An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

    • carlitoscohones@awful.systems
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      7 months ago

      It’s a lousy bit, because if you’re going to do a goddamn “crocus” joke about hundreds of people being shot at a concert, you should obviously make the pun about Swiss heavy metal legends “Krokus.”

      • self@awful.systemsM
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        7 months ago

        a deeply shitty joke??? observation??? about how a crocus is a flower and therefore how could it be the subject of a terror attack?

        completely indistinguishable from all the other posts in their history, all of which were made by reading the title of the thread and posting the first garbage that came to mind

        • gerikson@awful.systems
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          7 months ago

          It’s not like if Russian artillery pieces aren’t named after flowers, so maybe there’s another tradition in play here.