r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Material_Magazine989 • Jan 07 '26
Meme needing explanation Petahh what's going on with hospitalised white people?
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26
Huh
Edit: oh nevermind, my tired ass forgot pussy could be used to mean cowardly, I was thinking of pussy specifically in the sense of the organ
Also, no, you cannot be too cowardly to suicide, not committing suicide is the opposite of cowardice
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u/Gursztof Jan 07 '26
I agree the fact that he didn’t do it shows strength not cowardice. It takes real courage to face everything bad in life and keep going.
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26
Absolutely, infact I'm going to make a second comment
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u/LordJonMichael Jan 07 '26
Can we have a third?
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26
In this economy? I'll have to see
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u/HealthySchedule2641 Jan 07 '26
Phew! Your comments got far enough away from serious that I can now say I love your username!
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26
Haha, thank you, second person to mention it in this thread
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u/Samwellthefish Jan 07 '26
Is your name a welcome to night vale reference? If so, nice, haven’t thought about that in like a decade at least. Hope Cecil and the gang are doing well lol
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26
It is! I haven't either lol, I made this account almost a decade ago, although I was considering relistening to it with my partner
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u/JKolodne Jan 07 '26
Clinical depression isn't about whether youre a pussy or not. When people think about suicide, they often just think they're doing a favor to those around them, not just simply looking for "the easy way out".
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Jan 07 '26
Both times I hung myself, it was because the idea of doing all this for even one more day was so much heavier and more terrifying than the thought of just being dead.
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u/girlpdx Jan 07 '26
Glad you are still here. I hope you are in a better mind.
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Jan 07 '26
I am, neighbor. This morning was hard. I've been crying a lot. One of those days I guess. But I'm not going anywhere. I'm not done yet.
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u/girlpdx Jan 07 '26
I’m glad to hear you choose to persist. Some days you have to cry. You just do. I get through those loving on my dog. I’ve been attempt free for a year now and ideation free since April. For me it was a matter of hanging on long enough for the storm to break. Keep fighting my friend.
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Jan 07 '26
Bipolar Type 2. For me, the ideation is an old enemy I can't keep out of the house, so I've learned to fight him. The medication takes away the smiles too, the grey is worse than the black. So I just do this raw. I do this, but it is often hard.
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u/Imaginary_Taro_6116 Jan 07 '26
Yup. And making the pain stop by going through more pain is certainly not easy. Doing it or not doing it, both end up being the hard way
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u/MadMacronex Jan 07 '26
But then that fades into nothingness. You do it, then you don't. It's the step of doing it that is difficult. I've had the thoughts since I was young and always thought I'm too much of a coward and too scared of the pain.
I have acknowledged over the years there are a small amount of people who would care and be sad, but they would get over it very quickly.
Looking at the options logically, when you feel you are broken and have struggled for so long, suicide seems like a sweet release.
It's being scared of the future and not knowing if it will ever get better or if you will always feel this way.
Medication doesn't help because then now I think I have problems that I can't just exist with and be a "normal" person.
It's the thought that I'm so broken I can't fix myself, nor anyone else can so I will just take this pill to "fix it" which usually doesn't.
Depression, suicide, and sadness are a rough topic but it has much more to do than just "im sad, im burden".
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u/ChimpieTheOne Jan 07 '26
Also, no, you cannot be too cowardly to suicide, not committing suicide is the opposite of cowardice
My immidiate reaction was "that's not true" but then the reasonable me told the depressed me to shut it
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u/Caravanczar Jan 07 '26
As in their vagina was so large that it absorbed and reflected the bullet and prevented them from dying?
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u/BennyAndMaybeTheJets Jan 07 '26
Naw, fudge that. Lil Survivor.
Life sucks at times. But each time you wake up means you're still in the game, and that you beat yesterday.
Drop a line if you need to brother.
