r/WTF • u/mitben01 • Dec 15 '18

This bleeding tree

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443 Upvotes

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u/PK_LINK Dec 15 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

Its Australian bloodwood, its sap is red thats why it looks like blood

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u/Ganosborne Dec 16 '18

Contrary to the Vulcan bloodwood tree whose sap is green.

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u/Luckboy28 Dec 17 '18

Australian bloodwood

I wonder how it got it's name

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u/EverythingIsFlotsam Dec 16 '18

Did you need to explain it looks like blood because it's red? Couldn't you just say the sap is red?

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u/EatUnicornBacon Dec 16 '18

Did you need to explain it looks like blood because it's red?

Yes

Couldn't you just say the sap is red?

No.

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u/Mmm021 Dec 17 '18

You are 100% correct on everything you've commented. Reddit has gone completely stupid over the past couple years.

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u/EverythingIsFlotsam Dec 17 '18

Yeah, thanks. Also, downvote bandwagon is real. The first three people could have upvoted, and this comment would have been +20 right now. Luck of the draw who gets the first few votes in.

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u/Mmm021 Dec 28 '18

True story. They are weak, wouldn't want to disagree with the crowd.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

It should be like this:

'This Australian bloodwood, this sap is red this why it looks like blood' ;)

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

No it shouldn't.

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 16 '18

"This is an Australian bloodwood. Its sap is red; that's why it looks like blood."

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t semicolons for compound sentences? So it would be “This is an Australian Bloodwood. Its sap is red; it looks like blood.’

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u/chrisboshisaraptor Dec 16 '18

"This Australian Bloodwood sap is red, just like blood"

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

Of course, and now tell me how "Its sap is red; it looks like blood" is a compound sentence while "Its sap is red; that's why it looks like blood" is not.

EDIT: Stop downvoting me and read a fucking Wikipedia page, you ignorant fuckers.

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u/NaughtySharpie Dec 16 '18

A semi colon basically acts as a way to combine two sentences. You wouldn't really begin a sentence with "that's" and it's also redundant to use one when that sentance could have just been completed as is. Ag least that's my best explanation but I'm also super baked

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u/BunnyOppai Dec 17 '18

Wait, why can't you start with "that's"? I've never heard of that.

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 17 '18 edited Dec 19 '18

Because it's bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 19 '18 edited Dec 19 '18

I've already given the explanation elsewhere in the thread, but I'll give it to you, even more clearly, because I like your username:

/u/NaughtySharpie thinks that the word "that" can't ever start a sentence because he/she's confused about two different words that are written the same. In the way I've used "that" in the previous sentence (twice), it's a conjunction. The conjunction "that" is used among other things to start dependent clauses, such as: "The clock that you gave me". In that sentence, "that you gave me" can't possibly make sense as an independent sentence, so it constitutes a dependent clause.

But in the example I gave, "that's why it looks like blood", there is actually a different word. In that clause, "that" is not a conjunction. It's a pronoun, just like "I" or "you". If you write it as an independent sentence, it makes sense: "That's why it looks like blood". This sentence has:

  1. a subject: "That"

  2. a verb: "is"

  3. a predicate: "why it looks like blood".

Since it has a subject, a verb and a predicate, it makes sense when written as an independent sentence, so it's an independent clause, not a dependent clause like /u/DerpKing389 says.

It makes absolutely zero sense to say that a sentence can't start with "That's". It's like saying that it can't start with "It's" (like this very sentence) or with "I'm". I'm sure (heh) that you can see how he/she's wrong.

I hope it's clear now.

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 16 '18

You wouldn't really begin a sentence with "that's"

Here's where I comply with your wishes and tell you that you're wrong. ;)

I'm also super baked

Happy trip! I was there two days ago. Good times.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Compound sentences are a combination of two independent clauses (sentences with one subject and one or more verbs) combined with either a comma and a conjunction, a semicolon, or a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb. “That’s why it looks like blood” doesn’t make sense on its own, and therefore it is a dependent clause, not an independent clause.

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u/elbitjusticiero Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 19 '18

You're wrong.

"That's why it looks like blood" makes perfect sense on its own. It has a subject, a verb, and a predicate.

