A cop pulled someone over.
Cop: I pulled you over because you were driving on the wrong side of the road.
Driver: Sorry, I’m English.
Cop: (Loudly) it’s the wrong soid of the roade ye was droivin down, innit?
Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.
My expectations weren’t met, they were exceeded.
(via dutchster)
Someone found Shakespeare’s old pencil.
It had been chewed on so much that you couldn’t tell if it was
2b or not 2b.
THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION
(via lady-marie-jane)
“how did you take down Captain America?
We shot him in ze legs because his shield is ze size of a dinner plate and he’s an idiot"
Peter, an internet intellectual:
The only way to defeat Captain America is with cartoon logic
(via forbiddenscientist)
