conversations that happen in my head on the way to work, latest installment

Pattern Recognizer: hey! hey! come meet this weirdo i found

Sysadmin braincell: …um. who

Pattern Recognizer: this

Tumblr Discourse Strawman: hi! You really shouldn’t joke about the Spanish Inquisition. I’m not sure if you’re aware but that meme has, like. A very bigoted origin

Sysadmin braincell: …you mean, like, how the whole purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to torture and exterminate anyone they deemed insufficiently subservient to the Catholic Church

Tumblr Discourse Strawman: oh. Oh wow you actually know about all that. Yikes. Saying the quiet part out loud.

Sysadmin braincell: Pattern Reco where did you find this

Tumblr Discourse Strawman: i bet you don’t even care about how the meme was first popularized by Monty Python’s Flying Circus and how they have like. a Super Problematic record of jokes about marginalized groups

Sysadmin braincell: listen Pattern Reco. you can have your fun but if you knock on enough doors you’re gonna find the devil

Pattern Recognizer: well….. You know who else went knocking on everyone’s doors trying to find the devil

Sysadmin braincell: do NOT say it. your joke will NOT work. I AM expecting it.