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The day that Cute Girls N Nerdy Tshirts makes HN's front page is the day I'll know that it's not just suspending in the air over the shark, but actually over it
by ahoyhere 16y ago
The day that Cute Girls N Nerdy Tshirts makes HN's front page is the day I'll know that it's not just suspending in the air over the shark, but actually over it.
Now, I get what you mean. HN seems largely humorless. Everybody's trying to out-intellectualize everybody else (with a greater or lesser degree of success).
For example: People stop using contractions, or wanna/gonna. "You are" "I am" "It is" -- even you were doing it in your replies to what I'll call the 'Spock subthread' here on this item.
Other signs include the (usually incorrect) applications of rhetorical/logical fallacies, and talking about 'the facts' as if any one blog post or video could possibly convey all 'the facts' about a situation, and that which 'facts' are chosen to be presented is not an entirely subjective thing.
When I write "gonna" etc. here and use smilies, I'm pretty sure people think less of me. That's fine, cuz I know I'm smarter than they are. ;) But when I write a really hilarious essay ripping something up, and that something is related to startups or programming, it typically ends up on here one way or the other. I'm not the only one.
Then the comments are all deadly serious. Such is the cycle of life, and HN's tone, for better or for worse.
But HN isn't actually humorless, it just likes to keep it hidden under its hat... you know, the one with the special proturbation up front for our unusually prodigious forebrains.
- Freebytes 16y agoTo allow a meter of incongruity with the current culture would result in a mile of abuse. I would prefer a humorless HN than a 4Chan style ego trough (for the lulz) to satisfy people that should not be here.
- jacquesm 16y agoI think part of the problem is how serious people take themselves. HN is a reflection of all the personalities of all those that take part in it and it exhibits a tendency to pretend to be very busy making millions of dollars, whereas actually there seems to be more interest in which celebrity is using what gadget. If that's the choice, then I'll take the humorous post of Daniel any time over the Fake Steve jobs item currently on the homepage, at 131 points and 124 comments it must be really important, or the latest joelonsoftware or sethgoldin post that is going to make us all millionaires.
- ahoyhere 16y agoexhibits a tendency to pretend to be very busy making millions of dollars Haha, yeah. But, regarding Daniel's humorous post, a combination of cute girls in geeky shirts is more sad than funny, don't you think? In a meta sense: "Why is this remarkable?" It's like posing sleeping kittens and babies with 40s of Mad Dog. The humor is in the incongruity. Meaning... 1. We don't talk to cute girls 2. We wish cute girls wore these nerdy shirts so we'd feel validated 3. The girls who actually do wear these shirts, we don't like 4. Boooo.