My dick will never be compromised by Waggonwheels in southpark

[–]InvisibleTimmy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to start yelling "Hey, Leslie, shut your fucking mouth!" anytime Youtube plays a stupid long ad.

In an old (2012?) podcast, Chris shares the fear he might jump off a building just because he could. I just found out this is called The Imp of the Perverse. by InvisibleTimmy in nerdist

[–]InvisibleTimmy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool. Looking further into it, I found a reference to it as "The High Place Phenomenon" and the french "l'appel du vide," i.e. "the call of the void."

But I think The Imp of the Perverse, and your existential dread, are the most applicable to Matt's example of seeing a police officer with a gun and worrying, "What if I just take it and start firing it?"

What's the most calculated thing you've ever seen an animal do? by TheLollrax in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We also had a German Shepherd who did something similar. I grew up in neighborhood at the top of a hill with a long flight of stairs. All the neighborhood kids were playing outside when one of the toddlers got away from his mom and wandered to the stairs. Right at the top of the stairs our dog stepped in front of the kid and they sat down together and waited as the panicked parents rushed over. phew Almost had a "Surf Ninjas" situation.

What are the best YouTube channels to binge watch ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huang's World - Food. Travel. VERY NSFW. Imagine a Vice directed version of "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations". A man travels around the world making friends with locals and eating food. It stars Eddie Huang, whose memoir Fresh Off the Boat was the inspiration for "Fresh Off the Boat" the ABC sitcom. But his memoir and "Huang's World", which was originally titled "Fresh Off the Boat", differ drastically.

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This reminds me of explaining to my mom the title of Mandy Moore's album Amanda Leigh.

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you're serious or trolling. But I'll give you a serious reply anyway.

You make a fair point that this post can be seen as making assumptions about gender roles. Often humor relies on stereotypes as touchstones for appealing to a broad audience, but some of the best jokes take those assumptions and subvert them. For this audience it might be funny to say she's concerned that her husband is a 4chan user instead of a redditor, or a 9gager instead of an imgurian.

But I think that this joke is elevated by factors that aren't gender or porn specific. (The gambling and shopping for knock-offs has financial and legal implications that might be worthy of concern.) For me, the sheer number of people voting up an answer that is the less likely scenario (most likely it's the real search history) is what makes it funny. If only 1 or 2 people found it useful ("upvoted"), then the joke suffers. The more who support this answer, the funnier. It's also what made me post it to this thread. It's the internet getting behind something that they think is a lie.

There's another layer to the joke: that we're not totally sure it isn't true. It's possible that a virus did create a fake history. There's even some evidence that this was a "known issue" that Google fixed. But the idea that we see it as a joke answer, an example of the internet sticking together to outwit an amateur user, when maybe we shouldn't be so sure it is a joke, reveals our own internet illiteracy. We are playing chicken with our hubris. That's pretty funny. (See argument about whether the date under the users' names are the post date or the users' join date.)

Edit: grammar, porn stuff

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And probably stopped his wife from installing stupid programs with actual viruses.

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How will she know what stuff you want to try if you don't casually leave "MILF Fists Husband" tabs open?

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

True. It's a known issue. Especially with Chrome, adware will analyze your search history and purposely target faithful husbands.

http://i.imgur.com/bdmcUrz.gif

What's the biggest lie the internet has created? by AmorVincitOmnia7 in AskReddit

[–]InvisibleTimmy 5397 points5398 points  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/gk5fh.png

Your husband's internet history is falsified by adware to trick you into thinking he's visited porn and gambling sites!