My father in law is a sky news devotee (in Australia that's just Fox News). He was getting all up in arms about the 'trans issue' with toilets etc. My partner said something along the lines of 'do you and your mates just sit around talking about where little girls and boys go to the toilet? That's...a bit creepy?'

That shut him down reaaaalll fast

Walking to get a coffee is when I've solved some of the most complex problems in my head. Walking to get a coffee was also one of the few times I'd leave my desk. What even was lunch...

That's the fun part of far side.

When you don't immediately get it you have to wonder:

1. Is it a reference to something at the time that's not within my lifetime/country's zeitgeist?

2. Is it a play on an idiom or common cliche?

3. Is it literally nonsense and absurdity for the sake of it?

4. Am I just a big dummy?

I think it might be just 3, i.e. the absurdity of this happening at all, that he's concerned about the coconuts without realising/or being concerned that his head is sprouting a palm tree, and that Margaret seems irritated that he's woken her for what her expression suggests is either an incident of his own making, or one that's trivial.

But his body looks weird so it could be 2, 'no man is an island' or something.

I'm in my late 30s and Australian so it could be 1.

It's never 4.

I say lol occasionally, only for things that are dumb funny. Equivalent of a snort I guess?

"Hey did you hear Steve bought a jet ski? Where does he think he's going to use it? The local pool?"

"Really? Lol. What a dumbarse"

Like that. If shit is actually funny I laugh like a human.

I don't want to advocate for abstinence-based education, but I do think OP should try and avoid gut-stabbings, especially given his...checks notes... height (?)

I mean, if anything, they're extra human? Concentrated human.

To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I'm all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they're literally here just to stir shit, it's just easier to block them. Didn't really work with Reddit, but here it's got a decent impact.

Uh one correction, Tate rapes.

Isn't that just collecting? Could replace with any object and that's hardly a fad.

As an apparent normie middle aged woman with no interest in stocks or 4chan or any of the green text nonsense, I subbed to wallstreetbets when the GME thing was going down.

It was one of the silliest, absurd and funniest things I've witnessed a group of people doing online. The ongoing stuff about 'my wife's boyfriend', all the rocket ships and diamonds, screenshots of people's plummeting investments with responses of 'apes/autists together strong'. It was just so, so dumb and relentlessly funny. There was something that felt very early internet about it. Silliness without ego because everyone was just trying to outdo each other's patheticness.

Mm dunno if you ever read the qanon casualties posts on Reddit. There's no discussing or reasoning with the people who have fallen prey to believing this shit. And if often leads to financial ruin. Blocking access to those sites is, for many, like taking the car keys away from an elderly parent who will only hurt themselves and others if you don't intervene.

Does mumbling 'the ace of spades' to myself over and over work? Because I was already doing that due to playing cards earlier