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Made this meme a while ago from that tweet but never shared it

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You’re somehow making this sound more fun than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well when's the last time you tried it? It's quite the sensation

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You got a laugh outta me, but damn, maybe you should go to therapy Gary.

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

i dont see the problem :<

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

I've been trying to find it but struggling. It was a tweet, originally in another language, that someone translated to English and posted a screenshot of (to R*ddit I think) which said (paraphrasing) "Biden looks like he crapped his pants on accident, and Bibi looks like he crapped his pants on purpose" and it was in response to an article featuring this photo

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Geopolitics and crapping one's pants

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On *mistake. Sorry for my ungood grammar, essell

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

no you're good, on accident is right

for mistake, though, it would be by mistake

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

“On accident” is not right. “By mistake”, “by accident”, opposite of “on purpose”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"On accident" can't be right because it makes me want to chop off all your fingers so you can never type again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I felt the same before I moved to a foreign country and didn’t have the privilege anymore of speaking perfectly without any effort. Now I have become more tolerant and it makes me feel good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did exactly the same thing, and it's difficult. Particularly at an older age!

But it's not learners that make mistakes like saying "on accident", it's mostly native speakers. And then they pass on their mistakes to non native speakers

It's perfectly fine to call them out on it.

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

Agree, I didn’t see it from that perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

So long as you're not doing the spelling and grammar for the advertising

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It should be "by accident", "on accident" is incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago