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I think jokes can act as anti-shibboleth. There are some jokes that are so obvious and overused that it stops being funny to insiders and they moved on. I am th
by GuB-42 3y ago
I think jokes can act as anti-shibboleth. There are some jokes that are so obvious and overused that it stops being funny to insiders and they moved on. I am thinking of something like "Uranus" -> "your anus". I may be wrong with my example but I suppose astronomers like toilet humor as much as anyone else, but at some point, they need to do their thing without getting constantly distracted by that planet name, so they just stop joking about it.
It is not always obvious which jokes are off limits. Because they may not be bad or offensive, it is just that they interfere with day to day activity, and outsider may not know what are these day to day activities and how disruptive it is.
- riversflow 3y agoIronically enough here is a direct counter to that example(Uranus jokes in Astronomy) that I remembered reading here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38700841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38700841
- riversflow 3y agoThis is embarrassingly wrong, linked the wrong comment. Meant this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38699883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38699883 Which was hidden because the parent was flagged, I guess for being petty.
- juped 3y agoAnd yet plenty of people repost the same unfunny xkcds over and over to an endlessly delighted audience.
- ithinkso 3y ago> the same unfunny xkcds over and over to an endlessly delighted audience. I guess you are just not one of the lucky 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/