Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[payn]

Every now and then, I'll read someone's rant about how a business or corporate entity "only cares about money now," and I have to fight the urge to post a sarcastic Nicholas Cage gif, or that condescending Willy Wonka meme again.

Come on, people... "businesses only care about money" hasn't been a 'hot take' for hundreds of years. We know. That's why we invented businesses in the first place.

I got one policy in life and it’s to never resist a meme posting urge!

 

[Scribe]

Me mumbling to myself while shoveling 17 inches of snow this past winter: "We don't have hurricanes, we don't have earthquakes, we don't have wild fires."

What about bugs? Growing up I didnt have to worry about bugs at all, and its increasingly an issue I'm concerned with as I moved further south, and the climate shifted.

 

[gnarlygninja]

I wish there was a term for when a person is clearly reading the wikipedia article of something they don't know anything about while arguing confidently about that something they don't know anything about.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wish there was a term for when a person is clearly reading the wikipedia article of something they don't know anything about while arguing confidently about that something they don't know anything about.

It's called "my dad."

 

[Mannahnin]

It's called "my dad."

 

[Mannahnin]

I always liked "on the one hand," "on the other hand," "on the gripping hand," which was based on an extraterrestrial anatomical feature of the Moties from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and its sequel, The Gripping Hand * (1993). I remember in the 80s, the "one hand/other hand/gripping hand" phrasing would show up occasionally in the sci-fi fanspaces I frequented, confusing people who hadn't read the book and sparking discussion where fans could talk your ear off about it.

But Phraints/Thri-keen/Aspis/Diopsids work, too!

* I read the Wikipedia article, and it mentioned the reviews called it "unnecessary" and "unmemorable". I checked out where I can access it and found that I have access to it on an ebook site -- and read it twenty years ago! So, I can confirm the "unmemorable" part!

Thanks for explaining that! I've seen it for decades but didn't know the origin and never asked. I kind of inferred it meant "on the hand which actually matters and I'm holding on with". I have a copy of Mote and it's been on my figurative tbr pile for years.

 

[gnarlygninja]

It's called "my dad."

Consider yourself lucky your dad reads wikipedia articles. Mine just spouts off things he half remembers from questionable youtubers he watches and sends babylon bee memes.

 

[RealAlHazred]

It's called "my dad."

Are you summoning my dad? Talk about your Summons of Evil!

Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Consider yourself lucky your dad reads wikipedia articles. Mine just spouts off things he half remembers from questionable youtubers he watches and sends babylon bee memes.

Honestly, the Wikipedia stuff is better than when he reads a review of a movie he hasn't seen and tries to tell me how I feel about the movie -- which I've actually seen, sometimes more than once -- is wrong.