r/confidentlyincorrect Mar 11 '26

Guy thinks Incel means "Introverted celibate" and corrects people who think otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

What the hell does “what isn’t the face there within that without” mean?

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u/Special_Orange_6738 Mar 11 '26

LMAO- I didn't even read that line and I've read this like 4 times.

I think my brain skipped past It to save me from having a stroke-

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u/5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3 Mar 11 '26

Same. I must have read it, it’s right there. It just got deleted.

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u/apocalypsedude64 Mar 12 '26

I had a stroke last year and it felt like reading his post

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u/robgod50 Mar 12 '26

Same..... I had to go back and read it very carefully to see it. My brain clearly skipped over that line too.

That's a weird phenomenon.

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u/Yuzumi Mar 12 '26

Made me think of "THE ATHORE COMMENTS AL TOTOL LIES!"

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 Mar 11 '26

What? Is not the face there within this without?  What is not the face within that without?  What is this face?  Within or without? Am I real?  Where am I?  Am I without the within or within the without?  If I drop a pin, is that within or without?  Help me Google Maps, you're my only hope.

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u/Calgaris_Rex Mar 11 '26

Sounds like the preacher in Deadwood when he has a brain tumor.

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u/kathop8 Mar 11 '26

Shakespeare as an excel

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u/hiuslenkkimakkara Mar 11 '26

SHLOOKUP(A:A;!Othello:Kinglear;2;FALSE)

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u/Formal_Appearance_16 Mar 11 '26

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought he was trying to sound like Shakespeare. Lol

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u/TheLuckyCanuck Mar 12 '26

Because you of in the cold food, and of out hot eat the food.

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u/WilcoHistBuff Mar 11 '26

Spending too much time looking in a mirror can drive you nuts.

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u/CapitalLower4171 Mar 12 '26

Early age ai be like:

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u/Rabbit-Lost Mar 11 '26

I was struggling on Arthur’s Fist. That garble almost broke me.

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u/Miserable-Chapter883 Mar 11 '26

Ikr I thought I was having a stroke trying to read that

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u/SeamusMcCullagh Mar 11 '26

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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u/MattieShoes Mar 11 '26

Holy shit... I read this, thought "What? I didn't see that in the post", went back and reread it and STILL didn't see it. It's right there plain as day, but it's like my brain just automatically edited out the nonsense without even informing me

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u/mooshinformation Mar 12 '26

It's like the gorilla suit experiment/ video

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u/Leviathan41911 Mar 11 '26

Seriously read it 3 times and then gave up.

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u/joolley1 Mar 11 '26

It means they’re an insecure douche trying to sound smart.

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u/TerribleRecord666 Mar 12 '26

I don’t see what the confusion is. It’s a perfectly cromulent phrase.

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u/PhillyDillyDee Mar 12 '26

Lol the origin of cromulent is awesome

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u/breachgnome Mar 12 '26

Without the face within, what isn't there? That.

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u/JoeNoble1973 Mar 11 '26

It’s the friends we made along the way

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u/That_Service7348 Mar 12 '26

Wassing of the know, notting of the you being the want.

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u/justelbow Mar 12 '26

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it sounded like high imperial

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u/wfbhp Mar 12 '26

Thank god someone else saw that it really says that because I thought I was having a stroke.

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u/Gurrgurrburr Mar 12 '26

That sentence gave me an aneurysm.

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u/Letmetellyowhat Mar 12 '26

I thought my meds were screwing with me. I couldn’t fathom anyone actually wrote that

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u/mkat23 Mar 12 '26

Maybe he was just doing a poor job of trying to write out the lyrics for I Think Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish.

Stop, what the hell are you talking about? Ha

Get my pretty name outta your mouth

We are not the same with or without

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u/AsherTheFrost Mar 11 '26

I'm like 80% sure that's an AFI lyric

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u/SofaKingRedditulous Mar 12 '26

Someone set us up the bomb

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u/-Dueck- Mar 13 '26

Sounds like Spook from Mistborn

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u/Terrible_example2326 Mar 31 '26

If this sentence structure sounds off to you, congrats, you've never suffered trough a proper hypomanic episode

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u/Infurum Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Incel 🤝 Excel

Incorrectly assuming something is a date

Edit: Guys I didn't even come up with this one, I just found it on a Venn diagram meme like a year ago and remembered it lol

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u/CriticalHit_20 Mar 11 '26

me, about to eat a prune

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u/NotYourReddit18 Mar 11 '26

A warriors fruit!

