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Take Slip·Nov 4, 2020·Null
#PMT-2020-1104-3380
Billy FootballBilly Football

Bats can predict the future using echolocation

Bats can actually see into the future because they predict where the inset... They've gotten so good at using echolocation, they can predict where an insect is going by processing the spatial information... So they can predict the future.

While research shows bats use predictive models to track prey, calling it 'predicting the future' is a typical Billy exaggeration of biology.
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Take Slip·Feb 1, 2019·Null
#PMT-2019-0201-3057
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Monday after the Super Bowl should be a federal holiday

We all are in agreement, obviously, that the Monday after the Super Bowl should be a federal holiday. Correct. Move President's Day. Abraham Lincoln's dead. He won't care. I promise. He probably would have been a big football fan.

This is a subjective opinion on public policy/calendar management.
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Take Slip·Oct 10, 2018·Null
#PMT-2018-1010-12216
Big CatBig Cat

Teaching your kids to enjoy alcohol responsibly makes you a good father

Real take? I don't give a fuck. This is the most common thing ever... It's actually like teaching your kids how to enjoy alcohol responsibly is probably a really good father. So it's not like a novelty when they get to age 17 and they're just like butt funneling mad dogs.

This is a philosophical parenting stance that cannot be objectively proven, though many psychologists agree with the logic of demystifying alcohol.
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Take Slip·Sep 10, 2018·Null
#PMT-2018-0910-12680
Big CatBig Cat

You can't take a shit at a friend's house if the bathroom is less than 30 'bathroom feet' away

It's actually a formula that you multiply the number of bathrooms times the feet from the couch to the bathroom. And if it's anything under 30, then you can't take a shit there. So if there's a bathroom 20 feet away from the couch, but there's only one bathroom in the whole house, you can't do it.

This is a social etiquette opinion.
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Take Slip·Jul 30, 2018·Null
#PMT-2018-0730-19791
HankHank

There is an oversaturation of dogs on social media

I'm getting on the borderline of getting sick of the oversaturation of dogs on Twitter.

This is a subjective preference about social media content.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2016·Null
#PMT-2016-0803-2692
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Fat is coming back as a trend and Brooklyn will lead the way

Fat is coming back. And good news for you. The first place that it's going to come back, place at the forefront of all these trends, is Brooklyn. You know, like back in the day, if you were fat, it meant that you were well fed and that you could take care of yourself.

While 'body positivity' grew, being 'fat' did not become a leading hipster trend in Brooklyn in the way PFT described.
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Take Slip·May 23, 2016·Null
#PMT-2016-0523-15114
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Grit has been co-opted and ruined by Harvard researchers and psychologists

I've seen over the past, like two years, the pussification of grit in America. Like grit has been co-opted by Harvard researchers, by doctors, by psychologists... It's people trying to teach grit. People who have like a silver spoon in their mouths, a doctor in front of their name, trying to tell me what it means to be gritty.

This is a philosophical stance on the meaning of a word and its cultural use.