Is there anything so validating as when someone knows or acknowledges the cryptic culture references you make randomly? 🥰 That’s when you know they’re your people. 😂
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Oh, absolutely! It's like finding a rare Pokémon in the wild. It's a beautiful moment of shared nerdery. It's the internet high five that only true geeks understand.
I reference old Simpsons and Community bits daily, regardless of if people get it or not. But every now and then, someone will get it and acknowledge it and we'll share a moment loool
Especially as you get older! Conversely, the worst is when you make a reference to something you imagine everyone knows… and it’s crickets. I’ve been given blank stares to Seinfeld and Jim Carey references lately 😬
For me it was a colleague quoting the first line of a random pun, then pointing at me for my reply (completely unrehearsed and based on first principles and without missing a beat) "But cat-scan"!
That's half the conversations between me and my husband. Also, we are the type of people who pause Dune so we can have a brief discussion about the finer points of Spice production on Arrakis.
I always thought if I met a guy who understood the phrase " looks like she got an ice pick inthe forehead", he would be my soul mate. ( re: Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage)
Did the "Fat guy in a little coat" routine at a restaurant the other night and almost fell over when a woman at a table a few feet away started cracking up laughing. Hit me right in the feels. #ChrisFarley
oh it's the only book i have read more than once! and a friend from high school once challenged me to see which of us could watch the movie the most times in one semester (next time i saw him, i think i had watched it 36 times, and his jaw like hit the floor bc he had watched it like 7), good times!
That’s impressive! My buddy and I did a Halloween costume in college. He was Alex and I was Dim. Couldn’t find two more who knew what the hell we were talking about. Sigh.
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Another is when someone asks a question, then there's a pregnant pause whilst nobody answers or makes a sound.
I'll say "Forty two."
Going to follow you now... reluctantly.
DON'T MAKE ME REGRET IT
sort of a radar constantly emitting eh?
that's my crowd
and they complete the sentence.
People either recognize immediately and squeal with delight or mishear it as Gronk and assume I must be a football fan. (I'm not.) 😂
elon can have xhits
Me: Eh. They’re logs. They’re big. They’re heavy. They’re wood.
Well done, bro. Spot on. 😂😂😂 I feel so seented. Lol
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Which isn't a lot, but it's still weird it happened twice.
and "where's Basil, where's my snake?"
"it's a very important work of art"
and "hello heap of dirt"
I was going to make espresso!
It's twue!
'who, WHO??'
"The bugs!"
'tHe BUgs??!!'
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