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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I don’t really have much to add but feel compelled to say that I really enjoy this type of comedy. Maybe there is already a name for it but I think of it as observational absurdism, or Incorrect Shower Thoughts.

I rarely laugh out loud at it, but it makes me smile extra big to consider it.

I love the idea of someone making a remark based on an absurdly incorrect observation or premise, and as a bonus, this type of comedy rarely has a “target”: it isn’t punch down or up. It’s punching itself if anything.

Anyway, just saying.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dad jokes? I'm no humourologist, but if this isn't dad jokes, they are probably related to each other somehow.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

There is a certain wink at the camera implied in most dad jokes (at least in this dad’s) that I think is replaced with seeming earnestness in this example and in the vein that I’m thinking, but maybe I’m quibbling because I don’t want to have just “reinvented” dad jokes in my comment.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's cute to me because it's similar to child logic.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

look at all those chickens

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

In every bit of comedy, there's almost always something who is the foil of the joke. And in these kinds of jokes, it's the original poster being confidently incorrect.

That's how I see it anyway.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation

[–] aaaa@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago

I recommend old episodes of Burns and Allen. Gracie Allen was a master at this kind of humor

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm more impressed that they built the visitor center there, knowing that people would want to come and see the meteor when it landed

[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also why is it that meteors always seem to land in craters? Someone really should look into that...

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Actually, they don't always. The Diplomatic Office for Non-Terrans has a procedure for the Meteor Impact Site Selection. Their Agency for Impact Mitigation picks a suitable place, and sends a team to prepare an "Excavated Area for Controlled Touchdown per the Treaty for Arrival and Reception of Guests and Envoys on Terra". The meteors then adjust their their Host Impact Trajectory to make sure they land on the ExACT TARGET.

Occasionally, of course, things don't go to plan. In such cases, the meteors' Orders for Host Conflict Resolution and Avoidance Procedures dictate that they perform a Fatality Unavoidability Check. If the FUCk comes up positive, they're supposed to follow the quite morbidly named "Instructions to Limit Liability for Diplomatic Incidents and Emergencies".

Not every meteor has the nerves for that, unfortunately, so some of them do hit places they're not supposed to, with disastrous consequences, but for the most part, DONT MISS works well enough.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

It’s magnetic attraction!

[–] X@piefed.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

lolwut they knew exactly where it was going to hit well in advance and set up shop right next to it to be the first ones there luck had fuckall to do with it lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Astronomers are excellent at math, afterall!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Meteorite crater was an inside job

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

Direct hit on whatever it was the Visitor Centre for, though.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where is this

[–] Mastema 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just East of Flagstaff, AZ.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's really close to the petrified forest and painted desert which are some of the coolest stuff I've seen. And it's an easy stop on a trip from Albuquerque to the grand canyon

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have a friend who needs to get a flight back home from there in a few days or they will die. Can anyone give them a ride?

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 2 points 3 days ago

Is your friend allowed to poop for the next 3 days?

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

The visitor center's pretty lucky

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Are you certain it wasn't hit and now it's just smaller?

[–] Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

We always joked about how wild it was that the meteor just barely missed the highway out there

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The universe, and especially the earth, were clearly intelligently created with humans in mind!