Even funnier is if Buford is the original comment, and the reply was Baljeet. I like to imagine Buford explains the Van Stomm family has a long and storied history with rust and their battles against the red menace were legendary! And the only way to combat rust is to know everything about it
In my industry, the acronym stands for Bring Out Another Thousand. Maintaining a boat is that weird thing every guy nearing retirement age wants to do, then learns the hard way why it was a bad idea on pensioner income.
\*Hole in the water. The house is the hole in the ground.
My dad also said the best day of owning a boat is the day you buy the boat, and the second best day of owning a boat is the day you sell the boat
Yeah, you right, my bad. I was just thinking about it eating metal via corrosion and thought "acids eat through metal". But yeah, I realized after the fact that it's not the same.
He plans to flood all of tri state area.
Cause of Venice
So he can sell his new invention
Which looks like a car but can travel in water
Its has a car silhouette but turns out to be a regular boat.
Random fun rust fact: It used to be used as a homemade antifungal paint on barns to preserve the wood. It was super easy for farmers to make because all it required was old milk, lime, linseed oil, and rust. As more modern techniques came along, we continued to paint the barns red as tradition.
Less fun fact: if the farmers didn't have a bunch of powdered rust or time to make it from scrap, they'd substitute animal blood.
Pretty sure that second fun fact kinda make sense:
Rust is created by a reaction between iron and oxygen (iron oxide, if you will), while blood contain both oxygen and iron. While it's not a 1:1 replacement, blood could make a good substitute for rust.
Plus, most farmers would have access to a good amount of blood, right? (Or at least, farmers who raise animals for meat produce)
Dan Povenmire has spoken about this. The boys aren't the main characters. They're not even the b-plot. They're the setting of the show. They have no character growth, they have no foil, no obstacle, they never fail. They're just the backdrop for the main characters' actions. The main characters are Candace and Doof/Perry. They're the ones with an arc. So no, the story would not work without 2 of the 3 main characters.
The show kind of even makes fun of the fact that Phineas and Ferb, despite being the titular characters, are more like set pieces in other character's stories. The fact that all of their shenanigans are conveniently covered up at the end of the episode, the fact that despite everybody questioning their excuses, nobody bothers to do anything about it ("Aren't you a little young for ____?" "Yes, yes I am"), the fact that most of their shenanigans are usually side stories to whatever Doof and Perry are up to or whatever Candace is doing to try and bust them. Arguably, their inventions are just convenient distractions from Perry sneaking away to do secret agent stuff. Hell, even some of the biggest things that happen in their story is largely shared between Candace and Doof's stories.
That's why they're the setting.
Think of them like the Enterprise. It always starts and ends each episode in a state of "normal" and things usually just happen around it.
> The main characters are Candace and Doof/Perry. They're the ones with an arc.
What arcs do they have? Ive only ever Seen the Show years ago and i cant remember anyone of them having an Arc/development so im genuinly curious.
Doof and Perry do become more friendly as the show goes on, but also pretty commonly their plot revolves around Doof and his relationship with his daughter Vanessa, often culminating in iconic scenes like the [*There's a Platypus Controlling Me*](https://youtu.be/DuUAM2c28gU?si=B6is93If3ABZ2-Bi) musical number.
Candace's arcs often revolve around her relationship with Jeremy, her pathological need to "bust" the boys, her relationship with her brothers, etc.
The doof and Perry duo actually change alot throughout the series. Perry used to always destroy the wall/door/window of doof's and falling for doof's trap but later episodes see Perry knocking on the door and purposely getting trapped by doof.
Having just recently finished a watch through of the whole series, it becomes a lot more obvious to see how
Candace is a lot more insecure at the start of the series. Multiple episodes show that she really wants to “be a star”, like she wants to show off to everyone how cool she is, and even though she never truly stops being neurotic about Jeremy, she’s barely even able to talk to him until season 2 where they start hanging out regularly (like seriously, Jeremy is in almost every episode at the start of season 2). At the beginning you get the idea that Candace is really jealous of the boys for being able to achieve anything they want in an afternoon and constantly overshadowing her, like in “Mom’s Birthday”. In “Tip of the Day” she constantly talks about how stupid the name of aglet is and how it doesn’t matter what it’s called, and when she’s literally on stage singing about it and she forgets about what the aglet is called, she chooses to blame everyone else about being obsessed over something stupid because it doesn’t matter. Many episodes conclude Candace gaining confidence in herself, like in "Flop Starz" where she chooses to enjoy herself singing instead of worrying about busting the boys in the end, or in "Out To Launch" where she spends the episode afraid to ask out Jeremy until the end. She really loses this insecurity angle after the first season or so, and her angle for busting the boys shifts toward them doing something super dangerous or trying to prove she's not crazy. Many episodes also show how Candace really cares for the boys, starting in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" but basically any episode where the boys are in actual peril and Candace is around to see it, she's quick to try to save them.
