Memes We Have Seen On High

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

(Decepticon-Jew meme, I only saw the black part, not the lower frame, and was amused by the “who the heck is Earth in debt to, the decepticons? Because “earth in debt” makes NO SENSE. And knowing the person who sent it tome, my guess is he ALSO only saw the top frame. I don’t understand how it happened other than “Dangerously tired.”. Sorry. Removed. — SAH)

107 thoughts on “Memes We Have Seen On High”

  1. The world is $217 trillion in debt, and we have borrowed it from our decendants. The best part of that trick is they’re the ones who will have to pay themselves back.

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    1. I didn’t see the lower frame of that meme — not sure why except half dead — BUT I thought the idea of “the Earth being in debt” was meaningless. So the black frame was FUNNY.

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  3. *points out that the fire selector on the MP5 is clearly only two position, thus it is not a machine gun.

    :P :P :P :P :P

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      1. It really requires the oh-so-proper “Hah und Kah”.

        Which auto-corrupt rendered “HaHa und Kah”.

        …

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    1. As if Jag hadn’t lost us all at “all electric British car”.

      It’s like a part of that “nationality heaven/hell” joke.

      Loosing forth the magic smoke from -that- thing will resemble the Trinity site.

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      1. Loosing forth the magic smoke from -that- thing will resemble the Trinity site.

        From what I’m seeing, that’s true of anything with lithium batteries. Issues with devices in the airline cabins are getting frequent enough that “thermal containment bags” you can put your smoking device in and seal it off are standard equipment, and are getting used every week.

        I’m also expecting insurance companies to start telling people they can’t put electric cars in the garage.

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      1. Smile. “Why thank you, I do my best work with a writers block.” Thunk.

        Next frame, a book called “Writers Block Murders” marked as a best seller.

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  7. I had a random thought about A Christmas Carol by Dickens (inspired by the Alastair Sims pic above).

    It’s so often misinterpreted as “rich miser learns that giving money away is the right thing to do.” No, that’s not the point of the book. It’s an anti-idolatry story. Ebenezer Scrooge has put the worship of money above all other things, and it has shriveled up his soul. The ghosts are there to point out that he has shut out joy and human connection, and they’re using Christmas as a vehicle to show this to him.

    It’s a religious conversion, and most modern adaptations shy away from any hint of religion. No wonder so many of them fall flat.

    (I photographed a performance of Amahl and the Night Visitors last night. It was originally made for television, and they would never do that today, because there is a literal miracle in the text.)

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  8. Can’t buy guns for someone else, PTB will not allow it.

    Can’t get gift card to buy guns because don’t know if individual wants to buy guns from that store.

    What is a girl to do?

    Asking for a friend.

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      1. For Christmas:

        Mom used to buy guns for dad. Dad even bought mom a handgun, once she got her CCL.

        Grandma used to buy grandpa guns.

        Aunt and Uncle used to buy each other guns.

        It is just more recent times where shadow buying (buying gun for someone else) is frowned on. Does not matter if the person the firearm is being purchased for legally can own the gun being purchased. PTB get gnarly (snarly works too) about it.

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          2. Knew that. Comment was meant to be funny. Do appreciate the suggestions.

            Mom had us 3 girls distribute their guns between the three of us so she’d have them out of the house, gun pond (safe) went too.

            We aren’t looking for guns currently. Don’t meat hunt. Not gun collectors.

            Camera hunt. I wouldn’t go buy him new camera equipment or accessories without his input either.

            Hubby golfs. He has talked about new clubs. Not going there either. (We do joke that me letting him go alone on the winter golf trips is his annual “Christmas” gift, but he’s not going this year for reasons beyond his recent surgery.)

            I do have something small to wrap.

            Problem is we all are at the point that if we want something we can just go get it.

            Hubby is a lot better about surprising me than I am him. He always has been. Usually for special anniversaries (so close to Christmas that is when we do the anniversary stuff, other than dinner).

            I am not easy to buy for either. No huge hobbies (reading, and no he is not going to go that route). Wear jewelry, but not really big into that, and what I wear can’t be ostentatious or bulky (small hands). Nor am I into clothing.

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    2. Maybe an envelope with the relevant amount of cash wrapped in a paper labelled with the desired model. So he has something to open around the tree, but isn’t nailed down to which store AND avoids the “straw purchase” bullpuckey.

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      1. We’re going shopping after Christmas.

        Realistically, we are down to figuring out how to CCL, *outside the vehicle. I do have a holster for my S&W EZ, and have a sling bag coming, that should have an appropriate spot for me to carry. We’ll see if it will make sense for hiking. Don’t know what hubby will do, he has a small .380, and smaller 9mm than mine. (There is no way we are carrying dad’s revolvers CCL. Not happening. They are hand cannons. They won’t even fit in the car safe.)

