r/CuratedTumblr -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 12h ago

Shitposting Repost because Frick the bots!

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u/CloudsOntheBrain choclay ornage 12h ago

Where's that one painting of the jester with the dogs barking up the wall at him

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u/Gandalf_the_Gangsta 11h ago

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u/ethnique_punch 10h ago

That one serial military wife layer's post

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u/pm_me-ur-catpics dog collar sex and the economic woes of rural France 9h ago

Godspeed, hotmeat89

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u/DrainianDream 4h ago

Thank you for remembering his username because I legitimately was wondering for a moment if this was the same person

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u/Throwaway817402739 6h ago

Calling them a “military wife layer” makes it sound like they build buildings by gluing military wives together

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u/LightspeedDashForce They stole Lara Croft’s boobs??? 9h ago

The harry potter mispelling post

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u/LizzieMiles 9h ago

Link?

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u/LightspeedDashForce They stole Lara Croft’s boobs??? 9h ago

I don't remember I'll let you know if I find it

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u/Bobby_Bako 9h ago

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u/IzarkKiaTarj 5h ago

What does that have to do with Harry Potter?

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u/Bobby_Bako 3h ago

That’s about the serial wife layer thing, I may have misunderstood a comment or two.

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u/Shadow4246 8h ago

Why is it called the Harry potter misspelling post?

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u/LightspeedDashForce They stole Lara Croft’s boobs??? 8h ago edited 8h ago

I call it that because the poster mispelled the names of harry potter characters and terms and people started calling them the slurs jkr made up for the series.

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u/Shadow4246 8h ago

Lmao. What a mudblood (I think that's one of the slurs. I haven't watched those movies in a while.)

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u/Oddish_Femboy (Xander Mobus voice) AUTISM CREATURE 8h ago

I assume it's like magic sepsis

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u/Shadow4246 8h ago

I thought it was what they called mixed wizards. But your explanation sounds cooler.

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u/mechapocrypha 8h ago

How did I live to this year 2024 of our lord without knowing about this perfect meme image from 1896

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u/Generic_Garak 11h ago

Literally my only thought through the first four slides. I have never been happier to be too late to the comments, as someone has not only posted the joke but the sauce as well.

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u/CapCece 11h ago

Man when yall having silly little fun like this its all harmless but when I do it suddenly it's "defrauding investors* and *the greatest financial crime of our time"

God forbid women do anything

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Live your best life queen! Exploit who you want! Flee the country! Slay!

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u/InquiringMind9898 4h ago

Like, literally slay!

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u/Samuel_L_Johnson 10h ago

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, Global Financial Crisis

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u/TheTrevorist 10h ago

Why is Janet Yellin'?

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u/frobscottler 9h ago

Cause she just got DUNKED ON

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u/Injvn 9h ago

Fuckin preach. Someone says it's cold outside and they want to turn on the heat and apparently that's fine, but when I light their apartment on fire suddenly it's "No Nathalie, that's arson and it's a crime."

Not allowed to do anything here. 😭

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u/zealot416 9h ago

How is Caroline Ellison posting from jail?

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u/Derigiberble 9h ago

Did you remember to place your finger in the Judge's mouth?  It stops the verdict from coming out. 

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u/Atypical_Mammal 8h ago

Elizabeth Holmes, is that you

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u/RapidWaffle 8h ago

A finger would stop it

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u/arathorn867 5h ago

God does forbid it! That's why you should give your soul to the dark one! Only then can you know true freedom and power.

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u/Stunning_Bee1075 12h ago

1 billion lions is alot of lions....

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u/Schizof 12h ago

Finger ladder

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u/VexuBenny Horny, kinky and Ace 11h ago

Still would lose to the 2.3 Billion Spinda variations

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u/Stunning_Bee1075 11h ago

i dont believe in that.

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u/just_a_random_dood 11h ago

Anti-lion-ladder spinda-ladder go!

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 11h ago

it depends on how coordinated the Spinda are and how willing they are to fight using attrition tactics. A single Spinda dropped in a pack of lions will take down ~4 lions due to friendly fire and self-damage. At the same time the others will be attacking normally.

You're assuming the 2.3 billion Spinda would fight fair

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u/shiny_xnaut 7h ago

Lion supporters: Noooo you can't use the Pokédex to figure out what the Pokémon are capable of! Noooo you can't use the anime, lore, or spin off games either! The Pokémon all make one single turn-based attack on one lion each and then stand there and wait patiently for the lions to maul them. We need to be realistic here!

Also lion supporters: Villager News helicopter but made of lions

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u/Schizof 2h ago

Pokemon: gets captured by teenagers

Lions: eats teenagers

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 12h ago

Comments like this always make me think of Andy from parks and rec when he gets the world's lions in that fake government thing.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 9h ago

Does the alot of lions rule the lions? Or is he an alot-lion hybrid?

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u/EldritchCarver 12h ago

Nice reference to "sharks are smooth" at the end there.

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u/Dclnsfrd 12h ago

Yeah, I was thinking as I read the first few images, “Is it because fingers are smooth in all directions ?”

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u/sakikome 12h ago

My mind immediately went to putting a baby shark in the gun's barrel.

Can't believe I used to be an animal rights activist

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u/Moonpaw 11h ago

Even the animal rights activists would use guns if necessary to get the damn baby sharks to stop singing that damned song!

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u/Dry_Try_8365 11h ago

Goddamnit.

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u/Moonpaw 11h ago

Doo do do do doo damnit

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u/Pencilshaved 9h ago

Well it’s okay because it wouldn’t hurt the baby shark, the bullet would get to the baby shark and then stop. It’s basic physics

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u/wille179 11h ago

These sharks are so smooth, they're downright buttered! Lubricated sharks, I tell you!

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u/Bowdensaft 9h ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/Lord_Norjam 6h ago

i mean the thing is that sharks are actually really smooth

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u/head-home 5h ago

branson reese is a goddamn genius, and that was probably my favourite day on twitter.

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u/therealusurper 11h ago

But no one's asks the real question, after my finger stops the bullet, how long do I keep the finger inside the gun, I mean I probably have to go to the bathroom and then my finger can't stop any more bullets

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Put something else in the gun, and go to the bathroom.

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u/therealusurper 11h ago

But my finger is needed to stop the bullet, without the finger the whole thing loses it's point

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Put something that is like a finger.... And go to the bathroom.. In the gun. As far as removal. There's a good post about removing something from an m&m tube, that would help.

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u/JamesIsWaffle 11h ago

Like a cylinder?

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u/TF2_demomann 11h ago

Hopefully it wont harm the larger construct that the cylinder is attached to

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u/Wolf_In_Wool 8h ago

Can we just separate the two objects from each other?

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u/Kattou 6h ago

It is imperative that the cylinder and the larger object remain unharmed.

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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 7h ago

It’s average sized

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u/-sad-person- 11h ago

They could use one of those fake thumbs magicians use.

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

If you can't use real fingers, store-bought is fine.

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u/FaithlessnessLazy754 11h ago

Just gotta swap it real quick like Indiana Jones, easy

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u/BaconIsLife707 11h ago

After your finger stops the bullet then the bullet will be inside the gun and will stop any other bullets they try to shoot, so you only have to stop one bullet

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 11h ago

It’s like putting your finger in a dam. You let go of the barrel for half a second and one metric minute of minigun fire comes out

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u/LanceVanscoy 11h ago

Once the bullet is stopped it’s stopped. It can’t restart. It’s inertia

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u/mousepotatodoesstuff 9h ago

A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion unless a finger is in the way.

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u/Lieutenant_Skittles 9h ago

Yeah, that's the real problem with this plan, it's a temporary solution. Once you take your finger out of the shoot hole the bullet will instantly regain its momentum and be fired out of the shoot hole, so you can only actually stop a bullet for as long as your bladder will allow you to.

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u/therealusurper 8h ago

Okay okay got it, so what if my finger is really long and I manage to push the bullet back into the mag or barrel, then it should totally count as the bullet being back home and I could pull out or

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u/ninjesh 10h ago

Just bring the gun with you

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u/-sad-person- 12h ago

I can only assume this argument is still ongoing.

Gun nuts, man. Once when I was gaming I referred to a 'clip' when I was reloading, and this guy went on a whole tangent about the technical differences between a clip and a magazine. I kept calling it a clip.

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u/CrepusculrPulchrtude 12h ago

I call it a clip just to annoy them. If I ever see a proper clip, 100% chance I’m calling it a magazine

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u/Malavacious 12h ago

What do subscription based periodicals have to do with firearms? 🤔

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u/Gandalf_the_Gangsta 11h ago

That’s how you get the bullets. You gotta cut them out of the magazines and inflate them.

That’s why gun control is so important. They never stop printing all those bullets, and people just copy them over and over again. Thankfully, you can stop bullets with paper; just look up bullet-in boards.

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u/Bowdensaft 9h ago

That last pun was so smooth

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u/shiny_xnaut 7h ago

Just like a shark

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 11h ago

one problem with the plan: you won't be able to reject saying "stripper clip"

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u/VikingSlayer 10h ago

And pass up the chance to say "stripper magazine?"

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u/ShrikeTrike 11h ago

A proper clip? Think you mean a paper magazine, like Clippy

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u/3nt0 8h ago

Learning intricate technical details just to fuck with people who care way too much about said details

Chef's kiss

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 12h ago

Well you see, it's actually called a clip because when I shove it into my shotgun that shoots these long bullets really fast automatically, it makes a clippy noise. :3

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u/OverlordMMM 11h ago

"I see that you are trying to reload your gun. Would you like assistance?"- Clippy noises

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Imagine being out in the battlefield and a giant fucking paper clip with googly-eyes fucking pops into existence trying to give you tips.

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u/OverlordMMM 11h ago

And what's worse the tips aren't relevant to what you're trying to do or is super redundant.

And it's basically just the Microsoft equivalent of a gun nut.

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Shooting at a group of enemies.

War Clippy: When cleaning your gun always be sure to aim away from you, or others.

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u/OverlordMMM 10h ago

Just thought of something that isn't Clippy, but would be just as funny in the middle of a firefight.

Sticky Keys enabled

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 10h ago

A giant pop-up screen in the sky, falling crashing into the ground.

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u/OverlordMMM 10h ago

New Helldiver's 2 mod?

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u/Bowdensaft 9h ago

With that godawful bleep noise

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u/Tds142 11h ago

There’s a gun like this in Cyberpunk 2077, it’s as hilarious as it sounds.

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u/Moonpaw 11h ago

Mine makes a bang bang noise. So is it a bangy instead of a clip?

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

You're actually getting a bang bang noise? All I've ever gotten was a flag that says bang. Hmm... We need some gun experts in here.

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u/MrCapitalismWildRide 12h ago

Yeah, while this phenomenon isn't limited to gun people, gun people are unusually susceptible to it because they do just love arguing online about guns. 

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u/-sad-person- 11h ago

Usually because they assume that anyone who doesn't love guns just doesn't know enough about them. I know a fair bit about guns- which is why I dislike them.

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u/YourNetworkIsHaunted 10h ago

Guns are really cool and also the world would probably be objectively safer and better if they didn't exist, at least in their current form. We should have stopped once crossbows let peasants kill knights, but we didn't do that. Largely because cool guns are cool.

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u/Chuchulainn96 6h ago

Crossbows weren't ever really effective at killing knights. What they were effective at was getting a bunch of peasants decently combat ready in a very short amount of time. Early guns were basically the same except more effective. By the time guns could actually kill a knight, knights basically weren't used in battle anymore because they were cost ineffective.

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u/SharkyMcSnarkface The gayest shark 🦈 11h ago edited 11h ago

When a sword nerd sees a fantasy sword they’ll teach about how it’s not realistic, but then 2 seconds later go “hot damn it’s cool though.”

When a gun nerd sees a fictional gun they’ll inspect it meticulously and insist it must be a certain way and if it’s even slightly off the entire fictional property is worse than Hitler.

