I'm completely baffled that these people couldn't recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.
I don't get it. His trolling is pretty good but it's not exactly top notch comedy just to say "no you're wrong" a hundred times
The bottom image is pretty much why it's funny to me.
Apparently for dudes who've got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, "someone who's wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they're smarter than you" is their kryptonite.
Tons of people keep trying to convince him even though he's just saying "no you're wrong" over and over again.
The point is that when you're an adult and talking to a child, you can't talk to them like an adult. When you're dealing with someone without the faculties or desire to engage in informed debate, just save your breath.
Actually incredibly instructive to US readers at the moment given our horrific levels of education and high levels of misinformation and bias in media.
His trolling is top notch, like the smoothness of a sharks skin.
His trolling is obvious, yet so many people take it seriously.
It brings engagement to his page.
This is why "/s" was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.
Because human skulls are thick af.
They're actually quite thin, like a shark's smooth skin.
It's the brain that is smooth tbh, not the skin
I believe it's actually very scratchy. Like sandpaper.
Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.
No, they're thick from all angles.
It's funnier this way.
After a commentor stated that Planned Parenthood only uses a tiny bit of their budget for abortions, I linked this:
https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640
The number of lemmings who thought I was serious... jesus.
The fuck? This is completely messed up. I cannot agree with the bullshit "facts" stated in this article. 8 billion only netted 8 million terminated unborn lives? Almost $1000 per is definitely not "efficient."
Lemme know when you get below $100 per.
I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.
It’s because sarcasm is usually indicated with vocal intonations, which is lost in text.
/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.
This is an interrogation technique: make a presumptive statement, and try to be wrong about it. People will jump out of their skin to correct you, even when they're coached to not answer questions (but honestly it's really hard for people not to answer questions).
Cunningham's Law states "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
No that's Godwin's Law!
Case in point
I'm convinced! Sharks are smooth
This proves two things:
You forgot one more point:
Duh, everyone knows that.
I promise you, sharks are as smooth as freshly shaven legs of a plastic doll, or my name isn't Margot Elise Robbie.
This made me laugh SO hard, I just... I don't know even why.
Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)
Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson's torture chamber: "Shark skin... is NOT smooth as hell!"
I have a feeling that I've just lost several hundred braincells
Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say
I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images
Post of the century.
I just don't even know how they think this joke is suppose to work while explaining sharks skin is rough to the touch.
"Smooth looking lions that feel rough when you touch them are eating me."
Like, wtf man, why not explain that you cant talk while under water while getting eaten by sharks.
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