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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Links - 26th March 2025 (1)

Meme - The Secret Of Dumbledore (He Sucks... @mrfeelswildride: "funko pops are indistinct deliberately to put the focus on the funko brand rather than the actual IP, if someone owns a shitload of anime figures I assume they like a lot of anime, if someone owns a lot of funko pops I assume their wife fucks someone else"
iBustMyMeetra335 @iBMM335: "What's the difference"

Zel on X - "A friend teaching undergrad theology asked the class if they knew what “INRI” meant. After a moment of silence, the Chaldean priest who was sitting in on the class piped up, “It’s Jesus’s Meyers-Briggs type.”"

Meme - "Dustin, 21
less than a mile away
Well I'm a fat fuck with a big truck. If we can't get a big greasy burger then we won't work. I'm 21 years old but don't let that fool you, I have no social life like I'm 40. If my truck doesn't impress you my personality probably won't either. Welcome to the shit show."

Meme - Goblin: "Welcome to GOB MART. That will be 1 box of condoms. 1 bottle of Lube, *BEEP*, 1 Cucumber, 1 Eggplant, 1 Daikon radish ... Damn, Lady you need to slow it down."
Elf: Dont get the Wrong idea. That's my Vegetarian Elven diet."
Goblin: "Yeh, OK"

Nebraska Josh fight: Horde of dudes named Josh fight for right to name - "A viral year-old Josh fight meme came to life Saturday as a horde of guys named Josh gathered in a random Nebraska field to "fight for the right to keep this common name," according to organizer Josh Swain. The fight to be the one true Josh started exactly one year ago, when a Josh Swain gathered every other Josh Swain he could find on Facebook and challenged them to battle. "4/24/2021, 12:00 PM, meet at these coordinates, (40.8223286, -96.7982002) we fight, whoever wins gets to keep the name, everyone else has to change their name, you have a year to prepare, good luck," the original Josh wrote to the other guys named Josh."

Meme - Commissioner Harley Masters: "Several weeks ago in a Board of Commissioners meeting we addressed social media influencers “going viral” using lies and embellished misinformation about the devastation to our home here in Mitchell County and the tragedies our friends and families are still living with. People have spread lies about our local DSS taking children in the aftermath of Helene and the number of people missing from Mitchell County. Now the new lie is that “the county” has kicked people out of tiny homes built by Amish volunteers. None of these things are accurate. All counties are required by State and Federal law to enforce North Carolina building codes. Tiny homes that meet those codes, codes set to protect North Carolina citizens from shoddy and unsafe workmanship are welcome in Mitchell County. They are not banned. Several nonprofits and of course, licensed contractors, are in Mitchell County building and rebuilding homes to code so these families have a safe long-term living situation. The Mitchell County building inspector has not kicked anyone out of their tiny home.  Instead of taking my Sunday and enjoying a much needed day of rest with my family I am being harassed with an insane amount of phone calls and emails. These social media influencers don’t care about the facts or what has been done the past two months. Please don’t be the local followers who fall for their game, whatever the reason or motivation."
Lisa Greene: "I had someone donate from Kentucky a 14x 40 tiny home to an elderly couple. Everything including transport here was a go, then bam... couldn't bring it to nc due to stupid codes. So left the elderly homeless. Amd still in a bind. This was just within a week ago. Wouldn't let them bring it and the elderly couple was out and disappointed once again. Went thru all the buying permits to get it from there to here u til.we hit here... nope. Even with it being a wide load with escorts it took alot, so yes county and state are turning these people away. There is zero need in lieing or trying trying to cover it up. State and county both. Had I not been the middle person in this trying to get them help then I'd not known but yes it is happening. Period I ain't lieing nor am I sugar coating anything make anyone look good or act good. Yes it's happening and there are several more than can test to not just this family but other families as well."

Meme - "Ella. 19. 17 miles away. I like long walks on the beach with my boyfriend until the LSD wears off and I realize I'mjust dragging a stolen mannequin around a Wendy’s parking lot"

Meme - Abhishek Hari @abhishek7h: "Pro tip: don't trade on a phone with a curved display *chart with lines quite high, with edge of display not visible from front showing plummet*"

Meme - Catholic Sat @CatholicSat: "The boomers at the Vatican have no idea what they have unleashed. *Lue burning LGBT at the stake*"

Meme - "Guys what do you do if this is how she turns up to your first date *girl in plate armour*"

I'm a Muslim man living in Europe and seeing a woman's hair makes me lose control. What do I do about this? - Quora
Islamophobia!

