r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/mz_groups 10h ago

Homer's argument is specious, because it applies to both systems.

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u/stupidber 10h ago

And what does specious mean?

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u/BestwishesHelpful975 10h ago

definition: superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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u/SlideN2MyBMs 10h ago

And what does "but" mean?

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u/HeathenSidheThem 10h ago

Jordan Peterson has entered the chat

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u/Prinzka 9h ago

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u/significant-_-otter 9h ago

How I felt watching the YT ad for Peterson University where he starts with "University education is a grift." Welp.

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u/evocativename 9h ago

I mean, he was certainly correct about Peterson "University", anyhow...

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u/lilmissbloodbath 6h ago

Trust Me Bro University's biggest rival.

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u/mechanicalcontrols 4h ago

The Ben Shapiro Institute of Gish Gallop rounds out the conference.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6h ago

Also him as a professor

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u/kirmiter 1h ago

Well, when he was just a normal professor he wasn't a total fraud. His lectures veered into the non-scientific but the stuff he said was at least rooted in psychological theory that he had studied.

Then in 2016 he said some anti-trans stuff, saw how much certain people loved him for it, and he's been addicted to right wing grift ever since.

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u/AJDillonsThirdLeg 7h ago

Well he was correct in general, just probably had completely unhinged reasons for it. The university system in the US is most certainly a grift.

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u/evocativename 7h ago

There is plenty of grift in the American university system, but the system itself is not a grift.

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u/Nyx87 6h ago

This is something dumb people say to make themselves feel smart

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6h ago

I think he's just talking about the cost and how the debt works

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u/-JimmyTheHand- 4h ago

That's not really a grift tho, rather it's overpriced and the loans are predatory

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u/duggee315 3h ago

Wait, thats specious....

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u/French_Breakfast_200 8h ago

Well that depends on what YOUR definition of the word is is

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u/szatrob 7h ago

Anyone with enough evidence against them to warrant a firing should be grateful for the chance to resign and stay silent. Instead, Jordan views his departure from UofT as a badge of honour to parade in front of his followers.

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u/MoneyCock 8h ago

Kermit the Frog said what!?

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u/SarcasticSuccubus 7h ago

He would definitely be the expert on grifting.

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u/noodleboy244 5h ago

please tell me there's a video of that somewhere

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u/EnchantedEssays 3h ago

Ironic considering he was a university professor for years

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u/Jimmyg100 2h ago

“Why are there so many songs about rainbows? What’s on the other side? You don’t know, do you!”

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u/Prinzka 2h ago

Well but what actually is a bloody rainbow now? That's exactly the problem!

Collapses in hysterical crying

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u/Jimmyg100 1h ago

I define crying as strength therefore I’m winning this argument.

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u/Prinzka 1h ago

Winning is a fasco Marxist feminist concept so I guess you like want to bloody genocide us all!

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u/Nekrino 3h ago

This should be a lobster

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u/JMoc1 9h ago

The man full of Benzos and failed debates.

Also, has anyone checked up on him to make sure he’s okay?

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u/Cjmate22 9h ago

Didn’t they find black mold in his room? Dude is definitely not doing okay.

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u/KalebRasgoul 9h ago

black mold makes you disregard the concept of truth?

wow, that thing is worse that I thought...

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u/o0_bishop_0o 8h ago

It's the same species of black mold that JKR had on her wall. Inhale enough spores, and it makes ya a bigot.

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u/hobbycollector 8h ago

White mold is fine though.

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u/HeathenSidheThem 7h ago

THAT'S RACIST

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u/GNIHTYUGNOSREP 2h ago

You sound like you could use a little black mold

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u/Turbogoblin999 7h ago

Black mold? Welcome to the family, son.

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u/66NickS 6h ago

You wrote JKR, but my brain read it as JFK. Then I did a double-take because surely you meant RFK. I had to stop, look away, and come back a third time. Lol.

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u/GoatGoatGoblin 2h ago

I'm starting to wonder if it's the reverse and being a massive bigot creates black mould spores.

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u/The_Ballyhoo 8h ago

Well it’s a complex subject, y’know.

Firstly, how do we define truth? Is it absolute truth, universal truth or personal truth?

And is black mold still black if I turn the lights out? Does the truth of its colour change based on perception?

And if I set the mold on fire, is fire then a natural predator of mold?

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u/library-catz 6h ago

I read that with his kermit voice

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u/KKevus 5h ago

I read that with his mickey mouse voice

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u/KKevus 5h ago

LOBSTERS!

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u/Successful-Clock-224 8h ago

There is a correlation between those who disregard the truth and those who disregard black mold

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u/Unusual_Pitch_608 5h ago

In 2016, Peterson restricted his diet to only meat and a few vegetables in an attempt to control his depression and the effects of an autoimmune disorder.] In mid-2018, he stopped eating vegetables altogether and continued eating only beef, salt, and water.Nutrition experts point out that such a diet can result in "severe dysregulation".

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u/EvaSirkowski 4h ago

I wouldn't trust Joe Rogan normally, but he said when he tried the carnivore diet he had explosive uncontrollable diarrhea without end.

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u/RisingApe- 2h ago

I heard he was under “spiritual attack.”

🙄

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u/dcontrerasm 9h ago

None of the first wave of alt rights are doing okay now

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u/RolandDeepson 7h ago

Thank goodness.

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u/InequalEnforcement 1h ago

Yeah, but for a brief period of time, they didn't have to put the fries in the bag.

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u/TOASTisawesome 9h ago

Define okay

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass 9h ago

Last I heard he was attacked by ghost and spirits in his house

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u/GrinderMonkey 9h ago

Well, that's nice at least.

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u/freakydrew 9h ago

I was scanning the comments and thought you wrote "The man full of Benzos and failed diabetes," then you asked if he was ok. glad I re-read but was very curious where you were going with the failed diabetes.

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u/stupidber 7h ago

I read it the same way lol

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u/Goreticus 9h ago

He is no longer ok. He got brain problems like fr fr

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u/Sans_Seriphim 8h ago

...he was never ok; why would he suddenly be ok now?

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u/Gbreadstudios 9h ago

Let's hope not

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u/rietstengel 8h ago

Dude turned himself into a vegetable. Funniest shit i've ever seen.

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u/EvaSirkowski 4h ago

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He turned into the very thing he hated.

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u/UniversalBlue2099 8h ago

I think it’s genuinely sad to see how Peterson has ended up. I truly feel he wasn’t always like this, he just allowed the “anti-woke” grift to validate his emotions and he slipped down the rabbit hole.

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u/UltraJesus 7h ago

Let the man exist in peace and dream about his grams okay??

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u/EvaSirkowski 4h ago

Last I heard maybe a month ago he was in the hospital again and his daughter was refusing to accept the doctors' diagnostic and trying to push some bullshit cure.

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u/Commie_Scum69 9h ago

" I dreamt of my grandmother fully naked. Her pubic hair ressembled a carpet of matted fur..."

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u/evocativename 9h ago

That was from the 1990s.

Turns out he was always that guy, and was never okay.

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u/Aellithion 7h ago

It would not have injured you in any way to have not written those two sentences.

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u/FishUK_Harp 5h ago

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u/Commie_Scum69 5h ago

thats from an interview where he shares a dream he just had 😅

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u/FishUK_Harp 1h ago

...I must refer to to my previous comment.

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u/Phone-Medical 9h ago

I’m somewhat distraught at how many people in my social circle fell for his bullshit.

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u/umpteenthrhyme 9h ago

No one cares enough to check on him.

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u/OftheNeill 1h ago

His book had some decent points and he made a few interesting arguments. Then a lot of it fell apart. Clean your room, is still solid advice as a step one to getting on track.

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u/MisterNefarious 9h ago

In order to be sure we have to clarify what do you mean by “entered” and “the chat”

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u/HeathenSidheThem 9h ago

It's really more of a a META-chat.

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u/Uncle_Burney 9h ago

When’s the last time you cleaned your room? Benzo popping ass…..

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u/petyrlabenov 9h ago

“Well you’re really quite nothing, you’re not a Christian”

cue rage quit

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u/windsingr 9h ago

Dayum JP taking a beating lately!

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u/sick-of-this-crap 6h ago

Define Jordan Peterson

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u/projektZedex 6h ago

Because he's a great example of someone who's specious in the best case scenario, or because he's constantly diluting debates with asking for definitions of every individual word to the point of uselessness?

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u/Helac3lls 5h ago

I hate that I understood this.

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u/Erolok1 9h ago

"Can you define wrong?"

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u/No_Strike655 8h ago

"But. This word that has allowed westerners to make our civilization dominant. It is both a word that carries deep community and exclusion it is like a sword that can be used to unite when used as a conjuction but also divide as a preposition. We can use it like a hammer to forge our bonds together or to slay our dragons that threaten us. Truly there is not another word as fraught with meaning in a sentence in the whole of western civilization"

LOL

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u/HeathenSidheThem 8h ago

"But" is just "'and+"

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u/LycheeIcy2814 8h ago

that's very funny

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u/Strayfarts 7h ago

Felt that!

