Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Appleseed :

SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:

Wally (Forum Supporter) said:

I don't mean to get weird, but she's kinda hot...

Japanese Ronald McDonald is creepy.

In reply to Jesse Ransom (FFS) :

I am only familiar with the game from memes, frankly. 

And wait, Hawaiian shirts are a thing now?  Not that I ever wear them, but SHEESH. 

In reply to 914Driver :

Creepy? Izzat all? "Creepy"? How the heck am I supposed to eat French fries now? Geez that can't be real, right? Gotta be some horrible 4chan thing, right? (Google image search) oh.... oh dear me. Well my days of taking Japan seriously have certainly come to a middle

Anyone who has ever worked law enforcement or emergency medicine can probably relate to this one:

In reply to kazoospec :

Military, as well. 

In reply to Recon1342 :

Yeah, can't believe I overlooked that one.

In reply to kazoospec :

Last Christmas I was laughing about how I got punched by a guy I Narcan'd and was met with silence and blank stares. 

90BuickCentury said:

Pretty sure it's a play off the old 90's game of signing OK and trying to get someone to look at it. Dumb game but not racist.

Can confirm. That was a popular game (by "game", I mean an excuse to slug your friends) in my high school in the early 90s. No connotations that I'm aware of other than some bruises and wounded pride.

Anyway, have a meme.

Duke said:

In reply to Jesse Ransom (FFS) :

I am only familiar with the game from memes, frankly. 

And wait, Hawaiian shirts are a thing now?  Not that I ever wear them, but SHEESH. 

 

Yet another example of how easily the media is manipulated by bored people in their never ending pursuit of ratings and division. 

In reply to kazoospec :

Mom was an ER nurse in a major trauma center, Dad was a fireman.

Everything is dinner table conversation in my house.

Hopefully this is not seen as political, or racist, or whatever. I'm sure that it can be Anything anyone wants to make it into (and that's all I intend to point out).

Didn't that stupid "you looked at my nuts and now I punch you" game come from that stupid Ryan Reynolds movie about working in an Applebee's knock-off?

I've never heard of this game

In reply to Peabody :

That's because you don't have a room temperature IQ.  And I'm talking celsius.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Glad you clarified.

In Fahrenheit it would be pretty close

In reply to Javelin (Forum Supporter) :

It was big in my junior high school before that movie came out. I think I remember it in the late 90s in elementary school too. Any excuse to wail on a buddy I guess.

We were too ignorant to even know we were signing OK, we called it "the circle game." If you got your buddy to look at the circle you made with your thumb and index finger, below your waistline/belt you got to punch them, usually in shoulder.

There were plenty of racist and bigoted things in my highschool, but the circle game wasn't one of them.

bigdaddylee82 said:

We were too ignorant to even know we were signing OK, we called it "the circle game." If you got your buddy to look at the circle you made with your thumb and index finger, below your waistline/belt you got to punch them, usually in shoulder.

There were plenty of racist and bigoted things in my highschool, but the circle game wasn't one of them.

This was exactly my experience.  Only due to this thread have I become aware that it could possibly be offensive to someone.

I was in middle school in the mid 80's and we played it. I laughed when someone tried to make it a white pride thing last year, they were pretty surprised when I found a 7th grade class photo where someone was flashing it, a black guy no less.....