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The Picard Maneuver to [email protected] • 2 years ago

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The Picard Maneuver to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    47•2 years ago

    Is the joke that they didn’t waste any time arming with the new tech?

    • eatham 🇦🇺
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      31•2 years ago

      4999BC is 1 year after 5000BC

      • @[email protected]
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        33•2 years ago

        I get that, but I don’t get the joke. Is the joke that after bows were invented, people started using them?

        • @[email protected]
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          10•2 years ago

          I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.

        • @[email protected]
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          4•2 years ago

          I think he is trying to use c/memes as r/technicallythetruth.

          • @[email protected]
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            1•2 years ago

            More antimeme than anything

        • JackbyDev
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          47•2 years ago

          The joke is that the format of this is normally

          • Thing began in X
          • People in X - 1

          So when you first see it you’re like “haha, but wait that’s a bow…” then you remember “ah yes, it’s BC”

          • DreamButt
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            3•2 years ago

            My dumbass trying to remember how history works from 10+ years ago

            • JackbyDev
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              2•2 years ago

              This was more than ten years ago!

          • @[email protected]
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            44•2 years ago

            Oh ok, so it’s a play on an existing meme format. I’m not a memexpert so didn’t understand the joke.

            • @[email protected]
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              2 years ago

              I’ve also never seen an original of the format this is from, glad I wasn’t the only one confused

            • @[email protected]
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              6•2 years ago

              It’s all good

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          27•2 years ago

          It’s a meta meme, playing off of the format that usually has people doing something silly before the time something was invented. But it’s backwards because it’s BC.

          Examples:

          • @[email protected]
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            3•2 years ago

            This format is hilarious, it should have its on sublemmy

          • @[email protected]
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            7•2 years ago

            Thanks!

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      Yeah, I don’t get it…

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      146•2 years ago

      Lol, the joke is just that this is the inverse of how this meme usually works, since counting backwards in BC is forward in time.

      • @[email protected]
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        3•2 years ago

        Oh… I see. I was trying to figure out the humor… I wasn’t getting the reference to the other memes at first lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        26•2 years ago

        This is so fucking stupid.

        And you got me.

        • @[email protected]
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          2•2 years ago

          The best jokes always need explaining.

      • ThePuy
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        5•2 years ago

        My man I think he was making a joke by pretending that the inversion is so obvious he was trying to understand the joke

        • Spliffman1
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          The inversion is obvious… Well then again, maybe not for most Americans lol

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