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 9 hours agodeltapi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
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!
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
In the future, we’ll look back sadly on the current Times of Greatness.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 45 minutes ago
According to the White House - this is the “Golden Age”.