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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 81 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Like life would just "give" you lemons..

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I take them all the time

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

WHERE'S THAT LEMON STEALING WHORE

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

Unholy thoughts

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Anybody run him over with a zamboni yet?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When life rents you lemons...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You don’t buy lemonade, you rent it.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Give cave johnson the lemmons?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Make LIFE take the LEMONS BACK!"

[–] jkozaka@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The irony of Cave Johnson being the one saying this...

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As in JK Simmons voices that guy? I've never watched the show but suddenly I can hear his voice so vividly.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. JK Simmons voices both Omni-man, and the founder of Aperture Science from Portal, where he had a rant about Life giving you Lemons (and how he'd weaponize them by creating a combustible lemon)

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

After watching whiplash, I have a hard time seeing him and not hating his guts.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

How about the Legend of Whiplash?

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 66 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm just here to comment how nice it is to see semicolons used, and correctly used at that, in a meme. Sexy

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

That’s just what the Grammar Industrial Complex wants you to believe about their so-called punctuation.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

is it more correct here than a comma and why?

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

the explanation i received a long time ago in grade school was:

commas should be used when you want to combine a sentence with a sentence fragment (i.e. something that’s not a sentence); semicolons should be used when you want to combine a sentence with another sentence, provided both sentences are closely related to each other.

now, i’m sure the actual rule is probably more complicated and nuanced than that, but the above idea has served me well throughout my academic career. i’ve found it helpful for getting an intuition on when they should be used and why.

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[–] secret300 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bro I'm on acid rn and the fuckin face just freaked me out on the last panel

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Christ, I would think that the last thing you'd want to be doing on acid is browsing the internet where you can't be sure of what exactly you'll scroll across.

Maybe I'm vitally misunderstanding acid trips, but where's your trip guide/designated driver/sober buddy? Where's your pre-prepped/vetted media to keep you from a bad experience?

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

last acid trip consisted of me browsing Lemmy for many hours aswell, because my "trip guide" kinda bailed on me, but it still wasn't all that bad. Really, its all about the mindset, if you can convince yourself that everything is fine, it is.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

My last acid trip involved spending a night at a campsite. I'm not really sure how or why...we didn't have a camper...or a tent. We just found a patch of grass in a rather busy campground and tripped balls in the open all night.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Trip sitters and vetting content isn't required imo if u know yourself and how you react to drugs in general.

But building up the dosage slowly and having someone there for the first time is probably smart.

I'd also avoid taking an hour bike trip through a dark forest but hindsight is 20/20, theme parks are great fun on the other hand though.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago

Man reading the random weird shit I found online was a fun part of my trips, sooo many weird but interesting rabbit holes you find, it's like they're hidden slightly askew from reality.

[–] secret300 1 points 3 weeks ago

There is no trip sitter lol. The four of us just go on YouTube and find the funniest shit we can, go on a walk. Come back and watch a movie. And finish it all off with a tasteful selection of YouTube poop

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"When life gives you bitter oranges and citrons, make lemons."

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 weeks ago

The molecule responsible for orange and lemon flavours are just mirror images of each other.

https://www.adevos.science/optical-isomerism/

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Was half expecting a slightly more combustible take on lemons...

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean by "Citrons" that just means lemon in French and I've never heard it used in English.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For the lazy:

"A source of confusion is that 'citron' in French and English are false friends, as the French word 'citron' refers to what in English is a lemon; whereas the French word for the citron is 'cédrat'.
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Other languages that use variants of citron to refer to the lemon include Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Esperanto, Polish and the Scandinavian languages.[citation needed]"

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah just looked it up, and apparently a citron tree is called a sukade tree (sukadeboom) in Dutch, and the fruits are called ceder apples (cederappel) for some reason. I had heard of sukade before but had no idea it had anything to do with citrus.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Same reaction here, Zitrone in German is lemon.

But it seems this is an issue for many language pairs, they have a section on it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citron#Other_languages

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

Lemons are a social construct

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these!!!!

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

Make lemon-nades.

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

When life gives you lemons, look for a lemon stealing whore.

[–] XOXOX@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've never seen this cartoon, but this dude with the mustache has to be some Xer's top fantasy.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The show is called "Invincible" about a superhero with the same name, who is the son in the image. The father is patterned after Superman and is challenging.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

All lemons are GMOs.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We all got holes to fill
And them holes are all that's real
Some fall on you like a storm
Sometimes you dig your own

[–] pencil_nerd@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
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