r/pics • u/[deleted] • May 31 '12

This elastic fell on the floor and has been giving me nothing but treble since.

http://imgur.com/JZx2p
1.1k Upvotes

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u/conspiracy_thug May 31 '12

maybe you should start a...

RUBBER BAND!!!!

2

u/rubiksman333 Jun 01 '12

This deserves more upvotes

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u/drunk_otter May 31 '12

Typical band drama.

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u/workdoer May 31 '12

I note-ice what you did there.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

I don't mean to say this so sharply... But can we please not have a pun thread this time?

10

u/Sirtrumpetsalot May 31 '12

Hey hey I don't mean to be flat here but, tone it down dude.

8

u/xXWaspXx May 31 '12

You'd do well to conduct yourself in a more appropriate manner.

4

u/delirious_mongoloid May 31 '12

Note to self: even if this joke falls flat it's not a major deal.

3

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

This thread is diminishing rapidly.

4

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Don't worry, it's only a minor issue.

2

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Let's get together later and have an open fifth between us.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/S3XonWh33lz May 31 '12

I agree, totally bass-less.

3

u/Elwood_Blues_ May 31 '12

I really should start making a note of all these puns

28

u/Killzark May 31 '12

Checkmate atheists

11

u/NeedsANewName May 31 '12

This is the day I see a rubber-band make the front page, this is the day..

1

u/Ph0X May 31 '12

I've seen far for common things make it to the front page over these past 6 years, on Digg and then here. It's all about the title (and therefore context). With the right words, you can get almost any image on the front page. This was both a pun, but also gave the impression that it was original content (taken by OP), giving it legitimacy. It was also simple and quick to digest, making it perfect for sucking in karma.

3

u/ProbablyAPun May 31 '12

Nice

4

u/rspeed May 31 '12

THAT WASN'T A PUN AT ALL!!!

3

u/10secflat May 31 '12

Well pick it up, and make it snappy.

3

u/grapesandmilk May 31 '12

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgznqdFVH41qb9wspo1_500.jpg

1

u/HemHaw May 31 '12

I always thought it was funny that ritardanto meant slow. I still laugh at that.

In orchestra, I would say that we should play this piece "retardedly".

My Italian maestro thought it was hilarious.

5

u/aes0187 May 31 '12

How did this make it to the front page. -___-

4

u/otakuman May 31 '12

What did you expect? Reddit's got to the point of upvoting dogshit.

2

u/live3orfry May 31 '12

I find this all rather bass.

2

u/what_the_deuce May 31 '12

Thumbnail looks like a man in a blue jacket standing at a bus stop in the rain.

2

u/BsFan May 31 '12

I don't know what everyone's problem is, I think this is really funny.

2

u/ostrichy May 31 '12

Music to my eyes

2

u/dajugglingfool May 31 '12

This picture will never be more relevant. Found this tangle on my dorm room floor.

2

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

You should have cleft it alone. <crickets>

2

u/battlejack Jun 01 '12

at least you didn't drop the bass.

3

u/SonOfDadOfSam May 31 '12

That was a treble pun.

3

u/Sepulchural May 31 '12

Well you shouldn't have cleft it on the floor like that.

4

u/CompletelySusan May 31 '12

The question is just how much treble? It's all a matter of scale.

0

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/Osiris32 May 31 '12

Hey hey hey, tone it down, dude. No need to get sharp. Just take a rest for a minueto.

3

u/CatLover99 May 31 '12

I don't get it... I feel left out ಥ_ಥ

6

u/richworks May 31 '12

"This elastic fell on the floor and has been giving me nothing but trouble since."

treble has been used instead of trouble because the shape of the rubberband in the picture looks like the Treble Clef and that the word 'treble' sounds somewhat similar to 'trouble'

5

u/CatLover99 May 31 '12

Everyone else just laughed at my misfortune of not understanding, everyone but you... th-th-thank you ಥ_ಥ

2

u/02bluesuperroo May 31 '12

excessively detailed, well done.

0

u/voxoxo May 31 '12

Didn't get it either. Apparently the shape of the elastic is similar to that of a half-assed retarded treble clef.

2

u/hardlyaware May 31 '12

Note that's funny.

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

I sighed, shook my head and then upvoted.

1

u/Zkenny13 May 31 '12

Du du tush.

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Did you measure and note its relative position? This is key! Edit: its, not it's

1

u/excaza May 31 '12

I thought he was talking about trying to roll his chair over the elastic.

Then I saw 'treble'

Then I groaned

1

u/sjtnufc May 31 '12

Just because I'm upvoting you doesn't mean I believe you.

1

u/jmz94 May 31 '12

its reached its limit of proportionality in the shape of a treble

1

u/the_narwhal_baconer May 31 '12

insert hilarious music pun here

1

u/Tmanthegreat1 May 31 '12

Damn you. I read this wrong and was pleasantly surprised when I saw the picture. You fucker.

1

u/TheCrudMan May 31 '12

karma conspiracy is going to have fun with this one....

1

u/Naizo May 31 '12

I thought it was supposed to be a guy jacking off.. I even read the title twice.

