Can they rush in after the first two words, before you say “not”? Can they enter if they stuff their ears before they hear the final word?

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    this is why you start the sentence with “no, you may not”.

    a lot of humans do that, too. cut you off early and pretend they didn’t hear the second part, stuff like that. happened to me a lot. caused me to rearrange word-order a lot.

  • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    First of all, why would you fuck around with a vampire? Second, don’t try a not joke with them. I think if you wait to long between the “you may” and the “…NOT!”, you’re fucked.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    A lot of people here are telling you that the answer is ‘no’ because the vampires must respect your true intent or rely on trickery to get you to willfully invite them in.

    But the real reason is ‘no’ because vampires aren’t real.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      But there’s one asking to enter so it turns out you’re wrong about that.

      If someone pulls a gun on me I can’t declare “bullets aren’t real” and expect to endure being shot without taking harm.

      I guess we could ask OP to try saying “you may not” and see whether he survives to post confirmation that it worked?

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Answering the question necessitates engaging with the premise. Refusing to do so and acting smug just makes you look like a dick.

    • 0xb@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Sure Mr Suspiciously Pale Human, whatever you say, you still can’t come in even if vampires don’t exist.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Vampires and humans are not known for enforcing laws against each other. Stake it before you get eaten rule. Eat then deny you were not invited in rule.

    I’m not sure there is “binding magical power” in the food’s words, and if not, it’s not worth considering the food’s words. Not much recent history of “magical god intervention” stopping rule breaking.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      And in their case I think they’d let you finish speaking because they relish the challenge more than they want to simply squish you.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Isn’t that the entire reason behind the rule, so that they could write a way for the vampires to circumvent it. They established a fake rule that never used to exist and then proceeded to prop it up over and over until the reader believed it to be law, and then when they least expected it, it was dashed to pieces in an instant.

      Of course it’s cheating, but cheating at what exactly? Cheating at a rule that never even used to exist, was written specifically to later be broken in that very same book. It’s like any puzzle design in writing, like murder mystery, they usually create the puzzle backwards by thinking of fun solutions to problems they could then create to lead there.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    i guess not.

    hollywood says vampires have to sparkly shine first.

    some vamp lore says it is your invitation that counts and not the permission part.

    some cultures need visitors to declare themselves human when knocking at your door.

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      some cultures need visitors to declare themselves human when knocking at your door.

      I didn’t think that much about it until this post. People here, me included, basically call out “(I’m a) human!” while knocking on the door.

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      6 months ago

      Knock knock.
      Who’s there?
      A human.
      A human who?
      A humangous 8 storey tall crustacean from the protozoic era.

  • FrozenTrout@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If you live alone and vampire shows up at your door with a gun and shoots you dead, could it then enter the house

  • chingadera@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This inspired me to keep a handheld mirror near my front door, for when someone inevitably asks if they can come in, I can grab it and do a very obvious vampire check

    • legopika@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      I hope your can find a mirror made with silver, most modern ones aren’t, and that’s why vampires didn’t show up in them

      • chingadera@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Dude. Thank you. I would’ve let so many vampires in.

        As much as I appreciate it though, we’re poor as fuck, vampires still welcome.

          • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            Or stab a stake in their heart! If they are a vampire, they will either instantly turn to dust or at least be paralysed, so you can easily dispose of them.

            Otherwise it’s going to be just ordinary murder.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You’re mixing stuff up. Mirrors reflect souls, and since vampires don’t have souls, they don’t have no reflections.

        • dgbbad@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 months ago

          By that logic, no inanimate objects should show up either. I’d look in a mirror and would see behind me through the back wall and all the way to my neighbors inside their now invisible soulless house, and all neighbors beyond. It’d just be a bunch of people at various distances in my mirror line of sight in an infinite void behind me as far as the eye can see. And we’d all appear naked.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
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    6 months ago

    This is vampire propaganda.

    You’re already at their mercy if they are talking to you.