• P1k1e@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Oh man…11, always knew I was built for it, but I still ain’t having any

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Surprisingly I only hit about 4… although maybe 5 as I use “roll out” when leaving…

  • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    A lot of these are just normal things people say. Like, “what’s the damage” is just a normal way to ask a price in English.

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    2 days ago

    I always say “flock of cows” to bait someone into saying “herd of cows” so that I can say “of course I’ve heard of cows!” Watching their faces is priceless.

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      I do this from time to time but with bison. I will casually slip “flock of bison” into a conversation hoping someone corrects me to “herd of bison”. So I can say. “No I hadn’t heard about your bi son. You must be so proud.”

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      2 days ago

      there’s a chance the flock of cows would just pass me by unnoticed as i wrangle the conversation in my head and then hours later i realize something off about it in the shower or in bed

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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      In my language, there’s different words for body parts of animals versus humans. Like “paws” and “hands”. There’s one exception: horses should use the human words. I always use the animal form just to have people correct me

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    2 days ago

    I like to yell “HEY!” and point at a field full of hay bales. The wife almost always looks briefly concerned until she sees it, and then gives me the “a-doy” look. I think she secretly loves it though.

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    As someone who used to work in retail, if I’m ever caught saying “guess it’s free then,” I sincerely hope everyone in the store immediately stops what they’re doing to form an orderly line to take turns slapping the piss out of me.

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          In my experience, they usually take the counter-dad joke in stride, and we move on (sometimes they do make an obviously exaggerated expression as part of the joke). I’m probably an outlier, but I’ve always found “that means it’s free” quaint if just really trite; it’s just trying to be friendly and make my monotonous day a little more fun, and I understand from their perspective that it isn’t conspicuously overused. So I take the joke for its intent (I’ve never seen it used seriously, and imagining a remotely sane human being doing so strains credulity) instead of its actual novelty or cleverness. I will never make it because it’s so worn-out and I know it’ll make most people in retail groan, but I don’t begrudge people who do, since I’ve never seen it used in a sincerely harassing, negative way.

    • em2@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      I used to just say, “If you can run fast enough. I don’t know if I’d chance it though… Tony’s working today.”

    • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
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      One thing I have grown into is to refuse to use my time to try to find prices for stuff, when the store fails to label it.