't want to take care of. The only care they provide is a pathetic ableist attempt at "treatment."

[@the.masked.one.studio4899]

Yup, took us 5 years to get a diagnosis for my daughter. Supposedly she’ll get her services in “2-3 months”, but they say that every month. I can’t get services because I wasn’t diagnosed until 36 :/

[@justaperson4656]

I'm in the UK, been on the waiting list for 3 years, and I was expedited cause mum had cancer

[@TabbyWaddell]

yeah, I think the source of this misconception is when people already don't think most mental illness is real talk to anyone seeking a diagnosis for themselves or their child and ask why like it matters, the answer is always for access to services.

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

Same in the UK.

[@thegrimlockreaper1279]

8:31 I know this! The bakers dozen originates from regulations on bread. See, bread was the livelihood of most people. But some greedy bakers would try to save money by selling smaller pastries and what not, thus saving dough. So laws were passed forcing them to sell by weight. So when you ordered a dozen of something and the weight was slightly under, they'd throw in a smaller thirteenth to make up the difference. Then it just stuck around after the rules faded.

[@Duskkit]

Not only do ducks need to breathe air fairly frequently, they also need time out of the water to renew the waterproof coating on their feathers. Glands near the base of the feathers release oil, but preening must be done to get that oil evenly spread over the whole length of each feather. If not properly oiled, the feathers get soggy. And soggy feathers are chilly feathers that don't insulate properly against the cold. They also contain enough extra weight to cause problems.

[@Ashley_Graves_1]

15:00 I've seen this tweet so many times and it bothers me so much because I use the word "Oregano" so much. Maybe it's because of where I live and what spices and herbs I use when I cook, but the fact that both the "no word starts and ends with O" tweet and the fact that the next person repeatedly fails the dictionary are wrong, it makes me feel good that this is on Confidently Incorrect.

[@stardustworlds1493]

That was my first thought as well. After all I really like to cook Pasta and you just can't make good tomatosauce without it!

[@roselover411]

I hate oregano but it was the first word I thought of too XD

[@Luna-sp7be]

There's also outdo

[@mirandarensberger6919]

I love Italian food, and I think it's impossible to overdo it on the oregano!

[@Saga_Anserum]

orzo!

[@elaexplorer]

23:43 Cause Cinderella didn't have any hardship and cheerfully took the step mother's abuse. Because Hanzel and Gretel's dad was doing SO well, being able to afford food and all, that he just cheerfully decided to lose his kids in the woods. And let's not forget cheery little Oliver, who while being poor never wanted for anything… and yet selfishly asked for more.

[@eric_the_egggremlin]

genuinely Dickens was my first thought, literally we have the term Dickensian for that trope, how tf did Joanne do it first

[@snowwyflake]

I was thinking… don’t class dynamics appear in the Bible? Something something easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven? I’ve never read the Bible feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

[@akaneh1989]

Cinderella DID just take abuse with a smile though. Because she had no other option and nowhere else to go.

[@m.h.7364]

And Les Misérables is about à bunch of very happy people who never suffer from poverty, ever

[@sofiajeppsson809]

@@snowwyflake You remember right, that's Jesus telling a rich man he needs to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor to go to Heaven. There's so, so much about poverty and hardship vs wealth throughout the Bible, and I'm confidently correct that the Bible predates Harry Potter.

[@Nautilus.119]

If 3 million penguins approach me, I'd try to calm them and then join their system. No way I fight penguins

[@NaysWays]

Huh, when I was at highschool we did a journalism study where is stated the origin of "News" was from North, East, West and South as the original "N.E.W.S publications boasted it was the only way to find out what was going on from every point of the compass. We didn't have internet available then - let alone google - to fact check what we were being taught, and when it was first widely available most information published online for the first 10 years or so was very rarely fact checked, so I always assumed that was correct.... you learn something new everyday.

[@DriftingLightOfTheWoods]

"No word begins with O and ends with O" Me, instinctually, without a second thoughts: Ohio.

[@LawfulGoodSock]

Dozen is one of the oldest measures in recorded history. Baker’s dozens arose because there were really strict laws surrounding the sales of bread in England once upon a time and they were supposed to sell things by the dozen but also to have a specific amount by weight. Throwing in an extra would keep them in compliance with the law and spare them the substantial fines associated with noncompliance

[@CosmicAutisms]

20:37 My mum has given birth 5 TIMES and is still VERY MUCH AUTISTIC.

