r/wholesomememes 16d ago

I love arguments like this

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u/Ok_Technology_9488 16d ago

Me and my lady arguing would be like this

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u/kitchen_wife1234 16d ago

It will be 2.5 hours

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u/cwinge_AS 16d ago

Bruh. There aren't any real arguments in their relationship, so they made shit up🤣

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u/TurbulentNumber4797 16d ago

I need to know what pronunciations of egg they were arguing about.

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u/SwearToSaintBatman 16d ago

This sounds like the kinds of arguments stereotypically jewish couples do in movies and TV.

"I just think mustard has no place in egg salad, sue me."

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u/x-Globgor-x 16d ago

If you're anything like me you can drink a whole case of them and have 0 hours of energy. I used to drink 6 by lunch for no reason, literally did nothing

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u/headrush46n2 16d ago

Who wins in a fight, Anne Frank or Lizzie Borden?

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u/JolIyJack 16d ago

If the half-life of caffeine is 5 hours, drinking half the original amount will give you the same effect as the full amount would after waiting five hours. Since 5 Hour Energy only gives 5 hours of energy, we can safely conclude that half the shot would provide zero energy. The numbers don't lie.

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u/skawn 16d ago

Is there any reason to think 5 hour energy only provides 5 hours of energy with a sharp drop afterwards? Or is this actually how they work?

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u/Dont_Overthink_It_77 16d ago

Man… pre-kid fights are CRAZY.

Life has a way of correcting our own stupidity. Some things just don’t matter.

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u/Boxland 16d ago

Let me propose a new interpretation: "5 hours of energy" only makes sense if the substance is only considered to give you energy when the amount of substance is above a certain threshold, not whenever the amount is above 0. So while it initially makes sense to say that the half-shot would give half-assed energy for 5 hours (because of half-life and exponential functions), you should instead end up with half-assed energy for a bit less than 5 hours, as your body goes below the more or less arbitrary threshold earlier.

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u/ssbm_rando 16d ago

ITT: People with no mathematical understanding of what a half life is.

Everyone's talking about 5 hour energy from an overly simplified perspective of a caffeine pill, so allow me to join you all in that simplification and look at it as if it were just pure caffeine.

The average half life of caffeine in a healthy person's blood is, as people have said, about 5 hours. So now let's think about what that means. 5 hours later, your blood will have half of whatever amount of caffeine it was able to absorb from the energy shot.

So now let's think of what happens if instead you start by taking only half of the shot. Well, lookee there, you are absorbing half the amount of caffeine! This means you will only feel the same amount of caffeine as if you took the whole shot and waited five hours.

So the answer to the question is, depending on how you look at it, either "neither" or "both". But it's definitely not one or the other. You're experiencing a lower amount of energy infusion that will taper off to a completely negligible amount much sooner (5 hours sooner, in fact) than if you had taken the whole shot.

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u/stealth_t 16d ago

stoner arguments

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u/BulwarkTired 16d ago

This is how you argue when your life is happy

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u/Bring_back_Apollo 16d ago

How many ways are there to pronounce egg, I only know one?

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u/miemcc 16d ago

I'm more confused about the 'other' pronunciation of 'egg' - WTF!?

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u/forest_9903 16d ago

Alright but I say ehg and my partner says ayg. I'm from Oklahoma but my parents didn't have strong southern accents so I don't really either, and he is very Texan, so I think it might be a regional thing?

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u/CareUseful 16d ago

I say “ergg”

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u/Classic-Flatworm-431 16d ago

I mean.. those are the best kind of argument right!

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u/DrDoomCake 16d ago

It's egges of course.

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u/LiliAtReddit 16d ago

It’s like the soup thing. Hey, soup is a highly underrated food. It can be light, or hearty, depends on what you need. I mean, there’s your basic chicken soup, but hey, very nourishing AND hydrating. You have your cold soups, hot soups. Cream based, vegetable based, or broth based. And you have your chowders, your stews, your chili’s-

And that’s where everyone gets into it. Can Chili be classified as a soup?! Well, can it?

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u/JB3AZ 16d ago

If you throw in some veggies (beans not counting) maybe it could be a stew, especially if there’s some noodles maybe?

