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[–] waigl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one's landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag...

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.

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

Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This isn't a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Critical thinking is discouraged in schools, they want good cookie-cutter workers.

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

What would you teach? There's no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe's law applies. This isn't some political cartoon in a newspaper

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

I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.

In this meme, I feel that "tipping landlords" is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I've never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.

"Cuck Chair" should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.

You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know

This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.

There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I'd probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who the fuck tips landlords? You pay them, they provide a place to live. That's the end of the transaction.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

LMFAO, they actually used "tipping cashiers" as an example. 🤣

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

Back the fuck up. ‘Tip’ landlords? I think you mean bribing.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn't want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.

I also think it's amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.

[–] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Tip landlords? What? Everyone in the States have lost their minds.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn my inquisitive nature but I have to ask..wtf is a "cuck chair"??

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

It's when you sit in a chair and make another chair watch

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

it's from this meme, circa 2019–22