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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bloody hell is more of a surprise thing, tbh

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comment is how I got the joke.

I was thinking the joke was that they cut their tongue on a scrabble tile. I was like *why would it be in their mouth?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

british people talk like that because they always have a scrabble tile in their mouth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Hence the blood...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Could be Indian?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Americans: I have no accent.

Rest of the world: ...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

West Coast English is the least accented version of English in the world. It's a fact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Whale oil beef hooked

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Oh for Jam-n-L!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

My grandmother was always quick with a "bleedin' 'eck".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bruh ive been thinking about for like 5 mins i dont get it. Where does the "hel" part come from. I feel so stupid because the moment i saw the picture i already knew it would be bloody hell but i just cant figure out where the missing letters come from.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The meme is inaccurate, brits would indeed pronounce the "he" in hell as well, if educated.

However; many dialects see "blohdy 'ell" (phonetically written) or some variation of it, as common.

So I understand your confusion, but there's order in the chaos. Always is. 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if educated

I mean everyone was educated if they were in school after 1947 in the UK, which is where the idiom you use comes from.

Many British accents drop /h/ as accent is no longer a certain indicator of class, plus, code switching is a thing. I consider myself pretty well educated and will drop my aiches in most contexts except formal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not local to the UK, just educated. As everyone else, we too have a common dialect and many local variants.

I most often prefer to use common, for understanding. We're all common in some way or another after all. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the meme is saying we’re all cockneys from a Mel Gibson film and not Scots, Welsh, Yorkshire, Midlands, Lancashire, Home Counties, Northern Irish, Cornish, Dwarvish, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Must be, must be..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Americans when they have to pronounce "tt" in the mi'dd'le of a word:

Brits when they have to pronounce "h" or "r", at any time evah:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Cocking naura

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What's up with the