[@mackthompson616]

how many of her kids are? (i’m autistic and don’t plan to have kids but am still very curious lol)

[@nuage9538]

@@mackthompson616Yeah same here! I’m curious

[@LilChuunosuke]

God bless your mother for doing her part to increase the autistic population. 😂

[@CosmicAutisms]

@@mackthompson616 4 (I'm one of them) the one who doesnt might have mild ADHD tho.

[@bboops23]

I have not gotten to this part of the video, but I'm autistic and currently 3 months pregnant. The first thing I told my OBGYN team is that I'm autistic and I'm likely going to give birth somewhere that I can walk around. They are so excited to help me through everything. Next week they are going to start me on talking to the autism counselor for the birthing center that I want to use. If there's problems I still have to go to a hospital, but the birthing center has a person who's sole job is to talk to autistic mothers and figure out what works best for their specific type of autism.

[@Mx-Alba]

Regarding birthday and anniversary... Anniversary means "a year's turn", so technically can't be used for a toddler turning 8 months either.

[@Anderassi]

That’s true. Lots of people do incorrectly use “anniversary” for idk “milestone” or something.

[@Louis--]

But also birthday doesn't have to relate to the year. It most specifically refers to your actual day of birth.

[@Desimere]

@@Louis-- good point

[@SavageMinnow]

That is the origin of the word, but the meaning is just a date on which an event took place in a previous year. Common usage also includes. I think a lot of people get stuck on word origin versus meaning. The word "fetus/foetus" originates from the Greek term for offspring, but in modern English it specifically refers to the gestational development phase between embryo and infant. I wouldn't call someone's 10 year old kid their fetus. Eight month birth celebration is the term I would use as a writer, but I also mostly ghostwrite memoirs, and if my subject used the word "birthday" or "anniversary," I wouldn't change it.

[@Mx-Alba]

@@SavageMinnow but still an anniversary is something that happens once a year, not once a month. Also, in French, anniversaire is birthday. 😁

[@starrywizdom]

A word that both begins & ends with O is obbligato. Adopted into English from the Italian, it's a term used in music. *Obbligato* marks a musical passage to be played/sung exactly as written, as opposed to a passage marked *ad libitum* , which may be played/sung freely, with variations or decorations applied as the performer wishes. There are probably other English words that begin & end with O, but that's the one that came to my mind. 33 years after I gave birth, I'm still autistic. So much for leaving it behind after pregnancy!

[@conlon4332]

11:35 To be fair, we've domesticated cows for their milk for so long that we probably have changed it to some extent for our purposes. So they're kind of right.

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

Modern dairy cows produce a lot more milk than modern beef cows, and some breeds have a lower percentage of fat - although because they're producing a bigger volume of milk it works out about the same in absolute quantity. But their calves are still reared on that milk and they grow and flourish, and if you have a beef cow whose calf has died and you get her to foster a dairy calf, the dairy calf will grow just as well as it would have on its own mother's milk. Really the only big difference between dairy breeds and beef breeds is that the dairy breeds produce a lot more milk and don't gain fat and muscle easily because they're putting the nutrients they eat into their milk, and because they produce so much milk, if they're not milked regularly they will get mastitis and probably die. The real adaptative evolution here has been in humans. Tribes that started domesticating cows and milking them would have done so as an extra source of high-quality protein, fat, and other nutrients for their babies and small children, but that put a strong selective pressure on their children to continue producing lactase for much longer in childhood, and eventually into adulthood. Hence that some humans now produce lactase through our whole lives, and we're the only mammals on the planet that do that! The other selective pressure has been applied to all humans that work with non-human animals, but particularly applies to livestock farmers, and that is to engage with animals as people - to see their personalities, wants, needs, fears, etc, and to respond to those as we would to a human's wants and needs. Animals that are healthy and happy are better at doing what they do for us, whether they're a hunting dog, a granary cat, or a milking cow, so humans who care for them as people are more successful, thus more 'fit' in evolutionary terms. Ironically, the people who are outraged by the 'exploitation' of animals are a direct result of this evolutionary pressure. They see animals as people with a right not to be exploited, but they've become too disconnected to see animals as people we can work with for mutual benefit.

[@Dyejob01]

19:49 How do you know your employee is calling out sick for menstrual leave? You don't get to ask why they're sick.

[@Ferme_du_sorcier]

13:50 .... As someone who has seen a duck drown... No, Ducks can't survive underwater...

