Oxymorons

[@kevinjones9691]

controlled chaos, dimly lit, gentle beast, free reign, baby mama, Freudian slip... that last one was just icing on the cake. (trapped in a never ending pun)

[@sahiravikdsouza1650]

If ‘still moving’ is not allowed - because ‘still’ here doesn’t mean stationary, but continuous - then how come you allow ‘pretty ugly’? Because ‘pretty’ there doesn’t mean good-looking, but quite.

[@maksat.menligulyyev]

+Sahir D'Souza 50-50 man. 'cause generally Pretty means Cute, Handsome, Beautiful, Lovable, Adorable...

[@guapoviejo9135]

Sahir & Magsat: i go with not an oxymoron because I'm 68 and my friends and I have used pretty to mean something similar to "quite" for all of my "pretty" long life, and in the case I just proposed "quite little long" life (or anything else) is technically not an oxymoron because although "quite little" and "long" are opposites, one is more than one word. We're looking for paired opposites, correctly named "antonyms".

[@KramCraft]

Someone told me this one Happily Married.

[@WhatYouOughtToKnow]

Oooooo. I feel a cold breeze! ;)

[@ruchirbhatt1186]

Tryina be clever, ain't ya?

[@pedroisaac8815]

autor: good grief jotaro: YARE YARE DAZE...

[@johnwardell9434]

what about government worker is that a oxymoron

[@hanamirella301]

+John Wardell i was reading the comments and my face went from :l to (when i saw your comment) :O (not exact representation, my mouth is bigger)

[@maksat.menligulyyev]

+John Wardell that was Irony, perhaps :D

[@guapoviejo9135]

No.

[@timothyball742]

Sunday night football, you can't have both day and night at the same moment. If the game is at night why use day?

[@mikasprik6776]

Student teacher

[@flaminzblaze]

"a little too much" "only two" "dull point" "highly insignificant" "perfect fallibility" ...Are those oxymorons?

[@miguelmunoz324]

Random order

[@mini-mei]

This is definitely my favorite of all the WhatYouOughtToKnow-videos...even though it's been online for several years and I have watched it time and again, I still find it as funny and interesting as the first time I watched it.

[@guapoviejo9135]

Puns are the highest form of humor. Ya gotta have a good vocabulary and a good memory as well as a really good, cynical sense of humor.

[@mykltron]

These videos are STUPIDLY CLEVER and INSANELY LOGICAL. Such a shame these people leaving comments don't seem to understand oxymorons.

[@umayuskaha]

My shirt seems a little big.

[@sporky69]

I LOVED THAT CARTOON thanks for telling me I was looking for it!

[@sssubtle]

Relaxing dubstep

[@lovell0327]

genius!

[@lovesindre]

"Alone together"... my favorite :)

[@rickydona919]

I always thought Oxymoron was something dumb people used to clean their clothes!

[@guapoviejo9135]

Funny. Thanks. As Milton Berle used to say, "I know a good joke when I steal one".

[@TheDoctorManda]

My husband's favorite is "awful" as really it comes from "awe" which means to have a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder," so the word technically means to be filled with awe, and yet we use it to describe something bad or unpleasant.

[@sislau]

"Largely insignificant" "Consistently erratic" "Understandably disorganized" "Systematic chaos" "Absolutely wrong" "Very little" Hey, this is fun! :)

[@cheetahburnssaved0931]

does "dry ice" count?

[@dwaynecarter6868]

Puns are funny!

[@scassarino]

"Act naturally" is really more like his example of "still moving." Act in that case doesn't mean to pretend to be something else, it simply means to behave. "Behave naturally" makes perfect sense. Anyone familiar with constitutional jurisprudence has heard my favorite: "substantive due process." Substantive law is law which is not about process, e.g. the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

[@420spoods]

can we say lesson plan! thanks for this, I needed something short to show to my class later today.

[@isaedu1183]

HAHAHA! youre totally awesome. I think im gona watch all of your videos now. thank you for an amazing time laughing my ass off!

[@thegirlinashoe]

@babybeatnik I love that you caught that! I have no idea why awful is used negatively.

[@DeathGlareFriend]

it's 12:30 p.m, so my brain is fried just listening to this :)

[@xXEvilSlyXx]

Genuine veneer, Holy war, safety scissors, friendly fire, mandatory option, Dry ice, Jumbo Shrimp, A new classic, alone together, artificial intelligence, amateur expert, anarchy rules.

[@SimLord]

I think "awfully good" is a misspelling of "awe fully good". As in "full of awe" as opposed to "bad".

[@Zenthex]

does "civil war" classify?

[@bhelliom3]

I love the genuine laugh at 1:32 lol very cute.

[@jordanrb1996]

Yes, thank you! Someone is spreading the truth! God bless you!!!!!!

[@majormana1]

Ps I do silent scream bdcause sokething in my vocal xords no longer allows audibility of screaming

[@rast123456789]

"Everybody is said to own public property, yet nobody owns it. Nobody enjoys control of its use, nobody is responsible or liable for its misuse. "Public" property has no owner, so either it's not property, or else it's not public."

