To be fair, that is a horrible meme format for this purpose.
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I still don't know if the OP was complaining that she stops the phone from charging beyond 80% or that she insists on charging even when it's already 80% charged.
its the latter
He has to explain the very concept of a movie to his mom now.
Mom, I know it's hard to accept but film is inevitable
You couldn’t live with your own failure, where did that bring you? back to me. -The Phone Charger.
He also has to explain the concept of a meme.
Everyone is misunderstanding what's going on here. Mom is obviously so chill with aliens that not only does she not recognize this particular alien, but she's concerned her son went somewhere she doesn't know about with that unfamiliar alien. He needs to call her so he can tell her.
well at least she's not racist or specist even
Mine is not as loquacious
The petit pipi is very funny to me for some reason.
I also appreciate the translation of "???" for "???"
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My mom texts exactly like this. Talks too.
A quality meme, wasted on someone completely unworthy.
Not everyone grew up consuming memes. Maybe if you call and explain it she'll understand and have a great laugh. Totally worthy then.
Metaphors are hardly a new device. Anyone who knows how to read above an elementary school level should readily understand metaphors and similes.
You should tell her that, I'm not going to.
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Mom doesn’t speak meme.
This is beyond memes. This is a severe deficit of metaphorical thinking. Mom might have like undiagnosed autism
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Become unmemeable
technically it's optimal for battery health if you only keep charge somewhere between 40 and 80%
Which is why my phone lies to me and 100% is actually 80%.
40% is unnecessary conservative. More like 20%.
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“Is this one of those drug things?”
Showed this to my wife. She also did not understand.
Why are people like this? It has signs and context and explanation and all
Seriously. I understand there’s a generational gap, but this is laid out so fucking plainly. Like… how does she not know, at the very least, that the purple dude is not a real person
how is it plain? what is he doing? what is on his arm? what does him fucking with his arm have to do with taking a charger when it is not needed? I have no idea and clearly plenty of other people also agree.
this scene is not common enough knowledge to reference that people know what's happening and that makes it a poor choice for the meme.
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Maybe thinks its some performer or a statue or something. She probably didn't pay attention to all the grimmace ads so has no frame of reference of why a charger would connect to a big mac
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Purple guy confuses me
I don't know him in that picture
It's a representation
Did you go there?
(That's the part that got me. It's such a clueless to say lol)
I wish they just responded with a full lore dump that would be far more confusing
"Yes mom, I'm sorry to tell you I'm part of Thanos' army now. He is traveling planet by planet to erase 50% of every global population. I think it's really smart. You might disappear though, but it's all for the balance. Once we kill those pesky Avengers and collect all the Infinity Stones we'll be right on our way. Sorry, can't talk now, hope your phone is charged over 80%, busy busy. And thoughts and prayers that you're part of the 50% that remains! If so I'll call you tomorrow after we kill Spider-Man. Love you."
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I get it from context clues, but I have no idea what’s going on in the screenshot. The only Marvel movies I’ve seen are like…. iron man 1 and uhhhh transformers? If that’s marvel.
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Meanwhile I have my phone set to STOP charging at 80 percent. Thos I wish it did 85 and stop like my last one.
So. This bugs me. Why, in fact, are mom's capable of maxing out the word count three times over but If you send two texts they forget how to speak their native language?
Shit like this is why I never send internet memes to my parents. Boomers don't understand them.
Unsend! Unsend!
use meme unrelatable to someone who hasn't watched infinity war or whatever junk
act surprised your mom is oblivious or has no patience for this shit
Still got no idea what's going on with that "charger": didn't watch the movie, either. 🤷
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Who checked their charge level when viewing this. I'm exactly at 80 right now.
56% gang represent
25%, getting dangerously close to battery saver mode.
Close... 77
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When you're born with a charger embedded in the skull but mom really needs to charge her phone.
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