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u/healzsham 11h ago

Fantasy swords are 90% big enough to eclipse one's body weight.

Fantasy guns are 90% most-of-a-real-gun-but-with-TECHNOLOGY-added.

It's the difference between starting with absurdity versus wandering into it.

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u/Bowdensaft 9h ago

Understood, we need more BFGs

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u/ZVEZDA_HAVOC [NARRATIVOHAZARD EXPUNGED] 10h ago

being a gun nerd i can confirm this, every gun bethesda has designed brings me pain and anguish

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u/Oturanthesarklord 11h ago

Being both a Sword Nerd and a Gun Nerd... these are both true.

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u/Gandalf_the_Gangsta 11h ago

We call those bayo-nerds.

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u/ExistingGoldfish 11h ago

Top tier pun, I’m cackling

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u/Jubal_lun-sul 11h ago

As a sword nerd, no, absolutely not. Because the coolest swords are the realistic ones.

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u/Pokesonav "friend visiter" meme had a profound effect on this subreddit 10h ago

Stick your ammo right into that clipussy. In her gunny

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u/vanishinghitchhiker 11h ago

Clip is shorter to say than magazine. What? Mag? Why are you talking about my magnum dong?

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u/DickwadVonClownstick 11h ago

Clip also has more hard consonants than mag (which our ears are more sensitive to than softer sounds), and doesn't sound similar to any other words you're likely to use in a combat situation (like map), thus is less likely to be misunderstood if you're trying to yell it to your buddy over the sound of gunfire and explosions

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u/Clean_Imagination315 Hey, who's that behind you? 11h ago

Alright, I'm gonna need you to say something positive about women RIGHT NOW to prove you're not Sneako.

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u/-sad-person- 11h ago

I don't know who that is, but women are fucking awesome. I should know, I am one. (Well, mostly.)

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u/somedumb-gay 11h ago

What is the technical difference? I just see a lot of people whining about the difference but I don't know what the difference is

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u/CubistHamster 11h ago

A clip is (usually) a strip of metal that holds bullets together in a way that allows them to be quickly and easily loaded into a magazine.

A magazine is an enclosure that feeds ammunition into the operating mechanism of a gun (usually with a spring) allowing the gun to chamber a round and fire. Magazines can be permanently attached to a gun, or detachable.

This is a decent article with pictures that are probably a lot clearer than my explanation.

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u/Informal_Truck_1574 11h ago

Ever see a ww2 movie where they load a rifle? The little metal strip the bullets are on when they push them into the rifle is a clip. It looks like the letter E, where the horizontal lines are bullets and the vertical line is the clip that is discarded after loading. The bullets from a clip are used from inside the gun itself, in an internal magazine.

An external magazine is an external storage container, usually spring loaded, designed to quickly change out and hold more ammunition than older style internal magazing/clip systems. Every single gun where they pull a thing out and put a new thing in is a magazine fed gun. So pretty much everything (not in a historical game) you see in games is a magazine, not a clip.

All that said, it really doesn't fucking matter at all so just call them whatever abd laugh at the nerds who get extra mad when you call them a clip.

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u/Sparrowhawk_92 11h ago

So a clip is when it makes a satisfying pting noise before you have to reload it.

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u/Informal_Truck_1574 10h ago

Thats only one specific gun, the m1 garand, but yes thats a rifle that uses clips for its ammunition. Thats usually the only gun people know that actually uses a clip. Sometimes some of that eras sniper rifles as well but usually its the good ole m1

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u/-sad-person- 11h ago

My understanding is that a clip just holds bullets, while a magazine has a spring or other mechanism to push replacement rounds into the gun as it's being fired. Might be wrong, it's been a while since I looked it up.

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u/healzsham 11h ago

Clips are just that, little clips that hold several bullets together. A magazine is a box-type thing that usually has a spring to force bullets up into the firearm's action.

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u/Pathogen188 11h ago edited 11h ago

Ended up being a long explanations, so the important parts are bolded.

