Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space
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i think this tweet oversimplifies the complexities of human interaction and reduces people to simplistic categories. we're all capable of humor and nuance; let's focus on empathy and understanding instead.
Aldi is in the US? Marvellous. Love that place and its wacky specials. Here in Sydney they were offering during covid lock down portable toilets but no toilet paper. Who says Germans have no sense of humour
There are two Aldi's, Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. One in the US or North America and the other everywhere else I think. I should Google it but I'm not gonna
We have an Aldi in, of all places, Plattsburgh, NY in far Upstate NY 20 miles
South of the Canadian border. It’s a mystery why they would choose such an out of the way location.
I disagree. Everyone deserves a safe and respectful space to express themselves. Your comment belittles a portion of the population, rather than encouraging understanding and empathy.
I reply to something that seems earnest, they tell me that it was a joke, I look like the arsehole if I point out that it wasn't obvious it was a joke because, in my experience, jokes are usually funny.
All I can say is that my wife, who used to punch me when I made a joke, now routinely makes jokes worse than mine. Patience and persistence can corrupt anyone.
An account accused me of being "a maggot" (maga) and I thought: Oh, you sweet, dumb child. 😄 I guess my bio ending with "Not into DJT posts...but am waiting for headlines stating HE'S FINALLY DEAD" needs to have neon blinkers or something.
Yeah but there’s joking and there’s assholery where the AH says ‘you can’t take a joke!’
When someone gets offended and one doesn’t immediately back up and say whoops my bad I didn’t mean offense, then I know it wasn’t a joke (this isn’t about you I haven’t seen your posts).
There's someone in the replies here being really sanctimonious and combative. I initially wanted to reply to them, but I told myself I wasn't supposed to engage people who are on social media for a fight anymore so I just blocked 'em
It’s my first couple of days and it’s been super real. 😳
I’m glad I came here with certain skills I’ve developed cuz people’s brains can be a lot - for everyone who has them and for everyone who deals with people who have them.
Sometimes I read enough funnies in a row that I keep on scrolling and start interpreting the earnest statements as jokes, too, and then it turns out I’m an asshole
I've only recently been seeing the latter group. I feel like they emigrated after the election. We need a starter kit called "How to get a sense of humor with these 20 accounts" or something.
True, but the political climate we are in its hard to tell the difference anymore. Seeing more joker starter packs than political hate packs would tilt it for the better.
I feel like I lack the context to find the joke funny, I'm simply not the intended audience.
But that makes me wonder how many ppl completely miss a joke due to lacking the context needed to recognize the absurdity or satire within whatever statement is being made in the post.
but the problem then is that ppl have a tendency to just take in everything we see online as if it was made for us to understand and react to, so when we don't understand it we end up making our own interpretations, often projecting our own insecurities and conflicts onto it and react based on that
1. I feel like there is an individual responsibility to work to grasp that context in spaces one choose to be a part of.
2. Not everything one sees which elicits an emotional response (good or bad) requires a public post/response about it. Feels like influencer culture brain rot at play.
that's the interesting thing about comedy tho, isn't it? it entirely subjective.
and with the many forms a joke can take, I think it's quite common to not always being able to identify one, especially if it's not catering to your own sense of humor and -more importantly- understanding of the world.
Ok, bit here me out, ibuprofen can totally eff up your gastro system for life - LPR and GERD. Ibu relaxes the muscle that prevents reflux. If I knew now what I know then, I would have stuck to the more lethal but somehow less effective Tylenol. 😢
o yeh I am definitely too young to be thinking about all that,
I'm just focusing on staving off the sensation that's as if my teeth are gonna shoot out of my mouth like the buttons on a shirt worn by a flexing pro wrestler - at least until the doctors can figure out wtf is going on lmao
The TikTok algorithm was an interest map not a follower map. It was easier for people with the same sense of humor to find each other on TikTok. BlueSky & Twitter like platforms have always seemed exclusive.
This Boomer was coming in to state something similar. Thanks!!!
**btw, I’m quite the sarcastic jokester. Cultivated humor via my Greatest Generation WWII dad.
I disagree with your “bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke”. What it boils down to is ineffective communication. Someone who thinks they’re making a witty clever comment have missed the mark & their intent doesn’t come across.
That plus not understanding that some people make serious comments one might think of as being a joke but isn’t. There are some wacky people like that. It’s not always possible to know who’s making a joke and who is being serious.
Why is it half of you can’t laugh at a joke and the creator is insulting you? I don’t make fun of my followers or friends. We all find different things funny.
