Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

It was all a joke.

4Chan wanted to see just how stupid and gullible the media and its followers are, so they worked together and picked something stupid and innocent to try to turn it into a racist gesture.

Media being media, it became a thing. Some pointless blog picked it up then circle sourcing(where media outlets quote each other as sources with no actual source) and outrage culture did the rest.

914Driver said:

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.

Japanese christmas is also weird.  The wires get crossed.

Its also apparently a thing to buy a KFC bucket for Christmas dinner there

Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:

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?

Popularized by Malcom in the Middle.

I still like watching reruns of that show, just funny. 

RevRico said:

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

It was all a joke.

4Chan wanted to see just how stupid and gullible the media and its followers are, so they worked together and picked something stupid and innocent to try to turn it into a racist gesture.

Media being media, it became a thing. Some pointless blog picked it up then circle sourcing(where media outlets quote each other as sources with no actual source) and outrage culture did the rest.

Even worse than that is actual racists took hold of it as identifying sign. If they are caught doing it, they faint ignorance and say it's the OK game. It really is a bucket of E36 M3.

Not really me, but some people I know:

kazoospec said:

Not really me, but some people I know:

I spend about a third of my time at work teaching engineering statistics and I've been doing it remotely throughout 2020.

Now that I'm not face-to-face with my participants, they fact check the living berk out of me.  Last week I mentioned that Chuck Yeager's wife was named Liz and on a break it occurred to me that it couldn't be correct as the X-1 he broke the sound barrier with was named Glamorous Glennis (I got Liz in my head from the nose art of a famous P-51 named Sizzling Liz).  Anyway, I corrected myself after the break and about half of my engineers said "yah, we know, we fact checked you". 

ASL speakers everywhere are laughing. The classic okay sign in ASL can be interpreted as the letter F, the number 9, or shiny happy person, depending on context...

kazoospec said:

In reply to Recon1342 :

Yeah, can't believe I overlooked that one.

My favorite Joke: 

Q: Where do Suicide bombers go when they die?

A: Everywhere.

Recon1342 said:

ASL speakers everywhere are laughing. The classic okay sign in ASL can be interpreted as the letter F, the number 9, or shiny happy person, depending on context...

Tnat's what it meant when I was in elementary school.  You'd make like you were giving the OK sign but then you'd count off on your fingers A - S - S  and then mime poking through the hole.

NickD said:

...and the turkey baster smells like antifreeze.

In reply to RX Reven' :

Or Miata shift turret fluid.

kazoospec said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

Or Miata shift turret fluid.

kazoospec said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

Or Miata shift turret fluid.

I regret that I can only upvote this once.