• @casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
    42•3 months ago

    Is there a joke here I’m missing or is this just you know, what’s written on the page

    • @Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      60•3 months ago

      Reference to an Aesop fable. In the original version, the scorpion stings the frog and both of them drown. The moral is that some people are intrinsically harmful, even against their own self interest

      • @casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
        19•3 months ago

        I always expect aesops fables to end with the explanatory post script you get in jataka tales but they never do.

        • TheTechnician27English
          10•3 months ago

          They should end in the style of the author’s notes from the fanfic My Immortal instead.

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      44•3 months ago

      There’s an old fable about the frog and the scorpion.

      Paraphrasing, the scorpion asked the frog to be carried over the river, because otherwise he’d drown. The frog was reluctant, saying “but you’ll sting me”.

      To which, the scorpion says, “but then I’d drown! so I won’t do that”.

      Persuaded, the frog agrees. As they were crossing the scorpion stings the frog, and the frog asks, “Why would you do that? now we both die!”

      and the scorpion replied, “because it’s in my nature”

          • enkersEnglish
            17•3 months ago

            “o7” is a saluting text emoji. The ‘o’ represents a head, and the ‘7’ is a raised arm. It’s usually used in internet culture when a fictional character dies, or when one dies in a video game.

            Similarly, there’s the “Press F to pay respects” meme, which appeared as a quick time event in a video game cut scene (Call of Duty, I think?), and was adopted into sarcastic use by the internet, so “F” and “o7” are kinda used interchangeably.

            • go $fsck yourselfEnglish
              11•3 months ago

              Well, I don’t think those are interchangeable. o7 is used like “I salute you” or like “roger that”, while “F” to pay respects is more like “my condolences”.

              And to be a tad pedantic, it’s an “emoticon” or “emote”, not an “emoji”.

              • enkersEnglish
                5•3 months ago

                Yeah, that’s pretty pedantic. xD

                Text emoji is kaomoji, which is the Eastern branch of emoticons, so you’re right, technically it wouldn’t generally include o7, but that’s kinda splitting hairs.

                You’re also right, o7 has more broad uses than F, but they do both get used in a usually tongue-in-cheek “condolences” manner. So you can almost always use o7 in the place of F, but not necessarily the other way around.

            • FuglyDuckEnglish
              2•3 months ago

              It’s also used in Elite: Dangerous as a radio sign off, “Oh-Seven, Commander.” When you’re leaving the station and a few other scenarios.

              Just tossing that out there because that was the first time I came across it.

          • PennomiEnglish
            6•3 months ago

            It’s an old style ascii salute gesture. In the same vein as :-)

  • @TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    yeah the whole “it’s my nature” thing always weired me out. like yall realize that human nature is still being determined right?? what we are, we have a say in. we aren’t scorpions, we’re creatures that depend on each other so much that we experience emotional pain when isolated, and make sounds to share concepts that we then turn and think using those sounds created in the heads of others. we’re literally closer to ants in nature than scorpions