I feel like it still works colloquially though. E.g., “Do you have any idea how much Netflix costs these days? It’s through the roof!” sounds totally normal to my ears
Eh, to each their own, I’m not gonna tell you what you can and can’t find funny, but I appreciate matching verb tenses in my puns and jokes…
…unless of course the joke/pun revolves around pointing out a quirk of what happens when you try to do that in some odd context, where the point is the unexpected incongruity, as opposed to this case, where it is incidental.
I feel like it still works colloquially though. E.g., “Do you have any idea how much Netflix costs these days? It’s through the roof!” sounds totally normal to my ears
Eh, to each their own, I’m not gonna tell you what you can and can’t find funny, but I appreciate matching verb tenses in my puns and jokes…
…unless of course the joke/pun revolves around pointing out a quirk of what happens when you try to do that in some odd context, where the point is the unexpected incongruity, as opposed to this case, where it is incidental.
To me this just reads as a flubbed delivery.
(pretend I know how to put an ascii shrug here)
We’re very discerning meme connoisseurs here in lemmyshitpost 🧐
Precisely.