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I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet last week. We're still out there. I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this
by munro 3y ago
I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet last week. We're still out there.
I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this one got me:
< pronto> :(
< GiftdKook> Turn that frown upside down!
< korozion> ):
- thunderbong 3y agoSorry, I don't get it!
- another-dave 3y agoPeople say "turn that frown upside down" as a phrase to mean "don't frown, smile!" But the poster flipped the emoji so it was a frowning face pointing right, then a frowning face pointing left
- grozmovoi 3y ago[flagged]
- romwell 3y agoWhat does age have to do with it? "Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent. I don't believe I have ever heard this phrase used IRL. It's not a very nice thing to say in most contexts (saying this to another adult is outright bad - which is what makes the IRC joke funny in the first place).
- bombcar 3y ago"Turn that frown upside down" means to smile, instead, :( to :) But the chatter just flipped the whole face, so it's still sad: :( ):
- crindy 3y ago"Turn that frown upside down" is a way of saying - don't be sad, be happy. Instead of having the corners of your mouth point down (frown), have them point up (smile). The joke is that if you move the eyes to the other side of the mouth, it remains a frown. Expectation :( becomes :) Subversion :( becomes ):
- stevage 3y agoIt's a very American expression. In British culture a frown refers to a forehead expression, not a mouth expression.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoHow interesting - I'm British, and I got the joke immediately. Yet, I'd hardly move my mouth if someone asked me to put on a frown. I'd never really thought about that one before.
- stevage 3y agoYeah, it's a well known expression, but it only makes literal sense in American English.
- echelon_musk 3y agoThe implication is that if you are sad there are more associated tells than just your mouth. Imagine a clown doing a mock sad face and exaggerating sadness by frowning. I've always felt this was a forced contrivance and never that anyone literally thought frowning had anything to do with smiling.
- thunderbong 3y agoOh! I didn't notice the :( and the ): signs. I thought it was a play on the usernames < pronto> and < korozion>! :)
- ihaveajob 3y agoThe intended goal was to get the other person to reply :) by inverting the mouth. Instead, the whole "frown face" was inverted.
- prook 3y agoAnd you never will!
- sph 3y agoGeez, the number of people that don't recognise bash.org quotes saddens me. https://web.archive.org/web/20230401050146/http://bash.org/?262353 https://web.archive.org/web/20230401050146/http://bash.org/?...
- phibz 3y ago.bef Duck friends
- nullhole 3y agoYou're trying to befriend a non-existing duck! (some sort of duck game for HN could be neat. Can't see why it wouldn't be possible...)
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- nickjj 3y agoI remember a similar quote that was something like: <user> :b <someone> how did you make that backwards d?
- z500 3y agoI remember that one! It was d-_-b
- ryankrage77 3y agoThere's also, <user 1> <3 <user 2> 3> wait how do you do that <user 2> ε> nvm figured it out
- snvzz 3y agoVery Eternal September.
- swozey 3y agoI know everything is logged but I basically quit using irc when tons of channels started having bots that would log EVERYTHING in a room to public urls. But it is really cool that I can read channel logs from events, like 9/11.