Meme - *Bart Hits Homer With a Chair*
"Italians finally accepting the fact that some people like pineapple on their pizza"
Polish people: "Pasta with strawberries"

Meme - "No matter how hard you try... Some mom is always going to pack a better lunch *woman holding baby staring with wide-open eyes at Morticia Adams/Goth Lady with exposed cleavage*"

Meme - Dog holding papers: "PLEASE DON 'T BUY ANY FIRE WORKS. IM SO SCARED! BUY HOOKERS! YOU CAN BANG EM TOO"

Japanese designer create the label for Meat products to change colour when it is Rotten - "With the rising awareness of food safety, more and more people are paying closer attention to food labels. However, do labels reflect the true nature of food? For instance, expired food products are disposed of as trash. But the truth is that food does not go bad the instant the use-by date expires. Food starts rotting the very instant it dies. If kept in a good temperature condition, it might be edible even after the expiration date has passed. They have doubts about the expiration-date culture which rarifies the sense of appreciation towards food. This is a food label that changes based on how spoiled the food is.  The design is in the motif of a sandglass, the symbol of time, in which the sand shifts downward as food perishes. When all the sand reaches the bottom, the barcode will no longer be scannable making the food nonmarketable. It is reliable because false labeling will be difficult as the freshness of food will be directly reflected.  The label has two layers. One layer contains food information and the other layer contains special ink reactive to ammonia. The ink is made from the pigment of purple cabbages and is safe."
There's a meme going around that claims this is Japanese barcodes in general

Meme - "AITA for telling my extended family how many men (roughly) my sister has slept with after she outed our youngest brother as a virgin?
 We had a family dinner this evening. My family has four kids in total: me, my elder sister (29F), younger sister (24F) and youngest brother (22M).  Extended family attended our family dinner. So all of our significant others, our cousins, aunts and uncles etc. During the dinner my elder sister and youngest brother got into a mild disagreement. My sister seemed (at least to me) to be coming across as very aggressive out of frustration and losing said argument. The two of them were too absorbed in their argument to realise the rest of us were getting a bit fed up.  Eventually my sister got really fed up and said “Shut up, I’m not going to argue with a 22 year old virgin.” My brother hadn’t done any personal attacks up until that point, it was completely unprovoked. I think it might have been the alcohol as my sister is a mean drunk.  Anyway, I immediately told my sister to grow up and that she was making an embarrassment of herself. She replied by saying everyone knows he’s a virgin and she didn’t say anything wrong. This annoyed me as my bro definitely has confidence issues and doesn’t need to be made fun of like this.  So I responded by saying how she slept with well over a hundred men while she was in college, and that since everyone in the family knows this it’s not a big deal right? Turns out her husband didn’t know this amazingly, I genuinely assumed he must have known. he left the party angrily saying my sister mislead him about her past.  Family is blaming me for their marital problems. I refuse to accept I did anything wrong. My sister bullied my brother in front of everyone, all I did was give her a taste of her own medicine."

Meme - Victoria @AVocalistsRival: "If there's one thing I never do, it's go to a hospital when I'm sick🤦🏿‍♀️"
"Stop. Please do not enter our hospital if you're feeling unwell"

A 'hummus expert' appeared on TV ... and people want his job - "A screenshot of Charlie Palmer - a hummus expert, apparently - on the BBC Breakfast show, has been making the rounds online for the past few days.   It all started when Facebook page 'Hummus Mem3s' posted the image with a caption that read:   "Passion is the difference between having a job or having a career," referencing a years old quote on one's job choices."
This got edited to "Garlic bread expert"

