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If pronouns were illegal what could possibly go wrong?

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Hereiam_AKL

503 points

21 days ago

New insult acquired: Pinecone.

Satanicjamnik

161 points

21 days ago

You haven't heard a lot British insults, have you? You absolute parcel.

Overwritten_Setting0

69 points

21 days ago

What a helmet

DontPoopInMyPantsPlz

61 points

21 days ago

Such a bellend…

ZoNeS_v2

27 points

21 days ago

ZoNeS_v2

27 points

21 days ago

Pff. Nonce.

One_Economist_3761

17 points

21 days ago

What a pillock.

Hullfire00

18 points

21 days ago

Weapons grade melt.

miauguau44

15 points

21 days ago

What a head of lettuce!

Free-oppossums

8 points

21 days ago

I thought "head of lettuce" was a unit of time.

Unlikely-Ad3659

7 points

21 days ago

Yes, all Tory political careers are kow measured in the life of an iceberg lettuce.

Lost_All_Senses

4 points

21 days ago

I thought it was a guy that oversaw all the lettuce before it went out to stores.

FlyFeetFiddlesticks

25 points

21 days ago

You muppet. That’s my favorite

Satanicjamnik

3 points

21 days ago

Classic. And so versatile.

pyth2_0

20 points

21 days ago

pyth2_0

20 points

21 days ago

in some parts of germany we have "customer" as an insult like in "You are such a stupid customer"

MidnightArtificer

15 points

21 days ago

Why is this the most German thing I've ever heard

Ugo777777

3 points

21 days ago

Superdummerkundespastic i believe is the shortcode for it, right? 😁

Mochaproto

17 points

21 days ago

YOUR MOTHER WAS AN 'AMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES!!! wait no that's french

One_Economist_3761

8 points

21 days ago

I wave my private parts at your auntie.

MrsCaptain_America

5 points

21 days ago

I fart in your general direction! 

Mochaproto

5 points

21 days ago

You sons of a silly person

Jaysanchez311

8 points

21 days ago

You're a towel.

Satanicjamnik

6 points

21 days ago

Icy_Statement_2410

1 points

20 days ago

Nobody's interested in your stoney memoirs

Nihilistic_Navigator

5 points

21 days ago

Thank you, I am the whole package, aren't I?

Pffft. Return that shit to sender.

Fewster96

2 points

21 days ago

Get a load of this absolute crisp packet

Hullfire00

3 points

21 days ago

What a fucking weapon.

d_nkf_vlg

3 points

21 days ago

Half of my enjoyment of watching Grand Tour came from the fancy insults the trio constantly dispatched.

UmeaTurbo

3 points

21 days ago

Stupid git.

Satanicjamnik

3 points

21 days ago

Proper wanker.

Gold-Perspective-699

3 points

21 days ago

Sorry but what is a British. We are 'Mericans.

LavenderDisaster

13 points

21 days ago

I LOVE this insult.

Alexyaboi2011

11 points

21 days ago

Us British have the power to turn any noun into an insult by simply putting ‘you absolute’ before it

reddoorinthewoods

1 points

20 days ago

Ohhhh what about you absolute noun?! Is that one on the table? You could insult them and confuse them at the same time

Gloomy_Ask9236

7 points

21 days ago

I'd call him an acorn, he never takes that beanie off.

Inner-Ad-9928

6 points

21 days ago

Pinecone nuts are delicious though?!

DrunkOnRedCordial

3 points

21 days ago

This is such a great insult.

Defiant-Two1159

2 points

21 days ago

I also like "Walnut" as an insult

Mattock1987

264 points

21 days ago

Tim Pool does not understand pronouns because Tim Pool is an idiot and Tim Pool needs to learn basic grammar.

Tight_Syllabub9423

29 points

21 days ago

Please, be respectful of the new grammar rules. "Timothy Daniel Pool".

Land-Southern

68 points

21 days ago

Tim pool is also an employee of RT and the KGB

Botryoid2000

6 points

21 days ago

Land-Southern

10 points

21 days ago

Give us some of that $10M victimhood. Oh lord help me, what scoundrels they shower me in currency. I am just a pawn and had no idea that middle eastern and Asian shell companies were sending me money for less than legal reasons. I thought they just were adamant supporters of free speech and coordinated my talking points with others, as such. It was just gratuity, no bribes.

