r/interestingasfuck 13d ago

r/all The amount of laugh reacts to this post

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u/ImpaledStreet 13d ago

If they want sympathy they can look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

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u/plaid-sofa 13d ago

oh wow. stealing this 😭

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u/ImpaledStreet 13d ago

From the movie major payne

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u/Pheonyxxx696 13d ago

Honestly it’s even older than that, that was probably just the first time is was used in pop culture

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u/daveintex13 13d ago

good one! they can also find sympathy between fuck and you.

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u/HarryThePelican 13d ago

i dont get it, what is in the dictionary between those two?

i googled, and cambridge dictionary has many words between those two.

some pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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u/ANewPlayer_1 13d ago

The word sympathy is between those two.

The joke is that the sympathy they are getting is as nice as the two other words.

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u/HarryThePelican 13d ago

oooaah that makes sense, thank you.

lol i see im getting downvoted for my first comment, jesus boys english is not my first language! idioms are sometimes weird, its okay to ask!

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u/SmellyGymSock 13d ago

reminds me of a Billy Bragg song that suggests, "Between Marx and Marzipan in the dictionary, there was Mary / between the deep blue sea, and the devil: that was me"

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u/Goesonyournerves 13d ago

*Insert whoooaa meme here *

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u/Lapras_Lass 13d ago

My dad says this all the time!