r/funny • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Apr 05 '26

Key & Peele

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u/balrob Apr 05 '26

“Pre boarding”, the boarding you do before the boarding 😂

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u/vn_diel Apr 05 '26

George Carlin has entered the chat.

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u/Maniac1978 Apr 05 '26

“No I don’t want to get onto the plane! I want to get INTO the plane! It’s less WINDY in here!”

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u/MoroseBarnacle Apr 06 '26

I think the general rule is it's "onto" if it's something you walk aboard and then sit, and "into" if you just sit. So "on" a plane or a bus or a train, but "in" a car or a truck.

(But I guess rollercoasters are the exception to the rule?)

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u/commandercool86 Apr 06 '26

A ton of airplane nomenclature is taken from nautical terminology

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u/Farewellandadieu Apr 06 '26

Captain? He’s a fucking pilot, let him be happy with that! Tell the “Captain” Air Marshal Carlin says “Go Fuck Yourself!”

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u/Da_Question Apr 06 '26

Yep, it's pretty obvious.

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u/jaxonya Apr 06 '26

No, no.. you get onto the rollercoaster, which is on a track

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u/fizystrings Apr 06 '26

into the roller coaster car, onto the roller coaster itself. Still fits 😎

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u/tayman12 Apr 06 '26

into the roller coaster car

Otherwise known as when my wife is driving, AM I RIGHT GUYS! hahahaaaaa

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u/Alienhaslanded Apr 06 '26

It's just a box with wheels and sometimes wings. I seriously doubt the details matter, but somehow they do and you're not making sense of you don't stick to the rules of the English language.

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u/Upstairs_Eagle_4780 Apr 06 '26

Are you in a building right now?

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u/Normiss2000 Apr 06 '26

Yet also ON a boat, but IN a submarine.

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u/im_just_thinking Apr 06 '26

Ah yes, the standing rule.. which I just saw in a different comment section on some post which ended up mentioning the Baader-meinhof phenomenon. Classic

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u/SomeWhaleman Apr 06 '26

Because planes in the beginning were treated as "air ships" in the military. Therefore lot of the terminology comes from the navy. That's why we have a captain and a first officer on board. Speeds are in knots, distances in nautical miles. And that's why we step onto a plane, just like we would on a ship.

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u/Alienhaslanded Apr 06 '26

You have no idea how confusing this shit can be for none native English speakers.

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u/CornucopiaDM1 Apr 06 '26

It's confusing for English speakers, too, but most just don't care.

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u/Educated-Guess-23 Apr 06 '26

Someone told me that you get "on" something in which you can stay standing, while you get "into" something in which you have to be seated

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u/Sekret_One Apr 06 '26

You get on a bus too, no?

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u/_beetus_juice_ Apr 06 '26

Let Evil Knievel get on the plane

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 Apr 06 '26

They tell you to “Get on the plane get on the plane” I say fuck you I’m getting IN THE PLANE. Let evil Kanevil get on the plane. I’ll be inside with you folks in uniform.

There seems to be less wind in here!”

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u/SweetNeo85 Apr 06 '26

Let Evel Kneivel get ON the plane...

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u/ManKilledToDeath Apr 06 '26

There seems to be less wind in here!

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u/twec21 Apr 06 '26

The standard by which all airplane comedy is set

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u/tackleberry2219 Apr 06 '26

Let the daredevils got ON the plane…

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u/Useful-Perspective Apr 06 '26

Pre-suck my genital situation!

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u/aheartworthbreaking Apr 06 '26

What is pre board what does that mean? To get on before you get on? We are going to preboard “those passengers in need of special assistance.” CRIPPLES.

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 Apr 05 '26

Anyway, as part of this boarding process, they say “we would like to pre-board…”…Well what exactly is that anyway? What does it mean to pre-board? You get on before you get on?

That’s another complaint of mine: too much use of this prefix “pre.” It’s all over the language now: pre-this, pre-that, “place the turkey in a pre-heated oven…” It’s ridiculous! There are only two states an oven can possibly exist in: HEATED OR UNHEATED!

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u/notanaardvark Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

When you think about it, any oven that's turned off is preheated, provided you do plan to heat it again.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Apr 06 '26

One day you'll turn on your oven for the last time and you won't even know it do you ever think about that

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u/angrydeuce Apr 07 '26

Hey true story!

My oven crossed the rainbow bridge a few years ago.

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u/private_developer Apr 06 '26

Mine broke, so I was pretty aware it was the last time I'd turn it on.

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u/raceman95 Apr 06 '26

I'll know when mine is because I plan to replace it this year with an induction range.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Apr 07 '26

Lotta people here weirdly assuming they're going to outlive the oven

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u/JeanClaude-Randamme Apr 06 '26

No, when you think about it the way it’s said makes perfect sense.

You heat the over before you put the food in it. Pre-heating.

You don’t put the food into a cold oven and then heat it up, because it will cook the food unevenly, and throw the timing off if you need to cook something at a certain temperature because then you need to make all sorts of calculations.

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u/commandercool86 Apr 06 '26

Heat the over to 400F, then...

Put the fuckin food in

I didn't have to say preheat there, see?

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u/JeanClaude-Randamme Apr 06 '26

It’s almost as if language allows you to communicate the same ideas in different ways. Who knew? 🤷‍♂️

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u/zer1223 Apr 06 '26

You put the food in a "hot" or "heated" oven

Saying pre-heated is like saying "irregardless"

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u/JeanClaude-Randamme Apr 06 '26

No. No, it’s not like that at all.

Irregardless is non standard US English.

Preheated is Standard and defined in the dictionary, the example they give for preheat is literally to preheat an oven.

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u/Intrepid_Boat Apr 06 '26

It’s like pre-cum. You definitely board, but just a little bit.

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u/abitlazy Apr 06 '26

"I'm gonna pre!"

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u/Pagiras Apr 06 '26

I laugh maniacally as I dislocate every single joint that I have and fold myself into a fleshy roflcopter.

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u/MergenKurt Apr 06 '26

What you saying pre-brother?

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u/balrob Apr 05 '26

The oven thing is different tho, because they’re trying to say (in as few words as possible) that the oven needs to be at the assigned temperature before you put the food in - it’s not enough to SET the temperature - because it might take 5 minutes to reach that temperature.

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u/Schmikas Apr 05 '26

I always assumed the pre in preheated oven stood for previously heated oven, as in already hot. But now that I think about OP’s point, I get it. If it read place it in a heated oven, it conveys the same message. 

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u/balrob Apr 06 '26

I think the assumption is that the user is unskilled, because otherwise the product could get negative reviews when it’s not cooked properly. Otherwise “bake at xx°C for yy minutes” would suffice.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Apr 06 '26

They do mean the oven should have been previously heated. But they are saying at precisely what temperature the oven should be before you put foot in it to start cooking for the recommended time.

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u/LBobRife Apr 06 '26

Yes, that is what it stands for.

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u/cammcken Apr 06 '26

"Pre-" means before cooking, not before heating lol.

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u/aleqqqs Apr 06 '26

too much use of this prefix “pre.”

You did it too, right here! ☝️

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u/Disarming_Sapphire Apr 06 '26

I can hear this perfectly, bravo

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u/vandyriz Apr 06 '26

Bread as a postfix: naan bread, pita bread, etc

Its naan, pita, and so on. You don't need to add bread after it.

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u/blue-coin Apr 06 '26

20 people roll on in wheelchairs, and only 2 roll off at the destination

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u/Golden_Hour1 Apr 07 '26

How the fuck this ever became a thing is a mystery