I HATE ENGLISH! 12 things that don't make any sense

357,225 views ・ 2017-02-25

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Rawr.
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[Laughs]
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Ronnie doesn't make sense.
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I don't make sense.
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I'm me.
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What?
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Are you confused again about English?
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I did a lesson before about 10 words that are confusing or 10 words that don't make
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sense in English, and ever since that wonderful video there's more.
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There's just so many of them.
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I really enjoy the people commenting about the Polish language, how that's a little crazy.
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I'd like to go to Poland, by the way.
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And I'm sure your language has crazy things, so I'm back to tell you not 10 more words
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that just don't make sense in English, and why learning English is fun but difficult.
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So, let's start with it.
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We wear on our bottom part of our bodies "a pair of undies".
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"Undies" are slang for underwear or the thing you wear under your pants, they're called
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underpants, too.
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For some reason we wear a pair of underwear, but we only have one section we'll call it,
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just to be PC.
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But, ladies, a bra which we have two things that we put in a bra is singular.
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So, it's like we have two body parts down here and one up here.
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Thank you, clothing designers.
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Good way to do that.
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I don't think we'd want to call them bras.
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I just don't get it.
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Confusing.
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Next one, one of my favourites.
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Maybe you don't know this phrase yet.
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You're going to love it.
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"Take a dump".
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So maybe you have heard someone say: "I have to take a dump."
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And you're like: "Okay. I don't know what 'dump' is."
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Take a dump means go to the bathroom, but you're going number two,
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so you're taking a poo.
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But you guys maybe know that the word "take" means to actually put it in your pocket and
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take it home.
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Are you stealing my poo?
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So in English we say: "I have to take a dump."
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But what we're actually doing is we're leaving poo or shit in the toilet.
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So, I think we should change it to: "I have to maybe leave a dump"
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or "make a dump" would maybe be better.
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But "take", that's just weird.
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If you would like to take my poo, I'll charge you $100.
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I'll send it to you.
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Just write me in the comments, $100.
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Maybe if you're lucky, there'll be corn.
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Oh, burn.
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Next one, you probably heard this:
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-"How did you sleep last night, Ronnie?"
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-"Badly."
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-"Oh, good."
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-"How did you sleep last night?"
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-"I slept like a baby."
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Do you have a baby?
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Have you ever had a baby?
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Do you know what a baby is?
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If you've answered "yes" to these questions, you know damn well that babies do not really
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sleep well.
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You put them to bed, and they wake up and cry.
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Maybe every 10 minutes, depending on the age of the baby.
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So in reality if you say: "I slept like a baby"
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it means that you woke up in the middle
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of the night, crying, wanting your mother, maybe you need to change your diapers, maybe
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you took a dump, maybe you're hungry, and then you go back to sleep, and then you wake
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up and you cry again.
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Sleeping like a baby is not cool.
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Maybe you can say: "I slept like an overworked accountant"
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or someone who works really hard all the time.
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A baby, not a good sleeper.
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This is one of my...
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Oh god, I hate this one.
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"Needless to say".
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So: "needless to say" means: I do not need to tell you this,
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but people say: "I really enjoy camping.
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Needless to say, I like the outdoors."
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So if something is needless to say, why are you saying it?
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We should say: "I really like camping.
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I like the outdoors."
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"Needless to say" is just extra stuff that is unnecessary and wrong.
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Maybe you watch TV and maybe you are offered a "free gift".
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Maybe your free gift is something for your baby.
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So: "sleep like a baby" means that you actually sleep really, really, really well.
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So, on the TV they're going to say:
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"Okay. So, if you want to sleep like a baby tonight, which means sleep really, really, really well,
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we're going to give you this free gift with your purchase."
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Okay, the last time I checked, if I have a gift, they're always free.
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Why would I pay for a gift?
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It's like: "This is an unpaid... This is a gift you have to pay for",
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not a gift, that's called a sale or a purchase.
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So, again, a free gift, it doesn't make sense.
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It's a gift.
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I'm not going to pay you for a gift.
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If you'd like to send me a gift, I'm not going to pay you.
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Yeah, okay.
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This is awesome, maybe you have been taught this in your English class or someone says to you:
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"Can I ask you a question?"
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And you think: "Yeah, you just did."
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But we have been taught or programmed to say if you ask someone: "Can I ask you a question?"