[@ZOMGitsLauren]

Student teacher. The bloopers for this would of been amusing.

[@Fatimus]

Not exactly an oxymoron, but 'expect the unexpected' is a good ol' fashioned contradiction in terms. When you expect the unexpected you're expecting the expected because you stopped expecting the expected as soon as you began to expecting the unexpected. You know when you say a word so much it stops making sense... is expected even the word I'm looking for? Oh god, I did this with 'remote' once.

[@Hellspacifist]

Um... slave wages, initial results, larger half, positively neutral, rubber cement (haha love this one, was drawing when it hit me), and unsung hero.

[@ZontarDow]

@cpen22 I have 2 things to say: 1) It's a joke (mostly) and 2) It's more then 500 characters, so I had to delete some things so they could still be read.

[@PrincessIzusu]

Awfully can also mean wonderfully since awe is like wonder so awfully good actually makes sense.

[@keeroogaming2265]

Is it an oxymoron when you say "his logic" or "her logic"? Because either something is logic or not. When you say "his logic" or "her logic", you imply that the logic of the person you are talking about, is wrong(=illogical). So "his" or "her" is contrary to logic.

[@HoshiHikari]

I would say no since the two words in isolation aren't contradictory to each other.

[@keeroogaming2265]

HoshiHikari But doesn´t the word "his/her" contradict the word logic in this case? Because it automaticaly implys that the logic of this person differs from logic in general and therefore "his/her logic" contains a logical failure, which makes "his/her logic" illogical.

[@HoshiHikari]

I get what you mean, but if you isolate the words, they aren't inherent opposites to each other. Like in "awfully good," awful and good are inherent opposites.

[@guapoviejo9135]

No.

[@ParkerMooreAKAparkr]

This is why I love linguistics.

[@kekdubs]

When he said punny i lost control of my mouth and dribbled.

[@DoctorCheryl]

My current thesis chapter is entitled, "The Glorious Revolution is an Oxymoron." I am trying too hard to be clever I think... damn this PhD!

[@Jasonwolf1495]

puns are funny, just not exsessivly. a good bit of shakesperian always is great. Look for me tomarrow and you'll find me a grave man- Romeo and Juliet. also Wild boar wouldn't count though it sounds like one, just checking. yesterday's tomarrow?

[@megatr3dogg]

how is good friday one???

[@MegaBobo234]

"living legend"

[@maryoneil]

Jumbo shrimp is not an oxymoron. Shrimp is referring to a noun (the crustacean sea dweller) not the informally used adjective for someone of small stature.

[@PyroGoth1]

@yhwsion Wow, do you prononse them wrounge too?

[@jenifaui]

Would hard water be one?

[@sifsclub]

Jumbo shrimp is only considered an oxymoron because someone forgot that shrimp doesn't mean small, it's a type of shellfish and everyone else just went along with it.

[@hahacomics123]

stop motion, think aloud,super natural i love oxymorons! : D

[@newmoonrose]

@Hitokage571 No because lit simply means lighted and dim refers to the approximate measure of lumens. Did I spell that right? However you are most definitely on the right track.

[@Adixo16]

Thanks *takes a bow* I'm honoured

[@katuni08]

"Microsoft Works" made me laugh so hard that I had to start the video over because I missed a whole chunk!

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

He did say the ones that are meant to be insulting or rude and funny aren't usually actual oxymorons.

[@TheProteanGeek]

I think where people make the fake oxymoron of military intelligence and things as such their point is actually more satire that relies on the people knowing what an oxymoron is to then convey their point.

[@trelo123]

dark light?

[@JAQQHC3]

Along with the not-so-clever variety with Military Intelligence and Business Ethics you should appreciate: Popular Science.

[@SittFamily]

Doing Nothing, half empty, half full, never again, pure evil

[@jamesivan24]

Then there's pleonasms: a redundant phrase. They're the opposite of oxymorons, things life "true fact" and "free gift".

[@MEGATROID114]

@quabot XD they are wet, so it should fall under liquid gas, but if it didnt, would it be a numb feeling??

[@iBiteUranus]

loosely packed should fit into the same category as still moving and even odds. packed means packaged

[@sinekonata]

That's exactly what I meant it's super common, yes English has simple yet atrocious grammar, yes English speakers are given little opportunity to learn other languages, but for foreigners, only the former reason applies and it's more than counterbalanced by the fact that it's everywhere... just everywhere. I really think that actually, the person that can tell you the most about any language is the one that knows it as well as a native would but among as many others as possible, related or not.

[@Darkblitz9]

@babybeatnik Awful comes from Ayfull which comes from the old English egeful. ege= dread ful=full So Awful = dreadful You can use Awe-full, but in essence, both words are only homonyms.

[@court365]

it reminded me of the starburst commercials where the scot-korean guy says it contridicts itself lmao

[@tomford16]

Thats one of those dumb ones that people say who are trying to sound smart. Good job.