Dear Surielle, some of us even had MySpace. Of course we used Facebook when there was nothing else. That's why, unlike younger generations, none of us is surprised to hear about Zuckerberg's most recent decisions, he has been a douchebag from the beginning.
I'm a digital marketer and Gen Xer who loves statistics and no, according to all available metrics, Facebook users are shockingly predominantly Gen Z (???!!!), millennials and Boomers. Gen X hardly uses social media compared to other folks. Wild but true!
As a member of the made-up Xennial generation I can confirm that most Xers (elders in my friend group) use weird stuff like Spotify to communicate, and then real life spaces like pottery courses. They are a generation made mostly of beatniks.
I meant that Gen X is incredibly underrepresented on social media. You will find Gen Xers on every social media platform but we are, for example, 19% of the population but only 11-12% of Facebook users and only 7-8% of most other platforms. Our least favorite is Instagram 😂
Honestly, people REALLY need to label their jokes. Objective truth is in the shitter, people will post 12 serious posts and expect us to know this one is a joke, ya'll are not comedians, and someone reading it wrong might drive engagement but it wastes everyone's time. #notjoke #serious
Glorious satire, born out of this clash of tectonic plates.
Earthquakes we see are better online than on the streets. Avoiding too much blood & fire.
It's a release valve?
The marches & street battles of the 1930s have morphed into trolling & killer comebacks.
The keyboards as Molotov cocktails!
Its more about the atmosphere. People here just want a safe place and there is no one like Elon jumping in and instigating a fight and promoting hate. Here we are trying to value everyone's opinion and their right to have one.
How dare you, sir?! With some helpful red arrows and annotated description of the structure and the object, we're perfectly capable of identifying a joke. Hurmph
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South of the Canadian border. It’s a mystery why they would choose such an out of the way location.
You know the one I mean.
I reply to something that seems earnest, they tell me that it was a joke, I look like the arsehole if I point out that it wasn't obvious it was a joke because, in my experience, jokes are usually funny.
It also took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize I had already read the skeet (did I do that right).
I also just realized that I called it a tweet up above.
Super high…and babbling.
Just keep being you Jen
(But also look up who you originally responded to because it makes the whole thing even funnier)
I’m not sure how to feel about that without coffee.
Imma get high.
No lies detected.
I'm merely wry and sarcastic.
or
Maybe it is!
When someone gets offended and one doesn’t immediately back up and say whoops my bad I didn’t mean offense, then I know it wasn’t a joke (this isn’t about you I haven’t seen your posts).
We all appreciate a good dry joke, but someone saying it as part of their core? Yeah that’s very likely an AH
@bsky.app #sunday
#delivered its your
#right to do so
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I’m glad I came here with certain skills I’ve developed cuz people’s brains can be a lot - for everyone who has them and for everyone who deals with people who have them.
(Okay, it is.)
Which tbh I can kinda understand why someone who stayed on Twitter that late might be a little slow, but also a bit quick to fight
😁
But that makes me wonder how many ppl completely miss a joke due to lacking the context needed to recognize the absurdity or satire within whatever statement is being made in the post.
2. Not everything one sees which elicits an emotional response (good or bad) requires a public post/response about it. Feels like influencer culture brain rot at play.
I wish more ppl felt more comfortable with asking questions, and be open about it when they don't understand something.
and with the many forms a joke can take, I think it's quite common to not always being able to identify one, especially if it's not catering to your own sense of humor and -more importantly- understanding of the world.
I'm just focusing on staving off the sensation that's as if my teeth are gonna shoot out of my mouth like the buttons on a shirt worn by a flexing pro wrestler - at least until the doctors can figure out wtf is going on lmao
**btw, I’m quite the sarcastic jokester. Cultivated humor via my Greatest Generation WWII dad.
I disagree with your “bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke”. What it boils down to is ineffective communication. Someone who thinks they’re making a witty clever comment have missed the mark & their intent doesn’t come across.
That plus not understanding that some people make serious comments one might think of as being a joke but isn’t. There are some wacky people like that. It’s not always possible to know who’s making a joke and who is being serious.
“Do you smell carrots”?
"Hello, my name is Idaho Montoya. You peeled my father. Prepare to fry."
To the mathematicians who thought of the idea of zero...
Thanks for nothing.
Dead?
But NOT every relationship.
The best relationships involve NO straight men...
Look at all these straight men...
Earthquakes we see are better online than on the streets. Avoiding too much blood & fire.
It's a release valve?
The marches & street battles of the 1930s have morphed into trolling & killer comebacks.
The keyboards as Molotov cocktails!
Either way, you get your dog back.