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Did you even read the comment? That was obvious humor. "It used to be" - 5k years ago "now it'll be swamped with tourists" - today now that its a famous dig s
by surge 4y ago
Did you even read the comment? That was obvious humor.
"It used to be" - 5k years ago
"now it'll be swamped with tourists" - today now that its a famous dig site, people will come to look.
All of it parodying a common refrain from locals when ever a cool local spot gets media attention on the news or some national TV show.
Much like dissecting a frog, explaining humor kills the joke.
To OP: I liked the joke.
- soperj 4y agoIt's interesting seeing a joke as a top comment and someone downvoted for not getting the joke. I feel as though the voting would have been the opposite on this site years ago.
- Aicy 4y agoYep, as much as I enjoy the occasional humour I don't want HN to become reddit.
- surge 4y agoThey were down voted for the way they remarked on it. "Did you even read the article", berating the OP for missing something obvious (and also apparent just from the headline, not just the article). People make jokes sometimes on here, its not all serious business, I don't think it would have been different years ago. You should get down voted for being a bit rude and simultaneously hypocritical because your criticism is also based on also missing something fairly obvious. The OP didn't deserve that comment, and the commenter should be corrected and have it pointed out they're actually the one making the embarrassing mistake.
- serf 4y agoIt's not about not getting the joke, "did you even read the article?" is an explicitly against the rules comment[0], and it's snide to boot. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- samstave 4y agoYou ever go to Turkish Laundry? Nobody goes there any more, too many tourists.