memes

10702 readers

2781 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

[email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
[email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
[email protected] : Linux themed memes
[email protected] : for those who love comic stories.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow

The_Picard_Maneuver

[email protected]

341

Meanwhile, that winter… "Excuse me, do you have any food?" (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by ummthatguy to c/memes

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Broken_Monitor 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m gonna hazard a guess there’s a bunch of people on here who aren’t familiar with Eddie Izzard’s Dressed to Kill. So let’s give credit and to those who this applies go watch it!

[–] DefiantBidet 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes, but do you have a flag?

[–] eltrain123 5 points 4 months ago

Hoocha, hoocha, hoocha…. Lobstah.

[–] Zorque 5 points 4 months ago

We've got two bits of cake...

[–] NickwithaC 4 points 4 months ago

That used to be my reddit flair on subs that had flag flair. Lemmy needs flair, it was fun!

[–] ummthatguy 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's still my favorite routine. This segment was specifically about the expedition that founded the colonies on the east coast of North America. However, I generalized it to encompass the 6 or so other groups that "found" the continent or discovered an "empty" region.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Except I think it's interesting this was not generalizable. The Spanish were looking for people, just different people at first. Cortez for example landed and immediately "employed" hundreds of native people to come up with some wealth to pay off the exploration debt. The friars were specifically there to convert people to Catholicism.

The British puritans were looking to build their personal Utopia, but the Spanish and others, it seems to me, were looking for a populated colony from the start.

[–] Broken_Monitor 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its been a looooong time since I’ve seen it, but as I recall, what I really want to know is… cake? Or Death??

[–] ummthatguy 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well we're outta cake! We only had 3 bits and we didn't expect such a rush.

[–] Cringedrif 6 points 4 months ago

So my choice is or death? I'll have the chicken then.