August 8, 2022

Things I found on Twitter after the sidebar told me "No. They" is trending.

I have no idea what got the algorithm to identify "No. They" as a trend, but I can see that it automatically picks out posts that has "they" separated from a "no" that is followed by a punctuation mark. This is such a common occurrence in casual English that this "trend" works to make Twitter look more random. Randomness is more amusing than most of what goes on in Twitter, so I'm up for the "No. They" trend... at least until I hear that it's actually something disturbing/depressing/annoying/agitating like just about everything else that's a Twitter trend.

13 comments:

Temujin said...

The Jimmy Legs

Jersey Fled said...

You never know when you might have to knock off a Bodega.

gilbar said...

No! They Didn't!

Paddy O said...

Calm for Twitter is a great browser plug in, along with Facebook Purity.

JPS said...

"Is There Science Behind Why Teens Wear Hoodies in Summer Heat?"

I don't know, is there Science behind headlines like this?

Richard Feynman discussed, in his first memoir, agreeing to review some competing grade school science textbooks, and his wife having to live with a volcano downstairs that would erupt unpredictably. The kind of thing that drove him nuts was, e.g., "What makes it go?" Answer: "Energy makes it go!" And Feynman pointed out, it was a meaningless use of the word. You could substitute "Wakalixes makes it go!" and the answer would be equally informative.

Anyway, yes. There is wakalixes behind why teens wear hoodies in summer heat.

Paddy O said...

Same science behind why men wear suits in summer heat. Decontextualized fashion is more important than context based thriving.

Ann Althouse said...

I found the Forbes article, and there's not much science, but the reasons for summer hoodie-wearing were:

Protection from cancer-causing Ultraviolet (UV) radiation
Armor against pesky mosquitoes
More pockets
Body image concerns

There was some hypothesizing that younger people are acclimating to global warming, so their sense of what's too hot for a sweatshirt is different.

Me, when I see someone dressed puzzlingly warmly in the summer, I assume the person is a drug addict. I've seen people wearing winter parkas in the summer. They're drug addicts, aren't they?

Jersey Fled said...

Most of them aren't drug addicts, but for soma reason they want to dress like drug addicts.

Just as an aside, they also wear shorts in the dead of winter. And work boots. Even though they don't actually work.

gilbar said...

I've seen people wearing winter parkas in the summer. They're drug addicts, aren't they?

Or Texans.. Well, And/Or Texans...

But, i think, The Real Reason is: More Pockets.
Plus, if The Man shows up; one doff of the hoodie, and Goodbye Contraband! Try THAT with pants!!

Joe Smith said...

Those hoodies come in handy when you're looting, burning and murdering people during democrat-incited riots.

dbp said...

"Is There Science Behind Why Teens Wear Hoodies in Summer Heat?"

If there is science behind it, maybe it will be part of a grand unifying theory, which includes the answer to why male teens wear shorts in the winter cold.

PM said...

Because Thrasher

Narr said...

It's drugs.

I was behind a young B/black man at the Exxon mart this afternoon. Black ballcap, black hoodie (thick), black long pants, black athletic shoes, black backpack. Saw him later cutting across the blacktop parking lot in the sun, heat index 103*.

I'd have blacked out in a few minutes if I had left the house this morning dressed like that.