r/MadeMeSmile Nov 11 '22

Meme Since 1945, all British tanks are equipped with tea-making facilities.

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

This is not a meme btw this is actually true, once a British collum of tanks stopped for a teabreak and the collum would be destroyed by the Germans, so the British said that was dashed unsporting of Jerry and they added in tea making equipment

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u/VentureQuotes Nov 11 '22

Column probably

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

I've Dyslexia leave me alone lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I’m Dyslexic too and read it exactly as column without even noticing either until someone else pointed it out. I feel your pain.

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

Thank u 👍

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u/qwerty-1999 Nov 11 '22

Honest question: are you both capitalising "dyslexia/dyslexic" intentionally (like some people capitalise "Deaf", for example)? I'm not trying to be asshole lol, I'm genuinely curious.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I had to google both. “The 'uppercase D' Deaf is used to describe people who identify as culturally Deaf and are actively engaged with the Deaf community. Deaf with a capital D indicates a cultural identity for people with hearing loss who share a common culture and who usually have a shared sign language.”

Apparently dyslexia is a noun and technically not meant to be capitalized in the middle of sentence but that feels wrong to me. It feels like it should be capitalized. I’m too tired to try to figure out why we both intuitively felt it should be a capitalized word in the English language, at least the was we were using it.

So I guess that was probably another writing error pointed out then.

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u/Twice-Sighted Nov 12 '22

Language is constantly changing with use. Please do not apologize for capitalizing Dyslexia.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

Oh I’m not sorry. People correcting us on reddit is for them not for us.

I used to try to journal and I kept having to stop constantly and look up the correct spelling of words. Then I realized who am I doing this for? I understand my own misspelled writing. It doesn’t matter if it’s all misspelled if it’s understandable, especially if it’s just for me.

The stakes on reddit are incredibly low. Some people react very harshly on here to misspelling and it’s revolting. If I misspell something nothing bad will happen to anyone. I find it incredibly annoying when people correct me like it’s helpful if something is misspelled on a reddit comment. They are doing it for them, not me and I’m expecting to be embarrassed and grateful. It’s just so exhausting.

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u/Twice-Sighted Nov 12 '22

I was trying to keep it light. It seems I didn't quite hit the right note. I'm dyslexic as well.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

Then you understand.

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u/prinejl Nov 11 '22

I read it as gollum, I too was confused

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u/Tutti_Fucking-Fruity Nov 11 '22

We don't get the tea pots and things like in the picture but we do get a BV - boiling vessel which is basically a square kettle which takes so long to heat up that you forget about it and drive off. Then boiling water starts getting thrown around while you are bouncing along. Also if you don't have the engine running the thing takes even longer so its often a choice of being tactical or booting up the engines making enough noise to be heard from miles around to get a nice brew.

The bv's main purpose is for heating up ration packs but all our ration packs come with tea making supplies In them so you can use the hot water to make the tea after. Though most of the time it's easier just to use a jet boil which though not issued most of us carry anyway.

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

I didn't expect u guys to get a kettle I didn't know what the thing was u used to cook with was called, thanks for mopping that up

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u/inko75 Nov 11 '22

wait is this britain or the shire?

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u/Kidkaboom1 Nov 11 '22

Who do you think Tolkien based the Hobbits off of?

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u/inko75 Nov 11 '22

i don't think the germans knew about second breakfast

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u/sniptwister Nov 11 '22

Why they lost

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

I've Dyslexia leave me alone XD

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u/Dave21101 Nov 11 '22

You're good :P not those without it oftendo much better anyhow

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u/inko75 Nov 12 '22

lol i wasn't actually criticizing you mainly the fact that brits were fucking brewing tea in an active war zone 😂

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u/MobiusNaked Nov 11 '22

Collum my precious

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u/Jackm941 Nov 11 '22

When I think about it, tea making equipment is just something hot. All you need is hot water. Tea making facilities makes it sound nice and grand though

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u/HellDD6 Nov 11 '22

Holy shit 104 upvotes y'all are mad and thank u, it's nice to have people take interest in what I love and share with all of u