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Mickey7 lemmy.world Mickey7@lemmy.world
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GreenBeanMachine lemmy.world GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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funkajunk 🇨🇦 lemmy.world funkajunk@lemmy.world
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If a white guy has a black guy as a friend is he really white 🤔?

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myster0n feddit.nl myster0n@feddit.nl
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No, it's perfect : if he considers himself smart, he'll say the answer to the second question is yes, so that means that the answer to the first question should also be yes. And if he thinks that the first question should be no, then he gets to find out what that makes him.

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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Silly analogy. It leads me to wonder, though, if you can have a friendship with someone who you have nothing in common with.

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JasonDJ lemmy.zip JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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I consider myself pretty smart.

My old roommate had this friend that would come over tho. And him...he's probably very lucky his first and last name are only four letters each, or he may still have trouble writing it to this day.

I could feel the IQ drop when he walked in the room.

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village604 adultswim.fan village604@adultswim.fan
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Silly analogy. It leads me to wonder, though, if you can have a friendship with someone who you have nothing in common with.

You can have a friendship, but you'll be unlikely to be best friends.

But it's almost impossible to have absolutely nothing in common with another person.

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TigerAce lemmy.dbzer0.com TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The technical term for this, if I remember correctly, is 'touché'.

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HowAbt2day futurology.today HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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The technical term for this, if I remember correctly, is 'touché'.

I think it’s “Douché” in this case.

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TigerAce lemmy.dbzer0.com TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I think it’s “Douché” in this case.

Touché

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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I consider myself pretty smart. My old roommate had this friend that would come over tho. And him...he's probably very lucky his first and last name are only four letters each, or he may still have trouble writing it to this day. I could feel the IQ drop when he walked in the room.

Your roommate was friends with Elon Musk?

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HowAbt2day futurology.today HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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Touché

Even when responding to a douche?

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errer lemmy.world errer@lemmy.world
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If a white guy has a black guy as a friend is he really white 🤔?

Depends on how much the white person leans into it, my brotha

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BarneyPiccolo lemmy.today BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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If a man has a woman for a friend, is he really a man?

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ThunderComplex lemmy.today ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
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Some people really do be homochondriacs

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WorldsDumbestMan lemmy.today WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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But the second is more valid than the first.

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Buddahriffic lemmy.world Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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Anyone wanna take the bet that this guy secretly hopes it does, using himself as one example and that it means another common friend of an openly gay friend that OP is crushing on is also secretly in the closet?

It just feels like there's some layers of denial involved in this question for them to even wonder it.

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funkajunk 🇨🇦 lemmy.world funkajunk@lemmy.world
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Depends on how much the white person leans into it, my brotha

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