Where did she go?
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it me, im her, but in my defense its a conspiracy by my phone i swear!
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My wife has a sixth sense of knowing when I'm on the toilet.
I can quietly go about my day, no one ever calls or wants me .... enter the toilet, pull my pants down, in the process of doing my business and the phone rings. Not every time I go to the toilet ... but just about every time she calls, I'm on the toilet. It's uncanny.
Then she gets mad at me for not answering right away or ignoring the call. I always call her back and ask her how she knows when I'm on the toilet.
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My wife has a sixth sense of knowing when I'm on the toilet.
I can quietly go about my day, no one ever calls or wants me .... enter the toilet, pull my pants down, in the process of doing my business and the phone rings. Not every time I go to the toilet ... but just about every time she calls, I'm on the toilet. It's uncanny.
Then she gets mad at me for not answering right away or ignoring the call. I always call her back and ask her how she knows when I'm on the toilet.
Same with my dad and sister, except she would only call if he was on a ladder or in heavy traffic or on hold, or otherwise unable to safely take a call.
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Are your “(TikTok screenshot)” memes supposed to have any sort of comprehensibility or are they instead just meant to be word salad and non-sequitors without premise?
it's perfectly comprehensible to me
someone's girlfriend sits on her phone 24/7, but somehow consistently fails to pick up a call when her partner calls to double check something on the grocery list, with the joke being that her phone disappears into a black hole when that happens
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A friend's husband keeps his phone on silent but also expects to be notified if plans change.
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My wife has a sixth sense of knowing when I'm on the toilet.
I can quietly go about my day, no one ever calls or wants me .... enter the toilet, pull my pants down, in the process of doing my business and the phone rings. Not every time I go to the toilet ... but just about every time she calls, I'm on the toilet. It's uncanny.
Then she gets mad at me for not answering right away or ignoring the call. I always call her back and ask her how she knows when I'm on the toilet.
I also have this particular shitty superpower, but for the doorbell ringing
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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.
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?"
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Same with my dad and sister, except she would only call if he was on a ladder or in heavy traffic or on hold, or otherwise unable to safely take a call.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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it's perfectly comprehensible to me
someone's girlfriend sits on her phone 24/7, but somehow consistently fails to pick up a call when her partner calls to double check something on the grocery list, with the joke being that her phone disappears into a black hole when that happens
wrote last edited by [email protected]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'."
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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'."
Jokes are temporary, they help keep people from thinking constantly about their struggles and doom, while laughing together about contextual situations in variations of society. This image you are angry about will be forgotten about soon and was a temporary little spark in existence that made a few people laugh and comment.
They don’t need to be timeless, and those that survive can potentially make people laugh in the future. It’s ok to ask what you don’t get about a joke, and it’s ok for jokes to exist as in jokes for those who get the context.
Some of them, the most basic, which are generally wordplay or best told in person will survive. What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh? The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see? And that it was probably best told in person as someone had their eyes closed and then opened an eye as they told the punchline?
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Jokes are temporary, they help keep people from thinking constantly about their struggles and doom, while laughing together about contextual situations in variations of society. This image you are angry about will be forgotten about soon and was a temporary little spark in existence that made a few people laugh and comment.
They don’t need to be timeless, and those that survive can potentially make people laugh in the future. It’s ok to ask what you don’t get about a joke, and it’s ok for jokes to exist as in jokes for those who get the context.
Some of them, the most basic, which are generally wordplay or best told in person will survive. What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh? The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see? And that it was probably best told in person as someone had their eyes closed and then opened an eye as they told the punchline?
you are angry about
What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh?
The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see?
Where are you getting these assumptions from? Also, your comment comes across as really condescending and preachy imo. It’s like you think I don’t understand what a joke is or that all these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
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you are angry about
What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh?
The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see?
Where are you getting these assumptions from? Also, your comment comes across as really condescending and preachy imo. It’s like you think I don’t understand what a joke is or that all these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
You’re totally right I assumed.
If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
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'."
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
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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'."
It's a funny relatable thing that happens. It's happened to me enough times trying to get ahold of my wife. Obviously it's common enough that this post was made and upvoted.
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You’re totally right I assumed.
If you’re not angry, and that’s your verbiage on being critical of a simple meme, I’d hate to see what an angry comment from you looks like
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'."
You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.
Of course those are both assumptions, human communication is assumption based on known information, it’s shitty telepathy except when it’s math, and even then it’s not perfect.
“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?
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It's a funny relatable thing that happens. It's happened to me enough times trying to get ahold of my wife. Obviously it's common enough that this post was made and upvoted.
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.
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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.
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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.
Happens to me all the time. Wife non-stop staring at her phone, unreachable when I call needing something extra from the store. It's almost uncanny how relatable this is.
Who doesn't call their SO at the store? "Shit, forgot to ask her to get beer."
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Happens to me all the time. Wife non-stop staring at her phone, unreachable when I call needing something extra from the store. It's almost uncanny how relatable this is.
Who doesn't call their SO at the store? "Shit, forgot to ask her to get beer."
The joke is so poorly phrased that you inverted the roles of who is shopping
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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'."
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
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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
