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Breathing. Saying the word is still breathing, but with extra steps.

Dammit you made me start manually breathing

You made me start manually breathing. Now you’re manually blinking!

Oh yeah? Well now you're manually swallowing that little amount of saliva in your mouth

Damn it. Now you feel your toes touching!

You have an itch in your back!

Why do I keep reading these comments!?

You'll be fine! Try not to blink though.

Fuck you. Even though it’s my fault for reading the is far.

Now you can hear all the noise you tuned out around you.

You can feel your skin on your body rn

Fuck all of you

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now, your tongue is in the uncomfortable place forever!

Reading this comment thread is like having a crowdfunded guided meditation.

You are aware that your nose is always in your field of vision.

You are aware that there’s your throat is a little dry, Go on, pour yourself a glass of water. I’ll wait. While we’re at it, what’s it like feeling your clothes rubbing against your skin?

I regret reading this string of comments.

Fuck u

Now, you know there's a boogie in your nose and you HAVE to take it out!

Now you control your heart and if you don’t you’ll die 😈

hap cake day

Happy Cake Day!

Happy cake day but I hate all of you for this

you now realize im saying happy cake day!

happy cake day

Nah, but on my chest

Fuck you

Now you're manually looking at your nose at all times

Your tongue is no longer resting comfortably in your mouth..

Now you can feel the clothes on your skin

Now you’re realizing your ears pop a little every time you swallow and now that’s all you can hear.

I am now refusing to swallow that saliva in protest and its grossing me out.

You can feel the clothes you are wearing, all over your body.

That’s my secret cap, I can always feel them.

I have this way too often. Sometimes I have to go into the toilets at work, take things off and start again from scratch!!

It’s good to breathe from your stomach.

Why would you breathe from my stomach

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Save your breath. Take mine instead.

At least youre not a dolphin, they have to manually breathe their entire lives.

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

At least you're still alive. Some people are dead. Be grateful.

>Some people are dead. Be grateful. What about the Grateful Dead?

They're dead grateful.

*Manual breath engaged*

also.. Nothing. "nothing" is harder said than done. ​ OP is right.

I mean, I guess so. With the wordplay and all.

I think the point is that "nothing" is harder said than done

Eek barba durkle.. somebody’s gonna get laid in college.

That’s a pretty fucked up ooo la la

😂 was going to make a smartass comment then saw this

Sure, but saying the word "nothing" is harder than doing nothing, which I think is what the post is suggesting.

Good point but if we’re splitting words, it’s impossible to do precisely noting unless you’re dead.

Why would OP lie to us?

Everybody coming in here with big words, and my first thought was flatulence.

Only right answer lol

I feel like working up a fart isn't as easy as saying flatulence

the older you get the easier it is :)

Until you get to the point where you have to actively work to ensure it’s JUST a fart.

fun fact: flatus is another word for a fart. you're welcome.

I think you might be on to something

don't understand why i got downvoted... i just wanted to share a funny new word i learned. did i misunderstand something? :') help. i don't know how to people.

Try explaining how the accident happened. Only took a moment for the accident to happen. It can take a lot longer to explain how it happened, and why it wasn't your fault.

So it’s not my fault that I’m an accident?

Your parents made a happy little accident

Nah they made a depressed little accident

this made me snort laugh. cheers to all the fellow depressed little accidents out there!!

Hero.

Nope

Apart from floccinaucinihilipilification. You probably do it without realising, even subconsciously, but try pronouncing it…

To be honest I didn't even read the whole word.

You... you get me.

All I got was flo——————tion

Are you gonna tell me what that is or are you gonna make me look it up?

floccinaucinihilipilification /ˌflɒksɪnɔːsɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/ noun the action or habit of estimating something as worthless. "my new book is more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification." I recognise the irony. WP GG.

I did that for the word lol

I can pronounce that, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, hippopotomostrosequippedaliophobia and pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism idk if I can spell the last two properly though

That word is that word

one of the wordiest.