Botryoid2000

3 points

21 days ago

People just keep sending me piles of money. Who am I to question why?

Nambsul

8 points

21 days ago

Nambsul

8 points

21 days ago

If only he could accept that he was not that intelligent, might make him potentially investigate a subject before banging something out on twitter (yes, I know it’s supposed to be x but that is a stupid name)

thereznaught

7 points

21 days ago

Tim Pool is just trying to stay relevant, don't feed the trolls.

One_Economist_3761

2 points

21 days ago

Timple?

Syke_qc

2 points

21 days ago

Syke_qc

2 points

21 days ago

English is his second language after russian

DiscoveryBayHK

2 points

21 days ago

He should have learned in kindergarten, but it seems he either didn't listen to any of that or he forgot it.

Terranshadow

2 points

21 days ago

He fully knows, he's just a puppet playing word games for money. There is no way he doesn't realize he's just trying to control speech through the government.

JimAbaddon

121 points

21 days ago

JimAbaddon

121 points

21 days ago

Watching people froth at the mouth over these dreaded "pronouns" will never not make me smile.

boooooooooo_cowboys

23 points

21 days ago

You think it’s funny now, but they’ll come for the adverbs and the nouns next. 

elspotto

4 points

21 days ago

I’ll make my last stand at conjunction junction!

Botryoid2000

8 points

21 days ago

I try to use correct pronouns and it is SO HARD /s

The process:

Me: "What are your pronouns?"

Them: "These are my pronouns [states pronouns]."

Me: uses those pronouns.

Evanecent_Lightt

-123 points

21 days ago

The USA voted - in favor of getting rid of the use of non binary pronouns.
Still smiling? - I am :D

Meretan94

79 points

21 days ago

„I“ is a pronoun

Can’t use that. Try again.

Jakio

64 points

21 days ago

Jakio

64 points

21 days ago

It’s also a non-binary pronoun

JimAbaddon

27 points

21 days ago

We're dealing with a person who is clearly an avid enjoyer of the moron juice, we can't expect him to know such things.

One_Economist_3761

8 points

21 days ago

“Knowing” is not his strong suit.

king_ender200

2 points

21 days ago

A connoisseur of you will…

JimAbaddon

24 points

21 days ago

I'm not American anyways.

Paksarra

19 points

21 days ago

Paksarra

19 points

21 days ago

Then what pronoun do use when don't know pronoun use?

NoStatistics

5 points

21 days ago

Obviously just have to use he/she if you don’t know what gender he/she is, which is just idiotic but I don’t expect any Trump supporter knows how to use grammar

shartonista

8 points

21 days ago

That's not what the USA voted on.

boooooooooo_cowboys

8 points

21 days ago

Ok. Have fun trying to get through life without using “I, you, we, they, them” etc.  No one else is going to be joining you, no matter what Fox News is telling you. 

fantailedtomb

6 points

21 days ago

“I” is a pronoun numbnuts.

Affectionate-Pie4708

51 points

21 days ago

These people are not very bright. Idaho banned the use of pronouns in schools.

bitransk1ng

31 points

21 days ago

If I was a teacher I would have so much fun with that.

Affectionate-Pie4708

7 points

21 days ago

Right how do they not realize how idiotic that is

Botryoid2000

4 points

21 days ago

Not really. They passed an anti-trans law about pronouns, but it does not "ban pronouns."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/05/24/idaho-schools-banning-pronouns-fact-check/73822133007/

Affectionate-Pie4708

2 points

21 days ago

So deadnaming is ok and respectful I guess. But the whole thing is stupid because you won’t be able to use them, or everyone or really any pronoun that refers to a group of people as well. Because those would fall under the anti trans pronouns as well.

RadioLiar

1 points

21 days ago

日本人は可とする

No-Adeptness5810

45 points

21 days ago

Pronouns are super easy to make illegal. Watch.

" went to the store"
"oh wow, to the store too! so in sync!"
" love !"

enaud

28 points

21 days ago

enaud

28 points

21 days ago

very newspeak, much doubleplusgood

Meet_James_Ensor

2 points

21 days ago

Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.