        (* You know, that is, if we hadn’t had that pesky canoe accident on the Willamette.)

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          1. Hm. Birthday is in February … Bookmarked. Will get son involved (his bday is June). No reason to not have multiple ways to carry. Right?

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        2. This, in spades . When quasi-stepdad passed, I inherited a case of.30 Carbine ammo. I was also supposed to get a few of his guns (Ruger 10/22, Blackhawk, & Mini-14, Boys .55 Cal anti-tank rifle (he and his dad had conducted a fairly robust firearms import service pre-68)) but I was overseas at the time and one of his cousins from Texas came up and basically cleaned out the gun safe.*

          Eventually, I had a co-worker who retired and returned to Guatemala. He had to unload some toys (Guatemala not being exactly gun-friendly) so I acquired an M-1 Carbine and an SKS at a very nice price.

          *I wonder if the ATF (spit) ever knew about Cousin Harry’s shenanigans . . . 🤔

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          1. Be interesting on what happens to BIL’s, er, um, toys. I suspect we (because, for very good reasons, hubby is so not helping alone, I trust him, I do not trust …) will be helping SIL sell them. There is nothing we need (want? Don’t think so.) BIL better deal with them now (can’t use them, doesn’t have the physical strength, or the needed sensations).

            BIL is estranged from his son and all the nieces/nephews of siblings (except our son). Her sons, one is in the Philippines, none are going there. The other is Alaska, beyond being extremely ill, and a raging alcoholic while getting early stages of help now he sure does not need any of these toys.

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            1. The local instructor told me the guns I have from Dad are, ahem, not very good. I was hoping to share the good stuff with my brother…but I suspect my brother’s “friends,” got them. Another step on a long, sad story.

              (Just got back from Florida. Saw parents’ and brother’s graves and checked on the site of the house. Yes, it’s really gone. That almost hurts worse, since a house can outlive generations).

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    4. A case of ammunition for the gun that your recipient most desires to practice with is pretty much just as good, and probably more practical.

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    5. Decent offerings already.

      I bought some at Mazama recently, and I like the store; don’t know why one might not, but sometimes there are Reasons.

      I bought matching Colt Kodiaks for my daughter and son in law, to be delivered next month when I travel. They hunt in bear country. I bought them here as OR has no sales tax, and I can’t buy guns in MT as an OR resident, at least not for delivery in MT.

      Perhaps bank-card gift card, usable anywhere?

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        1. Do not get me started on reloading equipment.

          Right now BIL does reloading. Given his health, don’t know how long that keeps happening.

          Had a chance to get dad’s equipment. Neither hubby nor son were interested then (to be fair, son was 20). Mom let nephew have it (younger than me, but much older than son).

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    7. Buy them a 3D printer :-)

      But actually, depending on the state, you can buy a firearm as a gift for someone. You’re just not buying it with their cash, that would be a straw purchase.

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      1. Define “their cash” … Given that it is “our cash” VS “my cash”.

        As JohnS points out, in Oregon spouses can buy for each other. Besides they are stored in the same pond, because we are lousy boaters.

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    1. Alternate caption: “What? We can destroy entire ecosystems within a few generations. Burning down one house is just a few spicy mouse guts on top of the juicy tuna cake!”

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  12. RE: hunting 3000 year old abominations with modern weapons

    There are multiple quite popular franchises built around that exact idea.

    /Doomguy racks shotgun

    And then there’s the Space Marine 2 segment of the show Secret Level (on Prime) where the fight ends when the protagonist kills the daemon with… a *knife*. As that segment shows, what’s important generally isn’t getting the weapons to work properly. It’s overcoming all of the tricks the abomination has that are also – coincidentally – designed to protect it against 3000 year old weapons.

    On a related note, it’s generally agreed that the Space Marine 2 segment is by far the best in what is a very uneven series of episodes.

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    1. I’ve only watched the first half of the season so far, but I actually didn’t like that episode. I’m just tired of everything being too dark to see much. I thought the most interesting one was the Pac-Man episode. This show seems a lot like Love, Death, & Robots in which everyone seems to really like 1-2 episodes, but nobody really likes the SAME 1-2 episodes. Which is pretty good for an anthology series IMHO.

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      1. The lighting was very dark in the Space Marine episode. And even when it wasn’t, the visibility was still pretty poor.

        The Pac-Man episode was interesting and original… but I didn’t think it had enough to do with the game. With a series that’s supposed to be inspired by specific video games, that was an issue for me.

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  13. Let’s see if I have this right, for the “world debt” one.