[@LeyCarnifex]

damn, I'm sorry you had to see that, that doesn't sound fun to watch :(

[@adrianblake8876]

Wait... I think I've heard somewhere ducks can't drown (because they just float)...

[@barrylangille3523]

@@adrianblake8876 not if they're trapped somehow. Things happen

[@mackthompson616]

me (autism, Tourette’s, and gender dysphoria): damn triple homicide but also no way i’m letting someone with twitter blue tell me *i* am overdosing on modernity

[@LilChuunosuke]

triple threat!

[@kassivils5260]

“Turn it off before coming into work.” Yo, where do I get my clap-on/clap-off uterus?

[@somethinunameit637]

3:42 I mean, mental illness can be a response to situational stimulus. Depression, PTSD, anxiety are all caused by situations that the sufferer cannot control. And I do think that gender dysphoria fits in my wide definition of that, cause what your body parts are, is out of a person's control, which causes the disorder. But none of that means that any of these illnesses are fake. Just cause you cannot see it doesn't mean it isn't real.

[@raikazemizukiri2708]

"No words begin with O and end with O" ...Oregano, Oreo, Ohio, Onto, Orzo, Outdo, Ortho...

[@badgermacfeegal618]

I read Isaac Asimov a lot when I was younger, and one thing that I read in his autobiography was why he refused to talk to children. Here's why: One time in a classroom, a child asked him what the nearest star was, and he started talking about the Andromeda (I think?) star system being closest. Then the child said "I thought our sun was the closest star!" Made Asimov look the fool, and he almost lost his temper at the child! He never talked to children again!

[@SingingSealRiana]

Oh no, how embarrassing.... 😂

[@unordinarytreefrog]

Andromeda is a galaxy it ain't even a star

[@jomarie7107]

Jamie's like "I'm sorry for getting aggressive just then" after raising his voice by 0.001 decibels. 😂 I've only been following you for a few months after finding you through Roly, and I love love love your calm demeanor. I could listen to you all day ❤

[@austin.luther]

The Tale of Genji was written literally 1000 years ago and is about the relationships between people of different classes and the difficulties of trying to move upward through class hierarchy. That's just off the top of my head.

[@Kris-ch3oq]

8:12 I think it's called a bakers dozen because the baker puts an extra one for the customer to be nice or smth. At least that's what I was taught.

[@ebnaime]

To be nice, and/or to not be in legal trouble when you muscount and give "only" 12.

[@storyspren]

4:14 Fun fact, some acronyms become so normal as words that they lose the capitalization you usually see with abbreviations! Laser and scuba are maybe the most oft-used examples. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Laser has been so integrated into the ranks of "normal words" that it's not only lost the acronym-type all-caps spelling, but it's even been backformed to other words like the verb "lase" for when something's emitting light that's coherent like a laser beam. Because "laser" kinda looks like one of those verb + er words,* so of course we needed a verb to match it! And the verb even works just like you'd expect it to :D But yeah "news" is not one of those words it's just a noun that means new things lmao (it also has some interesting features though like you can't put it into singular, it looks like a plural noun but it's non-count and right now I'm too lazy to dig into why or how that happened) *Obligatory "Laser? I don't even know her!"

[@dustycoal183]

The word "okay" also has a similar origin!

[@axolirvin971]

@@dustycoal183 From what I've seen, okay is a lengthening of OK, which is an acronym of a purposeful misspelling of "all correct" (the purposeful mispelling was popular, with a meme-like quality)

[@coda3223]

Okay... so technically, CO2 in the atmosphere is a key part of the planet being warm enough to be habitable. It's the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere that becomes problematic for human civilization. There's a range of concentration that's good for humans, and outside that range is very bad for humans and/or requires human cultural adaptation.

[@ExulantBen]

if we're counting places, Oslo would be a word that starts and ends with o

[@ExulantBen]

if were are not counting places there are overdo and outdo

[@Elizabeth2445A]

or Otago, in NZ

[@calamityjean1525]

Or "Ohio", a river and a state in the USA.

[@kaiyamartelon7609]

oregano :)

[@LoraLoibu]

@@ExulantBen or simply "do" edit: I may have skipped over the _start with_ an O. oops

[@katashworth41]

If people are telling you that you look 16 at 14 it sounds like they might be trying to go for “you look legal”. That being said I have the opposite problem and I’m still getting IDd at 37 (and was offered an under 18s bus ticket a couple of weeks ago). It’s a bloody nightmare, can’t leave the house without my ID and I’m prone to forgetting things. I got a new bag last year and was locked out cos I forgot to put my keys in the new one 🤦‍♂️.

