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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm completely baffled that these people couldn't recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This is why "/s" was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.

Because human skulls are thick af.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're actually quite thin, like a shark's smooth skin.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's the brain that is smooth tbh, not the skin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I believe it's actually very scratchy. Like sandpaper.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

No, they're thick from all angles.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

It's funnier this way.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

After a commentor stated that Planned Parenthood only uses a tiny bit of their budget for abortions, I linked this:

https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640

The number of lemmings who thought I was serious... jesus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The fuck? This is completely messed up. I cannot agree with the bullshit "facts" stated in this article. 8 billion only netted 8 million terminated unborn lives? Almost $1000 per is definitely not "efficient."

Lemme know when you get below $100 per.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s because sarcasm is usually indicated with vocal intonations, which is lost in text.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.

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[–] smuuthbrane 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] eestileib 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is an interrogation technique: make a presumptive statement, and try to be wrong about it. People will jump out of their skin to correct you, even when they're coached to not answer questions (but honestly it's really hard for people not to answer questions).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cunningham's Law states "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Case in point

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] southsamurai 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm convinced! Sharks are smooth

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This proves two things:

  1. Internet arguments are pointless.
  2. Playing dumb on the Internet and refusing to admit the bit under any circumstances is hilarious.
[–] mod 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You forgot one more point:

  1. Sharks are smooth.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Duh, everyone knows that.

I promise you, sharks are as smooth as freshly shaven legs of a plastic doll, or my name isn't Margot Elise Robbie.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This made me laugh SO hard, I just... I don't know even why.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson's torture chamber: "Shark skin... is NOT smooth as hell!"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that I've just lost several hundred braincells

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Post of the century.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just don't even know how they think this joke is suppose to work while explaining sharks skin is rough to the touch.

"Smooth looking lions that feel rough when you touch them are eating me."

Like, wtf man, why not explain that you cant talk while under water while getting eaten by sharks.

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