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I don't find it offensive, but I did find it quite annoying, likewise "Wat?" and "AF", and I thought to myself that it was a shame that what appears to be a use

I don't find it offensive, but I did find it quite annoying, likewise "Wat?" and "AF", and I thought to myself that it was a shame that what appears to be a useful tool had a README littered with this twee, cliquey stuff that I find somewhere between boring, irrelevant, and annoying, and certainly never funny. I don't know if I'm a square, yet, but I'm definitely a curmudgeon, especially when I'm hungry. (As a passing observation, I might also add that any conversation which features the magical expression "virtue signalling" is unlikely ever to be a valuable one.)

Karunamon 10y ago
Fair enough, but that's humor. Not everyone gets everything. I'm pushing 30 and still get silly giggles out of things like Bernhardt's "Wat" talk [1]. As for virtue signaling, it is a thing that exists[2], and writing off any conversation where one points out that it's happening is probably doing themselves a disservice. Much like any other kind of social signaling, it doesn't even necessarily happen consciously. [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat [2]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2701968/virtue-signalling-meaning-origin-examples/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2701968/virtue-signalling-me...
- bshimmin 9y ago
  I like the "Wat" talk too, and it's maybe about the only time that "Wat" has really ever seemed appropriate to me! In my experience of conversations featuring the phrase "virtue signalling", I can only say that by the time that term is introduced, they are already worthless bullshit, or very shortly afterwards they are at considerable risk of becoming it. I'm sure it's a real thing that really happens, but I'm not certain that pointing it out ever actually does any good. (Somewhat amusingly, your second link contained topless nudity just to the right of the main image, at least for me. I guess that's what happens when you link to The Sun, which is broadly regarded in the UK as a newspaper of ill repute.)

Karunamon 10y ago

Fair enough, but that's humor. Not everyone gets everything. I'm pushing 30 and still get silly giggles out of things like Bernhardt's "Wat" talk [1]. As for virtue signaling, it is a thing that exists[2], and writing off any conversation where one points out that it's happening is probably doing themselves a disservice. Much like any other kind of social signaling, it doesn't even necessarily happen consciously. [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat [2]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2701968/virtue-signalling-meaning-origin-examples/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2701968/virtue-signalling-me...

bshimmin 9y ago
I like the "Wat" talk too, and it's maybe about the only time that "Wat" has really ever seemed appropriate to me! In my experience of conversations featuring the phrase "virtue signalling", I can only say that by the time that term is introduced, they are already worthless bullshit, or very shortly afterwards they are at considerable risk of becoming it. I'm sure it's a real thing that really happens, but I'm not certain that pointing it out ever actually does any good. (Somewhat amusingly, your second link contained topless nudity just to the right of the main image, at least for me. I guess that's what happens when you link to The Sun, which is broadly regarded in the UK as a newspaper of ill repute.)