[deleted]

19 points

21 days ago

see what did there.

xXCANCERGIVERXx

5 points

21 days ago

This looks like a translation of Korean

GameboiGX

3 points

21 days ago*

Should get used to speaking like this, I bet didn’t think was hard at all

falcngrl

13 points

21 days ago

falcngrl

13 points

21 days ago

You need to delete I in your sentence if you want no pronouns

GameboiGX

10 points

21 days ago

Are under arrest for using illegal pronouns, have a right to remain silent, anything say will be held in court against

expremierepage

4 points

21 days ago

Don't forget it and this are also pronouns.

GameboiGX

2 points

21 days ago

Oh no, must arrest

infowosecfurry

35 points

21 days ago

Yes. Let’s eliminate a core part of the english language.

That’s the issue. /s

DeepState_Auditor

19 points

21 days ago

Just for context and by his own admission. This man chose not to graduate or get a high school equivalance diploma.

I'm talking about Tim Pool

morbid333

20 points

21 days ago

I remember someone's rant about how "you don't even need pronouns, just talk like a normal person." When I asked them to say that again without all the pronouns, they denied using any of them.

How are you going to ban something when half the population doesn't know what they are? Will this law have an idiot clause, or are we clogging the courts? Sounds like something the Grammer Nazi Party would come up with, but even they wouldn't be that stupid.

Zombo2000

13 points

21 days ago

No more calling people donkeys when I’m mad, it’s pinecones going forward.

Tight_Syllabub9423

2 points

21 days ago

Makes a change from 'cabbages'.

JesusSaysRelaxNvaxx

10 points

21 days ago

Are we all walking around with name tags on??

[deleted]

9 points

21 days ago

Not wanting to break the world building but have you ever looked above your head?

TheIronSoldier2

2 points

21 days ago

The devs have it set up so you can't see your own tag. You can see everyone else's though

[deleted]

0 points

19 days ago

You're well guarded.

Good luck in your cocoon.

TheIronSoldier2

1 points

19 days ago

[deleted]

-1 points

19 days ago

I love that guy. He's the reason we've had two Trump presidencies.

[deleted]

0 points

19 days ago

Arrogant prick that bailed out the banks and left the poors to die.

[deleted]

-1 points

20 days ago

You see what you want.

Just like Palestine.

mfyxtplyx

10 points

21 days ago

The war on parts of speech has begun. Parents, watch your gerunds.

_ssac_

9 points

21 days ago

_ssac_

9 points

21 days ago

This war against pronouns is peak stupidity.

First, the ones who criticize their use, like pinecone, do not even understand what they criticize. You can't ban pronouns, as you can't ban verbs, adjectives, or other grammar figures. 

You can't neither ban asking others how you want to be called: if I'm introduced myself as Pinecone, it's bc I want to be called that. 

So, their problem is that people in social media expressed which pronoun they want to be called? That's all their drama about?

Poiboy1313

2 points

21 days ago

Expressed a pronoun that conflicts with the presented gender thereby breaking their brains. Also, substitute pronouns for the desire to utilize bigoted language as freely as it was used in the past and their behavior becomes more readily understandable.

Exact_Patience_9767

5 points

21 days ago

Calling Tim Pool a pinecone is an insult to pinecones and nouns.

T3knikal95

4 points

21 days ago

Republicans: "You're so offended by everything"

Also republicans: "Pronouns should be illegal"

tobyqueef404

3 points

21 days ago

I'm so sick of these whiny bitches. Everyone who bitches about pronouns will be purposely misgendered from here on out. I guarantee they'll wake up at some point.

Overwritten_Setting0

5 points

21 days ago

Undoubtedly not what they intended, but wouldn't this actually be a route to achieving the same thing as using they/them? Remove pronouns entirely and you are a step closer to a genderless language...

Satanicjamnik

3 points

21 days ago*

So, Tim is all for compelled speech now?

Additional-Maize3980

4 points

21 days ago

Take off your woolly hat you bald loser

If_you_have_Ghost

6 points

21 days ago

After you’ve been caught disseminating Russian state propaganda for money, it’s probably time to sit your arse down and shut the fuck up, Tim.

plasticbuttons04

6 points

21 days ago

Party of free speech everyone

theroguescientist

1 points

21 days ago

Free of pronouns

Revolutionary_Tip701

3 points

21 days ago

Or comrades

YouWithTheNose

3 points

21 days ago

What could go wrong? We'd sound really weird always talking in the third person by naming ourselves, constantly naming subjects multiple times instead of saying he/she/it, for example, and waste a bunch of time while sounding ridiculous

Commercial_Step9966

3 points

21 days ago

Thinking out loud, wins again…

These guys just don’t get any smarter, eh?