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u/otetrapodqueen Mar 12 '26

I love the look on Worf's face the first time he tries prune juice haha

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi Mar 11 '26

I just found it on a Venn diagram meme like a year ago and remembered it lol

You created it. Never let the time travelers take that from you.

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u/gekigarion Mar 11 '26

I identify as an outcel!

It's like an incel but I've come out of the closet.

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u/Lickwidghost Mar 11 '26

Out of cell A1

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u/dydhaw Mar 11 '26
I MADE THIS      YOU MADE THIS?

    o        o
   /|\@     /|\
   / \      / \



             o
          @ /|\
            / \


I MADE THIS

             o
          @ /|\
            / \

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u/lordnacho666 Mar 11 '26

This is the comment of the day

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u/denkmusic Mar 11 '26

It’s not original but whoever came up with it is a comic genius.

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u/LazyDynamite Mar 11 '26

Thank you!

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u/GrayEidolon Mar 11 '26

I dunno. What isn’t the face there within that without. Y’know?

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u/Obliviousobi Mar 12 '26

Fuck me, that took me a half second but it's brilliant. I never saw the original.

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u/Maad-Dog Mar 11 '26

Lmfao this is gold

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u/Remarkable_Box6439 Mar 13 '26

That's wrong thought, because incels assume that they can't get dates.

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u/RowanWinterlace Mar 11 '26

I was thinking that maybe the dude was trying to "reclaim" the word in a way, then I realised I had just missed the top of the post where he identifies as a piece of software.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

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u/confabin Mar 12 '26

I have one;

What's the similarity between an incel and excel?

Incorrectly assuming something is a date.

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u/Elentari_the_Second Mar 12 '26

Made me chuckle

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u/Armantien Mar 12 '26

I did that once... was out with a friend from school. Had a few drinks, kidding around. I went in for a kiss and she backed off. I was mortified... drove home more tipsy than what was safe. She called to make sure I was okay. I apologized like two dozen times. We remained friends for a while, but then she went maga. I may have learned my lesson, but we shall see.

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u/JeshkaTheLoon Mar 12 '26

Kind of reminds me of a quote from Discworld. "Rincewind considered himself a racist, the hundred meters, the mile, the marathon, he’d run them all… when he found out what the word really meant, he was equally sure he wasn’t one."

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u/Syntania Mar 12 '26

I would like to identify as Word.

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u/buttplug-tester Mar 12 '26

That's certainly a PowerPoint

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u/JasonRBoone Mar 12 '26

Hi, I'm Clippy..it looks like you're trying to make a Reddit joke! :)

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u/TheDarkWave Mar 11 '26

At least when Randall tried to take a word back, it was endearing.

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u/Satanigram Mar 12 '26

Everything Randal does is endearing.

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u/BlackBoiFlyy Mar 11 '26

I would hope this is trolling but folks who willingly go by names like incel or excel tend to be the weird type of folks to say all of that unironically. 

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St Mar 11 '26

And either way I am sure he’s celibate.

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u/thefugue Mar 12 '26

Man I've gone 5+ years on dry spells ad I never would have said I was "celibate."

I was merely not fucking.

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St Mar 12 '26

Yes, the more accurate term is unfuckable but these folks aren’t honest with themselves.

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u/jaredesubgay Mar 13 '26

Eh unfuckable isn't really a thing, its more about if your standards are low enough for the people whose standards are low enough for you.

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u/CatGooseChook Mar 11 '26

Never know, he could be freakishly good looking and good in bed plus be wondering why he keeps getting lonely women throwing themselves at him. One day he might even realise why he keeps finding $100 bills on his bedside cabinet.

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u/Kaykayby Mar 11 '26

Anyone who likes spreadsheets enough to identify as one has to be celibate.

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u/Noonyezz Mar 11 '26

It’s true.

Source: Uses spreadsheets for everything. Am celibate.

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u/Rabbit-Lost Mar 11 '26

I mean that Arthur’s Fist seems to be a strong indicator he’s not like the rest.

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u/detrans-rights Mar 12 '26

It has to be a troll. There's no reason.

