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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I happens as a Brit too. Recently I casually used the phrase "use your loaf" around some North Americans. I then had to explain that loaf = loaf of bread = head. They were like "why" and then I had to try to explain the concept of Cockney Rhyming Slang, and then there was a barrage of questions about the origin of Cockney Rhyming Slang and all the other examples. I don't know, I'm not even Cockney!

[–] markhepburn@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until they learn the origin of "seppo"

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

Amazing. Love it.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I once used the phrase "put some mustard on their custard" and got some pretty strange looks

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I worked in the states, my team bought me a superman flag so I could wave the S-flag whenever I was being sarcastic. Because otherwise they wouldn't spot it.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Americans being amazed that non-Americans are not American is still a reliable trope.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

The only thing we do with a load is pinch it. And I don't mean steal...

As for rhyming slang, just... how? Lots of things rhyme with so many other things and syllables apparently don't even matter (see apples and pears).