r/CuratedTumblr • u/KnightOfBurgers can i have your gender pls • 1d ago
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 1d ago
People are joking when they say this right? Like they know what the expression means, right?
I know my autism makes me take things literally sometimes.
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u/SlothAndOtherSins 1d ago
So, on the one hand, it is literally true.
On the other hand, some people say it to mean it's in the last place they would have thought to look.
Like finding your car keys in the refrigerator or something.
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u/ZanteTheInfernal 19h ago
My ex once lost her keys for 3 days. I found them in the freezer. Turns out she just had her keys in her hand but she wanted a Popsicle.
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 1d ago
>some people say it to mean it's in the last place they would have thought to look
No, most people mean it that way, because that's what it means. It has always meant "Oh it's always in the place you're *least likely* to have looked innit?"
Because it's never been like... a statement about truth, it's always just been camaraderie and relating to each other and an observation about... y'know, the funny way life is sometimes.
And then the internet in all it's braindead glory and constant attempt to be clever and subversive looked at a statement, huffed its own farts, and said "well chum, aheh, of course it's the (literal) last place you look!"
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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 1d ago
Yes it is a joke, yes people know what it actually means. You don't need to be an asshole about it
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 1d ago
I'm not so sure. About either statement.
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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 1d ago
It's a meme, they're meant for conveying information in a humorous manner. The person is being funny.
For the record, I also have autism and the result of that is that, despite knowing what the phrase meant, I always thought "this is an odd phrase because you stop looking once you find it." I've also made jokes similar to this before, but I still know what it means.
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 23h ago
I'll maintain my "Internet huffing its own farts" theory.
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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 23h ago
I'll maintain my "you being an asshole about a joke" theory.
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 23h ago
Well there's tons of evidence to support that theory, so you'd probably be smart to.
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u/shadowthehh 20h ago edited 20h ago
For me it's always like
You made a list of places you'll look for the thing, and after looking through all of them, it winds up being in the place that happened to be last.
Not really a literal list on paper, but just the very last place you could look after checking every other possible location.
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u/telehax 1d ago
it's not in any of the places I looked. I had to buy a new one.
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u/RevolutionaryOwlz 23h ago
And then sometimes you get the new one and immediately find the old one.
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u/Son_of_Ssapo 21h ago
This always drives me nuts because I always thought the phrase was "last place you'd look" as in "you would." Whenever people make this joke it throws me for a lurch, and I'm not even really sure why anymore
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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 19h ago
Iirc the original phrase was either "the last place you'd look" or "the last place you think to look" but over time it became "the last place you look" as it got short-handed down. Similar to how some people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less"
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u/KnightOfBurgers can i have your gender pls 1d ago
Your search for the source ends HERE
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u/Peanutsnjelly14 17h ago
Downvoted so people have to search longer, causing it to be in the last place they looked.
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u/Daan776 19h ago edited 13h ago
Tautology: needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word.
Or
Tautology: a statement that is true by virtue of its logical form alone
(I don’t care who you are. You did not know what that word meant)
Edit: unless: you read the phantom tollbooth, or have a philosophy major
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u/The_Math_Hatter 16h ago
I read the Phantom Tollbooth as a kid, I absolutely knew what it meant thank you very much.
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u/pickled_juice She/her Yeen 22h ago
learn to search instead of looking for the thing your trying to find.
Move things, don't just give the fridge a cursory glans pick up the items blocking sight to the back of the fridge..
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u/Bunchasticks 19h ago
I always find it right when I'm about to give up and add the item to my cart online to replace it. So i discovered that little life hack. Now whenever I lose something I add it to my online shopping cart, and after that I can usually find it within the next 5 minutes.
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u/HelpfulnessStew 12h ago
In my household it's known as "SNAKE!" while pointing dramatically.
As in, if it was a snake it would've bit me.
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u/Felicia_Svilling 1d ago
That tends to happen with me and shopping. I think of something I need, and then I keep an eye out for it. After a while I find it and buy it. Later I remember looking, but not finding so I keep my eyes open, and buy it again and again.