Yes, I downvote youtube links.

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Cake day: December 12th, 2024

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  • Yup. It’s why the scams by phone are so irritating to most of us, as another example. It’s just obvious and a time waster, but by making the scam easily visible to people who have the characteristics to not be vulnerable to them, it weeds out all the false positives the scammers would then have to deal with. They don’t want you, mr. bright eyed and bushy tailed, who is ready to catch them out only after hours of trying to get you to give them the code to your gift cards. That’s a lot of wasted time. They just want granny who will follow every direction.


  • You… really don’t get it, do you? The person being tormented is the one who isn’t doing anything. That’s the joke. Look around him. You’ve got bubbles being blown, which creates the sound of a person blowing right near your ear and the sound of the bubbles popping. Then you’ve got the hand organ down the bench, and across from him you have the paddle ball on string, and someone knitting. All are repetitive, eventually-going-to-drive-you-crazy sounds, much like the slow dripping of water is not terrible in anyway, but comprises the chinese water torture.

    They might all be little demons in disguise, or merely figments created by the devil, but who cares? We know they’re not persons being punished, because they could stop at any time if the action was a torment.


  • Does it? The whole joke is about annoying, repetitive sounds being created near the fella who is being tormented. It seems like a coincidence far more than a reference. I would have expected a tell to draw attention to the reference, like maybe a castle, a butterfly, or a dawn to link back to the lyrics… you know, something besides just four words that happen to be in a song somewhere.