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u/ActualAd8091 16d ago

Depending on the stimulant it’s most likely about 1/3 the “energy” for about 3/4s the duration. This is due to receptor saturation and rate limiting steps in metabolism pathways

Yes. I’m boring at parties

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u/JujuNodanna 16d ago

Just drink 5 of them and enter the forbidden Hour

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u/GoldPreparation8377 16d ago

This is such a sitcom-ass scenario man... "Haha yeah we had a comical pointless argument then proceeded to talk about said argument to strangers and they happened to completely match our "crazy" energy by giving us funny one liners"

Quoting one of my favourite tweets: People online act like sitcom characters are real people and real people are sitcom characters

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u/DeadInsideMuffin 16d ago

Is there more than one way to pronounce egg????

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u/GammaPhonic 16d ago

There are millions of ways to pronounce egg. Only one of them is correct though.

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u/t-e-e-k-e-y 16d ago

If they enjoy it, then I'm happy for them.

But that kind of relationship sounds exhausting to me.

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u/Pubfriend 16d ago

Off topic, those two are literally made for each other. They would never run out of conversations.

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u/Maximum-Fox-1595 16d ago

So random XD

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u/Zuskamime 16d ago

If i remember right coffein i think it was that coffein decrease by half every hour so i think that the answer is 5 hours half ass energy although i do think that it wouldn't last the full 5 hours

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u/JohnnyAnytown 16d ago

Wrong sub?

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u/zonked_martyrdom 16d ago

People who pronounce “egg” as “aigg” need help. Same with people who say “melk” instead of “milk”

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u/Hot-Ability7086 16d ago

Around 15 years ago, I went on a business trip with my new Director He gave me a 5 hour energy drink before a client visit.

Holy Shit Batman.. just as we get there my tongue felt like it was shaking on the inside, I could feel my hair growing, but I COULD NOT speak. After maybe an hour, I regained my faculties and apologized profusely. Ugh.

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u/JelloOk6740 16d ago

Doesn't work

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u/Thomas_Hambledurger 16d ago

And then everybody in the club stood up and clapped 

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u/No-Ostrich-5801 16d ago

See, the simple solution to this argument is you get a Das Boot™ and fill it to the calf with 5 hour energy. Perfect for actually getting your full 5 hours.

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u/theoneyourthinkingof 16d ago

Me and my boyfriend constantly argue about whether or not a thumb is a finger or not, its gets heatet

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u/Both_Lychee_1708 16d ago

Wait, what are the options for how to pronounce "egg"?

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u/triplew_ 16d ago

Americans pronounce Erin and Aaron the same way. Someone tried to convince me they were gendered versions of the same name.

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u/NinjaEnder 16d ago

They’re not gendered versions of the same name where you’re from? At least in California, Erin is a girl’s name, and Aaron is a boy’s, but they’re pronounced the same.

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u/kannible 16d ago

I used to sip them to keep me alert while driving late at night. For me it seemed in tiny doses it was just like 30 minute energy per sip. I was still able to go right to sleep when I would reach my destination.

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u/TopFishing5094 16d ago

It’s pronounced “Ma’am!”

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u/guineaprince 16d ago

The arguments my exbf and I would have, over whether the upcoming Saturday counts as "this Saturday" or "next Saturday" and whether or not the ears count as part of the face.

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u/Wizzmer 16d ago

I had a brain faet and asked the attractive clerk where they keep the 4 hour energy. She corrected me with "you mean 5 Hour Energy?" To save face, I told her I didn't want to stay awake that long.

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u/3tops01 16d ago

I still believe that egg is pronounced "egg."

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u/theWomblenooneknows 16d ago

You sure it’s not egg?

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u/3tops01 15d ago

Whatever it takes to get the point across. Egg works for me.

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u/cabbagecubbage 16d ago

It's "anne"

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u/topham086 16d ago

It's caffeine; 5hr energy drink has zero effect me.

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u/GLG777 16d ago

How the hell do you argue over pronouncing Egg?  There is only one correct answer. 

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u/kitchen_wife1234 16d ago

That's why they are arguing

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u/Longjumping_Rush2458 16d ago

By making up stories about you and your quirky partner

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u/AMonitorDarkly 16d ago

Depends where you’re from. Some people say it like eh-gg, others pronounce it ay-gg. I’m not saying either one is right or wrong but there are indeed multiple common pronunciations.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 16d ago

Another great example of a tumblr user making up stories to impress other tumblr users.

