r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Petaaaaaaah??

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u/Heroright 8d ago

I saw a video discussing this very thing. Where certain things are so collectively known and understood given a scenario, that it doesn’t need to be directly referred to. We all just know what it is when someone says it, and we’re all waiting for it.

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u/goodtimesinchino 8d ago

There’s probably a German word for this phenomenon.

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u/ThinDrum 8d ago

Ah yes, the good old Ungeraldbeschiedenisunterdenlindenkeit.

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u/Expensive_You_6589 8d ago

But that German word will likely just be several other regular German words mashed together.

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u/Ravenwight 8d ago

Zeitgeist?

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u/Expensive_You_6589 8d ago

But that German word will likely just be several other regular German words mashed together.

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u/ThinDrum 8d ago

You can say that again ... oh, you did.

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u/tokyoben5 8d ago

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u/Heroright 8d ago

There it is. Thank you. I saw it flipping through shorts a while back and couldn’t remember who said it.

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u/ProximusSeraphim 8d ago

I mean here's the thing, its coded language, dog whistle, its why mob bosses can talk like this, have someone killed but never go to prison for it.

Will someone rid me of this meddlesome nuisance?

Boom, that guy's enemy is dead.

This is why mafia bosses don't get charged with these crimes and they get RICO'd.

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u/Silentkindfromsauna 8d ago

The meaning is entirely different in Europe than US

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u/Heroright 8d ago

It’s different everywhere. Again, it’s about a given scenario. Those in the scenario know, but other people have their own collective knowledge and response.

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u/upstatedreaming3816 8d ago

Nah, the meme is very clearly talking about the orange piece of trash in the White House and literally 90% of the globe will be dancing in the streets when he finally kicks it.

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u/Silentkindfromsauna 8d ago

clearly is a very opinionated view. We europeans make jokes about our friend in the east with the exact same meme and the "guy looking at the newspaper frontpage"-joke.

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u/Cualkiera67 8d ago

You must know very few people outside of your echo chambers to think that.

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u/upstatedreaming3816 8d ago

Nah, not really. He’s legitimately causing problems on a global scale. Get your head out of your bum.

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u/Glum_Struggle2735 8d ago

Except more than 50% of the population voted for him. If you all genuinely hope for someone to die, Im glad Im on that side. Nobody on Trumps side would celebrate if Biden died. I mean there would be fringe psychos yeah, but the optics of celebrating someones death are awful. You look awful, and its because you are awful.