No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

thegoodomensdumpster

Anonymous asked:

Can you possibly explain the joke?? Bc I still don’t understand it :(

I suppose you’re talking about this joke.

So I’m quoting the original post for the explanation:

Crowley:”I’d just wish you’d admit that you’re wrong sometimes”

Aziraphale, stirring his tea:”Maybe i like it with salt”

The question you have to ask yourself is: what is it that Aziraphale could possibly be refering to when he says he likes it with salt ? Could it possibly be something that shouldn’t be salted, like the tea he’s stirring right now ? ( It is, yes. )
That in itself is already a bit fun, with Aziraphale sticking to his mistake and pretending that pouring salt in his tea was his intention all along. But part of the joke also relies on the sentence Crowley says at the beginning, that felt like it was supposed to be an intense and important conversation about real issues coming from Aziraphale’s personnality.
So we have a gap between what we think the tone of the conversation is going to be and Aziraphale’s answer that might seem unrelated at first, until you connect the dots with the fact that he’s stirring tea and they both were talking about something rather trivial.

… maybe I’ve over explained the joke but that way I’m sure I tackled whatever part(s) of it you didn’t understand, Anon. Hope it’s clearer now ^^

ask joke explanation it was interesting to break down the joke but as always it takes all the humor away from said joke so sorry if i spoiled it for some of you but i'd much rather have this anon receiving their answer than stay in the dark about it

thegoodomensdumpster devilsss-dyke-deactivated202202

superdogbiter

Crowley:”I’d just wish you’d admit that you’re wrong sometimes”

Aziraphale, stirring his tea:”Maybe i like it with salt”

aurlworthfightingfor

oh no this is way too funny i didn't get it right away but it made the joke better somehow good omens

randommomentsdevida

Ah yes mandatory modules

randommomentsdevida

Fountain pens 😍😍 look it that shading!

Diamine smoke on water + lamy 2000 B

Fountain pen Journaling

cranquis randommomentsdevida

randommomentsdevida

Pt *picks up phone*: hang on, the doctor is feeling me up.

LOL medical humor patients doctors communication

probablybadrpgideas

Make a barbarian who’s afraid of blood. Whenever anyone successfully attacks anyone else and draws blood or they see blood on another character you have to roll a con save and if you fail they immediately faint and are unconscious for the rest of the day

D&D fantasy character idea Roleplaying Game RPG not mine submission fallingspiritsofnight

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thealogie

crowley: oh to steal just one moment with you in a car while you go on with your life, which doesn’t involve me...just a few minutes in a car together, it would be enough...

Aziraphale, looking straight at us: reader, he asked me to fuck him

thealogie

how is the car scene simultaneously the above and also:

Crowley: Can I...drive you anywhere?

Aziraphale: our love is forbidden. perhaps one day, my love, we shall hold hands in the park or kiss in the ritz...do not look at me with that forlorn stare. Would that I could hold you, to love you, but I am duty bound. NO! I cannot...for I know where it leads. Goodbye my dearest. You are far braver than I am...too brave by far. I wish I dared love you but I would condemn us both to an eternity of suffering. I shall see you one day, I know it. And it still won’t be occasion to tell you how I love you.

Crowley: oh cool so...you don’t want a lift then?

dense as bricks these two idiots good omens meta

moki-dokie yamisnuffles

yamisnuffles:
“I felt compelled to make this for… reasons?
”

Good Omens

rafaelafranzen ilarual

Neil Gaiman: hi here's my demon OC, his name is Crowley and he wants to stop the antichrist from causing armageddon because he likes the world actually
Sir Terry Pratchett, the most galaxy-brained individual in existence, preparing to split the character in two and create Aziraphale in the process: you are like a little baby, watch this

colonel-kira-nerys avengers-on-the-uss-enterprise

english-history-trip questingbeaste

nebmia

so apparently in 815 CE there was a common belief that sky pirates sailed ships in the clouds and (working in collaberation with frankish weather wizards) stole all the crops that got damaged in storms and took them back to the cloud realm of magonia.

And this was apparently a common enough belief that an archbishop felt the need to write a treatise to debunk it and insist that only god controls the weather, which is the only reason we know about it.

there are three important points to take from this, i think

This is great inspiration for your next dnd game
Tropes that might seem relatively modern (like airship pirates) can often actually go WAY back
The stuff your average medieval christian actually believed in will often have very little resemblance to christianity. And thats before you even get to the proper heretics.

EDIT: people keep asking for the source and its now been added multiple times in different reblog chains. I should have put it in the original post but i am a fool: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.asp

shinychimera

You know, the more I encounter "people believed" things like this, and the more I try to look at them without the "myth of progress" lens (of we are more sophisticated than the people of history/people of other nations) -- the more these "beliefs" look like tumblr shitposts.

I just imagine folks standing in the middle of a wrecked field, knowing half a year's work has gone to waste and the winter's going to be hard, sighing and saying, "darn you, sky pirate Goncharov, why you have to be like this?" And everyone laughs a little. And next storm someone repeats the joke, and embellishes it a bit, and so on and so on. You might tell it to your kids with a straight face but pretty much everyone's in on the joke, and I just imagine the incredulous stifled laughter in the pews when they realize the archbishop is actually taking this stupid shit seriously.

findingfeather

The archbishop and half your neighbours who either aren’t in on the joke or - WORRYINGLY- you thought were in on the home but are now insisting it’s not a joke and you don’t feel gaslit because that terminology won’t be invented for another half millennium but if it did you would.

You know, like on tumblr/the internet.

english-history-trip

hot takes but also '9th century sky pirates' is awesome

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.