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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

It comes from the Latin root Euphonious meaning "sweet voiced"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Mayonnaise.
All of them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

People: "This is a xylophone."

Musicians: "It's metallic, hint hint."

People: "Yes, it's a metallic xylophone."

Musicians:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Glockenspiel is just fun to say though.....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

My wife and I like to call saxophones "sexy trumpets"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Squidward flute" made me cringe so hard I almost passed out. God please tell me none of you are actually that lame

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

no one is. this is the most ridiculous caricature I've ever seen and the immense snobbery of the so-called musician is unbearable. no one calls cellos violins. no one says Squidward flute or plinky plonk. literally everyone knows what a saxophone is, no one says careless whisper, which hasn't been nearly as popular and ubiquitous as it was decades ago. i wouldn't be surprised if fewer people know about careless whisper than they do about epic sax guy from Eurovision.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments "violins"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

that still goes against the image...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sing us a song, you're the plink-ploink man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Im pretty sure if the trombone is rusty both of those two people can distinguish it from the others.

(... then again, the adjacent color there is some shitty shade of green so ... kinda, I guess?)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've had multiple people call my baritone saxophone a trumpet... It's funny and sad everytime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The amount of times people have called my trumpet a saxophone, or my trombone a saxophone, or my clarinet a saxophone, or my melodica a saxophone, or my saxophone a saxophone apauls me.

Never call someone a saxophone; not only is it rude, it's a slur and against the law.

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

Appalls. Unless I've missed a new slang word for getting into drag.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I wish it was that way. I've seen a 20 year old get brass instruments mixed up. Many reference squidward when talking about clarinet, oboe, English horn, and bass clarinet. Unfortunately it isn't just musician vs a 5 year old.

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

Soundwise or visually? I can see the difference (big vs little) but I don't think I could reliably pick out the sound between the two.

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

I was thinking visually. But even sound-wise I don't think most people would hear a cello and think that's a violin (even if they don't know it's a cello). But I've listened to a lot of Apocalyptica and 2Cellos, and I also grew up on cartoons that feature tubas frequently for comedic effect, so maybe I'm just biased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I found this video and I really wouldn't be able to tell if it was just sound. I think I have like 2 categories I can reliably do for strings: bow or not.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I faked trombone all the way through middle school. Adam, the kid next to me, knew how to play trombone and could read the music as well. What I did was create my own system of trombonal slide positions, numbered 1 through 6. Then I would watch where Adam moved his slide with each note played, and I would write the corresponding number from my system above each note on my paper.

I leached you like a vampire, Adam.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago

That's almost as much work as learning it!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

you created your own system for actively refusing to learn to play normally. lol

i mean good job too I guess but I think just practicing would have been less effort.

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

This is especially funny because I think there's only 7 positions on a typical trombone anyway, and unless you have godlike lips can only hit 3 or 4 octaves across those. i played trombone through high school and it's like the easiest instrument, haha.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Keyboard players: everything is keys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Ah, the aspiring musician's keyboard who can't afford a real one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha. The seal really sells it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Seal of approval 🎷🦭

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

I didn't see mayonnaise on either list?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Mayonnaise on an escalator.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I love blowing my Fagott.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I only recognize one epic saxophone guy and it isn't george michael.

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

My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As a musician, this is how I feel when talking to percussionists. Pretty much anything that makes a sound can be used for percussion and plenty of them have been given specific names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_percussion_instruments

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