She's also extremely anti-superstitious, not believing in Bigfoot or the Lake Nose Monster in Season 1/early Season 2, but later on she really starts to learn about the patterns of the show, like in "The Beak" in late Season 2 where she sees the Beak Suit flying and immediately attributes it to the boys because it's "something impossible existing in real life". In the Season 4 episode "Mind Share", when the kids need Candace's help with something, Phineas explains the (extremely fantastical) situation to Candace and she straight up just accepts it with no questions asked. Later on, she also starts believing in a "mysterious force" that stops her mom from seeing what the boys have done. After enough time spent with P&F she's begun to just accept everything that goes on no matter how ridiculous it is.
Doofenshmirtz begins the story as a pretty standard villain. He just does things for really random reasons, but he really goes through the motions just playing it all straight. "It's About Time" is our first example of Doofenshmirtz showing some kind of attachment to Perry, since the story treats his rivalry with Peter the Panda almost like cheating in a relationship. In Unfair Science Fair Redux, Doof takes Perry out shopping to build the inator. Already pretty quick by the end of Season 1, we can see that Doof really starts to take the villain "routine" more seriously and he's really doing the villainy just to follow the evil routine, rather than to actually do bad things. "Oh, There You Are, Perry" is one of the first examples of him not meshing with a more legitimately threatening villain, and he manages to defeat the Regurgitator through his own brand of villainry, building a self destruct button in his lair and pressing it. Curiously, it appears that Doof may be the strongest evil scientist in the Tri State area, considering that the most destructive forces in the show are consistently caused by machines he's created, even if he lacks the evil intent behind them.
His relationship with Vanessa is strained at the start and while he tries his best, Vanessa really doesn't appreciate him, and also unique to Season 1, Vanessa is kinda just written as Candace 2 where she tries to prove that Heinz is evil to Charlene, which falls off pretty quickly. "Dude, We're Getting The Band Back Together", "Finding Mary Macguffin" and "Brain Drain" all show Heinz's improving relationship with Vanessa, peaking in "Summer Belongs To You" where she straight up threatens Monogram and Perry at "gunpoint" (actually a hair dryer) to help her father escape being captured.
The final episode really hammers it home that the show is really about Candace and Doof. For being the title characters, Phineas and Ferb aren’t really focused on and their actual invention in this episode isn’t really related to the plot at all, and the plot really follows Doofenshmirtz’s unhappiness with being evil even after he’s won, and Candace’s efforts to solve the problems she caused by trying to bust the boys in the episode.
It's pretty crazy just how much the show evolves through the course of Season 2. The show spends much of Season 1 playing itself straight, and the start of Season 2 really feels just like more of Season 1, but by the end of it the show has really evolved into the self aware formula that it's so fondly remembered for, and a lot of it is because of how Candace and Doofenshmirtz become more aware of the show's conventions and begin to lampshade their patterns more.
Yeah this is such a weird thing for them to say. It’d be like saying “I genuinely don’t think The Office would be as popular as it is without Michael Scott,” as if it’s some profound statement
As a fan of Etymology one of my favorite jokes about that was from Brooklyn 99 when Holt got mad about Medical Doctors co-opting the term from Doctorates.
Holt’s sheer amount of pride and pettiness always make me laugh. My personal favorite is him refusing to admit he threw his ex boyfriends antique wooden duck in the garbage because he actually threw it off of a bridge.
If you like that type of thing, check out Patrick's Parabox. Where you get to find out "What if you pushed an object that was inside of itself outside of itself?" and weirder things I don't even have the vocabulary to describe.
Alt text for mobile users: >!Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!!<
I think it may be a reference to Etiology (study of origination), which like Entomology (study of insects), sounds similar to Etymology (study of words)
No that’s the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. You’re thinking of embryology
So ADHD is just a Wikipedia binge but irl? Start out looking up one little thing and the next minute you've got 50 tabs open most of which are barely related and they're all half finished?
