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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] Selmafudd 85 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One of my kids calls water fountains water mountains.. I assume from just mishearing the word. The first time he said it I went to correct him and then I'm like it does look like a water mountain so fuck it we'll go with that. Now the whole family only refers to them us water mountains.

And oddly there is another misheard word another of my kids used that we've all adopted, this kid said his tshirt was skin side out instead of inside out. Again I went to correct him and thought no he is right too, so now clothes are skin side out or skin side in.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also have a few of these. My favourite daughter when she was a toddler she used to call road trains "Big DIE!".

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My favourite daughter

Busted

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Oops, I really messed up that sentence. Well, she is my favourite anyway 😁

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

My family has one of those. Our oldest would say hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer. We started correcting him but eventually realized that it's more efficient and everyone knows what he's talking about. I actually use it outside the family too. No issues, only chuckles when I explain the story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Hah, skin side out is good !!

[–] tomcatt360 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linguists call these eggcorns Here's a good video by RobWords with more examples.

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[–] Globulart 79 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Probably the thing I miss most about reddit is being able to easily find and laugh at these kinds of exchanges.

Too much sanity on lemmy... I miss the conspiracy subs.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Go to most of the political subs on lemmy and you'll find plenty of brain dead takes

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The [email protected] community has some unironic (I think) posts in there if you scroll a few posts down.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I use Mastodon for quite a while and that seems to be a side effect of federated moderation, can't say I miss it there tho!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] TheDoozer 59 points 2 years ago

They're talking about the horizon.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (6 children)

have you people never seen an ocean? when you see ships go far enough out you see them disappear behind the curvature of the earth, you'll see masts of sailboats sticking up and the like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not just the ocean. There are lakes large enough of this effect to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When a ship gets far away and you only see the top half, it's behind a flat Earth water mountain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

What's he not getting?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

No silly waves are on land. Have you ever heard of earth's largest wave? Wave Everest. A lot of people climb it every year. Sometimes they call them land waves to distinguish them further from water mountains.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just run to the edge then.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They'd just hit the ice wall, idiot. And if they made it through that they would hit the ocean of the second flat world beyond our own. If they got through that they would hit either the scorched wastes, the frozen wastes, the abyssal ocean, or the walls of asgard..
Seriously, do you even do your own research?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd play the hell out of this videogame.

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[–] Ddhuud 11 points 2 years ago

You mean if he ever gets past security.

America doesn't have the resources to watch effectively the border with Mexico, but they can guard the full earth "circumference"... AAAAND keep everyone quiet about it.

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[–] bappity 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's their counter-argument to:

"If earth is really flat, why do ships disappear behind the oceans horizon?"

"Water mountains"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Earth curvature

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHIP DISAPPEAR ?

WATER MOUNTAINS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Water mountains sound so fun that I'll choose to believe in them. Also ball eath but in combination with water mountains

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Ok i'm convinced

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We do have water volcanoes at least. Someone just named them geysers. Tho I'm fairly sure that vulcanic activity disproves flat earth.

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[–] xantoxis 15 points 2 years ago

This is an image of power towers gradually getting shorter and shorter because they have to squeeze into the water tunnel that runs through the water mountain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thanks, that's my band name now

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know it's really hard to tell, especially with flat earthers, but I think this post by "gerwin" screenshat here (with extra jpeg) was satire.

There are a lot of silly explanations that flat earthers have for things, but this doesn't appear to be one of them.

(Googling for "water mountain" just gives this screenshot and people making fun of this screenshot.)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

every day I feel ashamed about the fact that I have to live on the same planet (sorry, I mean pancake) with these people

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Bro, shut up, you're making us look like a bunch of round earthers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The Turtle Moves!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Damn my English is so bad, I thought they are talking about swim accessories.

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