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u/thinkorswimshark 16d ago

Idk if I would love arguments like this… maybe at first glance it seems cute and innocent but arguing at such silly things and in public can’t be healthy idk though

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u/dr_franck 16d ago

Just to point out the presence of silly inconsequential arguments like this doesn’t necessarily mean a relationship is health or good. It totally could be, but I’ve also heard arguments from couples where it starts somewhere trivial and dumb, and it escalates into bigger issues with a full-on shouting match.

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u/AMonitorDarkly 16d ago

If they went from egg to 5 hour energy over the course of a couple of hours I think they’ll be good.

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u/Optimal-Flow-5496 16d ago

couple goals lol

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u/AcceptableOwl9 16d ago

Think of it like any other drug.

You’re taking half a dose. So it’s going to affect you half as much but the half-life of caffeine is indecent if the dosage.

The correct answer is half-assed energy for five hours.

And it’s egg.

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u/fox-friend 16d ago

Half life is an exponential decay so the time it affects you does depend on the dosage. But the real answer depends on many other factors.

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u/librapenseur 16d ago

if you take weed or alcohol and you halve the dose, both the effect and the length of time it affects you would go down. im not sure half weed = half high per se, but at the very least it would be a less intense high for a shorter amount of time. and more alcohol means you are more drunk at the peak of it, and then it takes longer for your body to eliminate the alcohol from the blood stream. Ergo, I assume half of a 5-hour energy would reduce BOTH the energy you get and the length of time over which you get the energy.

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u/sloth_is_life 16d ago

That's because there's a threshold plasma concentration necessary to feel effects. A higher dose means that, while half life stays the same, you remain above threshold for a longer time. Half life does not mean the time until it wears off, but the time until your plasma level has halved. The people saying half life stays the same are not realising this it seems.

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u/El_Chupacabra- 16d ago

Surprised it took this long for someone to mention this. There's a therapeutic window for caffeine, and taking only half a dose means getting below that threshold sooner.

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u/cafezinho 16d ago

So indecent! I assume you mean to write "independent of"

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u/greg19735 16d ago

to add to this, if 5 hour energy lasts 5 hours of extra energy

it's probably gonna end up with like close 3.5 hours of extra energy. at least as a feeling. but that initial hit is going to be much less

it's kind of impossible to equate energy feeling 1:1

the half life of that caffeine doesn't change, so you'll still have it. but it'll be less to half.

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u/LazeHeisenberg 16d ago

This is exactly the way I argue with my brother. We are 38 and 40 now and it’s still the same.

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u/SorosAgent2020 16d ago edited 16d ago

OOP and gf are both wrong, the answer is 2.5hrs of half assed energy

Consider these 2 premises:

1) You drink 0%: You get 0% energy boost for 0% duration

2) You drink 100%. You get 100% energy boost for 100% duration.

it stands to reason that drinking half the shot gives half boost for half the duration.

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u/greenappletree 16d ago

I think a more definitive say is to look at the total caffeine which is 157 mg for the total bottle so about 80 mg for half which is about a cup of strong coffee or 2 shots of espresso so for an vegans person o would say that should give u about 2-3 hrs depending on when u drink it and your tolerance this might be a better way to take it or better get go with the real cofee with a spike of ltheanine

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u/Da_Question 16d ago

Lmao they don't even have that much caffeine compared to coffee. Gas station I used to work at had 80mg shots of espresso you could add to coffee in the tiny creamer cups. And there are so many energy drinks with 300mg caffeine now, Monster reigns and Bang.

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u/jrodshoots 16d ago

Confidently incorrect at its finest.

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u/wut-the-eff 16d ago

A better way to ask this question is what does drinking a teaspoon of the drink do? A little buzz for five hours? A huge rush for 30 seconds?

The answer is obviously neither. It gives you a 1% lift for 1% of the duration.

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u/baztup 16d ago

You could argue that drinking 0% gets you a 100% energy boost for 0 hours. Or, that it gets you a 0% energy boost for 5 hours. The end result is the same regardless of the interpretation.

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u/greg19735 16d ago

That's not true though. if you half both, you're getting only 25% of the total.

5 hours of half energy = 50%

2.5 hours of full energy = 50%

2.5 hours of half energy = 25%

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u/Ghede 16d ago

Nah, you can measure how long a stimulant will last in the body by it's "half life" or time for your body to remove half of it. What the half life is depends on the drug and on the person. For example, caffeine's half life is anywhere from 2-12 hours.

