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If I try to call my SO or my mother, I have less than 20% chance of an answer. I have no idea why they have cellphones.
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.
Tbf, phone is just one app among dozens of others, and quite rarely used one, too.
Gotta open a ticket and schedule an appointment.
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
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.
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
In your bubble maybe, but please don’t assume your experiences are indicative of a broader group.
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
Because the joke doesn’t change depending on who is in the store.
It is the exact same joke.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
She’s at my place
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!
A friend’s husband keeps his phone on silent but also expects to be notified if plans change.
Then he shall be silently notified
So via text?
it me, im her, but in my defense its a conspiracy by my phone i swear!
I hate that we have turned into this as a society.
I literally can’t take a shit in peace because my wife is blowing up my phone. Like GFD give me 5 minutes to wipe my ass and I’ll call you back!
I literally dont text chat with anyone because everyone treats them as forever chats. Like we need to learn how to say bye to each other again or something, see you later.
