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Not really news worthy, but basically Google's bid for Nortel's patents were all mathematical constants.
In billion dollars worth of bids.
I think that's as close to trolling (and funny) as it can get =D
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Originally posted by Terra That's trolling? How so?
Seems to me that Google has done similar stuff before with constants like pi and e.
how is it NOT trolling? they were obviously trying to mess around, while still being completely serious in their bidding attempts. The fact that people ARE getting up in arms about it means it was a successful troll, at that  |
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Originally posted by paulguy I was obviously not going on about memes themselves, I was going on people who act like dicks to others because they don't understand the memes, and I also clearly said that I didn't know if you're like that, but addressed people who were.
Originally posted by paulguy Memes are stupid as shit whether they're mainstream or not, so that's just retarded.
I find that memes can be funny if you understand them, and if from your experience say that people look down on people who don't get them then I must admit that you have been having some pretty shit experiences. (And I'll also hope you're not using 4chan as you basis for this arguments as that's a hole full of trolls.)
If anyone don't get a joke I try and explain it to them, but odds are, if they did not know it in advance, they won't think it's funny even if you explain it. Though, that could be that I mostly have injokes. ;
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| Posted on 07-07-11 09:31:15 PM (last edited by paulguy at 07-07-11 06:31 PM) |
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Well, yeah, I did mention that I hate most of the memes, but that wasn't the major focus of the post.
And I see a lot of that crap here, too. Someone will make a 1 word post about some joke they made on IRC or in an IM or something. People will ask what it means and usually get no response at all, though it's not usually to the point of insult on this forum, in most other parts of the internet, people can get pretty nasty about their random out of context references. But Gabu still showed that kind of "keep the reference/context hidden, so people can continue to be excluded" attitude in not wanting the meme to go mainstream (though it is pretty mainstream since people now pretty much use it all the time as it is, even when it's not applicable or not funny. Though I don't imagine random grandma who uses the internet for online poker or whatever doesn't know it, but who knows, they might find it funny if they're given some context.).
EDIT: Oh look, she continues to purposely misinterpret me in the intent to start drama.
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