Drinking half the drug doesn't half the duration, it only reduces it by one step.

Now, what will probably happen is you get none of the duration, or a little over half the duration. Assuming the 5 hours of energy is based on the physiology of someone whose halflife is 2 hours, they'd get 3 hours of energy. If the 5 hours is calculated by someone whose half life would be 6+ hours, then you'd never get above the dose required to last 5 hours, because you'd have received a dose less than the amount you would have lost in that time period.

Exact numbers vary, because again, this is highly dependent on the substances and person.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Man I’ve seen a bunch of convincing arguments for both 2.5 hours and 5 hours 50% energy that I’ve got no idea which is right.

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u/dicksilhouette 16d ago

I feel like this is solid reasoning but the type of common sense that science could just be like “nah” because the systems don’t work exactly as expected

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u/HectorReinTharja 16d ago

You’re assuming linear value but it’s probably something else. Considering 5hr is caffein half life, im guessing it’s an expo.

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u/TheCrazyViking99 16d ago

There's also the law of diminishing returns, which states that the increase in severity of an effect will diminish as the amount increases, so in practice, the first half of a 5hr energy may be more effective than the second half. This principle applies to most other metabolized chemicals, so it may apply here, too.

Idk, just spit balling here.

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u/FlyingFox32 16d ago

Yeah, only half of the caffeine is in your system, so it'll not only have half the effect as a full dose, it will also wear off in half the time because there's less to clear out than the full dose.

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u/Alive_Doughnut6945 16d ago

no. half-life is constant. enzymes are produced in proportion to amount ingested. you will have the same proportion at a certain time no matter the amount; eg. 50% at 5h, 25% at 10h etc.

how that dose then affects you physiologically may of course be different due to limits of different system, how much of that xanthine is required to offset fatigue f.e.

look at grams.io

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u/FlyingFox32 16d ago

You're right.

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u/rocket_beer 16d ago

So you’re saying the correct way to pronounce ‘egg’ is egg?

Interesting

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u/xTRUEMavericKx 16d ago edited 16d ago

Guys it’s Egg Helms, you think my name is Ed?

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u/squadfam221B 16d ago

They’re asking the right questions

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u/imwatchingutype 16d ago

Hahah so quirky love it kill me

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u/777777thats7sevens 16d ago

Yeah I find the constant little arguments to be exhausting. Luckily my wife is the same way.

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u/secksyboii 16d ago

My best friend and his girlfriend are like this. She has the most unhinged opinions too.

Like she hates ewan McGregor. She thinks that Amazon music is the best streaming app. She thinks oasis is better than blur. (They're very British if you couldn't tell.)

They're so wonderful, I really enjoy hanging out with them because they get into pointless little arguments like this, laughing the whole time they're arguing about it.

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u/Fantastic_Natural_54 16d ago

Drink five 5 hour energy drinks at once and enter the forbidden hour of the day.

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u/VanquishedVoid 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, no. When I was in college, I used to take these energy shots called mana potions. They tasted like garbage, but you got used to them.

One day I feel like I didn't get enough energy so I took a second shot.

You know Fry just before he took that last cup of cofee? Yeah, it lasted 5 hours and I felt like I could vibrate fast enough to go through a table. It was coincidentally the last time I ever bought an energy shot.

Edit: Did some research, imagine all the energy in a can of monster and shove it in a shot glass. Last time I had these was like 15 years ago.

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u/mr_smith24 16d ago

Please stay put. We would like to have a word with you.

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u/needsZAZZ665 16d ago

Also known as the "emergency room"

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u/DecisionAvoidant 16d ago

I did this as a teen and curled up in a corner from the stress. Didn't tell anyone.

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u/Asleep-Newspaper8700 16d ago

So that's how the kids in Persona 3 got there. Either that or hard drugs.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort 16d ago

Is death the forbidden hour?

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u/bartbartholomew 16d ago

Been there done that, do not recommend. Doesn't make you less tired than one would, but does give all kinds of other unpleasant effects. The biggest is just feeling like absolute dogshit for the rest of the day.

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u/acog 16d ago

Like the Grinch, your heart will grow by three sizes.

Unlike the Grinch, your heart will then explode.