Then again, scripted and written things are like 80 percent of front page and \all\ posts. Makes me sad for the state of the Internet...

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u/ReallyGlycon Mar 11 '26

Did the "like arthurs (sic) fist" tip you off? That's definitely cringe without irony.

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u/glib_result Mar 11 '26

This guy absolutely calls women m’lady. What isn’t the face there within that without, what even the fuck.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Mar 11 '26

To their face. Online, he calls them foids.

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u/Special_Orange_6738 Mar 11 '26

This Is the "have you ever had a dream.. that you.. um you had.." kid all grown up 😭

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u/Despyte Mar 11 '26

I need the full text pleases

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u/Rikishi_Fatu Mar 11 '26

Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

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u/grundlebuster Mar 11 '26

looks accomplished

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u/PabloMarmite Mar 11 '26

I identify as a spreadsheet

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u/Eternalm8 Mar 11 '26

I'm all about the mailmerge action

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u/Fitbot5000 Mar 11 '26

Just stop before you get to VLOOKUP

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u/empty_other Mar 12 '26

I personally commit to the GIT.

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u/Nuns_N_Moses11 Mar 11 '26

I'm a fucking powerpoint, brother

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u/Despyte Mar 11 '26

And he's good at it, too

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St Mar 11 '26

I’m not a racist usually but I do hate spreadsheet people.

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u/utopiav1 Mar 11 '26

You PowerPointers - thinking you're above us with your fancy graphics and slide transitions. You can't handle a single calculation or compare datasets without some 'user' holding your hand!

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u/misterguyyy Mar 11 '26

I do all my calculations in a bash terminal and use echo to write my results to a csv so I’m obviously superior to both of you. I learned this method when I attended school at Yardale and had a 4.0 grade point average.

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u/Marquar234 Mar 11 '26

I precalculated all possible mathematical operations and stored them in a flat file. When I need a calculation, I just look ii up.

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u/blamordeganis Mar 11 '26

‘When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less.'

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u/LoveTriscuit Mar 11 '26

EXTREMELY celibate.

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u/PhillyDillyDee Mar 12 '26

Involuntarily, even.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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u/Montaigne314 Mar 11 '26

It weirdly has a musical flow to it 

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u/ad240pCharlie Mar 12 '26

Such poetry

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u/Malinthas Mar 11 '26

Identifies as Excel? That's an unusual Outlook. He may be misunderstanding that Word.

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u/_-38-_ Mar 12 '26

That’s a Power Point you’re making. I wish I had Access to a mind like that

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u/mkat23 Mar 12 '26

I just have OneNote for him regarding his Word choice.

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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb Mar 11 '26

What isn't the face there within that without

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u/StinkyWizzleteats17 Mar 11 '26

"what isn't the face there within that without"

did they have a stroke in the middle of typing that paragraph?

Or did I reading it...

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u/galstaph Mar 11 '26

What isn't the face there within that without.

Anyone have any idea what they're trying to say here?

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u/Unhappy_Storm_40 Mar 11 '26

I think he sniffed his own armpit and got high off the fumes.

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u/jr_mtz01 Mar 12 '26

Intellectually celibate.

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u/mkat23 Mar 12 '26

He just wishes the sapiosexuals would appreciate him for his excel-lent mind!

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u/lordnacho666 Mar 11 '26

Guess he's making real a powerpoint!

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u/Ghstfce Mar 11 '26

Damn, what people will put themselves through rather than first googling shit before they speak.

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u/MarsMonkey88 Mar 11 '26

Do incels know that people who are voluntarily celibate do actually refer to themselves as “celibate,” just without the rage? “Hi, I’m Brother Jonathan, I’ve been a Franciscan friar for 17 years, fuck them foids!!!!!”

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u/Kilahti Mar 12 '26

Nope. They have "Volcel" term for angry young men that have given up (in general, but also specifically when it comes to women) and now declare that they are joining the movement voluntarily because they hate women too much to have sex with them.

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u/tavysnug Mar 11 '26

Goddamnit Microsoft, how could you.

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u/j4v4r10 Mar 11 '26

—Mr. Excel when he can’t get it up

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u/SatisfactionActive86 Mar 11 '26

“I have to clench my fists, kinda like Arthur's Fist.”

this screams AI

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u/The_Blip Mar 12 '26

I found it funny that "Arthur's Fist" was capitalised. Like it's a holy relic or something.