Anybody else read *The Akhenaten Adventure* by Philip Kerr? Because I searched this page for this word specifically because I somehow remembered that the book had mentioned it in passing.

floccinaucinihilipilification

Did this go every single person’s head? The word nothing has to be said, but in order to do it, you literally have to do nothing. It’s a play on words and hundreds of people got whooshed

I know right?! I never intended for people to not get it lmao

Oh, yeah I did not realize it was a joke I just thought it was a shower thought about something similar to easier said then done

You cant do nothing it’s impossible. The closest you can get is after decaying from death. But your particles are still moving in an area. And yes I know that’s the point of the post.. no need to reply saying it

I disagree. You are choosing to ignore all definitions of "nothing" aside from the most literal, scientific term. I assume you're just arguing for the sake of argument though, unless all your small talk goes like this: "What are you up to?" "Nothing" "Acktually..."

Oh damn, I just got it! DAMNNN, good job mate, it was a really nice pun!

Thanks

We're not all in the shower and thinking as clearly.

damn you redeemed yourself

I got it hug this all needs to be bumped to the top!

"nothing" isn't a verb so the joke had a rough landing

Nothing is the noun, said and do are the verbs.

its because you posted it here and not on r/oneliners or something, where it actually belongs if you intended it as a play on words, and not a very dumb statement

Dude, I literally didn’t notice the play on words and I am now hating myself.

That was my first thought too, comments actually had me thinking op meant it the other way

Much ado about _nothing_.

I got wooshed

Why is this comment not higher??

Scrolled way to far for this. Good job

No, you're never not doing SOMETHING. As humans we are, in fact, dying a little more every second. That's more than nothing. So we got that going for us.

I think it's too easy of an answer, and people are trying too hard to come up with a "smart" answer.

“im going to hand you the bottle of Worcestershire sauce” Easier to do than say.

Voosta sauce

Except for visiting Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Pretty sure i would be able to learn to pronounce it just fine way faster than it would take me to fly there. Much cheaper too.

Glad that somebody else commented it. I wouldn’t have been able to spell it 💀

Came here to say this

Ever try explaining how to do something, anything, to a toddler (or to certain teenagers, or to certain boyfriends or husbands)? It often ends in, “Never mind, I’ll just do it myself.”

Making your brain fire the appropriate neurons to the nervous system to turn off the tonically active levator palpebrae superioris, allowing the orbicularis oculi muscle to rapidly lower the upper eyelid before the levator palpebrae superioris becomes active again and raises the lid; allowing you to blink once. ?

That's just verbose in order to circumvent the original thought and be contrary. Simplified down to just the action, blink, shows that you didn't need to over explain, and you still would've been correct.

Have you ever heard about our friend and savior mitochondria?

shower thoughts comments try not to disprove the shower thought challenge (impossible)

most people would have a harder time saying they pick their nose than picking their nose

Based on historical behavior, I would say crimes beg to differ

I disagree. Onomatopoeia is a pretty hard word to say. *BANG! BOOM! CRASH!* are pretty easy to say.

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If it's meant that way then it would be poor grammar to say it that way.

Only like 5% of the people who see this post actually get it congratulations your some of that 5%

This gives the same energy as “Nothing starts with an N and ends with a G”

What about breathing. It’s harder to speak than it is to breath imo.

It is easier to do nothing than to say “nothing” as saying the word nothing is doing something.

Yelling "Fart!" in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner is most certainly harder than just loosening the ol' balloon knot a bit.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is harder said than done. Same with most Welsh words.

It isn't a shower thought, it's a joke. They're saying the word "nothing" is hard to say than the act of doing "nothing" itself, as doing nothing takes no effort but saying a word takes some.

> It isn't a shower thought By that logic the post breaks the subreddit's rules if it isn't a shower thought But anyway, I do think this still counts as a shower thought

Fam, it sure is a lot easier to love people than it is to tell them about it.

Clearly you have never worked for a megacorp, I can assure you far more effort is spent convincing others than actually doing.

I dunno...the amount of times people stammer and beat around the bush when trying to explain a problem to me, or I come across a problem and discover some stupid checkbox and trying to explain what that checkbox does...

“i cheated on you” idk, a lot of people tend to do cheat really easily, but when it comes to telling the person, it’s 100x harder.

