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I'm dreadful for it

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[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 17 points 1 day ago

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 3 points 1 day ago

He can't help it, he always fucks his way back behind bars

[-] ergoplato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago

I love literal humor! Thank you for a much needed laugh.

[-] apex32@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

And I love self-deprecating humor, but I'm not very good at it.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Then why don't you marry it?

[-] Klear@piefed.world 10 points 2 days ago

Because humour is not a person.

[-] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago

Nah, we know there would need to be a comma before "literally" in order to mean that. 😁

[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago
[-] lgsp@feddit.it 5 points 2 days ago

Taking tings literally is a metaphor... What a contradiction!

[-] starik@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Doesn’t “take” just have multiple meanings?

[-] 20cello@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[-] lgsp@feddit.it 1 points 6 hours ago

Likely... But I still like to think like this 🙂

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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