Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

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Love me a good LOTR meme

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Oh, shit.
I’ve got to wait that long?

Also the face when you’re having to accept that your immortal daughter has given up eternal life in blissful paradise in exchange for a couple of centuries romping around with the local popular kid.

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Because of all the cockneys in Ireland?

Because you are the last word in Rhyming Slang? Have a word with yourself.

I don’t know or understand anything but least of all (today) the Hank Marvin one + comments.

Hank Marvin .. rhyming slang for Starving

Or Starvin I suppose

Shakin Starvins

need a hug? or a shopping trolley token?

You've been off your trolley for as long as I care to remember.

How has it taken me a decade to see this?!

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There’s a theory that the Irish building the London docks and canals used rhyming slang so their English colleagues couldn’t understand them.

Would they not have just spoken in Gaelic?

Potatoes potahtoes

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But then they’d get a strongly worded reminder from HR about English being the ‘operating language’ and the expectation that staff speak it on site. Their manager might throw in some related baloney about H&S in the working environment, and who really has time to listen to all that? Best just reuse the official language in one’s own way.

Only if they were Scottish. Irish people would speak Irish.

...which is also known as Gaelic.

You mean Irish.

Back in those days much of the Irish speaking population had been wiped out and kids speaking it at school might expect a beating from the Christian brothers.