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[orange, accusing]
Oh yeah, you think shapes exist?
Then name a shape, I bet you can't

[purple, shrugging]
Uh… a circle?

[orange, getting angry]
Yeah okay but I bet you can't name three more

[purple, shrugging harder]
…a square, a triangle, a rhombus?

[orange, so angry their body is turning into spaghetti]
Sure but you can't name two more

[purple, stalwart]
A rectangle and a hexagon?

[orange, bent out of shape]
Okay but let's see you name another one

[purple, calm]
A pentagon
You ok mate?

[orange, grossly deformed by anger]
Nice try but I bet you can't list one more

[purple, worried]
Uh…
Are you ok?

[orange, grinning and pointing proudly at purple]
Heh I knew it look at this loser yall he can't even name a shape

[purple, jaded by the interaction, has no words]

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[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

happy cake day! or is it called something else on the fediverse

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody here knows what they're doing.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

sounds like prime time to set a standard, what should we call it

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Independence day!

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 16 points 14 hours ago

"Gap in knowledge, therefore god."

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 7 points 11 hours ago

Is that you Ben Shapiro?

[–] Janx@piefed.social 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Unapologetically smug political and social satire

I can be a little slow at times, but I knew this wasn't actually about shapes!

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I mean, for now it's not about shapes.

But there are people out there with successful movements that the Earth is flat, and that 2X2=3 and shit like that, it's barely a matter of time before some satire-turned-subculture rises for their 15 minutes of fame for denying shapes exist.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

go to make "bent out of shape joke"

see it is already made in the caption

[–] tyler@programming.dev 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

For some reason Purple only named 2D shapes.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

Cause 3D shapes are called solids

[–] tyler@programming.dev 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

maybe it's because they're 2d themselves!

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Then, dodecagon

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

Moving the goalposts in a nutshell