On: Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”

[DoreenMichele]

I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be musical fruit.

That's why they make you toot.

[Ancapistani → DoreenMichele]

It’s apparently a variant. I realized that the “magical” version was much more common than I’d expected a couple of years ago and did some informal research. It seems about evenly split, and I didn’t see any regional correlation.

[DoreenMichele → Ancapistani]

I'm not surprised. That's why there are qualifiers.

It's not intended as smack talk asserting "My variation is better than yours!" (Throws down gloves.)

Sometimes, it's nigh impossible to readily come up with the wording that captures the myriad thoughts flitting about my mind and account for all possible social bits and potential misinterpretations. And I comment anyway, knowing it's likely to go sideways cuz hoomans.

[inopinatus → DoreenMichele]

The "musical" form seems more refined, bringing poetry to a variant that is otherwise botanically problematic and nutritionally attenuated.

[DoreenMichele → inopinatus]

I'm having trouble deciding if you are tugging everyone's leg or being straight up serious or tugging everyone's leg by being straight up serious.

Sometimes that last is funnier, though usually only to the person doing it.

[inopinatus → DoreenMichele]

Well, the entire discussion deriving from the proposed code change is ultimately debating the relative merits of a fart joke, so any contribution is bound to be a gas.

[Ancapistani → inopinatus]

... and by virtue of the contribution being a gas, it expands to fill the entire containing volume - in this case, the discussion we’re having.

That makes total sense.

[kevincox → DoreenMichele]

As a Canadian "musical fruit" still makes you fart. It is some nice potty humour.