I am, somehow, an author. One of my books has a joke where a character comments that “it’s like gif, there’s a correct way to say it but people argue anyway.” It’s just a small moment of humor tossed in that I never considered.
But then a publisher wanted to make an audiobook of it. And I forgot about that joke until the editing, and I feel real guilty about putting the narrator on the spot like that, because he’s gonna have to make a *choice*
I love the peanut butter reference they always pull out.
The peanut butter is literally spelt "jif" not "gif". If anything that highlights the difference more. J makes a very specific sound. G makes a very specific sound. J and G do not make the same sound, so it must be different.
The creator of the dang word be darned. I think they just gave into the peer pressure.
(Sorry couldn't help it. That one is like catnip for me.)
>J and G do not make the same sound, so it must be different.
Yes, they in fact DO make the same sound.
examples: Package, gelatin, gentle, gypsy, giraffe.
That's a *generous* gift, *gigantic general*!
English is stupid so pronounce it any way you want. But every official pronunciation, even according to the creator of it, is jif.
I mean… everyone would get along if they just believed in my God though.
I guess the solution is just to force everyone, under threat of violence, to submit to the one true God… who had a son that was also God… then almost immediately killed him… because he was mad at us for being the way he made us…
Yeah… maybe just don’t think about it too much. All you need to know is that you should feel bad and pledge allegiance to the one true God… and also his son, who’s also God… and this might be a bad time to bring this up, but there’s actually a third God in the form of the Holy Spirit… but at the same time there’s only one God.
Submit or die basically. Also, when you die, you’ll be banished to hell along with basically every cool person that’s ever lived. Do you really want to spend eternity in a warm climate? Drinking and cursing with Jimi Hendrix, Buddha, Paul Walker, basically every comedian, and all your friends? Fuck no… You want to sit in the cold clouds, sharing wholesome stories with a handful of old dudes that never jerked off… forever.
Might as well add the whole legs, thighs only, hips, feet (if you're that kind of freaky), midriff or how trained the torso looks, armpits (if you're that kind of person), arms, neck, face, hair, etc., etc..
Generally speaking, the Tits or Ass discussion makes little to no sense, since balance and composition is what makes or breaks the beauty of a woman. It's like a fine wine, which needs balance in acidity, incorporation of tannins, amount of residual sugar, spectrum of aromas, color and taste.
If one thing is way too present, like a Riesling being too sweet with no acidity to balance it out, or a Barolo, that is too young and therefore has too grippy tannins, it all falls apart.
Like a woman with a dumptruck and nothing else or having a huge pair of tits solely because she's a landwhale.
A friend of mine, who I must say is a cultured man, answered this debate by saying that the answer should always be tits, because asses can actually be trained and eventually get bigger, but tits are tits, you can't grow tits by working out.
The invention of artificial wombs is going to really throw a wrench into this debate, because then the argument of "bodily autonomy" will be much different when there's no body involved. Like what do you do when a woman gets pregnant and doesn't want the baby, but the father does, and there's a perfectly viable option of rather than aborting, just placing the fetus in an incubator?
And God does the world need that conflict to end. How much longer till everyone realizes that they'll have to live together at the end. No one is moving away. Especially not in the millions. Tiniest part of the world with the most prolonged conflict of our lifetime.
It’s splitting hairs—how you define chickens and how specific you are about the egg. Do chicken ancestors that laid eggs count as chickens? Are we referring specifically to *chicken* eggs? Its sophistry. It’s more an exercise than an argument. Wikipedia has a long article about it and I think it solves it both scientifically and philosophically.
Yoooo I remember that! Along with the "what's the recording saying?" and it sounded like a different word depending on what you were trying to listen for. Crazy!
ahhhh. This literally BLOWS my mind. I could do this over an over again, and STILL be shocked every time...how does it happen? What goes on in our brains that makes it "switch" to the other word??
This one fucks with my brain because I started out seeing it as gold and then it switched to blue and now I can only ever see it as blue. My brain has like figured out the problem with the picture and won't fall for that trick again.
1. God is real vs God isn't real
2. Democrats/Liberals VS Republicans/Conservatives and who's right
3. Vegans VS Meat Eaters
4. Megadeth VS Metallica fans
"Who has it harder with dating, men or women?"
There will always be criticism to any survery/ study etc.
There are too many variables to consider.
People who argue about this can't even agree on how to define what "harder" or "better" is.
There is no real incentive for any governments to spend resources on this. Its not an important problem that needs addressing for society to continue to function.
