sightly is a thing... Something that looks good.
And touchy is a thing, it touches back, so it’s something that looks good, can touch you back, smells bad, is loud, but tastes yummy…
Or it gets really defensive when you ask if personal questions
We also say someone is a “looker” when they’re hot. And that things are “touchy.” though the latter is often used figuratively, it can be and definitely is used literally.
Also cows smell terrible, make a ton of awful noise, but taste delicious.
This post is just shitty, misinformed pontification. It’s definitely not anything close to philosophy.
I mean, the description of shitty misinformed pontification describes a pretty good chunk of Greek and roman philosophy. Have you read a lot of Aristotle?
But, something can look so aweful you cannot avert your eyes of it. Like a stereotypical car accident.
This is very much "I am 14 and this is deep" territory.
Adjectives describe. By using them, we are emphasising a quality of a given thing. That does not make it the "default state" (a problematic concept) of that object, even if it is a desirable quality.
The "default state" of food is that it is edible, ie. that it can be eaten, as food is defined as that which is edible.
there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch
Visible. Tactile.
Noisy
Even by OPs logic, "noise" is not one of the senses. Audible is the correct word here.
The punchline is the comment about how the OP is like Green philosophy.
You're picking apart the setup, not the punchline, and therefore being "that guy" who ruins the joke.
Stop it.
... All the comments. They're all missing the point that some Greek philosophy and classical rhetoric is indeed like this. This is where I'm pretty arm's length with some schools of thought; it sometimes all seems constructed on some dubious first principles, or leaps of logic.
Why can the replier in the screenshot poke fun at the nonsensical nature of the first post but not us in the comments?
How does that ruin the joke for you?
If you think the original poster was even remotely serious you need to take a break and expose yourself to... Idk, Conversation? More comedy? Media literacy lessons?
If this was your attempt at comedy, drop the first sentence and be more belligerent in your indignation.
In your philosophical knowledge, is there a need for a iam14andthisisdeep community? I pretty much think that the sum of a determined number of children make up of a real adult.
Exactly, and on top of that this only works in English and only in dialects where these words are used that way.
Yeah I'm not sure how they concluded "there's a word for this therefore it describes a default object"
Man that car was speedy! Therefore the default speed is fast.
That really is more or less how Greek philosophy worked.
The default touch verb is bad, because nobody has ever used the word "touchy" to mean something good.
And "sightly" isn't as common as "unsightly", so the default sight verb is bad.
Smells bad, something you do not want to hear, do not want to touch and do not want to see. But tastes good. Don't anyone say it's shit or ill slap you.
thats referencing either the phrase "touch a nerve" or the person in question touches things/people too much, it doesn't factor into this discussion where it's describing properties of an object rather than personality traits
When you say someone is a real looker, it means they're attractive, so I'd say the default state for sight is appealing.
Very sightly
Good point. Also, there's touchy feely so the most ordinary thing seems to be a loud, stinking and attractive creep with strawberry lipstick or something. 🤔
You also say they're "hot," which suggests that your eyes have the capability to gauge temperature.
Which they do, by the means of black body radiation.
My thesis brings all the boys to the forum.
And they're like, "This makes us a quorum."
Damn right, this makes us a quorum.
I could teach them but I might just bore 'em.
Farts must be delicious 🤤
OP out here acting like no one's ever tongue-punched a fart-box.
You're definitely describing a fart.
tastes delicious
Uhhhhh...
I'm no good at remembering itemized lists ^^'
He's totally describing chickens. Aside from the invisible part.
The person is not wrong about Greek Philosophy. Have been reading some of Plato’s works and he does have a bit of an absolutist way of presenting things that sometimes fails to address the nuance. The things that he is right about though transcend time and are eerily relevant to our current circumstances, so his thoughts on him an nature tend towards accurate. On this example, Plato would probably script Socrates explaining to Glaucon, and indeed does, that vision is tied to brightness and darkness and that somewhere in the middle is where you’d want to be because brightness is brought by the sun, which is hot, but you can be tool dark and cold in a cave. He’s then be ADHD and explain that the cave is a metaphor for our knowledge and since light lets us read, we lack much knowledge when being in the dark. Glaucon would then quip that people can still talk in a dark cave and that their voice might even be echoed and Socrates would probably say that without the warmth from light, the soul won’t listen to the loudest voice. It goes something like that.
Screaming invisible cheese?
A gas being forced through a pipe that's smelly yet sweet-tasting?
Evaporated durian juice
Why do we park on a driveway and drive on parkway?!
Shipments go by land and cargo goes on ships...
Bro forgot disgusting
It does match one phenomenon. Survival. Noise is important for listening for predators, smell let's you know if potential food is rotted and our sense of taste helps us distinguish between calorie dense food (sweet), salts and micronutrients (salty), acidic foods (sour), poisons (bitter) and protein (umami).
Survival
Why did I read that in Agent Smith's voice?
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