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Skill issue, just reply it with the joke anyway.
yep. “oh, no shit? here I was thinking it was because they lacked the koalafications… smh”
This is what it’s like making jokes on the internet in general these days. Say something that is clearly absurd for the sake of humor, and then get hit with a ton of “um achtually…” responses.
True… But… How would a Koala not have Koalafications, but a bear does?
It’s a very polarbearizing issue.
Yeah lol, that’s exactly where my pedantic ass went too, the joke doesn’t actually make sense…
Shut up nerd
“Why aren’t bears considered marsupials?” They don’t have the koalafications!
Yeah lol, that’s exactly where my pandantic ass went too, the joke doesn’t actually make sense…
🐼
From one pedantic person to another…
NEEEEEERRRRRD
It’s purely nepotism. You have have the right parents to be a bear.
Because going through college is a grizzly process
Grizzlies always have the bear necessities needed to get a job done
Because they’re high all the time and dont study.
Koalas are too nearsighted.
For bears, “bear necessities” can be considered analogous to koalafications in koalas.
That’s not what happened in the scenario above, is it?
Asking ‘why aren’t koalas considered bears?’ isn’t clearly absurd.
If they’d said the punchline and then the other person said well actually they’re marcupials, then fair enough. That just isn’t what happened here though.
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Sometimes it’s so obvious that I wonder if the person knew it was a joke and decided to troll anyways. Other times I have to remember that it does take experience to recognize it, and some people have additional limitations like not speaking the language
Like if I never played a video game, I might not recognize the very obvious wall with a different texture that I’m meant to bash through
Also koalas: !koalawallawoods@lemmy.world
That is one of the drawbacks of not having to carry a dictionary around … ever again!
OP is an idiot, could have easily continued the joke
He was too underkoalafied to continue.
Word: they’re marsupially unkoalafied, of course.
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nah, my neurodivergent self would treat that as a genuine question and answer the same way despite my feelings for the other person
Yeah but if you let something like that stop you from saying the punchline you probably shouldn’t be dating neurodivergent people
yea :3 the punchline makes the joke obvious and we will still laugh at it
Out of curiosity wouldn’t the “nuerodivergent” part just be not interested in why he was asking the question then? Not educated on how that really works. The term seems to imply to me the brain is dividing thoughts into factions, and the social “solenoid” that would get triggered and route to joke faction “by being interested” is getting bypassed so it just went straight to literal answer. Maybe section would be a better term than faction. I should add nuerodivergence to my list of need to look into to further understand.
That’s not what “neurodivergent” means at all. 😅
Basically, neurodiversity is a psychology worldview in which diversity is recognized as a strength. People who are different, like folks with autism, ADHD and such, are not classified as having a “disorder”, but rather different strengths and weaknesses.
And then “neurodivergent” is basically just what people call it when someone is autistic or has ADHD or something along those lines.My interpretation is that in this case, the person you’re responding to probably has autistic traits, which make them less attentive of social cues, or also less comprehending (which may also just mean they need to concentrate to recognize the communication patterns of non-autistics).
And the social cues here would be that the guy telling the joke probably smiled and had a certain tone in their voice. Without recognizing that, it will just sound like a genuine question.
Other autistic traits may also apply, for example autistics tend to have good memory, so that’s likely part of the reason why they even know the marsupial thing to begin with.I’m clearly missing something because your last 2 paragraphs seem to state the same thing I said here “The term seems to imply to me the brain is dividing thoughts into factions, and the social “solenoid” that would get triggered and route to joke faction “by being interested” is getting bypassed so it just went straight to literal answer. Maybe section would be a better term than faction. I should add nuerodivergence to my list of need to look into to further understand.”
Where you say social cue, that is the trigger for the solenoid in my blabber. The “without recognizing” is the “bypassing and going straight” to the literal answer or “answering as a genuine question.” As you put it. Maybe I should have said relay instead of solenoid, or just avoided mechanical parts all together 😅
Edit: I tend to keep the view that everyone is on 1 spectrum, and it is not linear but at minimal 2 dimensional, 3 more likely. So I often ignore trying to label thoughts as being autistic or such, as like you said, they could mean a plethora of different things. My partner is autistic/ADHD, but most people would have a hard time telling from standard encounters. They just think she is quiet/reserved until they get into situations that would require more than just small conversations.
Or worse - if you’re like me, you spend 10 minutes after the joke to talk more about bears, koalas, marsupials, the entire evolution of bears, because they brought up what you thought was an interesting question.
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what?
Just nod smile and move along, don’t upset crazy people
Eh, she might have genuinely not realized that he’s attempting a joke. You do need to bring across in your voice+expression that you’re being humorous, otherwise it sounds like a normal question, and if they’re on a party or such, that can be difficult.
Not to mention that if she’s a biology student, the info that koalas are marsupials probably makes it quicker to her head than the realization that he’s joking.
I saw this and then asked my fiance the same setup question. She replied, “because they’re marsupials?”
I then showed her this post as the punchline.
Besides their being marsupially unkoalafied, they get high on eucalyptus over cocaine every hour of the day.
Edit: bears: cocaine. They have no interest or güt microbe help to dig eucalyptus like Koalas do
Down voted this one for the weird anti-educated tone to the joke. It wasn’t even necessary for the joke. Just odd to include it.
Bear with me here, please send help
