The whole point of the post is to make fun of a French product that has a French name. I’ll even say that, further, they’re (jokingly) accusing the producer of the product of knowingly using a name that sounds ridiculous to English speakers, which is a silly premise to begin with.

I’m not sure what the argument is, but the original comment simply stated that the joke only makes sense if you don’t know French (I also don’t know French, and it took me 5 seconds to find out that “la roche” means the “rock,” so i realized oh they’re making fun of how French sounds. It’s not a particularly funny post).

Oh man, I’m learning German so the joke went over my head completely. In German, Kaufman means something like store clerk or merchant, and the kau is pronounced more like the English word cow.

This is the first thing i usually think of

https://youtu.be/5yuL6PcgSgM

I don’t even know how to approach that but you do you I suppose

But this is actually why we decide whether or not we participate in postmortem organ donation while we’re alive - we make the conscious decision ahead of time. Which is still then consistent with the consent argument

I totally forgot about the real commercial part! Thanks for adding that, that’s an important detail, and super funny

I think they’re referring to this video, involving Folgers coffee (satire)

https://youtu.be/fhfcWTZeP1k

Edit: adding the shorter real commercial as well for context (thanks M0oP0o)

https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU

It’s shorthand for “we sold this particular home for 1.02m over (more than) the initial asking price!”

It’s advertising that it’s a hot market and this realtor will get you a ton of money, even more than you will initially ask for. Probably due to multiple bidders.

I’m not the person who commented earlier, but I think they were referring specifically to “mass shootings,” which are more associated (at least, the perspective is) with being somewhat random. I think most Americans are more afraid of being shot at random in a mass shooting by mistake, as it would be out of their control.

Separately, gun violence as a whole is a huge problem. It is typically more associated with gang and criminal activity (which are of course big problems), but many Americans feel if you avoid dangerous areas you should more or less avoid gun violence, as the mass shootings tend to (but don’t always) get an incredible amount of news coverage. Additionally, many of those mass shootings are gang shootings. It’s really the school shootings, mall shootings church shootings, etc that people are afraid of. And those are a real problem, though the numbers are smaller than the hype would make it seem.

That being said, other countries don’t seem to have the same issue, so it’s still wild to have to try downplaying the violence.

I think what he’s saying is that they were born into slavery. Yes, they were later freed, but they were the youngest people in that situation, and thus survived until the 1970s with some actual living memory of slavery.

It’s really wild how recent that is though

To this day, the boomers in my life tell me that “freight trains in the US are the envy of the world.” Ok, great, but it would be nice if it was usable in daily life

I think that’s exactly what that person is saying though. There is plenty of opportunity for good public infrastructure, but bad policy and auto lobbies have prevented them from happening. A good example is how most neighborhoods are not allowed to be located with businesses/shops/restaurants, and vice versa. This simple change would make so much more of the country more walkable

The point isn’t that it’s making fun of people for being poor, it’s making fun of the poor voting against their own interests and then insulting others along the way for some reason

I don’t think I was involved in any bickering. I meant to clarify my thoughts from earlier.

In the image itself, it directly calls it a “profit motive,” not just a general motive. I figured you may have missed that by mistake, wasn’t trying to be rude.

Then the rest the of the post implies that these other people are able to do stuff without a profit motive, though yes it doesn’t state they have other motives i suppose? But i think that’s the point

I do believe this was the message that was intended to be conveyed by the post itself

None of the names are legible and the front two are both showing a one star general ranking.

One of the main drivers behind this story (i should say, i think one of the main drivers) is the more recent one where a man abandoned his girlfriend in the austrian alps at night and left her for dead, and it turned out he’d (allegedly) performed that same stunt before with a different ex girlfriend (who survived).

I’m sure your personal situation might be “he said she said,” but some of these people are comparably wild

Exactly what i was thinking as i commented hahaha

https://xkcd.com/326/