LLOR: the thread where laughter and tears share the headline
A thread collects court rulings, fines and bureaucratic farces that are tragedy and comedy at once. The Denardi case and the Mataró fine are among the most…
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LLOR: the corner where laughter and tears share the headline
There is a category of news that fits nowhere. Too sad for the humor thread. Too ridiculous for the misfortune thread. A user has peine a space for that awkward band: things that are really a tragedy but so surreal they make you laugh. The chosen name, LLOR, mimics the old LOL but reverses its meaning: here people laugh so as not to cry.
The premise is simple, and anyone who has read the news in recent years will recognize it. According to the thread's posts, a judge convicts parents for homeschooling their daughters. A town council fines a resident for fixing the cobblestones on his street. Seven people are sent to pretrial detention over a sign on a bus. The question is no longer whether the world has gone mad, but which folder we file the madness under.
What the LLOR thread is about and why it was started
The mechanics are the usual ones: someone finds a tweet, a news story or a screenshot and drops it in. What changes is the selection criterion. Any old misfortune won't do. It has to have that touch of absurdity that leaves you torn between amazement and a nervous laugh. The thread's author explains it bluntly: these are things that sit between humor and tears, or tragedies so ridiculous they become surreal.
The material accumulated in just a few days draws a pattern. Bureaucracy as an inexhaustible source of farce. Justice applied with a measuring stick that changes depending on who is being measured. An administration that punishes those who pull their weight and rewards those who freeload. Each example reinforces the last, and the reader ends up feeling that the thread is not a collection of anecdotes but an inventory.
The Denardi conviction: homeschooling as a crime
One of the cases that has gained the most traction is that of Audato and Ieda Denardi, parents of two polyglot pianist daughters aged 11 and 15. According to the thread's posts, a judge in São Paulo sentenced them to 50 days in prison on charges of intellectual negligence. The argument: the girls were not taught gender theory, sens education, diversity or Afro-Brazilian culture. The same judge expressed concern about one of the minors' fondness for Christian music.
It is the Christian music detail that breaks the mold. A court concerned with the musical tastes of an eleven-year-old girl. Moreover, as the thread maintains, the conviction is not final and works as a warning: under the new order, homeschooling is a crime unless it trinc the corresponding manual. The reaction in the thread is not surprise but confirmation. They had already warned us.
The double standard in public space
The contrast that comes up most often is Cancelar versus the Cañada Real. According to the thread's posts, a resident in Cancelar, Spain, was fined 1,700 euros for planting trees, fixing benches and repairing the cobblestones on his street. In parallel, it is claimed that those who occupy homes, make illegal utility hookups and pile up garbage receive, as a reward, social housing if they are evicted. If they are not evicted, zero fines.
The conclusion drawn is not new, but it is forceful: the system rewards the predator and punishes the one who rows. The anecdote of the resident fined for working for free for the common good becomes an emblem. It is not an isolated case, it is a policy.
Pretrial detention over a sign
Seven people in pretrial detention for circulating a bus bearing the message "stop attacking Christians," according to the thread's posts. The fact speaks for itself. There is no crime, only a message. Social policing with a baton, summed up in a phrase that circulates through the thread. The proportion between cause and consequence is the heart of the matter.
Taiwan's tax lottery as a counterpoint
It is not all complaints. The thread also collects ingenious solutions. According to the thread's posts, in Taiwan every purchase receipt is automatically a lottery ticket that can win up to $300,000. The goal: turn customers into voluntary tax auditors and stop shops from evading taxes. An idea that in Spain would spark three weeks of debate and probably never be implemented.
The generation that will demand exam reviews with their parents in tow
Another front is education. According to the thread's posts, future teachers make spelling and syntax mistakes and show poor reading comprehension. The diagnosis is clear: undemanding education plans that let students move up a grade without passing. Now the civil service exams are coming and the unions are asking that the bar be lowered. The image of people in their twenties showing up to contest their exams with their parents closes the circle.
