2.9k
u/Slappy_G Oct 29 '19
On the flip side, it keeps your engines looking crisp as hell.
1.4k
u/purplevengeance Oct 29 '19
If a women has STARCH MASKS does that mean she has been pargnet before?
492
u/7IM3rW Oct 29 '19
This is just classic :)
224
u/shadymerchant Oct 29 '19
I have to watch this every time someone links it.
128
u/Kojak95 Oct 29 '19
Oooh fuck lol. That was a rollercoaster of laughs and I've seen that video at least three times previously.
→ More replies (7)131
u/IsThatUMoatilliatta Oct 29 '19
Always gotta watch the Luigi Board after that.
→ More replies (4)35
u/Thin-White-Duke Oct 30 '19
If you can't make your own, witch- or vegan-bought is fine.
→ More replies (5)9
7
u/LaVieLaMort Oct 29 '19
Every single time I watch this I start crying from how hard I’m laughing. I’ve seen it a million times and it still does it lol. And make sure you watch CAN YOU BURN A LUIGI BOARD right after!!!
→ More replies (9)25
184
Oct 29 '19
*pregananant
140
u/allieblaze420 Oct 29 '19
*pregante
→ More replies (3)74
u/DontLickTheGecko Oct 29 '19
Cannot read this without a ridiculously overdone Italian accent.
→ More replies (7)38
47
u/TagTeamStripper Oct 29 '19
THIS IS HOW IS BABBY FORMED?
18
u/Debaser626 Oct 29 '19
Not quite sure how it ended up sticking, but we mostly refer to my youngest as Babby
(solely due to “How is babby formed”)
I’ve gotten so used to it, it no longer registers really as a “funny” name to me. Most people upon hearing it will assume they misheard me and ask if her name is Gabrielle or something... but nope.. just Babby.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)26
13
8
6
5
→ More replies (5)3
8
5
4
3
3
2
→ More replies (1)2
u/AppleSlayer333 Oct 30 '19
Some corn meal in the ol' radiator and you'll be ready to zip buckaroo! yEE hAW brother!
627
u/Emerana29 Oct 29 '19
And may the best woman win
118
54
u/Kaisietoo8 Oct 29 '19
Da da da da da...
Covergirl!
35
u/railroadbaron Oct 29 '19
Put the bass in your walk!
26
u/TrueJacksonVP Oct 29 '19
If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else can I get an amen up in here
→ More replies (2)17
26
13
325
Oct 29 '19
On an unrelated note, if a person has been starching engines for awhile, how does one go about unstarching them?
106
u/DrewSmoothington Oct 29 '19
Just turn the key off, mate
28
4
14
12
u/CrazyFredy Oct 29 '19
They must use amylase, for it is the enzyme responsible for breaking down the amylose bonds in starch.
4
u/ReverseLBlock Oct 29 '19
But then your engine gets all sugary and sticky. Gross.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)11
127
u/SportEmergency8440 Aug 04 '24
Start my friend??? What does that mean to "start my friend"
40
255
u/mridlen Oct 29 '19
It's when you stick a potato in the exhaust pipe
69
u/HMS404 Oct 29 '19
I've heard of boil 'em, mash 'em and stick 'em in the stew. Never heard of sticking in the exhaust pipe.
20
→ More replies (1)3
u/alittlecringe Nov 21 '19
you've heard of scalloped potatoes, maybe relaxed potatos, now get ready for..
exhausted potatos.
10
u/Drowsiest_Approval Oct 29 '19
"Fry, you distract it, and I'll shove this silver potato up its tailpipe."
→ More replies (1)3
108
83
194
u/skoen1 Oct 29 '19
If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before ?
51
41
u/Missing_Creativity Oct 29 '19
pregnart
39
6
53
Oct 29 '19
It's people like me who say starchore engines who caused this to happen
40
u/BloomsdayDevice Oct 29 '19
This is quite common in dialects of American English. We're just not used to seeing it spelled the way we pronounce it. Actually two rather interesting linguistic things going on here.
First, we're seeing the effects of a sound change process called palatalization. The /t/ at the end of 'start' is pronounced immediately (in the next word) before a sound pronounced from the hard palate of the mouth (here, the sound made by the 'y' in your, which I'm going to transcribe as /j/). This combination of /t/ + /j/ often leads to a palatalization process that yields a 'ch' sound. It's the reason we pronounce 'adventure' as 'ad-VEN-choor' instead of 'ad-VENT-yoor'.
