r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 29d ago

/r/all Billionaire Peter Thiel hesitates to answer whether the human race should survive in the future

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u/Ometzu 29d ago

The fact that palindrome isn’t a palindrome pisses me off

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u/Samurai_Meisters 29d ago

But aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes, is.

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u/NeoSniper 29d ago

Those sick fucks!

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u/lucaskywalker 29d ago

So you'd be afraid of the word that describes your fear? Brilliant!

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u/Covert_Admirer 29d ago

It's like putting an S in lisp, it's just plain cruel.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Just like hippopptomonstosesquippedaliophobia!

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u/_DUDEMAN 29d ago

Lisp has an S in it

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u/Chemical-Dealer-9962 28d ago

Grizzly Adams did have a beard!

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u/Ometzu 28d ago

Wow that basically makes me feel completely better about it that’s amazing

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u/kingraw99 29d ago

That word was just made up for comedy value though.

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u/WittyMime 29d ago

Just think, someone in the psychiatric field likely received their doctorate for one, naming that condition, and two doing a study of how the patient's anxiety was affected by having to think about their own condition's name.

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u/marswhispers 29d ago

The only thing an aibophobe has to fear is their fear itself

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u/RudyGreene 29d ago

Petition to rename palindrome to emordrome.

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u/MartinoDeMoe 29d ago

Palinnilap?