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[–] [email protected] 129 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More debates need a simple "CAN IT"

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More rough than "can it". Pretty sure the closer translation would be Shut Up.

I agree with it.

[–] BassaForte 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He said gueule, not bouche. It's the rougher of the two terms.

[–] BassaForte 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that's what he said, just another way to say "shut up".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My French listening isn't that good yet. What does he say?

[–] Taybur 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Effectively "shut the fuck up".

"Gueule" is a mouth, but that of an animal, mostly a carnivore like a dog or a reptile.

[–] Taniwha420 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't catch it either, but yeah, that's rough. Definitely a step above "shut up".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, there are a number of ways of telling someone how to shut up in French, (and Quebec does it differently than France). In France, this is one of the more aggressive / assertive / rude ways. But, the way he said it was a milder version, so it's more a "stfu" rather than "shut the fuck up".

There's "tais toi" which is basically like "be quiet". What you might say to kids being annoying. There's "ferme ta bouche", which is literally "shut your mouth". Or, "ferme la", which is basically "shut it". He basically picked the rudest form, but said it in the mildest way.

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[–] madcaesar 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Some debates don't even need to happen anymore. No the earth isn't flat. No trans people aren't monsters trying to kill Jesus. No vaccines don't turn you gay. No the world wasn't created 6000 years ago.

We've legitimized too many morons in the world. Not everything is a debate, some things are just facts that need to be thought to the ignorant.

[–] Dasus 91 points 8 months ago (13 children)

If only we did all politics like this.

[–] MissJinx 51 points 8 months ago (1 children)

let's be honest if the argument about anything is religious the person don't have enough brain to debate anything

[–] Dasus 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I tend to agree, but as I've gotten older I've got a bit less strict with thinking all religious people are idiots.

But I'm still pretty fervently of the mind that dogmatic monotheism is honestly one of the — if not the — worst thing that happened to humanity.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

[–] PunnyName 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Similar mindset for me. You can have your religion, I don't care.

But like masturbation, keep it private or with specific loved ones, keep it out of politics, or any public sector, and DEFINITELY keep it away from kids since they can't consent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

And hooboy do they love shrieking about consent

Until it's time to teach their 4 year old that thinking is for pussies praise Jesus

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Quoth George Carlin... Commandment #11:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The silliest thing is that even YHWH was once but one of the Israelites' many gods. He just slowly ate away at their pantheon until there was nothing left but anger and jealousy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

As I've gotten older I've done the opposite! If they think there are any gods at all, then they make important decisions without evidence. That always spills over into more physical concerns, like climate change.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Choosing to love Jesus makes that man happy, and that's great as long as he doesn't try to ruin other people's fun. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? Just live your own life and leave other people alone.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

us trans people try to do that, but we're constantly being told not to

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Just live your own life and leave other people alone.

But then I'll have to deal with MY own problems! I can't live with that! I have to project!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

5/5 I mean this tracks extremely well irregardless of which side of the fence you are.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm on the side of irregardless not being a word 🤓

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Haha, got me. Dunno which brain damage was responsible of that.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

That’s fucking awesome

[–] Reddfugee42 14 points 8 months ago

Holy shit, a talking gif

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I was even more confused, because in German, that's an idiom. "Jesus kann es" would mean basically "Jesus is a capable/cool guy". I thought, he just rudely completed the sentence to shut the guy up, but people here are saying, he told the guy quite literally to shut up. 🙃

[–] MoonMoon 8 points 8 months ago

Praise Shejus

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Id watch it if the video palyed...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

https://imgur.com/PIz6jCh

Open in Browser works for me.

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