My girlfriend constantly complains I never call her. But when I do in fact call her she has her phone on silent or don't disturb or not on her.
I thank the heavens my family is the opposite. If I call, they answer unless they actively can't (work, driving, emergency) and even then they'll text a quick 'busy' then call after!
I don't understand some people. Maybe it's the ADHD?
Like, I'll text them "Should I bring something to the party?"
They'll immediately reply, "Sure. How about wine?"
I'll immediately reply, "Cool. What kind?"
And then no answer. For hours.
I can only assume that they threw their phone in the river as soon as they sent their text message. Maybe it was overheating.
I do this sometimes. After I reply, I don't expect another question maybe because I assume it would be in a single question otherwise. Then I return back to whatever I was doing and can often not notice any new messages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On the other hand, I'm usually ok if you choose at your own discretion in such a case, I'm not the one to be picky if I failed to choose in the first place
Thats how I text and it's 100% my adhd.
One thing that sometimes happens to me is that I receive a message right as I'm closing an app, meaning that it has just enough time for the notification to disappear but not enough time for me to actually see the message. Then I won't notice until I open the app again, which I usually don't do unprompted.
Exactly this. I have missed semi important message this way. Signal seems to be particularly susceptible, not that I would blame them or call it a bug just a very weird niche case.
It is possible that they disabled notifications appearing more than once every minute.
I too have this enabled, because I hate it when people send 5 consecutive messages instead of adding it all into one.
So now I can only get one notification per minute.
Next time try waiting 60 seconds before replying.
Do you immediately close the text app after sending the message? In the scenario I described, I'd see the "they are typing" indicator and then wait for their message.
If I try to call my SO or my mother, I have less than 20% chance of an answer. I have no idea why they have cellphones.
Tbf, phone is just one app among dozens of others, and quite rarely used one, too.
Gotta open a ticket and schedule an appointment.
This is my whole family, they're glued to their phones whenever I'm around, but if I'm at work and I need to call one of them I have to ping pong all their phone numbers until one of them picks up, and even then sometimes they don't.
The trick is to send a text asking a simple question. Then once they answer, immediately reply "actually can I call to ask about it?"
Good, now you've wasted both a call and a text
Both very precious resources.
Well time is, at least for most people.
My wife has a sixth sense of knowing when I'm on the toilet.
I can quietly go about my day, no one ever calls or wants me .... enter the toilet, pull my pants down, in the process of doing my business and the phone rings. Not every time I go to the toilet ... but just about every time she calls, I'm on the toilet. It's uncanny.
Then she gets mad at me for not answering right away or ignoring the call. I always call her back and ask her how she knows when I'm on the toilet.
Same with my dad and sister, except she would only call if he was on a ladder or in heavy traffic or on hold, or otherwise unable to safely take a call.
I ride motorcycle and I love that one. I have an adapter for the phone so I can keep the phone screen in front of me while I ride. I just never use it because I don't want to operate a device while I'm on a bike, no matter how sophisticated you can make it.
I just have it on in case of emergency.
But I can go for long quiet rides in the country side where nothing is happening and no one will ever call.
As soon as I'm in traffic, an intersection or somewhere busy where I need full attention .... someone decides to call and I can see my screen light up.
Holder+video call. Seeing Hanoi traffic or w/e makes people so much more appreciative of why I cant talk.
Just make sure you've got a good phone protector and really wrench that thing tight.
I also have this particular shitty superpower, but for the doorbell ringing
I'm not making excuses for anyone, but I've accidentally done this. On my phone and messaging app, if I read a text and leave the conversation open (not exiting the thread and the app) I won't get any further notifications from that person no matter how much they text. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere, but the setting is dumb. Like, surely I don't want a bunch of pings when I'm actively conversing with someone and looking at the app, but leaving the thread open and the screen off "should" still get a notification, even if the app is open under my lock screen.
Are your “(TikTok screenshot)” memes supposed to have any sort of comprehensibility or are they instead just meant to be word salad and non-sequitors without premise?
it's perfectly comprehensible to me
someone's girlfriend sits on her phone 24/7, but somehow consistently fails to pick up a call when her partner calls to double check something on the grocery list, with the joke being that her phone disappears into a black hole when that happens
If the joke relies on that much of an assumption about a fringe scenario, then that context should have been provided within the joke. For example, the appositive “her” has no reference noun and therein no information about her connection to the joketeller.
In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?
"A dog walks into a tavern and says, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."
