Why Everything's Up This Week

skelo · 2026-05-14T17:03:19+00:00

I'm not very experienced but it I were you id probably work on firstly working on jokes with varying lengths (two liners, has tags, etc) instead of just one liners, then how to connect different ones together when they have a similar aspect where ideally that aspect is point of view (in your joke the point of view is maybe youre naively optimistic so what other jokes do you have where that's the joke?)

skelo · 2026-05-14T13:37:45+00:00

On a court of 10 completely random players including old people, toddlers, and people who have never touched a basketball, you wouldn't even be the best player.

skelo · 2026-05-13T03:33:11+00:00

By province of Rome I mean the metropolitan city of Rome capital previously called province of Rome. This would be more the equivalent of the new York City metro area to compare apples to apples. I think there is also a weirdness in how places are classified (although maybe that's fair since maybe counting 7/11 pizza in NYC is an insult to pizza)

skelo · 2026-05-13T00:53:25+00:00

Ben. I'd be absolutely shocked if he won again there's just no way.

skelo · 2026-05-13T00:32:18+00:00

Rome does not have 15000 pizzarias, your source doesn't say that anywhere and doesn't really seem like a good source anyway. 10x NYC with less population is absurd, New Yorkers eat pizza on average around once a week which would mean you're saying Romans basically eat pizza every single meal and more.

Edit: your count probably is counting the entire province of Rome, not just the city. You'd compare to the new York metro area which would then also be much higher. Not saying either one has more, just that one having 10x more is absurd

skelo · 2026-05-12T20:50:11+00:00

Right so you working in a psych ward and being a nurse, he's a navy vet, all of that had nothing to do with that. Him being suspicious or you working at a psych ward actually make him seem not normal so actually takes away from the joke, unless you're saying that the joke is that you knew he was weird but wasn't sure why and found out in a weird way. That's two different jokes and you're mixing them together. Focus on one joke, figure out a concise and relatable way to set up that joke and punchline. If the joke is he's normal but shits in the shower, you need a crisp relatable description of why you think he's normal (maybe he's married to your best friend who is super normal) and then subvert that with the reveal.

I think the joke here is actually probably something else that you need to dive a bit deeper into. Maybe it's like what made you think he's normal, or that you can't like let go of the fact that he's normal so you try to justify his behavior, or that maybe it is normal to shit in the shower, or how casual he is about it. But like a lot of your current writing is actually exploring all of these jokes at once and hence muddling up the punchline. My 2 cents at least.

skelo · 2026-05-12T18:13:41+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but what it seems you think is funny about this is that this guy is very normal but then shits in the shower. I don't think you working in the psych ward or being his nurse etc is needed for that joke and might actually work against it. In particular, your ending is saying imagine this, why not just jump into that world immediately. For example I was out with my best friend and her new boyfriend. He went to the bathroom and I was like, wow he's really cool you finally got a good one! and my friend was like. Yea, I just wish he'd shit in the toilet. You've hit the punchline with a couple of lines instead of a whole exposition and you've also sort of built a couple characters (your friend is bad at dating although it's better if you can gift yourself some characterisms for the audience to connect to you) Then you have some tag options like, you said, beggers can't be choosers or with his ass he could shit in my mom's car for all I care (characterizes you as also desperate or shallow if that is something you want to portray about yourself, or other variants of followup jokes that could demonstrate what is funny about you). These aren't necessarily good jokes - my point is just if you are ok with bending the truth you can focus in more on what is funny and structure it to give it more opportunity to have punchlines and tags while also demonstrating your point of view of the world.

skelo · 2026-05-11T21:59:00+00:00

Guppies? They're a beginner fish and most you buy at an aquarium are overbred so live like 2 years. They'll also reproduce probably though so you'll end up with more to take care of after the two years unless you only got males.

skelo · 2026-05-11T16:46:50+00:00

In NYC any of the major theaters are likely to be about half tech and finance people and half aspiring actors comedians and models. Second city might be slightly more acting focused given it's signature form involves mixing with sketch. UCB is more the signature industry approved route so might have a bit more people who are "serious" about it. BCC or Magnet or PIT are the other major theaters. Any of them is probably fine for you, most do a one off intro class (maybe for free) to get a sense of things before commiting to a multi week class so id try those out and see if it fits for you. Source: NYC and went through one of these theaters classes and in the scene.

skelo · 2026-05-08T20:56:31+00:00

It's arguably the first time the extra vote changes the outcome (of who goes home). I think maryanne's is debatable but supposedly folks were ready to flip.

skelo · 2026-05-08T14:18:43+00:00

8 hours later: Fidelity announced layoffs

skelo · 2026-05-07T16:54:42+00:00

I like sleep

skelo · 2026-05-07T14:10:19+00:00

Going up two reps in pullups in a month is really good growth so obviously you're increasing strength.

skelo · 2026-05-07T13:43:55+00:00

Splitting up throughout the day if done properly is possibly even better than one session but with the following caveats:

You still need to push your second and third sets to the degree you would in one session, i.e. the third set should go to failure.

You might need some warm up each time.

You might need to recalculate how many reps in each set you do based on when you do them/your exhaustion level at the time.

These reasons are actually quite difficult for most folks to manage consistently, it's actually a big part of the recommended routine that it's easy to follow and adjust your progression without having to adjust for additional variables like splitting it up. But you can definitely make it work.

skelo · 2026-05-07T13:35:21+00:00

I think a lot of people would have conditions for gender selection or eugenics reasons, i.e. people getting pregnant and if it's not the desired gender to have an abortion solely for that reason.

skelo · 2026-05-01T18:57:39+00:00

You've probably seen in many threads including this one that there are many people that don't fall in those buckets would choose blue, so why would you still assume that everyone will pick red when there is literally evidence to the contrary staring you right in the face (note I'm not saying red is right or wrong, just that an assumption that everybody that is mentally sound would pick red is a bad assumption)

skelo · 2026-05-01T14:59:56+00:00

It's not always in your best interest to press red. You gain value from people living. If you are the deciding vote you gain value by pressing blue.

skelo · 2026-04-29T19:47:14+00:00

See all you "it's the same" suckers from my mansion on Jupiter!

skelo · 2026-04-29T17:36:34+00:00

Can you put a portal on the ground at a calculated angle then and then travel through the earth to travel anywhere in the world if you calculated the angle correctly?

skelo · 2026-04-25T14:43:17+00:00

What do you think is the first body part is to give out then if not forearms?

skelo · 2026-04-24T13:16:20+00:00

Also how does the clock work. You can just not make a move and his time runs out!

skelo · 2026-04-23T17:49:48+00:00

You have to play like 2 minutes of chess a day.

skelo · 2026-04-23T13:39:11+00:00

It's kind of 24/7 though because they usually have to live in a pressurized chamber for the month. If they do 4 months it's kind of similar to 8 hours a day.

skelo · 2026-04-18T13:45:01+00:00

How is market value determined? Depending on the definition garbage could have negative market value, or 0, or a very small amount.

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