Eh, 98% of the time you don’t have to understand the joke to know it’s just somebody farting around for the amusement of passersby. It’s not approval, it’s not condemnation, it’s just someone entertaining the troops for the sake of entertaining the troops. There are a few I still don’t fully understand, and don’t care nearly enough to try to understand, but I simply accept them as the SDMB version of going “badump bump” after a comment. Not exactly meaningful discourse, no, but if we were all restricted to meaningful discourse, this board would pretty much die down to GD and maybe GQ, and that wouldn’t be much fun at all.
Ever watch a stand-up comic who, upon getting a big laugh out of one particular joke, will refer to it over and over througout the course of the routine? That’s what you’re seeing here, and it can be both funny and annoying, depending on how it’s done.
Repetition of humor can be pretty funny sometimes, especially when it’s unexpected yet appropriate. If you haven’t been around long enough to catch the hang of the repetition, you can either listen carefully till you get the rhythm, or you can whinge about it and come across like a bratty little kid saying, “C’mon, let ME play, let ME play!”
Daniel
You’re not doing the dance…
inside joke from Calvin & Hobbes
Please, please do not drag my dear ShibbOleth into this. He really is a wonderful man.[sub]or so I hear, anyway[/sub]
When you post either in a thread started by someone, or in response to a post you quote in your own, and make a vague comment that you know full well is meaningless to the thread starter or quoted poster, it’s an elbow in the ribs and a snicker to your fellow cliquers and not familiar, humorous, or otherwise meaningful to the person you are supposedly directing the comments to.
Also, I’ve seen the series of these inside jokes, even amongst people who “get it”, derail a thread… in a recent thread, somebody who actually posted to the OP was chastised for not posting in the “direction” of the thread, as if we’ve all got to sit quietly in our seats and let the hijackers navigate.
I’d respond to this, but I’m posting from a laptop in my car and I have to log off and parallel park.
Don’t be an asshole. I’m not a “bratty little kid,” and I don’t want to “play.” I just want people responding to me directly or in my threads to either say something I get or shut the fuck up.
ItShut up!
Wow, get over yourself.
I’m not currently under myself, but thanks for the advice.
Ooops, guess that was me. I think my “S” key is going to get warn out from all the times I type “Sorry”. But sometimes an OP is so stupid that it only seems right that it gets “Hijacked” and when somebody chimes in without haveing read what has gone before it seems appropriate to make fun of them.
Well, too bad, because they ain’t your threads, and anyone can post in them.
If a thread is being really badly hijacked, then you can try to steer it back on course, using the “more flies with honey than vinegar” principle. Or you can start a new thread.
Significantly, you’re not complaining about jokes in a thread: you’re complaining about jokes you don’t get. Essentially, you’ve come into an existing community of people with existing traditions, and rather than accommodating yourself to those traditions, you’re insultingly telling everyone else to knock it off with traditions that you don’t like.
Ain’t gonna work. You may not like it, but it ain’t gonna. The board’s traditions are ingrained, and everyone won’t change their sense of humor because you’ve not been around long enough to catch all the jokes.
Daniel
Since when was “You have some ‘splainin’ to do” an SDMB in-joke?
That’s I Love Lucy, fer Primus’ sake!
Yea, and I want a billion dollars to. The net is a big place, and it is full of idiots and assholes. You can’t expect all of them to abide by you wishes. Also once you submit your thread it ceases to be yours, read the disclaimer. It is fair game, anyone may make whatever comments the mods allow. In the annoying words of so many assholes, settle down and get over yourself. Nothing you, or I or anybody says here is important enough to get so indignant. (sometimes mad, maybe, but not indignant)
Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra.
I think it’s funny that Left Hand’s post is preceded by askeptic’s about reading a thread. I’m not pitting inside jokes in general, however dumb and boring they are, but specifically either quoting a post and replying to it with a smug cryptic remark and/or a thread by a new member and shitting all over it. Enjoy your inside jokes all you want with people who get them. There’s a big difference between sharing an old joke with old friends and saying them to people who don’t get it so you can snicker with your friends at the newby’s blank look and confusion, perhaps believing you’ve outsmarted them because you have some private language. I have inside jokes with coworkers and other old friends, but I don’t use them out of that social context. I can tell Diogenes to eat snow, and it’s all in good fun, but if I call you a snow-eater and nudge Dio I’m being an arse.
Cervaise is pleased that you do not drive an SUV.
Well yeah, this is what I thought, too. And Jenna Elfman is a moderately prominent Scientologist. So what we have is not so much an “in-joke” as a “joke”. Will these be pitted in future?
What am I saying, “in future”…
Take it easy, skutir, the Jenna Elfman reference was posted in agreement with you. The “s’plainin’” was demanded of the IRS and the CoS, not you.
I have no idea what the “meds” thing was about, though.
I’ve been here for a year and a half and I still don’t get all the jokes either but usually the intention is not to snicker at newbies but are just general bada boom quips for the community at large.
If someone posts a cryptic remark in direct response to one of your own posts just ask them what they meant. They’ll usually explain it or somebody else will. 99 percent of the time it’s perfectly benign.
All your burning dog are belong to pie.
Oh, sorry.
All your burning dog are belong to pie, dumbass.