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u/toot-chute 15d ago
Unless im missing some more comments, I’m guessing they just worded it poorly and meant to say “was” instead of “wasn’t” or they got hit with auto correct because of some errant letters via sausage fingers.
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u/Less_Likely 15d ago
All my comments are weird due to sausage fingers. Except this one for some reason
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u/toot-chute 15d ago
You’re not the only one. Whether it’s an email or message, I do my best proofreading after hitting send.
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u/SuperiorCommunist92 12d ago
Yeah. Oftentimes I'm making typos because instead of the space bar I'm hitting n or b. "wasnthe Onion" or something
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u/HughJasshole 15d ago
Irrelevant to the story, but whenever someone says "my brother in christ..." it just makes me laugh. I don't think I can explain why, but it seems so condescending and just over the line of passive aggressive, yet clearly meant to be a slam. Anyone know how it started?
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u/Archercrash 15d ago
Not as bad as "Oh you sweet summer child" so condescending.
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u/Annithilate_gamer 15d ago
I hate that one so much for some reason
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u/arftism2 14d ago
it's because people who say it unironically have their head so far up their own ass that their spine loops 3 times.
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u/yourresume 10d ago
In my experience, people use “my brother in Christ” when someone does something egregious, and they use “oh you sweet summer child” when they think they’re smarter/more experienced/less innocent than you. One of them is a judgement of character.
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u/Protheu5 Shrek is Love. Shrek is Life. 14d ago
It's kind of endearing if you think about it. Because the opposite would be Salty Winter Adult.
Also possible: Sour Autumn Adolescent, Bitter Spring Elderly and Umami Polar night Fœtus.
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u/Vituluss 13d ago
I mean it’s literally an insult. Calling the person young and naïve. Doesn’t feel comparable.
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u/MC_Labs15 15d ago
It's based on this image, which censors a certain word in an amusingly clumsy way
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u/stillbones 15d ago
I think it got popular from the subway sandwich meme. I’m not sure where it came from before that.
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u/davegrapes 15d ago
because the rage on Twitter for a few months, a couple of years ago. flash in the pan but I agree it can still be amusing when not overused
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u/Optimal_Cellist_1845 13d ago
I feel like it originally came from a Nigerian scam email back and forth immortalized on 4chan.
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u/AcceptablyPotato 15d ago
I think the point was that in the past they'd instantly recognize this as obvious satire, but because of how ridiculous things have gotten recently in the news cycle, they actually stopped to question if it could be real and not just satire.
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u/RobinTheReanimator 15d ago
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u/Flar71 15d ago
I don't get it, why does he start screaming?
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u/secretbudgie 15d ago
Frustration, mental exhaustion, the existential terror of an inescapable fate, stubbed his toe?
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u/stdoubtloud 15d ago
In our current world, satire is dead. Ideas shared on The Onion and similar have to be plausible. But plausible lunacy is actually reality every day.
The Onion workflow is: + read article, laugh + reconsider: was that really satire? + hunt the interwebs for evidence + unable to find positive evidence of untruth, bury face in hands + cry
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u/slucker23 15d ago
At this point the onion is so close to the actual news it's making me really uncomfortable...
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u/TheGreatManaTree 14d ago
I think the point they were trying to make was that it’s crazy that they even have to double check that this headline was in fact from The Onion, because that’s the world we live in now.
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u/HiopXenophil 15d ago
you are allowed to post satire, even when you are not immediately sure it is