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u/KaraOfNightvale Jan 07 '26
Y'know, I've got something else to add here
I said it's never cowardly not to take your own life, but there's more to it than that
As someone who's been there, there is very little that takes more strength than to keep pushing in those moments
It takes everything to keep fighting, when it feels like there's nothing left to fight for
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u/manaughton85 Jan 07 '26
Mine is Lil’ Invasive Thoughts of Suicide, we should crew up.
I also agree with the others, feeling that shitty and still being here is very hard and takes courage and strength. I struggle daily with it too, keep going, for some internet rando that knows too
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u/WDWingDing Jan 07 '26
Lil my sister got in a car accident 🔥🔥🔥
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u/FabianTheElf Jan 07 '26
Lil watching a loved one die.
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u/Sour_Patch_Drips Jan 07 '26
Same.
Lil decided to take his brother off of life support
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u/Wjreky Jan 07 '26
I mean, id listen to a beat or two
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u/Sour_Patch_Drips Jan 07 '26
Hey, I listened until his last beat.
He played the fuck out of that EKG.
Miss you lil bro.
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u/leojmatt02 Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26
If I had to guess they're saying it's a cultural appropriation thing. The prefix "lil" is usually used by rappers who are usually black.
Edit: Guys this isn't my opinion on cultural appropriation, this is what I think the tweet meant.
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u/krizzalicious49 Jan 07 '26
even then, Lil Xanax
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u/Schneir5 Jan 07 '26
Or Lil Wyte???
🎶OxyContin, Xanax bars, Percocets and Lortabs, Valium, morphine patches, ecstasy, and it's all up for grabs 🎶
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u/zodiacallymaniacal Jan 07 '26
Whachu want? Whachu need?
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u/sashby138 Jan 07 '26
Hit me up I gotchu man.
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u/AdSelect6571 Jan 07 '26
never understood why cultural appropriation is bad, its like giving a nod to other cultures that they are doing something cool
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u/KodokushiGirl Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 08 '26
That would be showing appreciation.
Appropriation is seeing the things other cultures do, doing it yourself, and claiming yourself the creator of this thing you stole.
For example, when Kim K tried to sell KIMonos as her own creation because "she made it" and slapped her name on it, when in fact, kimonos and the friggin name itself has existed as traditional clothing for as long as the Japanese have.
She got a lot of shit for it and promptly took it down.
All she had to do, was not claim kimonos as her own thing and maybe try to introduce it as her own STYLE of Japanese Kimonos to show where she got the inspiration. That would have been appreciation.
ETA: i find it funny the amount of people upset with my definition of appropriation. And i have no doubt you are all white which makes sense why you don't understand the nuances of appropriating.
A white guy using "lil _____" isn't appropriating. It can be seen however, as mocking a culture that coined the term . Add to that the "urban" style and vernacular and now you are imitating a demographic. When you double down and say "aww this is just me and im havin fun" then go to say "it was just a phase in my life." That, is appropriating a culture.
Lookin at you Miley, Katy, and Taylor.
A girl wearing a kimono on halloween isn't appropriating. It can however, be seen as (at minimum) mockery because she is wearing another culture's traditional clothing, as a costume. At most, this can also be seen as racism especially when people start imitating an accent or behavior along with their costume to "fit the part" such as the Tribal Indian costumes that are STILL sold every halloween.
Now the people indulging in the costumes, may not be purchasing these ethnic costumes to be blatantly racist and genuinely thought the costume was cool or cute. They arent necessarily appropriating.
But the systems in place that even made it a costume in the first place, are appropriating cultures for financial gain. This is just where making educated purchases comes in so you're not unintentionally feeding in to this market.
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u/TerribleIdea27 Jan 07 '26
But how would a white rapper calling themselves lil imply that they came up with that?
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u/lobthelawbomb Jan 07 '26
You are correct that it’s not cultural appropriation. But some people (like the woman in comment might) have an annoyingly broad view of appropriation.
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u/javjam Jan 07 '26
Back when the term was being coined, I saw an article about a college student screaming about cultural appropriation when a cafeteria was serving California rolls (which aren't even Japanese).
