Where did she go?
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the context is the real life situation that OP experiences, i also have experienced that and find the joke funny, but it doesn't have to be funny to everyone. you are simply not the target audience
I’d understand the scenario and perhaps even find it funny if the joke-teller were to provide the essential context
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I'm not making excuses for anyone, but I've accidentally done this. On my phone and messaging app, if I read a text and leave the conversation open (not exiting the thread and the app) I won't get any further notifications from that person no matter how much they text. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere, but the setting is dumb. Like, surely I don't want a bunch of pings when I'm actively conversing with someone and looking at the app, but leaving the thread open and the screen off "should" still get a notification, even if the app is open under my lock screen.
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I’d understand the scenario and perhaps even find it funny if the joke-teller were to provide the essential context
not everything is made for you
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not everything is made for you
Yes, that’s why the first thing I said was asking if it was meant to be comprehensible because I could not parse a clear and singular intent behind it for reasons I’ve already mentioned. “Incomprehensible” is a genre of media, especially for TikTok.
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I ride motorcycle and I love that one. I have an adapter for the phone so I can keep the phone screen in front of me while I ride. I just never use it because I don't want to operate a device while I'm on a bike, no matter how sophisticated you can make it.
I just have it on in case of emergency.
But I can go for long quiet rides in the country side where nothing is happening and no one will ever call.
As soon as I'm in traffic, an intersection or somewhere busy where I need full attention .... someone decides to call and I can see my screen light up.
Holder+video call. Seeing Hanoi traffic or w/e makes people so much more appreciative of why I cant talk.
Just make sure you've got a good phone protector and really wrench that thing tight.
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A friend's husband keeps his phone on silent but also expects to be notified if plans change.
Then he shall be silently notified
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It’s relatable to only a small percentage of people (fraction of people who are interested in relationships with women, subset people who are in relationships with women, subset people whose women partner is phone obsessed, subset people who cannot independently shop for groceries, subset people who while grocery shopping have had their women partner fail to answer her phone, subset people who have this happen routinely or significantly enough to even notice or care). You will see others saying that it’s relatable but that will just be confirmation bias.
And for each person who has experienced this, they only once could have experienced it as the image describes since black holes do not relinquish the matter they absorb. Who even would be in a relationship with somebody who is both on their phone 24/7 and be short distance enough to share groceries? The hyperbole is too literal and becomes nonsensical rather than comedic.
youre reading far to deep into this, this doesnt even happen to me (i dont call people) and i understood it right away
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This is my whole family, they're glued to their phones whenever I'm around, but if I'm at work and I need to call one of them I have to ping pong all their phone numbers until one of them picks up, and even then sometimes they don't.
I have same damn issue and I pay for all the phones.
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“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.
those are both assumptions
Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?
I never claimed to be an authority, I just said that’s how I heard that joke explained before. Because whoever wrote the joke has been dead for an incredibly long time and if it’s funny to someone today in whatever context it’s fine. Are you claiming that if we can’t come up with the actual context to explain the ancient Sumerian joke then it is permanently not funny without context and that ancient Sumer was the OG tiktoker for not providing all the context?
This stupid TikTok joke may be dug up in thousands of years by some advanced machine version of us and they may do the same, of trying to figure out context and maybe getting a laugh, though thanks to the fact that commenters have explained it, perhaps they’ll scrape other metadata as well and figure out the original context. And if not, and they get a laugh out of however they understand it, that’s pretty neat too.
We are children in a vast enveloping cosmic dark. We should be serious about things that truly matter, mostly about trying to help each other and move forward as a species, and laugh or brush off things that we think are dumb.
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The trick is to send a text asking a simple question. Then once they answer, immediately reply "actually can I call to ask about it?"
Good, now you've wasted both a call and a text
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My girlfriend constantly complains I never call her. But when I do in fact call her she has her phone on silent or don't disturb or not on her.
- But you never call me because you just wanna talk a little.
- I do but you never fucking answer.
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I don't understand some people. Maybe it's the ADHD?
Like, I'll text them "Should I bring something to the party?"
They'll immediately reply, "Sure. How about wine?"
I'll immediately reply, "Cool. What kind?"
And then no answer. For hours.
I can only assume that they threw their phone in the river as soon as they sent their text message. Maybe it was overheating.
It is possible that they disabled notifications appearing more than once every minute.
I too have this enabled, because I hate it when people send 5 consecutive messages instead of adding it all into one.
So now I can only get one notification per minute.
Next time try waiting 60 seconds before replying.
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A friend's husband keeps his phone on silent but also expects to be notified if plans change.
So via text?
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It’s relatable to only a small percentage of people (fraction of people who are interested in relationships with women, subset people who are in relationships with women, subset people whose women partner is phone obsessed, subset people who cannot independently shop for groceries, subset people who while grocery shopping have had their women partner fail to answer her phone, subset people who have this happen routinely or significantly enough to even notice or care). You will see others saying that it’s relatable but that will just be confirmation bias.
And for each person who has experienced this, they only once could have experienced it as the image describes since black holes do not relinquish the matter they absorb. Who even would be in a relationship with somebody who is both on their phone 24/7 and be short distance enough to share groceries? The hyperbole is too literal and becomes nonsensical rather than comedic.
In your bubble maybe, but please don't assume your experiences are indicative of a broader group.
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The joke is so poorly phrased that you inverted the roles of who is shopping
Because the joke doesn't change depending on who is in the store.
It is the exact same joke.
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I thank the heavens my family is the opposite. If I call, they answer unless they actively can't (work, driving, emergency) and even then they'll text a quick 'busy' then call after!
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Are you at your place?
No. That makes it harder to remove the loot quietly.
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If the joke relies on that much of an assumption about a fringe scenario, then that context should have been provided within the joke. For example, the appositive “her” has no reference noun and therein no information about her connection to the joketeller.
In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?
"A dog walks into a tavern and says, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."
wrote last edited by [email protected]She could be my roommate. I think the only necessary parts of the joke are...
!sharing a fridge!
having cell-phones
some level of appreciation for cosmology
maybe post-modern communication foibles, maybe that's the synergy effect.
I think the gender part is pretty optional. This could happen to anyone who shares foodgathering inventory management.
I could see this being unintuitive to anyone who hasn't had to hold up a full end of an adult relationship. Or industrial logistics, I guess.
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I don't understand some people. Maybe it's the ADHD?
Like, I'll text them "Should I bring something to the party?"
They'll immediately reply, "Sure. How about wine?"
I'll immediately reply, "Cool. What kind?"
And then no answer. For hours.
I can only assume that they threw their phone in the river as soon as they sent their text message. Maybe it was overheating.
Thats how I text and it's 100% my adhd.
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It is possible that they disabled notifications appearing more than once every minute.
I too have this enabled, because I hate it when people send 5 consecutive messages instead of adding it all into one.
So now I can only get one notification per minute.
Next time try waiting 60 seconds before replying.
Do you immediately close the text app after sending the message? In the scenario I described, I'd see the "they are typing" indicator and then wait for their message.
