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[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Yeah quite regularly

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

But they disowned their daughter, who took a job at Mopcorp

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's like nominative determinism but for appearance

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 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

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

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

[–] jagungal@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Nominative determinism: destiny based on names

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 18 points 5 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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He'll be the only one making money.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

But his chance of suicide is through the roof

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 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