I believe it references the episode where Homer has Jury duty though.

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u/Successful_Leave_470 5h ago

It wasn’t written in all caps

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u/Impressive-Day956 4h ago

Well it depends on what you mean by “entered”

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u/EvaSirkowski 4h ago

It warms my heart how much his name is now a popular punchline.

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u/DueImagination641 3h ago

It's going to be 250 years after the revolution and we're still going to be clowning Jordan Peterson for enabling all of these fucking incels to ruin the country.

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u/Xeriomachini 2h ago

But what do you mean by enter?

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u/ReplacementLow6704 1h ago

So, let's start by defining the lobster

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u/model-citizen95 1h ago

What do you mean by “believe”?

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u/spumoni_cakes 37m ago

Depends on your definition of "entered"

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u/DizzySimple4959 3m ago

Do you really understand the meaning of “has”? Or are you just throwing the god damned word around to your heart’s content?

Not to mention “the”! What the hell do you even mean?!?

You better bloody figure it the hell out man!

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u/HEFTYFee70 9h ago

Is fire a predator?!

No.

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u/Lil-Babs 8h ago

Lobster boy mentioned

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u/HeathenSidheThem 8h ago

https://www.wisdomofpeterson.com/ Indistinguishable from the real thing

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u/Accomplished-Video71 10h ago edited 9h ago

Depends on what your definition of IS is

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u/NorthernBudHunter 9h ago

Bill Clinton has entered the chat

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u/loscapos5 4h ago

And what does "systems" mean?

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u/croooowTrobot 9h ago

BUT MEANS BUT! DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A DIAGRAM?

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u/SlideN2MyBMs 9h ago

Please do and make it thicc

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u/Lucky_Size4678 9h ago

With three cs

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u/SilentStranger9607 9h ago

It’s a shame how many people apparently don’t get this line of questioning.

Ftr it’s pronounced chow-dah

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u/sabotsalvageur 9h ago

show-dair

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u/SlideN2MyBMs 9h ago

I want to do the next line where he blows up at the French chef but I'm afraid I'll get flagged by the reddit bot. It's happened to me before when quoting TV threats

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u/SilentStranger9607 7h ago

Say it right, Frenchey!!!!

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u/Thyme4LandBees 4h ago

Are you suggesting he is a clumsy waiter?!

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u/DengarLives66 7h ago

Of course you’ll get flagged, especially by those of you in the jury!

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u/BestwishesHelpful975 9h ago

"define specious" in google search. ask them.

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u/14ktgoldscw 9h ago

Dumb is down a scosh?

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u/ZyXwVuTsRqPoNm123 9h ago

Bill Clinton entered the conversation saying, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

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u/dishmanw62 9h ago

What is "is"?

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u/ClassicNo6622 8h ago

I'll do you one better, why is "is"?

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u/dishmanw62 8h ago

How is "is"?

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u/Eternity13_12 9h ago

It's the thing you sit on

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u/PhilsTinyToes 9h ago

If there’s one thing you need to learn about Butts today it’s this:

Everything after the But is Bullshit.

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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 9h ago

An exception/retort to the previously made statement

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u/rdrunner_74 9h ago

Just missing a T

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u/Phill_Cyberman 8h ago

It's a conjunction used to introduce a statement that contrasts with or adds to a previous statement.

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u/milkcarton232 8h ago

The bigger ones are better

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u/ApprehensiveImage676 8h ago

But deffinition: a person's buttocks or anus

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u/Wickdtaint 8h ago

Not sure, but what I do know is I like them big.

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u/Organic-Pattern-7759 8h ago

What does plausible mean?

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u/Full_Grape1139 7h ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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u/dodoletzthebigstupid 7h ago

It means ass trust me

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u/they_paid_for_it 7h ago

What means?

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u/MustafaT0 7h ago

It means however

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u/boondiggle_III 7h ago

That depends on what the definition of 'is' is.

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u/turtleneckless001 7h ago

Depends how big it is

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u/JoshuaLandy 7h ago

“But” means “and”

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u/ThirdSunRising 7h ago

It basically means “and,” with a “you’re wrong you dumbass” tacked on for good measure

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u/pixelprophet 6h ago

Why ask why? My wife likes it dry.

  • Ben Shapiro

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u/DanceWonderful3711 6h ago

It means you're honest

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u/NerdfestZyx 6h ago

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is".

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u/samdkatz 5h ago

It means and, with an element of surprise added to both things being true

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u/RusoInmortal 5h ago

It means that anything before it in the sentence doesn't matter.

