"Haha, this guy only has a house, a wife and kids, LMAO! He doesn't even have lots of largely anonymous internet friends like me loooool what a loser!"
What the strawberry float there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
It's a joke, but there are people out there who seem to measure their self worth by how many followers they have.
I thought that at first but then saw the replies of people commenting "Haha yes, this is always the best revenge! My bullies are fat and boring now!"
However, the OP has recently added a reply to confirm that it was actually a joke thank strawberry float for that. My grasp of modern society remains loosely in tact .
It is a joke tweet. The humour is intended to come from subverting your expectation to share schadenfreude with the author - actually the bully's life seems very nice whereas the tweeter comes across as petty and weird.
I don't think it was very well put together as a joke though or particularly funny so I sympathise with missing it.
(EDIT: We simul-posted and now it looks like I'm rubbing it in. Yikes!)
site23 wrote:It is a joke tweet. The humour is intended to come from subverting your expectation to share schadenfreude with the author - actually the bully's life seems very nice whereas the tweeter comes across as petty and weird.
I don't think it was very well put together as a joke though or particularly funny so I sympathise with missing it.
(EDIT: We simul-posted and now it looks like I'm rubbing it in. Yikes!)
Meanies like you just can't resist the urge to give me a good dogging .
My dad locked himself out of his PC and I just sorted it out for him. I told him I'd just set the pin to 0000 because he's not really in the headspace for remembering passwords etc. I tried that and Windows threw up an error saying I hadn't met the complexity requirements. No disagreement from me (that was the point!) - but they hadn't actually told me what the complexity requirements were so how was I supposed to know?
I don't know why websites don't have a tool tip or reminder or something to tell users what vague shape their password needs to be. Telling me that password I last used three years ago needs to have a number and a capital letter in it isn't going to compromise my account!
And my dad didn't give me a tip, the tight bastard
Dowbocop wrote:I don't know why websites don't have a tool tip or reminder or something to tell users what vague shape their password needs to be. Telling me that password I last used three years ago needs to have a number and a capital letter in it isn't going to compromise my account!
Yeah, this does my head in. You can find out the password requirements by simply trying to set up an account so it's not unavailable or compromising information, and it would be really useful to have a prompt on the login screen that your password would have had a special character in it or whatever the rules were.
"Haha, this guy only has a house, a wife and kids, LMAO! He doesn't even have lots of largely anonymous internet friends like me loooool what a loser!"
What the strawberry float there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
Funilly enough this guy did a great talk about writing at a conference I attended. So I was on his mailing list.
He writes quite a bit about self esteem and imposter syndrome and things like that, so I'm not surprised.
I also detect a hint of irony but yeah it's a bit of an odd tweet.
Edit: He's stated it was meant as an ironic joke, and I can certainly see the irony there
He's a good writer.
Anyway, he's kind of right. Everyone who was a dick to me at school has a really banal life in my opinion. It's not uncommon that the weird and unusual kids that get bullied end up with the kind of grit and determination they need to do something uncommon, not that that itself is to be celebrated, or that there's anything wrong with a "normal" life. There absolutely isn't. It is however ironic when it's occasionally for the same things you were vilified for at school that you take on to be really good at.
But that's the romantic version. The at least as likely outcome is that those kids give up on doing anything remotely different and go on to live unfulfilling lives, or even suffer so badly that they take their own.
Edit: the best way to get attention on the internet is to post something wrong, confirmed. I did meet the guy though so it added something
"Haha, this guy only has a house, a wife and kids, LMAO! He doesn't even have lots of largely anonymous internet friends like me loooool what a loser!"
What the strawberry float there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
Funilly enough this guy did a great talk about writing at a conference I attended. So I was on his mailing list.
He writes quite a bit about self esteem and imposter syndrome and things like that, so I'm not surprised.
I also detect a hint of irony but yeah it's a bit of an odd tweet.
Edit: He's stated it was meant as an ironic joke, and I can certainly see the irony there
He's a good writer.
Anyway, he's kind of right. Everyone who was a dick to me at school has a really banal life in my opinion. It's not uncommon that the weird and unusual kids that get bullied end up with the kind of grit and determination they need to do something uncommon, not that that itself is to be celebrated, or that there's anything wrong with a "normal" life. There absolutely isn't. It is however ironic when it's occasionally for the same things you were vilified for at school that you take on to be really good at.
But that's the romantic version. The at least as likely outcome is that those kids give up on doing anything remotely different and go on to live unfulfilling lives, or even suffer so badly that they take their own.
Edit: the best way to get attention on the internet is to post something wrong, confirmed. I did meet the guy though so it added something
After all the drama with that tweet, I went on to read one of his articles about 'cosy crime' novels – why they are largely gooseberry fool, and why Richard Osman's are particularly bad. He makes a few great points and you're right that the writing is good. In summary, his devious plan of posting a joke tweet to get attention has worked pretty well!
