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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You get paid $5000 per day for the rest of your life (matching inflation), but the American Kitchen Nightmares editors get to omnisciently and in real time control the sound effects in your life. Only you hear them, but you can never tune them out. Do you accept?

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I guess I'll just cry through the sound effects with the $1.8 million dollars a year I'll have.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

waterphone intensifies as you dab your tears with $100 bills

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only about $1.2 million after taxes though.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Can I invoice them from my LLC instead of taking out a salary?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's gonna be weird during sex

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'll just have to turn up the volume on Cbat.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

You pull it out, ready to go. She pulls out hers, and its bigger. kitchen nightmares sus sound effect plays

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

violin sting

Do it like me and just dont find a partner. Problem solved.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't watch the show. What kind of sounds/music are we dealing with here?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Here's an exaggerated tasting platter for you. I'll add that it's not that exaggerated (except for the boom at 1:36; I never heard that in the show).

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not the gonna lie, if the ominous music starts BEFORE I make a mistake or do something dumb in my everyday life, it would actually be helpful lol. The boom would work after dropping an epic response to win an argument, although I'll be the only one to hear it. The pump-up music would also be great when I need an adrenaline push.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, even if it plays while the shit hits the fan it would be pretty helpful - i'm not the best at reading social cues.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"My Ramsay senses are tingling."

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago

Internal monologue switches to "I'm an Idiot Sandwich."

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I wasn’t sure what the deal was until I saw this and was inclined to say no but now I’m sold, I don’t even want the money.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I can block the sounds by wearing headphones I would take it in a heartbeat but even if I cant block them, well, I would still do it because I have tinnitus 🤷

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a purely psychological thing inside your brain; it will cut through the tinnitus. You can't loophole your way around it; you have to hear the sounds at the same noticeable volume a person with normal hearing would.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

I guess, I ll suffer with the money and wipe my tears with it. 🥲

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Yes I want a home in California big enough for a family. I don’t see any other way of accomplishing that.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

waterphone noise

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

How about I reach out to the editors and offer them 80% of that money to not play any sound effects? Though the interpretation of the editors in question being humans implies they will still know everything about my life in realtime, and I'm not sure I'd take that kind of sacrifice

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Time to go clean the deep fridge

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah, there's one in there already. Thanks, though!

Edit: on -> in

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The first time I robotripped using delsym instead of Robitussin I didn't think about how delsym lasts way longer. I woke up the next day still tripping and went into my retail job, hoping to hide out in a quiet corner until it passed.

Of course that was the day the regional manager was visiting the store and I had to give them a tour of my department for some reason.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 2 months ago

In the Netherlands, they take celebrating carnaval very seriously. Nobody walks straight the Monday after carnaval. Still, they forced a guy to come in on that Monday. The guy was there, at 8 am. There went to work straight from the bar, undefined stains on his clothes, smelling of beer and cigarettes, shedding small amounts of confetti when he went for coffee, but he was there. Nothing much productive was done that day. How management thought it would turn out any differently is anyone's guess.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you give a good tour tho

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't get fired, so I guess so!

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe regional manager was stoned too.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 2 months ago

Definitely a possibility. I did catch several store managers smoking weed in the parking lot (as I smoked weed in the parking lot)

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Happened to my girlfriend. She was back to working in a doughnut shop after it was closed for cleaning a few days, when a reporter burst in the back with a camera crew. She said the shop had the lowest health score in Colorado Springs and how she felt being open again. All she could think was 'I just fucking work here.'

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why was there a camera crew there? Were the donuts exceptionally amazingly newsworthy in spite of the dismal health rating?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 2 months ago

Because having a shitty health rating is something people want and deserve to know about.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember in high school one day, about noon, I shared a fat spliff with friends. I completely forgot I had to meet with the principal professor and my parents at 13 to discuss my behaviour. They were not convinced

[–] Doug@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

His brother did worse things than pot, he'd be fine with it.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Dude's worked in the restaurant industry all his life, he probably wouldn't hire a sober dishwasher.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

He can't fire his brother though

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"So you know it's wrong but you do it anyways?" - Gordon

"Hehheh, life." - Some random kitchen worker