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it's kind of implying that you're going to ask them a question that's maybe a little
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bit taboo, which means not cool or a little bit strange, or a question that maybe makes
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them feel uncomfortable.
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So if someone says to you: "Can I ask you a question?"
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you know it's going to be kind
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of a strange or personal question, like: "How old are you?"
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But: "Can I ask you a question?" you just did because this is a question.
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So my favourite thing to say: "Can I ask you a question?"
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I say: "No.
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Time's up. You've done it. You've already done it."
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Okay?
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If you speak French, this might make sense to you: Double-vay.
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Okay, so double-vay, two v's, double, would be a "v" and a "v".
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Okay, but how do we say this letter in English?
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It's a double-u.
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Well, okay.
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Now, when we write sometimes...
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When I write double-u's I actually write them with a double "u".
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Oh, I'm sneaky.
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But in school when I was taught writing or printing, I was always taught: Down, up-that's
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a "v"-and then down and up again.
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Those to me are two v's together.
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So, let's go with the French and call them double-v's.
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No, it's a double-u. U, u.
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Again, not getting it. Okay.
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This one, maybe you're sleeping peacefully, not like a baby. Okay?
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You're sleeping like a baby.
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And the...
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Your alarm goes off.
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Hmm. So, you know that in English "off" means nothing happens, stuff is finished.
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But in English it's the opposite.
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If your alarm goes off, it actually means that your alarm turns on.
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So you're asleep. "Beep, beep, beep." Oh my god, the alarm's going off.
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The fire alarm goes off.
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It should go on, but for some reason in English it goes off.
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So maybe it's always on and then it goes...
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Oh, I just don't get it.
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So, alarms in English I think should go on but they go off.
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And what time does your alarm go on or off?
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So the alarm goes off and we turn it off.
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This is getting worse.
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Oh, we're almost done.
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Scary, scary, scary stuff right here.
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Okay?
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The pronunciation of this word, it's actually not "liar", but it should be.
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This word is a "lawyer". "Lawyer", not "liar".
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Though that's what they do.
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[Coughs] A doctor or a lawyer, they go to school, they graduate, they get some patients.
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And actually what they do is they practice.
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Okay, if I have a doctor, which I do-hi, doctor-and he's practicing on me, this does not make
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me feel secure.
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Okay? I think if I have a problem with my body, I don't want someone to practice about this.
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I want someone that knows what they're doing.
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So lawyers, again, they're practicing law.
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They're... I guess they're practicing lying.
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That makes sense, then.
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Okay, so doctors practice lying to win...
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Money, okay, good.
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So the doctor thing, I'm still not down with that.
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I still don't get it.
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So, please, doctor, don't practice on me.
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Please just give me some health.
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This is fun.
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This is a noun when we look at it.
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Now, it can be a verb, but the way we're using it is a noun.
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So I am right now in a building.
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"Building" implies the noun in the present continuous form that something is being done.
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So, a building, it's already been built, so why is it in the present continuous or the
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present progressive?
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It should be just called a build or a built.
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English, will it ever stop?
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And last one, my favourite.
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Actually, I do love chicken fingers.
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This came from when I was a child, and that was a long time ago.
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One of my favourite things to eat in a pub or a restaurant are "chicken fingers".
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Yes.
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And if you've never been to a restaurant that has chicken fingers, you've now got homework.
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Chicken fingers are not actually anything to do with chicken's feet...
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Chickens don't have hands to begin with, they have wings.
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In a restaurant you can get chicken wings, but they don't have fingers.
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Now, chicken have feet and probably maybe in your country you eat chicken feet soup-delicious-or
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you just eat chicken feet as a snack.
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But somehow geniuses have decided that chicken fingers, chicken's fingers are going to be food.
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Chicken fingers are pieces of chicken that's breaded, which means there's a coating on
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it like panko and fried.
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They're pretty delicious.
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So you can go to a restaurant and you can order chicken fingers.
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Knowing fair well that chickens do not even have hands...
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And maybe just to help your brain, you're going to get some chicken wings, they are
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also very delicious.
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So, you've got a lot of homework.
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You're going to send me money and I will send you my dump.
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You're going to go to the restaurant, and eat chicken fingers and chicken wings.
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And you're going to turn your alarm off.
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Til later, I'm out of here.
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This is crazy.
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