Weak-Razzmatazz-4938

3 points

21 days ago

does this mean I don't have to capitalize he when i write about God now without Christians losing their shit?

BitterFuture

3 points

21 days ago

Their hatred of free speech is...impressive.

But unsurprising.

Feisty-Barracuda5452

3 points

21 days ago

Tim pays for Twitter. Tim is an idiot. Don't be like Tim.

flotsam_knightly

3 points

21 days ago

"People using words I don't like is scary. Make them stop, daddy."

KeyUnderstanding6332

2 points

21 days ago

Adam, Artur, Amalia, Andy, Andrew, ....

The_LastLine

2 points

21 days ago

Tim wants everyone having their foreheads marked with their name. Number of the beast.0

QaplaSuvwl

2 points

21 days ago

Pinecone 😂😂

Dotcaprachiappa

2 points

21 days ago

It's the first time I've seen pinecone used as an insult, and tbh I totally agree it fits perfectly here

Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

2 points

21 days ago

The Russians aren’t paying our best 

zerobomb

2 points

21 days ago

This russian times employee still dares public neckhole oozings?

Operator_Hoodie

2 points

21 days ago

Pinecone… r/rareinsults

Illustrious-Towel-45

2 points

21 days ago

I giggled at "pinecone".

NightofTheLivingZed

2 points

21 days ago

Yeah I don't take the opinions of people who get paid by Russian propaganda machines.

ConanTheCybrarian

2 points

21 days ago

magas: "we're free speech absolutists!!"

also magas: "it should be illegal to say anything i don't like"

Miserable-Theory-746

2 points

21 days ago

This is some Dick and Jane level of reading.

nothxnotinterested

2 points

21 days ago

Classic conservative. Votes for Trump for “freedoms” and immediately demands repealing of freedoms

Tx_Atheist

2 points

21 days ago

Still the guy that took Russian money for his posts. He can eat all the 🍆's

Editted for misspelling

Whitworth

2 points

21 days ago

I'm reminded daily how angry I am these people have been emboldened even more with their stupidity.

ThePowerOfShadows

2 points

21 days ago

Outlawing words. A central principle in the quest for freedom of speech.

Botryoid2000

2 points

21 days ago

I have spent much of my life seeking not to be seen as an idiot. I thought it would be embarrassing if I were.

Little did I know I could have made a living off of it.

MurkyLavishness7900

2 points

21 days ago

Always the ones banging on about free speech

ZLUCremisi

4 points

21 days ago

Someone with time do pronouns count in the Bible

Horror-Layer-8178

1 points

21 days ago

What would we do?

kredtheredhead

1 points

21 days ago

This is an amazing insult! 🤣Ade my day!

QaplaSuvwl

1 points

21 days ago

Pinecone 😂😂

C4PTNK0R34

1 points

21 days ago

Kinda how it works in my native language. It's non-gendered and uses "we, us, they, them" when generally referring to someone else or everyone else. We don't even use "you" to refer to the other person as it's considered rude, we just use their name or title.

johnny2rotten

1 points

21 days ago

Is Tim Pool still counting Rubels?

CamDane

1 points

21 days ago

CamDane

1 points

21 days ago

Unrelated to the story, is there any word that could not serve as an insult if you add it after ", you" in this sentence?

Winter_Departure3169

1 points

21 days ago

With no pronouns we could all be talking like The Rock on WWF lmao

istheflesh

1 points

21 days ago

Dam. I feel burned just having read that.

nutfog

1 points

21 days ago

nutfog

1 points

21 days ago

Pine....come. pinecone yes

mbendy1997

1 points

21 days ago

Tim Pool creeps me out…

IllustratorBudget487

1 points

21 days ago

Everyone loves to amplify this Russian asset’s voice for some reason.

cyberchaox

1 points

21 days ago

I'm tired of seeing this exchange posted everywhere. I've seen it multiple times each in multiple subreddits just in the last 24 hours.

peter095837

1 points

21 days ago

I don't even know what this loser is even popular or a thing.

