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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You absolute winner

You absolute king

You absolute beast

Im bad at this

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No you're not you absolute gummy bear

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

You guys are absolute stars!

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Absolute winner and absolute beast are common compliments in my social group.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You absolute textbook.

Yeah, you.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How dare you say that? you absolute toothpaste

[–] M0115732@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I think his name is based on "Harvey Dent", and not "dentistry" you absolute dolphin

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

Thank... You...?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

You absolute sith.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Weird how one of the strongest Jedi in history "just didn't notice a Sith Lord corrupting the whole fuckin Galactic Senate"

"He trained Like though?"

Yeah, just like Palpatine wanted, so he could get a newer, younger model.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well the prequels were supposed to be more of a condemnation of the original Jedi order. The Jedi were supposed to be these hypocritical religious zealots and Anakin was supposed to be drawn to the darkside because of that hypocrisy. It's why he was "too old" to train because they wanted tiny minds to indoctrinate.

All of this culminates into that penultimate line by Obi-Wan. It's illustrating that hypocrisy.

However Lucas has the directing chops and subtlety of cocaine bear and this all went flat. You see this more watching deleted scenes and reading some of the side content.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"You [...]" makes pretty much anything an insult.

A positive word implies sarcasm. "You genius". "You hero".

A random noun drags out the negative aspect of the noun or implies lack of a brain. "You french fry". "You paper bag".

Adding a random adjective just strengthens the statement. "You british bathroom sink". "You beautiful parking lot".

Of couse it depends on delivery, and using random words makes some strange insults, but I rarely see "you [...]" turn into a positive compliment.

[–] 24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

You Beautiful parking lot

This sounds like something Leslie Knope would call Ann Perkins.

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago

I'll take "beautiful parking lot" as a compliment and there is nothing you can do about it

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

“You genius” sounds like a compliment to me. A “funny” compliment. Would it be taken as sarcasm in the US? It really depends the tone I guess but in Australian english I wouldnt interpret it as sarcasm.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Context and tone matters.

"Hey, I figured out a way to cut our EC2 needs and scaled down, saving us a ton of money." "You genius!"

vs.

"Ummm.... I accidentally left half a dozen m8g.16xlarge nodes running... for the last four months." "You... fucking genius."

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Get out of here, you absolute integer.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a non-negative thing to say.

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's only natural to say it

[–] Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hey, get real

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Equally if you write the word "totally" in front of any noun it means drunk.

"I'm totally suitcased"

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

That's not a noun, is it.

Could be a system daemon process though.

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You absolute strawberry plant

You absolute fishtank

You absolute houseplant

Yeah, this checks out

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Close!

This has been a Brit thing for a decade or so, particularly Scots and Northern English. The idea is to use a noun that could already be a slightly insulting word to start with, like 'potato' in the example

You absolute donkey

You absolute cabbage

You absolute bin-bag

You absolute Belgian

Etc etc

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On a similar note, with an "absolutely" and a word ending in "ed", you get words which mean "very inebriated/stoned"

Common

  • absolutely battered
  • absolutely blathered
  • absolutely pissed
  • absolutely wankered
  • absolutely trolleyed
  • absolutely shitfaced
  • absolutely twatted

Less common

  • absolutely potatoed
  • absolutely cultured
  • absolutely traffic coned
  • absolutely fishcaked
  • absolutely Belgianed
  • absolutely bin-bagged
  • absolutely cabbaged
  • absolutely Tobleroned
[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

"absolutely" in this context can be replaced by "pure" if you're a weegie

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Absolute unit.

Whoops, I broke it.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Almost any adjective works. It's the 'you' part that implies ire and intended denigration.

You incredible sock! You blind carrot! You empty bottle! You missing tooth! You complete thumb! You glazed pie! You stewed milk! You wet sandwich! You frosted toenail! You waxy discharge! You nauseous chifferobe!

Okay maybe not every one of them works but I think most of the time you can just put on a bad attitude and attach a adjective to an object to create some rare insults.

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[–] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

You absolute value

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't have given me this new power you absolute pork tenderloin!

I love it! Lol

[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Foods definitely work best, you absolute Dorito.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Don't be so sure about that, you absolute budgerigar.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

you absolut vodka

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've watched all of the Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares series and it's full of these, except it's usually fuckin' instead of absolute.

My favorite is when after having lunch he went back to the kitchen to find they were just microwaving everything. The exchange went something like this:

"Did I have anything for lunch that wasn't microwaved?"

"your salad"

"Of course you don't microwave a salad you fuckin' donut"

Edit

Found the clip at 1:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5eX9q3k9A

[–] lmaydev@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's a very British thing. Like adding "ed" to anything to mean very drunk. Hammered, trollied, steamed, cunted etc.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago

You absolute absolute

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

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[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

And add absolutely to the front of almost anything to describe how pissed you were. I was absolutely trousered/shedded/etc

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

You absolute noun

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Too much absolutism in this thread.

[–] babybus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Good, good.

[–] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

This is absolute Reddit shit.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Common insult in germany for people being too stereotypically german. Used it on multiple occasions :D

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You absolute water bottle

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