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Goldfish-in-a-bowl syndrome

Goldfish-in-a-bowl syndrome

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Examples, please!

Feel free to stretch the definition of it to suit your purpose.

Not to be confused with Goldfish Syndrome.


@fmf said
Examples, please!
"Oh my, oh my, people are going to leave this website in droves because of the things that Suzianne and FMF say on the General Forum!"


@fmf said
"Oh my, oh my, people are going to leave this website in droves because of the things that Suzianne and FMF say on the General Forum!"
I'll get my coat 😆 😆 😆


@fmf said
"Oh my, oh my, people are going to leave this website in droves because of the things that Suzianne and FMF say on the General Forum!"
Suzi is an asset to the site you are just a christinophobic running around persecuting christians.


@executioner-brand said
Suzi is an asset to the site you are just a christinophobic running around persecuting christians.
This is a really pretty good example! Thanks.


@the-gravedigger said
I'll get my coat 😆 😆 😆
Goldfish in bowls positioned near the hat stand in humans' houses may well believe that they too have coats and can leave if they choose to!


@fmf said
Goldfish in bowls positioned near the hat stand in humans' houses may well believe that they too have coats and can leave if they choose to!
The goldfish bowl is their world. But one day they will invent telescopes and peer out into the dim hall.
Then they will think they are unlocking the secrets of the universe.


@executioner-brand said
you are just a christinophobic running around persecuting christians.
Like a sort of forum Pontius Pilate ?


@the-gravedigger said
The goldfish bowl is their world. But one day they will invent telescopes and peer out into the dim hall.
Then they will think they are unlocking the secrets of the universe.
They said the same thing about the Portuguese Space Program after Salazar was ousted in 1974.


@the-gravedigger said
Like a sort of forum Pontius Pilate ?
I see myself more a John Keating figure although, with Robin Williams now gone, I'd like Steve Buscemi or an as-he-is-now Mickey Rourke to play me in the biopic.


@fmf said
I see myself more a John Keating figure although, with Robin Williams now gone, I'd like Steve Buscemi or an as-he-is-now Mickey Rourke to play me in the biopic.
I see you as a Christopher Hitchens figure.


@the-gravedigger said
I see you as a Christopher Hitchens figure.
In that case, I'd like to be played by the Detective Chief Inspector in the Morse prequel [Endeavour]: Roger Allam.

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@fmf said
Examples, please!
The two Americans finally reached the remotest place in Indonesia, a tiny hamlet on the flanks of a volcano, on a small island in the eastern part of the archipelago, no electricity, water from a stream, no rice, just sweet potato and some groundnuts under a tree, and they met a gnarly old man, suntanned black, with two teeth. One of the Americans ventured, in slow English: "What did you think of Marjorie Taylor Greene being banned from Twitter?"


@the-gravedigger said
Like a sort of forum Pontius Pilate ?
yeah, feeling superior excommunicating santa.


@fmf said
The two Americans finally reached the remotest place in Indonesia, a tiny hamlet on the flanks of a volcano, on a small island in the eastern part of the archipelago, no electricity, water from a stream, no rice, just sweet potato and some groundnuts under a tree, and they met a gnarly old man, suntanned black, with two teeth. One of the Americans ventured, in slow English: "What did you think of Marjorie Taylor Greene being banned from Twitter?"
The old man replied 'I am going to let her back on, I have made a better offer than Elon that has been accepted.'