[@LuxrayRulesTheWorld]

17:35 Now that I had breast cancer I get so mad at people claiming "oh you know xyz causes cancer, right". Because most of the time none of these factors have ever played a role in my life and here you are still blaiming me for getting cancer. 😠

[@coda3223]

The duck / bird discussion really sounds like a semantic alignment issue. FYI: Ducks absolutely can sleep on the water. Some ducks prefer to sleep on a pond because it's safer from land predators. I had to train my ducks to go to bed in the coop because they wanted to sleep in their pond.

[@cryingchild4209]

why do they have to sleep in the coop?

[@coda3223]

@@cryingchild4209 My pond isn't big / deep enough to keep them safe from predators.

[@cryingchild4209]

@@coda3223 oh that makes sense

[@ringsystemmusic]

(OH MY GOD YOU KEEP DUCKS THATS AWESOME AAAAAA!)

[@joebloe4734]

Charles Dickens would like to have a word...

[@erinjohnson7329]

I KNOW RITE? I mean, far, far from the first, but yeah, he kinda stands out for showing true deprivation; the Weasleys are the poorest main characters in HP I can think of, and they... some of Ron's complaints were legitimate, but for the most part his issue was (a) being in a big family and feeling overlooked and (b) being in a family that had to be careful with money. But food, shelter, warmth, clothing (uncool but functional), education, healthcare - he wasn't deprived of any of these.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Every Victorian novel, every medieval novel, everything about kings/nobility or peasants. Novels taking place during the Great Depression, about immigrants, tenements from the turn of the century until the 20s, slavery, rags to riches, the American Dream etc etc...

[@overlydramaticpanda]

@@sunnyandthechlo Plus a smattering of western fairy-tales, a couple of nursery rhymes, a handful of Jacobean plays including by that little-known writer William Shakespeare, a few Ancient Greek plays, and just the tiniest number of myths/stories from pretty much every major world religion...

[@shinyskitty]

Out of every possible book, this is also the first thing I thought of XD it’s just SO well known… how could they not…do…do they think it’s a just movie and not a book?

[@jordanr.2120]

My hottest take regarding the bible and pronouns is that, since "He/Him" specifically always capitalized is not a standard or widely used pronoun set in english, God technically uses neopronouns.

[@adrianblake8876]

English IS a pronoun-obligatory language, and shoves pronouns into sentences they weren't there when translating (and the Bible wasn't originally in English...)

[@snr0n]

@@adrianblake8876 Then I guess people who say they have a problem with pronouns oughta renounce English as a whole, and never speak such a woke language ever again 🙃

[@adrianblake8876]

@@snr0n English people have a problem with pronouns because third person pronouns are the bulk of English's gender system. If you brought up the Bible, imagine that "Thou shalt not kill" was a gendered statement, and people would bring that up as an argument against trying to "coerce" gender-neutral language whenever possible (And, yes, this is basically the arguments they have where I live)...

[@Lizard_Ri]

​@@adrianblake8876 I can assure you pronouns were there in other versions too, they're just different pronouns because language. P.s: I might be just dumb, i read some of it in a language which seems to be the source language? but the internet might have fooled me. Anyways in a lot of languages there are pronouns including greek, which I'm pretty sure is the source language?

[@adrianblake8876]

@@Lizard_Ri First, I didn't say there aren't ANY pronouns (all languages have pronouns, duh), I said the English version ADDS pronouns (non biblical example, Spanish "eso es" become's "that's it" in English. Spanish has no pronouns in the sentence, English has two) Second, the original version of the Bible is Hebrew, not Greek. Greek was one of the very first translations.

[@undefinederror40404]

I do recall reading from a reasonable source that bras that are too restrictive/fit very poorly in a way that creates pressure spots, increase the risk that lymph nodes get irritated or even inflamed. And that in turn can cause more serious issues, in some very few extreme cases cancer. That being said, it has to be excruciating to keep wearing such a bra for so long that it can pose serious risk. And not wearing any bras can cause a whole other array of issues, such as the chest becoming painful bc gravity and zero support. At the end of the day a bra that gives support while being comfortable to wear is simply what everyone deserves who wears bras! It's the best option both for their physical and mental health. I hope everyone finds their perfect fit ❤

[@Idkmwillow]

So is wearing a tight bra for not too long okay?

