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Lemmy just do some linear algebra at the grocery store (lemmy.world)
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[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Could also be a joke?

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Apparently we don't do jokes on Lemmy.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We really seem to don't. Saw a screenshot of a tweet the other day about someone's dad wanting to take a vacation to the spot where JFK was killed and look around, "just in case the FBI missed something," and people were calling that dude all kinds of awful things instead of just. Laughing. At the joke he was obviously telling

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

That shit was wild. Folks were actually pissed about dad over there.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

And then you try to tell them it's a joke and they say "jokes are supposed to be funny"

But like? It is?? How is it not funny???

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

I guess you'd have to accept that it was an absurd postulate. And they did not.

My favorite was all of the "Doesn't he know this happened 60 years ago!" Like, mf don't YOU know this happened 60 years ago!

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago
  1. This is the internet, there are people who are actually like that, and we're sick of them.
  2. absent tone of voice, intonation, and an understanding of his character, we have no idea if he's joking. It's a story being told second hand through a small amount of plaintext.
[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It’s fairly common for people to miss dry humor, especially online. I can be very deadpan in person and sometimes people who don’t know me well think I’m serious about the most absurd things.

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