this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
709 points (98.6% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

26670 readers
3022 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
all 38 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 17 hours ago

This is actually a very good way of dealing with people in an emotional state: Say something so off the fucking wall and irrelevant that it snaps people out of it.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damm I never considered that. I always thought it was a drink

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro maybe if you weren't so prejudiced you'd be willing to accept that women can be beverages

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Times are changing too fast for me. I grew up in a world where it was Mr. Coke and Ms. Pepsi.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

honestly, this is not a terrible idea

if you see someone at the verge of a panic attack that means they're fully in their head spiraling - you can try to calm them down the normal way, but you can also try to force them out of their own head and ground them by saying something weird, ideally a question so their mind can latch onto it. It won't always work, but it might shock them just the right amount to ground them!

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The idea of someone just sobbing then you come up and yell "WHATS THE OPPOSITE OF YELLOW ON A RUBIKS CUBE!?!?" at them is so funny to me.
I think it'd probably work on me.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Don't yell if you don't want to get assaulted. Some of us are having flashbacks with our panic attacks.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

WHATS THE OPPOSITE OF YELLOW ON A RUBIKS CUBE!?!?

White.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was told that one way to help a young child break out of a tantrum is to ask them an odd question, something like "What color shoes are you wearing?" It does seem to work sometimes, usually by annoying them so much that they forget what they were upset about in the first place. I can well see it working for someone who needs to get out of a mental spiral.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I was actually asked this as a kid while on the verge of a meltdown, it annoyed me so much it pushed me over the edge and I responded with throwing a chair. I then started swearing and looking for anything that could be used as a melee weapon, I settled for a table. So yeah your mileage may vary when it comes to autistic kids on that one.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Oof, yeah I could see how that could happen. I guess you really should know the kid before trying something like that. I usually find that making mine laugh is enough to start to reset them, and then helping them calm down is a lot easier. Also, a question like that is definitely for small kids, not those who can fling furniture.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I was 7 or 8, but that didnt matter too much since I had already started puberty.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the "make an angry child laugh" trick. Which I absolutely loathed as a child, because it worked but it also wasn't taking my emotions seriously.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

Sometimes their emotions have gone so far past reasonable that the first thing you need to do is bring them back to the point you can actually reason with them. After that, yes it's really vital to take their emotions seriously, they need to understand them and trust that the people around them will take them seriously, but they also haven't yet built the skills to moderate their own feelings, so sometimes you need to add those externally.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

I get that everyone's shit posting here, but the answer is that it's believed Dr. Pepper as a name might be directly referencing an actually Dr. who lived in the area the drink was invented in, but we're honestly not sure about that at all

Its entirely possible that it was called that because it was sold in pharmacies and was "spicy" (thus Dr. Pepper), or another alternative I've heard is basically that idea but it has caffeine so it meant Dr. Speed, basically

All that to say: Dr. Pepper is gender fluid, dipshits, I'll see myself out

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why Mr. Pibb emphasized clarity to avoid misgendering. He actually has a Ph. D. in archaeology, but made the humble choice to still go by Mr.

What a stand-up guy.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they came out as Xtra a long time ago, so you are, indeed, misgendering Pibb Xtra.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Xtra is a gender?

Fuck I have a lot of forms to update because that's clearly my gender.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WTF?!? I've always thought of Dr Pepper as the looking like the Pringles man cos playing as an old timey doctor. You know: mustache, bowtie, head mirror and lab coat. Dr Pepper is married to another doctor though, Dr Pepper Cherry. All the other men in the neighborhood wants her. The Peppers have one child, who's going through a rough patch, dealing with a negative self image, never being as good as his parents, and anorexia. Child's name is Dr Pepper Light.

Dr. Pepper has a brother too. The brother got into some stupid shit and didn't finish high school. Now he lives in a trailer park, trying to prove to everyone he's just as good as his brother, but everyone thinks of him as a redneck drunk on account of his last name. He goes by the name Root Beer. His wife's name is Ginger, she's a hottie from Jamaica.

So how dare you question my world view? Hey would you look at that my panic attack is gone. Now I just have a hard on, a can of cherry pepper and a wish to mix it with some ginger beer and rum. I call the drink a "drunk ffm".

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Yea his name is Ron

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many licks does it take to discover Dr. Pepper's gender?

The world may never know.

[–] python@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

That unironically might work tho Like getting their mind off of the current thought spiral can be pretty helpful sometimes

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pretty sure Dr. Pepper's pronouns are so/da, no need to assume their gender

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you meant to write "da gender" ; )

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm so gender, I'm da gender.

[–] Jobe 11 points 1 day ago

I've always thought of Dr Pepper as either a can or a company, never a person, let alone specifically enough to have a gender.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

When I first saw this I realized I had assumed Dr. Pepper (beyond the drink) was a man, but I think for me it was because as a kid I remember commercials with a deep voiced man and my dumb kid brain thought that was the doctor.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 8 points 1 day ago

Dr. Pepper is actually Kurisu Makise

[–] Fox@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

Dr. Pepper's pronouns are we/us, because 🎵 Dr. Pepper you're a part of me 🎵

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Dr Pepper is obviously a middle aged plum in a lab coat.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago