The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™
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(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. Occasionally other emojis with "tro" in the name are used, such as or , but the is the most common. Also used in the name of the Trolleybus Garage, our official forum category for topics likely to provoke flamewars. Content in this category is hidden from search engines and unregistered users.
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!!!"
Spellarring: A typo-rich style of spelling common in posts by @accalia, occasionally immitated by otehr forrumers for comdeic effekt.
Node: Node-baby refers to NodeBB, the current forum software, similar to the disco-horse noted above.
YMBNH: You Must Be New Here. Sarcastically used to point out when someone has said something indicating an expectation from other forumers that runs contrary to known attitudes or behavioral patterns.
TDEMSYR: That Doesn't Even Make Sense, You Retard. This one's pretty self-explanatory. Often invoked during debates.
: A standard ninja emoji. Named "hanzo" rather than "ninja" after a series of front-page TDWTF articles about an IT guy called Hans who fantasized about being the super IT ninja warrior Hanzo. (It makes just as much no-sense-at-all in context.)
Wooden table: Discussion of websites with a bad UI will often feature some mention of a picture of a document on a wooden table. This is a reference to one of the classic TDWTF front page articles, discussing the counterproductive technique of scanning a photo of a printed document on a wooden table and uploading it on your website, rather than simply formatting the contained information in HTML to make it more useful to the user.
Feel free to post more, but let's please do our best to not derail this, mmkay?
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@masonwheeler said in 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.
See also: And then the boobs came out
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Were you looking for Wiki: Memes? Or maybe Teh Official Discopædia (ﷺ, @abarker, creator and prophet of the Discopædia)? Perhaps both?
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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...
Just because you didn't see it... ;)
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@loopback0
Doesn't mean the boobs weren't out?
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@loopback0 Maybe if he'd tried looking. Maybe there's a tool for that. Something like a looking glass? I bet if there was such a tool, it have a really helpful name, like "Lookup", or maybe "Search."
That's actually how I located Wiki: Memes.
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Maybe there's a tool for that. Something like a looking glass?
Wouldn't binoculars be more useful to explore a forum this vast?
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@abarker A useful tool on forum software? Naaaaaah.
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@PleegWat said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Maybe there's a tool for that. Something like a looking glass?
Wouldn't binoculars be more useful to explore a forum this vast?
Blinkers.
(The horse type)
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@izzion said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Doesn't mean the boobs weren't out?
Paging @Perverted_Vixen ...
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@loopback0 Maybe if he'd tried looking. Maybe there's a tool for that. Something like a looking glass? I bet if there was such a tool, it have a really helpful name, like "Lookup", or maybe "Search."
That's actually how I located Wiki: Memes.
Wait, what? Since when has that ever worked?
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@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Wait, what? Since when has that ever worked?
On Node it works alright. I can usually find what I'm after.
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@loopback0 said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Wait, what? Since when has that ever worked?
On Node it works alright. I can usually find what I'm after.
Sometimes it's on the first page!
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@izzion said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@loopback0
Doesn't mean the boobs weren't out?OI! I'm here aren't i?
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@Perverted_Vixen said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@izzion said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@loopback0
Doesn't mean the boobs weren't out?OI! I'm here aren't i?
Yeah... about that. I don't see any.
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@anotherusername said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@Perverted_Vixen said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@izzion said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@loopback0
Doesn't mean the boobs weren't out?OI! I'm here aren't i?
Yeah... about that. I don't see any.
that's odd.... I have my webcam turned on...... are you sure you're connected to the right stream?
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@Perverted_Vixen I think that's pretty obvious, given the general lack of boobs hereabouts.
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Were you looking for Wiki: Memes?
Either I'm blind or the Wiki contains no reference to certain purple sex toys.
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@anotherusername said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@Perverted_Vixen I think that's pretty obvious, given the general lack of boobs hereabouts.
oh.... well i'm not sure how i can help if you're not connected to the right stream. i mena the link is right there on my patreon page.
