Althouse: At Twitter, low-level wit flows like rain...

September 3, 2023

At Twitter, low-level wit flows like rain...

98% of the crowd literally makes the same joke...

More like you always hated Burning Man anyway.

33 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...: I'm shocked that I haven't seen a negative comparison to Woodstock.; 9/3/23, 5:30 AM
stlcdr said...: To (mis)quote “should they not have done that? Was that wrong?”; 9/3/23, 6:09 AM
Dave Begley said...: Isn’t Burning Man an orgy for drug using techies?; 9/3/23, 6:21 AM
Big Mike said...: More like you always hated Burning Man anyway.

Fist of all, it’s our right to hate anyone or anything we damned well please. Second, who needs superannuated hippies and hippie chicks anyway?; 9/3/23, 6:27 AM
mezzrow said...: I just thought of the words "Burning Man Trump Rally" and simultaneously smiled and felt a bit ashamed of myself. I bet there's a word for that.

"I'll take 'Things That Will Never Happen' for $500..."

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In the land of beans and nuts, low level wit flows like a breach in the Three Gorges Dam.; 9/3/23, 6:43 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Fist of all..."

Your sad motto.; 9/3/23, 7:09 AM
Iman said...: Sucks Man; 9/3/23, 7:32 AM
Randomizer said...: If you don't have something nice to say, then say it on Twitter.

When the NBA team in my city won the national championship, there was a big parade and party downtown. That is close to my version of hell, but I'm glad the people who enjoy that sort of event had the opportunity. It meant so much to them. That's how I feel about Burning Man. It's none of my business and easy to ignore. I'm glad the people who like that sort of thing have the opportunity.; 9/3/23, 7:38 AM
mikee said...: Nobody hates Burning Man. Everyone just wants to be an elite guest at Burning Man, with full access to all the sex, drugs, music, food, and other weird fun stuff experienced by those who use a helicopter to arrive (and to leave).; 9/3/23, 8:03 AM
re Pete said...: "And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall"; 9/3/23, 8:08 AM
lonejustice said...: I had friends who went to Burning Man in the 1990s, when it was more by word of mouth and not commercialized. They said it was the most incredible experience they ever had.; 9/3/23, 8:19 AM
Tom T. said...: A celebration of excess in a fragile environment -- shame on you people for hating that!; 9/3/23, 8:30 AM
Tim said...: The only attention I ever paid to Burning Man was to check the photos to see the outfits they came up with, some of which were better than anything the designers ever put out. But this year, the video of the protestors attempting to block the road and running into some native rangers with very little sense of humor, with the protestors unable to understand why they were not more sympathetic to their efforts, followed by the motorists trying to get to Burning Man trying to reason with the protestors, claiming to be on their side and wondering why they didn't go after the REAL enemy, was just too hilarious. The lack of comprehension on the part of everyone except the rangers was truthfully hilarious, at least to me.; 9/3/23, 8:56 AM
Narr said...: Burning Man has never been of any interest to me--not important enough to hate.

The juxtaposition of the climate protestors' highway blockade and the weather washout is amusing, you have to admit.; 9/3/23, 9:33 AM
Anthony said...: So is this the climate crisis or nah.; 9/3/23, 10:19 AM
Brian McKim and/or Traci Skene said...: "Hate" is a strong word.

Pointing and laughing at an event that constantly says (or demands), "Look at me!" Is a low-level social crime.

A lack of originality when doing so doesn't rise to the level of misdemeanour.; 9/3/23, 10:33 AM
GRW3 said...: You only see the other comments on X if you specifically open the post. If you just hit the response button, all you see is the text box.; 9/3/23, 11:18 AM
Jupiter said...: So, wait a minute. I guess I'm not up to speed this AM. Burning Man got rained out, or something? Sounds like the revenge of the Climate Change Spirit on those Injuns.; 9/3/23, 11:18 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: The Althouse commenter experience in two bits:

”it’s our right to hate anyone or anything…”

“Nobody hates Burning Man.”

Nicely done, fellow Mikes!; 9/3/23, 11:19 AM
Ampersand said...: Burning Man confuses me. Am I supposed to care about it, or find it intriguing or transgressive? Has it changed our culture or politics? Not that I know of. Maybe the conversations, drugs,sex and music to be found there are uniquely desirable, so much so that a late summer pilgrimage to an uninhabitable corner of the desert makes perfect sense. I'm a doubter. Seeing yesterday's elite mired in mud amid their vain quest for heaven on earth inspires a certain amount of schadenfraude.
It's a guilty pleasure, but nonetheless a pleasure.; 9/3/23, 11:21 AM
Ice Nine said...: I went to Burning Man in 1999. I had clothes on the whole time and didn't do any drugs - like lots of the attendees. There were of course naked people and drug users there - BFD. It was a wonderful, amazing, joyful festival of wild art, bizarre performances, interesting people, banned commercial activity, and lots of fun. You can't go back, judging by the more recent abomination mutations of it that I've read about.; 9/3/23, 11:47 AM
Joe Smith said...: Don't people age out of this?

My son went to Coachella for years during college and for a couple of years after.

Then life/work, etc. was more important.

It's like trick or treating after you've had your growth spurt and your voice (for girls and boys these days) has dropped an octave.

It's just lame...; 9/3/23, 11:49 AM
DAN said...: "A Puritan is someone who's desperately afraid that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time.” — H. L. Mencken; 9/3/23, 11:59 AM
n.n said...: sustainable andro warming; 9/3/23, 12:29 PM
rehajm said...: Ann Althouse said...
"Fist of all..."

Your sad motto.

I’d need this one explained to me…; 9/3/23, 2:02 PM
Iman said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/3/23, 5:59 PM
Big Mike said...: I’d need this one explained to me…

@rehajm, explanation part #1, like many another septuagenarian, I had to get up in the middle of the night to use the toilet, typed my comment, and did a crappy job of proofreading it before posting. That was partly because it was early, and partly because I’m a lousy proofreader of my own writing even under good circumstances.

Explanation #2, a few years back Althouse called me a racist because I’m a Republican, and for no other reason. I don’t imagine her record in recruiting and mentoring black people is anything like mine, but there is no arguing with a university professor. After all, recruiting and mentoring is work, and name-calling based on benighted stereotypes is easy and fun. Anyway, she declined to apologize (she still hasn’t) and I’ve despised her as an human being ever since.; 9/3/23, 6:18 PM
rehajm said...: Thank you. Now it makes sense…; 9/3/23, 6:40 PM
traditionalguy said...: Global Cooling strikes again. The solution is obvious. Outlaw energy that does not add CO2 pms to the air. We must reverse the coming ice age or our children will never see fair weather.; 9/3/23, 7:59 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: I don't give two cents for Burning Man or Burning Man weather, although I suppose I deplore what of it is celebration of immorality. But I applaud Althouse's use of 'Twitter' instead of the ridiculous 'X'. EM has lots of ideas, I guess; 'X' isn't one of his good ones. (My own use of his site has diminished a great deal since he withdrew Tweetdeck behind the paywall.); 9/3/23, 8:12 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Ice Nine said...

"I went to Burning Man in 1999"

I went to burning man when it was on the beach.; 9/4/23, 6:42 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Some took it back to the beach this year; 9/4/23, 7:05 AM
Mikey NTH said...: Hate it? No.
Unless it got mentioned somewhere I wouldn't even think of it. The word is indifferent.; 9/4/23, 3:20 PM