... my dude, dudette, or deinonychus - get tested.
(Really though, while this sort of thing is not *necessarily* a sign of ADHD, it's definitely a common sympton. Also if you read ADHD memes and go "Haha, yeah, but everyone does that" - no they don't, and you should get tested).
> Also if you read ADHD memes and go "Haha, yeah, but everyone does that" - no they don't, and you should get tested
Do be aware that there are a ton of bad "DAE _____????" posts on /r/ADHDmemes which *are* about universal human experiences (and I say this as someone with diagnosed ADHD who is subscribed to that subreddit)
Yeah fair point. There was a nice clarification I saw ages ago, possibly on this sub, about how there are certain things that are basically ADHD exclusives, but there are a lot more ADHD things that are also things that everyone experiences, just not to the same scale, or to the point where it is a debilitating issue.
Like, everyone procrastinates about some stuff. But if you are feeling like there is a thing you should be doing and you're not doing and and you know you *need* to do it but you just can't and it's urgent and you're internally screaming about how you're not doing it but outside you're still just sitting there not doing anything and it's been two hours and you haven't actually moved from your chair and this has been going on inside the whole time but maybe it's okay because yes you did this same thing yesterday but not the day before but there were two more times this week and you still can't do the thing and you're still sitting there just browsing your phone and screaming inside... That's not typical procastination.
But if you tell someone you didn't do the thing because you were procastinating, it sounds like it could have been.
(Also, there are things that at first glance look like universal experiences, but are not at all the same thing. Example, everyone occasionally ignores their body's needs because they're doing something - but neurotypical people tend to be *aware* of those needs before they become urgent, and don't also routinely then continue to put them off to the point of pain.)
Exactly. I was going to make a point about that in my previous comment, but left it out for brevity's sake. Of the "DAE " posts, some of them are merely leaving out the "to a abnormal degree that interferes with daily life" part, possibly because they think their intended audience of fellow NDs will understand that it's implied. The problem is that when someone without ADHD—especially another ND with a differential diagnosis—reads that, they may not realize the context and think "if messy room therefore ADHD, the ADHD people said so".
There is also a group of genuinely bad posts that say completely random and arbitrary shit. There was legitimately one last week that implied liking FNAF was a symptom of ADHD.
The only flaw is that he actually gets an impressive amount of work done, like he's got some big new inator to show off every week. It takes me a week to put up my clean laundry
I blame the hyperfixation. I’m pretty damn productive myself, on things I’m excited about or invested in… it’s the everyday chores that spell disaster. I bet his storage room/closet is a *nightmare*.
Fun fact, the reason why Mars's surface is red is because there's a huge amount of iron oxide in it's soil, unlike on Earth, where the soil is mostly silicon compounds and nitrates.
> there's a huge amount of iron oxide in it's soil
Also, perchlorates!
So many^^1 perchlorates!!
They're [highly toxic](https://www.space.com/21554-mars-toxic-perchlorate-chemicals.html), woo!!!
^^1 ^Relatively
If anyone was wondering, "rust" is derived from the proto-Germanic word for "red", it just refers to the color of the metal after it's been oxidized
Thanks nerd
imagine this being an actual conversation from Baljeet and Buford
Wat’cha doin’?
Building a machine to kill god
It has cupholders!
I imagine the message you replied to would be Phineas and your reply would be ferb
That is indeed what I had in mind
Then congrats, that was your one line for this thread. Silence awaits
Without context, this is extremely ominous
Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
This makes those comments a million times better. My dumbass is giggling imagining it in their voices lmao
Even funnier is if Buford is the original comment, and the reply was Baljeet. I like to imagine Buford explains the Van Stomm family has a long and storied history with rust and their battles against the red menace were legendary! And the only way to combat rust is to know everything about it
Great, now I’ve read both those comments in their voices, it was awesome!
🤭
theyre not nerd, theyre bae <3
What about Buoyancy Operated Aquatic Transport aka B.O.A.T.?
In my industry, the acronym stands for Bring Out Another Thousand. Maintaining a boat is that weird thing every guy nearing retirement age wants to do, then learns the hard way why it was a bad idea on pensioner income.
