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I never understood The New Yorker. This is in humor, is this supposed to be funny?
by johntdaly 5y ago
I never understood The New Yorker. This is in humor, is this supposed to be funny?
- francisofascii 5y agoA "Proficient in HTML" title might be more funny to the HN crowd.
- alexb_ 5y ago
- pfortuny 5y agoJust a piece of unsolicited advice: do not reply personally. Take your time and let people just say their thing and leave it at that. It is not so important.
- d--b 5y agoIf it's humor, then I am definitely a target of ridicule, cause I read the stuff thinking: ha! He doesn't even know about Styles, Outlines and Sections.
- deepstack 5y agoYeah The New Yorker always seems pretentious in away how the guy in the bar scene in Good Will Hunting is. Typically cater towards Ivy league educated trust fund crowd.
- arepublicadoceu 5y agoWell, I’m as far removed from a Ivy League education as one can be and I found this quite funny. But I’m also someone who uses Word since early 00s and can relate a lot to this text.
- phone8675309 5y agoThe running joke about the New Yorker is that you can replace any of their comic captions with "Christ, what an asshole" and they still work. Honestly, "Christ, what an asshole" is funnier than anything they caption their comics with, so it's a helpful thing to know.
- jccalhoun 5y agoNew Yorker "humor" columns always seem to be more "humorous" than actually funny. You're lucky if you get a smirk from reading one of them.
- jgwil2 5y agoA classic sendup of the New Yorker from Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fSMUOzufI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fSMUOzufI