[@isuriftw1910]

damn this was uploaded 10 years ago

[@sinekonata]

Yes as I said Spanish is fundamentally easier and one of the easiest I know. But English still is easier than any language I know because if I want to learn Dutch, I'll have a hard time finding a good show that I would want to watch or subs or internet discussions/forums since I believe ALL Dutchmen speak perfectly English for example. And if most native English speakers have trouble with it, learning another Germanic or Latin language would do them (you too :D) a lot of good. It helps immensely

[@M45T3RFUL]

"Not alot" "Tough Love" "Good Friday" "Biggie Smalls" "Catholic Christians"... "American Educaiton" That's as much as i can think of now.

[@SuperSaiyanScandinavian]

@Awonnuriel yeah same with Norway. People just sound ignorant when they say it's always cold in Scandinavia.

[@Awonnuriel]

In Swedish we have a few that I think would qualify. Like the word "jätteliten". "jätte" means "giganticly" and "liten" means "small". And the guy who tried to be funny saying that "Swedish summer" is an oxymoron should know that the Swedish summer is the best day of the year. Or actually, we have a painfully warm and humid summer for about two to three months every year.

[@whatayaDO543]

Something tells me I well never get this communication and language thing for as long as I live. I'm that hopeless.

[@Allucouldwant]

Like Real Magic, No-Aim Scope (from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue and Red Rescue Team), Werewolf, a phrase like: "Stupid geniuses and your big brains" which sounds like something Peter Griffin would say.

[@4LackOfaBetterNam3]

doesn't pretty ugly not work because pretty is used as an adverb?

[@brodeurheaton]

what about the words extra and ordinary to create extraordinary, two words when left by themselves in a sentence depict something that it very ordinary or routine, whereas together they turn into something, well, out of the ordinary or extreme

[@halflifeproductionz]

this is really interesting, we use so much oxymorons every day. lol!

[@4lexGrey]

extreme book?

[@davidarndt4699]

Military Intelligence IS definitely an oxymoron! Trust me, it certainly is! I know as a fact it is, because I was in the Army for Seven years. A lot of soldiers I knew did things the hard way or tried things that didn't make sense and didn't work as planned. Some other people were know it all's and tried to act smart. But, those people were actually stupider than hell!

[@millyissa]

my favorite "try too hard" one is Government Worker.

[@Shikahan]

I think puns are funny! And I use fake oxymorons, and real ones. XD

[@TheViciousVendetta]

God I love you guys.

[@kurtkristianstewart1270]

That picture.... disgusted...or....turned on?...

[@vivifiable12]

act natual, almost exact,alone together,clearly misunderstood,definite maybe,exact estimate,found missing,genuine imitation,good grief,passive aggressive,peace force,pretty ugly,resident alien,sweet tart,icy hot.........i need to take a breath.*gassssssspppppppp*....instant classic,continuing resolution,nothing much................

[@ACamHillWin]

Jumbo Shrimp?

[@AZITHEMLGPRO]

XO you're braining my damage

[@Kevbox2008]

Dude, "Microsoft Works" is indeed an oxymoron!!!

[@th3giv3r]

@guiltyvictim It depends on your usage of "guilty", i.e. "charged with wrongdoing" or "affected by a feeling of guilt". However, the more I think about it, the less oxymoronic it becomes...

[@majormana1]

You just made me laugh so hard I ended up spitting out water and I'm a very composed young lady and have some acting exrince so can often surpress laughter at in opertune time I couldn't stop aelf and at time had mouth gull of water causing me to spit it out during laighter I'm glad had some training in behavior as could controll water to degree so didn't get a soaked dress. This was just hilrous the way you did these words

[@dorgrim]

@TIMoise54321 Well enlighten me on how "same difference" actually makes sense. I see it as the same group of "what in Sam Hill" or the the word "aint", where that group was derived from hillbillies. "Them brown wolves killed my cattle!" "Leroy, them wolves were grey!" "Same difference!'

[@neonight69]

I love this guy !

[@fortherecord387]

Oxymorons is an old extinct word...we call these GavinNewsoms

[@masmantour]

Old Beginning Found Missing

[@kosmo7895]

Pretty ugly isn't an oxymoron. It's the same case as still moving. Where "still" refers to currently, "Pretty" refers to quite or very. Thus, pretty ugly can also be said as quite ugly or very ugly.

[@MrEpicWaffles]

Upside down means the side supposed to be facing up is facing down, not exactly an oxymoron.

[@SomeoneMuchSmartest]

forgotten memory

[@secretsofmyenigma]

Smart bomb landing on a high valued target.

[@taygirly111]

Civil War. (Also, I don't think 'Jumbo Shrimp' is an oxymoron. Shrimp being the species, not the adjective describing small.)

[@Vladicuss]

Permanent Guest Host

[@tlyoung10]

a quote from Rudolph...Lets be independant together

[@Obli5ious]

@legion696 ....he specifically mentioned in the video that this is not an oxymoron....

[@SirKilot]

@FartingPenguinProd Hahahaaha that's definitely a oxymoron :)

[@SultanaBranWthBanana]

AH!! AP LIT NEEDS THIS VIDEO!!