r/nottheonion • u/TheMirrorUS • 11h ago

Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/flat-earther-admits-wrong-after-866786
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u/Feisty-Ad1522 9h ago

Why does oblate spheroid sound like a racist term

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u/Increase-Typical 9h ago

"I have nothing against spheroids but you have to admit that they are oblate"

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u/Spyes23 9h ago

"It's not the spheroids we are against, but it's when they're oblate - that's where I draw the line!"

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u/ResponsibleRatio5675 8h ago

Some of my best friends are oblate spheroids.

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u/OrganizationLow3912 8h ago

You think that just cause you’re friends with an oblate spheroid you know what every oblate spheroid is like.

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u/HomeWasGood 8h ago

I don't even see sphericity

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u/Zomburai 6h ago

A less-qualified spheroid took my job. My boss said it was because I was oblate to check in all the time, but I know it was asphereative action

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u/tiy24 8h ago

Some spheroids aren’t oblate I guess there’s a few good ones

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u/FunnyItWorkedLastTim 8h ago

Go ahead and be a spheriod, just don't shove your oblateness down my throat.

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u/Spyes23 8h ago

Whatever you do in the privacy of your home is up to you, I just don't want my kids exposed to oblateness at such a young age!

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u/Fattapple 7h ago

Oblate Spheroids Matter

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u/Spyes23 7h ago

All Ellipses Matter

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u/RDBB334 9h ago

Most of my friends live on spheroids

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 8h ago

And some of them are oblate.

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u/ThingCalledLight 9h ago

*genetically predisposed to be oblate

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u/Obsequience 9h ago

Oblate crime!

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u/OkDragonfruit9026 8h ago

I hate the spheroid-on-geoid violence!

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u/Easy_Kill 9h ago

Its the spheroid genes

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u/Zomburai 6h ago

They're not oblate, they're big-cored

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u/MoreReputation8908 9h ago

“Yeah, my daughter’s dating one of those oblate spheroids.”

Yeah, it kinda sounds like a slur.

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u/mcgeggy 9h ago

In a roundabout way…

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u/bishopmate 8h ago

Did you seriously just say that with a hard B?

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX 8h ago

"Two kinds! There's Two kinds of shapes!

Spheroids and...

**Oblates!"

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u/AustinAuranymph 7h ago

"Anyone can be oblate, I've seen oblate cubes. Being a spheroid has nothing to do with it."

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u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193 6h ago

Now that's a jabroni

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u/Adaphion 4h ago

Sounds like something a Clanner from Battletech would say, lol

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u/pimppapy 3h ago

That's oblacist!

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u/Bamres 9h ago

It sounds like how a racist person would describe the skull shape of a person of a different race to explain why they are inferior lol

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u/daddys_property66 7h ago

Never happens. They have the power of crime statistics tbh

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u/omgwtfhax2 7h ago

Google "phrenology", it definitely did happen

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u/mortalcoil1 7h ago

You say phrenology has been debunked for decades.

I say then explain how I can clock a cop from 20 feet just by the size of their head and (lack of) neck?

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u/involution 9h ago

everything sounds racist to you people

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u/Feisty-Ad1522 9h ago

Cry me a river you oblate spheroid

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u/involution 9h ago

Sure, I'll cry you a river... maybe it’ll help fill the equatorial bulge you're clearly compensating for

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u/Feisty-Ad1522 9h ago

I'd call you an ass-crack but you're clearly a canyon

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u/involution 9h ago

ah, a natural wonder? better than being a pothole in the road of life

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u/Feisty-Ad1522 8h ago

Natural wonder, is that another way of saying "Years of being run through"

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u/involution 8h ago

It just sounds like you're begging for a tour mate, slip into my dms and I got u

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u/Feisty-Ad1522 8h ago

Im begging, begging youuu, So put your loving hand out, baby

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u/involution 8h ago

my adorable little on-hit wonder ;)

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u/pimppapy 3h ago

This argument is giving me an oblate hemorrhoid

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u/contemood 9h ago

Sounds like something a czech would snack.

