Varyk

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Varyk,

Anemoia - nostalgia for a life you never lived.

Apparently made up for the experience you’re describing.

Does taking my glasses off to 'let my eyes rest' actually have any meaningful effect? Or am I just making my eyes work harder?

Started wearing glasses full-time a few months ago and I usually take them off during my lunch break because, well I’m mainly looking at my sandwich and I’ve been told it’s good to let your eyes ‘relax’ as such....

Varyk,

I only use my glasses to let my eyes rest, so I think it’s the opposite.

Anecdotally.

Varyk,

I don’t see how

Varyk,

You being less funny doesn’t make that phrase funnier

Varyk,

No one:

Caring

Varyk,

Your revelation might just be relative to your general understanding

Varyk,

Really?

I’m not asking this facetiously, can you explain how?

I find the cropped version funnier.

Varyk,

Stop playing, there’s no way you understand percentages

Varyk,

I didn’t know that would hit so close to home.

I’m glad you find this fun.

Varyk,

No worries, nobody expected you to

Varyk,

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Varyk, (edited )

I understand that it’s somehow being used incorrectly, but I’m not sure I understand that a correct usage of it would be.

Isx the joke here supposed to be “nobody has ever said girl’s hands are cold”?

Because that’s a common trope in TV shows, novels, regular conversation.

If the joke is that girl’s hands are cold, why would you need “no one”, and if the joke is that nobody would talk about girls hands being cold, then clearly that’s incorrect.

I appreciate the long explanation, I just do not understand it yet and I’ve received so many different explanations of what “no one” is supposed to mean without getting any closer to what the joke is.

And I completely agree that whatever the original meaning was is essentially lost in people just put the phrase “no one” in front of any image pretending it is a setup to a joke that it is not.

That’s why I crop these images, because there doesn’t seem to be anything semantically or comedically gained from “no one”.

It’s like putting a hat on a hat.

Varyk,

Okay, thank you for the explanation, I think I understand the structure now.

It’s a non-sequitir with an extra step, and despite the setup only making sense preceding non-sequitirs, the setup is used constantly with things people commonly talk about, are obviously popular or easy to get.

I think the knock knock setup makes sense because it very clearly sets the audience in a framework, encouraging you to inquire about the situation that you interrupt by subverting expectations via a punchline.

The no one line seems more like gilding a lily, a hat on a hat, superfluous.

It doesn’t add much to a joke or non-sequitur, it’s just pointing out that this thing from left field is from left field, while of course if the statement was from left field then you wouldn’t need to explain that it was from left field.

Weird.

I understand it better now, and I appreciate your explanation, but I’ll keep cropping these as I see them.

The no one line feels too much like a kindergartener rubbing their hands together like “I have a joke for you! My joke is a statement!”

Varyk,

Haha oh a hundred percent I’m just blahblahing now that I found out what it’s supposed to mean.

Varyk,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d6f222d5-d44f-4d79-af88-54a8d845a225.jpeg

Varyk, (edited )

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I’ve been using it a couple years now, it’s my favorite news aggregator.

It’s just one daily email with the most significant news of that day, at least one source per story and often multiple sources for the larger stories.

The only ads are text, you can scroll right past them, and they include two or three fluff pieces at the end. Like a cat on a hamster wheel or something so you can get your inane meme fix as well.

join1440.com

Traffic Engineering: a help from Italy

Good morning, I write from Italy and here, where I live, but it is not only here the problem, are launched public roads projects that are breathtakingly bad and obsolete. I am no expert, I just think to have a minimum of good sense to understand that projects that are raping the countryside to build streets and welcome the...

Varyk, (edited )

Highways notoriously create more traffic , every time we expand a highway or create a new highway, traffic gets worse.

If you just search “highway creates worse traffic” or something similar, there are many, many videos that will give you very good information and statistics about how building roads does not help convenience traffic or a sense of narrow or broad community in most situations, and new roads or new highway lanes almost always create more traffic in urban situations like cities.

Varyk,

Pay me, experts

Varyk,

I don’t know about its origin, but as far as I understand people using the phrase, I think they just mean the potential for someone to do good regardless of the circumstances or consequences.

Faith in the character of every human to do good and achieve things.

Not metaphysical.

If you don’t have faith in humanity, it means you are cynical and you expect humans to take advantage of situations and act selfishly.

How to pull rocks out of pipe in the ground?

My mom has a hole in the ground that she puts her clothes drying hanger in. Like this. The hole in the ground is a 2" or so pipe, set in concrete. The pipe has filled with gravel. Anyone have a tip on getting the rocks out? I can only get so many out using my fingers and then trying to use a set of chopsticks.

Varyk,

Long spoons. Or a backscratcher would work.

Varyk,

Ha, I was going to say jerboa is my favorite so far.

I’m having a different experience, haven’t had any bugs and the updates seem to add features/stability without introducing any bugs on my device, I’m also on Android.

What kind of things are making it unusable for you?

Varyk,

I don’t know anything about surfan Stevens, why him?

Fan theories about racist caricatures in phantom menace do not hold water

I’m listening to blank check and they are harping on the racist aspects of the voice acting of nute gunray, watto and jarjar, but I unknowingly happened upon a long interview with the voice actor for jar jar a couple years ago, including the lead up to him getting the part and the character and voice development, and now it...

Varyk,

You are frequenting an incredibly select number of communities.

Also, discussions tend to be more respectful here than on low bars like reddit, so crutches like swearing don’t come into play as much.

In my case, my f****** speech to text won’t f****** write out the c*** d*** c*** swear words, which I think is hilarious.

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