Back when Facebook mania was in full swing, pretty much everyone I know – myself included, I’m sad to say – joined a group called “I secretly want to punch slow walking people in the back of the head.” I have no idea what this simple slice of sociopathy was intended to achieve – would thousands of slow-walking people notice the group and think “oh no! Someone may punch me in the back of the head! I’d better start walking at the same pace as a normal human being”? What an odd form of shouting into the void it was. Plus, it was a total misnomer as far as I’m concerned – there’s nothing secret about my desire to visit violence upon glacial dawdlers. And the back of the head? A little tame, really.
Time Limit (source: Darren Me over at TIGSource) gets it. Time Limit is for the members of the non-existent Facebook group “I blatantly want to punch slow-walking people in the face with absolute impunity, and with such force that they’re sent spiralling out of the world itself.”
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