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The problem aren't puns per-se, it's when people abuse them without rhyme or reason to derail a conversation. It gets real boring real quick. It's especially tr
by simias 9y ago
The problem aren't puns per-se, it's when people abuse them without rhyme or reason to derail a conversation. It gets real boring real quick. It's especially true on the internet where in my experience it seems that half the people received a government-mandated "100 puns you are legally obliged to place once a week in conversations".
I don't have a problem with puns, I have a problem with compulsive, unimaginative, lazy punning. You know, like replying "I did nazi that coming" in reply to a comment mentioning the third reich or WW2. Never gets old.
- edem 9y agoI don't like you. You need to get punted.
- falsedan 9y ago1/6 forced
- awakeasleep 9y agoI describe this as “people using puns to call attention to themselves to the detriment of the conversation.” Wordplay is cool, but when one demands everyone’s acknowledgement by stopping the flow of conversation to interject “Pun [not] intended” or “did you see what I did there” it disrespects everyone present. I think people would do this less if they realized this behavior is the cousin of the person who has to top every story or add the time it happened to them to every discussion.
- dfxm12 9y agoI don't have a problem with puns, I have a problem with compulsive, unimaginative, lazy punning. This isn't a problem unique to puns, but I feel like they do get unfairly punished when talking about overused figures of speech while tired cliches, car analogies that just aren't apt and a ton of mixed metaphors go seemingly unnoticed.