One of my kids calls water fountains water mountains… I assume from just mishearing the word. The first time he said it I went to correct him and then I’m like it does look like a water mountain so fuck it we’ll go with that. Now the whole family only refers to them us water mountains.
And oddly there is another misheard word another of my kids used that we’ve all adopted, this kid said his tshirt was skin side out instead of inside out. Again I went to correct him and thought no he is right too, so now clothes are skin side out or skin side in.
I also have a few of these. My favourite daughter when she was a toddler she used to call road trains “Big DIE!”.
My favourite daughter
Busted
Oops, I really messed up that sentence. Well, she is my favourite anyway 😁
My family has one of those. Our oldest would say hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer. We started correcting him but eventually realized that it’s more efficient and everyone knows what he’s talking about. I actually use it outside the family too. No issues, only chuckles when I explain the story.
Hah, skin side out is good !!
You mean a wave?
They’re talking about the horizon.
When a ship gets far away and you only see the top half, it’s behind a flat Earth water mountain.
What’s he not getting?
have you people never seen an ocean? when you see ships go far enough out you see them disappear behind the curvature of the earth, you’ll see masts of sailboats sticking up and the like.
No, I have never been to the beach or seen the ocean.
If you ever get the opportunity to, highly recommend going to see it. It’s probably my favorite thing in earth.
Not just the ocean. There are lakes large enough of this effect to happen.
No silly waves are on land. Have you ever heard of earth’s largest wave? Wave Everest. A lot of people climb it every year. Sometimes they call them land waves to distinguish them further from water mountains.
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Probably the thing I miss most about reddit is being able to easily find and laugh at these kinds of exchanges.
Too much sanity on lemmy… I miss the conspiracy subs.
Go to most of the political subs on lemmy and you’ll find plenty of brain dead takes
The !flatearth@lemmy.ml community has some unironic (I think) posts in there if you scroll a few posts down.
Too much sanity
Uhh I don’t know what subs you’ve been visiting, but there’s just as many stupid people on here as well.
I use Mastodon for quite a while and that seems to be a side effect of federated moderation, can’t say I miss it there tho!
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Just run to the edge then.
They’d just hit the ice wall, idiot. And if they made it through that they would hit the ocean of the second flat world beyond our own. If they got through that they would hit either the scorched wastes, the frozen wastes, the abyssal ocean, or the walls of asgard…
Seriously, do you even do your own research?I’d play the hell out of this videogame.
You mean if he ever gets past security.
America doesn’t have the resources to watch effectively the border with Mexico, but they can guard the full earth “circumference”… AAAAND keep everyone quiet about it.
See you on the other side
They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are.
I actually had a guy come into a store I used to work in, he came around closing… guy would not leave until I heard his salespitch about the flat earth…
A week later I learned he called corporate who demanded I be fired over refusing to hear him out. Manager told me he had no choice, fire me or get fired and have the replacement fire me.
It worked out though, Travis eventually left and the new manager couldn’t get anyone to stay… when he found my old file and how long I stayed he offered my job back.
I had found something closer, easier, and higher paying so I just laughed the offer off. I love my new gig
So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you?
Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that.
Online, yeah I’d say about 2/3s of them are, but the shit they’re saying usually originates from actual Flat Earther content.
I knew someone who like to use flat Earthism to illustrate that there’s little point in debating someone who has no interest in being persuaded. He’d basically state the Earth is flat and use every rhetorical trick in the book to defend his position, exhaust his opponent, and then say, “Could you imagine how frustrated you’d be if I actually believed any of that?” He eventually got his DDS of all things, but I thought he’d make a good lawyer.
You can debate someone into changing their mind but it’s more like water eroding a stone than any cathartic moment you’d hope for. It’s still worthwhile especially when you consider an audience that’s not inhibited by being ‘under attack’
They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are.
What makes you think so?
“Ball earthists”.
It’s actually religious for some of them. They take the whole biblical “firmament” idea literally.
When you get deeper, 90% of the time it’s just one of a dozen “facts” they’ve adopted to service the core belief that jews are responsible for [effects of capitalism]
Well I got good news for you. This isn’t a planet. It’s a giant rug thats’s floating in space propelled by genie’s dark matter astro-projection that moves us at 9.8 meters/sec² and our world was created by an entity named God who’s 3 wishes to the genie was 1. to create this magnificient space rug to house 2. the people that will be
spawnedcreated on this wonderful place and will 3. forever worship God and his Magnificient Space Rug and that non-believers will have to suffer their entire life believing in the Round-Earth Conspiracy.Thank God™ for helping us realize the truth. 🤓
You must mean Plainit fellow pancake earthier?
You must mean plane-et.
I’m gonna make my own planet! With blackjack! And hookers!
Why don’t you like entertainment?
Flat Earth? Fucking idiots. The Earth is obviously a Giant Magical Space Rug propelled by Genie’s Dark Matter Astro-Projection
movingteleporting at 9.8 m/s² 🤓What the hell are you talking about? We live in the Disc, held up by the Four Elephants which stand on the back of the Great Atuin, a 10,000 mile long turtle. The turtle moves.
This has been disproved. We live on a globe in an experimental non-magical universe kept at a university run by wizards who live on a disc held up by four elephants on the book of the Great Atuin.
Actually there were five elephants, but one lost its footing, entered an unstable orbit and came hurtling through space, smashing into the Disc and causing the mountains to rise.
Accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2!
I’m a firm believer in toroidal earth.
And rugs are, of course, famously not flat at all.
These people are so dumb, they aren’t “water mountains”, they are Lands with the subtypes Island and Mountain, meaning they can tap for blue or red mana.
the existence of water mountains implies the existence of forest, fire, shadow and spirit mountains
aren’t the four elements water, fire, earth and air?
Elements+
Actually they are mountain, island, forest, plains, and swamp
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHIP DISAPPEAR ?
WATER MOUNTAINS
…waves?
I think it’s their counter-argument to:
“If earth is really flat, why do ships disappear behind the oceans horizon?”
“Water mountains”
Earth curvature
Ok i’m convinced
thanks, that’s my band name now
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We do have water volcanoes at least. Someone just named them geysers. Tho I’m fairly sure that vulcanic activity disproves flat earth.
That’s gey.
Bro, shut up, you’re making us look like a bunch of round earthers.
Irregularly shaped ellipsoid gang rise up
Water mountains sound so fun that I’ll choose to believe in them. Also ball eath but in combination with water mountains
The Turtle Moves!
