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.
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.
Linguists call these eggcorns Here’s a good video by RobWords with more examples.
Hah, skin side out is good !!
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.
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I’m pretty sure once you reach a certain threshold of individuals, a minimum percentage will always be this dumb. I’m not sure about the exact numbers, but the phenomenon seems real
Go to most of the political subs on lemmy and you’ll find plenty of brain dead takes
The !flatearth@lemmy.ml community has some unironic (I think) posts in there if you scroll a few posts down.
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No you don’t. Trust me. The crazies here brigade others, peddle lies and push genocide apologia.
You mean a wave?
They’re talking about the horizon.
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.
Not just the ocean. There are lakes large enough of this effect to happen.
No, I have never been to the beach or seen the ocean.
If you ever get the opportunity to, highly recommend going to see it. It’s probably my favorite thing on earth.
No, us prairie people don’t think about the ocean that often, but yes I’ve seen that. A wave just seems more mountain-like than the horizon.
what do prairie people think about
I dunno. Grass ‘n shit. 🤷🏻♂️
“grass sure is grassy today”
It sure is there bud. Think the rain’ll help it grow?
None of what they say makes sense when you string any two parts of it together, so trying to figure out which thing is more mountain-like is giving them credit they’re not really due.
When a ship gets far away and you only see the top half, it’s behind a flat Earth water mountain.
What’s he not getting?
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
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I actually had a guy come into a store I used to work in, he came around closing… guy would not leave until I heard his salespitch about the flat earth…
A week later I learned he called corporate who demanded I be fired over refusing to hear him out. Manager told me he had no choice, fire me or get fired and have the replacement fire me.
It worked out though, Travis eventually left and the new manager couldn’t get anyone to stay… when he found my old file and how long I stayed he offered my job back.
I had found something closer, easier, and higher paying so I just laughed the offer off. I love my new gig
So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you?
Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that.
They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are.
What makes you think so?
“Ball earthists”.
It’s actually religious for some of them. They take the whole biblical “firmament” idea literally.
I knew someone who like to use flat Earthism to illustrate that there’s little point in debating someone who has no interest in being persuaded. He’d basically state the Earth is flat and use every rhetorical trick in the book to defend his position, exhaust his opponent, and then say, “Could you imagine how frustrated you’d be if I actually believed any of that?” He eventually got his DDS of all things, but I thought he’d make a good lawyer.
Well I got good news for you. This isn’t a planet. It’s a giant rug thats’s floating in space propelled by genie’s dark matter astro-projection that moves us at 9.8 meters/sec² and our world was created by an entity named God who’s 3 wishes to the genie was 1. to create this magnificient space rug to house 2. the people that will be
spawnedcreated on this wonderful place and will 3. forever worship God and his Magnificient Space Rug and that non-believers will have to suffer their entire life believing in the Round-Earth Conspiracy.Thank God™ for helping us realize the truth. 🤓
I’m gonna make my own planet! With blackjack! And hookers!
You must mean Plainit fellow pancake earthier?
You must mean plane-et.
Why don’t you like entertainment?
Flat Earth? Fucking idiots. The Earth is obviously a Giant Magical Space Rug propelled by Genie’s Dark Matter Astro-Projection
movingteleporting at 9.8 m/s² 🤓What the hell are you talking about? We live in the Disc, held up by the Four Elephants which stand on the back of the Great Atuin, a 10,000 mile long turtle. The turtle moves.
This has been disproved. We live on a globe in an experimental non-magical universe kept at a university run by wizards who live on a disc held up by four elephants on the book of the Great Atuin.
Actually there were five elephants, but one lost its footing, entered an unstable orbit and came hurtling through space, smashing into the Disc and causing the mountains to rise.
Crap, I have to reread the series now and appreciate “The Fifth Elephant.” Didn’t that elephant also cause huge crystalized fat deposits to happen deep in the disc?
Accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2!
…waves?
Earth curvature
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHIP DISAPPEAR ?
WATER MOUNTAINS
Water mountains sound so fun that I’ll choose to believe in them. Also ball eath but in combination with water mountains
Sounds like Hydrohomies and Earthporn have their own group chat I would love to be a fly on the wall for. If I was a mountain made of water, I would be so happy.
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.
thanks, that’s my band name now
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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.)
Bro, shut up, you’re making us look like a bunch of round earthers.
Damn my English is so bad, I thought they are talking about swim accessories.
The Turtle Moves!
Wouldn’t it actually be water valleys? If you are standing on the shore and watched a boat go up a water mountain at the horizon it would stay visible, there would have to be a valley for the boat to disappear.
