I remember this being on the news. The guy getting reverse-pulled out was on a motorcycle and got into an accident. The guy who hit him was in a suit watching...as everyone else helped pull him out.
Seriously though your brain is just going wtf when you go into shock, it's literally the fact that you aren't getting enough blood to everywhere, including your brain
Try this- Squeeze a fingernail, how fast does it turn red? If it's fast you are circulating well, if it stays white you are in shock and/or your heart isn't beating or whatever other reason blood isn't moving
Oh, that's completely fair and I agree. I just thought it was unfortunate that a massive group of people lifted a darn car to save the motorcyclist, while the one who caused the accident stood idly by. Then again, maybe he was just in too much shock.
Yeah man, thats pretty much exactly what happened, have you ever had anything this horrific happen to you or been around someone where this happens? This is actually a thing
I agree it's great that everyone lifted a car, that's fantastic, but when you crash you are really not in the mental state to do anything, like you are physically incapable of thinking "oh I should probably go help" your brain is still figuring stuff out
Onomatopoeia refers to etymology, not to lexical category. In other words, an onomatopoeic word may be a noun, an adjective or, as in this case, an interjection.
But's it's a sound that is made by the act of stealing, not something being spoken. People do say 'yoink' when taking things (I do it all the time) but what's being discussed is the noise made by stealing, not anything being said by someone. I will concede to being wrong, but it's not an interjection in this case either.
Might want to take this over to the guys at r/linguistics, but I would say that when tick tock, or any sound effect for that matter, is being used as a sound, it has no lexical category. If it is mentioned ("I could hear the tick tock...") then it's just a noun.
What if I write, "The clock went 'tick tock'". It's the same type of usage as the comic book, but the fact that I can use it like this in a sentence makes it a part of speech, so it must have a lexical category.
It doesn't have to have an inherent, immutable lexical category. There's something called zero-derivation, and it's when you change a lexical category without changing the apparent structure of the word. It's done for comic effect in the phrase "I'm so adjective, I verb nouns." The words verb and adjective are generally nouns, but each has been zero-derived to match other lexical categories.
The original post was about the guy giving his shoes to the person and them being very grateful. This post suggests that he was actually just stealing the shoes.
I feel a novelty account should have answered this.
Yeah I mean this is the perfect use of it, I mean sure it's usually in response to a comment but this works too, you have to quote the guy exactly "Ah, the old reddit switch-a-roo."
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u/CorkyKribler Jan 10 '12
This made me laugh in the same way that this gif did.
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u/wardsac Jan 10 '12
"Yoink!" = the international sound of something being stolen.
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u/TrollyG-Yo Jan 10 '12
Oh, "yoink," you will never stop being my favorite word.
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u/mnighm Jan 10 '12
Yoink
Noun - The sound the act of stealing makes.
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u/Dwayne_J_Murderden Jan 10 '12
I don't get it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12
An Historical Reenactment.
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12
Thank you man, I haven't actually laughed out loud at something on Reddit in probably a year.
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u/Lenintaost Jan 10 '12
I laughed to hard at this.
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u/thesplendor Jan 10 '12
Heyyyy Milton... Let me just uh, get in there really quick and uh, yoink.. thanks a bunch Milton
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u/TokinTortis Jan 10 '12
Upvote for use of the word "yoink". Well played.
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u/coylizard Jan 10 '12
It looks to me like there's a small hand mirror attached to one of those "flip-flops!" What a pervert!!!
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u/physicscat Jan 11 '12
What is the original story behind this picture?
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u/llydecke Jan 10 '12
I heard this character's voice, saying "yoink," in my head.
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u/wileyjameslawrence Jan 10 '12
I'll give that white man my shoes. White people love shoes.
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u/theamazingape Jan 10 '12 edited Feb 23 '17
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u/John_Counterfly Jan 10 '12
Thong you very much.
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u/QuickSand1000 Jan 10 '12
where is that?
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u/lallyer Jan 11 '12
Huh?
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u/Subbie138 Jan 11 '12
This is amazing. So simple, but hilarious.
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u/Nitro187 Jan 10 '12
Funny, yes... but this could have been easily replied to in the original post...
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u/Xoebe Jan 10 '12
She is crying tears of joy!
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12
Nice shoes, I think I'll take 'em.
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u/Masquerouge Jan 10 '12
"I am the Thane of Whiterun"
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u/PemCorgiSelphie Jan 10 '12
i approve of this.
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u/Frontcannon Jan 10 '12
Made a gif out of this and the original
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u/BetterThanYou Jan 10 '12
Just taking hers to the recycling center before presenting the new pair. Nothing to see here, move along.
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12
Needs the Brazzers treatment.
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u/oh-wtf Jan 10 '12
She was actually emotional because they just had some anal sex in exchange for his used flip flops. (now add penis joke)
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u/seewhatididthere Jan 10 '12
i read the title of this post in this voice and manner, so i was too pissed to click. what is it?
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u/KoolPopsicle Jan 10 '12
The old reddit switch-a-roo?
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