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No, that's just the US style of humour, where even a laugh-track is recommended to make sure no one misses the joke.
by 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 agoIf 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 agoPlease 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 agoOf course not. On HN, joking is a very serious matter.
- dang 5y agoPutting down other countries' "style of $X" just leads to nasty things.
- useragent86 5y agoI'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.