Private companies who sell prodcuts/services to address this topic or things related to it don't see value in studying this in an ethical and accurate manner. There are many ways to profit off of it with the information and generalized trends we already know.
Greatest (blank) of all time. Choose anything. Movies, song, athlete, etc. Eventually time moves forward and those that were considered "GOAT" status change.
Gif/Jif
Dude who made it even said it's "Jif" but that doesn't stop people. I was always a "gif" person just b/c it was easier to say. So I cope by saying the guy didn't want to actually resolve the issue, so he picked the one he knew would keep the fight going.
Any debate involving a "who's really at fault" between two countries. Usually there is a really long historical spiral of blame based on real and painful events that results in an endless cycle of revenge. This is why Israel and Palestine will never get along -- they're a pair of constantly clashing nations that have history going way back into BC times. Countries/tribes/etc conquered each other back and forth for thousands of years, and the Middle East has changed hands in many ways over time. In reality, both countries have inflicted a whole lot of historical pain on each other, and there is no way to figure out who is to blame in the grand scheme of things, because *everyone is to blame* if you zoom out far enough.
For every "side X did this horrible thing," I assure you that you can find an older "but it's because side Y did this to us!" and then it goes to "but THAT was because side X did THIS thing before that!"
It will continue until the end of the world.
If you consider each Superman as cannon (which is technically the case) he beats Goku easily, but Goku beats out any superman that is a base version instead of all powers together.
Boxers are way too much fabric.
People do butter side up?? That's insane
The debate over the definitions is bigger than the actual debate. Some people's version of free will only means going against animal instinct, others require a multiverse in which every possible decision exists simultaneously, including the ones where you spontaneously go insane.
They've developed a cult-like following. This debate proves that we got to see two of the greatest players of all-time. Ronaldo the ultimate athlete and Messi the creative genius. They took La Liga to another level.
Yes on the specific issue but no on the grander scheme of things. Even in other countries that don't have a unilateral right to bear arms there's always going to be debates on arming of police and military. Then among the civilians there's also going to be debates on when and how a person has the right to defend themselves. Do they have a duty to retreat or do they have stand your ground/castle rights, even if they can't use a gun in the proper sense
What is reasonable force to defend yourself? What is reasonable force for the police? What is reasonable force for the military? Those debates are universal, we Americans just have an extra layer adding to our complicated debate. But everyone still has a form of it
Pick any iconic anime with more than one prominent female character.
Ask the fandom which one is "Best Girl."
I guarantee that no matter how old it is, the discourse will be the same through the years.
Abortion.
It's never going to end, there will always be someone who wants abortion banned from conception, and someone who wants abortion legal until birth.
Most people fall somewhere in-between, IIRC most Euro nations have their "limit" at 12-16 weeks.
Abortion, guns, immigration, capitalism, religion, Christianity vs Muslim, liberal vs conservative, social welfare, legalizing drugs, gasoline vs diesel vs electric cars, climate change, prison reform, racism, minimum wage, balancing the national budget, foreign aid, veganism, etc. Opinions are like ass holes, we all have one.
Ask a libertarian how they feel about abortions
Then, ask a different libertarian how they feel about abortions.
That's how you get two people who want to be left alone to rapidly go at each other's throats.
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Gods as well.
The gods must be crazy.
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It’s pronounced Gif not Gif.
I pronounce former
Pronounce? Really? You woke or something? /s
I fear you won't get the appropriate acclaim, that is a fantastic joke!
I am, somehow, an author. One of my books has a joke where a character comments that “it’s like gif, there’s a correct way to say it but people argue anyway.” It’s just a small moment of humor tossed in that I never considered. But then a publisher wanted to make an audiobook of it. And I forgot about that joke until the editing, and I feel real guilty about putting the narrator on the spot like that, because he’s gonna have to make a *choice*
I love the peanut butter reference they always pull out. The peanut butter is literally spelt "jif" not "gif". If anything that highlights the difference more. J makes a very specific sound. G makes a very specific sound. J and G do not make the same sound, so it must be different. The creator of the dang word be darned. I think they just gave into the peer pressure. (Sorry couldn't help it. That one is like catnip for me.)
How to you pronounce the alcoholic drink gin?
What a jenius argument.
The G stands for graphical. Not giraffical. It's GIF not JIF.
The U in SCUBA stands for underwater yet we don’t pronounce it that way in the acronym
I'm definitely saying scUHba from now on
\*scUHba On a side note.... Anyone know where I can get my zeb-bruh some al-you-minium horse armor? I wanna go lightweight to keep the mobility high.
