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[–] [email protected] 96 points 11 months 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] 62 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don't get it. His trolling is pretty good but it's not exactly top notch comedy just to say "no you're wrong" a hundred times

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

The bottom image is pretty much why it's funny to me.

Apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite.

Tons of people keep trying to convince him even though he's just saying "no you're wrong" over and over again.

[–] pdxfed 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The point is that when you're an adult and talking to a child, you can't talk to them like an adult. When you're dealing with someone without the faculties or desire to engage in informed debate, just save your breath.

Actually incredibly instructive to US readers at the moment given our horrific levels of education and high levels of misinformation and bias in media.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

His trolling is top notch, like the smoothness of a sharks skin.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

His trolling is obvious, yet so many people take it seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It brings engagement to his page.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Wild_Mastic 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.

[–] essteeyou 6 points 11 months ago

No, they're thick from all angles.

[–] SpaceNoodle 28 points 11 months ago

It's funnier this way.

[–] shalafi 22 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Case in point

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm convinced! Sharks are smooth

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

You forgot one more point:

  1. Sharks are smooth.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dkarma 14 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CheesyFox 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] TrickDacy 13 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Post of the century.

[–] Daft_ish 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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