If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?
“A dog walks into a tavern and says, ‘I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one’.”
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.
those are both assumptions
Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?
I never claimed to be an authority, I just said that’s how I heard that joke explained before. Because whoever wrote the joke has been dead for an incredibly long time and if it’s funny to someone today in whatever context it’s fine. Are you claiming that if we can’t come up with the actual context to explain the ancient Sumerian joke then it is permanently not funny without context and that ancient Sumer was the OG tiktoker for not providing all the context?
This stupid TikTok joke may be dug up in thousands of years by some advanced machine version of us and they may do the same, of trying to figure out context and maybe getting a laugh, though thanks to the fact that commenters have explained it, perhaps they’ll scrape other metadata as well and figure out the original context. And if not, and they get a laugh out of however they understand it, that’s pretty neat too.
We are children in a vast enveloping cosmic dark. We should be serious about things that truly matter, mostly about trying to help each other and move forward as a species, and laugh or brush off things that we think are dumb.
You’re totally right I assumed.
If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.
Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.
Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?
I never claimed to be an authority, I just said that’s how I heard that joke explained before. Because whoever wrote the joke has been dead for an incredibly long time and if it’s funny to someone today in whatever context it’s fine. Are you claiming that if we can’t come up with the actual context to explain the ancient Sumerian joke then it is permanently not funny without context and that ancient Sumer was the OG tiktoker for not providing all the context?
This stupid TikTok joke may be dug up in thousands of years by some advanced machine version of us and they may do the same, of trying to figure out context and maybe getting a laugh, though thanks to the fact that commenters have explained it, perhaps they’ll scrape other metadata as well and figure out the original context. And if not, and they get a laugh out of however they understand it, that’s pretty neat too.
We are children in a vast enveloping cosmic dark. We should be serious about things that truly matter, mostly about trying to help each other and move forward as a species, and laugh or brush off things that we think are dumb.