If you spot an article that has more natter than one person can handle without losing their lunch, report it here.
Fix as much as you can bear to, then call on us for help.
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Feb 25th 2024 at 10:26:27 AM
You mean delete the sub-bullet? The example would still need to be updated now that The Homestuck Epilogues are out.
The sub-bullet, yeah.
Why would it need to be updated? It's still correct; it's about Homestuck, not Homestuck Epilogues.
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So are you saying we should just remove the part at the end of the first-level bullet about the epilogue being expected eventually?
On YMMV.Toy Story 4, the following example under They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
was latter changed to this:
Does the last sentence added qualify as Natter?
I'd cut it, too.
When will people learn that their favorite Caustic Critics are not an authority on... anything, really, and do not need to be quoted or referenced constantly?
Found what seems to be natter (specifically the last bullet point) on Funny.Toy Story 2:
- Al's commute.
Al: I can't believe I have to drive all the way to work on a Saturday. ALL THE WAY TO WORK. [drives across the street]
- The commute itself has many blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments that sum up Al in a nutshell: he crosses a one-way street, going just barely the wrong way to get into the parking lot, nearly hits a car the moment he leaves the driveway—and just to rub it in, he double-parks.
- And he's wearing his chicken suit already, for some reason.
- Well, they're doing a commercial in one take. He had to put it on so that he can get it over with.
I’d merge the chicken suit point into the one directly above, and nix that last one. It’s natter meets Don't Explain the Joke.
Edited by HeavyMetalHermitCrab on May 19th 2020 at 8:59:31 AM
Is the last bullet point on this example from Awesome.Terminator 2 Judgment Day natter? It just seems like it's pointlessly correcting a thing.
- Sarah Connor's escape from Pescadero State Hospital, which involves beating an orderly senseless (he licked her face earlier, though, and beats her with a baton in a Deleted Scene), holding Dr. Silberman hostage with a syringe full of what is probably drain cleaner, and generally kicking ass (while unarmed, barefoot and wearing only sweat pants and a tank top). When the T-1000 goes after them in the elevator, she demonstrates that she is not the frightened damsel that she was in the previous film (as if it wasn't obvious already) by grabbing a pistol from the T-800's belt and shooting straight through the roof. She doesn't stop shooting until they lose the T-1000.
- Especially this exchange:
Silberman: You broke my arm!Sarah Connor: There are 215 bones in the human body. That's one.
- Technically two (radius and ulna).
- Especially this exchange:
Found this in SpongeBob SqaurePant's Nightmare Fuel page. Dunno how to clean it up.
- "Ghost Host", in which the Flying Dutchman's ship breaks down, forcing him to take up residence in Sponge Bob's pineapple. The Dutchman tried several mildly scary things in order to disturb Sponge Bob, and, towards the climax of the episode, appeared as a huge snake with a huge, grotesque baby's head, which melted, turning into an effigy of Sponge Bob, whose eyes elongated into hideous wiggling white worms and squiggled onto the floor while spiders crawled out of his eye sockets and mouth. Also among his forms are a clown's head on the same worm-like creature, and a giant, disturbingly realistic (for this show) insect. It was intended to be a parody of an over-the-top horror movie, but managed to be incredibly horrifying.
- In all fairness, the point is that the Dutchman has been in Sponge Bob's house so long by that point, and pulling so many scary stunts each day, that Sponge Bob has become immune to and bias about them.
- One of the Dutchman's forms is inexplicably J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who comes from the satirical religion of the Church of the Sub Genius. While "Bob" is usually funny, if strange, the reference is so out-of-place that his presence is a bit disconcerting.
- The Flying Dutchman also did the same thing to scare Squidward in the end because Squidward didn't believe in ghosts. He also manifested himself as a vision of Squid's mother moaning "Why haven't you called meeeee?" and then melting, prompting Squidward to run out of his house screaming.
- Actually, what caused Squidward to run away screaming was when the Dutchman did a parlor trick that made it look like he was pulling his thumb off one hand.
- At one part, Sponge Bob opens a fridge and a huge monster head suddenly pops out and screams.
I'm sorry of just barging in. I just wanted to check if I could delete most of this example in Screw the Money, I Have Rules!, where most sub-bullets are just responding to the previous one.
- Theocracies in general. They tend to be too fanatical to care about mundane issues like money, and are very hard to bribe or corrupt.
- At first, anyway. After a few years in power, they're usually just as corrupt as any other authoritarian regime: observe Iran.
- It can go in a mirrored way: The US and other nations have been hitting Iran with economic sanctions and oil export embargo (essentially negative amounts of money), but Iran sticks to its revolution.
- This is in fact more about power, though. Iran and similar regimes are extremely corrupt, the thing is that power trumps money, because money is only a representation of power and less important to that society at large (and thus it is more important to control other sources of power in order to mantain privileges). Introducing any form of democracy would enormously reduce their political power, and if it goes too far, perhaps even be dangerous enough to make the current power-holders lose all their privileges or even their lives.
- Some of those nations (mainly Europeans) then try to get around the rules the UN imposed on them because they really, really need Iran's oil.
Edited by ElBuenCuate on Jun 20th 2020 at 7:16:18 AM
I'd delete the whole thing because it's a rather putrid mix of Examples Are Not General, questionable examples (Iran is by no means a poor country, so that may have something to do with it being "hard to bribe"), natter, and the extremely naive initial assumption that corruption isn't a serious problem in theocracies, just as it is in any other government model.
I fear no man. But Team Fortress 2's Fridge page... it scares me.
Memes aside, some of the examples look like they belong in the Headscratchers page.
Edited by ChillyBeanBAM on Jun 30th 2020 at 2:43:33 AM
First-Person Writing is not allowed anywhere on the main wiki, including Headscratchers pages.
MisaimedFandom.Myth And Religion has a ton of natter and "correcting" bullet points.

IDK Homestuck, but personally I'd just delete that. Even if it's true, it's basically a ZCE in natter form.
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