Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, Relationship Advice, and grammar lessons

Ignorance is one thing, but willful ignorance is stupidity.

 

'About what I was talking'

 

All of that fills four 1-gallon ziplock bags. I’d be surprised if it lasts 72hrs.

 

It's the rule/argument about ending a sentence in a preposition. Which I'm all about.

 

'a $1,000 glass of wine'

 

Yes, getting the point across is the goal, but if you know the correct way and intentionally choose to do it incorrectly... well that's unfortunate.

To use a hyperbolic comparison; look at the difference between manslaughter and murder. The end result is that somebody is dead, so what's the difference? Intent. Doing it intentionally makes it worse.

 

Undue*

 

Interesting subject, language and usage.
I'm usually not a grammar NotZee, but there are certain triggers that will send me that direction.
I try to be grammatically correct, but I frequently am not.
Ignorance, but not willful ignorance.

 

To change direction slightly lets look at the difference one letter can make: slaughter vs. laughter.

 

fify

 

Exactly this.

Teenage kids after 2 bites at dinner. I'm full.

3 minutes later.

Sitting on couch eating a bag of homemade Chex mix. Whole bag is gone within the hour...

 

Grammar-perfect would be to imagine the sentence with separate subjects. You wouldn't say 'me went to the park', so 'Dad and I' would be the perfectly proper phrase.

 

A linguistics professor...


https://youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?t=129

 

I think you just blew my mind. I've never thought of it like this.

 

He cooked them FR. No cap.

 

It is like chalk screeching on the chalkboard. We know what you mean but it hurts our ears diluting the effectiveness of your comment.

 

Mom, is that you?

She was a high school english teacher, so what you wrote is what I heard weekly when I was growing up. My brother and I used to intentionally say it wrong to drive her crazy. The joke is on us, because we're both "Dad and I" dorks now.

 

or, the same letters arranged differently...

Santa vs. Satan

 

That describes my son perfectly.

 

But the over-emphasis of the rule has resulted in the improper use of "Dad and I". Similarly, my ears are hurt when I hear John threw the ball to Dad and I.

 

Not sure if y'all have Chipotle where y'all are, but they serve burritos that weigh in over a legitimate pound. When my son was a teenager we'd go in there. I'd accuse him of swallowing his whole or asking him 'could you taste it at all?'. He'd look at me sheepishly, almost embarrassed, and ask if he could have another. Whole. 1lb+ burrito.

I also caught him putting a whole pack of lunchmeat on a sandwich once. Just the entire pack.

 

Then we throw in stupid words like 'methinks'. We have a dumb language.

 

kids these days...
The example is my daughter.

 

It's interesting you mention that. While it is an anecdotal story, I have had similar discussions with friends over the years.

The premise was always the following:

I love xyz protein it is the greatest thing ever (really nice steak, chicken, bbq brisket etc...). After a certain amount, I can't eat anymore.

Juxtaposed with the following:

I always feel like crap after eating (name your favorite shitty carb here, Oreo's, pizza, cake, pasta, bag of Doritos whatever) but I can always have just a little more no matter how much I have...

I love ribeye steaks. I can pig out on steak like there is no tomorrow. But after eating an entire steak, the last thing I think to myself is "I would really love another ribeye".

Now compare that to a package of Oreo's. I can eat an entire sleeve of Oreo's no problem but I can go back and eat the entire package without too much effort. Nowhere whilst defiling myself do I ever stop and think, I can't handle another cookie...

Always seemed interesting to me. I know there are a bunch of theories out there explaining why but it was always the physiological aspect of it that intrigued me. 1 lbs of ribeye is hard to get down but 1 lbs of Oreo's, pizza, pasta, french fries, mash potatoes not so difficult...

I just find the premise to incredibly interesting! I'm a scientist at heart and always will be.

 

King of the Kong..

 

I've seen a lb of lunch meat disappear for sure.

2 chipolte burritos though? Just wow. That's a lot of food.