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[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Woah! Is this new?! I didn’t know he was making new ones!!

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Yeah quite regularly

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're also proud of their other son, the sanitation engineer.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's like nominative determinism but for appearance

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mmhm! Yep. At least half of these words are English.

[–] jagungal@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Nominative determinism: destiny based on names

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Appearance is a social construct. In the modern day and age, you can take hormones and do other stuff to change your appearance

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

It's just a phase. Once Big Dental has used him up until he burns out, he'll do the most degrading painting work. If he's lucky, and doesn't end up in shoe cleaning or worse.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago

What it's like to ~~be a square because you didn't want to imitate the chaos your hippy parents put you through~~ chew 5 gum

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He'll be the only one making money.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

But his chance of suicide is through the roof

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Instead everyone gets a subtext of "who did she cheat with?"

Edit: not everyone, just me.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They’re all brushes my dude.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The floss back there isn't.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Ngl, I thought that was a school backpack wearing a school backpack at first 😆

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] natecox@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What? Like… in any language they’re still all bristles on a handle.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago

And humans are just ears on a head

But I agree with you, I just needed to say that

Now I can finally rest

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So it would make just as much sense if a steel brush came out? Or a cylinder brush like for your dishes?

What about a broom? Or do brooms not count as brushes?

I think my thought process gets stuck on the fact that the parents both are brushes explicitly for paint, the same purpose but different form.

My brain just wondered how you would get a tooth brush by crossing with a paint brush. Would the 'guy' have to be a dental scraper? My mind honestly went to silly places but apparently I hit a nerve.

[–] Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guess you're overthinking a joke

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

I realized why - it's because this isn't funny at face value.

I like PBF a lot, but honestly, where's the joke here? There's a floss person in the background. Wouldn't this simply be normal in this world?

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to recessive genes, it's definitely possible for two paint brushes to birth another form of brush.

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

And they said I was overthinking the joke...

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Funny enough, I wasn't thinking that at all until you said something.

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Guess someone should tell the father... or hand him a DNA kit.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I feel like they're more like haircuts, and the kid could be a hairbrush or anything if he wanted.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Also tell the mother while you're at it