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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one's landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag...

[-] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 40 points 10 months ago

It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well they are literally taking birds and turning them into robotic drones now.

Edit: it's real, I'm clearly being silenced by the shadow government.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/taxidermy-birds-are-being-turned-into-drones

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

So they are real then. Checkmate atheists

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

For sure, and there's a clear cut campaign to silence me.

[-] crossover@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 48 points 10 months ago

Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.

[-] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This isn't a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

True, but Lemmy tends to be VERY fundamentalist from a political standpoint.

I’m pretty liberal but the extent of it makes users gullible. If you hate another group enough it’s easy to believe almost anything about them.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

What would you teach? There's no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe's law applies. This isn't some political cartoon in a newspaper

[-] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.

In this meme, I feel that "tipping landlords" is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I've never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.

"Cuck Chair" should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.

You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know

This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.

There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I'd probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Critical thinking is discouraged in schools, they want good cookie-cutter workers.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Idk looking at his Twitter page im not certain it's satire

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 10 months ago

The funny thing about Poe's Law is that it implies that the crazies can't tell satire from agreement as well.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

Remember all of the conservatives who loved The Colbert Report unironically?

[-] LesDeuxBonsYeux@sh.itjust.works 45 points 10 months ago

Some people when satire :

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 32 points 10 months ago

Who the fuck tips landlords? You pay them, they provide a place to live. That's the end of the transaction.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 16 points 10 months ago
[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Buy a house they can't afford then make other people pay the mortgage.

[-] Juno@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Right?

And are people still gambling on nfts?

I had a bunch of students I practically begged to not spend their money on a bunch of Monkey portrait NFT crap.

Now they (about 4-5 that I actually saw purchasing) own... something? A receipt for being gullible?

[-] erin 31 points 10 months ago

Isn't this obvious satire? This isn't a right wing meme, it's making fun of right wing memes.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

I don't know how much cuck chairs cost, but if they are aware that they are expensive and I am not, it implies something about them.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

I had no idea it was a thing until i saw this meme.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Back the fuck up. ‘Tip’ landlords? I think you mean bribing.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

Tip landlords? What? Everyone in the States have lost their minds.

[-] GONADS125@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

It's not a thing here, at all... This is the first I've ever seen it said. Same goes for tipping cashiers.

Our tipping culture is bullshit, but this just isn't anything close to reality.

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Nearly every small shop and cafe has a tip option on their cashier POS and you usually have to opt out.

[-] GONADS125@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

True, but when I hear "tips for cashiers," restaurants/food services don't come to my mind. It makes me think of like supermarkets, clothing stores, dollar stores, etc.

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[-] nyhetsjunkie@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago
[-] Afelia 19 points 10 months ago

The chair in the corner of the room you sit in while you watch your SO fuck someone else. Like those chairs in hotel rooms that always face the bed but don't have any tables next to them.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

That's just a chair in the corner of the room, which might be fine for a hobbyist just starting out. I'm looking for a proper dedicated cuck chair?

[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago
[-] Afelia 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, that's a Goon Chair, you can tell by the screens. It's a common mistake to make.

[-] Goldholz 10 points 10 months ago

"Tipping the landlord" its not like he already gets half my income!

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn't want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.

I also think it's amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Swing and a miss, satire is dying :(

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

This is bait

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

LMFAO, they actually used "tipping cashiers" as an example. 🤣

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Damn my inquisitive nature but I have to ask..wtf is a "cuck chair"??

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

It's when you sit in a chair and make another chair watch

[-] Zorsith 4 points 10 months ago

Cuck Cuck Goose

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ooh, kinky! 😄

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

it's from this meme, circa 2019–22

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The dude who tweeted this apparently.

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure scammers pay for twitter blue.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

The Egolon's Nazi sycophants do. As well as the bots. But I believe there is a discount for bot accounts per thousand.

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I know a guy

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