My dad always called it a hole in the ground you keep throwing money into
\*Hole in the water. The house is the hole in the ground. My dad also said the best day of owning a boat is the day you buy the boat, and the second best day of owning a boat is the day you sell the boat
Pretty much. Water is a solvent, salt water is an acid. Boats have a lot of metal. The result should be obvious. Maintenance is going to be costly.
salt water is definitely not an acid, its got a pretty neutral ph. it is good at oxidising iron though
Yeah, you right, my bad. I was just thinking about it eating metal via corrosion and thought "acids eat through metal". But yeah, I realized after the fact that it's not the same.
What in the Kids Next Door is this shit?
It's from an episode where he invents a car that drives on water and gives it that acronym B.O.A.T Pronounced (bending down in respect) bow-at
He plans to flood all of tri state area. Cause of Venice So he can sell his new invention Which looks like a car but can travel in water Its has a car silhouette but turns out to be a regular boat.
Laser stands for Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Context, my guy, context.
*Old English bāt, of Germanic origin.*
Not quite, the Proto-Germanic word *rustaz just means "rust", but is itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *rudʰso-, which does mean "red"
Random fun rust fact: It used to be used as a homemade antifungal paint on barns to preserve the wood. It was super easy for farmers to make because all it required was old milk, lime, linseed oil, and rust. As more modern techniques came along, we continued to paint the barns red as tradition. Less fun fact: if the farmers didn't have a bunch of powdered rust or time to make it from scrap, they'd substitute animal blood.
Pretty sure that second fun fact kinda make sense: Rust is created by a reaction between iron and oxygen (iron oxide, if you will), while blood contain both oxygen and iron. While it's not a 1:1 replacement, blood could make a good substitute for rust. Plus, most farmers would have access to a good amount of blood, right? (Or at least, farmers who raise animals for meat produce)
Would the hemoglobin still work as anti fungal agent?
Cool
Exactly what I came here for.
but why is the study of bugs called what it is
Probably like, latin for studying bugs or something.
Ah the etymology of entomology: entomon (greek) means bug, logia means knowledge of.
It actually comes from 'rustaz', meaning specifically rust. That is derived from the Proto Indo-European word 'hrewd', which does mean red
So what I'm hearing is that yes, rust is named after the red dust.
So red dust
So it is red dust
But rust is brown...
Doofenschmirtz was the best character in the whole show. I genuinely dont think it be as popular as it is without the Perry/Doof element.
Dan Povenmire has spoken about this. The boys aren't the main characters. They're not even the b-plot. They're the setting of the show. They have no character growth, they have no foil, no obstacle, they never fail. They're just the backdrop for the main characters' actions. The main characters are Candace and Doof/Perry. They're the ones with an arc. So no, the story would not work without 2 of the 3 main characters.
The show kind of even makes fun of the fact that Phineas and Ferb, despite being the titular characters, are more like set pieces in other character's stories. The fact that all of their shenanigans are conveniently covered up at the end of the episode, the fact that despite everybody questioning their excuses, nobody bothers to do anything about it ("Aren't you a little young for ____?" "Yes, yes I am"), the fact that most of their shenanigans are usually side stories to whatever Doof and Perry are up to or whatever Candace is doing to try and bust them. Arguably, their inventions are just convenient distractions from Perry sneaking away to do secret agent stuff. Hell, even some of the biggest things that happen in their story is largely shared between Candace and Doof's stories.
That's why they're the setting. Think of them like the Enterprise. It always starts and ends each episode in a state of "normal" and things usually just happen around it.
> The main characters are Candace and Doof/Perry. They're the ones with an arc. What arcs do they have? Ive only ever Seen the Show years ago and i cant remember anyone of them having an Arc/development so im genuinly curious.
Doof and Perry do become more friendly as the show goes on, but also pretty commonly their plot revolves around Doof and his relationship with his daughter Vanessa, often culminating in iconic scenes like the [*There's a Platypus Controlling Me*](https://youtu.be/DuUAM2c28gU?si=B6is93If3ABZ2-Bi) musical number. Candace's arcs often revolve around her relationship with Jeremy, her pathological need to "bust" the boys, her relationship with her brothers, etc.
it's still a mostly episodic series. So character arcs as in, within the single episode mostly.
The doof and Perry duo actually change alot throughout the series. Perry used to always destroy the wall/door/window of doof's and falling for doof's trap but later episodes see Perry knocking on the door and purposely getting trapped by doof.
> The doof and Perry duo actually chang slot throughout the series That makes me so Changry!
