I'm completely baffled that these people couldn't recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.
This is why "/s" was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.
Because human skulls are thick af.
They're actually quite thin, like a shark's smooth skin.
Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.
It's funnier this way.
I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.
It’s because sarcasm is usually indicated with vocal intonations, which is lost in text.
/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.
This is an interrogation technique: make a presumptive statement, and try to be wrong about it. People will jump out of their skin to correct you, even when they're coached to not answer questions (but honestly it's really hard for people not to answer questions).
This proves two things:
You forgot one more point:
Duh, everyone knows that.
I promise you, sharks are as smooth as freshly shaven legs of a plastic doll, or my name isn't Margot Elise Robbie.
This made me laugh SO hard, I just... I don't know even why.
Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)
I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images
Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson's torture chamber: "Shark skin... is NOT smooth as hell!"
I have a feeling that I've just lost several hundred braincells
Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say
Post of the century.
Twitter people are dumb, Tumblr people straight up suffer from dysfunctional autism. How can you not recognize the trolling in the screenshot?
I'm not sure what you mean by "dysfunctional autism" exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It's just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to "be the smartest person in the room", but rather it's their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.
Because apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you're just fucking with them, and as long as you don't admit you're fucking with them or acknowledge that there's anything Off about what you're saying, they won't be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won't be able to see that will literally never happen.
Yeah, but shark skin is like sandpaper. Especially rough when rubbed "against the grain"
I don't know what you're talking about buddy, shark skin is slick and smooth for hydrodynamic porpoises.
No you were probably feeling the Sandpaper Shark, which is actually a species of fish, not shark. Sharks are smooth.
You're mistaken. Shark skin is known for its smoothness when rubbed from any angle.
For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.
Here are some OCR tools to assist you in transcribing posts:
FOSS Android Recs per u/m_f@discuss.online: 1 , 2
Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.
