Memes causing offense!

Jay794 · 11 Feb 2012 at 08:55

meem? I thought it was "meh-may"

Surely if its meem it's spelt wrong?

flibbage0 · 11 Feb 2012 at 09:00

shifty_uk said:
These things are actually doing my head in on Facebook, literally every university I'm aware of has one of these meme pages now and for the past week my news feed has been bombarded with these images. Generally they are all practically the same with a different title in the image. They should leave the memes to 4Chan.

Same, most of my friends are 1st year uni students, and have just found out what memes are.

I told them last year and they thought it was geeky and uncool :rolleyes:

Cosimo · 11 Feb 2012 at 09:56

I can’t be the only one to find them boring, unfunny, childish, tasteless, unimaginative and way past their sell by date.

Jay794 · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:10

You sound old simulatorman lol

Rick Rolling might not be funny anymore but there are still plenty of good ones

West · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:10

So very funny

Pawnless Endgame · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:54

I thought that memes were 'fads' / trends like badger badger, hampsterdance, paedobear, all your base, making mockeries and spin-off versions. What's the difference nowadays? Is it equivalent to stuff like pancake, hovis, smash that pasty over here on OcUK?

RomanNose · 11 Feb 2012 at 11:14

They don't even do them right. We have a meme crew at my college, who sit around doing them. It's the biggest collection of losers I have ever seen, they actually talk about them in real life!. These facebook kids are really late to the party, I mean really really late. We are talking 3 years late.

Nitefly · 11 Feb 2012 at 11:16

As a rule of thumb, the more background knowledge you have to know about a meme to understand it, the less funny it actually is.

Jay794 · 11 Feb 2012 at 11:16

RomanNose said:
They don't even do them right. We have a meme crew at my college, who sit around doing them. It's the biggest collection of losers I have ever seen, they actually talk about them in real life!. These facebook kids are really late to the party, I mean really really late. We are talking 3 years late.

Meme Crew? you should have stopped there!

atpbx · 11 Feb 2012 at 11:58

Jay794 said:
meem? I thought it was "meh-may"

Surely if its meem it's spelt wrong?

Ive read it as meh-may as well.

I can only just make a case for me-muh.

Deadbeat · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:01

atpbx said:
Ive read it as meh-may as well.

I can only just make a case for me-muh.

Lol, really? Surprised that anybody would look at that word and not automatically think "meem" :confused:

atpbx · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:03

Deadbeat said:
Lol, really? Surprised that anybody would look at that word and not automatically think "meem"

Because it lacks the vital componants of being pronounced that way, such as the correct letters for a start.

Jay794 · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:04

Deadbeat said:
Lol, really? Surprised that anybody would look at that word and not automatically think "meem"

...er....because of how it's spelt? for it to be pronounced "meem" it would have to be spelt "meem" the fact the M is before the E how the hell would you get "meeeeem" from it and not "Meh-Mey?

Extra E's added for pronunciation purposes

Deadbeat · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:12

Jay794 said:
...er....because of how it's spelt? for it to be pronounced "meem" it would have to be spelt "meem" the fact the M is before the E how the hell would you get "meeeeem" from it and not "Meh-Mey?

Extra E's added for pronunciation purposes

Ah, right, like scheme. Glad I've got you here to explain basic, formulaic English to me.

Arnie · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:14

Jay794 said:
...er....because of how it's spelt? for it to be pronounced "meem" it would have to be spelt "meem" the fact the M is before the E how the hell would you get "meeeeem" from it and not "Meh-Mey?

Extra E's added for pronunciation purposes

Are you French?

Deadbeat said:
Ah, right, like scheme. Glad I've got you here to explain basic, formulaic English to me.

Or "gene", which is what it's named after.

Natwee · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:17

Jay794 said:
...er....because of how it's spelt? for it to be pronounced "meem" it would have to be spelt "meem" the fact the M is before the E how the hell would you get "meeeeem" from it and not "Meh-Mey?

Extra E's added for pronunciation purposes

atpbx said:
Because it lacks the vital componants of being pronounced that way, such as the correct letters for a start.

atpbx said:
Ive read it as meh-may as well.

I can only just make a case for me-muh.

you really should have learned this in primary school, but let me assist:

arctine · 11 Feb 2012 at 13:02

Jay794 said:
...er....because of how it's spelt? for it to be pronounced "meem" it would have to be spelt "meem" the fact the M is before the E how the hell would you get "meeeeem" from it and not "Meh-Mey?

Extra E's added for pronunciation purposes

LOL!

facepalm.jpg

Jay794 · 11 Feb 2012 at 13:07

Natwee said:
you really should have learned this in primary school, but let me assist:

Can't watch videos at work, so you'll have to delay the insult to I get home lol

Deadbeat said:
Ah, right, like scheme. Glad I've got you here to explain basic, formulaic English to me.

I'm not an english teacher mate, just how I interpreted it.

However, FYI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Specificially,

"The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek ?????? Greek pronunciation: [mí?m??ma]"

So it appears that we're all wrong lol

SexyGreyFox · 11 Feb 2012 at 13:28

I've got 4 Uni students in the house aged between 23 & 25 and none of them have heard of an internet meme :eek:

Slyman2k4 · 11 Feb 2012 at 13:30

I wouldn't worry about the video, it's focused around the pronunciation of 'e' in junction of 'I'. It uses Stripe and Pine as it's main focus.

It's possibly the only thing she learned in primary school, so is as proud as punch to parade it about.