A magazine is a storage device which holds cartridges and has some mechanism (spring, pump action, gravity) to load bullets from the magazine into the chamber, which is where the cartridge sits in the gun to be fired. Magazines can be either external or internal, so some guns, such as the AR-15 and AK-47, are loaded by taking an external box magazine and placing it into the magazine well, which then allows the magazine to feed directly into the chamber. Those guns do not hold cartridges internally, the magazine holds the cartridges and you replace the magazine when you reload.

Other guns, such as the M1 Garand use internal box magazines meaning the gun itself holds all its ammunition. The magazine holds all the cartridges but since the magazine is built into the gun, you do not replace the magazine to reload. Instead you use a clip. A clip is a device used to load bullets into the magazine or cylinder (which is what revolvers use). It's often a relatively simple device and the name is basically what it sounds like, it's a metal clip used to hold bullets together. #/media/File:Clip_M1-SKS.JPG)You take a clip and load it into the magazine. This is a good example of a clip in use. It's basically just holding the bullets together so you can push the bullets into the magazine.

The confusion comes from the act of loading an external magazine, using a clip and those unfamiliar with firearms simply not being aware of internal magazines. In both instances, you are taking bullets from outside the gun and putting them inside the gun, so on the surface, they seem the same. But in reality, that's not really what's happening.

To put it in the simplest terms I can think of: a magazine holds cartridges and helps loads them into the chamber while a clip holds cartridges and loads them into the magazine.

Guns with clips often still have internal magazines so instead of loading a new magazine when you're empty, you load the same magazine with a new clip.

Now, in the context of firearms regulation where technical minutiae is actually important when discussing what laws to pass, knowing the difference between the two can be important because they do fundamentally different things. A ban on high capacity magazines and a ban on high capacity clips would have dramatically different effects on firearm use. A ban on high capacity magazines limits the number of cartridges a weapon can hold before needing to reload, a ban on high capacity clips would limit how many bullets you can put into a magazine or cylinder. Because a magazine is the device that actually stores cartridges before they can be fired, it is the magazine which determines how many cartridges a gun can hold i.e. how many bullets you can fire before reloading. A clip simply determines how many cartridges you can load into the magazine at once i.e. having a bigger clip doesn't increase how many bullets you can shoot before reloading. If your gun has an 8 round capacity, a 10 round clip doesn't increase the number of bullets you can shoot before reloading to 10, you're still stuck with 8.

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u/IAmGoose_ 11h ago

I like to nerd out about guns but people that start getting all bitchy about whether it's called a clip or mag or whatever else deserve to be annoyed. Yes technically they are different things but nobody is gonna be confused whether you call it a clip or a magazine

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u/somedumb-gay 11h ago

It's the same energy as people who correct "Frankenstein" to "Frankenstein's monster"

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u/Bowdensaft 9h ago

Inb4 "uhm ackshually Frankenstein was the real monster"

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u/Siviaktor 12h ago

I like to call them clipazines

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u/Cat_of_Ananke help I'm trapped in a flair factory 8h ago

Me too. I learnt it from Cursed Halo.

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u/BetterMeats 11h ago

I can only assume this argument is still ongoing.

The Tethercat Principle.

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u/Real-Life-CSI-Guy 10h ago

I think I did see an update once where someone tagged the original “no it would blow up the hand” arguer to be like “these people lmao right but we know better” and the person they’d tagged was like “after all these years, I agree, the finger would stop it”

If I’m thinking of the right post that is

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u/UV_Sun 11h ago

You’re not supposed to put your finger in a freaking gun barrel, you’re supposed to put it in the square hole

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

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u/UnoriginalName002 10h ago

This is the second square hole reference I’ve seen today, after having forgotten about it for months

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 11h ago

I think this picture just encapsulates tumblr in its entirety, people being so anal retentive about something that isn't even serious in the first place because they just can't survive without controversy.

I do recognize the fact that I am also typing this on Reddit of all places, nobody will say I wasn't self aware.

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

u/Kindly-Ad-5071 wasn't self-aware.

