Old jokes to quit using

[kris40k]

But you would think, if it's just from a human perspective- WANDERING WEAPONS ROAMING IN TALL GRASS that it would be like a huge thing. Like the Pokegoverment would get together and try to put a stop to it cause you know it's stabbing motherfuckahs.

This is the same government that allows kids to fight each other with fire breathing dragons and whales. Don't bring your logic into this world.

I suppose it's stupid to poke wholes in Pokemon logic, their world operates under no real world logic. Like you'd imagine in their world their mass killers just enter a room and chuck voltorbs everywhere. Actually, thats an idea for a terrible fanfic.

Been done. Viridian City.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Not sure if it's a "joke" rather than people just trying to be clever but screw it, I'll throw it in anyway.
People finding Option C in an A or B hypothetical.
I'll use a picture I saw on Facebook as an example.

$1 Million to hit blend.
Now I know these are stupid but sometimes these are fun to think "Well, what would I do?"

Then some joker comes along and says something like "Take the kitten out then hit blend!"
Awesome, you're the most clever person in the entire world.
Come on, you're missing the point, just play along, it's a hypothetical

By the way, I know I just cried about people getting too involved in what really is a simple premise, but for a million bucks, I would totally hit blend
ONLY IF
the blender's strong enough to turn that cute kitty into soup instantly, if it screams, I can't do it.

 

[CaitSeith]

No. I stand by the Pokemon joke.

I was just playing the other day, and this years after I had stopped, but I caught a fucking Sword pokemon.

How the fuck does that work? Are there just floating swords roaming the country side? WHAT THE HELL DOES A SWORD EAT?

Yeah, alright, I'll give you that one. Though the Pokedex entry which you must have read if you caught it, both shows it's typing, Ghost/Steel, and explains that it's a ghost that has possessed a sword in X and in both X and Y explains that it consumes life force.

Which I feel is a great example in my opinion as it's a pokemon that looks ridiculous and is then explained and made terrifying if you look into it.

But you would think, if it's just from a human perspective- WANDERING WEAPONS ROAMING IN TALL GRASS that it would be like a huge thing. Like the Pokegoverment would get together and try to put a stop to it cause you know it's stabbing motherfuckahs.

I suppose it's stupid to poke wholes in Pokemon logic, their world operates under no real world logic. Like you'd imagine in their world their mass killers just enter a room and chuck voltorbs everywhere. Actually, thats an idea for a terrible fanfic.

Why do you think the old man in the very first Pokemon game freaks out when you enter into the tall grass without a Pokemon. And that's nothing. How about Pokemon that kidnap children? Or ships disappearing because they entered into wild Pokemon waters? Or Pokemon that are really dead people, wandering now as ghost Pokemons? All that can be found in the PokeDex.

 

[sanquin]

You're basically saying "People with a poor sense of humour that use old, tired jokes...stop using old, tired jokes!" Yea, not gonna happen. There will always be people with a poor sense of humour that both use old jokes thinking they're still oh so funny, and still laugh at such jokes.

 

[RJ 17]

People making fun of Pokemon have been around since Pokemon began, and the joke about "random stuff Pokemon" will be around as long as Pokemon is.

For the record, this is my personal favorite iteration of the joke:

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

The poke-joke never made sense to begin with. The first edition has a seeweed, an egg and a polygon pokemon.
Then there's elektek and magmar who're weird too and don't get me started on Rosalina + the shitty mime.

There were always weird perkermerns.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

People making fun of Pokemon have been around since Pokemon began, and the joke about "random stuff Pokemon" will be around as long as Pokemon is.

As long as we keep getting swords and keychains as Pokemon, the joke will keep going

 

[1981]

So, the question is, will people ever stop using this damned joke?

I'll tell you a secret: I see dead people.

That will never stop being funny. NEVER.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

You could say that bad humor... *puts on glasses* is no joke. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

And I will never stop using this meme/joke!

 

[LongAndShort]

You fool! Don't you get what you've done? In starting this thread you're providing an archive of overused memes and jokes, from which the less scrupulous reader may find new old material! Suddenly dozens of people will be reading this going, "huh, the cake IS a lie" and "I haven't worn sunglasses while listening to The Who and cracking puns lately, I think I may start again." You're simply perpetuating the very thing you're trying to end!

On another note, I am sick and fucking tired of hearing how awesome bacon is. Yeah, I get it, bacon is fucking delicious and works in just about every circumstance. But fuck me dead I do not need to hear that the greatest fucking tragedy currently befalling humankind is that vegetarians can't eat it. You know who else can't eat it? Jews and Muslims and they've got bigger issues like institutional racism and systemic inequality to deal with and being told to "Keep calm and bacon" (another overused meme) is not gonna help with any of that.

