Explain the meme's.

[MrGiggles]

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facepalm.jpg

edit: drummin.avi

[FuzenAkuma]

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I've never seen anyone just say "facepalm" as a statement. I always see it like *facepalm* or /facepalm or something like that.

[Ground_Breaker]

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I just don't understand why people use these. :/

They're no different than any other word or phrase that evolves in a language over time. Another example of this concept would be the acceptance of Google (which is obviously the name of a corporation and search engine) as having a verb form. I use the term "acceptance" rather loosely...I would not recommend using Google as a verb in a formal paper, for example, but in everyday conversation, you will likely not come across someone who is extremely offended by this usage.

This is the reality of language. It constantly evolves, and as an English major, I find it far more productive to adapt to the evolution of language in a general sense, rather than to fight it.

Of course, we are on an internet forum, and as such, you will on average see far more laziness, abbreviations, and shorthand than in any other medium of communication (outside of text messaging, perhaps). As stated earlier in the thread, "facepalm" or "/facepalm" is something people now say on the internet as shorthand for, "I believe that the action you have previously committed is foolish or silly." Most of the other words or phrases you bring up can be attributed to this process as well.

[irishknight]

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Something.jpg: I don't get this one. People add .jpg, .bmp, or .avi to the end of random statements.
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Haven't heard of that one. I've seen trollface.jpg and foreveralone.jpg used more frequently if anything. All good laughs. Gotta love the memes.

[bmah]

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This is the reality of language. It constantly evolves, and as an English major, I find it far more productive to adapt to the evolution of language in a general sense, rather than to fight it.

Personally, I find it enriching for language to evolve and diversify our way of speaking and communicating ideas. It's more interesting than to stick with the same old.

[ELRayford]

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ITT: newfriends

http://knowyourmeme.com/

Memes are best lol'd at with images.

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If meme's weren't stupid they wouldn't be funny

[Izzy]

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The "In Soviet Russia" thing was a joke by a Ukrainian comedian named Yakov Smirnoff. The original joke was "In America you can always find a party, In Soviet Russia, party finds YOU"

His comedy is actually pretty funny, and the majority of memetic uses of the "In Soviet Russia" joke are pretty bad.

I kind of liked the one from family guy where the GPS was switched to russian and says "In soviet russia, road forks you."

[XCV]

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It was "car drives you" I think.

And I saw this on one of the Cossack themes from MM4:

GET YOU:

SOVIET RUSSIA

[MinaciousGrace]

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explain the meme's what?

i don't get this thread

[Emo_Saur_]

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brushie

[HoneyMelonCalibrator]

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[BabyViperx3]

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trololololol <333333

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3n0vBcW5fc

[hazard28]

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Izzy pretty much summed up the .jpg/.avi thing. I myself while IM'ing people frequently use the meme's "feelsbadman.jpeg" and "laughingwhores.jpeg" only because it is what comes to my mind when thinking of a fast abbreviation of a otherwise long sentence. The titles are also pretty self-explanatory and even if you have not seen the original images you can still get the gist of what the meme means.

[TheRapingDragon]

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Spend a few days reading encylopedia dramatica. Just understand that a lot of it is not safe for work.