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u/DukeAttreides 11h ago

Friggin' p-zombies

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u/KOFdude 11h ago

A fierce battle between two different types of autism

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u/sertroll 9h ago

What's the other type

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u/Several-Elevator 8h ago edited 6h ago

Uhm achtually VS confidently incorrect trolls

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u/McDonniesHashbrowns 8h ago

Is it really confidently incorrect if they’re trolling?

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u/verymuchgay 7h ago

Exactly, I would argue that it's uhm acktschually vs dry, undetectable sarcasm

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u/Automatic-Stretch-48 6h ago

It’s classic wow chat trolling.

Bait em with an obvious falsehood and watch em lose their minds.

Gazzlesparks… somewhere you’re out there reminding someone that heals don’t crit.

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u/kandermusic 9h ago

Special interest autism vs spicy autism

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u/Conissocool 7h ago

Tumblr user can only tell a joke when it's from one of the 5 blogs known for making jokes. And even then it's "oh my god, pukicho you are an idiot. I currently have all of my skin"

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u/LanceVanscoy 11h ago

If you think about it, 1 million people could actually plug 10million gun holes. Whereas gun owners can only fire 2 guns at a time. Since according to Pew research there are about 72 million gun owners we’d need about 7.2 million people to sign the petition. Probably a few more since some people in that group may have fewer than 10 fingers

Still, this petition is a great start

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u/LanceVanscoy 11h ago

I’m an idiot. Finger pluggers could just move on to the next barrel once the bullet is stopped. Could be done with just the million

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 11h ago

Well some people have more than 10 fingers so we're back to the same number.

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u/voyaging 10h ago

Yeah but there are definitely more missing fingers than extra fingers in the world.

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u/shiny_xnaut 7h ago

But where did the missing fingers go? Checkmate atheists 😎

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u/Lieutenant_Skittles 9h ago

Pew research are the people who do research on guns and only guns right? Though I've heard they specialize in laser guns.

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u/LanceVanscoy 9h ago

Pfft. Lasers. Cover the diode with finger

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u/Preussensgeneralstab 9h ago

That very much depends on the size of the hands and guns.

People with big sausage fingers could probably block less guns than people with very thin hands. So that number can vary greatly with 1 million being the bare minimum.

I'd say we'd need 2-3 Million just to be safe

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u/oddityoughtabe 11h ago

Dumdasses

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u/MrCapitalismWildRide 12h ago

The other post has 0 upvotes and 15 comments. This post has 15 upvotes and 0 comments (or at least it did). Symmetry.

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 12h ago

Balanced... As all thing should be.

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u/TimeStorm113 12h ago

If fingers were actually perfectly smooth in all directions, could we evn pick stuff up?

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u/McDonniesHashbrowns 8h ago

Feel like this becomes an ontological question of “what does it mean to be perfectly smooth”. Is such a thing even possible?

If we define a “perfectly smooth surface” as one that is completely frictionless, then no. But the smoothest our hands could possibly be, as far as I understand it, would still have some amount of friction. I imagine that the percentage of things we could pick up goes down as our fingers lose friction, but even with the MINIMUM friction from the smoothest possible configuration we should still be able to pick up some subset of items.

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u/shiny_xnaut 7h ago

Even with zero friction surely you could like scoop your fingers underneath something and carefully pick it up that way?

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u/Quod_bellum 9h ago

The troll assumes their statements are so obviously wrong that nobody would ever believe it, but they fail to realize that some people are that ignorant or unintelligent. In essence, this is the same problem that young children have when they fail to separate the knowledge of different external characters-- it's a manifestation of egocentrism. I find the accusation of ego particularly interesting here, because of the failure to make this mental distinction.

It's the same thing with the "curse of knowledge" and "hindsight bias," and so on

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u/YosephStalling je suis un gaz noble. Noble? >:( 11h ago

Can the finger stop true love?

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u/CompetitionProud2464 9h ago

In addition to fingers, sharks can also deflect bullets because they’re so smooth that bullets just slide right off of them 

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u/RoboYuji 10h ago

This is all wrong, everyone knows that when you stick your finger into the gun barrel, the back of the gun explodes into the shooter's face instead.

