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[–] 65 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I foresee this becoming a trend

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  • [–] 60 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Then you start hiding real bodies once people get used to the trend.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Among other things I believe the are carrion feeders, so that makes sense.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Many years ago I came across a quarter that someone had nailed onto the sidewalk. In case someone's looking for a less disturbing but still fun easter egg to leave for future people.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If you use aquarium silicone adhesive, they won't be damaged, the adhesive is weather proof, and the silicone gives a flex and wiggle that prevents sheering. We had a dime stuck to our porch for 8 years and when it finally came up, it was because the concrete had eroded underneath it.

    My dad taught that one to me in high school. He stuck $1.50 in random change to the ground in front of the soda machine at the apartments he was groundskeeper for. On slow days he'd sit and watch the local kids try desperately to get a free soda with money they can't pick up.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Nailed? Glue might be better. Like a gorilla glue or epoxy resin.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like glue wouldn't last as long. I have no idea how long the nail was, but if it's a couple of inches deep I have no idea how you'd be able to get it off without an angle grinder. With glue you can chip it off, or use solvent, or a blowtorch.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I’m here thinking that if I came across a severed finger, I wouldn’t pick it up…

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago*

    I hope a 1,000 yrs from now this same finger rock resurfaces on the interwebs 6.6.0.6 and scares the crap outta some cyberpunk kids cause they found it on some trail.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Verde Velvet

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Yes, but in this context, "kind" have a different meaning so you can't use the contracted informal version of "kind of". It's like instead of saying

    "oh how kind of you to hold the door for me"

    You say: "oh how kinda you to hold the door for me"

    It just doesn't make sense.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    What kinda shrooms are you on right now?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    By all means, tell me how I'm wrong. I'd love to know

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    It's kinda like words have vastly different meanings depending on the context.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Yes. That's kinda my point. And in the context of human kind. We refer to it as "my kind of people" in writing.

    It shows that people don't read books anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    used in writing to represent an informal way of saying "kind of"

    Both ways are acceptable in writing depending on context. If you read books as much as you claim you'd realize there isn't a universal set of rules all authors need to follow.

    (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/kinda)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Please... Read the examples they give you in your link. It's very obvious which "kind of" they refer to.

    The sequence of words are the same but the meaning is not.

    When you say "my kind of people" you are talking about your kin.

    Look, you are free to write however you want. I really don't care. I just find it sad that people don't know how or which words to use.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    kinda is just another way to say "kind of"

    "How kind (nice) of you" and "My kind (sort) of people" are both appropriate uses of "kinda". I hear it used more for the latter than the former, to be honest.

    Also, it's casual language anyways, so why even try to bring grammar into it, much less while being so confidently wrong?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I see, so when you're complimenting people you say "that's kinda you"?

    Or would you say "that's kind of you"?

    Feel free to say it out loud and let me know

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "Mighty kinda ya" would not be out of place where I live, no. A dated expression as a whole, maybe, but spoken with a casual flow, that's how it comes out.

    I suppose one could also write it as "kind o' ya" but "kind o'" is what is being truncated into "kinda"

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    What we say and how it's written are two very different things.

    In Swedish we have plenty of words that are pronounced identically, but they are spelled differently.

    English is not much different. Take "you're" and "your". The pronounciations are almost identical, and in many dialects they are identical.

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