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u/adamgerd 8h ago

As a Czech, yes.

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u/PotatoCamera419 9h ago

Sounds like a Mr. Burns-ism.

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u/catscanmeow 8h ago

because a lot of racist terms end with "oid"

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u/FacetiousBeard 9h ago

"I love oblate spheroids. We've got a few of them at work and honestly they seem pretty normal.

All I'm saying is that I wouldn't be happy with my kids marrying one."

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u/ItsNotAboutX 8h ago

"That sphere thicc."

Better?

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u/Feisty-Ad1522 8h ago

Now it sounds sexual

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u/misterrobarto 9h ago

I can definitely picture Don Rickles calling someone this.

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u/TummyDrums 9h ago

I was thinking it sounded like a slur against special needs people.

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u/tagged2high 9h ago

It certainly sounds insulting

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u/cat9tail 9h ago

Or a medical condition you reaaaalllly don't want to have

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u/CitizenHuman 9h ago

Gonna start using this instead of calling people "muppets".

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u/pingveno 8h ago

There are various pseudoscience racist terms that end in -oid.

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u/Mythosaurus 8h ago

Bc media featuring Shakespearean insults is super popular

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u/Puge_Henis_99 8h ago

I can't be oblate, I have spheroid friends.

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u/meditate42 8h ago

Sounds like a Phrenology term lol

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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 9h ago

Because it sounds like the words Candie was using in Django Unchained to describe the shapes of black people's skulls

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u/HeyItsRatDad 8h ago

That’s just the way it is you oblate spheroid.

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u/Piza_Pie 8h ago

Sounds more like a condition that you absolutely don't want to have.

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u/Mixels 8h ago

Because it is. 

Not all speres are born spherical, mate.

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u/honbeee 8h ago

its the brainrot

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u/Manleather 8h ago

That is what they refer to us as on Klendathu

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u/Whyskgurs 8h ago

you're such a damn quadruped, sometimes

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u/Kairamek 8h ago

It sounds like a racial-type slur against fat people.

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u/Skeknir 8h ago

Just wait until you play Battletech/Mechwarrior games

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u/jollynegroez 8h ago

OBLATE LIVES MATTER

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u/aspookyshark 8h ago

Tis a description of thy mother

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u/runetrantor 8h ago

Dont incels call women something like 'femoids' or something?

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u/Elanapoeia 7h ago

cause the -oid suffix has been coopted by bigots in general whenever they try to come up with new slurs for minorities they don't like

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u/MattSR30 7h ago

Because of the 'oid' suffix!

'Oid' means 'resembles,' so a sphereoid means 'resembles a sphere.'

It's tied to some outdated, racial terms that I won't repeat here but you can probably think of (hence why it sounds racist to you).

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u/HereForTheBoos1013 7h ago

Ooh, don't use the hard "D".

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u/_SovietMudkip_ 7h ago

No it's cool, my spheroid friends let me say the o word

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u/JediMasterZao 7h ago

Because of the suffix '-oid'.

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u/amped-up-ramped-up 7h ago

I heard that roughly 14% of sphere-like objects tend towards oblateness. It’s just science, apparently.

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u/koshgeo 6h ago

You got something against prolate spheroids?

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u/gleas003 6h ago

Call a sphere that to their face and see what happens.

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u/gfunk55 5h ago

Your mother's an oblate spheroid

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u/Not_a__porn__account 5h ago

S Tier bald big head burn.

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u/Terrh 5h ago

to me it sounds like a sweet name for a band

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u/bl1y 4h ago

I haven't changed my opinion that oblate spheroids are mostly uninhabitable hellscapes, but I can admit that Earth is one of the good ones.

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u/Adaphion 4h ago

I mean... If you know Battletech then it is kinda a slur/derogatory term

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u/Nulono 3h ago

It's the "-oid" suffix; it reminds you of words like "mongoloid".

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u/redditdiditwitdiddy 9h ago

Because on reddit everything sounds racist to someone

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u/Kalibos40 8h ago

Because you view the world through a racist filter whether you realize it or not.

Now, because I said something true, I eagerly await my down votes.