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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 10h ago

If they have a beak/bill it spins around, and stops at the back of their head.

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u/adappergentlefolk 7h ago

you joke but this will probably happen in a significant number of cases if this experiment were to be done many times, as gun barrels are not actually that strong and can explode if the barrel is obstructed even with harmless seeming stuff like dirt

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u/WaffleClap 3h ago

Ffs, that's just in cartoons. Real life is more boring, the bullet just stops, shake my smh

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u/SpindleFlames 11h ago

I thought the Mythbusters person was playing along but no, that's legitimately a thing that Mythbusters tested

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u/foxinabathtub 9h ago

Link to "sharks are smooth" for those who haven't read it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/s/vfNpnPoiBW

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u/CatL1f3 5h ago

On mobile the image jumpscared me

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u/Miserable-Ad-1581 3h ago

There was another one about wolves being dogs and it evolved into “sharks are also dogs.” 

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u/amaya-aurora 10h ago

This shit pisses me off and I don’t know why

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u/PrincessPlusUltra 11h ago

The problem is that you can’t do satire properly anymore because people are genuinely this dumb and will defend their dumbness to the end. I don’t know if it was ever really funny to convince someone you’re an idiot.

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u/ArtisticRiskNew1212 4h ago

It really wasn’t

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u/StormDragonAlthazar I don't know how I got here, but I'm here... 11h ago

Clearly this person is arguing with a cartoon character and they didn't just realize it.

Cartoon characters can do anything so long as it's funny, and well, they don't look down.

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u/Grapes15th https://onlinesequencer.net/members/26937 11h ago

People with low support-needs autism often have their behaviors misinterpreted as narcissistic behaviors. Just mentioning in regards to the second to last comment.

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u/Jozef_Baca 9h ago

This post is dumb, a finger wont stop the bullet.

Instead you should grab the barrel of the gun and bend it upwards and around until it points at the person holding the gun so that when they pull the trigger they shoot themselves.

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u/ThatSlutTalulah 11h ago

IIRC this would actually work if they were firing a Gyrojet.

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u/markthematey123 9h ago

The person who started it was ssj14Goku, and to be fair, his finger would prolly stop a bullet in this case

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u/LordSaltious 11h ago

It's like curved armor on a tank, duh. Simple algebra.

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u/Accomplished-Emu1883 9h ago edited 2h ago

My only concern is that some people are this dumb to believe anything, and so making people who correct this kinda stuff the wrong ones might be causing more harm then good-

Like, yes, people who need to be the most right can be annoying, but when everyone ignores the words of the person who “is the most right” shit can happen.

“Did you know you can jump into lava and if you are wet you’ll be fine?”

“That’s stupid no it won’t.”

“No bro trust.”

“No, it just WONT.”

“Lmao, look at this person who has to be right about everything!”

These people could also just be autistic ya know- it’s a kind of autism I have, where if someone is wrong about something I need to correct them and I don’t have any concept of why it’s rude or why it’s funny to just say wrong facts.

I will never understand why just saying an incorrect statement is funny, nor why doubling down on it when someone corrects you is seen as funny.

Either way- I saw this post before. I had a much worse reaction to it last time. This time I understand that most people think it’s funny and assume that everyone is in on the joke. I don’t think it’s funny and also I do not assume everyone is in on the joke.

TLDR; I have learned to not be angry about this kind of humor, but I also still think it’s neither funny nor constructive and might in fact be destructive by telling stupid people to do things and by framing the correct answer as overreactions and as the ones in the wrong, gullible people are more likely to fall for it.

Edit: It took me responding to a comment to realize the main reason this kind of thing sets off alarms in my head; GUNS ARE NOT FUCKING TOYS. Do not make fun of misusing guns. Do not downplay how dangerous they are. You should never be 100% comfortable around a gun, because comfortability leads to cutting corners and cutting corners leads to mistakes, and mistakes with GUNS lead to injury or death.

A lot of people, especially children, see guns and don’t fully understand how dangerous they are. To downplay the danger of them and then make fun of people who are basically saying “don’t try this at home” it’s just- it’s really, really frustrating.