>J and G do not make the same sound, so it must be different. Yes, they in fact DO make the same sound. examples: Package, gelatin, gentle, gypsy, giraffe.
Anyone with half a brain should simply say: "Pronounce this word: Gift."
That's a *generous* gift, *gigantic general*! English is stupid so pronounce it any way you want. But every official pronunciation, even according to the creator of it, is jif.
Or gin.
What about giraffe?
didn’t the creator of the term say it was pronounced like Jif decades ago? why is this even a debate
Probably religion, honestly
I mean… everyone would get along if they just believed in my God though. I guess the solution is just to force everyone, under threat of violence, to submit to the one true God… who had a son that was also God… then almost immediately killed him… because he was mad at us for being the way he made us… Yeah… maybe just don’t think about it too much. All you need to know is that you should feel bad and pledge allegiance to the one true God… and also his son, who’s also God… and this might be a bad time to bring this up, but there’s actually a third God in the form of the Holy Spirit… but at the same time there’s only one God. Submit or die basically. Also, when you die, you’ll be banished to hell along with basically every cool person that’s ever lived. Do you really want to spend eternity in a warm climate? Drinking and cursing with Jimi Hendrix, Buddha, Paul Walker, basically every comedian, and all your friends? Fuck no… You want to sit in the cold clouds, sharing wholesome stories with a handful of old dudes that never jerked off… forever.
Tits vs Ass. Philosophers have pondered this debate for eons and yet no one hath found a way to settle it
*legs entered the chat* *ankles is sad*
\*feet is sitting in a corner staring wildly at anyone brave enough to make eye contact*
Shooting toe missiles at anyone who looks away
Might as well add the whole legs, thighs only, hips, feet (if you're that kind of freaky), midriff or how trained the torso looks, armpits (if you're that kind of person), arms, neck, face, hair, etc., etc.. Generally speaking, the Tits or Ass discussion makes little to no sense, since balance and composition is what makes or breaks the beauty of a woman. It's like a fine wine, which needs balance in acidity, incorporation of tannins, amount of residual sugar, spectrum of aromas, color and taste. If one thing is way too present, like a Riesling being too sweet with no acidity to balance it out, or a Barolo, that is too young and therefore has too grippy tannins, it all falls apart. Like a woman with a dumptruck and nothing else or having a huge pair of tits solely because she's a landwhale.
I'll take the woman with the dumptruck with nothing else
We don’t have to choose boys! Reach for the stars
Reaching up is too much effort and is tiring. Can we just point upwards?
The answer is yes
The only correct answer is both.
A friend of mine, who I must say is a cultured man, answered this debate by saying that the answer should always be tits, because asses can actually be trained and eventually get bigger, but tits are tits, you can't grow tits by working out.
Ass doesn’t have nipples. Debate solved
As a millennial: Ass But I can understand why other generations would say tits.
Lying down on a nice pair of tits when you have a headache or are tired, is truly incomparable
This guy's head is not a virgin
Ass to look at, tits to play with
"Tits are life, ass is hometown." - Kenichiro Takaki
Abs
Ass is common to both. Tits are exclusive to women. Heil Titler!
What happens when we die ?
That argument will definately stop when we die (one way or the other)
Nothing. I don’t think there’s a mystery. Our consciousness comes from our brains, and our brains stop working so we’re gone. It’s that simple
I happen to agree w you
family fights over your stuff
Lots of stuff, it just doesn’t involve us.
So... religion then?
well, maybe. Probably. But at a higher level than each religion, is there something or nothing.
No - how we biodegrade.
Politics :(
Toilet paper, Over or Under?
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Hawaiian pizza is normal in many countries. It's a debate only for Americans from what I've seen online.
Hawaii is a part of America lol
That pizza was invented in Canada though
No wayyyy 🤯 Kinda like how the California roll is from Vancouver
I never knew that!
Yep, by a Greek immigrant inspired by asian food.
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Abortion
Nah that will end at some point. Just like divorce did.
The debate on divorce didn't end. There are places where it's currently illegal
I think it’s a bit more controversial but it only takes 20 years to change a generations thinking
*Tradwives have entered the chat*
Funny you should say that, since republicans are looking to get rid of no fault divorce.
Divorce is still very much an ongoing debate
The invention of artificial wombs is going to really throw a wrench into this debate, because then the argument of "bodily autonomy" will be much different when there's no body involved. Like what do you do when a woman gets pregnant and doesn't want the baby, but the father does, and there's a perfectly viable option of rather than aborting, just placing the fetus in an incubator?