[@shadenox8164]

@@Idkmwillow Probably. Most things that are harmful are only harmful in excess.

[@Idkmwillow]

@@shadenox8164 Thanks!

[@emmettaj8863]

Got a source? Or are you the guy from the video?

[@someonesomewhere9115]

5:11 I did the math here: $1,000,000 / $6 each month = 166,666.667 months 166,666.667 months / 12 months = 13,888.888 So it would take almost 14,000 years of $6 monthly payments for this person to see their million dollars, yet they’re online trying to give financial advice to others. SMH.

[@ThisIsAnnie2002]

Maybe that person is immortal Ashley, have you thought of that?

[@ViviHutch]

@@ThisIsAnnie2002yeah! Immortal lives matter too!

[@billsbrothertv5701]

Pennies weigh approximately 2.5 grams each. With 700000 of those, you're now carrying 1750kg around. Which is about the same as carrying 4 dolphins.

[@taflo1981]

The last sentence sounds like something from r/anythingbutmetric. 😂

[@Starhawke_Gaming]

@billsbrothers - it's even worse, it was $700k, not just 700k pennies. $700k is 70M pennies. So 400 dolphins, not just 4.

[@ruthspanos2532]

I personally might consider taking the smaller amount of cash if there was a time limit on taking it home…

[@dragong33k]

r/halfagiraffe

[@GayLPer]

According to my calculations.... You would need to make almost 18,000 trips to carry all the pennies if you have a large pickup truck. (PLEASE take this with a grain of salt it's been way too long since I've done these kinds of calculations)

[@intercat4907]

So some poor sonovagun is frantically typing somewhere that mental illness doesn't exist and "just because 'everyone' keeps telling you you have a problem doesn't mean it's true". That's actually touching and sad. "Confidently wrong" about something they really need to learn.

[@LoraLoibu]

"It'S aLl In YoUr HeAd" yeah that's what 'mental' means. *Doesn't make it any less real.*

[@auldthymer]

*shivers

[@saros_system]

​@@LoraLoibu Where else is it supposed to be? My balls?/j

[@starfishgurl1984]

Your comment reminded me of the meme/comic where someone says “hey, this thing happened to me” then the other person says “it’s never happened to me, I don’t think it happens” and the first person says “I’m telling you it does” then a group of seven different people pipe up and say “it’s happened to me too” but the second person again says “it’s never happened to me. I don’t think it happens” but this time with their arms crossed and the first person’s staring at them in disgust starting to walk away. So frustrating sometimes when people refuse to listen!

[@intercat4907]

​@@starfishgurl1984 Yes, exactly that feeling. I spent my adolescence in a large city (Lubbock) where "everyone knew" that gay people didn't exist and anyone bringing it up was supposed to assert that they had never met one. Rules vs reality. Shrug.

[@bethswiftie]

as someone who owns ducks, I only let them sleep fully submerged in the water. I hold them down there to ensure they get the best sleep

[@Lizard_Ri]

That way they probably sleep forever! How do you even wake them up?

[@starrywizdom]

backs off very slowly, quivering with abject terror

[@squeaktheswan2007]

That's how I get my kids to sleep. They haven't missed a bedtime in three weeks.

[@bethswiftie]

@@Lizard_Ri I give them cpr which I am trained in ofc 🖤

[@justaperson4656]

​@@squeaktheswan2007tracks for a swan ngl

[@meganweng6483]

25:28, as a Canadian where we can’t use pennys, it wouldn’t be obvious.

[@kazwright1233]

Bakers could have been fined and imprisoned for shorting customers so they started giving extra to ensure that didn't happen to them.

[@girlwithtehface5880]

"Do your own research," is what cowards say when they have nothing and don't want to admit it.

[@cloudyskyz2237]

If you make a claim, it is on YOU to then provide evidence. Otherwise, your claim is completely null and void of any validity.

[@John_Weiss]

@@cloudyskyz2237 Exactly.

[@dk0412]

It usually means "I saw it in a facebook meme"

[@arcadiaberger9204]

The classiest way to say, "You got nothin', have ya?" is, "The burden of proof is upon the asseverator".

[@LoraLoibu]

@@arcadiaberger9204 Upon the what? _One second, gotta check Wiktionary._ Ah, it's a fancy way of saying "assertor" (one who asserts)

[@JonahIronstone]

"If you're got four people 'round, where does that extra donut go?" My husband: [raises hand enthusiastically]

[@PokhrajRoy.]

