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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 52 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Does no one understand this is a joke, talking about parallel lines and mathematical proofs is pointless when its a fucking meme

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not pointless because you can laugh about a joke and then learn something about math.

They don't cancel each other out. They can be at the same place and still work on their own.

[–] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 15 points 14 hours ago

I love memes that are funny on their own, but also provide discussion material.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago

You're having fun wrong!!1one

Or the fun part.

[–] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Its wrong though so the joke falls flat

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't realize jokes have to be literally correct

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 16 hours ago

Just the good ones.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

We do understand it's a meme and a joke. Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.

That's not how jokes work.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it depends on if you have humor. Yes, humor is individual, I know. But people without tend to over analyze and try to pick the joke apart, often missing the point.

A joke doesn't have to pass every technicality. You thinking it's bad if it doesn't, only applies to your humor (or lack there of).

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, watch out, the humor police is here! Everything the deem funny is humor and if you don't find funny what they do you don't even have humor! Wee-ooo wee-ooo!

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I can be presented with a bad joke without the urge to pick it apart. You couldn't. Just saying.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

And you cannot take criticism. Just saying.

(Also, I'm not picking apart the joke, I'm explaining why some people do.)

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And you cannot take criticism.

What criticism?

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not my joke, so I couldn't care less. I'm talking about jokes in general and the fact that you don't understand how it works.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. You really think you're some kind of authority or something. See, that is funny.

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No, I'm just saying you're wrong. But it seems like you cannot take criticism.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No, I'm just saying you're wrong.

Based on what expertise? Which criteria do you apply?

That meme is incorrect, and therefore it doesn't land for me and a lot of other people. You cannot say "you're wrong" on that.

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You said it wasn't a good joke, because one can easily poke holes into it.

This is not correct. Being able to easily pick apart a jokes doesn't automatically make it bad. Lots of good jokes will not pass that test either.

You not liking a joke based on that logic, is on you alone. But it's not an universal rule of jokes. Do you think you’re some kind of authority or something?

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it's an observation I made often enough, that factually incorrect jokes don't land and get picked apart.

I'm tired of this though. If you are satisfied with stupidity, fine. Keep laughing about dumb shit then. I'm out.

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Well, it's factually correct that I've been having a laugh at your expense, so analyze that any way you want.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Its supposed to be absurd, taking it seriously makes the already bad joke even worse

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's not about taking it seriously. The meme wants to be a technically correct-meme, where a thing fulfills another things definition and thereby could be deemed the other thing - which creates the absurdity the meme lives off of. But in order for that kind of humour, there cannot be obvious holes in the logic of the joke and these obvious holes are very present in this meme.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Any maths joke of this type will have obvious holes in it, that's just how maths works

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well the text in the image of the "definition" of a square is clearly tailored to fit this joke, thats why the logic of what a square actually is doesn't apply. Its like telling Diogenes that his chicken is not technically a human because it doesn't have two hands and a nose.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Diogenes plucked that chicken to point out Platon's definition of a human (being a bipedal, featherless animal) being flawed. This meme leaves out parts of the definition to enforce a joke. Two different situations.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Its similar enough, the definition is limited and therefore enables a joke to be made.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's not similar, it's the exact opposite.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 10 hours ago

It still demonstrated what I was trying to say, that if you go too literal on these two jokes then you're missing the point

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

These are parallel too. They just look that way because they are project on to the euclidean plain.