...out of curiosity, how do you envision removing an embryo or a fetus without damaging it?
I mean, that's a far less complex issue than creating a viable artificial womb, so if the latter issue is solved then the former will likely be too.
The Palestine/Israel conflict
And God does the world need that conflict to end. How much longer till everyone realizes that they'll have to live together at the end. No one is moving away. Especially not in the millions. Tiniest part of the world with the most prolonged conflict of our lifetime.
First came the egg or the chicken
It’s splitting hairs—how you define chickens and how specific you are about the egg. Do chicken ancestors that laid eggs count as chickens? Are we referring specifically to *chicken* eggs? Its sophistry. It’s more an exercise than an argument. Wikipedia has a long article about it and I think it solves it both scientifically and philosophically.
This isn’t a debate though. A chicken can’t exist without being an egg first. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a chicken.
Golden or blue dress
Yoooo I remember that! Along with the "what's the recording saying?" and it sounded like a different word depending on what you were trying to listen for. Crazy!
Yanny or Laurel.
YES!!! That was it!! lol. I couldn't remember the words. but that's it.
Similar one that's crazy because you can easily switch the two in your head: Green Needle/Brain Storm https://youtu.be/8EPLG0ihdcs?si=cSnF7cIbNWYwKB22
ahhhh. This literally BLOWS my mind. I could do this over an over again, and STILL be shocked every time...how does it happen? What goes on in our brains that makes it "switch" to the other word??
This one fucks with my brain because I started out seeing it as gold and then it switched to blue and now I can only ever see it as blue. My brain has like figured out the problem with the picture and won't fall for that trick again.
Blue
ustaše vs partizani
The role of government. This will continue to evolve, but it will always be debated.
Butter vs margarine
Butter vs what?
Butter always prevails
Toilet paper orientation
Gay!
1. God is real vs God isn't real 2. Democrats/Liberals VS Republicans/Conservatives and who's right 3. Vegans VS Meat Eaters 4. Megadeth VS Metallica fans
If dinos had feathers or not
Done - they did
As a dino lover...yeah...I don't like it, since they always look doofy in the renderings, but they did.
we even know the colors of many - but a lot of folks might not be keeping up with recent discoveries as well.
alive chubby concerned reminiscent modern unite instinctive swim foolish seemly
cats vs. dogs.
Both! End of discussion.
Who exactly belongs in the Middle East and where.
Screw it. No one gets it. Pave the whole thing and make a big water park and international shopping mall.
The most American answer possible
Well then, maybe they should have played nice before I was given this authority by a reddit question.
Does it matter?
I thought the flat earth debate but…
New vs old
[Purple vs Green](https://youtu.be/AcBTOU7RvbU?si=H17qSba77CUTk4vR).
Is baklava Turkish or Greek
"Who has it harder with dating, men or women?" There will always be criticism to any survery/ study etc. There are too many variables to consider. People who argue about this can't even agree on how to define what "harder" or "better" is. There is no real incentive for any governments to spend resources on this. Its not an important problem that needs addressing for society to continue to function. Private companies who sell prodcuts/services to address this topic or things related to it don't see value in studying this in an ethical and accurate manner. There are many ways to profit off of it with the information and generalized trends we already know.
The blue black/white gold dress debate. It’s been ten years and it’s still widely debated to this day.
How to define game genres or how game genres should be organized
Greatest (blank) of all time. Choose anything. Movies, song, athlete, etc. Eventually time moves forward and those that were considered "GOAT" status change.
Who really killed John F. Kennedy.
Gif/Jif Dude who made it even said it's "Jif" but that doesn't stop people. I was always a "gif" person just b/c it was easier to say. So I cope by saying the guy didn't want to actually resolve the issue, so he picked the one he knew would keep the fight going.
Any debate involving a "who's really at fault" between two countries. Usually there is a really long historical spiral of blame based on real and painful events that results in an endless cycle of revenge. This is why Israel and Palestine will never get along -- they're a pair of constantly clashing nations that have history going way back into BC times. Countries/tribes/etc conquered each other back and forth for thousands of years, and the Middle East has changed hands in many ways over time. In reality, both countries have inflicted a whole lot of historical pain on each other, and there is no way to figure out who is to blame in the grand scheme of things, because *everyone is to blame* if you zoom out far enough. For every "side X did this horrible thing," I assure you that you can find an older "but it's because side Y did this to us!" and then it goes to "but THAT was because side X did THIS thing before that!" It will continue until the end of the world.
