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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!

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.

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Ross Keim
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my fav memes was when trump tweeted stop the count, and someone replied a picture of the count going ah-ah-ah

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By hitting a window with your bare fist in the regular manly fashion of course

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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." 

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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."

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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.

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"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!

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Eppe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

Eppe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Dave P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now legal in California if under $800, destroy your local small businesses today

Oskar vanZandt
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

Laurie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What security? That's a joke. I work at a Wal-Mart. Might as well say shoplifters welcome

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Karin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walmart is BAD FOR BUSINESS! Kenneth Stone, Professor of Economics at Iowa State University, in a paper published in Farm Foundation in 1997, found that some small towns can lose almost half of their retail trade within ten years of a Walmart store opening.

Karin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since Walmart is only capable of being in business bc they pay their employees so badly that a large proportion of them must rely on social services to survive, I say GO FOR IT! The more you can take, the better!

GeeGee
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, shoplifters (thieves) aren’t stealing tings to better their education.

Kanga9ine
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nordstrom's has a deal like that in their shoe department. Go for the running shoes and carry the boots and pumps.

Mark Melton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our politicians and Corporations steal from we the people every day. I'm not stopping any one stealing from evil corporations. I won't convict them in a jury trial either. The wealthy are the true parasites on society. "When the people run out of food, then they will eat the Rich".

Anita Pickle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In San Francisco they give out free everything because taking things without paying is no longer a crime

Karin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walmart is NOT worth the2priceaper by two professors at Pennsylvania State University found that U.S. counties with Walmart stores suffered increased poverty compared with counties without Wal-Marts. They hypothesized that this could be due to the displacement of workers from higher-paid jobs in the retailers customers no longer choose to patronize, Wal-Mart providing less local charity than the replaced businesses, or a shrinking pool of local leadership and reduced social capital due to a reduced number of local independent businesses. Dr Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System", said in a lecture at the University of Melbourne on September 18, 2007, that a study in Nebraska looked at two different Wal-Marts, the first of which had just arrived and "was in the process of driving everyone else out of business but, to do that, they cut their prices to the bone, very, very low prices". In the other Wal-Mart, "they had suc

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Not true at all *Most of the merchandise you purchase is increased 200 to 400% just to cover shoplifting losses.

Sherbaan Naab
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But they are free to whomever shoplifts, right? Which was the point to begin with.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Bible tells you that you can pray anywhere. So, yeah, churches aren't essential.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can be picky eaters, like what if they only keep on eating bacon forever. I bet 600 pounds is a small number.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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elSti
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Anthony
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, with a trouser about to take a nose dive to the ground, I'll not bother

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ravina nimje
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we went from 2019 to 2021 in Just a week or less. Everything feels like yesterday at this point.

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Ross Keim
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe, depends on the age of your followers, I’m sure atleast 1 could make it to 106-110 years old

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