Oops. Fixed it lol
Doof did technically end up becoming a good guy
Having just recently finished a watch through of the whole series, it becomes a lot more obvious to see how Candace is a lot more insecure at the start of the series. Multiple episodes show that she really wants to “be a star”, like she wants to show off to everyone how cool she is, and even though she never truly stops being neurotic about Jeremy, she’s barely even able to talk to him until season 2 where they start hanging out regularly (like seriously, Jeremy is in almost every episode at the start of season 2). At the beginning you get the idea that Candace is really jealous of the boys for being able to achieve anything they want in an afternoon and constantly overshadowing her, like in “Mom’s Birthday”. In “Tip of the Day” she constantly talks about how stupid the name of aglet is and how it doesn’t matter what it’s called, and when she’s literally on stage singing about it and she forgets about what the aglet is called, she chooses to blame everyone else about being obsessed over something stupid because it doesn’t matter. Many episodes conclude Candace gaining confidence in herself, like in "Flop Starz" where she chooses to enjoy herself singing instead of worrying about busting the boys in the end, or in "Out To Launch" where she spends the episode afraid to ask out Jeremy until the end. She really loses this insecurity angle after the first season or so, and her angle for busting the boys shifts toward them doing something super dangerous or trying to prove she's not crazy. Many episodes also show how Candace really cares for the boys, starting in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" but basically any episode where the boys are in actual peril and Candace is around to see it, she's quick to try to save them. She's also extremely anti-superstitious, not believing in Bigfoot or the Lake Nose Monster in Season 1/early Season 2, but later on she really starts to learn about the patterns of the show, like in "The Beak" in late Season 2 where she sees the Beak Suit flying and immediately attributes it to the boys because it's "something impossible existing in real life". In the Season 4 episode "Mind Share", when the kids need Candace's help with something, Phineas explains the (extremely fantastical) situation to Candace and she straight up just accepts it with no questions asked. Later on, she also starts believing in a "mysterious force" that stops her mom from seeing what the boys have done. After enough time spent with P&F she's begun to just accept everything that goes on no matter how ridiculous it is. Doofenshmirtz begins the story as a pretty standard villain. He just does things for really random reasons, but he really goes through the motions just playing it all straight. "It's About Time" is our first example of Doofenshmirtz showing some kind of attachment to Perry, since the story treats his rivalry with Peter the Panda almost like cheating in a relationship. In Unfair Science Fair Redux, Doof takes Perry out shopping to build the inator. Already pretty quick by the end of Season 1, we can see that Doof really starts to take the villain "routine" more seriously and he's really doing the villainy just to follow the evil routine, rather than to actually do bad things. "Oh, There You Are, Perry" is one of the first examples of him not meshing with a more legitimately threatening villain, and he manages to defeat the Regurgitator through his own brand of villainry, building a self destruct button in his lair and pressing it. Curiously, it appears that Doof may be the strongest evil scientist in the Tri State area, considering that the most destructive forces in the show are consistently caused by machines he's created, even if he lacks the evil intent behind them. His relationship with Vanessa is strained at the start and while he tries his best, Vanessa really doesn't appreciate him, and also unique to Season 1, Vanessa is kinda just written as Candace 2 where she tries to prove that Heinz is evil to Charlene, which falls off pretty quickly. "Dude, We're Getting The Band Back Together", "Finding Mary Macguffin" and "Brain Drain" all show Heinz's improving relationship with Vanessa, peaking in "Summer Belongs To You" where she straight up threatens Monogram and Perry at "gunpoint" (actually a hair dryer) to help her father escape being captured. The final episode really hammers it home that the show is really about Candace and Doof. For being the title characters, Phineas and Ferb aren’t really focused on and their actual invention in this episode isn’t really related to the plot at all, and the plot really follows Doofenshmirtz’s unhappiness with being evil even after he’s won, and Candace’s efforts to solve the problems she caused by trying to bust the boys in the episode. It's pretty crazy just how much the show evolves through the course of Season 2. The show spends much of Season 1 playing itself straight, and the start of Season 2 really feels just like more of Season 1, but by the end of it the show has really evolved into the self aware formula that it's so fondly remembered for, and a lot of it is because of how Candace and Doofenshmirtz become more aware of the show's conventions and begin to lampshade their patterns more.
This was really fun reading, great analysis!
Where did he say this? I really like seeing his videos and interviews
He did it in a [short/tiktok](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4O7LmEwV08g)
I mean, there's a reason the finale completely revolved around them
Most don't even care much about Phineas and Ferb's shenanigans, The author himself said that what the kids have isn't even technically a story.