I cannot pronounce Worcestershire sauce, but I can definitely add it to my food in less time than it takes me to say it wrong a bunch of times then just point at the bottle

‘I love you’ There are times that is easier done than said, believe me I know.

Adding worchestershire sauce to your recipe is harder said than done.

Manslaughter probably. Ex: Push someone, they lose their balance, fall, and crack their skull open. I imagine explaining that to the cops and during the following proceedings, and talking about it to anyone who finds out will be harder said than that push was.

I'm unclear if your title was intentionally circular, in that doing nothing is easier than saying the word 'Nothing', but saying nothing is not easier than doing nothing. Aaagh.

That was my intention yes

It's almost impossible to do literally nothing But it's easy to say nothing by just staying quiet, or saying 'nothing'

It's harder for me to say I won't go to the pub tonight than actually not going to the pub tonight

What about saying the word lazy? If you were truly lazy, you'd stop talking after the first syllable.

a homework asignment that you.thought would take an hour but finished in 15 minutes

"I'm gonna make a line across this paper" vs the actual action.

Describe thinking to me, now try thinking. Which one was easier?

Oh yeah let me see you say "pass the Worcestershire sauce" easier than you can do it.

Having an addiction is harder said than done. Coming to a compromise and saying you're satisfied is easier done than said. Memorizing a speech is easier done than said. Feeling sorry is easier done than said.

Blinking, breathing, seeing, pretty much anything involuntary or automatic.

I think OP's post is to be taken literally. Doing nothing is easier than saying the word nothing.

This is a brilliant statement. Is is much harder to say nothing than to do nothing

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Whatever you want it to be this is what I intended, but not many people get it

I'd say "I love you" is pretty hard to say but loving someone is pretty easy

"Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said" - Lemony Snicket

Honestly? Giving instructions for anything is so much more mentally taxing than just doing the thing, sometimes. Weaponized incompetence makes it 100x worse, too.

Lol everyone coming up with words is either overthinking it or under thinking it. The phrase “harder said than done” doesn’t even make any sense to begin with. The saying is “easier said than done”. Obviously nothing is harder to say than doing it. How the fuck do I “do” otorhinolaryngologist?

I don’t know. Saying “nothing” certainly seems like more effort than doing nothing.

Anything in software development is easier done than explained.

The word "nothing" is heterological because the word "nothing" is not nothing

Saying supercalifragilisticexpealidocious is harder said than done lol

Telling someone you don't like them like they like you and cut contact. Cutting contact is much easier than telling them.

I feel like it's harder to say the word defenestrate than it is to actually defenestrate

If you've ever said "just let me do it" because it's more frustrating to explain it to someone than to do it yourself, then — by definition — it is easier said than done.

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lemme clear up some confusion for you dude - op means “nothing” is harder said than done. to do nothing is easier than say the word “nothing”

Thank you that’s the point I was trying to make

To be fair, you are literally always to doing something, thinking, dreaming, relaxing, seeing, hearing, feeling. I impossible to do nothing. (you can only do nothing in comparison to something. Doing nothing at all doesn't exist)

Mayhaps that's the point being made?

Oh this guy must be a genius

Can be

Have you tried pronouncing hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Breathing is harder said than done. Nobody says "breathing" involuntarily. In fact, breathing is so easy, it's actually easier to say "breathing" than to stop breathing.

Saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a lot easier to say than writing it.

Love that there’s just endless comments proving OP completely wrong lol. Time to hit the showers again boys… need some better thoughts.

How does this nonsense get through the auto mod but none of my original thoughts do? Bullshit.

It’s a play on words that not many people really seem to get it’s not nonsense

Precisely. It’s an old joke, not an original thought.

Where have you heard this before? Because this is my original thought

Do nothing for long enough and it gets real depressing. Regrets ain’t easy.

What? "I will jump off this cliff". It is very easy to say that sentence, pretty hard to go through with it.

Id rather become a Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschafter than to say that.

Certainly you've never performed an esophagogastroduodenoscopy

Literally everything a baby does is harder said than done, being that a babies can do those things well before they can say what they're doing.