Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Gradine]

and if the author becomes controversial, you get even more of "what the author really meant"

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The funnest fact about this that even if the author didn't mean anything by deciding the curtains were blue, the fact that they chose to make the curtains blue means something, intentional or otherwise.

 

[Ryujin]

IME, that’s true of ALL chains.

Yeah, they all make an effort to keep the customer experience as uniform as possible between locations, but the human element always matters.

Absolutely. My local Popeye's starts prepping my order sometimes before I've walked in the door. I went to one in Seattle that was almost empty where they took 15 minutes to take my order (I was behind one other customer when I came in), 45 minutes to get it to me and, when I got it, it was 10 chicken tenders and coleslaw (should have bee 5 tenders, fries, and 'slaw).

 

[Ryujin]

The funnest fact about this that even if the author didn't mean anything by deciding the curtains were blue, the fact that they chose to make the curtains blue means something, intentional or otherwise.

They like blue?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The funnest fact about this that even if the author didn't mean anything by deciding the curtains were blue, the fact that they chose to make the curtains blue means something, intentional or otherwise.

The author might tell themselves that they don't mean anything by an inclusion, but they're a product of their environment and, a lot of times, they are passing along their baggage, cultural or otherwise, in their work. And unpacking that baggage is useful, especially when you're reading it separated by a great distance or time, and are not part of that same environment.

The folks who create these memes didn't have liberal arts degrees.

 

[trappedslider]

Definitely depends on the author.

Does it? We know authors can be out right on some views when they write, but then just be lazy about some things and then it's that lazy thing that people read into

The funnest fact about this that even if the author didn't mean anything by deciding the curtains were blue, the fact that they chose to make the curtains blue means something, intentional or otherwise.

I looked left and my curtains are blue, sometimes things are done because the writer is lazy and nothing else.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I looked left and my curtains are blue, sometimes things are done because the writer is lazy and nothing else.

The lazy author doesn't emerge from an egg and start writing with no context. They're putting their worldview -- examined or otherwise -- into their work.

 

[trappedslider]

The lazy author doesn't emerge from an egg and start writing with no context. They're putting their worldview -- examined or otherwise -- into their work.

In high school when doing creative writing, i took and used the names of my classmates because i was lazy,and i didn't feel one way or another towards them. But if you read that it means i like the person that would be on you and not me.

EDIT: and yes i have argued this point with a teacher and principal.successfully i might add.

 

[Deset Gled]

The author might tell themselves that they don't mean anything by an inclusion, but they're a product of their environment and, a lot of times, they are passing along their baggage, cultural or otherwise, in their work. And unpacking that baggage is useful, especially when you're reading it separated by a great distance or time, and are not part of that same environment.

The folks who create these memes didn't have liberal arts degrees.

I'm so deep in Poe's law on this.

 

[Ryujin]

Does it? We know authors can be out right on some views when they write, but then just be lazy about some things and then it's that lazy thing that people read into

I looked left and my curtains are blue, sometimes things are done because the writer is lazy and nothing else.

"I want mussel soup."

 

[prabe]

The lazy author doesn't emerge from an egg and start writing with no context. They're putting their worldview -- examined or otherwise -- into their work.

Yes, and sometimes the curtains are blue because the curtains the writer is looking at--or possibly remembering--are blue. Not every single thing an author includes--or doesn't!--has deeper more-symbolic-than-words meaning.