This is a shower musing. Yup, I was showering & musing, good ol' S & uh...um...yeah...anyway:
Spoilers: some people avoid them like the plague, others actively seek them out, and still others lie somewhere in between. Where you are in that spectrum is a small topic for another debate. This thread, however, came about because of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. It came up in conversation that he doesn't like spoilers and people who spoil something for him...well...spoil his mood (see what I did there? Huh? Huh? Ehh moving on). He is, however, reasonable when it comes to spoilers. If the spoilers pertain to something that recently came out, he thinks people should avoid talking about a spoilery topic in a place where someone could potentially be spoiled and it's their fault for spoiling it. If it is from something over a month or two old, then anything that gets spoiled for him is his fault; he had ample time to view the medium the spoiler came from.
This got me to thinking: how far down the rabbit hole do spoilers go? I figure that quoting a line from a book or movie is a gray area. If it's a line that includes something that could easily be traced to a particular thing, then it's probably encroaching on spoiler-territory. But if I were to shout out something like "It chafes my nipples'" or "Ah! My nipples!" how would someone be able to know if what I said was a spoiler or an in-joke. Now, if a movie came out recently that a person was talking about being interested in seeing, then it could be assumed that that quote was likely from that movie, but how spoilery would such a line really be? If someone were to break down into a giggle fest after saying such a thing one could assume it came from a particularly funny scene and maybe even a memorable scene, but would it be considered a spoiler? The only thing I could think where "Ah! My nipples!" would be a spoiler would be in a porno, and not a very good one at that if such a line causes someone to start laughing.
Anyway what are y'all's thoughts?
tl;dr
Am I verbose enough? I'm trying to get better at writing and using the flower language.
Spoilers: some people avoid them like the plague, others actively seek them out, and still others lie somewhere in between. Where you are in that spectrum is a small topic for another debate. This thread, however, came about because of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. It came up in conversation that he doesn't like spoilers and people who spoil something for him...well...spoil his mood (see what I did there? Huh? Huh? Ehh moving on). He is, however, reasonable when it comes to spoilers. If the spoilers pertain to something that recently came out, he thinks people should avoid talking about a spoilery topic in a place where someone could potentially be spoiled and it's their fault for spoiling it. If it is from something over a month or two old, then anything that gets spoiled for him is his fault; he had ample time to view the medium the spoiler came from.
This got me to thinking: how far down the rabbit hole do spoilers go? I figure that quoting a line from a book or movie is a gray area. If it's a line that includes something that could easily be traced to a particular thing, then it's probably encroaching on spoiler-territory. But if I were to shout out something like "It chafes my nipples'" or "Ah! My nipples!" how would someone be able to know if what I said was a spoiler or an in-joke. Now, if a movie came out recently that a person was talking about being interested in seeing, then it could be assumed that that quote was likely from that movie, but how spoilery would such a line really be? If someone were to break down into a giggle fest after saying such a thing one could assume it came from a particularly funny scene and maybe even a memorable scene, but would it be considered a spoiler? The only thing I could think where "Ah! My nipples!" would be a spoiler would be in a porno, and not a very good one at that if such a line causes someone to start laughing.
Anyway what are y'all's thoughts?
tl;dr
Am I verbose enough? I'm trying to get better at writing and using the flower language.