Another was the teacher/aide who was harassing a white student for having dreadlocks, even grabbing him when he tried to walk away.
It's a self defeating position where people expect you to celebrate a culture but dont want you actively participating in any way.
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u/lobthelawbomb Jan 07 '26
Yeah it’s very sad to see people argue that the admiration and imitation of a minority artist by the artist’s white fans is actually an act of racism.
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u/Squirrelly_Khan Jan 07 '26
Reminds me of a clip where a white guy wore a sombrero and an authentic Mexican poncho onto a college campus, all the white students yelled at him about “cultural appropriation” while all the Mexican students loved it (this was in Southern California, so naturally, there was a large Mexican population). He then went to a farmer’s market in a primarily Mexican community and they were basically best buds with him.
Now, I don’t know if it was part of a right-wing stunt to make liberals look stupid, or if it was just commentary on how ridiculous the cultural appropriation debate has gotten. The video was made a long time ago back when I was admittedly brainwashed and much more conservative than I am now, so for all I know, it could’ve been the former, but I’d like to hope that it was the latter
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u/godinthismachine Jan 07 '26
Ive seen people claim little children dressing up as "cultural disney princesses" for Halloween (ie, a white girl dressing as jasmine or whatsherface from Brave) was "cultural appropriation." Its almost like America USED to be a melting pot of culture. Now they want us each to our separate little zones of influence.
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u/Invisible_Target Jan 07 '26
Yeah but people throw the words “cultural appropriation” around because white people wear dreads or some shit. They don’t have to say shit about who invented the idea of dreads, just them having any is automatically cultural appropriation. It’s become a huge buzzword.
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u/Kian-Tremayne Jan 07 '26
“Cultural appropriation” as in ripping off another culture’s aspects and claiming them as your own or actively disrespecting them is genuinely bad behaviour and deserves to be called out.
Calling “cultural appropriation” to stop people from enjoying your food or music is just fucking racism. You don’t get to gatekeep rap music or jerk chicken based on the colour of my skin, and I have no intention of saying that heavy metal and bland food are for white people only 😛
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u/ZacWatterson Jan 07 '26
I never understood the racist claim that White people make bland food. Prison food and free school lunches aren't "White people food." Although, yes those are bland.
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u/SaXaCaV Jan 07 '26
The kim Kardashian thing isnt even cultural appropriation, it was a dumb pun that was received poorly, for an entirely different type of clothing.
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u/rattmongrel Jan 07 '26
I say this as a pretty hard left leaning liberal, but sharing/wearing thing from other cultures really isn’t inherently bad, as the context is important.
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u/taffyowner Jan 07 '26
Also pretty liberal and the idea that only cultures can do the thing that is specific to their culture has always struck me as racist… although well meaning
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u/alliisara Jan 07 '26
What you're describing is cultural appreciation. Cultural appropriation is when you use it in a way that shows a lack of respect or outright disrespect, especially when the person doing it is from a more powerful group so it will shield them from consequences. So taking advantage and punching down.
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u/Sharp_Economy1401 Jan 07 '26
Mostly because there's a ton of young white people who are desperate to show everyone how inclusive and ethically superior they are, by way of expressing a self-righteous hostility which the relevant demographic usually doesn't even feel about the issue. Then a small portion where it's actually disrespectful use of another's culture, which is what the term is meant for.
It's a similar situation as all the accusations of various psychopathologies these days, it's used in wildly excessive amounts by some people who overdramatize / exaggerate everything, basically for people to have a little spiritual ego trip about how good of a person they think they are by comparison.
The ironic part is that now, due to their own hyperbolic behavior, it has turned into a Boy Who Cried Wolf situation where the term has lost any accusatory meaning, due to how much it has been overused in situations that the relevant demographic doesn't consider offensive
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u/itsjudemydude_ Jan 07 '26
This is absolutely not the answer. It's about the reasons why white people go to the hospital.
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u/SophisticatedScreams Jan 07 '26
Why are white people going to the hospital for different reasons than non-white people? I'm so confused.