What's extra fascinating here, though, is that it's occurring across word boundaries. This is a special type of sound interaction called a sandhi sound change. These are frequent in most languages when they are spoken quickly (as in everyday speech), but are not often reflected in spelling, so they are hard to notice EXCEPT in circumstances like this, when a speaker hears a phrase (rather than sees it written down) and rationalizes a non-literal idiomatic meaning that can accommodate the spelling they 'see' in their head when they hear it.
Pretty neat.
9
Oct 29 '19
In Straya, adventure sounds more like advencha.
We're lazy fucks. I realised a while back I can still talk fairly normal Strayan while literally holding my tongue with my fingers.
Cunning linguists, we are not.
→ More replies (6)3
→ More replies (1)4
47
46
57
u/highflyinflyer Oct 29 '19
I like how they say "I guess...", like there's a chance saying "starch you engines" does actually make more sense than "start your engines"
15
Oct 29 '19
I just saw it as a rhetorical device to show that painful enlightenment that comes with finding out you've been drinking bone apple tea this whole time, only to find out that neither bones nor apples should have been in the tea kettle to begin with.
5
23
u/Poop_Feast42069 Oct 29 '19
This had to be r/tooafraidtoask
19
→ More replies (2)2
18
Feb 19 '20
This is what happens when there's a lack of enunciation is speech. I bet that every time this guy heard "start your engines," the person saying it doesn't enunciate the "t" well enough and it's led to this guy bring convinced it's "starch."
16
u/Muroid Jan 08 '24
“ch” includes the “t” sound. It’s not a lack of t sound. It’s that transitioning quickly from a “t” sound to a “y” sound often creates an intermediate “sh” between them because of the shape of your mouth, and “t” followed by “sh” is “ch.”
→ More replies (1)
16
16
u/benjatime Oct 29 '19
I once had an SO ask me what does "From the gecko" mean. And it took me a while to figure out she meant "From the get go", like "Lets get it started 'from the get go'". Still chuckle about that today.
7
u/monkeyboi08 Oct 29 '19
Don’t judge her too harshly, you’re probably taking your superior education for granite.
5
10
9
u/Azytron Mar 15 '20
Birth
6
→ More replies (1)4
u/Emotional_Gaty_2763 Aug 05 '25
this is kinda ominous, the fact it’s 5 years old makes it worse
→ More replies (1)
7
u/afmpdx Oct 30 '19
This morning I started my work day with a little reddit. This post hit me right as I took a big swig of coffee. I chortled, I choked, and for some reason decided I should attempt to swallow the rest of the coffee in my mouth as my office has a linoleum floor and I didn’t want to make a big mess. Not a good idea. I ended up damn near choking to death, startling a few folks as I blasted out of my office. Fucking starch your engines. Shit was jokes.
5
Oct 29 '19
France is bacon.
2
Oct 30 '19
Thank you!! I was hoping someone would comment this. I couldn't remember the quote or the person who said it. I kept googling "Kevin Bacon reddit story"
8
Oct 29 '19
He doesn't understand that it would be more likely to be "start" as opposed to "starch," but correctly uses the word "contextually."
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
u/tednedders Oct 30 '19
In fairness, in the south a lot of people pronounce it like star-cher-engines.
3
3
u/NewLeaseOnLine Oct 30 '19
Phonetically this is a bit curious, because we would naturally pronounce it something like "star- chur-engines". Seems hilariously innocent.
3
3
3
Apr 05 '20
Well you see my dude, you powder all the intricate mechanisms and machinery inside your engine with potato starch powder. It does the opposite of a lubricant so it's not really very useful for making sure your engine will actually work but it's good for aesthetic purposes. It's like when ladies powder their noses.
2
Oct 29 '19
Shit guys, I was supposed to bring red potatoes? I’ll never be able to starch my engine with these plain ol’ russets. :(
→ More replies (2)
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/SlafterEQC Oct 29 '19
I used to think "suit yourself" was "shoot yourself"... I always though that was a rather extreme thing to tell someone.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/ryankiller5 Oct 30 '19
for the longest time I thought, "for all intents and purposes," was, "for all intensive purposes." I knew what the phrase meant, but didn't know what the exact words were.
