"Touch grass" is often similarly coded, too. There are large sections of Burgerland where touching the grass would be considered tresspassing, especially if you didn't buy something recently.
I always found it weird when Americans who live in a sparsely populated grid drive around for fun because it's the least fun drive you can imagine. Then I realized it's because you can't just hang out without paying an entrance fee somewhere lol.
I don't think "touch grass" is that literal, is it? I'd been using it to mean like, log off and go interact with real people or read a book or go for a walk or something. Not like, a literal request to go outside and put your body in physical contact with a graminoid plant, but excluding sedges and rushes.
Sure, I assume it's usually meant that way. But even then it's still pretty damn presumptive when it's used, both in the "surely everyone I disagree with/dislike is a shut in" sense and also in the belief that everyone everywhere has something meaningful they can do outside at any given time regardless of where they live and what's actually out there to do. That also goes for posting at work and the freedom everyone has to just walk away from the desk and frolic in a field until they agree with the other person's takes.
I mean, yeah, not everyone can literally walk away, but I think ultimately the sentiment can basically be boiled down to "take a break and do something else for a while." I don't know that there's anyone for whom it's genuinely impossible to stop arguing online, and that they're genuinely unable to spend even a few minutes doing something other than posting.
but I think ultimately the sentiment can basically be boiled down to "take a break and do something else for a while."
I certainly can see that, though often in practice it instead comes out as "I don't like you. You must be too online. You should leave while I get to stay."
wow, it sounds so easy! I'm sure all the other people can do this and compete for the same "big home on lots of land"
oh, you're just advocating for all-against-all and will completely ignore the people who starve to death trying? oh, okay
this is how I feel when people say I should "make friends"
"Touch grass" is often similarly coded, too. There are large sections of Burgerland where touching the grass would be considered tresspassing, especially if you didn't buy something recently.
I always found it weird when Americans who live in a sparsely populated grid drive around for fun because it's the least fun drive you can imagine. Then I realized it's because you can't just hang out without paying an entrance fee somewhere lol.
No wonder the typical recording studio for chud broadcasting in contemporary media is the interior of a vehicle.
And you had to pay gas for that, so even that have an entrance fee.
I don't think "touch grass" is that literal, is it? I'd been using it to mean like, log off and go interact with real people or read a book or go for a walk or something. Not like, a literal request to go outside and put your body in physical contact with a graminoid plant, but excluding sedges and rushes.
Sure, I assume it's usually meant that way. But even then it's still pretty damn presumptive when it's used, both in the "surely everyone I disagree with/dislike is a shut in" sense and also in the belief that everyone everywhere has something meaningful they can do outside at any given time regardless of where they live and what's actually out there to do. That also goes for posting at work and the freedom everyone has to just walk away from the desk and frolic in a field until they agree with the other person's takes.
I mean, yeah, not everyone can literally walk away, but I think ultimately the sentiment can basically be boiled down to "take a break and do something else for a while." I don't know that there's anyone for whom it's genuinely impossible to stop arguing online, and that they're genuinely unable to spend even a few minutes doing something other than posting.
I certainly can see that, though often in practice it instead comes out as "I don't like you. You must be too online. You should leave while I get to stay."
You're wrong and I'm going to continue to argue with you and WILL post every minute, if necessary.
gonna start telling people to touch sedge specifically
"Go handle a forb, ya dweeb!"
Go brush bryophytes
*go outside and put your body in physical contact with a graminoid plant, excluding sedges and rushes.
Didn't Hind want to be a dentist or doctor?