One nostril becoming a leaky tap? Been there, suffered through that. Hope it clears up soon.

[@Jacob_uhh]

Fun fact, $700,000 dollars in pennies would weigh just under 193 tons 😬 good luck moving that too the bank

[@elaexplorer]

I just hope it's already rolled, because the banks around here only take bulk coins in rolls.

[@roninrakehell]

Or 175,000 kg

[@gorkemaykut5230]

Baker's dozen is when you need to share it between 13 people equally

[@ZeldaPine]

13:00 TECHNICALLY ducks aren't birds..... They're dinosaurs! :D

[@eleventh_chicken]

Just like me >:3

[@SingingSealRiana]

Hell no, even if one goes with you never stop being what you evolved out of ducks still would be birds, since birds are a subtype of dinosauria, not an abandoned concept. A human does not stop being a human, just because they are a mammal too!

[@ZeldaPine]

@@SingingSealRiana I think you took my dumb comment way too seriously 😬

[@Lacillyn]

I immediately thought of oregano - but I was cooking while watching this video. Also, don't feel too bad about 'oafishly' - I was doing training at work and the word 'underfed' came up - and I read it as 'un-derfed'. I was trying so hard to figure out what 'derfed' was until I finally searched the original word. Google told me it was similar to 'malnourished' - and I felt like the biggest fool. My coworkers mock me about it over a year later: we now use 'derf' as a verb: "Laci really derfed when she misread that word during training."

[@bboops23]

Well at least you tried to un-derf your blunder by looking up the word

[@completelygivingup9413]

From what I have heard on the internet (and this may not be true), in ye olde days, bakers would add another bread loaf (or whatever baked good) to make sure they met the minimal amount of item needed to cover for any disparity between batches to prevent any fines. My guess is that we just kept the number.

[@silverghostcat1924]

Also I could be wrong but I don't think they charge extra for the extra donut.

[@bboops23]

I believe you are correct. In many places certain bread products were required to weigh a certain amount or the bakers were required to charge by a certain weight and in order to make sure that they didn't get fines in case a batch was too small they would stick one extra into a dozen of the item. This is still the norm in a lot of places. It's common for packaged foods to weigh more than the stated weight on the package. I worked at a movie theater and our chicken tenders were orders of 5 and we usually put 6 in to prevent the customers from complaining.

[@traciechakraborty3829]

the 'news' one reminds me that when the 1st Trivial Pursuit game came out, they insisted that 'tips' was derived from the acronym 'to insure prompt service.' It's not.

[@girliewilson9074]

Much like how cartographers used to put fake towns on their maps as a type of copyright, creators of trivia books put in false trivia to catch thrieves. The books that trivia pursuit sourced their trivia from had a bunch of false trivia. Who knows though if this is true, or something said to cover everyone's mistakes.

[@andrewszanto9347]

13:36 you heard it here first folks, puffins were actually ducks all along

[@RosyKitteh]

17:08 I have literally had my uncle say that to my mother who is a breast cancer survivor. But also he has a list of random vitamins and supplements that he believes can cure almost any disease so

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

Octavo: a sheet of paper folded three times giving eight leaves. It's still a term used in printing.

[@crystlelakefarm1254]

I actually didn't know that, I genuinely thank you for this

[@ringsystemmusic]

Oh sweet

[@j.apenrose7896]

On not giving menstrual leave, guess what existed in Ancient Egypt? Menstrual leave for men if their daughter or wife were on their period and needed someone at home. This isn't a new concept. Source: The Ancient Egyptian Ostracon detailed sick days.

[@John_Weiss]

The fact that we're less-civilized than a bronze-age country … smh.

[@Lizard_Ri]

​@@John_Weissik, a bunch of older cultures also got a third gender and more lgbtq+ acception. I swear we're going back in time with our civilization

[@John_Weiss]