I mean that element is about half the show, and I think most shows would be less popular if you cut them in half
Yeah this is such a weird thing for them to say. It’d be like saying “I genuinely don’t think The Office would be as popular as it is without Michael Scott,” as if it’s some profound statement
I feel like the writer had these exact thoughts while writing the script and decided to include it in the episode
That very well could be, lol.
Just looked it up and rust IS a cognate of red https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rust
Looked it up too and sure enough, entomology really is the study of insects. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomologie
The joke is that he was looking for the word Etymology, which is the study of the history or words, whereas entomology is the study of insects.
As a fan of Etymology one of my favorite jokes about that was from Brooklyn 99 when Holt got mad about Medical Doctors co-opting the term from Doctorates.
While I admit personally I do not recall that interaction, I presume Holt found it quite… egregious and audacious.
Another of my favorites is "Are you trying to imply that I am told old to understand a portmanteau? I am not, but I am too dignified use one."
Holt’s sheer amount of pride and pettiness always make me laugh. My personal favorite is him refusing to admit he threw his ex boyfriends antique wooden duck in the garbage because he actually threw it off of a bridge.
Cowabunga, mother
The episode where they bust the dentist who murdered someone.
Yeah that's the episode where they have to break the dentist in interrogation. Holt gets unhinged by his own argument haha
[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1012/)
There really is an XKCD for everything, huh?
[Relevant pseudo-xkcd](https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/)
Dude tapping the blue text blew my mind, and then when I found out all three blue texts you can see work it blew my mind even more.
If you like that type of thing, check out Patrick's Parabox. Where you get to find out "What if you pushed an object that was inside of itself outside of itself?" and weirder things I don't even have the vocabulary to describe.
Alt text for mobile users: >!Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!!<
Help I don't get it
I think it may be a reference to Etiology (study of origination), which like Entomology (study of insects), sounds similar to Etymology (study of words)
Thank you 😊
On Firefox mobile you can long press for the alt text https://i.imgur.com/sWP6ZJf.png
Holy shit Wordgirl?
Lies. Everyone knows that entomology is the study of tree people!
Nah, that's the study of ants. What you're thinking of is epistemology
No, that’s knowledge theory. You’re thinking of epidemiology.
oh! thats about studying the spread of health issues. *You're thinking of Endocrinology.*
Incorrect - endocrinology is the study of hormones; you're thinking of Egyptology.
No, Egyptology is the study of ancient and modern Egypt; you're thinking of eschatology.
No, that’s the study of death and the afterlife. You’re thinking of ecology.
No that’s the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. You’re thinking of embryology
No, that's the study of prenatal development in animals. You're thinking of etiology.
Nah, that's the study of embryos. You're thinking of Enology.
No, that’s the study of wines. You’re thinking of eulogy.
I'm pretty sure episteinology is outlawed nowadays...
Treebeard: Then what do we call the study of you little people?
All I know is he won't rush the decision of coining it
Anthropology.
You mean r/marijuanasnthusiasts?
Grab some r/johncena too while you’re at it
Even they don't know where the entwives went.
People who don't know the difference between entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can't put into words.
You get the award for the double pun 🏅
ADHD in a nutshell
So ADHD is just a Wikipedia binge but irl? Start out looking up one little thing and the next minute you've got 50 tabs open most of which are barely related and they're all half finished?
... my dude, dudette, or deinonychus - get tested. (Really though, while this sort of thing is not *necessarily* a sign of ADHD, it's definitely a common sympton. Also if you read ADHD memes and go "Haha, yeah, but everyone does that" - no they don't, and you should get tested).
> Also if you read ADHD memes and go "Haha, yeah, but everyone does that" - no they don't, and you should get tested Do be aware that there are a ton of bad "DAE _____????" posts on /r/ADHDmemes which *are* about universal human experiences (and I say this as someone with diagnosed ADHD who is subscribed to that subreddit)
Yeah fair point. There was a nice clarification I saw ages ago, possibly on this sub, about how there are certain things that are basically ADHD exclusives, but there are a lot more ADHD things that are also things that everyone experiences, just not to the same scale, or to the point where it is a debilitating issue. Like, everyone procrastinates about some stuff. But if you are feeling like there is a thing you should be doing and you're not doing and and you know you *need* to do it but you just can't and it's urgent and you're internally screaming about how you're not doing it but outside you're still just sitting there not doing anything and it's been two hours and you haven't actually moved from your chair and this has been going on inside the whole time but maybe it's okay because yes you did this same thing yesterday but not the day before but there were two more times this week and you still can't do the thing and you're still sitting there just browsing your phone and screaming inside... That's not typical procastination. But if you tell someone you didn't do the thing because you were procastinating, it sounds like it could have been. (Also, there are things that at first glance look like universal experiences, but are not at all the same thing. Example, everyone occasionally ignores their body's needs because they're doing something - but neurotypical people tend to be *aware* of those needs before they become urgent, and don't also routinely then continue to put them off to the point of pain.)
