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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 months ago (6 children)

When I was like 5, I mixed up spectacles with testicles.

'I can't do the test today teacher, I forgot my testicles at home'

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I was 10ish I mixed up organisms with orgasms. Talking to my adult brother-in-law and sister "there are a lot of weird orgasms in this level." Contra.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you really like Contra.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but in a weird way

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Had a teacher who would say "quiz-ee" instead of "quiz". He stopped the day he said "test-ee".

Edit: As a bonus, he taught Biology...

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I had a friend, we were like 12, who was quizzing our biology teacher and eventually she asked him what the biggest orgasm was instead of organism.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (5 children)

At some point when I was a young kid and hadn't learned anything about anything, I got it in my head that "condoms" is an abbreviation for "condiments."

Fast forward to watching the color drain out from my poor mother's face at a restaurant when, after being asked if we needed anything, I calmly and with a completely straight face informed the waitress that we could use some condoms.

[–] Briguy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just needed some condom mints

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My aunt was horrified when I told her I made a condom.....I had made apartment with LEGO and just learned the word "condominium"

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Oh god, a LEGO condom... You thought stepping on a LEGO was bad... Try sticking a whole sculpture in ya

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

When I was a kid, my parents had a dog that was already getting up there in years, named Arthur. At some point it was explained to me that he was moving slowly and getting tired more quickly because of his arthritis.

I thought my dad was saying 'Arthur-itis,' as a way of saying the dog was getting old and frail. I discovered my mistake when we were at my grandmother's and I blamed her taking an hour to get ready to go out for dinner on her 'Nana-itis'

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The youngster's precocious, certainly.

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I thought it was "Sodom and Gamera" for way too long. Imagine some giant, fire-breathing turtle out there getting attacked by God for being too sinful or whatever

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

I mean, there's no proof the fire that destroyed the cities wasn't raining down from a kaiju. The only witness was Lot's wife and she wasn't saying much afterwards

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

You ain't wrong kid

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I mean... It still 100% works and has roughly the same meaning in that context.

"They got destroyed!"

"They got fucked in the ass!"

Same difference 🤷‍♂️

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn, they really raped us in the ass out there huh?

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Our assholes got obliterated

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

Probably not far from what actually happened to the O's

[–] Briguy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

When I was younger I used to think a drug addict was someone who did drugs in their attic. I always thought it was strange that people had to go up in their attics to do drugs

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

When I was still in junior school, our team lost badly at football. I went home and told my parents we were well and truly buggered. (That's what Jamie had said and I thought it sounded appropriately drastic.) Mum gasped and sternly said my name, and Dad firmly said that I shouldn't use that word. I asked why not. Very patiently, he explained to me what it meant. I was a little taken aback and did indeed stop using that word.

[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In all fairness, it the British peoples' fault for coming up with goofy names for non goofy matters.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

May apologise on behalf of my people. I shall endeavour to only call it rectal intercourse from now on.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it, what does it mean? Well and truly buggered sounds very polite to me.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Anal intercourse (usually between human and animal)

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow, TIL...

I thought it just meant "bothered"...

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well… he’s not wrong.

He’s not correct, either; he’s just less wrong than he’s correct.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“We got Gomorrahed out there!”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So many people traveling the Oregon Trial got dysenteried.

[–] Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus 11 points 3 months ago

Still works

[–] jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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It's biblically accurate.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

O's have been swept in their last 3 playoff appearances iirc.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago
[–] Lirton@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

I am very curious what exactly their dad was yelling at that moment.

[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh? It seems like "we got obliterated out there" would mean the same thing in that situation, not sure why that would tip the poster off as to what sodomize actually means.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it was the dad yelling, presumably telling the kid they shouldn't say his favourite team got fucked in the ass, that tipped the kid off to the meaning.

OK, I completely misread the post. I somehow read that the father yelled that...

[–] KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

At 9 years old I excelled in English. My teacher gave me the extension task of finding 10 words to add to a spelling list every week. Part of it was using the word in a sentence.

I misremembered the word ‘substitute’ one week, and my sentence for the word I chose instead became “Contact lenses are used as a prostitute for glasses.”

Somehow I was still allowed to continue the extension tasks after that.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 months ago

(When they learned the meaning they didn't stop saying it like that tho.)

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I mean... If it works

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

ngl if one of my kids said this in the same context I'd just respond with the Grizzly Adams nod.

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