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@asdf Looks like you're right. Nobody ever got around to adding it.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
do our best to not derail this
YMBNH
Filed under: That's another meme for you
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@No_1 Added.
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@loopback0 Maybe if he'd tried looking. Maybe there's a tool for that. Something like a looking glass? I bet if there was such a tool, it have a really helpful name, like "Lookup", or maybe "Search."
That's actually how I located Wiki: Memes.
But nodeBB's search is still total ass.
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@Perverted_Vixen said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
that's odd.... I have my webcam turned on...... are you sure you're connected to the right stream?
Links or it didn't happen.
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@No_1 said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
do our best to not derail this
YMBNH
Filed under: That's another meme for you
TDEMSYR
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@No_1 said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
do our best to not derail this
YMBNH
Filed under: That's another meme for you
TDEMSYR
Of course it makes sense, ergo your assertion DEMSYR.
Filed under: Non sequitur
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@Maciejasjmj Added.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
A person who is insufficiently ic in a debate may be accused of listening to shoulder aliens.
Say what?
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@loopback0 said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
A person who is insufficiently ic in a debate may be accused of listening to shoulder aliens.
Say what?
Yeah, I don't think @masonwheeler has a proper grasp of the term.
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@loopback0 said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
A person who is insufficiently ic in a debate may be accused of listening to shoulder aliens.
Say what?
As in, if you take too much liberty in interpreting what someone said, instead of interpreting it exactly as they said it, that's a good way to get accused of listening to shoulder aliens.
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@masonwheeler Yes but that's not down to insufficient ry.
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@loopback0 He must have been listening to shoulder aliens at the time.
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@loopback0 Umm... isn't that exactly what it means?
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@masonwheeler No. Even if your definition of was right (and it isn't) then that is still wrong.
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doesn't seem quite right, but that has already been... 'ed by others!
You might want to add , and since it's already been mentioned, that reminds me of (especially the name requires some 'splaining). Some mention of the guacamole might be appropriate as well.
(and I'd extend some of the definitions to mention the common alternate icons used, such as anything that contains "tro" i.e. or instead of , and the associated "garage" and etc. icons)
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@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Forumers picked up on it and began to insert it anywhere it might prove humorous. And then the murders began.
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@remi OK, so what should the definition of be?
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You already have the definition:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
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.
You just need to remove the bit about shoulder aliens.
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@masonwheeler Good point. Although it might still be worth mentioning since we have an emoji for it, it's not obvious at first glance that "plane that turns" means "whoosh", even if "woosh" in itself doesn't mean explaining?
(for , it's mostly the shoulder aliens that seem out of place)
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Also wasn't there a topic like this already? Discopaedia or something?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
You already have the definition:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
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.
You just need to remove the bit about shoulder aliens.
But a is so much more. It's someone who picks at the smallest errors in a post and corrects them, often at length, just so that they can be Right™.
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
@RaceProUK said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
You already have the definition:
@masonwheeler said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
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.
You just need to remove the bit about shoulder aliens.
But a is so much more. It's someone who picks at the smallest errors in a post and corrects them, often at length, just so that they can be Right™.
Case in point :P
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@abarker said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
someone who picks at the smallest errors in a post and corrects them, often at length, just so that they can be Right™.
I'll take "What is a ?" for $200 please Alex.
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@blek said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
already
We have already this topic. Pray we do not already it further!
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too bad we don't have signature guy anymore. @mikeTheLiar .
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@blek said in The Official WTDWTF Memes Thread™:
Also wasn't there a topic like this already? Discopaedia or something?
You're wrong because you got it the wrong way around.
Expressing one's hate towards Discourse is a WTDWTF meme, on the other hand the noble Discopædia is just a manifest of the subtle language involved in expressing that hate.
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OK, it's less subtle for Clown Barf but you get the point.