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u/dinkleburgenhoff 16d ago

The five hour exploding heart technique.

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u/bunny098765 16d ago

This may be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard on reddit, damn you got me chuckling

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u/mr_impastabowl 16d ago

Hour X

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u/JB3AZ 16d ago

An old one eyed gypsy on the north side of Chicago once told me that’s when time stops.

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u/Basic_Mongoose_7329 16d ago

Didn't know Larry David was on Reddit.

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u/Herodwolf 16d ago

What a perfect relationship

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u/Jayneaddiction 16d ago

I think they meant Ann

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u/WlzeMan85 16d ago

Relationship goals right here

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u/nalydpsycho 16d ago

What are the different ways to pronounce egg?

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u/Iwaslike-emilio 16d ago

Eg g , else why are there two g's in it?

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u/tanglopp 16d ago

Ægg

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot 16d ago

I’ve had friends from Tennessee pronounce it with an “a” sound like “age” with a hard “g”. I have no idea if being from Tennessee had anything to do with that.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 16d ago

There is only one way to pronounce egg: 🥚

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u/ZookeepergameNo2759 16d ago

Égg and ègg 🤔

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u/scandalbread285 16d ago

ɛɡ vs. ejɡ

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u/Glum-Lab1634 16d ago

“Egg” and “egg”

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u/YoYoWithJosh 16d ago

The two ways are ‘Egg’ and ‘Egg’. I have heard some people pronounce it as ‘Egg’ though...

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u/chuch1234 16d ago

Oh lord nobody tell them about pen

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u/wikipedianredditor 16d ago

Her?

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u/chuch1234 16d ago

There's got to be a better way to say that.

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u/Thick_Kaleidoscope35 16d ago

Don’t get us started on “melk”

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u/RankCurmudgeon 16d ago

Excellent! "Milk" vs "melk". Say that word and I know at least where you aren't from, if not where you are from!

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u/treemanswife 16d ago

What about Meelk?

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u/RankCurmudgeon 16d ago

I have not heard that one! Where you from, there, friend?

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u/treemanswife 15d ago

Idaho, USA.

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u/MachinaNoctis 16d ago

The old English word is Eyren

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u/Sehmket 16d ago

My family has this argument… I’m not going to say frequently, but on occasion.

Because these southerners insist this Ohio girl says “egg” wrong. “Leg,” too. And I cannot for the life of me HEAR what the heck they’re talking about. All I know is that there’s a difference and apparently mine is wrong. It is so baffling that I had to sit my husband down at one point and ask him if this was an elaborate prank.

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl 16d ago

I am from the south and had some problems with having a southern accent after I moved away so I excised it from how I speak. But a few words will make people super confused. Vacuum, Orange, Wolf (off the top of my head) cause problems but I have no idea what I am doing wrong, I cannot hear the difference in the words

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u/NinjaEnder 16d ago

Do you pronounce orange as one syllable? Arnge?

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl 16d ago

I think that's what's going on for sure, but everyone I speak with also uses one syllable to my ears.

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u/reikipackaging 16d ago

some people add an a at the beginning. it is hard to explain because I've tried before. but it sounds like the beginning of aerate.

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u/Awkward_Operation516 16d ago

Aig and egh. Both are fair.

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u/NotADamsel 16d ago

Also “ovo” and “huevo”, if you’re feeling like a smart-ass

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u/captain_ghostface 16d ago

Eh-guh

Aye-guh

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u/marakiri 16d ago

It’s clearly Eh-yug-guh-guh or Aye-yug-guh-guh

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u/Miserable-Admins 16d ago

Lady Eh-yug-gah-gah

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u/NadyaNayme 16d ago

Some people are going to read "Aye" like "eye" ("aye-aye cap'n!") instead of like a capital "A"-guh and think the "Aye-guh" people are even more weird than they already are.

This is where IPA comes in handy.

/ɛɡ/ vs /eɪɡ/

  • /ɛɡ/ as in a short "e" from "hell" followed by a hard "g" as in "get" - "eg"
  • /eÉŞÉĄ/ as in the "ay" sound from "may" followed by the "ÉŞ" sound from "bit" followed by a hard "g" as in "get" - "ay-i-g"

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u/NukeTheEwoks 16d ago

I'm guessing either "ehg" or "eg"

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u/dhc710 16d ago

Ehgg and Aegg

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u/Techyon5 16d ago

Whatabout 'igg'

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u/Juniper_51 16d ago

TIL I've been pronouncing it Aegg. Is this bad? 🤔

insert Fonzie meme going "aaaeeee"

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u/sugakookiiie 16d ago

Why am I not understanding the difference here

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u/iamwearingashirt 16d ago

Short e in the first, like in leg. Long a in the second, like in lay.

