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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Only went back for a month, because Jesus Christ that’s a lot of references to me. In the process I gained a lot of material for this comm, so that’s something, I guess?

Blew up my two favorites of “He sounds like my history professor >:(” and “Why would you do democracy???? PugJesus moment”

Sorry for it being sloppy, I don’t find their attention as novel as I did the first time, so I just used MS Paint instead. Reuploaded for night-mode/readability (hopefully)

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...are you a history professor IRL?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Nah, not even close. I was only an undergrad History major, and that was near a decade ago now.

But I'm flattered to be compared to the men and women I so admired and endeavored to learn from back in college!

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was banned from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com for "pugjesus posting". You're loved on the zero as well

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

If living rent-free in people's heads was a viable replacement for renting an apartment, I'd be in much better financial straits

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

"YOU SOUND JUST LIKE A PROFESSOR, HUFF!"

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Oh, and the original from around late 2023 or someshit:

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[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

the one about wishing for you to go to ukraine and die sounds oddly personal lol

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think I figured out why Cowbee thinks you misgendered him. I think he took the Peter Parker meme as referring to him. So Peter saying they is offensive to him.

in other words, he took this meme personally lol

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

They are... something else...

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s some serious rent free living Pug! Enjoying the digs?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Too small to be comfortable

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

PugJesus is a national treasure.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

With how much they obsess about me, apparently the tankies agree!