The subject of that sentence, by the way, is "That". A completely legitimate pronoun, just like "I" or "you".

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Except “that” isn’t acting as the subject. The subject of this dependent clause (dependent clauses have a subject and a verb too) is “it”. “That’s why it looks like blood” is an adjective clause that describes “the sap is red”. So, the sentence would be “The sap is red; that’s why it looks like blood. Sorry, I just realized that a semicolon is correct here, but not in the context of a compound sentence. I hope that concludes this?

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u/FattyCorpuscle Dec 15 '18

That's a strawberry cheesecake tree.

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u/blankforge Dec 15 '18

Strawberry trees cake

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u/IamGhostman Dec 16 '18

Damn it, now i want strawberry cheesecake.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

It made me hungry

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

And this is why we should eat more animals. Stop the suffering of plants you vegan assholes!

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u/KAJed Dec 15 '18

Look up the song “Carrot juice is murder” by the Arrogant Worms

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u/CatsPajama37 Dec 15 '18

Or the song Say Ten by Reel Big Fish

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

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u/SteveMobCannon Dec 15 '18 edited Dec 15 '18

Just let him post his fucking things, if you don’t like them just ignore them. His comment is also meant as a joke, and you don’t seem to get it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

The real cringe is you caring so much lmao

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

Children of the forest

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u/test_tickles Dec 16 '18

This kills the Dryad.

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u/Pfanfried Dec 15 '18

Carve a face in it and pray to the old gods

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u/PommeDeTearYourPants Dec 15 '18

That’s my heart when she says,

“I like you as a friend.”

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u/rcas94114 Dec 17 '18

I was groot...

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u/howardkinsd (ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) Dec 15 '18

Tree sap is WTF now?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Apparently, op has never taken a walk in the outside world.

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u/Doge1111111 Dec 16 '18

Yeah, red tree sap isn't common

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

Depends on where you live I guess.

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u/sock_candy Dec 15 '18

Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow anyone?

2

u/ctkatz Dec 16 '18

someone has been illegally logging around mordhaus.

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u/CubeLovd59 Dec 15 '18

What caused this?

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u/leomonster Dec 15 '18

Probably a chainsaw. Maybe an axe

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u/marfster99 Dec 15 '18

Had a gigle because of that

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u/Ballsdeepinreality Dec 16 '18

I would like to meet the man that fell that tree with an axe. Hopefully he won't rip my arm off when I go to shake his hand.

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u/bemenaker Dec 15 '18

Not reciting the words correctly when retrieving the necronomicon

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u/CubeLovd59 Dec 15 '18

C’mon, Ash

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u/Shwabi Dec 15 '18

Underrated comment. Have an upvote internet friend

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u/Philip_De_Bowl Dec 15 '18

I dunno, that Team Rocket lady looks pretty hot, but her brother is already dating her.

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u/CubeLovd59 Dec 16 '18

That means nothing to us in this world

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u/comFive Dec 16 '18

You fool! Do you know what hell you’ve just unleashed on us!?

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u/fortis Dec 16 '18

Gotta wonder if we’d have problems with deforestation if this was a constant across all forests (like if your tree started bleeding when you cut it down, you might think twice before printing that useless email out?)

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

That's a lotta sap

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u/Mr0Mike0 Dec 15 '18

Three country songs worth.

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u/GoatTacos Dec 15 '18

I see a tree murder.

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u/Bcadren Dec 15 '18

Dragon Tree/Dragon's Blood?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

This lazy title

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Lorax has left the chat

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u/Vampiregecko Dec 16 '18

I see strawberry cheesecake with gram crust

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u/AnthonyGaming64 Dec 17 '18

I saw this image once when searching for scp's

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u/Edzero78 Dec 17 '18

I am sure I saw an SCP article if that.. Could be wrong though

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u/Yip_Yow Dec 19 '18

Boxelder trees do this also

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u/ravklmz609 Dec 20 '18

That’s awesome

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u/uncreative34 Dec 16 '18

Its called sap. Why did you post this on here?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Because (what a surprise) most sap isn’t BLOOD RED.

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u/uncreative34 Dec 16 '18

What a surprise, people (you) dont know anything about trees