I mean...if everyone else is doing it...

That's where the tartar sauce comes from?

I bet I could easily win a jerk-off contest...
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*Ensure. Why do these thigns always have typos?

Quote from: Blackleaf on August 13, 2023, 01:58:59 AM*Ensure. Why do these thigns always have typos?

1) People spell things fonetically and thus even the brightest among sus occassionally make typografical errors.
2) people who make memes are 15 and thus haven't finished their english cirriculom
4) people who make memes know english as a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th langauge and we shouldn't be too quick to judge

Not a meme. It's a cartoon that appeared in the New Yorker, which is a professional magazine.

Quote from: the_antithesis on August 13, 2023, 11:19:57 AMNot a meme. It's a cartoon that appeared in the New Yorker, which is a professional magazine.

A printed meme in pre-internet format.  It's an older code sir, but it checks out.

Well, 2 and 4 no longer apply and 1 would just be embarrassing for a professional publication. You get paid money, you take the time to double check your words, and your editor had better damn well catch it.

Quote from: the_antithesis on August 13, 2023, 03:30:30 PMWell, 2 and 4 no longer apply and 1 would just be embarrassing for a professional publication. You get paid money, you take the time to double check your words, and your editor had better damn well catch it.

*footage of the Vice President of the United States spelling potato as "potatoe"*

Also: "an asteriod, Mr President"

And those were embarrassing.

Point is, professional cartoonist who's published in major, old school print periodical don't get the slack you give a 15 year old making memes on the internet.

Agreed, though my off-hand explaination shouldn't be taken as a defense or excuse for why it happens, just several ways in which error can creep in. 

Yes, of course it's embarrassing and to be avoided, especially by presitigious publications and people who write professionally.

Speaking of, I still occasionally find errors in print media and novels.  It's embarrassing, especially because once a novel is published, it's out there forever, but it happens.  Usually not out of stupidity, just carelessness.  Though I wonder if carelessness alone fully accounts for all the errors -  there's a widespread informal rule that an apostrophe is needed for plural words.  I fear one day waking up to it being taught that way in schools.

You'd expect the editor to catch mistakes in print, but apparently not.  One of life's mysteries, I suppose.   Like why the umpire is blind and how people who drive like maniacs somehow manage to get their driver's license.

I blame autocorrect, which changed a recipe in the Pasta Bible so that it called for "ground black people."

Quote from: the_antithesis on August 13, 2023, 05:50:43 PMI blame autocorrect, which changed a recipe in the Pasta Bible so that it called for "ground black people."

Wait. That was a typo? ...I knew that.

Abortion not-so-subtly equated to murder.  :/

Surely, the reason this was shared is because its maker has a couple screws loose and clumsily argues by insinuation that atheists are the irrational ones?

Stripped of their original context (ludicrous claims that the bible is without contradiction or asserting that god is omnibenevolent while simultaneously asserting that god will wipe out humanity again if two dude kiss or whatever) "atheist arguments" do indeed sound silly.  The one where atheists allegedly assert that god bestows girlfriends is quite a silly one that I confess to have never hearing before.  Clearly, I must be unfamiliar with atheist arguments.

The "faith = no use brain" also seems like an odd argument until one remembers that religious people sometimes trot out some very troubling quotes on faith vs reason.  If reason were never undervalued, especially in such a public way, then perhaps atheists would not score a near-effortless win by asserting its importance.

And yet, if I were to ask religious people seemingly softball questions like if religious belief is necessary for morality, if the bible is literally true, was the development of Christianity a product of culture and historical contingency or did it float down fully-formed from on high, I don't think any of us would be impressed by the answers we'd get.