What do you call one of these?
I found this subreddit called IncreasinglyVerbose. I love it lol but their advice on how to be increasingly verbose made me think uhoh, this is like a guide for how to speak Neckbeard.
Begin with a sentence that is clear and direct:
To think clearly, write clearly.Change its verbs, adjectives, and adverbs into abstract nouns:
For clarity of thought, seek clarity of writing.Make the sentence passive:
For clarity of thought, clarity of writing should be sought.Use two words where one would do:
For mental process clarity, prose expression clarity should be looked for.Use plenty of ‘in regard to’ and ‘as to’:
For clarity in regard to mental processes, clarity as to prose expression should be looked for.Sprinkle with words that do not add anything:
For there ever to be any kind of clarity in regard to mental processes, the most fundamental and basic end goal of clarity as to prose expression definitely ought to be looked for to the greatest extent that is possible by every writer.Put everything in the negative:
For there to be no lack of clarity in regard to mental processes, the most fundamental and basic end goal of clarity in regard to prose expression definitely ought not to be overlooked to the greatest extent that is not at all impossible by all writers.Repeat the preceding steps. (Several times):
In regard to the issue of clarity, there is no lack of certainty that if there is to be successful avoidance of unclarity in regard to inward mental cognitive activity situation, the basic and fundamental end goal and objective of clarity, in any, indeed in all, written prose expression attempts is not something that can be overlooked without danger or avoided to the greatest degree that is not at all impossible, without exception.
This technique flummoxes me when I encounter it. I find myself thinking wtf, how can someone so verbose otherwise be so ignorant? And that’s just when I look in the mirror 
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Shopping cart.
Buggy one time
Normally, I have a specific friend’s group for politically motivated comments on my Facebook friends list where I block out possible deplorables and apolitical people.
Unfortunately, a very distant cousin slipped through the cracks and opted to post what was supposed to be a joke comment about my mother whooping my ass when I get home. I mean I wasn’t offended at the content of the joke. I was offended about the fact that he thought he knew our relationship well enough that he could make that comment when I haven’t seen him in literally years.
So much easier just to respond with a pithy comment, remove him from my list and block him than to dignify such a comment with a well thought out answer.
My sisters and I have a sort of unspoken agreement that we don’t engage our mother politically. So much so that they never post anything political. Hell, I post almost no political material on social media myself. However, they broke that and definitely skew left. Certainly not as far to left as many of us, but definitely left nonetheless. Never thought I’d read a post from my sister discussing structural racism since she’s never been the type to bring it up anything like that.
In my darkest hour, I open my in-law’s cupboard and find the secret elixir of life.
$56.95
Ingredients: deionized water, purified silver (10ppm)
CLINICALLY TESTED
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Did you snort it or go for the mainline?
Enema obviously
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I feel like this could be grounds for an annulment because had you known that you were marrying someone raised by parents with an economy sized bottle of Silver Biotics® in their cabinet you never would have gone through with it.
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But she is firmly against all of that snake oil.
She does insist crystals have healing energies though
But she’s got an untold fury against racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia… You see where I’m going. Take an 80/20 split as a win and work with the 20% you don’t like :)
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I’d be concerned if they were taking BHT.
Please educate me. What’s the concern?
I’m just referring to this thread
If we all dumped our partners because of inlaws, there would be a lot of dumping going on!
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Queensland?
Yeah… WA is second worst. I almost did a post with an odds thing for Queensland as favourite, Western Australia as second favourite, and the field as the underdog, but decided I couldn’t be bothered working out plausible numbers and just went with my actual post.
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An aunt posted a photo captioned All Lives Matter!! but it is just four fat white women sitting on a couch smiling at the camera (her and her friends). I fear she may actually be too dumb to know what the sentence means.
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sorry but tl;dr
i wouldn’t waste your time trying to change a mentally ill moron of anything on the internet, and if i did engage it would just be some trolling bullshit that everyone who hates this guy and wants him gone can laugh at.
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If I were to join that forum, I might do analysis of his posts in a way that continually cites critical race theory. I would do it in a jargon-filled, over-the-top manner that is intended to make him froth at the mouth and is not intended to provoke serious dialogue.
I’d need more history to go on, but you can always say that his constant micro-aggressions on race seem crafted to allow plausible deniability to himself so that he can pretend he’s not a closet cuck-porn viewer with a BBC fetish.
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