• Phen@lemmy.eco.br
    26·
    8 months ago

    The best thing about lemmy is that it brings back things like this that I often thought about and really wanted to find again to be able to fill the gaps in my memory, but couldn’t remember enough about it to be able to find on Google.

    Its not the first time it happens to me. Anyway, thanks op. I had given up hope on finding this one again.

    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      This is what Reddit used to do for me. The weirdest thing Reddit ever did was give me the name of an insect that for years I tried to Google when I would see it and I have legitimately only ever seen the bug 3 times in my 28 years of life. They are so small, so infrequent, and so rare that I thought for years I wasn’t even seeing an I sect but just a fuzz from a dandelion once it changes.

      I mean for actual fucking years I could not find the regular name, the slang name (usually changes based on dialect, or even the scientific name. The amount of times I searched for “white fuzzy bug” or “white floating bug.” No matter the combination. I even would tell people, “I remember seeing this bug and I have seen it so rarely I don’t even know if it is real.” And most of my friends would say, “yeah never seen it.” And then that one friend would say, “dude me too.” And then one fucking day I open Reddit and God dammit if I didn’t believe it someone gave me the name. Actual years of feeling insane and thinking those little fuckers were a sign of something higher because of how fragile and cute they are and Reddit not only gives me the name, confirms I am sane but enlightens me on the little bastards they actually are.

      I am from West Virginia and if you made it this far well by God if you have seen one then I swear on mother nature you aren’t insane and we are in this together.

      EDIT: A better site and image

      Woolly Aphid

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    8 months ago

    the most interesting thing about this is the fact that “removed” is blurred out, but not “gay ass queer”. times have changed and i feel so fucking old.

    e: til you can’t say it on lemmy.

    • ryan@the.coolest.zone
      5·
      8 months ago

      You’ve brought up a real interesting and nuanced point, which is “what’s the difference between an insult and a slur, and when does one become the other?” And a lot of it’s just down to “whether the target of said insult/slur feels it’s so offensive as to actually cause harm or be a predictor of causing harm,” I think.

      In the cases you’ve pointed out, redacted is still very much a slur, whereas “queer” definitely used to be and is now going through a sort of reclamation phase, so whether someone considers it a slur or not really kind of depends on their own history with it. “Queer” is definitely a word with an actively evolving meaning and legacy*, I think, and since we’re in the middle of it I’m not sure whether it will end up fully reclaimed or the pendulum will swing the other way eventually.

      *all words are actively evolving like this but it’s much quicker with insults and slurs because of the emotion involved

      Anyway, back to the subject of Drath’nor the Anus Destroyer.

        • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          8 months ago

          Fun little tidbit: the word “loanword” itself is a sub-type of a loanword, a calque, which is a word-by-word translation from a word in a different language. It was brought to English from the German “Lehnwort”.

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          2·
          8 months ago

          Loans generally follow the grammar of the host language. English has a plural, it doesn’t have a dative.

          Well, a dative marked by morphology, that is, outside of “him/her/whom”, instead it’s done by word order. Take “The smith gave the miller the hammer”, “the miller” is dative, “the hammer” is accusative, you can’t say “The smith gave the hammer the miller”.

          Also “of a thousand ani” is genitive, marking of that is done with “of” or “'s”.

          As to plural form: English has a gazillion of those: Caboose, cabeese (yay Ablaut!), box, boxen, etc. Some Latin doesn’t hurt.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
    141·
    8 months ago

    While I always advocate for starving trolls, sometimes feeding them yields hilarious results.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      217·
      8 months ago

      Because it’s a hateful slur unless you’re talking about a bundle of sticks.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        108·
        8 months ago

        It’s in a meme. Reading it doesn’t harm you. Anymore than reading the other stuff in the meme does, or even just knowing it’s written

          • kleenbhole@lemy.lol
            128·
            8 months ago

            No, I got called other words. Not banning them either. The R word is our word.

            • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
              64·
              8 months ago

              I would rather people don’t use it at all if you don’t mind and I gladly censor myself when it comes to other slurs. I can’t convey the mental anguish and self hatred that I’ve suffered all because of an immutable characteristic of my sexuality. You can treat it lightly because you haven’t gone through that suffering. It’s one thing for someone to make fun of you for kicks. It’s quite another for entire groups of people to hate you because of what you are.