Dowbocop wrote:I don't know why websites don't have a tool tip or reminder or something to tell users what vague shape their password needs to be. Telling me that password I last used three years ago needs to have a number and a capital letter in it isn't going to compromise my account!
Yeah, this does my head in. You can find out the password requirements by simply trying to set up an account so it's not unavailable or compromising information, and it would be really useful to have a prompt on the login screen that your password would have had a special character in it or whatever the rules were.
lol at not using a password manager in 2022 just lol
The YouTube app seems to have removed the ability to unsubscribe from channels which is just insane - I genuinely cannot find any way to do this now. I can alter the notification settings for each channel but not actually remove it entirely!
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Dowbocop wrote:My dad locked himself out of his PC
Sounds like PC gone mad.
For FFS
Green Gecko wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Don't give me too hard of a dogging, you beastly fiends!
"Haha, this guy only has a house, a wife and kids, LMAO! He doesn't even have lots of largely anonymous internet friends like me loooool what a loser!"
What the strawberry float there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
Funilly enough this guy did a great talk about writing at a conference I attended. So I was on his mailing list.
He writes quite a bit about self esteem and imposter syndrome and things like that, so I'm not surprised.
I also detect a hint of irony but yeah it's a bit of an odd tweet.
Edit: He's stated it was meant as an ironic joke, and I can certainly see the irony there
He's a good writer.
Anyway, he's kind of right. Everyone who was a dick to me at school has a really banal life in my opinion. It's not uncommon that the weird and unusual kids that get bullied end up with the kind of grit and determination they need to do something uncommon, not that that itself is to be celebrated, or that there's anything wrong with a "normal" life. There absolutely isn't. It is however ironic when it's occasionally for the same things you were vilified for at school that you take on to be really good at.
But that's the romantic version. The at least as likely outcome is that those kids give up on doing anything remotely different and go on to live unfulfilling lives, or even suffer so badly that they take their own.
Edit: the best way to get attention on the internet is to post something wrong, confirmed. I did meet the guy though so it added something
After all the drama with that tweet, I went on to read one of his articles about 'cosy crime' novels – why they are largely gooseberry fool, and why Richard Osman's are particularly bad. He makes a few great points and you're right that the writing is good. In summary, his devious plan of posting a joke tweet to get attention has worked pretty well!
I quite like cost crime novels, and have enjoyed Osman's for what they're worth. That tweet is a poorly constructed attempt at a joke therefore this guy is clearly a knobhead
Jenuall wrote:The YouTube app seems to have removed the ability to unsubscribe from channels which is just insane - I genuinely cannot find any way to do this now. I can alter the notification settings for each channel but not actually remove it entirely!
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Dowbocop wrote:My dad locked himself out of his PC
Sounds like PC gone mad.
For FFS
Green Gecko wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Don't give me too hard of a dogging, you beastly fiends!
"Haha, this guy only has a house, a wife and kids, LMAO! He doesn't even have lots of largely anonymous internet friends like me loooool what a loser!"
What the strawberry float there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
Funilly enough this guy did a great talk about writing at a conference I attended. So I was on his mailing list.
He writes quite a bit about self esteem and imposter syndrome and things like that, so I'm not surprised.
I also detect a hint of irony but yeah it's a bit of an odd tweet.
Edit: He's stated it was meant as an ironic joke, and I can certainly see the irony there
He's a good writer.
Anyway, he's kind of right. Everyone who was a dick to me at school has a really banal life in my opinion. It's not uncommon that the weird and unusual kids that get bullied end up with the kind of grit and determination they need to do something uncommon, not that that itself is to be celebrated, or that there's anything wrong with a "normal" life. There absolutely isn't. It is however ironic when it's occasionally for the same things you were vilified for at school that you take on to be really good at.
But that's the romantic version. The at least as likely outcome is that those kids give up on doing anything remotely different and go on to live unfulfilling lives, or even suffer so badly that they take their own.
Edit: the best way to get attention on the internet is to post something wrong, confirmed. I did meet the guy though so it added something
After all the drama with that tweet, I went on to read one of his articles about 'cosy crime' novels – why they are largely gooseberry fool, and why Richard Osman's are particularly bad. He makes a few great points and you're right that the writing is good. In summary, his devious plan of posting a joke tweet to get attention has worked pretty well!
I quite like cost crime novels, and have enjoyed Osman's for what they're worth. That tweet is a poorly constructed attempt at a joke therefore this guy is clearly a knobhead
Yeah I mean they're good, those novels, but they're expensive.
there are an increasing number of times that I feel I have lost all touch with modern society and this is certainly one of them.
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