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Cake day: August 25th, 2024

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  • BHJ = Characters are literally describing what they are doing or a mundane thing

    Anti-meme = Effectively a normal meme which uses subversion of expectations by replacing the expected punchline with something dry.

    Both are a form of dry humor, but one makes use of the meme format (anti-meme) and makes fun of or exists alongside the meme format (BHJ)




  • God I feel this. My mother told me once to be careful not to make my eggs too spicy by adding too much black pepper.

    I’ve made food that I thought was literally flavorless and been told it was too spicy to finish. So, now when I cook for family I actually just don’t add any seasonings and I point them to the cabinet. “You’re not gonna like most of what you find in there, but there’s at least some butchers blend you should be able to handle”








  • You don’t have [it] beaten out.

    I agree and disagree. Pattern recognition is a trained skill, for you have learn to recognize each pattern. Pattern recognition is not, however, a trained skill in the way that you have to learn to recognize patterns at all.

    However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition. This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition, and in some cases people will actually learn to go against their pattern recognition because they assume things are trying to catch that