Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[trappedslider]

Can always tell when @Maxperson checks the thread just confirms what I've always know: Some of the nonsense i post is funny.

 

[Ryujin]

It’s incredibly hard to satirize…all this. Any exaggeration you make today, no matter how wild, will be literally true next week.

Also, 90% of everything is crap.

Indeed. How do you satirize anything, when you live in the timeline that's satire?

 

[Willie the Duck]

Someone somewhere doesn't love the thing you love as much as you love it, therefore you're going to endlessly argue every...single...point until the heat death of the universe is not the valorous and righteous position you seem to think it is. Someone somewhere not loving the thing you love isn't a personal attack on you. You don't need to treat it as such. Go outside. Touch grass.

Unrelated to your specific person/behavior of frustration (to which you attach an actual point about their behavior), I fear that 'touch grass' is quickly becoming the next 'triggered,' 'edgelord,' or 'live in your parent's basement' (particularly the first). It's the kind of thing any side of a debate can lob at the other, and increasingly I am seeing it being used in lieu of actual points and argumentation. Too bad in that I like the feel of the imagery.

It’s incredibly hard to satirize…all this. Any exaggeration you make today, no matter how wild, will be literally true next week.

People have been making the observation that we've somehow ended up in the most far-fetched alternate universe/timeline/in a Twilight Zone episode, and I am completely down for the comparison...

Also, 90% of everything is crap.

...But it is worth noting that most of the comedy during I retroactively think of as the golden age was actually forgettable garbage I have simply forgotten (because it was garbage).

 

[Mad_Jack]

Unrelated to your specific person/behavior of frustration (to which you attach an actual point about their behavior), I fear that 'touch grass' is quickly becoming the next 'triggered,' 'edgelord,' or 'live in your parent's basement' (particularly the first). It's the kind of thing any side of a debate can lob at the other, and increasingly I am seeing it being used in lieu of actual points and argumentation. Too bad in that I like the feel of the imagery.

At this point, I assume that anybody using the phrase, "Touch grass.", is probably terminally online and can't remember the last time they saw grass.

 

[RealAlHazred]

At this point, I assume that anybody using the phrase, "Touch grass.", is probably terminally online and can't remember the last time they saw grass.

I touch grass all the time! I play Minecraft!

 

[Willie the Duck]

At this point, I assume that anybody using the phrase, "Touch grass.", is probably terminally online and can't remember the last time they saw grass.

Well, I don't think that of overgeeked, nor I think the other person I noted saying it here. However, yeah, it's beginning to take on connotations. Kinda like 'strawman' and the Latinate logical fallacies 20-odd years ago -- yeah, when it is used appropriately (as in, the person leveraging it is accurate in their estimation of they whom they are invoking it towards) in the online discussion it has value -- it's just a crapshoot if that's the case. I guess it makes sense -- 'you care too much about this' is a reasonable (and sometimes valid) point, but 'you care about this/I've frustrated you about this, therefore I have power over you/I win' is straight up right out of the verbal bully playbook.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Unrelated to your specific person/behavior of frustration (to which you attach an actual point about their behavior), I fear that 'touch grass' is quickly becoming the next 'triggered,' 'edgelord,' or 'live in your parent's basement' (particularly the first). It's the kind of thing any side of a debate can lob at the other, and increasingly I am seeing it being used in lieu of actual points and argumentation. Too bad in that I like the feel of the imagery.

To every catchy phrase, there is a season.

At the end of the day, you’re eventually going to have to think outside of the box and chillax.

 

[dragoner]

You know what is better than touching grass? Raking leaves, c'mon everybody, join in the fun.

 

[Umbran]

You know what is better than touching grass? Raking leaves, c'mon everybody, join in the fun.

Do not listen to Tom Sawyer! It is a scam!

 

[payn]

To every online discussion, turn, turn, turn
There is a Phrase season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose, online

A time to touch grass, a time to strawman
A time to ad hominem, a time to badwrongfun
A time to red herring, a time to epeen
A time to sealion, a time to slippery slope

To every online discussion, turn, turn, turn
There is a phrase season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose, online