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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 4898469" data-attributes="member: 54364"><p>Never heard of this <em>Guild</em> of which folks speak<em>.</em> </p><p> </p><p>As to (presumably somewhat rhetorical) question of why the video is funny: Why is it funny? It's tapping into a sub-culture and making fun of a fairly silly aspect of that sub-culture. To whit: pseudo-dating between pseudo-people as a means of cathartic release for people who presumably aren't getting any real dates. And even if they are getting real dates the perception is that they aren't and it's the perception that's important. (I only put the previous sentence in to stop the flood of 'I WoW and I get real dates!' responses that would happen otherwise. It's a disclaimer for morons.)</p><p> </p><p>Now if you don't find the video funny that's OK. Really it is. Cos as jokes go the ones that rely on nothing more than pointing at one little facet of one little subculture and saying "see this, this is odd" over and over again are not very good. It'll probably make her millions. </p><p> </p><p>I found it mildly funny. Well, I didn't laugh out loud. But I smiled a bit. One verse and a chorus in and I looked for the off button. How does one stop those damn things playing anyway?</p><p> </p><p>And you know how jokes seem to lose their funny when you have to explain them? I've just taken myself into negative funny. I shall cure myself by listening to some Tom Lehrer. And maybe <em><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></em> and <em>Cows With Guns, </em>2 of my favourite novelty songs.</p><p> </p><p>cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 4898469, member: 54364"] Never heard of this [I]Guild[/I] of which folks speak[I].[/I] As to (presumably somewhat rhetorical) question of why the video is funny: Why is it funny? It's tapping into a sub-culture and making fun of a fairly silly aspect of that sub-culture. To whit: pseudo-dating between pseudo-people as a means of cathartic release for people who presumably aren't getting any real dates. And even if they are getting real dates the perception is that they aren't and it's the perception that's important. (I only put the previous sentence in to stop the flood of 'I WoW and I get real dates!' responses that would happen otherwise. It's a disclaimer for morons.) Now if you don't find the video funny that's OK. Really it is. Cos as jokes go the ones that rely on nothing more than pointing at one little facet of one little subculture and saying "see this, this is odd" over and over again are not very good. It'll probably make her millions. I found it mildly funny. Well, I didn't laugh out loud. But I smiled a bit. One verse and a chorus in and I looked for the off button. How does one stop those damn things playing anyway? And you know how jokes seem to lose their funny when you have to explain them? I've just taken myself into negative funny. I shall cure myself by listening to some Tom Lehrer. And maybe [I]:):):):):):):)[/I] and [I]Cows With Guns, [/I]2 of my favourite novelty songs. cheers [/QUOTE]
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