Everyone please open their hymnal now to page 27 and join me in a heartfelt rendition of that perennial favorite:
So Long MF, We Hardly Knew Ye!
This is meant to be a very gentle pitting, I guess more of an admonishment, but in the “FBI Raids Mar-a-largo” thread the discussion has moved to what the kids would do to stay relevant if Daddy Trump dies. This is added:
This sex tape part feels icky to me. I dislike these people as much as anyone, but c’mon. At least give her the dignity of getting busted for shoplifting.
Please allow me to ratchet it up.
@scudsucker, that was fucking disgusting. Are you so intellectually bereft that you can’t come up with a way to insult a woman without objectifying her?
I probably should have come down harder on it. Thank you for putting it more clearly and in BBQ-ready language.
Yeah the “Ivanka is a porn star” and “incest hur hur” comments say a lot more about the people posting them than it does the Trumps.
All the Trump trial threads are annoying even without the gratuitous sex and misogyny. Look, we’ve heard all the hilarious riffs on Trump and his family several times over. Yes, he lies. Yes, he doesn’t pay his bills. Most of us are tired of seeing a bunch of new posts and thinking maybe something happened in the trial, but no, it’s the same half-dozen posters with their endless pontification and attempts at humor.
So please, think before you post. Is there some new development? Great, post it. Some new insight that hasn’t been discussed a dozen times over the last 6 years? Please share. Otherwise, type out your response, pat yourself on the back for your wit, then hit Close/Discard.
But what if there’s a thirty-post litany of food/animal/poop puns that’s been going on for days?
Those are the threads that lure me in, hoping for new news.
I don’t mind if someone comes up with something actually witty, and occasionally I’ll make a snarky comment myself. But if your joke is just that:
-He’s orange!
-He won’t like prison!
-She’s a woman and therefore has female body parts!
-She’s a woman and therefore I’m thinking about sex!
-He doesn’t tell the truth!
Maybe skip the joke.
And hey, can I rant about something else? I know other people like it, because obviously they do it, but if I never see another post consisting of, “I asked ChatGPT to answer this question, and here’s what it said,” it’ll be too soon. If I give a half a shit what ChatGPT says, I’ll ask ChatGPT myself.
I could indeed, but following the Hilton and Kardashian examples appears to be the way that not particularly celebrity-worthy ladies remain celebrities, particularly in the media obsessed US.
I’ve not watched either sex tape, and I would not watch a third.
You’re being gross, dude.
Then I deserve this pitting. C’est la vie.
Well I quite enjoyed the Jabberwock sock poem, but generally I agree.
I see a distinct difference between having GPT generate a part of a post for you (parody song, image, sonnet) and the whole point of the post being how correctly/amazingly badly it answers a question.
The first can be fun, the second, not so much unless the thread is ABOUT how AI works/fails.
Thirded
The reason I read a parody, for example, is to revel in the cleverness of the writing, the twist between the original and whatever current even it is now about. And I have discovered something interesting about myself – if a machine made it, I lose all interest in any cleverness that might be in it. Because it’s not cleverness, it’s just happenstance and luck and programming. I don’t want to read a dozen stanzas of that, or even one.
Yeah–I’m not sure why, but I have the same reaction. Not today, Skynet.
ISTM artificial intelligence is to real intelligence as artificial humor is to real humor. IOW a pale and goofed-up ersatz imitation.
Maybe some day, but not to-day.
It’s the intellectual equivalent of empty calories.
Yeah, the Jabberwocky parody felt like AI to me so my eyes just slid over it… later, as others were praising it, I thought “Well, if it was the result of a poster’s hard work, I’d go back and read it…”
It wasn’t a good Jabberwock parody.
It’s on topic, in English, it rhymes. That’s impressive. But it’s not anywhere near Lewis Carroll.
I half wrote and deleted a tedious post in the thread about why not but: metre, scansion, rhyme scheme, vocab are all badly wrong for Jabberwock.
Although weirdly, I’d never say this if a poster had written it.