s

That’s how you end up with this

Oh, I didn’t mean his word salad specifically

Sigh… You’re being difficultly obdurate and pedantic. Let’s say “No overtly and/or directly political memes” then.

Careful not to condemn word salad on the Fediverse or else you’ll get downvoted and told that it is completely comprehensible regardless of any grammatical nonsense.

No worries, Batman has a kryptonite contingency plan for if/when Superman were to turn evil

There are suitable subforums for most of those, but they’re typically bothersome in a general meme page for both audiences and mods

I’m finding no matches for this image or some text on it, so it seems like you made this meme and posted it onto a forum which has only a couple of those criteria as its actual rules. Is this just bad faith smear campaigning to stir shit against this community and/or its mods?

Rule 3 is also the only one of these rules that is the slightest bit dubious. The rest are justifiable for most audiences and mod teams, assuming there’d be a reasonable time limit to when reposting would be permissible.

I understood that much. Take it up with shneancy@lemmy.world for what their interpretation requires.

The set dressing either should have been communicated clearer to not be confusing or wholly omitted.

“call” is a transitive verb.

“from” is a preposition.

Words have meaning. Grammar has a purpose. The joke-teller is necessarily within the store making a call to an unspecified “her” for unspecified reasons and we know this via the rare skill known as reading. Just because a vocal plurality of people interpret a Rorschach inkblot test or a Jackson Pollock painting as a specific message, that does not make those pieces mean anything, let alone any specific one thing or analogous things.

Ok, then a person who uses “her” as a pronoun rather than exclusively a woman.

All other criteria are essential to meet the apparent meaning of the joke.

I fed a hundred 5 star chefs’ dinners to a dog and then the dog shit them out but I still made the dogshit

I thought this was an actual photo of Bananarea 51

Yes, that’s why the first thing I said was asking if it was meant to be comprehensible because I could not parse a clear and singular intent behind it for reasons I’ve already mentioned. “Incomprehensible” is a genre of media, especially for TikTok.

I’d understand the scenario and perhaps even find it funny if the joke-teller were to provide the essential context

The joke is so poorly phrased that you inverted the roles of who is shopping

It’s relatable to only a small percentage of people (fraction of people who are interested in relationships with women, subset people who are in relationships with women, subset people whose women partner is phone obsessed, subset people who cannot independently shop for groceries, subset people who while grocery shopping have had their women partner fail to answer her phone, subset people who have this happen routinely or significantly enough to even notice or care). You will see others saying that it’s relatable but that will just be confirmation bias.

And for each person who has experienced this, they only once could have experienced it as the image describes since black holes do not relinquish the matter they absorb. Who even would be in a relationship with somebody who is both on their phone 24/7 and be short distance enough to share groceries? The hyperbole is too literal and becomes nonsensical rather than comedic.

“word salad and non-sequitors without premise” is genuinely a common aim and market for TikTok media. It was only a criticism if that wasn’t what the joke-teller was going for, and that’s what I wanted clarification of.

You asked the community for context and I provided a version of it based on having heard that joke before.

Last I heard, even historians have yet to come up with the context or meaning for that joke.

those are both assumptions

Then don’t assert those claims with such absolutism and authority?

you are angry about

What part about the ancient Sumerian dog joke made you laugh?

The fact that it’s choosing an eye to open so it can see?

Where are you getting these assumptions from? Also, your comment comes across as really condescending and preachy imo. It’s like you think I don’t understand what a joke is or that all these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.

If the joke relies on that much of an assumption about a fringe scenario, then that context should have been provided within the joke. For example, the appositive “her” has no reference noun and therein no information about her connection to the joketeller.

In a similar vein of lacking context, can you explain this joke?

“A dog walks into a tavern and says, ‘I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one’.”

Are your “(TikTok screenshot)” memes supposed to have any sort of comprehensibility or are they instead just meant to be word salad and non-sequitors without premise?