It can. You've gotta read between people's words.
Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.
You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn't real.
To clarify: By believable, I don't mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.
Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.
Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.
We don't have time for an interview through the McDonald's drive-thru, my friend; you're clogging up the line.
Ma'am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you'd like.
When I was in highschool, a student I was sat next to found out I was an athiest. He rotated a full 90 degrees in his chair at me, and with an excitement shared only by inventors and engineers finally getting to see their ideas actually working in the real world, he asked me: "Where did dirt come from?"
I told him, "I don't know what dirt is."
Quizzically, "Dirt. Like, in the ground."
I tapped my shoes on the floor. "Home Depot."
This was, apparently, as far as his anime-villain machinations could take him. He quietly rotated back to the table and drew a school bus or something—I don't remember what we were doing in art class.
Far from the worst encounter a person could have, but I think about it all the time.
I'm not the one confused, I understood Sahara just fine. I'm more confused why we're 10 comments deep into, essentially, Sahara's choice to use the word "never."
I'm asking this seriously: how do you handle sarcasm? Or hyperbole?
(so your suggestion of writing on cards is totally irrelevant)
No, not literally... Okay.
MotoAsh, you have to engage people in better faith.
"Make sure to not let them fool you" is a goal, "never tell them yours first" is just a strategy being offered to meet that goal. I understand the implications of this "poorly stated" version just fine: this isn't programming, you can break the strategy's rules sometimes. I trust people taking this advice to apply good judgement.
The only reason to argue with Sahara here in the way that you are is if you think they're actually trying to trick people into being lonelier via some kind of yugioh trap card logic. Do you get the impression that they're trying to trick people into being lonelier via yugioh trap card logic?
I am entirely lost.
Sahara is saying not to date republicans, and not to let them trick you. I'm saying the same thing.
If you meet someone who, presumably like you, absolutely will not say anything until you do, then the both of you should write it down on a card and reveal them at the same time.
Or, you should say something about building a border wall. See if they bite.
Or, you should take them to see the Barbie movie. See if they shift in their chair too much.
Like, there are solutions to this problem, and I feel like you're just not willing to see them.
As a corollary, imagine you're gay in the 1960s. You can't tell anyone you're gay because you'll get beaten in an alley. But, you would still like to find other gay people. How would you do this?
Would 'it' be Asahi? I'll check it out. I'm not quite sure what my needs are yet; I have a gifted work laptop that needs some purpose other than the paperweight it is now, but Asahi might do it.
I mean, I don't think it is.
Oh! It's so rare that someone is just like "I agree, thank you!" I'm sure you're doing all right.