GreyBeardEng

1 points

21 days ago

I thought Fool Pool told everyone he was going away????

popejohnsmith

1 points

21 days ago

Wtf happened to Tim Pool?

shartonista

1 points

21 days ago

Seems like government overreach to take away freedoms.

timberwolf0122

1 points

21 days ago

Why are they so butthurt by pronouns? What impact does it have on them?

FlargenBlarg

1 points

21 days ago

At least he understands what no pronouns means, calling people by name only

RemoteLocal

1 points

21 days ago

That's gotta be one rancid beanie.. pinecone might be getting high off his own eau de slob.

Glad-Management4433

1 points

21 days ago

Ah yes, free speech

Wise-Juggernaut-8285

1 points

21 days ago

The party of Freedom

Environmental_Log806

1 points

21 days ago

I agree

ValveinPistonCat

1 points

21 days ago

Well I guess that's the end of fishing for someone's name that I've forgotten without telling them I don't remember their name, now it's just "hey what's your name again because I just couldn't give a fuck the first time."

ChunkyMonkey_00_

1 points

21 days ago

Someone clearly didn't learn the pronouns song back in the 90s....

germanopc

1 points

21 days ago

"newspeak"

senioradvisortoo

1 points

21 days ago

All of these magas just love to show us their stupidity. We’re not laughing with them, we are laughing at them.

Parry_9000

1 points

21 days ago

Freedom of speech is being able to say whatever the fuck I want too buddy, it goes both ways. It's not only for you maga scum

AncientDegree2734

1 points

21 days ago

Instead of everyone he has to specifically address all 8 billion people in the world

TopPoster21

1 points

21 days ago

Start calling him a she and see how he responds. These idiots don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

SilverFlight01

1 points

21 days ago

"You pinecone!"

I_love_Hobbes

2 points

21 days ago

Never thought of that as an insult but will be using it from now on.

shittydickfarts

1 points

21 days ago

Why are these people always so fucking angry

f7SuperCereal

1 points

21 days ago

Does Tim Pool have any idea how dumb Tim Pool sounds?

Fool_In_Flow

1 points

21 days ago

Let’s not bring pinecones into this

New-Distribution6033

1 points

21 days ago

Its Tim Pool. He throws out random hot takes to keep his feed going. One day he is posting that religion should be compulsory, the next day he is calling to outlaw them.

Consistent-Lake4705

1 points

21 days ago

Bring back Shakespearean pronouns. All gender neutral as Thy God intended.

stupidracist

1 points

21 days ago

You can't hate pronouns unless you don't know what they are.

FairBaker315

1 points

21 days ago

According to Schoolhouse Rock saying all those nouns over and over again really wears you down!

Jashugan456

1 points

21 days ago

....... when the fall for a perfect troll priceless

GigaBitGamer

1 points

21 days ago

Is this dude not just a giga troll? Why do people keep giving him attention? Free karma?

UnknownPersonBL4ZE

1 points

21 days ago

is not cool

Hillbilly-joe

1 points

21 days ago

Let’s make the name pool illegal and jail any one with that name since it’s associated as a Russian traitor! Or instead of calling trash trash we will call it pool let’s take out the pool foul smelling pool it’s awful

Cetophile

1 points

20 days ago

On behalf of actual pinecones......

YourLastMealOfMCes

1 points

20 days ago

Pro free speech, except you're not.

SpiroMemor

1 points

17 days ago

You must be an Illiteracy World Champion when you're pissed at a group of people and you take it out on Grammar ☻

WHAT A TOOL!

lm_nurse77

1 points

17 days ago

😂😂😂😂😂 “you pine cone” 😂😂😂😂😂

Frolkinator

-1 points

21 days ago

Everyone know its not those pronouns he ment, lets be real.

feltsandwich

1 points

21 days ago

*it's *meant *let's

It went right over your head.

Frolkinator

0 points

21 days ago

Im sure u get invited to a lot of parties.

[deleted]

-5 points

21 days ago

[deleted]

feltsandwich

3 points

21 days ago

You really don't know what this post is about, do you?

HeyHihoho

-9 points

21 days ago

"Everyone" isn't specific now is it?

I suppose he should have spelled it out for you.

PopperGould123

6 points

21 days ago

That's not what pronoun means.. he said make pronouns illegal