Meet a guy who makes a living translating emojis - "some businesses are reaching out to specialists, like Keith Broni from Ireland. He’s the first person in the world with the job title Emoji Translator and it’s his job to help companies navigate safely through this growing emoji media minefield... Certain emoji also hold different meanings to different cultures. The thumbs up emoji is popular in the West and Facebook users “like” posts with the thumbs up button, but in the Middle East it is traditionally an offensive gesture. The same goes for the A-OK hand gesture, which is offensive in Latin America. Broni therefore warns that caution should be exercised when attempting to deploy emoji across different cultures, for fear of causing offense.  Then there are the emoji that no longer mean what they were originally intended to represent. The eggplant and peach emoji have become synonymous with parts of the human anatomy, rather than pieces of fruit. One study by Emojipedia and Prismoji in December 2016 found that out of a sample-size of 571 tweets using the peach emoji, only 7 percent referred to the actual fruit. More than a quarter of the tweets used the emoji in a sexual connotation. Broni also organized Europe’s first emoji spelling bee, held in Dublin in March. It was based upon the world’s first emoji spelling bee, where contestants were challenged to swiftly “spell” a phrase or prompt using emojis, which took place at Emojicon in San Francisco in November 2016. Emojicon was a three-day convention hosted by EmojiNation which celebrated all things to do with emojis."

Meme - "A love story:"
*Cosplay couple* "She said the cosplay stays on"
*Couple in bed with girl looking normal and man still in mask with cosplay hair and headband* "It stayed on"
georgie @BeefyGorilla: "She looks like she just had a religious experience"

Meme - "When you're arguing with a leftist and they're losing ground fast"
"Ol' Reliable"
"You're racist"

Meme - "ONE SLurP oF PHO PER TRICK-OR-TREATER"

Meme - "When the car you used to draw in kindergarten pulls up next to you... *misshapen car*"

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh caught getting into a Maserati on Parliament Hill : r/Canada_sub - "The guy has awful taste for a champagne socialist. It looks like a 10 year old Hyundai."

Meme - "Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, giving investment firm total ownership of all DNA from every person who's ever used the service"
"Begun, the Clone War has."

Yuri Gagarin: The man who fell to Earth - "Anna Takhtarova and her granddaughter, Rita, were weeding potatoes near the village of Smelovka on 12 April 1961 when a man in a strange orange suit and a bulging white helmet approached across the field. The forest warden's wife crossed herself but the girl was intrigued. "I'm a friend, comrades. A friend," shouted the young man, removing his headgear. Takhtarova looked at him curiously. "Can it be that you have come from outer space," she asked. "As a matter of fact, I have," replied Yuri Gagarin.  This story of Gagarin's return to Earth after orbiting the planet, the most important flight since the Wright brothers' at Kitty Hawk, was widely disseminated, not least because of its symbolism – a Soviet hero being welcomed home by his fellow peasants, a wise mother and a child of the future. It is probably true in essence, though the details changed with each retelling. But some facts were hidden. One was kept secret for more than a decade, except for an extraordinary occasion when Gagarin risked everything to tell the truth to a man he held in the highest regard – a man who was a Cold War enemy: the Royal Navy's top test pilot... Long before Gagarin was born, Sergei Korolev, the aircraft engineer who would send him into space, had become interested in using liquid-fuel rockets to power planes.  Korolev would become so important to the Soviets by the 1950s that even his name was a state secret; he was referred to only by his initials or as the Chief Designer, and missed out on a Nobel prize because his superiors wouldn't reveal his identity. But in 1938 he faced a much worse fate – being caught up in Stalin's Great Purge.  Shortly after an accidental explosion in his laboratory, Korolev was denounced to the secret police by a colleague, Valentin Glushko, for counter-revolutionary political k activities and harming the work of the institute. He was arrested, tortured (they broke his jaw) and sentenced to 10 years' hard labour. Dispatched to a Siberian gold mine, he came close to death from beatings and scurvy.  His frequent letters of appeal led to his recall to Moscow for a retrial. The court found him guilty again, but sent him to a jail for intellectuals, beside his fellow prisoner Glushko. It was not until 1957 that his name was cleared... There was no countdown, which was a purely dramatic invention of the Americans... When Vostok reached an altitude of 7km, Gagarin ejected and parachuted to the ground. This neatly solved the problem of how to touch down safely. But it created a new problem: the Soviets wanted to claim the altitude record, but the rules said the pilot had to land inside his craft. The truth of how Gagarin met Anna Takhtarova 2km from Vostok's crater would have been a propaganda disaster. They had to lie... Alcohol and women could indeed have been Gagarin's downfall. But he was determined to rise again. In 1963 he was appointed deputy head of cosmonaut training and used his position to get back on the spaceflight roster as back-up on the ill-fated Soyuz 1 mission. Politics was driving the mission to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. An attempt to warn Leonid Brezhnev that the craft had 203 technical problems was quashed by an ambitious KGB apparatchik. The scheduled pilot, Vladimir Komarov, went up knowing he would likely die. Sure enough, the parachute failed. Some reports claim Gagarin later threw a drink at the Soviet leader over his friend's unnecessary death."