She could be my roommate. I think the only necessary parts of the joke are...
!sharing a fridge!
having cell-phones
some level of appreciation for cosmology
maybe post-modern communication foibles, maybe that's the synergy effect.
I think the gender part is pretty optional. This could happen to anyone who shares foodgathering inventory management.
I could see this being unintuitive to anyone who hasn't had to hold up a full end of an adult relationship. Or industrial logistics, I guess.
It's a funny relatable thing that happens. It's happened to me enough times trying to get ahold of my wife. Obviously it's common enough that this post was made and upvoted.
It’s relatable to only a small percentage of people (fraction of people who are interested in relationships with women, subset people who are in relationships with women, subset people whose women partner is phone obsessed, subset people who cannot independently shop for groceries, subset people who while grocery shopping have had their women partner fail to answer her phone, subset people who have this happen routinely or significantly enough to even notice or care). You will see others saying that it’s relatable but that will just be confirmation bias.
And for each person who has experienced this, they only once could have experienced it as the image describes since black holes do not relinquish the matter they absorb. Who even would be in a relationship with somebody who is both on their phone 24/7 and be short distance enough to share groceries? The hyperbole is too literal and becomes nonsensical rather than comedic.
Multiple of your fractional subsets don't apply. It doesn't have to be a woman, doesn't need to be a "relationship" as typically meant by the term, and didn't hinge on some strange inability to "independently shop for groceries".
Ok, then a person who uses “her” as a pronoun rather than exclusively a woman.
All other criteria are essential to meet the apparent meaning of the joke.
No. You have a very strangely rigid concept of what pieces are actually required for the joke here. A person who is usually on their phone is difficult to contact. The "joke" is the disconnect between a person being apparently on their phone at all times and being unable to contact them yourself when needing to. That's literally it. Every other detail is just window dressing.
I understood that much. Take it up with shneancy@lemmy.world for what their interpretation requires.
The set dressing either should have been communicated clearer to not be confusing or wholly omitted.
In your bubble maybe, but please don't assume your experiences are indicative of a broader group.
youre reading far to deep into this, this doesnt even happen to me (i dont call people) and i understood it right away
the context is the real life situation that OP experiences, i also have experienced that and find the joke funny, but it doesn't have to be funny to everyone. you are simply not the target audience
I’d understand the scenario and perhaps even find it funny if the joke-teller were to provide the essential context
not everything is made for you
Yes, that’s why the first thing I said was asking if it was meant to be comprehensible because I could not parse a clear and singular intent behind it for reasons I’ve already mentioned. “Incomprehensible” is a genre of media, especially for TikTok.
Jokes are temporary, they help keep people from thinking constantly about their struggles and doom, while laughing together about contextual situations in variations of society. This image you are angry about will be forgotten about soon and was a temporary little spark in existence that made a few people laugh and comment.
They don’t need to be timeless, and those that survive can potentially make people laugh in the future. It’s ok to ask what you don’t get about a joke, and it’s ok for jokes to exist as in jokes for those who get the context.
Some of them, the most basic, which are generally wordplay or best told in person will survive. What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh? The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see? And that it was probably best told in person as someone had their eyes closed and then opened an eye as they told the punchline?
you are angry about
What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh?
The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see?
Where are you getting these assumptions from? Also, your comment comes across as really condescending and preachy imo. It’s like you think I don’t understand what a joke is or that all these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
You’re totally right I assumed.
If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?
"A dog walks into a tavern and says, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.
those are both assumptions
Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?
I never claimed to be an authority, I just said that’s how I heard that joke explained before. Because whoever wrote the joke has been dead for an incredibly long time and if it’s funny to someone today in whatever context it’s fine. Are you claiming that if we can’t come up with the actual context to explain the ancient Sumerian joke then it is permanently not funny without context and that ancient Sumer was the OG tiktoker for not providing all the context?
This stupid TikTok joke may be dug up in thousands of years by some advanced machine version of us and they may do the same, of trying to figure out context and maybe getting a laugh, though thanks to the fact that commenters have explained it, perhaps they’ll scrape other metadata as well and figure out the original context. And if not, and they get a laugh out of however they understand it, that’s pretty neat too.
We are children in a vast enveloping cosmic dark. We should be serious about things that truly matter, mostly about trying to help each other and move forward as a species, and laugh or brush off things that we think are dumb.
Like we'd even call to verify. Nope they were out. Maybe next time
She's at my place
Are you at your place?
No. That makes it harder to remove the loot quietly.
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