Ólafur Waage

I think it has helped a bunch with my mental health.

I just think of something silly to say, take a few minutes to write it and try to make it funny, post it, check my notifications and then close all 3 tabs. Rinse and repeat.

You are all probably posting wonderful things, I just can't anymore.

I crosspost to 3 different platforms, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon.

I write the post in Bluesky on desktop (shortest character limit and I can copy the alt text after I post)

Does this mean I browse 3 timelines now? No, the opposite. I just post and then leave. I very rarely browse my timeline.

Urban Dictionary: Fauxquivalence Fauxquivalence: [Doing something] poorly while [watching] someone do [the same] thing better.

@olafurw.com I figured fauxquivalence needed an entry in the Urban Dictionary, so i made one.
fauxquivalence.urbanup.com/18525802

YouTube video by Ólafur Waage Important Icelandic Places #comedy #iceland #nordic #language

This video confirms that Ferðamálastofa should sponsor @olafurw.com as a tourism ambassador. He sells Iceland like no one else can. www.youtube.com/shorts/5aeE5...

Survey about if that ad was too promotional.

I got a McDonald's ad on TikTok, and as I swipe to see the next video, TikTok asks me "Was that video too promotional?"

Why yes, yes it was. By definition actually.

Brilliant!

@olafurw.com You're the box guy right? Here, I drew you a thing lolol...

Nope and Nope

YouTube video by Ólafur Waage Important Icelandic Places #comedy #iceland #nordic #language

Important Icelandic Places.

www.youtube.com/shorts/5aeE5...

youtube comment that says: "kvikklunsj is like top 10 world famous candy"

YouTube thinks this comment is potentially inappropriate. I kinda wanna agree.

[Bill Wurtz voice] Don't

Then: "Save a tree, don't print this email"
Now: "Burn the trees, AI the email"

office space clip, main character is asking a shrink "is there any way that you could just zonk me out so I don't know that I'm at work in here. Could I come home and think that I've been fishing all day?"

They should make a TV show about this.

Thanks for the help. Car has been tested, it did indeed go weee weee.

I have such a bad "out of sight out of mind" that I keep forgetting that I bought treats for myself when I open random cupboards.

What do you do when you test drive a car? I would just check if the seat is nice and if the car goes wroom wroom, or if its an electric car, weeee weee.

(ps, I'm actually asking)

"Wait, you're on the spectrum? I wouldn't have thought."
Me:"Thank you, I've been practicing being a human for about 43 years."

You still have to pick the place. I want it to give me a veterinarian that is fewest transfers from me (for example)

Yeah but then you have to still pick the place. I want to be able to search "vet hospital that is fewest transfers from me"

People who make map direction algorithms need to start to realize that I often prefer simple over quick.

"This vet is only 15 minutes away"
Yeah, if I take 3 buses and walk for 5 minutes.

Or... I take this 1 train for 30 minutes and that vet is in the building next to the train stop.

This is my LinkedIn timeline sometimes. Replace Payphones with any other tech.

"People keep saying to me "Nobody uses payphones anymore" and they couldn't be more wrong. Payphones are amazing and used all over the world. This is the year of the Payphone!

John, CEO of John's Payphone Warehouse!"

buy 2 or more curtain stuff and get 40% off

Lady at the curtain store today told me "If you become a member you'll get 40% off these curtains you are buying". Fine.

They just sent me their first email. It's to let me know about the 40% curtains offer I just used today.

A very rare occurrence.

All of this noise didn't result in him getting treats, so I get it.

I'll join you.

I only hurt myself once and cursed the gods twice. Which is a new record.

Only 2 search results for Fauxquivalence is me

I am a pioneer. A wordsmith. A Fauxquivalenceologist.

There must be some word out there for the situation where I eat cheap microwave pizza while watching a YouTube video of someone making super fancy pizza.

Fauxquivalence?

Why aren't curtain stores open at 10pm when I have energy, ideas and a drill?

"It's like Apples to Oranges"
-"Yeah both fruit"
"No I mean..."
-"Like a conversion function?"
"Not what I meant"
-"Ahh, you mean a range between apples and oranges"
"What?"
-"No, I get it, you're into alchemy"
"I'm going home"