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[–] Mongostein 78 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Steampunk is the healthiest way to eat your punk.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I thought we were having steamed clams?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ohh no, I said steam punk. That's what I call industrial retrofuturistic aesthetics.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Uh, huh…and you call it that despite it obviously being a style of design and fashion that combines historical elements with anachronistic technological features inspired by science fiction?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a regional dialect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

May I see it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well @[email protected] , you're an odd fellow, but I must say- you steam a good punk.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I had some really good frypunk at the State Fair...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Frypunk doesn't have corsets and waist coats, it has Spanx and Rascal Scooters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

What about Punk Fry?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Steampunk asks the question “what if goth, only in brown?”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Steampunk asks the question, "what if there was more white colonialism in history?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Not sure how you get that, because it's either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Imagine dressing every day in green clothes covered in microchips and LCDs and li-ion batteries

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

If everyone covered themselves in lithium ion batteries, gun fights in movies would get way more spectacular.

flesh wound "I'm alright!" burst into flames

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Why would I imagine my workday?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don't see where horny comes into this. Steampunk is generally Victorian dress, teched up a bit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just me, but when I think of steampunk, I imagine women wearing the bottom half of a dress and a corset. Usually corsets are worn under clothing and is similar to a bra. It doesn't help that lingerie is very similar in appearance to corsets

[–] GhostMatter 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still shuddering about Clockwork Planet where t hey somehow rebuild an another planet mostly with gears and everywhere are just gears stack on top of each other connecting to nothing. It's just gears all the way down, because, that's how it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love the casual disregard for questions about what happens when one of those gears jams.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is of course in addition to the goggles he wears over his eyes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Naturally. You need goggles for your goggles!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I think "steampunk costume" my mind kinda leaps to "Wild west technohooker."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Jim West, Desperado

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🎵 Just glue some gears on it, and call it steam punk 🎵

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

🎵 That's the trendy fashion nowadays! 🎵

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Its the women who put on a corset and use it to smash their tiddies way up under their chin... also a significant portion who decide that knee high high heeled boots, long skirts that have a split very high on the thigh and fishnets complete the ensemble.

Its less victorian and more cowboy era saloon prostitute, but you dont hear me complaining.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Sir, we could use steam to power this-“
Hat.
sigh…I’ll get the cog wheels.”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Sir, you've run the steam pipes directly into your goggles."

"I have a theory that the steam will reheat the low levels of light to daylight brightness and provide night vision!"

"Sir, I don't know how scientifically sound that..."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I’m not gonna lie. I would watch the hell out of a show where wacky steam punk inventors find out about the unfortunate laws of physics and thermodynamics.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When breaking it down it down technology actually IS just hot water and clocks.

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

My clock got hot water everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If there was a sub for this kind of standup comedy post id subscribe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get that it isn't exactly a meme, but I wanted to share and I didn't know a more appropriate community.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

There isn't one, this is the best place for it for now. But if someone wanted to start a new community for stand up posts I'd join

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Be the sub you want to see in the world.

Also tag me, I'd subscribe.

The irony is intentional :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What kind of steampunk is he into.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm asking for sauce.

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