One of my kids calls water fountains water mountains… I assume from just mishearing the word. The first time he said it I went to correct him and then I’m like it does look like a water mountain so fuck it we’ll go with that. Now the whole family only refers to them us water mountains.
And oddly there is another misheard word another of my kids used that we’ve all adopted, this kid said his tshirt was skin side out instead of inside out. Again I went to correct him and thought no he is right too, so now clothes are skin side out or skin side in.
My family has one of those. Our oldest would say hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer. We started correcting him but eventually realized that it’s more efficient and everyone knows what he’s talking about. I actually use it outside the family too. No issues, only chuckles when I explain the story.
Hah, skin side out is good !!
Linguists call these eggcorns Here’s a good video by RobWords with more examples.
Probably the thing I miss most about reddit is being able to easily find and laugh at these kinds of exchanges.
Too much sanity on lemmy… I miss the conspiracy subs.
Too much sanity
Uhh I don’t know what subs you’ve been visiting, but there’s just as many stupid people on here as well.
Go to most of the political subs on lemmy and you’ll find plenty of brain dead takes
The !flatearth@lemmy.ml community has some unironic (I think) posts in there if you scroll a few posts down.
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No you don’t. Trust me. The crazies here brigade others, peddle lies and push genocide apologia.
You mean a wave?
They’re talking about the horizon.
When a ship gets far away and you only see the top half, it’s behind a flat Earth water mountain.
I should watch this again. Great movie.
No silly waves are on land. Have you ever heard of earth’s largest wave? Wave Everest. A lot of people climb it every year. Sometimes they call them land waves to distinguish them further from water mountains.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
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I actually had a guy come into a store I used to work in, he came around closing… guy would not leave until I heard his salespitch about the flat earth…
A week later I learned he called corporate who demanded I be fired over refusing to hear him out. Manager told me he had no choice, fire me or get fired and have the replacement fire me.
It worked out though, Travis eventually left and the new manager couldn’t get anyone to stay… when he found my old file and how long I stayed he offered my job back.
I had found something closer, easier, and higher paying so I just laughed the offer off. I love my new gig
So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you?
Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that.
It’s actually religious for some of them. They take the whole biblical “firmament” idea literally.
They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are.
What makes you think so?
“Ball earthists”.
I knew someone who like to use flat Earthism to illustrate that there’s little point in debating someone who has no interest in being persuaded. He’d basically state the Earth is flat and use every rhetorical trick in the book to defend his position, exhaust his opponent, and then say, “Could you imagine how frustrated you’d be if I actually believed any of that?” He eventually got his DDS of all things, but I thought he’d make a good lawyer.
I’m gonna make my own planet! With blackjack! And hookers!
You must mean Plainit fellow pancake earthier?
Why don’t you like entertainment?
…waves?
I think it’s their counter-argument to:
“If earth is really flat, why do ships disappear behind the oceans horizon?”
“Water mountains”
Earth curvature
Water mountains sound so fun that I’ll choose to believe in them. Also ball eath but in combination with water mountains
Sounds like Hydrohomies and Earthporn have their own group chat I would love to be a fly on the wall for. If I was a mountain made of water, I would be so happy.
We do have water volcanoes at least. Someone just named them geysers. Tho I’m fairly sure that vulcanic activity disproves flat earth.
That’s gey.
This is an image of power towers gradually getting shorter and shorter because they have to squeeze into the water tunnel that runs through the water mountain.
thanks, that’s my band name now
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every day I feel ashamed about the fact that I have to live on the same planet (sorry, I mean pancake) with these people
I know it’s really hard to tell, especially with flat earthers, but I think this post by “gerwin” screenshat here (with extra jpeg) was satire.
There are a lot of silly explanations that flat earthers have for things, but this doesn’t appear to be one of them.
(Googling for “water mountain” just gives this screenshot and people making fun of this screenshot.)
I’m stealing that word now “scteenshat” works well in this context
The Turtle Moves!
Damn my English is so bad, I thought they are talking about swim accessories.
Wouldn’t it actually be water valleys? If you are standing on the shore and watched a boat go up a water mountain at the horizon it would stay visible, there would have to be a valley for the boat to disappear.
These people are so dumb, they aren’t “water mountains”, they are Lands with the subtypes Island and Mountain, meaning they can tap for blue or red mana.
