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Complex Numbers #1084496 added February 28, 2025 at 10:25am
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With Pride
First, an Exclaimer! ▼EXCLAIMER
(explanation/disclaimer)
The theme for this round of Journalistic Intentions is "Banned Instagram hashtags! All of these will get posts shadow banned on Instagram." So there are a few things my readers should know:
#1- I do not have, have never had, will never have, an Instagram account.
#2- Consequently, I have no idea what a shadow ban is or what it entails, only that it has something to do with suppression of posts with the indicated tag.
#3- I do not acknowledge the pronunciation of the octothorpe (#) as "hashtag." That symbol is either "number" or "pound," and that's more than enough definitions for one character. Anytime I see the # with letters following, I pronounce it pound, which made #MeToo way more hilarious than it should have been.
However, I hold the belief that I can write about absolutely anything, regardless of prior knowledge. This contest round tests that conceit. All entries, including this one, were selected at random from the list of 16 prompts provided.
#proudboys
As I've hinted in previous entries for JI, "pound" has several meanings. As a verb, it can mean to thump repeatedly, as in "go pound sand" or "his heart pounded in his chest as he ran from the angry mob." It can also mean to have dominant sex with, probably because of the similarity of that to the rhythmic thumping associated with the first verb version of "pound."
That's not even getting into the nouns, the ones for weight or currency (related to weight) or the place where they keep stray dogs (probably unrelated to weight and maybe related to "impound").
So when you say "pound proudboys," it's unclear whether we're supposed to lock them up with the other stray dogs, bone them, or punch them repeatedly into submission (and then maybe bone them).
I am, of course, not advocating for nonconsensual sexual relations; I'm strongly implying that, for them, it would be consensual.
Not that I'd volunteer, mind you. Even if I did swing that way, which I don't, I could think of much better uses for my time and energy. Still, they might have better luck in getting what they want if they named themselves Pride Boys.
And, hey, I'm not judging, or kink-shaming. That would be massively hypocritical, even for me. And it wouldn't be something to be proud of. |
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