You can be both down for something, and up for it at the same time

I’ve been in a committed relationship for almost five years now, so all I can do is pass on my knowledge lol

If someone outside of your match radius matches with you, you actually still will be shown their card, so, if you really want to game the app, you set your radius to .1 or whatever, and then only match with people outside it, because those are guaranteed matches. By doing this, you make your Like to Match ratio skyrocket, which causes Tinder’s algorithm to put you at the front of the list, and gets you even more matches

The range isn’t how far away people can see you, it’s how far away you can see other people. Even if you set your range to the minimum, you’re still shown to everyone that has a range that includes your location

He was warning them by pointing upward into the sky 😔

Blazing Saddles holds up for the Common Clay quote alone

Doesn’t that just mean that this is PeopleLiveInCities?

I hear sugar free gummy bears really help with this

I’ll spend 15 minutes scouring forums to avoid watching a 5 minute tutorial video. Having an actual written guide is so much more useful

Sometimes, when I’ve been drilling through siding all day, it really feels like I’ve hit a brick wall…

Teaches IT

What if I ask my future self a question, but they chose the same option?

Golf is the same

I can certainly see why desert nomads on the edge of the galaxy would want to believe it

Cumquats. We can get them here, but I rarely see them. What could be better than a little orange you can eat like a grape?

They can do those things because they’ve been beneficial. Cats domesticated themselves because living with humans makes them safer. Their meows are cute, because that makes us want to protect them. They are absolutely capable of love, but they’re still animals

Animals can’t be evil. They’re amoral. They don’t philosophize, they don’t feel guilt; they don’t comprehend life in the same way that we do. Both cruelty and mercy are human constructs. All animals can do is try to guarantee survival for themselves and their offspring. They’ve all evolved into a specific niche, and these behaviors you deride are just instincts that have successfully ensured the survival of their ancestors, and so were passed on. If you can’t handle the idea that animals in general sometimes kill to survive, get a plant

Sokath! His eyes uncovered!

Memes don’t end at the image though. And by now, lots of memes are more than just images. If I say I’m going to “yeet” something, most people (below a certain age) know what that means. They don’t all become language, but the better, more popular ones do. It’s the same way we get all our words, really. I don’t know where the term “blue blooded” comes from, but I can still use it. In the same way, I don’t know where “down bad” came from, but I still know I’m down bad for etymology, and the study of evolutionary linguistics; it’s all fascinating.

The repetition is what allows them to become language, though. Every meme that enters popular culture is essentially a metaphor, and, by being repeated over and over, and only changed slightly, the meaning is taught to the audience, and it evolves into an idiom.

There can be problems with description, precision, and audience knowledge, but that is true of any word or phrase. The difference is just the rapidity at which these new idioms are entering our language. As long as the author is competent, and ensures that there is enough context and relevance in the work, as is already a requirement of proper writing, restricting the use of meme language is unnecessary