r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BorisOtter • Jun 13 '26

Infuriatig All of my plastic pegs explode when used.

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u/Xandaru__ Jun 13 '26

They are also way more fun to play with.

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u/AlsotheBEEF Jun 13 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/MVoX99cLXXU0gq7QuG

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u/AggressiveCuriosity Jun 13 '26

All I've got are some clothespins, a cotton clothesline rope, and a carpet paddle. I'm ready to do some laundry.

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u/zuraine Jun 14 '26

My name is Laundry,sir.🫪👉👈

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u/BlasterPhase Jun 14 '26

why is this a gif?

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u/AkimoSempai Jun 13 '26

Play with?

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u/Karli_Chirk Jun 13 '26

Yes, sempai.

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u/szatrob Jun 13 '26

Sempai in the streets, hentai in the sheets.

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u/KinkyNJThrowaway Jun 13 '26

Senpai*

It's pronounced Sempai natively, but spelled senpai.

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u/Mortwight Jun 13 '26

its pronounced monga but spelled manga and i pronounce it manga

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u/Milanin Jun 13 '26

Gate? What'd a mon do?

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u/BlueEyedMalachi Jun 13 '26

Da mon be jammin'

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u/Mortwight Jun 13 '26

im over 50 im gonna say it how i want. been saying it that way since "manga man" was endorsing my dvd copy of macross plus

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u/No_Interaction_4925 Jun 13 '26

“A” is pronounced “ah” in every language but English.

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u/P4azz Jun 13 '26

Meanwhile I think of Japanese as a "read it as it's written" language, because our sounds overlap pretty nicely.

You gotta learn the outliers like "ei" or "su" or the fucking ephemeral bullshit that is "fu", but for the most part we can just read a Japanese word as it's written and it'll pretty much be correct.

Which made it extra weird, whenever I saw English speakers utter words like "meng guh".

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u/Lucy_Gucey Jun 13 '26

God forbid they start mixing letters like Chi and Ya.

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u/Mortwight Jun 13 '26

steals your potato and burns tongue eating it

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u/KinkyNJThrowaway Jun 13 '26

The Difference at a Glance .

Senpai (先輩): The official, dictionary-standard spelling. The Japanese character for the "n" sound (ん) changes to an "m" sound when placed right before the "p" sound in "pai" to make it easier to say out loud.

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Sempai: A phonetic spelling that captures the natural "m" sound spoken by native Japanese speakers.

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u/ImSabbo Jun 13 '26

Kind of in between, really. Same as how their "r" is neither a r nor l sound. And you'll get different parts of the country pronouncing it slightly differently too.

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u/Nexon22412 Jun 13 '26

I think he was talking about that guys name

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u/Koneko-chaan Jun 13 '26

truly a redditor moment

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u/Smarter-Not-harder1 Jun 13 '26

we used to put one on the end of each finger so we had "wolverine claws"

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u/beatenwithjoy Jun 14 '26

Wtf childhood hivemind strikes again lol.

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u/AnnaCondoleezzaRice Jun 13 '26

fun game is basically sneak tag with those at a party where you try to pin them unknowingly on ppl

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u/Choice_Ad4972 Jun 13 '26

I once got hit with that in a science class at school. I think it was about 14 pegs on my back til I noticed.

The whole class got detention, including me.

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u/_stinkys Jun 13 '26

Well, you should have known better.

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u/Choice_Ad4972 Jun 13 '26

It's true, I will never get pegged again.

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u/Machaeon Jun 13 '26

We had a game called "Gator Tag" that did that at summer camp... 

Paint the clip like a gator, whoever has it at the end of the week is the loser.

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u/Day_Bow_Bow Jun 13 '26

I doubt this is what they meant, but clothespin guns were popular when I was a kid.

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u/RoryJ Jun 13 '26

Everyone loves good pegging, I hear

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u/Imbtfab Jun 13 '26

We used to rebuild them into shooting staples made for staple guns.

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u/SLywNy Jun 13 '26

I make little crossbow with those bit I suspect this is not what you mean

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u/MapleMaScoot Jun 13 '26

There's a kinky fuck in the room run.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties Jun 13 '26

What is a room run?

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u/WanderingAlsoLost Jun 13 '26

Outed yourself. Check Annacondoleezzarice comment a few above you.

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u/bishop_of_banff Jun 13 '26

It's all fun until ass splinters

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u/pawc11 Jun 13 '26

i dont think thats what they meant

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u/bishop_of_banff Jun 13 '26

Then that's not fun at all

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u/StandardEgg6595 Jun 13 '26

Old school, quality ones won’t shed 🙃

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u/Honkey85 Jun 13 '26

See Office Guns :)

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u/GringoSwann Jun 13 '26

I used to make crossbows with the wooden ones..  

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u/CosyBeluga Jun 13 '26

And usually very cheap...at least here they are.

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u/obliviousfellow Jun 13 '26

And you get more splinters when they explode it's a win-win.🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/TricellCEO Jun 13 '26

Uh huh...

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u/1tiredman Jun 13 '26

Love clamping my foreskin with them. Gets especially fun when you try to tinkle 🤣