• frog@feddit.uk
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      The term jerk came from this point in history.

      “The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerking.”

      This was mistranslated to:

      “The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerk.”

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOP
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      Historically at least 1 person has jacked off

      (This is also a play on rage comics which often started with “le me doing an action” while also having a general theme of “random = funny”)