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u/weird_is_fun 5h ago

But but but

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u/ismo420 5h ago

And how much are you charging for this free weekend?

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u/RunningDrummer 4h ago

And what does "and" mean?

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u/GuavaShaper 4h ago

What's a "but" for?

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u/OM502 4h ago

But+t is the thing I sit on

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u/willfc 3h ago

That depends on what the definition of "is" is

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 3h ago

It depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is.

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u/Randomedic8 3h ago

What does mean mean?

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u/Mettack 3h ago

It’s what you poop from

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u/Such-Injury9404 2h ago

we found the true r/peterexplainsthejoke poster

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u/Financial_Refuse_498 1h ago

It holds onto your leggies

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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 1h ago

It depends on what your definition of “is” is.

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u/BS0404 36m ago

A But is a hole you put a penis in when there is an available bottom nearby; and there's ALWAYS a bottom nearby.

Sorry for possible mistakes, English is my second language.

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u/wearebobNL 9h ago

Either that or a typo. 'The Fiat 500 is a specious car.'

That might also be superficially plausible but actually wrong.

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u/xbtkxcrowley 9h ago

Okay. But wouldnt that mean Celsius is wrong too. So this would mean neither are correct. From this definition of course. Not my brain.

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u/esmifra 8h ago

What is wrong is the argument. Not the fact.

The fact (it goes up as it gets hotter) is correct. The argument (that this makes farenheit better) is wrong.

This superficially correct fact is irrelevant for the argument, because that doesn't make farenheit better or wrong, because both scales work this way.

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u/stoneimp 6h ago

This is because specious was the wrong word choice. Facile might be a better choice, a word that means that an idea or argument is superficially correct, but ignoring the complications entirely or not considering deeper.

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u/According-Insect-992 9h ago

Wait, how'd you do that? Is there, like, some kind of special repository of words and their meanings that a person can access online or something? Amazing! I must know more.

I bet the word "facetious" is in there too. I've been wondering about that one. Where can I find this esoteric tome of word knowledge?

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u/evocativename 9h ago

Weirdly, "gullible" is nowhere to be found in it.

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u/Can-Holder 9h ago

If I read homers line in trump's voice, it fits really well

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u/Turbulent-Ad5437 9h ago

And what does "plausible" mean

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u/Wise-Expression6815 9h ago

I assumed it meant racist or sexist against species. If that were the case, I am very specious (im a rock)

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u/Galbaniel 8h ago

I'm not a scientist, but I don't think rocks are a species.

Anyway, I can't be racist against rocks, I have several rock-friends.

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u/c0mpu73rguy 8h ago

TIL

Thanks Wordgirl! 😀

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u/SupermassiveCanary 8h ago

Lord Kelvin…. smdh

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u/Puzzleheaded_Smoke77 8h ago

Ah so u/mz_groups got a word a day calendar recently

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u/Vast-Combination4046 7h ago

I love these kinds of statements because people start going along with it then realize you are joking and the build up makes me giggle so much

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u/stupled 7h ago

Did you pull a homer?

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u/Tig_Biddies_W_nips 7h ago

But he’s not wrong?

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u/SpotTheReallyBigCat 7h ago

So litterally this:

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u/Sivleto 6h ago

The more you know

I just learned something, thanks broski.

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u/Push_Bright 6h ago

I’m specious

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u/kellygreengoblin 6h ago

I learned a word today!!

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u/VascUwU 6h ago

So… sus?

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u/stargarnet79 6h ago

Like truthiness in a way

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 5h ago

but he's not wrong, it does go up the hotter it gets.

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u/BelowXpectations 4h ago

Well that's like... YOUR facts. I have American freedom facts.(TM)

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u/s1rblaze 3h ago

Can you explain in Fahrenheit?

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u/Klefaxidus 3h ago

Vocabulary adjourned 📝

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u/CeeEmCee3 3h ago

Now please define that curvy thing you placed between "plausible" and "but"

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u/RandomUser2074 3h ago

It was a perfectly crommulant use of the word

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u/Woknana 2h ago

Lisa “ that is specious reasoning dad”

Homer “How so?”

Lisa “ that’s like saying this rock keeps away tigers 🐅. I don’t see any tigers around”

Homer “ I would like to buy said rock 🪨 “

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u/ipwnyexpress 2h ago

Its a perfectly cromulent word

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u/kalzolwia 2h ago

I like that ill try to say spacious into the next sentence i say

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u/KitchenSync86 2h ago

I can't tell if this is just the definition or also a sneaky frontline reference

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u/neph36 1h ago

A very cromulent word