@@Lizard_Ri Oh, I read _all about_ those older nations back when I first came out in the 1990s.   The Late We'wha of the Zuni Nation is one such person who was lhamana, the Zuni 3rd-Gender. Most of the indigenous North American nations [though not all] had a 3rd [and maybe 4th?] Gender.   But, what we know of those additional genders is badly distorted by the missionaries, who were _obsessed_ with butts3x and interpreted _anything_ that didn't match their European-Judeo-Christian-hyper-hetero genital-based social roles as being all about butts3x. Hell, back in the 19th Century, scholars of Ancient Greece twisted themselves into knots trying to hetero-wash all of the Ancient Greek city-states. They'd latch onto anything that they could twist into a condemnation of non-heterosexuality like a hungry chihuahua on a steak, then fixate on that one piece of "evidence", taken completely out of context, to the exclusion of the flood of evidence to the contrary. It wasn't until Kevin Dover came along and went, "Ummm… no. You're all ignoring the loudly-blaringly-obvious. Stop that. Let's look at Ancient Greece _honestly,"_ and wrote the book. [Specifically, the book, "Greek Homosexuality."] It's how [if you ask me] Sappho ended up with a husband whose name, translated accurately from Ancient Greek, is "Schlong from Man-Island." 😆

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

The Egyptians also respected transgender people. Archaeologists will find an anatomically male mummy that has been processed as a woman or an anatomically female mummy that has been processed as a man and assert the embalmers "made a mistake" like the ghosts of the embalmers aren't going to come back to curse them for accusing an ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EMBALMER of MAKING A MISTAKE about EMBALMING THE DEAD.

[@John_Weiss]

@@mamasimmerplays4702 How … how do they know it's "anatomically male/female"? We've heard in comments, both secondhand and from actual people in the field, that archaeologists can't tell sex just by looking at bones. Or are the mummies preserved that well that you can identify the sex organs? Hmmm, nevermind, it's probably the latter, isn't it?

[@justonealien5613]

10:58 Thanks to Mama Doctor Jones, I discovered your channel, then Shaaba's, then Roly's and Luxeria's, then One Topic's and The Click's. And now I'm a happy Non-binary Ace Queer who's little heart is warmed by all the LGBTQ+ positive content I have all the time 🥺🥹❤ I love you all, and I want to thank you specifically ! ❤ Because when I feel down, I come to your channel and do a marathon of your videos because your voice is so sweet and calming ❤ You also help me improve my English, I always had an easier time learning with UK's English (maybe because I started to learn with doctor who) so you also help me with this 😊 Thank you so much for all the work you put in your content, I think you can be proud of it ❤

[@forensirob]

As a completely voluntary and selfless service I'm willing to accept the 13th donut from a baker's dozen in the event of an awkward number 😅.

[@misamisaa4547]

Fun fact, baker's dozen came to be because when you bake a bunch of bread, there's no way every loaf will be the same weight. bakers could get punished if they sold an undersized loaf for the same price as regular sized load so when someone bought a lot of bread at once, they added an extra loaf just to make sure they won't get flogged for cheating their customers

[@brunahamabata9527]

Your collab with Mama Doctor Jones is the reason I'm here. ❤

[@1991LMR]

The 700k in pennies thing made me laugh because if im ever bagging up change to take to the bank, i always have a momentary existential crisis about whether its 100 pennies in £1, or 60 (as in 60 seconds in a minute) 😂🙈

[@abbyj2783]

I remember seeing a conversation where someone genuinely thought that penguins were fish because they can't fly and swim instead and thought bats were birds because they can fly. In their mind, only birds fly, only fish swim.

[@marial870]

And only cows produce milk, probably.

[@Lizard_Ri]

Wait.. we can swim. We can't fly. Are humans fish?

[@bboops23]

Fun fact: the Catholic Church once declared beavers as fish because there were places with plentiful beavers that needed a fish to eat on Fridays and because these places were less plentiful in fish, they decided beavers were fish.

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

I wonder what they'd think if they met a platypus? It swims, it produces young by laying eggs and incubating them, but it's a mammal because once its eggs hatch it produces milk for the babies to drink. It doesn't have nipples, though, just a patch of skin where the milk oozes out like sweat and the babies lick it up. It has thick waterproof fur and its mouth looks rather like a beak, but it detects prey via the tiny electrical signals they give off when they move, as well as the movement of the water.

[@cryingchild4209]

​@@mamasimmerplays4702the more i learn about platypus the more confused i am

[@wallywallace2184]

John Steinbeck. Immediately thought of him regarding the "writing about weath mattering" argument.

[@noelledonnelly699]

Years ago I was with a good friend and someone said "selfish" and she was like "what's a selfish?" thinking it was some kind of a fish... of course she knows the word, she just didn't put it into proper context immedately. Another time my niece announced to everyone that she was a "repulsive liar"

[@CassiusStelar]

A Baker's dozen originates from the practice of bakers making an additional pastry for themselves

[@LoremIpsum-dp1li]

According to Wikipedia, in England, bakers had to sell bread by the dozen at a specific weight and would be fined if the bread didn't meet the minimum, so some bakers started adding in a thirteenth loaf to make sure they'd meet the minimum.