    That’s a Jew as a Decepticon, right? And the implication is the usual “Jews rigging banking blahblahblah” right?

    And slow-uptake 11B-Mailclerk is the first to query?

    Did S*f*t replace Mrs Hoyt this week? Or did I seriously misread the folks on this forum?

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      1. Huh; missed that the first time. Gotta be careful whose memes you borrow, I suppose. I’m more of words than picture guy myself so all I got was Decepticon and a laugh.

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    2. Dude, the Yid in the room is laughing his ass off at that one. “Feel the power of the Judencons!”

      t

      Though the housewife with the SMG was just hot….

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          1. On the other hand, they’re also not at all smart (the overlap with the flat-earthers is non-trivial), so… it’s sort of possible it was meant seriously. I just didn’t even think of that, because it’s so silly.

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    3. I’m the one who shared it with her, and thought it was mocking Jewish world conspiracy tropes rather than supporting them. I mean, if you only go so far as “well, the debt has to be owed to somebody, therefore JOOOOOOS!”, maybe. But Jewish Decepticons? Seriously?

      Could be wrong, but I thought it was mocking the trope, not playing into it.

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      1. That’s what I got. Read it, saw the cartoon, and went, “Oh, sheesh. That’s hysterical!” But the Jewish side of the family tells Jewish jokes, as do MomRed’s Jewish friends, so I might be a bit warped.

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        1. I’m sure it was originally created to be antisemetic. Probably by some guy tired of pasting and repasting the “Happy Merchant” clip art into MS Paint. But Poe’s law has kind of taken the edge off it in reverse.

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      3. “decepticons” is current hate-slang. Kinda like that (((name))) bullcrap when they want to jew-trope a name but not get banhammered.

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        1. Really? So now Le Tigre was a Mossad psyop or something? Marvel Comics in the ’80s (the original bible for Transformers’ origins and characters was written by Marvel EiC Jim Shooter) created the IP as operant conditioning, *They Live* style?

          Good gods, people are stupid.

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      1. My sense of humor is warped on the best of days.

        And earlier in the day I discovered that a buddy voiced an unrelated, but very very evil opinion about someone I cherish. Then another buddy goes ER. Then…

        Then I made a flying handle leap.

        Thanks for taking it down. Just couldn’t get it.

        Now that gray tabby look like Miz Kitty’s sister. ( who is currently head butting me and dropping toys. Gotta go)

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      1. I didn’t save the link, because a) I would want one, and $SPOUSE$ would do unspeakable things to me when it showed up, and b) the daughter found it on something called “Thunder Dungeon Memes.” Sadly, I am one of those who can spend hours on those sites – so I ration myself to Saturdays with Sarah.

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    1. Oh look, WP showed it to me this time in my compose window and then apparently does not show it to all y’all.

      WPDE.

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    2. Yes. I missed the second square. And apparently Deej thought it was mocking antisemites, which it can be read as. But I got some really weird unapproved comments, so it’s gone.

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  18. …and when I saw the “Stealth With Rocket Launcher” meme on Twitter, my response was to consider trying make up a new XCOM2 soldier design.

    Stealth with skill in rocket launchers…

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    1. Stealth shotgun best shotgun.

      Actually did the entire run of Bioshock running a cloaking, hacking, shotgun tank. Which was hilarious when I basically jump scared some of the intended jump scares…

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      1. One of the RPGO specializations is focused on shotguns and has a close-ranged cone attack that can do an amazing amount of damage to a pod if you open up from concealment. Especially if you have a good laser sight, talon rounds and some other skills that boost crit damage.

        (Though cannon builds w/laser sights and talon rounds can get scary even if their skillset doesn’t include bonus crit. My XCOM version of The Heavy is terrifying when he uses Area Suppression.)

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  19. I now feel dumb. There’s a map called the Carta Marina, which features five islands with strange names.

    And one is Islandia, which is helpfully pointed out to be modern “Iceland.”

    OMG. That’s what the famous novel comes from.

    I am happier knowing the buried reference, though.

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  20. Was just thinking about the Shinzo Abe / Donald Trump meme(s) earlier today. Maybe J. W. Dunne wasn’t all wrong on time, after all…

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  22. Re the, “eldritch abomination and firearms,” meme, I will repeat the words of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: “Just once, I’d like to be fighting something that is not immune to bullets.”

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  23. Reminder for every time Democrats and their media arm complain about Musk’s role and influence with Trump and some Republicans:

    These are the people who get massive amounts of money for Democratic Party campaigns and organizations from George Soros and others, and whose billionaire allies actively censor and suppress speech by the Democrats’ political opponents while engaging in large scale warfare.

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