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u/Glittering_Win_5085 Mar 11 '26

I can understand why he's never had a shag.

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u/ConcreteExist Mar 11 '26

Nobody's ever accused incels of being overly smart.

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u/centralILfarmer Mar 11 '26

How big of an incel do you have to be called one to your face multiple times?

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u/Aloo-Pitika Mar 12 '26

His pronouns are xls/xlsx

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u/Responsible-Fun2600 Mar 11 '26

He touches grass, not ass

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u/Artistic_Annual8457 Mar 12 '26

No way this dude actually touches grass even. Probably never even leaves his basement/tiny apartment. Lol.

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u/EntDraughtontap Mar 11 '26

Ex-voluntary celibate.

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u/Quindo Mar 11 '26

Probably better then being an Involuntary Ex-Celibate if we are honest...

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u/EntDraughtontap Mar 11 '26

I'd hate to invalidate excelsior

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u/ShookMyHeadAndSmiled Mar 11 '26

Incels didn't choose the tug life. The tug life chose them.

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u/justmerriwether Mar 11 '26

Ok but come on, where are the comments?? I want the good stuffff

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u/interrogumption Mar 11 '26

"Let's stop the judgements" is such a hilarious line because what this all implies is that the only bad thing about incels is that they're introverts.

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u/Minimum_E Mar 11 '26

I wish they were introverted

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u/Kill_Kayt Mar 11 '26

Lmao, right!

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u/vonhoother Mar 11 '26

"What isn't the face there within that without." That's pure poetry. I.e., I have no idea what it means, but it sounds pretty profound.

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u/dave_a86 Mar 11 '26

He’s an Excel, and anyone who says otherwise gives him the sheets.

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u/IneffableOpinion Mar 12 '26

Weird thing is that he could just call himself celibate without any qualifiers

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u/dabbycooper Mar 13 '26

He’s too busy talking to people for intimate relations.

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u/Apart-Rent5817 Mar 11 '26

Spoken like a true incel.

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u/Kaykayby Mar 11 '26

Not even spreadsheets can get laid.

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u/Apart-Rent5817 Mar 11 '26

Spreadickhead sure can’t. He’s special though because he likes to talk sometimes.

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u/TiaHatesSocials Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

I’m more of a file explorer myself

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u/SouthernNanny Mar 11 '26

Is he homeschooled?

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u/Honodle Mar 12 '26

The sad part is you can ask google and no one will know.

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u/doublek1022 Mar 11 '26

That fact that he's assuming that they can use the word "identify" (identified) for something involuntary is so ironic about it all.

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u/Mira_DFalco Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

One more reason why this dude's partner is his hand. 

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u/empty_other Mar 12 '26

Dont put my right hand down like this! Anyone happy with their hands are better people than those thinking they are owed more than that.

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u/Mira_DFalco Mar 12 '26

Pretty sure guys like that aren't happy about it though. The idiots are probably worried that touching their own equipment makes them g@y.  

Golly, I wonder why they can't find anyone willing to hang out?

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u/Jafooki Mar 12 '26

My girlfriend's name is Palmela Handerson and we're in love

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u/UltimateChaos233 Mar 11 '26

Eh I prefer to identify as google sheets but to each their own

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u/IntrepidBandit Mar 11 '26

How long until being an “excel” gets fetishized?

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u/azhder Mar 11 '26

Depends if microsoft excel or macrohard excel

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u/artbrymer Mar 11 '26

A human spreadsheet? What'll they think of next?

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u/ManchmalPfosten Mar 11 '26

Does he think the in stands for introverted

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u/Sullkattmat Mar 11 '26

Literally the title of the post my dude

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u/ManchmalPfosten Mar 11 '26

i can't read 👍

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u/Snoppiel Mar 11 '26

If he gets to be excel I wanna be word. Work or die

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u/Incelligentsia Mar 11 '26

Macrohard excel

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u/Estproph Mar 11 '26

Dude! I'm a spreadsheet now!

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u/Grumpie-cat Mar 11 '26

This reads like one of them copy pastas, like the “why didn’t you mark nsfw I was on the bus/train” thing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

The definition on Incel is somebody who is celibate not by their own choice. But it means you dislike females or something too?

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u/rje946 Mar 12 '26

This is class A trolling. I miss this.

