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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do not do if they are black though.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably not the best idea if you are black, either.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With ring cameras, you could become a legend.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh god why am I creating an entire super-racist holiday with even more racist traditions in my head

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It would only be racist if it was a white guy leaving watermelon gifts on black porches.

If it were a black guy leaving watermelons on black porches, Afro-American solstice fruit Santa. It would become racist again if white people tried to participate by leaving stereotypical black cultural gift offerings akin to milk and cookies for Santa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it would be racist if white people tried to participate

“Racially insensitive,” perhaps, but just trying to participate in someone’s culture is usually pro-social. Only as a form of mockery would I call that racist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hence the leaving of "stereotypical black cultural gifts". You can imagine what white people would leave as a gift for a black person, that they only understand from popular culture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Afro-American solstice fruit Santa

lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Every Jan 16th black people give a watermelon to the honkies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

or Jewish apparently

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or do this and save a few bucks.
One day out of the blue, I received a text message, "Dude... I just received my 13lb block of cheese!!"

No idea who sent it. Wasn't even an area code I recognized. But 10 years later, my wife and I still reference it. That one text has taken top-tier residence in my brain, and the person who sent it didn't need to go to the store to buy watermelons or go out at night making deliveries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Did you at least send "Nice." back? That's an impressive amount of cheese.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

For a while a friend of mine would occasionally buy a bunch of muffins from the grocery store, put googly eyes on them, and drive around town leaving ones at random doorsteps.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

“Oh look, somebody on drugs left a watermelon on my porch”

People who are up at 3 am underestimate the experiential variety of people on a regular schedule.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe in 2012 grocery prices buddy. Not now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What does a banana even cost, $10?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You won't believe it, it's bananas!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there some copypasta about someone leaving a pineapple on their bully's step and driving them mad

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a How I Met Your Mother plotline

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How I Met Your Mother was a polular american sitcom from ~ the mid 2000's to the early 2010's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

good to know, thanks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

And if you leave an axe in it, you'll occupy the whole neighborhood's minds for some time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aka the HIMYM pineapple on the nightstand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Call the offices of James P Alibini and see of they handle hate crimes first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think Durians would be more memorable, especially if you smash them a bit and let them start rotting before you drop them off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I've pondered frozen hot dogs. You can get a pack of 36 and whip'em from your car into recipients' homes and driveways. If you don't actually break anything you minimize how much anyone else will care, and you might force them to decide whether to whine to the cops/courts about vandal hot dogs or just relish their new reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

But then I'll have one less watermelon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd just assume it was for somebody else, wrong address, and leave it.

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

This is sort of relevant if you've got an hour to sit and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNPmTZQySk