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[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guys have you seen this sharpshooter from Turkey?

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Haha that's old news! Luckily I just found this new meme, so I can react to the comment.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

manly tear wells in my eye I remember this like it t'were yesterday... the newer generations of memers with their freshly minted terminology like skibado and 5 meme-levels deep hyper-meta self aware references today wouldn't appreciate the simplicity of the vintage pieces, but me? Bahck in my... dayyyyy. shudders with nostalgia and dementia Me gusta sir, me gusta. Keep the torch alive.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

tips le fedora

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

This is exactly why I use slowpoke as my avatar. It lets people know I'm a dumbass who's slow on the uptake lmao

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

No but I saw a real badass one from South Korea!

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

~~...I don't know who these people are.~~

Normally I'm the chronically online one, LOL!

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The people don’t matter as much as the message of the meme. But for future reference that’s Kamala Harris the democratic nominee for United States president and her husband Doug Emhoff.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was pretty sure that was Kamala but the dude threw me and I was trying to figure out if he was the prospective VP.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Nah, Governor Walz is the one who is 4 months older than her, looks 20 years older and is about 5 years cooler 😁

[–] variants@possumpat.io 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait what, I though the dude was like 70

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, only 60 lol. I was surprised as hell too!

[–] localme@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: he’s younger than Brad Pit!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Holy shit, that's true! 😮

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One of my nurse mentors years ago used to say "city miles hit harder than highway miles" and both military service AND the chronic physical and behavioral conditions it often results in definitely count as "city miles" for the purposes of this analogy! On a similar note my sister with several developmental and metabolic disorders is almost 40 but looks 55+. She went salt-n-pepper gray just a little after the age of 25.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I know, right? The more I read about him the more I like. I've worked with a looot of disabled veterans who get treated like trash once they get out so it's nice to see someone put their money where their mouth is.

A lot of people, esp right-wingers, will say shit like they want to support veterans instead of all these moochers on public assistance and drug addicts and I often struggle to convince them that that venn diagram is damn near a fucking circle.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Can confirm, family business. From the minute you walk into MEPS till the VA you are just a serial number piece of meat. Anyone who fights for better vet treatment gets a solid 👍 in my book. Some of those “drug addict moochers” had more medals than cloth on the uniform when it came time to clean out the closet but who cares about that after they come home right

[–] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

Not pictured: Doug's brother Jack

(I know it's painfully unoriginal, but I do what I want in this absurd world and I cannot be stopped)

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be the FGOTUS? He'd be the first gentleman, not the first lady.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First Lad of the United States.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago
[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Technically, yeah, but that's much harder to pronounce.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fuh-goat-us

Simple pronunciation, we better get to practicing so we're used to it.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Both of em?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just say it aloud couple times and you find a bassoon.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I feel like that would only make sense if there was a vowel between the two that was a u or similar vowel, so it would really be more "fig-otus." That said, I'm with @MJKee9@lemmy.world in thinking it should definitely be a voiceless pharyngeal fricative. Wikipedia offers the h in horrible as an example, and in french (our instance's other primary language), the r in faire.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Chug a glass of milk before trying to pronounce it....helps a ton!

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who finds the OTUS acronyms kinda funky? I prefer to just say US President or Supreme Court or First Lady.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I'm wondering if it's maybe an attempt to be less US-centric?

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never questioned who was In a meme I was content thinking they were randos as usual

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

honestly I mostly sent it to him because normally he's the one who doesn't know, but the fact that he knew and I didn't just spun my head right round (I needed that though, I've had the month off and my thought patterns were getting a little too rigid). Also though I forgot he's still warming his toes on the dumpster fire that's left of twitter.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That facial expression is gold lol

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

HBO was advertising Veep when Biden withdrew. I bring it up because in addition to the obvious plot parallels that's the most Julia Louis-Dreyfus expression I've ever seen.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago

And the tweet being shared is 2 days old in the screenshot too.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Me showing a friend the number of downloads for an open source library that I published.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Vice President and Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris with Doug

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