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sinesalvatorem:

loki-zen:

So I was at a friend’s housewarming do and I was chatting to her boyfriend who I don’t know majorly well but love to chat to because he is 

a) a Genius

b) someone who geeks out about the same random shit I geek out about, like history and linguistics

and he was talking about Carribean varieties of English for some reason that I don’t recall and I was like ‘so I talk to this person from the Carribean on the internet and she showed me this dancehall music and it has some bizzare features’ and he was like ‘SCORN DEM’ and I was like holy fuck

so it turned out that he doesn’t actually follow @sinesalvatorem but does follow like someone who follows someone who follows her or something, so he had read the whole thing and even recognised my tumblr name when I said it and like

two worlds colliding in this really weird way

#amazing

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #high context jokes

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“And if you, gentle reader, have never seen a nervous rocket mechanic, complete with monkey suit, being buzzed by nine thousand demented bats and trying to beat them off with a shovel, there is something missing from your experience.”

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#out of context quotes robnost style #it is rare that I see something and think ‘…I’m going to blog this.’ #but this was one of those occasions #oh look an original post

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justice-turtle:

useless-swedenfacts:

my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language 

oh my god that would be so useful for slash porn, why have not english-speaking fanfic writers borrowed this yet

get on that ^_^

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#language

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sinesalvatorem:

brin-bellway:

sinesalvatorem:

I am amused to see a bunch of posts saying “tag 12 followers…” in my social sphere, because

Like,

The 12 is a lie. The OP that I got the meme from said “20”. It just so happens that, when I wrote my entry, I only thought of 12 people to tag off the top of my head.

Then I thought “Should I look at my follower list? Why? Because a meme told me to? HA! I am an independent black woman and I don’t need no meme tellin me what to do.” And I snapped my fingers three times to level up my inner goddess.

And now there are a bunch of people using something that I pulled out of my arse as if it had been declared by G-d Himself. I’m no long sure whether my name is ‘Alexander Hamilton’ or ‘Moses’.

…are you okay? The level of superiority oozing off this post is really out of character for you.

I’m not sure whether the problem is with the sender or the receiver, but clearly at least one of us is fucked up right now.

Oh nooooo. I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke. It’s very distressing to learn that I landed in the uncanny valley of unironic superiority. Should I just delete this?

“I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke.”

Hmm. Assessing it from that viewpoint, I think the main problem is that you didn’t use your “not serious” tag. I mean, if we start from the assumption that it’s not going to have that tag, you could maybe have compensated by adding more over-the-top-ness, but as I understand it “making sure it’s 100% clear a jokingly mean post was not genuinely mean, in case it turns out to be insufficiently over-the-top on its own” is that tag’s main purpose (or one of its main purposes, anyway).

“Should I just delete this?”

I’m not sure how much that would accomplish? I think if I were you, I would edit the post’s tags to add the “not serious” tag and a commentary tag explaining that the “not serious” tag was originally missing. That would probably minimise both distress and confusion among people catching up later.

(I just remembered that in the tags of your reply, you referred to confusion as one of the reactions people might have to the OP. When I say “and confusion”, I’m referring to the possibility of latecomers finding taken-seriously reblogs of an OP that either A: doesn’t exist, or B: said explicitly in its tags that it was joking, depending on which of those you did.)

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#reply via reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

I am amused to see a bunch of posts saying “tag 12 followers…” in my social sphere, because

Like,

The 12 is a lie. The OP that I got the meme from said “20”. It just so happens that, when I wrote my entry, I only thought of 12 people to tag off the top of my head.

Then I thought “Should I look at my follower list? Why? Because a meme told me to? HA! I am an independent black woman and I don’t need no meme tellin me what to do.” And I snapped my fingers three times to level up my inner goddess.

And now there are a bunch of people using something that I pulled out of my arse as if it had been declared by G-d Himself. I’m no long sure whether my name is ‘Alexander Hamilton’ or ‘Moses’.

…are you okay? The level of superiority oozing off this post is really out of character for you.

I’m not sure whether the problem is with the sender or the receiver, but clearly at least one of us is fucked up right now.

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#or ‘was fucked up at the start’ I guess #I mean definitely I’m fucked up *now* #because *damn* does this hit my ‘following rules is against the rules’ buttons #eventually I managed to come up with a reasonably polite phrasing for this post #the original had a lot more swearing and italics #reply via reblog

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ilzolende:

Name: Ilzolende “Ilzo” Kiefer

Tagged by: @sinesalvatorem, @arbitrarilychosen, @ozymandias271

Sign: I think the last time I had to make up a name for myself in ASL it was the computer symbol, but with my first initial instead of the letter “c”. So, for your purposes, IIRC, my right hand forming the letter “I” and bouncing along my left arm. Alternately, the image in my sidebar.

Height: 4’11”, 5’ if I puff up my hair and wear bulky shoes and smile at the measurer.

Average hours of sleep: No comment.

Lucky number: Sm0lzolende liked reciting powers of two.

Last thing Googled: “metal laf”

Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 blanket and 1 duvet.

Favourite fictional character: The Bell template from @luminousalicorn

Favourite book: Off Armageddon Reef?

What are you wearing right now: Jeans, button-down blouse (I think I wore this one to Solstice), bathrobe.

When did I start this blog: 2015-01

Amount of followers: 302

What do I post mostly: School stuff, morally iffy speciesism, website aesthetics, generic somewhat angry transhumanism.

Do I run any more blogs? [soon-to-be-deleted failed sideblog], ilzolende.neocities.org (which has much of the content of the failed sideblog), my Diaspora*.

Most active follower: @sinesalvatorem talks to me the most, @brin-bellway likes lots of my stuff.

What made me get a Tumblr: Wanting to interact with cool rationalists.

Why did I get this URL: Picking a name from my list of Rinkworks-generated PC names for tabletop gaming that had no other associations in Google.

Tagging: @theicalife, @blastfarmer, @thetransintransgenic, @jaiwithani, anyone else tagged in this post, anyone else interested.

You’re at least the fourth person to say that about me. Apparently I must be rather more free with likes for people I follow than most people are.

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#reply via reblog

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lucassfilm:

 

sdhs-rationalist:

scientiststhesis:

4lung:

brotoro:

niamhrhymeswithleave:

Help me what is an apple Luke trousers

honey

FUC

someone explain this to the non-native-English-speaker?

native english speaker, just as lost as you are

I tried using the XKit TagViewer on this post and got several people saying the punchline was “Apple Bottom Jeans”.

I still don’t get it. I mean, I’m guessing it’s some kind of joke about Luke Skywalker’s sexual inclinations, but what the hell are “apple bottom jeans”? Is that like a bell bottom?

Apparently it’s a brand. *shrug*

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#reply via reblog #explaining the joke #in which the joke turns out to have multiple layers of incomprehensibility