[@semperfi818]

That's a version I'd not heard before; the explanation I'd always heard hinged on the ethical practice of throwing in an extra piece to compensate for the possibility that one had inadvertently undercounted the dozen in the first place, thus ensuring that the customer would be satisfied by the vendor's honesty.

[@Mx-Alba]

Another possible explanation is that when someone orders a dozen of something, you make 13 of them and discard (or keep) the worst one. Basically, it gives you the leeway to screw one up and still deliver a dozen.

[@shadowldrago]

​@@Mx-Alba​ Maybe it's a bit of all of the above?

[@Mx-Alba]

@@shadowldrago probably!

[@RedDeadSakharine]

When you mentioned having to focus on the word "penguin" I instantly thought of the Cumberbatch clip, but that you actually included it made me literally rofl - like, literally collapsed on the floor 😂 Thank you for that!

[@Matt_the_pirate]

Even if someone is transphobic and doesn't think it's valid, doesn't it mean by their logic that gender dysphoria is still a thing, just that the treatment is aimed in the opposite direction?

[@jolenemiller1]

Bakers dozen comes from the govt weighing baked goods a long time ago and a dozen was expected to weigh a certain amount based on the items. If it didn't meet the weight requirement there was a fine. To make sure that they met the weight they would throw an extra item in. Hence the baker's dozen.

[@beeef5139]

Oratorio and obligato aren’t English words but are commonly used by English musicians

[@M_M_ODonnell]

So, would the "passive income" person be willing to give me $1M now if we sign a contract saying I'll pay them $10 a month for life? I mean, if even $6/mo is better than $1M now, then surely they'd be getting an even better deal with $10/mo

[@taflo1981]

Hell, I'd even offer to pay them 10 dollars a day in exchange for one million now. I'm rather confident they're not going to live for almost 274 more years.

[@chiarardn2401]

They don't have $1M to give you. They're probably just a kid who's flunking maths.

[@M_M_ODonnell]

@@chiarardn2401 That's why it's a hypothetical and why I'm not expecting $1M any time soon.

[@ZombieMinion1992]

That is a hellish amount of pennies. Like, banks only keep a hundred dollars worth or so on hand (or at least my work does) just for day to day transactions for the week. A box of pennies, which is super heavy, has $25 worth of pennies. You would need several semitrucks to transport the pennies and no sane banking establishment would take all of them. They have the right to refuse service when the demands are insane. That is all assuming that the pennies are rolled and boxed too. If someone told me I could have 700k in loose pennies or 70k in bills I'd take the 70k. I would rather give up sweets than spend the next several months of my life trying to figure out what to do with all those pennies. That isn't even considering the cost to transport, roll, box, and exchange them.

[@wingedyera]

The only valid reason to choose that table. Though I would still go for the pennies and hire a company to pick them up and exchange them for me. With the left over money I could still buy a house

[@Mirality]

A dollhouse, maybe. What with today's prices.

[@ringsystemmusic]

Honestly it’s highly illegal but this is a hypothetical so I’d just sell them to a scrapper for market rate.

[@prageruwu69]

as a swede i'm so happy he pronounced blåhaj pretty well

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Samma här

[@Mossyspring]

While I personally find "blaha" to be a cute name who seperates it from the actual animal, it's nice people is aware it's pronounced in a certain way :D

[@tildaaxelsson2783]

Borde inte spela så stor roll 🤷

[@prageruwu69]

​​@@tildaaxelsson2783det är fysiskt smärtsamt att höra det uttalas som "bla hah" eller "bleh hedge" tusen gånger.

[@prageruwu69]

​​​​​@@Mossyspring yea but genuinely why though? the å is there for a reason and why would you not pronounce the j? (not trying to come off as rude btw, i am genuinely confused)

[@combatwombat8572]

Omg the bra thing... I had a friend in highschool who thought like that about binders. She was cishet (as far as i knew; maybe things have changed, I haven't seen her since going to college and we were never super close) and well meaning, but when the topic of binders came up she very earnestly said "Can't those cause breast cancer?" But at least she actually listened when corrected, and kinda took a step back and realized that... doesn't make sense, at all. I have absolutely no clue how or why people end up thinking like that

[@sun1one1]

Imagine working at a T-shirt company and having to keep a straight face when somebody orders up that "adorpion" shirt.