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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"So then li'l blorko was like I'll totally glomp that and he was ratioed by woffle's stans when they.."

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a copypasta or just new greatness?

[–] TheSaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copypasta, i’ve seen it many times before

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not always involving Rome. Not always the past. Not always even human when you wake up.

But for a brief moment I can try to imagine how good that must feel to not have any of this be a concern of mine, because I'm so far removed from it, it cannot affect me.

Like waking up as a sentient mycelium colony on a distant planet. Who gives a shit about housing prices or what youtube channel is allegedly being treated unfairly when your sole purpose is to slowly expand across the surface of an alien world and you can instead contemplate the quality of nutrients.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

your sole purpose is to slowly expand across the surface of an alien world and you can instead contemplate the quality of nutrients.

Zoom out far enough, and that describes humanity, too.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Careful, Hobbes. Calvin needs to be home for dinner, soon, so keep it simple.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

And suddenly you bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

“So then li’l blorko was like I’ll totally glomp that and he was ratioed by woffle’s stans when they…”

I have to know: are these words made-up or is the influence of vapid youtube whores ruinin--uh, I mean "evolving English the way linguists think is cool and proper"?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Ic hæfde to witan: sind þas word gemæne oððe is þæs unþeawfulle YouTube wifru forþfæreð, ic mean "eorðan Englisc swylce þa leornere witaþ is fægere and riht"?

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not made up. I sadly understand that sentence.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We can tell see you fail to understand the linguists take on prescriptivism vs descriptivism because your strawman quote uses the word "proper."

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Wait, "glomp" and "ratio" were NOT in the same vernacular. Not by a decade.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I do not regret clicking that link!