The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[Dennisch]

So if you vote independent, you just go nowhere?

It's a Roman gearbox, so you're going forward, but you're limited.

Edit.

This is what gets you nowhere.

Well, your votes most likely would.

 

[Famine]

If you want to go forward you rip out the worn slushbox and replace it with a manual.

So if you vote independent, you just go nowhere?

 

[Danoff]

So if you vote independent, you just go nowhere?

N-dependent

 

[Liquid]

Politics in Britain are so slow because of first gear past the post.

 

[TexRex]

 

[UKMikey]

 

[TexRex]

 

[DK]

Hillary: "So you're saying there's a chance?"

 

[ScottPuss20]

 

[Spacegoat]

 

[TexRex]

 

[Populuxe]

The greatest comeback in twitter history to white conservatives telling you they’re the real oppressed people.

 

[TexRex]

Eugh. That face could make a lemon pucker.

 

[MaxAttack]

Eugh. That face could make a lemon pucker.

I'm a veteran of the English private school world - that face is deeply emblematic of the wine-hangover soaked professional housewife to a doctor, local business owner or otherwise flash Audi SUV driving chap.

It represents a sort of meet-in-the-middle morphing situation between the woman and her horse, aided by gallons of expensive but tastelessly purchased red wine, alongside the stress effects of bitching about the way single state school children's mother's will sometimes wear a top with only one shoulder strap.

Sadly, they really do exist.

 

[MIE1992]

I'm a veteran of the English private school world - that face is deeply emblematic of the wine-hangover soaked professional housewife to a doctor, local business owner or otherwise flash Audi SUV driving chap.

It represents a sort of meet-in-the-middle morphing situation between the woman and her horse, aided by gallons of expensive but tastelessly purchased red wine, alongside the stress effects of bitching about the way single state school children's mother's will sometimes wear a top with only one shoulder strap.

Sadly, they really do exist.

Your writing skills are something I should seriously aspire to. Ever think of writing a novel, or perhaps writing opinions/reviews for a publication?

 

[Liquid]

Same comment every time I see that one:

Peter Schmeichel looking rough these days.

 

[Famine]

Seems pretty lazy from Conan there. Should have at least thought hard enough about it to come up with "same-Pez marriage", and I'm sure there's better puns than that.

Edit: Chex? Not sure if breakfast cereals count, but good enough.

 

[Populuxe]

Seems pretty lazy from Conan there. Should have at least thought hard enough about it to come up with "same-Pez marriage", and I'm sure there's better puns than that.

Edit: Chex? Not sure if breakfast cereals count, but good enough.

It’s a perfectly good joke. Your efforts to “improve” it… don’t.

 

[Famine]

It’s a perfectly good joke. Your efforts to “improve” it… don’t.

The gag is "same-sex marriage", so the pun is replacing the word "sex" with a similar word along the... ugh... candy theme.

"Skittle" isn't even close to "sex". It's not got the same number of letters, the same sounds, the same number of syllables, or any similarity other than beginning with an "s". As a play on words, "Pez" just works better - right theme, right sounds, same syllables. I like Chex more because it's more similar in sound, but as a cereal it might not qualify - and it's not as universally known as Pez.

I know humour is highly subjective, but still.

 

[Populuxe]

The gag is "same-sex marriage", so the pun is replacing the word "sex" with a similar word along the... ugh... candy theme.

"Skittle" doesn't sound even close to "sex". Pez just works better.

No, it doesn’t work better because you lose the alliteration which is what the joke is centered around in the first place. This is why I don’t post in the Star Trek threads anymore even though I’m probably the biggest ST fan on this site. Your constant attitude of “They didn’t do it the way I would have done it therefore they’re wrong!” is just too much to deal with.

 

[Famine]

No, it doesn’t work better because you lose the alliteration which is what the joke is centered around in the first place.

As I said, pretty lazy. "Word begins with same letter" isn't enough to carry the pun.

This is why I don’t post in the Star Trek threads anymore even though I’m probably the biggest ST fan on this site. Your constant attitude of “They didn’t do it the way I would have done it therefore they’re wrong!” is just too much to deal with.

I mean, if you find other people's opinions on things you like so threatening that you withdraw from the world, that's more an issue for you.

Weird... everything, but okay.

 

[Populuxe]

I mean, if you find other people's opinions on things you like so threatening that you withdraw from the world, that's more an issue for you.

