Post something just for the heck of it

[Vannie]

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[luckynumbah7]

Dear person knocking on my door at ten thirty pm and again at ten fifty or so; we don't answer the door after ten unless you call first. Shoo. Whatever it is I promise I can't help, neither of us drive and I'm broke.

 

[luckynumbah7]

The song only has become an earworm. Share the misery, that's what I say - one man's trash is another man's ect ect.

 

[eastofeden]

Happy Birthday CHAKA KHAN!....I love you.....get well soon...

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Dear person knocking on my door at ten thirty pm and again at ten fifty or so; we don't answer the door after ten unless you call first. Shoo. Whatever it is I promise I can't help, neither of us drive and I'm broke.

Somebody better be dying or bringing me a pizza knocking the door that late.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Somebody better be dying or bringing me a pizza knocking the door that late.

I suspect it was a mistaken address. I've had two people show up this week, both for different people. One guy seemed totally lost, had the address but didn't know the area and seemed to be wildly hoping someone named Maybelline or Mirabelle lived there. Maryanne, maybe? It's not quite coming to me but it was a pretty two-parter. Anyway, the other was somebody's great grandmother, ostensibly a friend looking for the previous resident - I recognized the name from the mail we still sometimes get. I don't know where she moved, however, so her guess was as good as mine.

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

^ Questions like...?

 

[rareboy]

^

 

[belamyi]

^ Well, one person's cleverness is another person's stupidity.

What you posted is a mere fatuous exchange: the pic was supposed to be a metaphor? is the meaning about the animal depicted, about the fetish dress up? And what does that "side" refer to in the other side of the exchange?

 

[Vannie]

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[luckynumbah7]

^ Well, one person's cleverness is another person's stupidity.

What you posted is a mere fatuous exchange: the pic was supposed to be a metaphor? is the meaning about the animal depicted, about the fetish dress up? And what does that "side" refer to in the other side of the exchange?

Au contraire! It's clearly in English and the visual of the chatter is made to resemble a cell phone while the 'opening line' had nothing more (or less) than a camel in fetish wear. The joke is that it's not about the animal, the fetish wear or a metaphor - the joke itself is that the meaning is unknown and one person in the exchange seems to be in panicky outrage over it.

The specificity of the images lets us place the exchange time-wise (cell phones haven't been in use that long) and a general idea of the cultural probabilities being commented on by recognizin' the particulars (like the language used), involves a lot of 'walking backwards' now that I think about it. It really helps if you put both of them together, language used + timing gives us lots of information. I don't remember how many languages you've gotten to before learning English but I remember there's a fair few, so you know that how a language is put together certainly reflects the culture that spawned it - plus intricacies involving context are ...naturally obscure, as I'm sure you're already aware.

'Side' refers to the action or aspect that a person was unawares of - like people expressing a varying sense of humor depending on the person they're interacting with.

If you didn't 'get it', it might be the language combined with the contextual meaning.

 

[belamyi]

Au contraire! It's clearly in English and the visual of the chatter is made to resemble a cell phone while the 'opening line' had nothing more (or less) than a camel in fetish wear. The joke is that it's not about the animal, the fetish wear or a metaphor - the joke itself is that the meaning is unknown and one person in the exchange seems to be in panicky outrage over it.

The specificity of the images lets us place the exchange time-wise (cell phones haven't been in use that long) and a general idea of the cultural probabilities being commented on by recognizin' the particulars (like the language used). It really helps if you put both of them together, language used + timing gives us lots of information. I don't remember how many languages you've gotten to before learning English but I remember there's a fair few, so you know that how a language is put together certainly reflects the culture that spawned it intricacies involving context are ...naturally obscure, as I'm sure you're already aware.

'Side' refers to the action or aspect that a person was unawares of - like it a varying sense of humor.

If you didn't 'get it', it might be the language combined with the contextual meaning.

It's precisely because I "got it" that I was fully aware how what you called "contextual meaning" failed to fully adjust with was being expressed: you stick to the mere general fact of someone making questions another doesn't consider relevant, while my point is to reconsider to what extent those questions may truly be considered irrelevant or, more interesting, how the one complaining about "stupid questions" being made logically elicited those questions with one's own "stupid" conversational sloppiness

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

People playbacking Sylvia Millecam's† West Frisian version of Bruce Springsteen's Fire.

 

[luckynumbah7]

It's precisely because I "got it" that I was fully aware how what you called "contextual meaning" failed to fully adjust with was being expressed: you stick to the mere general fact of someone making questions another doesn't consider relevant, while my point is to reconsider to what extent those questions may truly be considered irrelevant or, more interesting, how the one complaining about "stupid questions" being made logically elicited those questions with one's own "stupid" conversational sloppiness

It isn't that the shouting, demanding question from the image wasn't considered relevant because that was not what I said. The way a question is phrased is pretty damned important for gleaning the direction of the joke. I said the whole point of the thing was, boiled-down, the unexpected laughter that people get when shock is combined with familiarity - in this case the odd combination of leather & camel. The punchline is the third & fourth texted line.

Has fuckall to do with 'stupid questions' as the joke was to elicit a giggly emotional response and contained no actual question of its intent and I didn't spot a breaking of the 4th wall. Do explain how you thought the image contained, or hell, even 'put forth' a question for the viewer to answer?

 

[luckynumbah7]

... boiled-down, the unexpected laughter that people get when shock is combined with familiarity - in this case the odd combination of leather & camel. The punchline is the third & fourth texted line.

I mean, I suppose you could consider the text in the image an actual question but looks to be more of a demand in pretend question form, t'me.

I don't see how you could compare an image that contained no questions to the viewer to members tuggin' on their willy, bemoaning the quality of the fair.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Matt Adrian, Bird painting titled "I often fall prey to the popular fallacy known as positive thinking"

 

[belamyi]

It isn't that the shouting, demanding question from the image wasn't considered relevant because that was not what I said. The way a question is phrased is pretty damned important for gleaning the direction of the joke. I said the whole point of the thing was, boiled-down, the unexpected laughter that people get when shock is combined with familiarity - in this case the odd combination of leather & camel. The punchline is the third & fourth texted line.

Has fuckall to do with 'stupid questions' as the joke was to elicit a giggly emotional response and contained no actual question of its intent and I didn't spot a breaking of the 4th wall. Do explain how you thought the image contained, or hell, even 'put forth' a question for the viewer to answer?

Dude, this all came from my asking about what sort of question can be considered a "stupid question" and, instead of simply giving an example, as I asked, you keep talking about a plain joke you posted about questions and answers, instead of a specific answer to the specific question I made.

 

[belamyi]

I mean, I suppose you could consider the text in the image an actual question but looks to be more of a demand in pretend question form, t'me.

I don't see how you could compare an image that contained no questions to the viewer to members tuggin' on their willy, bemoaning the quality of the fair.

Just give an example of what could be a "stupid question" "when the meeting is over", and then we can start discussing about images and all that.

 

[rareboy]

It's precisely because I "got it" that I was fully aware how what you called "contextual meaning" failed to fully adjust with was being expressed: you stick to the mere general fact of someone making questions another doesn't consider relevant, while my point is to reconsider to what extent those questions may truly be considered irrelevant or, more interesting, how the one complaining about "stupid questions" being made logically elicited those questions with one's own "stupid" conversational sloppiness

Oh sorry.

I thought you were purposefully asking a 'stupid' question when you asked "^ Questions like......?"

The camel thing is unrelated.