jadis

Come one guys, now you make me feel bad about cracking a low-effort joke. This is the kind of gullibility the American electorate just can't afford come 2024. I hear there are Russian trolls much more devious than myself out there...

Chula Vista

On behalf of everyone here may I just say.....

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

In their defense the lack of a punchline didn't make it look like a joke.

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rubber soul

What Chula said.

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WWWP

Right it’s also missing any humor.

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#DEMODFROWNLAND
#TERMLIMITSFORMODERATORS

Trollheart

Yeah but come on. Jadis had been here a wet day. We all know he has no relationship with Plankton; I doubt the guy's even aware of him. It was obviously a joke, made, I should add, in very poor taste. But I'm surprised you all believed it. I knew the moment he said it that it was grade A bull.

Chula, you can't keep asking what's going on when posts before yours have made the point that Plankton's privacy is his, and then say you do you. You can't do you, not in this case, not unless you want to do it privately, in which case don't tell us. It's not our place to keep speculating, although I'm as guilty as others of doing that. Then again, I only made a veiled suggestion and was asked to clarify it, so I did. But we all know Plankton. If and when he wants to tell us what the issue is, he will. He might come back and say nothing about it, and that's his right. He might not come back, and we'll never know. We're all concerned but we also have to respect him as a person, and leave the speculation at that.

We now return you to your regular programme, already in progress...

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Chula Vista

Ya, what the Blue Meanie said.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

See it's what's referred in the "being a person" biz as a "social cue". I'm sure Plank knew that people would wonder why he was leaving without explanation, and yet he still left without explanation, implying that he does not want to give an explanation and does not want us hiring a private detective to dig through his trash.

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jadis

Is that what a "social cue" is? Posting on an anonymous internet forum something that is, by design or not, attention-seeking and then... actually not sure what then, that's where it gets a bit hazy for me. Some cue.

rostasi

People trying to “Fill In the Plank.”