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We’re taught to hide imperfections. Fix the crack. Replace the worn. Chase perfect. But in Japan, there’s a different idea: Wabi-Sabi. It sees beauty in what’s incomplete. Weathered. Real. Before the internet curated flawless lives, people understood this: The marks of time aren’t flaws. They’re proof something was lived.

@AtnsXBT .. technically simple ...psychologically impossible .. pure genius 😂

set your wifi password to 24446666688888888 so that when someone asks for your password you can tell them it's 12345678

@Simon_Ingari You're a grandmaster at corporate chess 😂

My manager has been secretly interviewing candidates to replace me on the team. So I applied for the job using another email. Tomorrow is the final interview. Only one candidate emerged as the top choice He still doesn’t know the candidate is me.

@Titobi0luwa They’re literally one letter doing yoga. 😭

b, p, d and q are the same fucking letter and no one is talking about it

@Zintathu_L Weekends run on blink-and-it’s-Monday time.😭

Are we sure Saturday and Sunday have the same 24hours as the rest of the week 😭😭

Go on, tell it - I’m √-rooting for you. 😄

@ThePunnyWorld Go on, tell it - I’m √-rooting for you. 😄

I have a scary joke about math but I'm 2² to say it

@mariana057 An unexpected performance review delivered with glitter. 😭

Just bought my coworker a 'Get Better Soon' card. She isn’t sick, I just think she could do better.

@knowiiiedge a preposition collocation trap… and English only accepts one of them 😏📚 In English we use the fixed pattern: 👉 good at + skill / activity. Ability or skill → good at People / tools → good with Tiny preposition. Big difference 😄

Only 1% People Choose The Correct Sentence 🤯

@luxemiaa You've scheduled the utlimate plot twist there. 😭

My husband is seeing a girl from Tinder who is a OBGYN doctor so I scheduled an appointment with her as a patient because I'm pregnant with ...our second baby. I bought him with me but he doesnt now who the doctor is???😂😂😂

@IamMadhanMohan How many is option A.😀

@LondonEngLab Team a ?

The mistake isn’t obvious. That’s the problem.

@IamMadhanMohan Thank you for joining Team A.

@LondonEngLab How many

@Andie425 @wobbuuu Yes, they are good examples. Haven't come across Qi before, thank you.

@LondonEngLab @wobbuuu Agreed. It can show up once in a while, however. Qi can be used in scrabble or similar games. It means life force or vital energy from Chinese philosophy. Then there’s Qatar and Iraq.

if we removed a letter from the alphabet, which one would take the longest for its absence to be noticed

@XENONAISELSTEIN Angst has been a perfectly valid English word for over a century. We borrowed it from German — like we’ve borrowed thousands of other words.

Today my English teacher marked a word wrong on my essay bc she didnt know 'angst' was a real English word

@TEEPHTREND Do you not also have a cou-shin 😂😂

My niece calls me Ankle. I call her my knees.

@PathOfMen_ Because there's no dentists in the jungle ... imagine the waiting room would be wild 😭😭😭

Why don't animals' teeth decay even though they don't brush them?

“Number” comes from the Latin word numero, which was abbreviated “No.” So technically the O isn’t random .... English liked it and kept it 😂

@phreedaos7076 A serious answer ... “Number” comes from the Latin word numero, which was abbreviated “No.” English liked it and kept it 😂

Why is “Number” abbreviated to “No.” there is not a single “O” in the word Stole this tweet btw😭😭 First time stealing a tweet, kinda nervous😂💔

@papiwontmiss You conducting field research on your own kid😭

I couldn’t decide if I wanted bangs or not so I cut bangs for my daughter and she looks awful. Dodged a bullet there.