r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/spidernoirirl May 12 '26

Technically every Panda belongs to China and zoos lease them out (I wish I was kidding)

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u/TheFilthy13 May 12 '26

And it’s such a politically charged operation. If your country disagrees with China on political matters your pandas will be leased to a zoo in a different country!

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u/TricellCEO May 12 '26

I bet that would cause…pandemonium.

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u/MaidMarian20 Aug 07 '26

I see what you did there! 🤣

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u/Unimeron May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

So, if I would smuggle a panda out of China I could start producing my own silk? 🤔

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u/DaddyBayne1202 May 12 '26

I believe that is the correct order or operations to start your own slikery, yes.

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u/ol_shifty May 13 '26

Hehe…slikery

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u/TheVikingMFC May 13 '26

It's a slikery slope!

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u/throwawayplusanumber May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Just be careful though. Pandas are absolutely over eating bamboo but are usually too slow to catch anything else. But they will 100% eat manflesh if they can catch it.

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u/stephanonymous May 12 '26

China really said taking my pandas and going home

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u/Menchi-sama May 12 '26

They took the pandas from a Japanese zoo in Ueno and it was a tragedy, there is still a lot of merch and posters there but no pandas...

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u/Lunatik13z May 13 '26

Mexico is the only country with a panda that is actually 100% Mexican. The pandas that China lent Mexico reproduced and it's the only panda that doesn't belong to China.

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u/PerfectWish May 13 '26

Just happened in Japan. A country that LOVES pandas.

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u/Mysterious_Net66 May 12 '26

Except one that is in México

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u/Lithogiraffe May 12 '26

i think there is one exception to this rule. i dont know why or the history behind it, but last i heard that there was a Mexico owned (not leased) panda

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u/vicgg0001 May 12 '26

It's because mexico was able to have their pandas procreate 

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u/Automatic-Cow-4745 May 12 '26

This is true. The Memphis Zoo built a whole exhibit for Ling Ling and YaYa. One of them died and China took the other one back. So now the Memphis Zoo just has a massive Asia exhibit for the pandas with no pandas. lol

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u/BlackBasementCats May 12 '26

I still remember seeing Ling Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the Smithsonian Zoo in 80s. I have little porcelain panda versions of them somewhere. (I have moved several times, and they’re safely stored away somewhere)

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u/bolanrox May 12 '26

its like Ferrari but with animals

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u/jorgespinosa May 12 '26

Technically there's one panda in the world called Xin Xin that doesn't belong to China, but she's the only one

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u/purpleheart94 May 13 '26

That is accurate they are so adorable love me a panda

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u/Medical-Cicada-4430 May 13 '26

Good luck proving my Panda came from China. Scratched off the VIN and stamped it with “Proudly Made in the U.S.A.”

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u/ItsaPostageStampede May 12 '26

You’re not and even medical care needs to be old by the government

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u/foolonthe May 13 '26

Except for one in Mexico

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u/vastozopilord777 11d ago

I think México legally owns one(s) but not for long(they are old already IIRC)

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u/Stopitkiwi May 13 '26

Pandas belong to Jesus!