Meme - "The actor playing the main character vs the picture of the real life person they show at the end of the movie" *Jason Momoa, Ted Cruz*

Cyclist repeatedly fails Captcha test after failing to identify images with traffic lights – NewsThump - "Local cyclist Simon Williams has failed to access his favourite website this morning after it asked him to identify which images of a street contained traffic lights.  Williams, a keen cyclist who regularly commutes to work on his bike through busy traffic, is currently unable to access a cycling forum due to the anti-spam Captcha system repeatedly asking him to prove he is not a robot."

Meme - *written in dust on rear vehicle screen* "OMG Stay off of her!"
*Stick figure family with 2 parents, 8 children, 2 cats*

There's a U.S. island that speaks a version of Elizabethan English - "One island off the coast of North Carolina has its own unique dialect called Hoi Toider that is quite rare.  Hoi Toider, also called High Tider, is spoken on Ocracoke Island, located on the Outer Banks. Land on the small island is primarily owned by the National Park Service, so less than 1,000 people actually live there (although it blossoms with tourists during the summer). It’s particularly the island’s old-timers who speak the dialect, approximately 150 people in total, according to Babbel magazine... “Quamished” describes being sick to one’s stomach, i.e. the way one might feel on a bumpy ferry ride over to the island.  “Buck” is a good friend who is male, while “puck” refers to a good friend who is female.  And “dingbatters” are folks who aren’t native to the island — that is, tourists, as well as people who were born somewhere else and moved to Ocracoke."

Hong Kong has changed. It may not be for the worse | The Straits Times - "Now it seems that Hong Kongers are finally starting to get a semblance of what they have always yearned for – a break from the type of mainland tourists they profess to detest and more of those who value the city’s heritage and culture; shorter work hours as businesses shut earlier; progressively cheaper homes, stronger demand for local talent and higher local wages. What’s not to like?"

Meme - "Crazy Woman 1/2 MILE"

Meme - Dr Strange: "Facebook, I've come to login."
"Someone tried to log in, but we stopped them."
Dormammu: "You've come to try."
Dr Strange: "Facebook, I've come to login."

Meme - "Girl I've been seeing gave me racist rant video as birthday gift
She sent me a video of her saying a bunch of comically racist shit and said now you have the power to ruin my reputation if you sent this to people and thats her only birthday gift for me. She says it's like a proof of her love and trust for me and a form of vulnerability. She knows it's funny but I think part of her is being serious. We're in Germany so this has life ruining potential lol some of the things she said are actually illegal."

Ed 🗽 on X - "Bro I faked being gay so I could sleepover with some baddies now they sucking & passing a dildo in a circle it’s almost my turn what do I do 😢"

Meme - "Boobs are to men what laser pointers are to cats *Sonya Temnikova*"

Meme - "Oh boy! it came!"
*cartoon figure sex dolls - Sandy Cheeks*
@Skippedx4: "Ladies, y'all have toys of all shapes and sizes. A dragon dick, human torso. Then a man wants a life size, fuckable squirrel doll. Modeled from a favorite childhood TV show. Her pussy vibrates, can you blame him? Sandy always gave him feelings as a kid. Now he's s creep!?"