 

[RJ 17]

On another note, I am sick and fucking tired of hearing how awesome bacon is. Yeah, I get it, bacon is fucking delicious and works in just about every circumstance. But fuck me dead I do not need to hear that the greatest fucking tragedy currently befalling humankind is that vegetarians can't eat it. You know who else can't eat it? Jews and Muslims and they've got bigger issues like institutional racism and systemic inequality to deal with and being told to "Keep calm and bacon" (another overused meme) is not gonna help with any of that.

Sounds like you need a nice, refreshing Bloody Mary made with some of this:

You're basically saying "People with a poor sense of humour that use old, tired jokes...stop using old, tired jokes!" Yea, not gonna happen. There will always be people with a poor sense of humour that both use old jokes thinking they're still oh so funny, and still laugh at such jokes.

Or they could be using them ironically: fully aware of the fact that a joke is old and unfunny, yet they're posting it specifically because of how old and unfunny it is..

 

[McMarbles]

No. I stand by the Pokemon joke.

I was just playing the other day, and this years after I had stopped, but I caught a fucking Sword pokemon.

How the fuck does that work? Are there just floating swords roaming the country side? WHAT THE HELL DOES A SWORD EAT?

The blood of the innocent, obviously.

 

[sageoftruth]

Any Greedo shot first joke. That's far older than anything Pokemon-related, and it reeks of someone trying too hard to appeal to the Star Wars fanbase. Also, I'm just not that into Star Wars.

 

[Lufia Erim]

Add in soviet russia jokes to the list.

Aka : In soviet russia, Waldo finds you.

 

[DrownedAmmet]

You fool! Don't you get what you've done? In starting this thread you're providing an archive of overused memes and jokes, from which the less scrupulous reader may find new old material! Suddenly dozens of people will be reading this going, "huh, the cake IS a lie" and "I haven't worn sunglasses while listening to The Who and cracking puns lately, I think I may start again." You're simply perpetuating the very thing you're trying to end!


On another note, I am sick and fucking tired of hearing how awesome bacon is. Yeah, I get it, bacon is fucking delicious and works in just about every circumstance. But fuck me dead I do not need to hear that the greatest fucking tragedy currently befalling humankind is that vegetarians can't eat it. You know who else can't eat it? Jews and Muslims and they've got bigger issues like institutional racism and systemic inequality to deal with and being told to "Keep calm and bacon" (another overused meme) is not gonna help with any of that.

I'd like to second you on the "keep calm and _____" meme. I read about the dude who made the first poster of that and how pissed he was that people were using that saying, which was a symbol of British resolve in the face of getting fucking bombed, for random stupid shit. Can't help but think of that every time I see one.

Also, I'm a vegetarian but I don't really mind all the bacon propaganda. Yeah, bacon tastes good, but if meat didn't taste good then everyone would be a vegetarian.

 

[LongAndShort]

-snip-

Mate I live in Canada, I've drunk enough bacon-infused alcohol to drown a large dog (or a small horse). You'll have to do better than that.

Not saying I don't love bacon, 'cause I do. I fucking love bacon. But can't people on the internet understand that "bacon" is not the answer to every question?

 

[RJ 17]

But can't people on the internet understand that "bacon" is not the answer to every question?

Blasphemy!

In all honesty I only responded to your post with an ad for bacon vodka just to be a jackass since you were making such a big deal about your distaste for everyone's obsession with bacon.

 

[LongAndShort]

But can't people on the internet understand that "bacon" is not the answer to every question?

Blasphemy!

In all honesty I only responded to your post with an ad for bacon vodka just to be a jackass since you were making such a big deal about your distaste for everyone's obsession with bacon.

I know man, I'm the same sort of jackass.

Also, "distaste." I see what you did there, and I approve.

 

[Auron225]

I guess the problem with this is that most people aren't up to date on everything that's "current" compared to that which is now deemed old. You may be aware of Skyrim's "arrow to the knee" and Pokemon's occasional uncreative abomination... along with just about everything else, but if you ain't played Portal before and understood "The cake is a lie" in context, then you may well find it funny enough to repeat in the many years since the game's been out.

I'd like to second you on the "keep calm and _____" meme. I read about the dude who made the first poster of that and how pissed he was that people were using that saying, which was a symbol of British resolve in the face of getting fucking bombed, for random stupid shit. Can't help but think of that every time I see one.

Having said that, "Keep calm and..." gets my vote for "old joke that needs to die in a fire". I feel great solidarity in knowing the guy who made the original hates the millions of stupid iterations that have spawned from it as much as I do. It's like when someone makes a joke and it's hilarious, then someone goes a bit further with it and it's also funny, then someone else chips in and it's going a little far... and it keeps going to the point of being meaningless and devoid of reason. Only difference is, "Keep calm.." was only mildly amusing at best even at the beginning.