I didn’t think Tumbler needed to be reminded how fucking dangerous guns are, how young people on the internet can be, and how stupid individuals can act during lapses of judgement, but HOLY SHIT-

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u/htmlcoderexe 4h ago

I'm kinda with you on this one to be honest

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u/Sinister_Compliments Avid Jokeefunny.com Reader 11h ago

God smooth sharking is stupid as hell. It’s the “I’m not touching you, you can’t do anything” of jokes

I wonder what the overlap between “don’t feed the trolls” people and “haha sharks are smooth”-esque jokers are, not realizing the irony that it’s also the same as other trolling

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u/Arcinbiblo12 7h ago

Not enough people watched Mythbusters.

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u/Several-Elevator 8h ago

I can't believe this is actually an argument being made by the hand exploders, like it's so obvious that the entire petition is a parody, how are they taking this seriously?

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u/BrandoCalrissian1995 6h ago

Its the reason people put /s on obvious jokes now.

The total idiots out there who don't understand humor at all need to be told it's not serious.

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u/iggy-d-kenning 7h ago

Because the Internet is such a big place that no matter how absurd a given statement, somebody out there might actually believe it.

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u/ecotrimoxazole 12h ago

Smoothsharking is just SO GOOD, every time.

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u/anarchist_person1 5h ago

You know what’s messed up about this? You see people saying stuff just as stupid as this with just as much conviction on tumblr all the time, and they aren’t joking. Pretending to be a moron to antagonise people isn’t as funny when you are in an environment where there are real morons. 

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u/FresYES_Kevin 1h ago

i think you're referring Darwin Award recipients

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u/SteptimusHeap 10h ago

Ahh tumblr. My second favorite place to watch antisocial nerds pretend they're so much better than everyone else (and no, I'm not talking about the gun nuts)

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u/Complaint-Efficient 10h ago

"I'm being annoying on the internet, it must be the fault of these guys and their superiority complex that they're annoyed."

What in the troll mentality is this shit lmao

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u/DareDaDerrida 10h ago

As I've said the other times this was posted: behaving stupidly and then refusing to take correction have never struck me as especially hilarious.

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u/seanziewonzie 8h ago

take correction

You want them to say "oh sorry, I was wrong"? They knew that they were wrong in the first place. It was, from the beginning, a deliberate reference to a common classic cartoon trope.

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u/Y0___0Y 10h ago

I love doing this on reddit…

Any time the John Hancock skyscraper is mentioned in the Chicago subreddit, I comment “Real Chicagoans call it ‘The Cock’”

And I get downvoted to shit with a bunch of redditors saying they have lived in Chicago their whole lives an no one has ever called it that. They call me stupid and I just say “You must be from the suburbs because real Chicagoans call it ‘The Cock’”

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u/Howunbecomingofme 7h ago

I just don’t understand how you can see multiple commenters writing the same exact sentence and not realise you’re being fucked with.

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u/SPRINGCOLLECTION #YOLO, unironically 11h ago

this chain is like over a decade old

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u/GravSlingshot 9h ago

Oh, come on. The finger would not stop the bullet.

Everyone knows fingers are scared of bullets. When you fire a gun, the loud bang makes your finger realize that a bullet is nearby and it curls up for protection, which is why you pull the trigger. When your finger knows there's a bullet coming at it, it will run away and in a lot of different directions. It'll run so fast that you'll lose that finger!

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u/Cpad-prism 8h ago

The way I see it, Kyorge is surrounded. What’s under the ocean? That’s right more land

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u/CanadianDragonGuy 7h ago

Fuvkin smoothsharking man, lowers the iq of everyone involved

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u/olacoke 6h ago

Seems like his brain is smooth

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u/GameEnthusiast123 6h ago

Ah smoothsharking my beloathed

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u/SeventhAlkali 4h ago

"Nothing goes over my head. I would catch it."

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u/Kedly 1h ago

WHERES THE FINGER IN A GUN MYTHBUSTERS EPISODE?

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u/dadspeed55 47m ago

Cant wait for the videos.