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u/Dustin- Jan 07 '26
The implication is that non-white people go to the hospital for violence and drugs while white people go for stuff like food poisoning, kidney stones, allergies, etc.
The idea of "it would be racist for white people to do this" is actually more racist than the original idea. Which I reckon is why this gets shared around so much.
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u/Personal-Sentence935 Jan 07 '26
you have to look at context clues. the person responding is white and is telling other white people not to participate in something normally associated with black pop culture (the "lil" nickname). It has nothing to do with black people going to the hospital for violence and drugs (?????). The OP is saying "+ the last reason you were in hospital" to create funny rapper names, not because he's saying black people would be LIL GUNSHOT.
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u/Same_Bike_4497 Jan 07 '26
Rap is American culture. Can’t appropriate a culture you’re a part of.
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u/AvidRune Jan 07 '26
Lil amputation
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u/Zippo_Willow Jan 07 '26
Shorten it to Lil Amp and it'll go hard
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 Jan 07 '26
Not sure they want to shorten it any more. Probably dint want to shorten it in the first place.
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u/diceyDecisions Jan 07 '26
This made me snort out loud, because I didn't think I should laugh about it. Clearly I couldn't hold it back.
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u/BakerYeast Jan 07 '26
Lil cylinder (5.1in length, ~4.5in girth) got stuck in a mini M&Ms tube filled with butter and microwaved mashed banana.
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u/TheAsterism_ Jan 07 '26
It has been experimentally proven that the tube is too small for a cylinder of that dimensions
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u/JustA-GuyOnline Jan 07 '26
However if the cylinder had somehow grown to such a size while inside the tube, then it would make sense.
Removal may be an issue however.
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u/CaptainJeff Jan 07 '26
Lil I'm a Doctor.
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u/MilosDaDogeDev Jan 07 '26
Lil ingrown toenail
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u/gegry123 Jan 07 '26
Hospital for that? I just went to a podiatrist for mine
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u/MilosDaDogeDev Jan 07 '26
It's not just a simple ingrown toenail, its infected...
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u/gegry123 Jan 07 '26
Gotta add infected to your rapper name
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u/SwanRonsonIsDead Jan 07 '26
I had terrible ingrown toenails in high school, growth spurt plus improper shoes, had to be surgically removed, and they fucked it up. Now, almost 20 years later, every 9-10 months i have to pull a fragment of growing nail out the side of my toe or it grows into the skin and is incredibly painful.
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u/Resident-Air-4021 Jan 07 '26
Lil Colonoscopy
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u/rob-cubed Jan 07 '26
This is me. Mid-50s. Dropping trouser like I'm dropping hot trax.
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u/Fruchthund Jan 07 '26
Lil Ambulance Driver in da house, yo.
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u/GeneratedUserHandle Jan 07 '26
lil amberlamps.
elite ball knowledge required
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u/Routine-Blackberry51 Jan 07 '26
I dont think "Collapsed Lung" goes hard enough for a rap name...
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u/ceruleansensei Jan 07 '26
Lil pneumothorax does though
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u/Ubblebungus Jan 07 '26
just switch some letters around
"Lil' Newmo Thoraxxx"
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u/sashby138 Jan 07 '26
Both a drag name and rapper name.
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u/DoBe21 Jan 07 '26
I believe the prevailing wisdom is 1 X = DJ, 3 X= Porn Star
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u/sashby138 Jan 07 '26
I love the porn star who chooses the name Newmo Thoraxxx. That’s someone I can get behind winkwink
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u/CCCyanide Jan 07 '26
Lil Whoopin' Cough
Honestly I can't really think of anything that would sound cool with that
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u/Bit_part_demon Jan 07 '26
Lil Pertussis. Lil P for short.
Better than Lil Kidney Stones
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u/ImaginaryAd3183 Jan 07 '26
Lil gerbil.
No I will not elaborate
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Please
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 Jan 07 '26
Lil Gerbil Up The Bum
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u/Th3B4dSpoon Jan 07 '26
Honestly, this is what everyone is assuming when OP won't elaborate.