Weird... everything, but okay.

You haven’t read a word I’ve written on this site if you think I’m “threatened” by differing opinions. That’s just straight up projection. And withdrawing from toxic people isn’t weird. It’s healthy.

 

[Famine]

You haven’t read a word I’ve written on this site if you think I’m “threatened” by differing opinions.

Apparently you can't handle my opinions about Star Trek, so don't talk about Star Trek, despite being the self-proclaimed "probably the biggest ST fan on this site".

Sounds pretty threatened if you're changing your behaviour because someone else's opinions are "too much to handle".

That’s just straight up projection. And withdrawing from toxic people isn’t weird. It’s healthy.

Right now you're bitching at me for my opinion on someone's sense of humour and have used that as an excuse to unrelatedly bitch at me about my opinions about Star Trek (presumably my opinion that Discovery is a car crash; edit: apparently I haven't posted about ST in a year, so that's quite the grudge!) out of absolutely nowhere.

You're using my opinion about someone's sense of humour as an excuse to have a go at me for no reason for something unrelated to the thread. You're literally attacking me for something completely at random, without any provocation whatsoever...

I find "skittles" a pretty lazy wordplay for "sex", and as a result you launch into a personal tirade about Star Trek opinions.

toxic people ... straight up projection

Awks.

And if you think going out of your way specifically to attack me for no reason whatsoever in an unrelated thread is withdrawing, I suggest you don't understand the concept of withdrawing in addition to the concept of toxicity.

Withdraw further.

 

[Northstar]

The gag is "same-sex marriage", so the pun is replacing the word "sex" with a similar word along the... ugh... candy theme.

"Skittle" isn't even close to "sex". It's not got the same number of letters, the same sounds, the same number of syllables, or any similarity other than beginning with an "s". As a play on words, "Pez" just works better - right theme, right sounds, same syllables. I like Chex more because it's more similar in sound, but as a cereal it might not qualify - and it's not as universally known as Pez.

I know humour is highly subjective, but still.

I don't think he used Skittles as it was close to "sex" but rather because their marketing is centered around rainbows, which is obviously also a LGBTQ symbol.

Both candies are also owned by the same company, so the "slippery slope" aspect also works better.

 

[Famine]

I don't think he used Skittles as it was close to "sex" but rather because their marketing is centered around rainbows, which is obviously also a LGBTQ symbol.

Both candies are also owned by the same company, so the "slippery slope" aspect also works better.

True enough - I guess Starburst* might also fit all those marks too. As well as the hilarity of alliteration.

Snickers** not so much.


*OPAL FRUITS, DAMMIT!
**MARATHON, DAMMIT!

 

[Adamgp]

 

[Famine]

It's funny 'cos Crimea is labelled orange.

 

[ScottPuss20]

 

[Pupik]

Seems pretty lazy from Conan there. Should have at least thought hard enough about it to come up with "same-Pez marriage", and I'm sure there's better puns than that.

You're thinking of it from your perspective. Pez just isn't that big of a deal in America. It's just a little more obscure and you'd have to then explain "that candy where a head opens up at the neck, and slings out a piece of sugar pressed into a shape designed by a committee of soap and pharmaceutical companies."

In America, Pez is to Skittles as the Playmobil brand is to Lego. It's obscure in a sort of secondary way, like how Renault is a bit more forsaken on this continent than Volkswagen. It's still there, but there's zero marketing over here.

Sure, the word works for the joke in a half-rhyme way. But Skittles is big on the rainbow advertising for decades; it's imprinted onto a few generations of folks on these shores. Even our Smarties are different over here. They're more like an M&M over yonder (and to our neighbors to the north), while ours are more like a softer Pez nugget.

Conan is going to typically make jokes that aim for the audiences of Paris, Texas; Melbourne, Florida; Athens, Georgia; and Dover, Delaware. This was too long to type out for a terrible explanation of funny things that comment on pointlessly terrible excuses of distractions, and I am not a crackpot.

 

[Famine]

You're thinking of it from your perspective. Pez just isn't that big of a deal in America.

Honestly it's not even a thing here. As in, you can get it, but the last time I even heard the name before this month was on an episode of the Simpsons (which I haven't seen in 10 years) and before that - and I can clearly remember the entire situation and location - it was 1993

Apparently it was big in Seinfeld once. Ironically, having since looked it up, there were Star Trek Pez dispensers released in 2008