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Team bonding rule (lemmy.world)
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[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 87 points 6 days ago

Last time I shared a hotel room with a coworker, they said I make "puppy noises" while asleep. No idea what it was, my wife also doesn't know what they meant.

[-] Ageroth@reddthat.com 25 points 5 days ago

When my dogs are asleep and clearly dreaming they'll make little noises and twitches like they're running and barking in the dream and little bits of it make it to the surface

[-] xylol@leminal.space 22 points 6 days ago

Probably farts

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 8 points 5 days ago

shared a hotel room with a coworker

What did you do to end up in that plane of Hell?

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 5 days ago

Company trying to be cool by occasionally gathering employees on touristic destinations instead of an office. Employees really love it, as it's just like a vacation if you just ignore that you can't pick your own accommodations, or when/what to have breakfast, lunch or dinner, or that every "leisure" activity has specific start and end times and is mandatory, or the fact that everyone is still expected to work too.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Sounds like Tara's description of Sam from TrueBlood

[-] latenightnoir 67 points 6 days ago

Oh, c'mooon! Would've loved a manager with this amount of innocence!

[-] prole 41 points 6 days ago

I like to think that this person just walks around the office all day, asking everyone how their day is going.

[-] xylol@leminal.space 10 points 6 days ago

Telling them its not that bad

[-] will_a113@lemm.ee 34 points 6 days ago

Plot twist: mystrothedefender is actually the cat in her avatar and was actually just trying to insult dogs.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago

So this is how that meowing nun thing started...

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Are we just using the word "meme" to mean joke now?

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 69 points 6 days ago

"an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme" (from the Wikipedia article) seems to be a perfect fit for what's going on in this post.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Soo... "yes", we've changed the definition from "image macro" to "any joke"

[-] corvi@lemm.ee 61 points 6 days ago

Memes and image macro were never synonyms. Image macros are memes, but that doesn’t mean all memes are image macros.

[-] itslilith 51 points 6 days ago

Memes are much older than image macros. And this here is a textbook example.

Loss is a meme. Rickrolling is a meme. The Game (which you just lost) is a meme.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Game (which you just lost)

goddamn it I just lost the game...

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 1 points 4 days ago

The Game (which you just lost) is a meme

Well shit thank you for that. Can I at least get a participation medal?

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 36 points 6 days ago

when you tried to gatekeep but you don't know what you're gatekeeping

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's also not what gatekeeping means either lol

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Maybe we should all chip in and buy this kid a dictionary

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago
[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Maybe try reading them too

[-] TherapyGary 19 points 6 days ago

The word "meme" has been around since before image macros existed

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 16 points 6 days ago

The word meme existed long before image macros.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 12 points 6 days ago

An image macro is a subset of meme, not the superset.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago

The word meme is older than the Internet

OOP is using it in the most correct way that could even exist

[-] kfh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The word meme is older than the Internet

Well, depending on your definition, the two came into existence at about the same time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

partially related, I find the clickbaitiness increase in the titles and behaviour of Dawkins amusing. It's like the joke from futurama, :

Al Gore : As I discuss in my book Earth in the Balance and the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth

The selfish gene (Look,biology behaves like an asshole)
The Blind Watchmaker (yeah, I'm sticking it to god. There is no "cosmic watchmaker", shit's all random)
The God DELUSION (Fuck your god! Your lord, and your Christ)

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Lol, the word "meme" was introduced as a parallel to gene and religion was provided as an example of a very strong meme. At one point the word started to be used for memes that spread over the internet, and since most of those were image macros, a lot people came to believe that meme means "image macro".

But jokes are a wonderful example of meme. There are jokes that have been going around since ancient times, some with almost no alterations.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

You need to learn how to use a dictionary. I would recommend starting with the word “etymology”.

[-] AlataOrange 25 points 6 days ago

A meme is any self replicating thought that spreads from carrier to carrier.

Notable examples include: language, stories, culture, fax machine jokes, and image macros

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 7 points 5 days ago

Memes are older than the internet. They are, in fact, the DNA of the soul!

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Human pattern recognition and repetition is the cornerstone of how our brains work.

Once you get it, like really get it, you see the world in a whole new way.

Everything is meme.

[-] latenightnoir 1 points 6 days ago

Why, yes, we as a society are, indeed, ruining any and all types of nuance! Why do you ask?

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