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I lost it at the quoted text, haven’t laughed this much in days. Classic HN sentence fragment of middlebrow dismissal with just enough obliviousness to social n

I lost it at the quoted text, haven’t laughed this much in days. Classic HN sentence fragment of middlebrow dismissal with just enough obliviousness to social norms that it might be satire, but with such deadpan delivery you just don’t know. Pure gold.

271828182846 5y ago
It is obviously a joke ... and that's about as obvious as it gets.
- ruined 5y ago
  Can't tell if you're serious or not. Decent humor is pretty easy to spot. If something is unclear it's probably not a good joke
  - ric2b 5y ago
    No, that's just the US style of humour, where even a laugh-track is recommended to make sure no one misses the joke.
    - ethbr0 5y ago
      If someone had said it to me in real life, I would have laughed. On the internet? Well, those are the people who eat Tide Pods... Ironically, phrasing was a pure product of pre-coffee morning + living in a part of the US where anti-vax comments are a daily occurrence, but it delights me I was responsible for a few smiles. (Including my own, re-reading it) And truth be told, "hot" emerged from morning fugue, after rejecting infected, live, and potentially hazardous as less accurate. Sadly, "tainted" did not occur to me first.
    - dang 5y ago
      Please let's not cross into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - useragent86 5y ago
        Of course not. On HN, joking is a very serious matter.
        dang 5y ago
        Putting down other countries' "style of $X" just leads to nasty things.
        useragent86 5y ago
        I'm an American, and he's mostly right, and I'm not offended, because it wasn't nasty and wasn't about me--it was just a harmless, general observation. What is this world coming to if we can't even discuss regional styles of humor? Dan, may I suggest that you are taking this job too seriously. You are going to look back in the future and wonder why you spent so much time controlling others' speech on a Web site. You're so concerned about HN's value as a vessel, but so unconcerned with the value of what's inside it. You're a talented Lisper who seems to waste most of his time moderating, playing whack-a-troll and arguing with people about arguing (like me, here). You have more potential than you are fulfilling here, and you could be doing much more important things.

271828182846 5y ago

It is obviously a joke ... and that's about as obvious as it gets.

ruined 5y ago
Can't tell if you're serious or not. Decent humor is pretty easy to spot. If something is unclear it's probably not a good joke
- ric2b 5y ago
  No, that's just the US style of humour, where even a laugh-track is recommended to make sure no one misses the joke.
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    If someone had said it to me in real life, I would have laughed. On the internet? Well, those are the people who eat Tide Pods... Ironically, phrasing was a pure product of pre-coffee morning + living in a part of the US where anti-vax comments are a daily occurrence, but it delights me I was responsible for a few smiles. (Including my own, re-reading it) And truth be told, "hot" emerged from morning fugue, after rejecting infected, live, and potentially hazardous as less accurate. Sadly, "tainted" did not occur to me first.
  - dang 5y ago
    Please let's not cross into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - useragent86 5y ago
      Of course not. On HN, joking is a very serious matter.
      - dang 5y ago
        Putting down other countries' "style of $X" just leads to nasty things.
        useragent86 5y ago
        I'm an American, and he's mostly right, and I'm not offended, because it wasn't nasty and wasn't about me--it was just a harmless, general observation. What is this world coming to if we can't even discuss regional styles of humor? Dan, may I suggest that you are taking this job too seriously. You are going to look back in the future and wonder why you spent so much time controlling others' speech on a Web site. You're so concerned about HN's value as a vessel, but so unconcerned with the value of what's inside it. You're a talented Lisper who seems to waste most of his time moderating, playing whack-a-troll and arguing with people about arguing (like me, here). You have more potential than you are fulfilling here, and you could be doing much more important things.