Meme - "Ken Cheng: I want to connect with you, emotionally
Yes I took part in clinical trials to see if we could harvest the blood of young people to extend my lifespan. Who wouldn't? It's no different than me hiring a teenager to clean my pool. However, once I injected myself with adolescent blood, I found myself behaving strangely. I started saying phrases like "bussin" and "rizz" around the office. I ended a stockholders meeting telling them "we will yassify our share price no cap". I could tell they didn't "get it." I could feel the teenage blood making me stronger and more vitalised every day. I even took up skateboarding. Things came to a head when I tried to buy cigarettes and porn in a corner shop. "Sorry young man, over 18s only." This is when I saw myself in the mirror wearing cargo shorts, an Attack on Titan t-shirt and a backward cap. I hated what I'd become. Youth is a very coveted thing, a very addictive thing, but it comes at the cost of freedom and respect. No thanks, I'll stick to being rich and able to buy porn."

Meme - "Hey. Can I get your number"
"***. And yours?"
"?"
"Hello. Have you sold my no to insurance co? am getting numerous calls from insurance companies"

Meme - "Disney+ *2 girls in short dresses evoking Cinderella* *sofia1801*"

Meme - Black woman: "The first celtic / Irish settlers were dark skinned people. So peopte of Ireland, get educated before commenting about my ideniity. I'm a proud black & Irish .woman My ancestors were here first"
What happens when you let We Wuz Kangz run riot and pretend black people were everywhere

Meme - jordy bo bordy: "i'd text him so fast my phone would explode"
horse dentist @equine_dentist: "thanks for the tip but what the fuck"
"Amount $128.89
+ Tip: 1,000...
Beautiful nipples princess CALL ME ***. THE Master @gentleman Luxarla"

Ben Averbook on X - "They’ve uncovered a new way to destroy companies: 30 tech founders were secretly debanked. No warning. No explanation. No appeals. Pure, silent government power."
Elon Musk on X - "Did you know that 30 tech founders were secretly debanked?"
Brian Armstrong on X - "Can confirm this is true. It was one of the most unethical and un-American things that happened in the Biden administration, and my guess is we'll find Elizabeth Warren's fingerprints all over it (Biden himself was probably unaware). We're still collecting documents via FOIA requests, so hopefully the full story emerges of who was involved and whether they broke any laws.  Warren and Gensler tried to unlawfully kill our entire industry, and it was a major factor in the Dems losing the election. The Democratic party should realize Warren is a liability and further distance themselves if they want to have any hope of rebuilding."
Clearly, there's no problem here and they just need to start their own bank. And if the power company cuts off their power, there's no problem either and they just need to start their own power company. Anything else would be anti-capitalistic and proof of right wing hypocrisy

Thread by @stephmurrayyyy on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...
First point is to just confirm that I think @CartoonsHateHer is basically right. I have been mulling an essay about my own village building experience, the main lesson of which is that intensive parenting is pretty much incompatible with village building. Like you can micromanage your kid’s care (their exposure to high fructose corn syrup, screen time, whether or not someone problematically tells them “you’re okay” when they fall) or you can have reliable community help with childcare. Thems the options. Everyone accepts that I’m a stickler about please & thank yous & will pretty much never serve their kids anything other than pasta (and whatever they find stuck between my couch cushions). I have to accept the fact that other people let my kids watch more TV than I would like. (Interestingly, I find that people really into the whole attachment parenting “time spent away from mom is linearly harmful to the child” thing are basically impossible to rope into the whole village system. But I digress.)
All of this is to say that acceptance of others' parenting styles/systems/ideas about life differ is an essential part of sustaining the village I am in. BUT I think another, probably equally important component of sustaining village life is...living in a village... I think it is EXTREMELY difficult to build a village in the manufactured isolation of a car dependent American suburb. The other reason this years-long baby swapping village system has maintained itself over time is that we all live extremely close together in a dense walkable neighborhood. Proximity is pretty much essential for maintaining systems of practical support. It’s not enough to have “community,” as in “knowing people willing to help you.” It must be a “place-based community” as @DrJonWinder calls it. There are huge obstacles to building a “place-based community” basically everywhere that have taken over, including dense city neighborhoods, as I’ve written about. BUT...
It is a lot easier to find times that work for everyone when you all live very close together and to everything you need (grocery stores etc). And it is much easier to find people in want of a village (including people that you like!), when you are in a fairly dense area."
On "it takes a village to raise a child"

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