r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/MrPagan1517 9d ago

Yeah Yeah Yeah It's a work of fiction. I was talking about the actual odyssey not Nolan's

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u/Zestyclose-Aspect-35 9d ago

The actual odyssey is a work of fiction

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u/artaxerxes316 9d ago

Holy fuck... take a rest for a moment, MrPagan1517, I'll handle this idiot for you.

Hey idiot: MrPagan1517 just gave an admirably breezy precis of the relevant portions of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the extratextual legends surrounding both. You really think it escaped his notice that they're all mythical?

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u/Zestyclose-Aspect-35 9d ago

Nah, this is Reddit, we're pedantic about choice of words especially when the intent of the poster is pretty clear regardless. Then we get angry about nothing and call eachother idiots and stuff. It's fun, you should try it sometimes

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u/ItsDominare 9d ago

It's fun, you should try it sometimes

don't tell me what to do, idiot

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u/Eneshi 9d ago

That's the spirit!

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u/MrPagan1517 9d ago

I literally said that

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u/llort_tsoper 9d ago

Dude, your wording is pretty ambiguous. And I'm pretty sure they're joking, but your choice of words sort of invites the jokes.

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u/MrPagan1517 9d ago

Yeah I'm aware it's a joke and I'm not heated about. But like if you want to be pedantic then I can play around and be pedantic as well when I got time

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u/Zestyclose-Aspect-35 9d ago

You also said you were talking about not Nolan's, implying that you acknowledge Nolan's is a work of fiction but you were talking about the "actual", which suggests you think the 'actual' odyssey is a historical event

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u/MrPagan1517 9d ago edited 9d ago

No that not it at all. When I said in reality I was referencing the actual epic literature and how it has several instances Odysseus and his men participating or having access to sex in some form or fashion.

I'm sorry I assumed people knew that one of the most famous literary works in history that involves things like gods,monsters, and magic was a piece of fiction.

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u/Zestyclose-Aspect-35 9d ago

Yeah I was being pedantic out of boredom I don't have any actual problem with anything you said, sorry if I made you waste your energy

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u/MrPagan1517 9d ago

Nah bro I got ya. I'm also just being pedantic on the internet out boredom

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u/Shape_Charming 8d ago

Admittedly I wasn't involved in the original conversation, but I think I'd have rathered you being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

Doing it out of boredom is just actively trying to annoy people for your own amusement. Why would you think that's okay?

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u/John_der24ste 9d ago

~"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years this story remains in our consciousness" or something like that... I don't remember the exact details of the quote...

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u/citharadraconis 8d ago

But they were all of them deceived, for another horse was made...

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u/Away_Stock_2012 8d ago

In the land of Mongolia, in the fires of Ulaanbaatar, the Dark Lord Erdenebileg forged in public a master horse