I was out on St Patrick's day and saw a guy go by in a novelty top hat that looked similar to this:
And I shouted "Holy shit! It's St Jamiroquai!" to absolutely zero response
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That's a good one.
A thread here about some recent comments from Hillary Clinton a couple weeks ago led to people saying they don't want to hear from her after losing to a fascist. Someone said we wouldn't be here if she could give a half decent blowjob.
I said "stop blaming women for aging"
Bunch of people (for lemmy's scale) took it as me being a social justice warrior (I guess?) that genuinely meant she got older.
No, I was making a joke about Bill's preference for children. I thought it'd land without extra context. Oh well, at least I sleep at night knowing my name still isn't in the epstein files
"It's not Hillary's fault she's over 14" may have landed better. Possibly. Delivery can be a tricky thing in comedy.
I quote the original Tron a fuckton. "Greetings, Programs!" when I get into work and people are looking for me. Calling people Null Unit. Or last night when someone made a suggestion and I said "no no no no no no" in a sort of higher pitched monotone and none of my friends got it. I was quoting Bit.
I do that with Babylon 5 sometimes. Poor people don't know the hilarity they're missing.
Picking through avocados at the grocery store in a Zathras voice saying, "not the One, not the One, not the One..." sigh
I would have DIED at the sight of this in the store, if your Zathras was even remotely passable so I got the joke.
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He still won’t watch it 😑
Yo. Don’t waste your time with those inoperative data pushers.
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She did not get the joke.
Oh damn. That was gift-wrapped.
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I'm going to need a copy of this now.
I've learned the lemmy requires a "/s" tag 99.99% of the time.
I have one heavily downvoted and removed comment because I sarcastically said something like
"Get the fuck out of here with your well thought through and reasoned opinion. This is the Internet, nuance isn't allowed here"
Oh the irony
impossible!
No, that is absolutely possible. People on Lemmy don't understand sarcasm with out the /s and tend to over explain things to please a voice inside their head that is constantly begging for attention and telling them they have to correct everyone on the internet because everyone else too stupid to write anything coherently.
/s
No I cannot. Because I forgot. It's an 'in the moment' thing and once that moment has passed, it's gone.
I too have the memory of a steel sieve.
I’m steeling this line
^unless I forget it^
Some how we were talking about dogs and giving dog facts. I made a 'dogs can't look up' reference. No one got the joke