• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    This is a cool joke, because it has a paradox built in because it only works when written about in third person.

    I mean maybe she actually said “on the way to work” but i think post people would say “on my way to work” which doesnt work.

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          1 month ago

          “My Weird Brain” sounds like an 80s sitcom about a brain in a jar that can still somehow talk to people. And the backstory would be something like “One night, a lonely teenager tried ending his life by driving off a cliff. His body was unsalvagable, but his brain is preserved! Now he lives in a jar in the kitchen of government scientists kept secret from the public.”

          “My Weird Brain is filmed by a live studio audiance”

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      1 month ago

      I would totally say “I saw insert thing on the way to work today,” and would have assumed that would be the natural way to say it, but now I’m questioning that