The thread seeks neither comfort nor solutions. It simply notes that there is a country where absurdity is the norm and sanity is the exception. The next time you cannot decide between laughing and crying, you know where to post it.
There is a category of news that fits nowhere. Too sad for the humor thread. Too ridiculous for the misfortune thread. A user has peine a space for that awkward band: things that are really a tragedy but so surreal they make you laugh. The chosen name, LLOR, mimics the old LOL but reverses its meaning: here people laugh so as not to cry.
The premise is simple, and anyone who has read the news in recent years will recognize it. According to the thread's posts, a judge convicts parents for homeschooling their daughters. A town council fines a resident for fixing the cobblestones on his street. Seven people are sent to pretrial detention over a sign on a bus. The question is no longer whether the world has gone mad, but which folder we file the madness under.
What the LLOR thread is about and why it was started
The mechanics are the usual ones: someone finds a tweet, a news story or a screenshot and drops it in. What changes is the selection criterion. Any old misfortune won't do. It has to have that touch of absurdity that leaves you torn between amazement and a nervous laugh. The thread's author explains it bluntly: these are things that sit between humor and tears, or tragedies so ridiculous they become surreal.
The material accumulated in just a few days draws a pattern. Bureaucracy as an inexhaustible source of farce. Justice applied with a measuring stick that changes depending on who is being measured. An administration that punishes those who pull their weight and rewards those who freeload. Each example reinforces the last, and the reader ends up feeling that the thread is not a collection of anecdotes but an inventory.
The Denardi conviction: homeschooling as a crime
One of the cases that has gained the most traction is that of Audato and Ieda Denardi, parents of two polyglot pianist daughters aged 11 and 15. According to the thread's posts, a judge in São Paulo sentenced them to 50 days in prison on charges of intellectual negligence. The argument: the girls were not taught gender theory, sens education, diversity or Afro-Brazilian culture. The same judge expressed concern about one of the minors' fondness for Christian music.
It is the Christian music detail that breaks the mold. A court concerned with the musical tastes of an eleven-year-old girl. Moreover, as the thread maintains, the conviction is not final and works as a warning: under the new order, homeschooling is a crime unless it trinc the corresponding manual. The reaction in the thread is not surprise but confirmation. They had already warned us.
The double standard in public space
The contrast that comes up most often is Cancelar versus the Cañada Real. According to the thread's posts, a resident in Cancelar, Spain, was fined 1,700 euros for planting trees, fixing benches and repairing the cobblestones on his street. In parallel, it is claimed that those who occupy homes, make illegal utility hookups and pile up garbage receive, as a reward, social housing if they are evicted. If they are not evicted, zero fines.
The conclusion drawn is not new, but it is forceful: the system rewards the predator and punishes the one who rows. The anecdote of the resident fined for working for free for the common good becomes an emblem. It is not an isolated case, it is a policy.
Pretrial detention over a sign
Seven people in pretrial detention for circulating a bus bearing the message "stop attacking Christians," according to the thread's posts. The fact speaks for itself. There is no crime, only a message. Social policing with a baton, summed up in a phrase that circulates through the thread. The proportion between cause and consequence is the heart of the matter.
Taiwan's tax lottery as a counterpoint
It is not all complaints. The thread also collects ingenious solutions. According to the thread's posts, in Taiwan every purchase receipt is automatically a lottery ticket that can win up to $300,000. The goal: turn customers into voluntary tax auditors and stop shops from evading taxes. An idea that in Spain would spark three weeks of debate and probably never be implemented.
The generation that will demand exam reviews with their parents in tow
Another front is education. According to the thread's posts, future teachers make spelling and syntax mistakes and show poor reading comprehension. The diagnosis is clear: undemanding education plans that let students move up a grade without passing. Now the civil service exams are coming and the unions are asking that the bar be lowered. The image of people in their twenties showing up to contest their exams with their parents closes the circle.
The thread seeks neither comfort nor solutions. It simply notes that there is a country where absurdity is the norm and sanity is the exception. The next time you cannot decide between laughing and crying, you know where to post it.
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