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Wednesday January 01, 20
12:48 PM
I'm seeing this all over the place, but I simply don't get it:
Me: Mom, I want to have random item!
Mom: No, we have random item at home.
Random item at home:
And yes, it stops at that point.
Can anyone explain to me what this is supposed to tell me?
Can anyone explain that meme to me?
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If I have trouble installing Linux, something is wrong. Very wrong.
-- Linus Torvalds
(Score: 2, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday January 01 2020, @01:22PM (9 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01 2020, @02:05PM
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/finally-some-good-fucking-food [knowyourmeme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 01 2020, @02:32PM (7 children)
Thank you; that at east explains the origin. I'm still puzzled why anyone would post something like this in a place that doesn't support pictured, without indication that a picture would follow, or what it would depict, in a context where even if you knew that a picture is supposed to follow, you couldn't guess what that picture should be. Well, maybe those who post it generally have no clue about it either, but just ape the form. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01 2020, @05:21PM (5 children)
Memes are now just inside jokes with broader applications, more open to interpretation. No need to "get" them unless you're worried about being cool, just ask "what do you mean by that?"
Personally I find that standard conversations are more effective at information transfer.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 01 2020, @08:23PM (4 children)
The point isn't so much information transfer (were memes ever about that?) but simply making sense.
For example, take the old Soviet Russia meme. Back when I first encountered it, I didn't know that it originated from a TV show, and the reason why it was specifically Soviet Russia was also obscure, but it was immediately obvious that the funny (or, more often, supposedly funny) part was the reversal of the subject and object. It's not that I learned something from it, but I immediately “got it” even though I had zero knowledge about its origin.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 01 2020, @08:43PM
Add in a perpetual generation gap. Kids "get it", while we may not. Remember pig latin and all the other crap we had as kids? It was funny not because it was funny, but because we were getting something over on the old people.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @07:38PM
Sometimes that is true, but not always. I have seen many memes where the general meaning is not obvious and requires previous knowledge. They are simply visual versions of human phrases. Some are more easily understood in context, others make no sense without a more in depth explanation.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 03 2020, @03:21AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @12:56PM
It it doesn't make sense immediately, or you don't find it charmingly stupid and are confused, then the meme is dank.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Wednesday January 01 2020, @10:00PM
There's no picture, just like there's no food at home.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01 2020, @08:08PM (1 child)
Gen Z memes are worse than boomer memes.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @12:12AM
That's until you see memes created by JMichaelHudson and the QAnon boomers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday January 04 2020, @06:29PM
Customer in a grocery shop: Please, is this carrot genetically modified?
Vendor: Why do you ask?
Carrot: Yes, why do you ask?
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design