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.
He can't help it, he always fucks his way back behind bars
I love literal humor! Thank you for a much needed laugh.
And I love self-deprecating humor, but I'm not very good at it.
Then why don't you marry it?
Because humour is not a person.
Nah, we know there would need to be a comma before "literally" in order to mean that. 😁
Y'all gotta check !youdontsurf@lemmy.world
Taking tings literally is a metaphor... What a contradiction!
Doesn’t “take” just have multiple meanings?
Did where?
Likely... But I still like to think like this 🙂
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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