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They wanted to put it blunt. And hence such a name...
by livealife 7y ago
They wanted to put it blunt. And hence such a name...
- hyperbovine 7y ago"Blunt" just comes off as puerile. Why should I take you seriously when you talk like a teenager.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoI would venture a guess that most (Americans) respond well to teenage-style messaging, given the number of people who voted for a man who made disrespect his mantra. Sigh
- Moshe_Cohen 7y agoThat's one of the more creative opportunities I've seen to shoehorn an "orange man bad" in somewhere completely unnecessary. Get your T levels checked.
- karatestomp 7y agoYou know different adults from just about all the ones I’ve ever met, I guess.
- livealife 7y agoI believe they are up for a noble cause. Please focus their self-quarantine manifesto rather than the "words" they used.
- jungturk 7y agoThat's kinda the issue - the author has (surely inadvertently) diluted the focus of their point with the language choice. I say this as a person who prefers to speak as frankly and casually as the author does, but when going into broadcast mode it's worthwhile to ask yourself if your language supports your mission or not (for instance, by pre-empting the majority of the comments in post that are curious about the language choice).
- kingkawn 7y agoBecause you’ve decided that being performatively uptight is not advantageous to a life fully lived
- happytoexplain 7y agoThis is totally alien to me. I could understand - though not relate - if you were offended, or just thought the use of the word "fuck" here was awkward or tonally inconsistent. But "puerile" and "why should I take you seriously" and "you talk like a teenager" is an absolutely ridiculous reaction to me. I've honestly not met a single person in all my life who reacted like that to a superfluous curse word.
- sojournerc 7y agoThis isn't superfluous... it's in the domain name. Smh
- tomjen3 7y agoBecause it is not about who says it, but about the truth value of it - and the simple fact is that you probably do know some old people you would like to keep alive.
- __ryan__ 7y agoseriouslyjuststayhome.com is just as blunt and not as edgy/cringe-y.
- Aeolun 7y agoThis sounds stilted to me, and not nearly as impactful.
- happytoexplain 7y ago>edgy/cringe-y It's upsetting to me to see these "meme" adjectives used sincerely on HN.
- __ryan__ 7y agoCan you expand on this? What about these adjectives are a meme? To me, the “tech person gives advice while brazenly cursing to show how serious and authoritative they are” is a meme. Edit: I just learned that “cringey” is not In most dictionaries yet (which explains why spell check is saying it’s not a word). That said, the term fills a void where no other term conveniently comes to mind.
- alexandrerond 7y agoI used to do this when I was 15.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago"blunt" does not mean effective. It's not an URL that most people would share at work.
- falcolas 7y agoThe word "fuck" has no real value to it. For those who don't care about the use of "fuck", it comes across with as much impact as an extra exclamation point. However, for those who do care, it immediately makes them hostile to the author's intent. If you want to get your message across to as many people as possible (and why wouldn't you with COVID-19 and the "stay home" message), swearing can only hurt your message.
- happytoexplain 7y agoEvery word in common usage has value to it, because every word in common usage has slightly different meanings, feelings, and implications.