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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you swing them to and fro?

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you tie em in a knot, can you tie em in a bow?

Do you get a funny feeling, when you hang em from the ceiling?

Oh you'll never be a sailor if your balls hang low.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
[–] cheddar@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

How many VW Passats is low?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What are "implication arrows"?

[–] clara@feddit.uk 32 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

> implying you don't know what an implication arrow is

it's one of these: >

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The anon got it wrong. These are ">" or "greater than" symbols, not arrows, although they look like arrowheads. They are used to signal a quote, which makes the text green on 4chan or inside a quote block on other platforms. In 4chan culture, the resulting greentext is not a quote, it has a meaning of its own.

The actual implication arrow, used in mathematical logic for statements like "if A, then B" or "A implies B", is "⇒" or "rightwards double arrow" in Unicode. Using ASCII characters, it can be written as "=>".

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

What do they imply?

I know that these stories are often accused of being fake, but I guess I don't understand the context of the response. It seems like the responder is saying "go to the doctor regardless of whether you actually have a problem requiring a doctor." Which I guess could be good advice in some circumstances, but ... Maybe I'm just taking things too literally.

Thanks for the answer!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's just how a quote reply works on 4chan but the meaning has expanded.

Edit: as in, instead of quoting the actual comment I reply to, I summarize it as "implying ____"

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 53 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

For anyone reading this who might have anxiety, I had this problem and it just turned out that I really need better support during the day. Boxers weren’t cutting it.

With that said, yes definitely consider seeing a doctor.

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 1 points 3 hours ago

Alternatively, as a form of scrotal elephantiasis, it could be a parasitic infection, swollen lymph nodes from either disease or medical procedures like radiotherapy, or more rarely a hernia that causes the intestines to drop into the scrotum.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Hey everyone, this guy has long balls!

[–] RarePossum@programming.dev 7 points 11 hours ago

Is this your professional opinion, Dr. Wesker?

[–] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 22 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Ol' Long Balls MacDougall we call him.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You got long balls Larry. You're Long Balls Larry

Long-Ass Balls

Long-Ball Larry

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

His arch nemesis is WideBalls Fredrick