That’s when they ostracize you for being a killjoy and not appreciating their “humour”
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thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months agoseriously.
insert potato joke
“why is that funny?”
*let them try to explain
“oh, I thought it was about he Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.”
see how awkward it can get.
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s when they ostracize you for being a killjoy .
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Fuck that toxic place, never liked any of those cocksuckers anyway.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Even worse, the famine was entirely caused by landlords and especially the English. It wasn’t a natural disaster, but a product of monoculture that was forced on the people through no fault of their own.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It was caused by the government of England subsidizing the export of food from Ireland.
ToyDork@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Initially, yes. And then when it went wrong? They doubled down on it because they WANTED people to be desperate.