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I saw a guy doing moral outrage that men sometimes goon it crazy style in public.
It's pixels. It's thousands of pixels arranged on a screen that make your imagination see a real person.
When people act like it's indecent I'm always like, "oh no the witch pixels have formed the horny configuration"
Just taking the piss btw, read what you want in public it's a damn book. Stores still sell brown paper bags to use as covers, right?
Except there's no imagination required if you're displaying an image. An accidental glance at one is very different than the other.
Overall, poor comparison, 2/10.
I thought it was a perfect 5/7 comparison, but I will add that score to the aggregate.
how many feral hogs do you have to shoot to get it to 6?
Well, that would depend on if I have my trusty AR-15 or not
So far your comment is at 5/15 so you're not doing much better lol
The ratio giveth and the ratio taketh away.
Next let's compare dropping bombs to reading about the war.
Let's contrast instead!
"Goon it crazy style" was just to be funny. What's the actual difference in watching porn in public and smut novels if you're not jorkin it and nobody sees the screen?
Not a great comparison--a better one would be reading something like Playboy in public, if the cover were no more "scandalous" than the cover of a smutty romance novel. In this case, other people know what you're doing.
If you're watching a video and no one can see the screen (and you're not gooning it crazy style) then there's no problem, and no controversy--you're being discreet.
Well, we're contrasting.
Essentially it would be less problematic, in your opinion?
If nobody sees the screen, who would be doing moral outrage?
The same people outraging morally in these instances: the online
The sentence was supposed to be funny, too.
Men get visible boners, women don't.
Unless you have a thermal camera, there's no way to know what she's reading (if it's on an e-reader at least)
In pretty rare cases (huge dick or no underwear + very thin fabric of pants)
...that's definitely not the case for everyone. But count yourself lucky that it isn't visible for you. Highschool + puberty is pretty miserable otherwise.
TIL I have a huge dick. Or maybe my denim jeans aren't as thick as I thought they were?
Or maybe your boner isn't so visible
I wish that were so...
Your own example would be more akin to watching a documentary vs reading about it. No one actually dies by you doing so.
That's not like any of the examples. Someone is equating reading smutty romance to public masturbation.
I honestly didn't see this going in this direction, I'm pretty fascinated by the reaction here.
..to public watching nude images, not to masturbation.
Gooning can also mean "to be in a state of sexual arousal"
The only "someone" I've seen talking about public masturbation is you. :/ The "Goon it crazy" was clearly a hyperbole, given the this posts' context.
And I'm not too surprised about the reaction. While the OP (from Bluesky, not you) definitely made a brand new sentence, the take is not particularly bright.
So ...so was the sentence?
Did someone take a lighthearted meme community too seriously?
The OPs' sentence? Yes clearly.
Yours? I'm not entirely convinced. Or at least it's not only a hyperbole, given your other comments in this thread.
What.
"Goon crazy style" is slang for watching porn. It also happens to be a hyperbole, since watching porn clearly isn't as bad as jerking yourself to a medical condition.
What should the non-hyperbolic version of "let’s compare dropping bombs to reading about the war." (assuming that's the sentence) have been?
To me it appears that you tried making a comparison of VerilyFemme's comment under a wrong assumption (eg. that it was about public masturbation), and now are trying to cover it up by calling it a hyperbole.
Anyway, as you stated I'm here to laugh, and not to write reports about misunderstandings taken to the next level.
Gooning always meant masturbating to me.
I polled my friends and family. We all agree gooning it is slang for jerking it, even my mom said so.
I didn't misunderstand anything.