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      154·
      8 months ago

      Because it breaks Rule 1

      Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

        • Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          14·
          8 months ago

          A little bit of cultural linguistics going on really. Even though the texts are also calling OOP gay and queer, and doing so with the same amount of vitriol as with the f-slur, they aren’t recognized as emotionally charged in the same way. All the other cursing is not hate speech per se as it’s not directly targeting any immutable characteristics.

        • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
          24·
          8 months ago

          I’m not happy with any of the depicted harassment in the image (fake or not), it just not that funny. If you want to see what happens if you have a descenting opinion though, you can see my massively downvoted post below.

          • ADTJ@feddit.uk
            152·
            8 months ago

            That’s ridiculous, quoting harassment is in no way itself harassment. That would undo just about every awareness campaign ever.

            • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
              15·
              8 months ago

              Depends on the reason for the quote. Awareness campaigns quote them as examples of what not to do. There is a clear intention to tell the audience “Watch out for this, avoid it, this is wrong.”

              The punchline in this example is an encouragement to harass people because it’s funny.

        • kase@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          I’m curious, what exactly does this mean? Wdym by hate speech, and are you saying it doesn’t exist?

  • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
    922·
    8 months ago

    Wait, is the punch line just “sexual harassment is funny”? I must be missing something. The guy said he didn’t like the attention and green straight up continues with " … said the stable boy." rather than apologising, or dropping it.

    This is straight up verbal sexual harassment. 🤔Why is this being upvoted? 🥴 Even if it’s fake, the joke is still “Isn’t it funny that the guy said stop, but he didn’t stop?! lol.”

    It breaks Rule 5:

    No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

    Edit: To the downvoters: 🤣

    Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo: 😗

    I’ll be monitoring further responses and then blocking this community. Thanks for helping me filter out toxic communities on Lemmy.

    I thought this was Lemmy Shitpost, not Lemmy’s shitstain. 💩

    Edit 3: I love that I call out sexual harassment and I’m met with sexual harassment by users in this community. Hmmm, it’s almost like this type of content encourages certain behaviours. Ain’t that interesting?

    So long and thanks for all the fish ☮

      • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
        413·
        8 months ago

        Now we have actual written sexual harassment documented in this thread. 🤡

        Rules 1 and 5 are being openly broken. Thanks for showing me the dregs of this community.

          • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
            39·
            8 months ago

            Just to be clear, I’m not even upset. I work in STEM so seeing this all unfold has only further confirmed and given me more evidence that I was correct in my original assessment of the joke. I’m writing this stuff out in the hopes that others read it and see what is going on.

            I’m all good with dark humor. But the punchline is not “sexual harassment is bad”, it’s “Sexual harassment is okay, and it is funny to harass people.”

            That’s why, even though it’s fake, the punchline is still “look at this scenario, isn’t doing sexual harassment hilarious? You (the audience) should also do sexual harassment to other people because it’s funny, and people will laugh with you.”

            And it’s worked, there is actual sexual harassment in this thread, people have been encouraged to do it because they saw me as an easy target (“stable boy”). They saw that I wasn’t for the joke, so they inserted me as the victim in the original joke. Further, people are upvoting open sexual harassment towards me.

            That’s why I don’t really want to be a part of this community, and why I don’t even want to see stuff from this community. If this is what passes as acceptable humor here (the original joke, and then continued poking fun at users), then I don’t want to be a part of it.

            We can agree to disagree. Again, not upset, just disappointed.

            • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 months ago

              I work in STEM

              you could have just said “I’m on the spectrum and have trouble relating to, and understanding other people”. There was no reason to write an essay. (I stopped reading after you wrote stem, tbh)

          • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
            15·
            8 months ago

            Mate, I’m lighter than a kite. Any apparent anger in my posts is due to your projection.

            You need to chill, man.

    • azulavoir@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      8 months ago

      I think i recognize some context you’re missing.

      I feel like this is in response to an unsolicited ERP request from the left chatter, making it essentially proportionate.

      Now I can’t be certain but that is a common thing I’ve seen people do so it feels likely.

      • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
        14·
        8 months ago

        So your agreeing with me that there was sexual harassment, and then there was more sexual harassment?

        Thank you for proving my point even further.

        Edit: It’s even worse!

        That means this content breaks Rule 1 as well

        Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          23·
          8 months ago

          So your agreeing with me that there was sexual harassment, and then there was [homophobia]?

          Welcome to internet humor 20 years ago