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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think I can manage this forum but hashtags and memes are a bit of a mystery. I looked up meme today and I sort of get it. I think it's a bit like when our threads go off piste or get hijacked -is it? 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I don't think memes even know what they are anymore. Proper memes are exactly what you say, an internet joke that goes wandering off piste but these days people call anything a meme whether it has a repeated theme or not.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They could be for labelling your corned beef as well I suppose. #B3's dinner🚷bio hazard #
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I think there are some, here as anywhere else who delight in taking offence and climbing on the platform of indignation.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Memes can actually be a great way to communicate on the internet. For example I could post something like:

    "I asked a question on the GW forum and no one took me seriously."

    On it's own it's very hard to judge the emotions involved, but if I use the 'first world problem' meme template...


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Meme template???
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Newspapers and websites referring to 'hacks' for xyz when they simply mean hints and tips.  Hacks, to me, in the computer world are ways of getting into areas you shouldn't be in, or bypassing security.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or cough sweets or horses
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    That thing about "hacks" annoys me as well, they started using it on the Jo and Simon show on Radio 2 (and don't get me started on how the powers that be destroyed that show). Trying to be down with the kids, l suppose...trouble is, the kids have probably already moved on to calling them something else! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    ... and for me a hack was a gentle ride out in the countryside on my pony ... to Pa it was a journalist .... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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