Spirited_Island-75

Spirited_Island-75 t1_j67o0vy wrote

Reply to LPT: When visiting a museum, find the volunteer attendants and kindly ask if they have a personal favorite piece in the gallery. They're generally more passionate and they’ll often show you random things that you’d otherwise look over by Pete_The_Chop

I'll add that lot of unpaid museum docents are retired. (because who else has that kind of time?) For bonus points, find the very oldest docent you can and they might tell you some really interesting stuff.

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Spirited_Island-75 t1_j2cffwa wrote

Reply to comment by Siegschranz in A man goes before Saint Peter... by SchwarzeHaufen

No, it doesn't, because it makes no sense. A 'joke' is funny because it points out some truism that the receiver of said joke hasn't realized before. Even a simple one, like, oh, pillows are like giant marshmallows! Hahaha! If you tell that one to a small child who hasn't heard it, they'll think it's the most hilarious thing because to them, it is. Jokes are meant to make us think, and learn. This is why children laugh constantly. There have been serious psychological studies on the purpose of humor and what it does to our brains.

A 'joke' that sets the scene by establishing a character as both pathetic and dangerous isn't particularly good because it's not based in reality.

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Spirited_Island-75 t1_j2bw0o4 wrote

Reply to comment by wiseoldprogrammer in A man goes before Saint Peter... by SchwarzeHaufen

You can depose an entire ruling class using only defenestration? I'm just pointing out that the premise of the joke, that a worker's state is somehow simultaneously so dangerous as to warrant an undercover visit from a three-letter-agency and so pathetic that they don't have food, clothes or bullets is pretty illogical.

If someone could explain how the contradiction works instead of just mindlessly downvoting, that'd be great.

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