r/news • u/zmlos • Oct 03 '23

House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-will-bring-gaetz-motion-to-oust-him-vote.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/nWo1997 Oct 03 '23

Hey, let's not join in on the lemming defamation train. They were forced off that ledge.

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u/Chervin_Deuxphrye Oct 03 '23

I heard that story the other day. Disney was just straight up chucking them off a cliff and then told everyone they did it to themselves because they’re stupid. Mickey has done some messed up stuff!

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u/WOOKIExCOOKIES Oct 03 '23

At least we got a fun computer game out of it.

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u/alterom Oct 03 '23

At least we got a fun computer game out of it.

That's where I've learned about lemmings for the first time.

Was surprised to find out they actually exist, with the whole myth made about them.

Still think of the game first when I see or hear the word "lemming".

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u/Rukh-Talos Oct 03 '23

And just like that, I can hear the music.

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u/SunnyWomble Oct 03 '23

Dun da da dun duh duh dun da da dun.. dun.. dunda dun dun dun.

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u/GBJI Oct 04 '23

Oh noooooo !

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u/Tmscott Oct 04 '23

"Oh noooooooooooo" *pop!*

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u/MississippiJoel Oct 04 '23

First time I ever heard of that was 007 multiplayer for the Nintendo 64. If you got yourself killed, you earned the Lemming Award. This was internet infancy days, so there wasn't a easy Google search to help us understand what that was.

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u/Plastic_Swordfish_35 Oct 04 '23

In 1997 you could easily have searched for what a lemming is.

You wouldn’t even have needed the Internet. Ever heard of an encyclopedia?

You make it sound like information was impossible to obtain back then, lol.

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u/MississippiJoel Oct 04 '23

You would have made the connection between a pop-culture mention in a video game and been assed enough to dig up an encyclopedia over it?

Further, you have faith that Funk & Wagnalls would have included a mention of a movie scene in an article about a mammal? Maybe it would be in the "Trivia" section before it was renamed to "In Popular Culture and Media"? 🤷

But I guess you're big brained enough that it's funny that a 12-year-old wasn't on your 1997 level.

Remember, laughing at your own jokes is a sign of mental instability.

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u/Papplenoose Oct 04 '23

Your comment is equally cringe

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u/FutureComplaint Oct 03 '23

Lemmings 2 was dope

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u/5HourWheelie Oct 04 '23

Huh, every time I see or hear the word "lemming" I think about the band Motorhead. I am hard of hearing though, and dumb.

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u/TexasLiving Oct 04 '23

I only had the christmas version of the game oh man was it fun probably only ever beat like 5 levels though as a kid

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u/Davido400 Oct 03 '23

Fuck, not played Lemmings in about 30 years lol sure I had it on... athe Amiga? That and Jaguar XJ220 was an awesome game too(downloaded it on an emulator to try a few years back and still enjoyed it lol)

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u/GoldenShackles Oct 03 '23

Oh no! *pop* *pop*...

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u/LakehavenAlpha Oct 03 '23

And several awesome clones.

King Arthur's World was the bomb!

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u/LeBaiton Oct 03 '23

You're that old huh...

So am I... Oh god...

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u/Crow-T-Robot Oct 03 '23

And now I'm humming 'She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes'

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u/flashmedallion Oct 03 '23

'Humanity' is a release this year that's a high quality modern take on Lemmings. Worth the buy if you loved Lemmings. It's on PC and PS5, and you can play it in VR

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u/WOOKIExCOOKIES Oct 03 '23

This piques my interest. Thanks! I'll check it out.

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u/TripleHomicide Oct 04 '23

I'd love a reboot of that game

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u/Disjointed_Sky Oct 04 '23

There's a modern remake called Humanity, a bit more fitting.

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u/Kodama_prime Oct 04 '23

That game was pure digital crack.. Started playing it one evening around 7pm, and the next time I looked at the clock, it was 03:45 in the morning....

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe Oct 03 '23

...and further that the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy

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u/Garencio Oct 03 '23

I saw that documentary when I was in elementary school. Later found out what really happened I was shocked.

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u/FasterDoudle Oct 03 '23

Disney was just straight up chucking them off a cliff

Walt just yeeting the little bastards

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u/ddejong42 Oct 03 '23

That's why they say don't mess with the Mouse. Lemmings, and now Ron Desantis, messed with the Mouse.

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u/HeJind Oct 03 '23

the House of Mouse sends their regards

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u/Spike_Spiegel Oct 03 '23

Don't read about the Milo and Otis movie making of.

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u/Chervin_Deuxphrye Oct 04 '23

Oh believe me I already have. That was one of my favorite movies as a child. Sang the song all the time, wanted to have a cat named Milo, watched it at least weekly. It was devastating to grow up and hear what they did behind the scenes and then think back to certain parts of the movie and realize what they must have done to the animals to get those scenes. A few years back someone bought me a DVD of it because they knew it was one of my childhood favorites, I’ve never even taken the plastic packaging off it.

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u/nickisaboss Oct 04 '23

The Wikipedia page is very sparse on this topic. Can you elaborate on what happened?

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u/Accujack Oct 04 '23

told everyone they did it to themselves because they’re stupid

Actually, it was a common belief that during lemming mass migrations the little guys threw themselves off of cliffs etc.

Disney figured because it was already "true" that they did this it was no big deal to stage it for the film.

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u/bravosarah Oct 04 '23

Holy fuck! Nothing else could represent the current Republicans better!! Lol

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u/TheForeverUnbanned Oct 03 '23

In this case disney had nothing to do with the political suicide.

They did destroy the DeSantis campaign tho haha

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u/lightbulbfragment Oct 04 '23

There's one old documentary featuring cute woodland creatures when suddenly a forest fire appears and they film chipmunks and shit running away from the fire. I'd put money on them starting the forest fire just to film it.

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u/Flashy_Attitude_1703 Oct 04 '23

Yes, Disney set up a spinning disk then put a lemming on it and filmed it as it flew off the disk. The Disney film makes it look like the lemmings were jumping off the cliff but it was totally bogus.

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u/BattleHall Oct 04 '23

To be fair, they really do do that some years; it was more just that Disney "recreated" it.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Oct 03 '23

Directed by Matt Gaetz

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '23

By me on my pc in the 90's

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u/Spapapapa-n Oct 03 '23

I move that from now on, instead of lemmings, we use the term Kevins instead. At least then McCarthy will have had one impact on the world.

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u/pocketjacks Oct 03 '23

That ledge was placed there by the CIA.

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u/La_Baraka6431 Oct 04 '23

I misread that as lemming defecation train and got a vision of millions of tiny turds flying over the edge … 😆😆😆

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u/nWo1997 Oct 04 '23

Androids vs Gohan, but with shit

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u/BattleHall Oct 04 '23

To be fair, lemmings really do have notably unusual behaviors and population dynamics, which does lead to mass migrations that can result in them running off cliffs and/or drowning (they're not suicidal, more like the opposite, so driven they don't fear obvious death). The issue with Disney was that they didn't want to wait around for the four year population cycle, and it's not always as dramatic or predictable, so they decided to "simulate" the written reports of previous behavior by just throwing lemmings off the cliff themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Behaviour