r/MadeMeSmile • u/Bihema • 11d ago

Wholesome Moments A couple slowly falling in love

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u/lapitupp 11d ago edited 10d ago

You seriously believe they are just hugging? Come on. They’re doing it for the ring and for the parents. Teenagers are clever

Edit: changed smart to clever

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 11d ago

My teenage stepdaughter from my former marriage was convinced bill nye went to prison for making meth and that a food called CHICKEN nuggets was made from cow eyes. She could not be convinced Hamilton wasn’t a president despite both her history books and the musical she loved so much proving otherwise. We once got into a debate on whether or not it was “hard knock life” or “hard not life,” which didn’t end when I showed her a YouTube video from Annie complete with subtitles and brought up the lyrics on google. She wasn’t allowed to eat in her bedroom, so she stuffed the candy wrappers behind her bed INTO the floor heating vents, which is not the only time she almost set our place on fire.

I would like to respectfully challenge the last sentence of your comment. I realize my evidence is anecdotal, but there’s plenty more and her friends probably considered her the genius of the group.

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u/beachedwhitemale 11d ago

People don't realize that this is a large, large population. Like, there are so many stupid people out there. Some kids are just absolutely dumb at a horrendous level. I think it's about half the population. They're so dumb they can't even think. Like how are they even alive? 

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 10d ago

I just started a new job yesterday and said something similar to my girlfriend after this training session. Among other things, I got called a “smarty pants” when someone asked how many feet were in a mile and I answered. I really feel like the modern internet ruined the appeal of retaining literally any knowledge

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u/beachedwhitemale 10d ago

Five tomato! (5 2 8 0)

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u/TheOtherEthanKlein 11d ago

bro the chicken nuggets made from cow eyes is so hillarious to me because the only way i can imagine she would believe that is if someone once sarcastically told her they were made of cow eyes as a joke when she asked what they were and she didn’t catch the sarcasm

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u/cantadmittoposting 11d ago

she's wrong but not for the reason you might think?

Sausages can have eyes in them, but chicken nuggets are CHICKEN floor scraping, and thus, are more likely to have chicken eyes

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 10d ago

She instantly believes anything she sees on tik tok. It’s responsible for half the things I listed above. She was at that age where she’s convinced she knows something about the world that the “old people” don’t. I hope she grew out of it, but after the divorce I got an absolutely unhinged voicemail from her and decided to never contact her again. Found out through my ex that she ended up moving back in with her addict of a dad when I called to see if she was ok after listening to it.

It made me sad, but I’m not her parent. I tried to be, but she made that abundantly clear when she became a teen and I tried to respect that decision.

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u/moxiewhoreon 11d ago

Sounds like she's more stubborn than stupid lol

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 10d ago

Por que no los dos

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u/moxiewhoreon 10d ago

Por que no, indeed!

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u/lapitupp 10d ago

Someone corrected me - clever was the proper word to use haha!

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 10d ago

that a food called CHICKEN nuggets was made from cow eyes

Disclaimer: I'm not arguing in support of the claim itself, but about the nature of the claim.

Nothing wrong with this line of thinking. In fact, by itself, it could outright be an indicator of good critical thinking. Arguments in favour:

  • just because something is called chicken nuggets doesn't automatically make it be made from chickens, or even be nuggets, for that matter.

  • corporations and corpo lobbying can't be trusted, so it's entirely plausible for a chicken nugget producer to mix low-quality protein into their "chicken" nuggets to cut costs and be legally permitted to still call them chicken nuggets. See for instance the low-quality chicken sausage packagings for a long list of non-chicken ingredients contained within.

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u/Clean_your_lens 10d ago

*clever

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u/lapitupp 10d ago

You’re right lol. I see the wrong is my comment lol

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u/ayeeflo51 11d ago

Smart? Absolutely not lmao