By the time I learn about internet memes, they are generally past their prime, to put it no higher. The “when you” meme takes photos and adds captions intended to elicit both a laugh and an “Oh yeah, me too” reaction. Some are funny; many are gross and crude.
But as with many things, they’re harder than they look.
When You First Learn How to Play Hide & Seek
When You Feel Like a Duck in the Headlights
When You Hear Big Teeth Behind You
Isabel
I grew up on a farm in south western Ontario. We had white geese. “When I heard hissing and feet running behind me, it was best to get away quick. Ganders could take your skin in their beak and give you one nasty pinch.
Tom
Tom – Oh, yes, a fear of geese is completely rational. I remember the women at a Hutterite colony (visited when my kids were on a field trip) laughing at me for being so jumpy around the geese. In turn, I was in awe of their fearlessness.
“Some are funny; many are gross and crude.” There’s a fine line in humour between the two of those options, and it keeps shifting. Somehow it’s a lot easier for many of us (especially those who still have seven-year-old minds) to formulate gross, indecent, racist, sexist, xenophobic, etc., responses, rather than lines that genuinely enable us to see the funny side of universal experiences.
Jim T
Jim T – Yeah, the humour I favour/tolerate is likely hokey (but not pokey) by current norms. One of the inevitable consequences of aging.