do you ever share a tumblr joke with your mom only you need to like, cut the curse words and complete the sentences and by the time you do that it’s a completely different syntactical structure and possibly a separate language
I’ve noticed that my mom is completely flummoxed by jokes that exist only in predicate—eg., “when you put a spoon under the tap and it does the thing”
like she’ll just sit there waiting for the rest of the sentence
and it’s interesting because jokes like that are generally paired with reaction pics or gifs, but now it’s not always necessary because just the structure of the sentence—like a stand-up snapshot—triggers the association, and the ambiance of universal camaraderie cultivated therein.
but like my mom doesn’t even understand reaction images and having to explain the whole concept actually forced me to think about how memes function linguistically and culturally in the first place—“the image represents you, and your reaction.” “to the post?” “no, to the situation described by the post.”—and I think it’s actually a complex system of representation that is only able to function in the networked culture of instant symbolic formation and self-reflexivity
And how about we put an end to politicians and extremely rich people weaseling out of paying their taxes?
Or we cut the military budget because we put more money into that than anything else in our country COMBINED?
Doing those thingsmight generate a lot of money to make education free and pay teachers more.
But no, no one wants to do that. The politicians will not be filthy rich with money they’re never gonna spend thats just gonna sit in banks forever and we cant have that for…some reason? Oh yeah… greed.
Basically fuck OP they dont know what theyre talking about.
If iggy azalea claims that bisexuals aren’t real bisexuals unless they can prove that they’ve dated more than one gender then going under that same logic I can conclude that iggy azalea isn’t a real rapper unless she proves that she can actually rap
I FORGOT WHAT KID PIX WAS CALLED BECUSE WE ONLY USED IT FOR LIKE 3 YEARS AND THAT SHIT WAS SO AWESOME AND I REMEMBER DRAWING SANTAS SLEIGH AND WAS SHOCKED WHEN I DREW A STRAIGHT LINE WITH THE NOT STRAIGHT LINE TOOL AND WAS LIKE WOOOAAAAHHHHHH