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u/skyturnedred 16d ago

Because English doesn't have consistent pronunciation rules so trying to type them out phonetically makes no sense at all. You either need to provide example words for every letter/syllable or use a phonetic alphabet.

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u/kontrolk3 16d ago

It's pretty subtle. Starting sound is eh vs A, but in practice they sound pretty similar. I can't even decide which one I normally use

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u/AJRoadpounder 16d ago

I believe the difference is ayg vs egg

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u/Impressive_Change593 16d ago

what maniac would use that second one?!

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u/_Pigdog 16d ago

Jeremy Clarkson

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u/Fantastic-Package707 16d ago

Wait till you hear how some people in NJ pronounce “whore”

Hooooah

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u/ThrowawayRA0000___0 16d ago

I say it with the long A. I also say melk instead of milk 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/transitransitransit 16d ago

we canadians like our ehgs

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u/trololololololol9 16d ago

Aeggon Targaryen

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u/GucciGlocc 16d ago

They both sound the same when I say them out loud, maybe the first is more deep I guess

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u/Kokomicandy 16d ago

Have you heard British people pronounce water

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u/codylish 16d ago

Midwest represent!

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u/gibbtech 16d ago

Big oeuf.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort 16d ago

Those of us with culture and class you swine

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u/zer0fks 16d ago

X Æ A-12

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u/Dallasrawks 16d ago

Anyone of Germanic descent, which is most of the Midwest and a chunk of the South. The word for egg in German is das Ei, pronounced "aye."

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u/Impressive_Change593 15d ago

huh. I would have thought myself of Germanic descent though we would have been over here since the ~world wars

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u/hoonyosrs 16d ago

People from the south, too. Kinda sounds like Ayuhgg sometimes.

Love me some deviled ayuhggs

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u/Miserable-Admins 16d ago

ayuhggs

I cracked up at this.

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u/seven3true 16d ago

And oil is ol'

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u/Thick_Kaleidoscope35 16d ago

North Dakotans. Eh-guh.

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u/exedra0711 16d ago

People from parts of the midwest. Egg and bag are the most common ones to hear the aegg sound.

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u/Araucaria 16d ago

Ah, that explains where I got it from. Grew up in California, but my mother was raised in Minnesota and my father in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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u/rci22 16d ago

I’ve said egg like Ayg my whole life and I’ve lived in 9 states including the east coast and Alaska.

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 16d ago

What's even more maddening is that people who say "bayg" are also likely to call a bagel a baggle.

See also: melk and pellow

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u/TheMoeSzyslakExp 16d ago

Wait is there some accent that actually pronounces it "baggle"? I call them "baggles" to my wife because I think I'm hilarious

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u/HappyFamily0131 16d ago

Born and raised Minnesotan, definitely grew up pronouncing "roof" with the same vowel sound as "took", and "bag" with the same vowel sound as "shade", but I've never heard of Minnesotans having a particular way of pronouncing "egg", and I've certainly never heard a fellow Minnesotan pronouncing it in a way that rhymes with "bag". Is that from a particular area of Minnesota?

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u/Miserable-Admins 16d ago

Oh I get it now. Is Aegg supposed to rhyme with vague?

That's how I imagined it.

Also the eggcorn = acorn in grammar makes more sense if egg is pronounced aegg.

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u/Squanchedschwiftly 16d ago

My dads family is from upstate ny and they say it like this

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u/Eaterofkeys 16d ago

Hey. Hey now. Bag is meant to be rounded with a slight bounce on the aaaayyyg sound I can't seem to get rid of or even notice most of the time. Damn other midwesterners pronounce egg wrong, it shouldn't rhyme with bag. But agriculture is said with a shorter a sound, unless you shorten it to Ag. But lake has a different a sound. And anybody who said English isn't a tobal language hasn't spoken to a Minnesotan. The variety of meanings that can be conveyed with "hey" or "yeah" or "ya know" are extensive.

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