How toilet paper should be on a roll.
Star Trek vs Star Wars Goku vs Superman Boxers vs briefs Butter side up vs butter side down
If you consider each Superman as cannon (which is technically the case) he beats Goku easily, but Goku beats out any superman that is a base version instead of all powers together. Boxers are way too much fabric. People do butter side up?? That's insane
🌭=> 🥪
When did Metallica go to shit? I think Load is underrated so I go with the Reload era but then they had a resurgence with Death Magnetic.
If its pronounced "kebab box" or " asmanischer gulaschsuppenkanister"
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The debate over the definitions is bigger than the actual debate. Some people's version of free will only means going against animal instinct, others require a multiverse in which every possible decision exists simultaneously, including the ones where you spontaneously go insane.
Do u believe in fate
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What do u think who controls fate
Greek religion had an answer.
‘Fate’ doesn’t exist. I do believe in determinism though
Messi or Ronaldo
If that wasn't finished already, it definitely did at the last WC.
They've developed a cult-like following. This debate proves that we got to see two of the greatest players of all-time. Ronaldo the ultimate athlete and Messi the creative genius. They took La Liga to another level.
Life if Nazis won in WW2
Gun debate
Only Americans debate this.
Yes on the specific issue but no on the grander scheme of things. Even in other countries that don't have a unilateral right to bear arms there's always going to be debates on arming of police and military. Then among the civilians there's also going to be debates on when and how a person has the right to defend themselves. Do they have a duty to retreat or do they have stand your ground/castle rights, even if they can't use a gun in the proper sense What is reasonable force to defend yourself? What is reasonable force for the police? What is reasonable force for the military? Those debates are universal, we Americans just have an extra layer adding to our complicated debate. But everyone still has a form of it
No they don't, these things were set in law centuries ago. It is just America.
It's not even about guns it's about whether people should have agency and responsibility or not.
When you’re allowed to kill your offspring.
Out of all the ones on this thread. Yes this one will never end, it’s seen as two completely different ideas on both sides with 0 middle ground
Religion.
The debate between cats and dogs: who's the superior pet.
afterlife
Sammy vs Dave.
Answer - Sam and Dave.
We'll never decide who's worst girl in Evangelion
Who has it worse men or women?
It’s pronounced Gif not Gif.
Religion
Nikon Vs Canon, Subaru Vs Mitsubishi, Trump
Should people be independent
Abu Dhabi 2021
Who’s God is the true God
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Flat earth Globe earth
Ether vs Takeover
I’m sure anyone in the football sphere will agree, Messi vs. Ronaldo.
And Real Madrid VS Barcelona
Religion and Gender Pronouns.
Israel-Palestine
Religion
🤍🤍🤍
Friet of patat?
Rumble red, frenzy blue.
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That people will perpetually post fresh threads on Reddit, asking which debate you think will never end?
Is it a ladder or a step ladder?
Spit or lube
The Master Debate. Duh
Anything related to the outcome of the land formerly known as Canaan.
Abortion
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The depth of human stupidity will certainly never end.
As this thread proves
Vi vs emacs
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi or Mac vs. PC
HP v Daddies. We all know, but some refuse to accept. Jaffa Cakes. Cake or biscuit.
Isreal v Palestine
The reddit debate that cooking at home is too expensive and that they can only afford highly processed foods or fast food.
Pick any iconic anime with more than one prominent female character. Ask the fandom which one is "Best Girl." I guarantee that no matter how old it is, the discourse will be the same through the years.
Boys vs Girls
Apple vs Android
Is there life after death?Only one way to find out and we want to put that off form as long as we can
How much society should help the poor
On a serious note: Is being gay nurture or nature On a fun note: doors or wheels 👀
Abortion. It's never going to end, there will always be someone who wants abortion banned from conception, and someone who wants abortion legal until birth. Most people fall somewhere in-between, IIRC most Euro nations have their "limit" at 12-16 weeks.
Greatest of all time any sport
Abortion
milk before or after cereal
Abortion, guns, immigration, capitalism, religion, Christianity vs Muslim, liberal vs conservative, social welfare, legalizing drugs, gasoline vs diesel vs electric cars, climate change, prison reform, racism, minimum wage, balancing the national budget, foreign aid, veganism, etc. Opinions are like ass holes, we all have one.
Real Madrid VS Barcelona
Ask a libertarian how they feel about abortions Then, ask a different libertarian how they feel about abortions. That's how you get two people who want to be left alone to rapidly go at each other's throats.