Comment on Had to look this up

• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!

  Thanks again!

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      In the future, we’ll look back sadly on the current Times of Greatness.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        According to the White House - this is the “Golden Age”.

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• deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
  Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?

    Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.

    If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.

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