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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (6 children)

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

Because human skulls are thick af.

[–] Veltoss 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Wild_Mastic 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.

[–] essteeyou 6 points 1 year ago

No, they're thick from all angles.

[–] SpaceNoodle 28 points 1 year ago

It's funnier this way.

[–] shalafi 22 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[–] technojamin 16 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Case in point

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm convinced! Sharks are smooth

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year 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.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot one more point:

  1. Sharks are smooth.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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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[–] t_berium 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dkarma 14 points 1 year 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.)

[–] fluxion 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CheesyFox 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TrickDacy 13 points 1 year 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] 9 points 1 year ago

Post of the century.

[–] Daft_ish 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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