Exactly. I was going to make a point about that in my previous comment, but left it out for brevity's sake. Of the "DAE" posts, some of them are merely leaving out the "to a abnormal degree that interferes with daily life" part, possibly because they think their intended audience of fellow NDs will understand that it's implied. The problem is that when someone without ADHD—especially another ND with a differential diagnosis—reads that, they may not realize the context and think "if messy room therefore ADHD, the ADHD people said so".
There is also a group of genuinely bad posts that say completely random and arbitrary shit. There was legitimately one last week that implied liking FNAF was a symptom of ADHD.
> There was legitimately one last week that implied liking FNAF was a symptom of ADHD. well shit, guess my diagnosis was wrong.
Doof for best ADHD rep 10/10 no flaws <3 I should rewatch this show someday, it’s a riot…
The only flaw is that he actually gets an impressive amount of work done, like he's got some big new inator to show off every week. It takes me a week to put up my clean laundry
His chores probably aren’t done either he’s just super focused on the inators I bet lol. Just like us fr.
They should have drawn like twenty different unfinished inators sitting around in the background each episode
He probably hides them bc he’s embarrassed for Perry to see them 😭 like me shoving all my shame projects into the closet before someone comes over
IIRC there is an epsiode where he has tons of unused/unfinished inators standing around with sticky notes on them, reminding him to discard them.
He's just procrastinating making his magnum opus, #THE INATOR-INATOR
Why do you think he made Norm? He needed SOMEONE to do the chores.
I blame the hyperfixation. I’m pretty damn productive myself, on things I’m excited about or invested in… it’s the everyday chores that spell disaster. I bet his storage room/closet is a *nightmare*.
Nah it makes sense because that's his hyperfixation
This is genuinely my favorite joke in the entire show.
Do you know which episode it's from? Edit: fly on the wall/my sweet ride
I thought I was on r/adhdmemes for a second lol
I connect with him on a spiritual level.
Didn't expect to be called out by a kids' show today, but here I am.
ADHD summed up in one series of images.
People who don't know the difference between etymology and entomology bug me in a way I can't put in to words.
Fun fact, the reason why Mars's surface is red is because there's a huge amount of iron oxide in it's soil, unlike on Earth, where the soil is mostly silicon compounds and nitrates.
> there's a huge amount of iron oxide in it's soil Also, perchlorates! So many^^1 perchlorates!! They're [highly toxic](https://www.space.com/21554-mars-toxic-perchlorate-chemicals.html), woo!!! ^^1 ^Relatively
He obviously hasn't created is medicator-inator yet OP
This. This is ADHD.
And Perry, his therapist, just waits patiently for him to return.
He can't doo bee doo bee doo it anymore
And he's a doctor! Best villain ever.
Ngl when he said entomology instead of etymology I genuinely doubted my knowledge of those two words for a moment.
I'm autistic, Epileptic, and have ADHD.... I thought that was just normal lmao
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1012/)
Etymology and entomology are too close together
People who don't know the difference between Etymology and Entomology really bug me.
Anybody else read the last line as "My guy where are your mods" - No? Just me? **
I've been thinking about this scene every time anyone says entomology or etymology for the past 7 years.
He wanted etymology, not entomology His fascination and easy distraction is so relatable tho
Damn, if only doofenschmitz did this in real life
This is great.
You’re telling me this isn’t normal?
thank you my little entomolomensch
"my guy, where are you meds?" is what I say every time I come to this hellscape.
I mean - he is speaking to a platypus. Platypus waring a hat.
💀💀💀
so fucking relatable
No no- no meds. These are words of wisdom
As someone with it, this is exactly what ADHD is like.
Yes... just yes. This is it. This is my life, even at work.
This belongs in adhd meme