this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
813 points (100.0% liked)

memes

15846 readers
2684 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 27 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I heard if you bring your dick out he leaves you alone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's got a Frank Herbert's "The White Plague" vibe. A solution for half the population, but what about the other half?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The spirit will accept "Tits out for Harambee" if a dick is unavailable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

but what about the other half?

let thanos have it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait to be 75 years old and hear about Harambe and just instinctively yell 'DICKS OUT FOR HARAMBE'

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

"DICKS OUT FOR HARAMBE!"

Grandchild: "there goes his Alzheimer's again"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Haha imagine the narwhal is still beacon in 50 years 😂😂😂😎

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Harambe was not a monkey though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, you don't think that's going to make him more vengeful, do you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Apes are territorially vigilant and can defend it,but they do not seek out conflict unbidden

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm so glad my language doesn't distinguish between apes and monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of when I got into an argument with my English teacher in highschool. On a test we had to translate some words from Dutch to English, and she marked me down because I translated "aap" as "ape" intead of "monkey". I had to remind her that the movie "Planet of the Apes" exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Landgenoot bedoel je wellicht ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It’s also convenient it shares that one cognate phrase with english

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Hey, you better take this meme and throw it in the fucking trash. Harambe was a gentle and kind soul. Gorilla was his final incarnation and his soul now rests in nirvana.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

dicks out for the vengeful spectre of harambe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine the disaster we could've averted if they hadn't shot Harambe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The entire simulation was a test, and we failed. Now we’re just in the cleanup phase as God sends us ever-escalating sigkill signals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you for making it an old.reddit link. If I "have" to go to reddit, at least it's old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TECHNICALLY INCORRECT BY MODERN STANDARDS

Cladistically apes are old world monkeys, as a branch of Simiiformes/Simians.

In casual conversation and scientific tradition, most people prefer to maintain a distinction between the two groups because they're referring to family characteristics and, in the greater social subtext, human ancestry. There is no actual scientific basis for excluding apes from the label of monkey beyond humanity's desire to feel special and to make evolution deniers feel dumb.

That said, that's a valid reason to continue using the distinction. If they try to argue the point just point out that they're admitting to the existence of evolution in doing so.

Tl;Dr all apes are now considered monkeys, but not all monkeys are apes