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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Discoslugs to c/[email protected]
 

These memes are much like health care... As an american I dont get it.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's a type of fish, and they are making word plays with the name of the fish. Why? I'm not sure of the origin of this one. I imagine it's like the beans or the beef stroganoff memes - the origin doesn't matter much at this point.

[–] waigl 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The English word for the fish is "sturgeon".

[–] pete_the_cat 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

🎶 Like a sturgeon, caught for the very first time! 🎶

[–] beccaboben 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Feathercrown 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] beccaboben 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried my hand on one of those AI image makers... Almost got kicked off twice because apparently "like-a-virgin-era Madonna but a sturgeon" is considered inappropriate somehow.

[–] pete_the_cat 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably because of the word "virgin"

Also I was thinking more about "Like a surgeon" which is Weird Al's parody

[–] pete_the_cat 2 points 11 months ago
[–] hordenduopol 6 points 11 months ago

Hahahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, that was the prime Minister of Scottland

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

First minister, only one prime minister in the UK, although they are temporary in nature, sometimes we have 3 in one summer

[–] RainyRat 3 points 11 months ago

Just after Salmon(d). Presumably, the next one will be the well-known Scottish politician Davey Coelacanth.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I actually started with eels. Aal (=> eel) can be inserted basically everywhere by just stretching the "a" a bit, like "Aalle wissen das" instead of "Alle wissen das" (everyone knows that). As far as I know, this started (or at least became popular) via Jan Böhmermann, he had some jokes about that in his show - the same guy who wrote the "goat fucker"-poem about Erdogan that caused massive diplomatic problems and resulted in changed laws.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wir servieren heute Aal la carte:

  • Aalgensalat
  • HopfenkaltschAale
  • Pasta Aal dente
  • KAalter Hund
  • Pizza CAalzone

Edit: This also works in english:

Something's fishy. I think Russia is trying to interfere with our Eelections

[–] lord_of_gloom 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So viel Fisch gibt's nur im LokAal neben an!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I started the Aalphabet in my family. Every time we encounter a word that matches, it is added. It’s geniaal!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Understood... so fisch störganoff