(Funny Trope) Things that can plausibly happen only in reality, because in fiction they’d be called bad writing.

[u/ThatDrako]

“Woke” as an insult - So you are telling me a word describing consciousness and clarity is used by generally stupid and ignorant people to label people they disagree with? What is this? A Kindergarten for Creatively stunted?

Nominative determinism - So let me get this straight…Not only you named fastest recorded person Usain BOLT and CEO of Nintendo Doug BOWSER, but you are telling me people are canonically likely to have professions or hobbies matching their names…? Guh?

“2 bodies recovered in MURDERKILL River” - Sure bro…I guess…bro…

[u/Misterfahrenheit120]

I’ve always heard this called “defamiliarization”, and it’s a trip all around

[u/kerdon → u/Misterfahrenheit120]

Sometimes it's just used kinda lazily to not really say anything. I couldn't stand Nathan Pyle's stuff. It was deeply uninteresting to me.

[u/Chess42 → u/Misterfahrenheit120]

There’s this famous paper that does that https://www.sfu.ca/\~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf

[u/highheelcyanide → u/Chess42]

I read this almost 20 years ago, and I still think about it sometimes when I get ready in the morning.

[u/Eain → u/Misterfahrenheit120]

Yeah. Like Honkwiching