My cousin is constantly in jail for stealing things - every time he gets out he'll steal some dumb thing out of habit within a month and get sent back. When I was a kid I'd heard the word kleptomaniac and wanted to use it to describe my cousin, but I'd also heard the word nymphomaniac and had gotten the two confused, so for a span of about 2 years I was going around telling a bunch of people that my cousin is in jail for being a nymphomaniac.
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ergoplato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1d
I love literal humor! Thank you for a much needed laugh.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1d
Then why don't you marry it?
Klear@piefed.world · 10 pts · 1d
Because humour is not a person.
apex32@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19h
And I love self-deprecating humor, but I'm not very good at it.
Signtist@bookwyr.me · 15 pts · 20h
My cousin is constantly in jail for stealing things - every time he gets out he'll steal some dumb thing out of habit within a month and get sent back. When I was a kid I'd heard the word kleptomaniac and wanted to use it to describe my cousin, but I'd also heard the word nymphomaniac and had gotten the two confused, so for a span of about 2 years I was going around telling a bunch of people that my cousin is in jail for being a nymphomaniac.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2h
He can't help it, he always fucks his way back behind bars
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1d
Nah, we know there would need to be a comma before "literally" in order to mean that. 😁
lgsp@feddit.it · 5 pts · 1d
Taking tings literally is a metaphor... What a contradiction!
starik@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1d
Doesn’t “take” just have multiple meanings?
Colloidal@programming.dev · 2 pts · 16h
Y'all gotta check !youdontsurf@lemmy.world
20cello@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Did where?