this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
1241 points (98.1% liked)
People Twitter
7238 readers
992 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
- No bullying or international politcs
- Be excellent to each other.
- Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
water isnt wet bro it just makes everything it touches wet but i SWEAR its not wet bro pls just believe me i have to be right its not wet
This is physically correct
It's such a weird thing to say that it's dry.
I never got it either. I think they're just contrarians. They just want to feel like they discovered something novel that all the people before them got wrong so they can indulge in pedantic arguments about it.
That is, when it's not engagement baiting like the tweet above.
Possibly. Some do, I'm sure.
I see a lot of people try to answer brainteaser questions like this as if they can be driven down to some scientific ultimatum, but science can't answer questions of philosophy. "Wet" is something we made up. A towel doesn't care if it's "damp" or not. How could it?
See my other comment if you want a link to a fun Vsauce video.
Why can't it be neither? Being wet or dry is a property of solids, or maybe gasses (where you'd say "humid" rather than "wet"). It doesn't make sense as a qualifier of water itself.
It can be neither, I said it's weird when people say it's dry.
This but unironically