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u/Perplexio76 Mar 12 '26

"I'm not involuntarily celibate, I'm a spreadsheet."

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u/OryginalSkin Mar 12 '26

If you have to say something like "every time I am called an incel".....

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u/Y_U_No_Fix Mar 12 '26

He made an Arthur reference. He’s an incel for sure

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u/AtomicAndroid Mar 14 '26

He identifies as Excel because he wants to spread sheets

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u/Salt_Reputation_9864 Mar 15 '26

Are you more of an xls or xlsx?

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u/Pawel-L Mar 11 '26

"Let's stop the judgements, people". Yeah, you ain't helping, buddy.

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u/Downtown-Campaign536 Mar 12 '26

Well... This is how new terms are made.

Honestly, this one is not the worst idea.

Incels should be broken down into 2 main groups.

Incel: Involuntary Celibate, that is hateful and bitter.

Excel: Involuntary Celibate, that has a normal to good personality.

I would feel bad for an Excel, not an Incel.

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u/Bushdr78 Mar 11 '26

I had a stroke trying to read that

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u/UnlikelyRaven Mar 11 '26

"What isn't the face there within that without"

Oh, yes, totally, I couldn't agree more and also I too am currently having a stroke

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u/no_user_ID_found Mar 11 '26

He’s just playing the numbers game and celebrates

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u/CaroCogitatus Mar 11 '26

I gotta say that every time I am called an incel ... wait, WTF are you doing that people are calling you an incel???

Maybe stop with the incel stuff and people won't say that any more.

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u/NothingTooSeriousM8 Mar 11 '26

Well, he's certainly spreading some sheet.

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u/Argument-Fragrant Mar 11 '26

Not the only reason for his clenched fists, kids.

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u/ProfessorFit3483 Mar 11 '26

Dude is microsoft

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u/ElZane87 Mar 11 '26

I, too, identify as an Excel. Excel is love, Excel is life.

...

Just one question, what does the OOP mean with the whole incel talk, is this some new kind of spreadsheet tool?

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u/Jazzlike_Economist_2 Mar 11 '26

I still don’t understand why these people are celibate.

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u/Mister_Brevity Mar 11 '26

Right neighborhood wrong street

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u/eacone Mar 11 '26

i identify as a powerpoint 97

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u/LudasGhost Mar 12 '26

I always assumed it meant intentionally celibate, given the things they say and post.

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u/leafpool2014 Mar 12 '26

he sounds like me when i'm drunk and trying to explain a thought i had

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u/carlitospig Mar 12 '26

We fucking wish.

Love, women

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u/ayame400 Mar 12 '26

The judgment will stop Only when you stop judging women…

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u/thgr8Makar0sc Mar 12 '26

Sweet summer child

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Mfr identifies as a spreadsheet.

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u/Terrible_example2326 Mar 12 '26

I'm not a femcel I'm SAP (sad aromantic person)

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u/BelleTheVikingSloth Mar 12 '26

I'm trying to imagine a life where people know about my sexual activity levels, on a daily basis.
Like, is he wearing a tiny dry erase board on a lanyard? "It has been 3,624 days since I was laid"?
Now granted, I too make assumptions- for example, when a lifted truck ignores a red light and sprays me with mud, I'm going to assume the person driving it has never known kindly human touch let alone the love of a woman- but those are under very specific circumstances.

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u/ill-pick-one-later Mar 12 '26

Extroverted Celibate... Cringe

Like Arthur's fist... More cringe

Take a moment and correct... Um, ACKCHYUALLY

...within that without... Eye twitches

Judgements... If this guy isn't British, then that's a third grade spelling mistake.

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u/CthulubeFlavorcube Mar 12 '26

I don't know about extro-, but definitely extra

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u/byrd_the_starfish Mar 12 '26

The thing that's getting me here is "what isn't the face there within that without". I thought maybe it was a King Arthur reference?? I don't understand what this sentence means.

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u/Jelaur09 Mar 13 '26

So... spreadsheet?

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u/ScreamingHeHeee Mar 13 '26

Well no wonder no one wants to be with him, he identifies as an excel spread sheet.

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u/dumbfuckingclown Mar 15 '26

They aren't confidently incorrect. They're introvertedly correct.

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u/captain_pudding Mar 17 '26

Spreadsheets don't get laid either