Reminds me of this classic greentext
“It was just a joke!”
Oh, I don’t get it. Can you explain to me what the joke is? Like, can you put into words why you find that funny?
I think it’d be subverting expectations. From the start you might think it’s about the Pacific trash island that has collected there, but then it turns the other way and calls Puerto Rico a trash island. A decently funny joke imo, even if rude. I’ve seen the same joke being done about the UK and it did get a proper chuckle out of me.
The main difference is that the UK used to be powerful and did a lot of bad things to a lot of countries around the world. Puerto Rico on the other hand has always been weak so it feels weird for someone in a much more powerful area of the world to pick on them.
It can be meaner but for a stand-up I think it could be fine, if the context is comedy and it didn’t have genuine hatred behind it. In this case it’s clear that it was used as a tool of hatred and not just for making a joke.
Because it’s full of Mexicans 😂🤣😂
They can’t vote, so why would they care? Easy targets, no apparent consequences.
Edit: /s
You couldn’t invent a band of chucklefucks more capable at torpedoing a presidential campaign…and yet here we are, tied, with apparently no ability to sway any voters away from Trump. It’s so demoralizing.
Why the /s?
That’s literally the point. Easy target, plus they’re brown people i/e “Not Real Americans”
Bone stock Republican shit.
I guess in this case the /s is for satire.
Except for the millions of Puerto Ricans that live in the Continental US.
Yeah I’m on board, I was attempting some mild satire.
Puerto Ricans can and do move and there’s large numbers of them in swing states. There’s 450 thousand just in Pennsylvania
EDIT: also doesn’t help that he also said
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country."
Yeah, I was being mildly satirical. Insulting any people group seems like it should be a losing move. I wish it were.
Tony, Chapelle, and Joe Rogan are actively murdering comedy. They blame everyone but themselves because they can’t get with the times. They look down on people and punch down constantly, and still manage to miss the mark. They are not down to earth, they are not relatable, and they should NOT be looked up to.
Tony Hinchcliffe is not funny. Watched his podcast for a while then totally abandoned it because I realized I wasn’t laughing during most episodes. It’s mostly seasoned comics taking cheap shots at amateurs and then saying some racist shit while they all laugh and no one in the audience does. His nasally voice is annoying as fuck and hitching his wagon to the trump train seems pretty on brand for that fuckwit. His comedy brand caters to the same people who really like Joe Rogan and Alex Jones, both regulars on the podcast. Shocking I know.
He’s auditioning for a job with Shaprio’s outfit, or some other similar conservative shitpile. It’s not a coincidence that 99% of Right Wing grifters are failures in the entertainment business. Failed actors, comedians, screenwriters, musicians. They’re all narcissists, and more than a little psychopathic. They all think cruelty = comedy. They’re shitty human beings who should be ostracized.
Piece of shit human trash calls Puerto Rico “trash”. Republicans are shit 💩
They’re absolutely terrified of Puerto Rican statehood, so they try to drive them away.
Little piss-baby cowards.
What a fucking cunt Jesus Christ. The racist rhetoric has really stepped up these past few months since there’s been 0 consequences
Folks in Puerto Rico when they’re admitted as a state: “he tells it like it is.”
The joke only works if you understand that it’s not true and that no one can obviously believe it.
If it’s done where you and everyone thinks it’s true, you’re at a Klan rally or probably at the comedy mothership or something.
I’m sure insulting puerto rico will really help ðeir ambition of winning ð state wið ð largest population of puerto ricans outside ð island itself!
You all are thirsty for hate god damn. leave them alone they are not doing anything wrong.
Wow, I can’t believe ðere are so many people here who would downvote someone just for using variant orþography. SMH.
Whatcha typing there buddy? TH isn’t good enough for you?
NO IT ISN’T! Launches into multiparagraph long rant about ð importation of ð Gutenberg press mid GVS ruined English spelling to a similar extent to Thai and Tibetan spelling
I’m not one of the people who downvoted you. I like your passion. But maybe this is one of those things we can deal with after we’ve got a handle on climate change.
Yes please
Probably, but Imma do my þing anyways until ðen. I’m not pushing ð change institutionally by a longshot, just writing to my own sense of jollies.
I, too, have unskipable cutscenes over my special interests.
Also, Revive the Thorn/Thurs!
Interesting. Curious – beyond the historical linguistic context, do you find yourself using ðis style because you’re deeply passionate about these language quirks, or is it also a way to make your writing stand out? Or perhaps it’s a bit of boð, or something different?
I genuinely just do it because I find writing ðis way fun, and þink ð letters should make a comeback (along wið a host of oðer orþographic reforms viewable in my profile).
Not like I’m going out of my way to force oðers to use ðem ðough, so ð sheer vitriol I’ve caught for it has honestly made me double down over ð belief ðat people so devoted to ð status quo as to become enraged over a goddamned letter should spend ðeir lives mad about it until all ðat wasted anger kills ðem.
Are you not the one fighting to go back to the previous status quo? Are you not the one fighting change, something that language naturally goes through over time? What is your problem with change? Why do you want to make communication more difficult than it already is?
The only reason English abandonned the letters ð and þ is because we switched to using the French alphabet. I’m not sure I would describe that as natural change.
I’m not fighting for shit but my own right to write as I please wiðout being accosted for it as if ð þorn was used to anally rape someone’s moðer.
“as if o porn was used to anally rape someone’s mooer”
I see.
Speaking for Americans, we absolutely have the right to publish anything legal on any infrastructure that allows it.
It’s quirky, and I am pretty quirky myself. Still, I would copy and paste one or two of your sentences into some language model to be sure I fully understood you.
A gentle request for clarity in your communications might be appropriate if one deems it prudent. Vitriol is a little over the line - the style is certainly not offensive. To address the specific wording on your point about rights, we would probably agree freedom from criticism is not a right, though we would also agree that extreme attacks are unnecessary.
more blah blah
I have visited a couple of forums over the years whose rules included English only. Each time, the rule was for the benefit of the community. Hey, I just had an idea: text in a spoiler tag could be used to hide a little glossary, so everyone would know the modern spellings of the old-school words you used. Or, if it’s easier, simply copying the message a second time and using modern spellings would be another way to facilitate clear interpretations. Nobody is going to be struck by lightning or anything for not writing in a way that every human will immediately understand. But it does seem like this happy middle ground where you start by promoting your preferred syntax before respectfully appending a “translation” as this little olive branch of clarity.
We probably write in our journals for ourselves while we write on here for other community members, so taking the feedback you mention you’ve received into account is ostensibly a courtesy.
(not a mod, $0.02 only!)
(I’m sorry but I’m dying to know, whats up with ‘ð’ ?)
It’s ð letter which represents ð soft ‘th’ sound ð way þ represents ð hard version. Like B and P but if we had just accepted representing boþ wið an fh for some reason.
You’ve got þat backwards… Þorne is þe unvoiced letter, as in þem or boþ, whereas eð is þe voiced, as in faðer.
Source: A semester of Old West Norse language class (wherein þorne and eð are used in the same way as in English).
Old English was never consistent about the difference between thorn (þorn) and eth (eð), and they were used interchangeably in English writing.
(Unlike Icelandic, where þ is consistently the unvoiced sound and ð is the voiced sound.)
…I get what you’re saying but…“þem”? You pronounce ðat unvoiced?
Where am I right now?
At one of the many crossroads in your life where you have to decide whether to commit violence or maintain inner peace.
