Re: The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™
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@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
(I'm a bit surprised that I haven't seen one of these, but I don't think I have...)
A collection of forum memes and in-jokes. Here's a few, just off the top of my head.
The emoji: A troll-y bus emoji indicates that the remark is deliberately troll-y and should not be taken too seriously.
and similar: Disco-horse refers to Discourse, forum software that we used to use but ended up dropping due to it being too big of a in many ways. (Alternately, has been seen, read as "disc-horse" even though the first emoji is named "minidisc.")
Shoulder aliens: Miniature entities that sit on forumers' shoulders and whisper interpretations to them that are entirely unrelated to what was actually in the post that the forumer is replying to. Forumers frequently accuse other forumers of being inspired by these improbable creatures in debate threads. The term was originally coined by @Blakeyrat.
and related: A pendant is a visual indication of a pedant, one who interprets things in a strictly literal fashion even when such an interpretation is not contextually appropriate. Depending on the situation, this can be used both as an accusation and a point of pride. A person who is insufficiently ic in a debate may be accused of listening to shoulder aliens.
And then the murders began: This sting originated in a thread by @Yamikuronue describing a purported truism that any story becomes better if the second line is "And then the murders began." Forumers picked up on it and began to insert it anywhere it might prove humorous.
Flagged for libel: Once upon a time, a certain forumer who shall remain namless caused quite a ruckus when his somewhat tenuous grasp on reality led him to flag for moderation many posts by forumers with views differing from his own, claiming that they were "libeling" him. The utter absurdity of the situation caused several forumers to pick up the phrase, and now it's not uncommon to see someone respond to a ridiculous post with something along the lines of "FLAGGED FOR LIBEL!!!"
Feel free to post more, but let's please do our best to not derail this, mmkay?
Isn't that basically what the Discopædia thread is?
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@anotherusername said in Re: The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Isn't that basically what the Discopædia thread is?
Sure, but some of us are triggered by implicit references to .
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@anotherusername Is it? Admittedly I haven't looked too closely at it, but my impression was that it was specifically about stupid stuff, not forum life in general.
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@masonwheeler I suppose. It ended up getting a bunch of WTDWTF memes added, though.
A bunch of the links in it appear to be broken, so a rewrite might be in order.
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@masonwheeler It has a definition for Red Boob, which is a NodeBB thing, so it's not just Discourse.
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...I think I was actually thinking of /topic/11791/wiki-memes (thanks to @abarker for pointing that one out). But there was some overlap, so it wasn't entirely cut-and-dried which of the threads things should go into.
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@anotherusername Why not both?
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@anotherusername said in Re: The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
And then the murders began: This sting originated in a thread by @Yamikuronue describing a purported truism that any story becomes better if the second line is "And then the murders began." Forumers picked up on it and began to insert it anywhere
it might prove humorous.
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@El_Heffe said in Re: The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@anotherusername said in Re: The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
And then the murders began: This sting originated in a thread by @Yamikuronue describing a purported truism that any story becomes better if the second line is "And then the murders began." Forumers picked up on it and began to insert it anywhere
it might prove humorous. And then the murders beganFTFY.