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Pretty clear there’s a lot of people here without a sense humour.
by grebc 2mo ago
Pretty clear there’s a lot of people here without a sense humour.
- XorNot 2mo ago[flagged]
- kannanvijayan 2mo agoNonsense, it's clearly tremendously Al-Adeen.
- readdit 2mo agoName one funny and clever thing por favor.
- antonvs 2mo agoHave you considered that you just don't understand why it's funny or clever?
- mdp2021 2mo ago> South America is an actual real geographical designator in common usage Hence naming something that is absurd. That is the joke. The renaming is preposterous - that is the message. Edit: and maaany other "short-circuits" around that idea are suggested.
- Johnny555 2mo ago>It's not clever satire because unlike say, the Gulf of Mexico, South America is an actual real geographical designator in common usage. It's almost as dumb as renaming lake Ontario to Lake America to "punish" Canada (presumably because it shares its name with the province of Ontario), when that lake has had its name since the 1600's (before the USA or Canada even existed) and is based on a Native American Iroquoian word. And the province of Ontario was named after the lake, not the other way around. But at least with South Park, I can understand their motivation.
- XorNot 2mo agoMy point is that the satire doesn't work because it doesn't understand the issue at hand. A fictional American town being renamed to to South America doesn't actually capture the absurdities or issues of the current American administrations actions and directly undermines the message because the name they picked is another actual place name, rather then a made up vapid one (which is the case with "Gulf of America" and "Lake America").
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- anonymars 2mo agoThe pattern is "take a place name and change the last word to America" (Gulf of America, Lake America, New America) The fact that applying that to produce "South America" which is a real place--and a continent at that--precisely amplifies the absurdity I have to say, though: inverting the trope of "you can't make people laugh at a joke by explaining why it's funny" by trying to stop people from laughing at a joke by explaining why it isn't funny is a truly Kaufman-esque bit of comedy
- GJim 2mo ago> My point is that the satire doesn't work "If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up" -Barry Humphries
- ChrisMarshallNY 2mo agoI have been informed that a common HN practice, is to have your sense of humor extracted, when getting your first colonoscopy.
- justin66 2mo agoThey tell you it's a diagnostic procedure but if they see a sense of humor in there they just zap it.
- krapp 2mo agoHacker News is serious business.
- brailsafe 2mo ago> when getting your first colonoscopy This must be why MAANGO companies require 24hrs of fasting prior to the on-site
- euroderf 2mo agoMAANGO - this is the first time I've seen this. Decisions, decisions. Microsoft/Meta Amazon/Apple/Alphabet Netflix/Nvidia Google Oracle ?
- brailsafe 2mo agoSomething like that, I just looked up whether there was a newer one and added an A for Apple since they try to present perhaps the most sterile public image in all of their dev videos and presentations. Maybe we need 3 As and two Ms Microsoft Meta Anthropic Apple Amazon Netflix Google OpenAI
- aaron695 2mo ago[dead]