Keeble

"the bird"

left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. recently unionized barista. Weekly wikipedia streamer. ❤ @proxy ❤30. Avi: me!

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Keeble
@Keeble

Not just saying this because I’m a bird furry but it’s hard to understate just how unfunny “birds aren’t real” is as a bit. “Gingers have no soul” level joke


Webster
@Webster

i feel like i'm not allowed to talk about how much i dislike this joke because, as a bird person, i think people are going to assume i have a personal moralistic problem with "birds aren't real". but i just don't like any joke where the punchline is that you have already heard the joke before.

"birds aren't real" is in the same category as "the cake is a lie", or "all your base are belong to us", or "then i took an arrow to the knee". it's a joke people say not to be funny, but to be joking.


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in reply to @Webster's post:

"not to be funny, but to be joking."
I'm taking this. I've been thinking a lot lately about "the difference between 'being funny' and 'being desperate to be seen as funny' ", and your way of putting that is really a much more helpful one.