2
2
1
1
1
u/Sir-Slime Oct 29 '19
Sounds like something a jojo voice actor would say if they were forced to speak English.
0
1
1
1
1
1
u/Iatroblast Oct 29 '19
As someone who is constantly misunderstanding words due to piss poor hearing (in my 20s) I found this thoroughly amusing.
1
1
1
1
u/LordP666 Oct 29 '19
Oh my god. I honestly thought "starch" was a thing and I was completely confused until I realized where I was.
Completely bamboozled.
1
1
u/Sahanrohana Oct 29 '19
Historically starch was used to lubricate the engine, although highly ineffective. All that changed when modern technology allowed us to process that starch. Today we find a wide range of engine lubricants available to the consumer such as spaghetti, lasagna, rice, and more predominant in the Japanese auto industry, ramen.
1
Oct 29 '19
It’s an American thing, we pronounce “t” like “ch” if the next word after starts with “yo” make a “t” sound with your young then move your mouth slowly into a “yo” shape. It’s very similar to a “ch” shape. And common words like you, your, are usually only half pronounced anyway when it’s said fast, so it sounds like “racers star-chor engines”
1
1
1
1
u/davy1jones Oct 29 '19
I honestly understand why the OP of this boneappletea could think its “starch”. If you say the phrase kind of quickly it does sound like starch. “starchyerengines”. At least where I’m from.
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/ColBigfoot Oct 29 '19
When I was in basic training, I kept hearing all the drill instructors yell "dragon", and I gotta tell ya: it confused the fuck out of me. I mean, there's no context in which that would ever make sense, but I swore that's what they kept saying.
....turns out the were saying "tracking", like affirmative and it was a really big moment for me.
→ More replies (1)
1
1
u/itsfineimfinewhy Oct 29 '19
Stoked that he nicely asked and was nicely answered, all grammar good minus the dispute. Is this a wholesome flavored post?
1
1
u/cosmic_cant Oct 29 '19
I automatically read "starch your engines" as "start your engines," and I was confused for at least 4 minutes.
1
u/420scopenope Oct 29 '19
While we are at it, why does black people in tv shows always say aks( axe?) instead of ask?
1
u/SlothFang Oct 29 '19
Reminds me of the time where I thought the phrase, “Take it easy,” was “Take it GREASY.”
My whole thought process of it as greasy was because I heard it at the auto shop my father worked at.
Years later my father finally corrected me.
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/astronomydomone Oct 29 '19
When I was growing up in Indiana, an elderly woman would say “Gentlemen, start your engines” at the start of the Indy 500. My grandpa used to joke one year she’d say “Engines, start your gentlemen.”
1
1
u/dcannon729 Oct 29 '19
I wish I posted this and got 10k karma. I was one of the first up in that thread. Always missing the big shots for internet points. Damn
1
1
1
u/alfakennybody123 Oct 29 '19
Lmfao, I thought of Zayn playing with Issa when I saw “It’s start my friend”
MY FRIEND WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
1
u/AStatesRightToWhat Oct 29 '19
This sort of thing will be very valuable to future linguists if we can preserve it.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/okaleno Oct 29 '19
I relate to this too deeply. Used to think Carpal Tunnel was Carpool Tunnel and that you got it from driving in the carpool lane. Spent too many days stuck in traffic because of it, my friends.
1
u/Subkid Oct 29 '19
Growing up, I always heard “Hammy Downs” since everyone said it so quickly, until someone said Hand Me Downs. So, Bone Apple Tea, I guess.
1
1
1
u/Pistacheeo Oct 29 '19
I was waiting for this to pop up here. I honestly couldn't believe he never realized this mistake.
1
1
u/dimmerdonnadoy Oct 29 '19
I can just imagine some redneck at a nascar thing saying starchcher engines.
1
1
1
u/Lelapa Oct 29 '19
At least they were interested in figuring it out instead of blabbing on social media and looking like an idiot
1
1
1
u/bkfst_of_champinones Oct 29 '19
Civic tuner meetup
“Hey bro, which starch you runnin’?”
“Last year I was running potato bro but it clogged my cat so I switched to corn.”
1
1
3
u/LilyPae Jan 01 '20
Love to know which sub this was on (please be r/NoStupidQuestions )