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edit: derp I'm an idiot and misread, leaving this here so the page starts with a picture at least
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Ah, so is "unit" slang for something in England or is the joke just he is a really fat dude and "Absolute Unit" is a pretty funny way to describe said fat dude? Just wondering if it's working on any different level besides the obvious one.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 20:41 |
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jesusssssssss
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 20:41 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ah, so is "unit" slang for something in England or is the joke just he is a really fat dude and "Absolute Unit" is a pretty funny way to describe said fat dude? Just wondering if it's working on any different level besides the obvious one. what the gently caress lol
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 20:45 |
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it means buff but was used ironically in that tweet because the dude is fat and not buff it's funny
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 20:59 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ah, so is "unit" slang for something in England or is the joke just he is a really fat dude and "Absolute Unit" is a pretty funny way to describe said fat dude? Just wondering if it's working on any different level besides the obvious one. It's england, so "unit" probably has something to do with the Great War
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 20:59 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:edit: derp I'm an idiot and misread, leaving this here so the page starts with a picture at least Wow. Ya know, this is not what I was expecting for my first time seeing a space marine out of armor.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:00 |
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:07 |
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Worm. Worm never changes
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:10 |
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hawowanlawow posted:it means buff but was used ironically in that tweet because the dude is fat and not buff Might be slightly different in NZ, but AFAIK it never specifically meant muscular, just big, bulky, solid, etc. So fairly applied to the dude in that meme however I'm 99% sure that poster was just trolling and not asking sincerely
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:12 |
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oh lawd
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:17 |
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I didn't know Wilson Fisk knew the queen, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:27 |
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:27 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ah, so is "unit" slang for something in England or is the joke just he is a really fat dude and "Absolute Unit" is a pretty funny way to describe said fat dude? Just wondering if it's working on any different level besides the obvious one. Learn some measurement, goddamn
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:30 |
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This is my favorite one
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:37 |
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absolute unit is a meta commentary on the kelvin vs. celsius debate which is absurd because we all know rankine is a more intuitive system of measurement and furthermore comma
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:40 |
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losers the lot of you, real men use the skin burning test. You simply hold your finger in the liquid in question and judge it's temperature on how long it takes the blisters to form.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:46 |
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lmfao
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Drone_Fragger posted:losers the lot of you, real men use the skin burning test. You simply hold your finger in the liquid in question and judge it's temperature on how long it takes the blisters to form. Real men absolutely use their unit.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:53 |
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:02 |
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Did someone take a picture of their phone, print it on dry-wall they then busted up, and take a picture of that?
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:18 |
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marshmallow creep posted:Did someone take a picture of their phone, print it on dry-wall they then busted up, and take a picture of that? not to mention, scratch the names out with a knife?
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:19 |
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Anybody who can't appreciate Guy Fieri's boundless enthusiasm for delicious garbage has no soul
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:27 |
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He eats things that we crave, but are too hungover to eat. He eats these things so that we might live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPKuKvo44k
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:38 |
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At least Guy Fierie never paid an underage sexual assault victim to keep quiet.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:52 |
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Ferrule posted:At least Guy Fierie never paid an underage sexual assault victim to keep quiet. How would you know if she kept quiet?
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:54 |
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Ferrule posted:At least Guy Fierie never paid an underage sexual assault victim to keep quiet. We've been over this in another thread, that was made up
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 22:57 |
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Paladinus posted:How would you know if she kept quiet? It was a boy hawowanlawow posted:We've been over this in another thread, that was made up No it wasn't.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:05 |
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Thanks everyone that answered. I now know exactly how funny the "Absolute Unit" joke is. For those that skipped over it, it is funny because the guy was fat and "Absolute Unit" means something is big in England. That also explains why it was getting used on other large round things as well.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:13 |
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Ferrule posted:It was a boy What was/wasn’t made up?
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:18 |
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Randaconda posted:
How can it be anyone's favorite? They misspelled Ewenit.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:21 |
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Ferrule posted:It was a boy No, how do you know if Fiery paid anyone, if they actually kept quiet? He might have, we're just not aware of it yet.
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:40 |
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Paladinus posted:No, how do you know if Fiery paid anyone, if they actually kept quiet? He might have, we're just not aware of it yet. Freedom of Information
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# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:46 |
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:How can it be anyone's favorite? They misspelled Ewenit. it's clearly a ram, you buffoon. you complete wally.
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# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:08 |
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I have it in record that Guy cooks and eats hookers.
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# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:09 |
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bike tory posted:" I'm not so sure that "absolute unit" is not a variant of a term started back in the 90s. Seattle Mariners pitcher, Randy Johnson, was referred to as "The Big Unit" during the baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians. I like Great Lakes ships, btw, pics related:
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# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:10 |
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quote:"Absolute" is a British slang term used in so-called "lad culture" to mean "total" (e.g. Absolute Madman). The tweet gained over 3,500 retweets and 13,000 likes (shown below). Thanks, knowyourmeme!
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# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:24 |
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Like someone earlier in the thread said, just do a GIS for "oh lawd" cuz it doesn't matter if the older southern generations use it regardless of race in polite society, words mean what they're used for, it's how language works, and apparently these days in the context of memes it's being mainly used on Mammy memes and at least one meme of a black dude holding a bunch of watermelons going OH LAWDS IS I IN HEAVEN Walling off the N-word and making it so no one was allowed to use it without being an rear end in a top hat DIDN'T WORK. It remained powerful and damaging decades after polite society stopped using it. Reclaiming the N-word so only black people could use it without being an rear end in a top hat also hasn't worked. It has muddled things so everyone is getting their feelings hurt about having a word only some people are allowed to use. And when the racists use it it is still as powerful as ever. The N-word remains toxic waste to this day, and into the foreseeable future. It's an ugly word and we'd all be better off if it didn't exist. It's going to sit there with F****t and a few others super toxic words until the end of time. Moving more words into the toxic waste dump won't reduce racism or the hurt experienced by vulnerable populations. I firmly believe that letting 'marginal' words fade into general slang does more to drain the power from then than walling them off so only the racists and their victims are allowed to use them. Slapping a "THESE ARE THE RACIST WORDS" label on them makes them more powerful, not less powerful. Example: oval office. 20 years ago I would have only referred to that as the C-word because it was a super toxic slur . . . in North America. The along comes the internet and the auzzies and brits throwing around oval office like it's nothing. Because to them it is nothing. I still wouldn't use it myself, but now it is a lot less shocking and powerful than it was 20 years ago. But this is the funny pictures thread not the pedantic language thread, so here's some offensive pictures of Jesus. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:55 |
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I WANT TO BELIEVE
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lmao this owns
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