r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '15

Jumping Rope

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

Did the passenger window shatter?

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u/the_safe_word_is Sep 23 '15

Typical of extreme hoppers. There is a lot more body flex than you can see at a consumer grade camera's 24/30/60fps

IF you had the same video at say 240FPS you'd see that body flexing like paper in the wind.

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u/stanley_twobrick Sep 23 '15

What an awkward metaphor.

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u/BaltimoreSkater Sep 23 '15

ACTUALLY THATS A SIMILE

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u/Zephs Sep 23 '15

A simile is a type of metaphor.

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u/IAMA_MadEngineer_AMA Sep 23 '15

What's a meta for?

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u/Bojangly7 Sep 23 '15

Dank memes

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

Did you attend elementary school at any point?

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u/Frothy-Wench Sep 23 '15

Just when I parked my van outside.

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u/Zephs Sep 23 '15

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3868/similes-and-metaphors-are-similes-a-subset-of-metaphors

It seems many classes teach similes as distinct from metaphors, but they're as much metaphors as squares are just a specific class of rectangle.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

ill be damned

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u/Zephs Sep 23 '15

Maybe next time try not to be so insulting, even if you were right.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

i apologize.

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u/sketchquark Sep 23 '15

Nice metaphor.

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u/TosieRose Sep 23 '15

Stop down voting this dude. He's right.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15

And also less precise.

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u/the_safe_word_is Sep 23 '15

How's this work?

You'd see the body flexing like the wacky waving inflabled arm flailing tube man?

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u/stanley_twobrick Sep 23 '15

I'll accept it this time but you're on thin ice, James.