• adhocfungus@midwest.socialEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      When I was 10 or so my cousins and I put a basketball hoop in the barn loft after all the hay bales were used for the season. My uncle came up the ladder and told us to be careful or we’d “get a bunch of coons in here playing ball.” I didn’t know that word was a slur at the time, so the image of a bunch of raccoons playing basketball was hilarious to me.

      When I was in my 20’s I told that story and everyone just grimaced. Someone had to tell me what he had actually meant.

      • mindbleachEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        See also story with drill instructor finding tremendous impact from the G-rated insult “boy,” only to be spoken to one-on-one by one of his boot-camp charges to politely inform him why it landed so hard.

    • mindbleachEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Came in to post exactly that.

      Reddit.com Lemmy: proof you will never have an original thought.

  • nmill11bEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I am out of the loop. What gives with all the sailormoon memes and AI generated images today?

    • JinnEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      It’s just a trend. There was that time the trend here was to make CCTV pop culture characters stealing things from a Target back room.

  • GrassEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I got a bit concerned when I saw the title before the image.

    Here’s a recreation by scrolling back up and screenshotting.