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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

That deserves a single tear running down the cheek slow clap. You win father of the year in my book!

[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I tried using it against my Dad like the rookie I am:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

be glad, he saved you from a lifetime of fatherly regret.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

isn't the last line 6 syllables? "Ruins" is two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Where I'm from, we just pronounced it one syllable

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends on the accent really

But you could also say that word ruins his Haiku

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A Sokku if you will.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Depends on dialect. Many people pronounce ruins similar to 'runes'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are we looking at here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

LMAO im a silly goose

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

They're wrong, but it happens.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Just finished rereading David Brin's Uplift series. The uplifted dolphins in those books often speak in haikus.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Haikus Are Easy.
But Sometimes They Don’t Make Sense.
Refrigerator.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Worker bees can leave

Even drones can fly away

The queen is their slave

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, we're looking
Down on Wayne's basement, only
That's not Wayne's basement

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes these are bruises from fighting. I am enlightened.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

So is your dad excited to be a grandfather?