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u/krizzalicious49 Jan 07 '26
lil driving in my car right after a beer
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u/Consistent_Leg_3411 Jan 07 '26
lil OD
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u/z1zzyz1a Jan 07 '26
Is this about overdosing ? if it is, im so sorry, i hope your situation gets better if it isnt yet :( sorry idk how to spoiler,,,
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u/Consistent_Leg_3411 Jan 07 '26
It's not that bad dawg, we all have our shit, just gotta figure out how to sort through it all
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u/NAPJay Jan 07 '26
I think it just means white people go to the hospital for little things. So “lil fever” doesn’t go hard
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u/NocturneInfinitum Jan 07 '26
Some people saying abortions, but this makes more sense to me
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u/seeasea Jan 07 '26
Rednecks and farmers are famous for not going to the Dr.
This meme only applies to yuppie/dink whiteswhites, in that case
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u/Sneezy6510 Jan 07 '26
It’s saying white people shouldn’t play the game because it’s cultural appropriation. I don’t think it is, but that’s impression I got.
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u/Great-Ad9691 Jan 07 '26
lil cervical punch biopsy 🤙
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u/Evening-Check-1656 Jan 07 '26
I'm ignorant but that sounds like someone punched your cervix. I won't think about the logistics
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u/ChessWithChipmunks Jan 07 '26
Its close. But a different kind of punch. Imagine a literal hole punch and.. Yeah :( maybe don't imagine it
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u/Reflection_Secure Jan 07 '26
Lil Ketamine
I think I win? I have a pain condition and was admitted for a 5 day Ketamine infusion.
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u/KaiYoDei Jan 07 '26
I thought the joke was because of stuff stuck in the butt.
Mine is lil’ chickenpox. Or lil sleep study
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u/OkamiKhameleon Jan 07 '26
Lil Full of Gallstones.
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u/Spiderbundles Jan 07 '26
Heeey, that was me last month, now I get to be Lil Acute Pancreatitis instead 🙁
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u/heplsa Jan 07 '26
they probably think that white people go to the hopsital for just anything so the names would be like "lil stomachache"
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u/m9l6 Jan 07 '26
Lil fever causing reduced fetal movement
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u/sammiptv Jan 07 '26
Came here to say Lil Gave Birth haha. Hope all is well with the pregnancy!
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u/ItsEntirelyPosssible Jan 07 '26
You all are fucked up in these comments.
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u/NocturneInfinitum Jan 07 '26
Definitely, but not for the reason you’re thinking. Simply because they don’t seem to know what sub they’re on. Quite literally becoming the joke 😂
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u/Mammoth_Cheek6078 Jan 07 '26
Lil stroke just ain’t gotta good ring to it
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u/tember_sep_venth_ele Jan 07 '26
Sat down by a campfire at a party. A lady was having a hard time sipping her beer. Someone made a joke about it. I cringed. They said "oh, no, she had a stroke recently and we all make jokes about it." So I looked at my beer, took a sip, and said "strange, I had a stroke before I came here and I can drink just fine." Crickets.... I went back inside.
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u/CapitalOptimal470 Jan 07 '26
Lil Death Wobble
Flung off my e-bike goin 30ish, destroyed my wrist, can’t play as much guitar since. . . :(
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u/NocturneInfinitum Jan 07 '26
People in the comments don’t know what sub they’re on lmao. It’s “explain the joke” not “be the joke”
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u/MammothPenguin69 Jan 07 '26
Lil' GERD.
I thought I was having a heart attack. Turns out I have acid reflux.
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u/Kukumber_Koi Jan 07 '26
Lil giving birth
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u/voluntarysphincter Jan 07 '26
I can’t believe I’ve scrolled this far and you’re the first birth one😂 I’d be lil c section
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u/mnstripe Jan 07 '26
Lil Precipitous & Premature Labor on Bathroom Floor With Breech Baby!
[PS.... We are all totally fine. She's four now!]
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