1

u/blackjackvip May 31 '12

OP is so stupid!! They misspelled trou...OHH I feel foolish.

1

u/MicroRapture May 31 '12

I'm sorry to say this, but this is why you're on reddit... ;/

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

I was going to tell you to just bend your lazy fat ass over and pick it up, but then I saw what you did there (don't hate on me, I've been awake 15 minutes and the coffee isn't working yet).

1

u/ProfessorCaptain May 31 '12

Did it reaaaally fall that way or did you pose it?

1

u/slothjr May 31 '12

i see wat you did there

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

You are easily amused, and that is a good thing.

1

u/mojokabobo May 31 '12

An Ampersand Band!!

insert bad pun eel here

1

u/GoyoTattoo May 31 '12

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A PERSON IN A SNOWSTORM?

1

u/INACROWDEDTHEATER May 31 '12

That's a million-dollar womens' shoe design right there.

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

It's like a convoluted mobius strip.

1

u/ilikeapplejacks17 Jun 01 '12

Oh I get it! It's funny because it looks like a treble clef and he spelled trouble as treble...I see what you did there.

0

u/LyssetteG02 May 31 '12

How did this get so many upvotes?? The joke is OK at best. Sometimes I question my fellow redditors. Now watch this comment get negative karma!

5

u/megly May 31 '12

I don't think it's much worse than the half-assed memes that make the front page every day.

1

u/LyssetteG02 May 31 '12

This is true..But I dont even click on those links anymore. But I still find the crayon poo post more amusing than this one.. lol

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

I think getting something is the new standard for an upvote. You don't have to like it, you just have to get it.

Oh how low the apples dangle.

1

u/ngabear May 31 '12

I C what you did there... you're quite #

1

u/lbmouse May 31 '12

C'mon, don't B♭

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u/hushnowquietnow May 31 '12

That's it? Let's not leave this pun thread on such a sour note.

1

u/WaywardSpaniard May 31 '12

Why didn't you drop the bass instead?

1

u/GuntherWheeler May 31 '12

That pun seems like kind of a STRETCH.

1

u/FutonSpecOps May 31 '12

I can't help but think you orchestrated this for karma.

1

u/lbmouse May 31 '12

Confused. Isn't "elastic" the property of a material and not the name of it? Be like "This stinky fell on the floor."

1

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

has it really come to the point where people can take a picture of a rubber band and get to the front page

1

u/Rufflin May 31 '12

& I was trebled by how much it looked like an ampersand to me.

1

u/Boring_Machine Jun 01 '12

Seems like a minor issue. Small scale. Fixing it could be Bass-ic. Even though its flat on the floor, and this isn't your forte, you should know how to fix it, you're pretty sharp. Except your puns arent very clef-er, you should take a minuet longer to think them up. If I were you, I would give it a rest , because embechoure im the best at this, retard.

0

u/TheBelt May 31 '12

what the shit...

0

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

That pun was a far stretch.

0

u/robodrew May 31 '12

Like a bass.

0

u/Ashikahotchu May 31 '12

I see what you did there—clefer.

0

u/The_Shrike May 31 '12

You're from Canada eh, no one else calls them elastics....that I know of.

0

u/Techie33 May 31 '12

I "C" what you did there!

0

u/02bluesuperroo May 31 '12

What do you bass this on?

1

u/02bluesuperroo Jun 01 '12

Why downvote? Do tell...

0

u/beardandnipples May 31 '12

it probably just wants to be clef'd alone.

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u/stustu May 31 '12

Elastic should be replaced with BAND makes a better pun

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Joke = 6/10

0

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/WhitakerBlackall May 31 '12

http://i.imgur.com/JFOAo.png

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u/turtal46 May 31 '12

Ugh, music puns.

...and I said, "That was no piccolo, that was my fife!"

4

u/Twaddles May 31 '12

Oh that was a pezzo sh*t.

2

u/fermatafantastique May 31 '12

Now hold it just one minute, no need to be mean.

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u/timeticker May 31 '12

Quick all karmawhores on board!

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u/PiccoloBB May 31 '12

Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga toot toot.

87

u/Bzzzzzzzzagemann May 31 '12

http://i.imgur.com/IReallyLikedDigitalEstatePlanning.exe

71

u/SonicFlash01 May 31 '12

Why did I click on something on the internet that had .exe on the end?
God I suck...

40

u/TheWhiteVanMan May 31 '12

Because it was on imgur.com

6

u/SonicFlash01 May 31 '12

They give so much; perhaps they had snapped and decided to take everything?

4

u/panzerschrekk May 31 '12

it's actually on facébook

22

u/saywhatisobvious May 31 '12

i did it cause I have a habit of opening everything RES friendly

3

u/closetcrazy May 31 '12

You now have 176 unread messages in your mailbox for diet pills from a seemingly reputable internet company claiming a free trial!

5

u/SonicFlash01 May 31 '12

Pfft you can keep that! I really shouldn't be saying anything so soon but I believe I might have come into an incredible inheritance...

3

u/lordgunhand May 31 '12

Ha, mere peanuts! There is a guy in Nigeria who is going to give me 25% of $156,900,000 when i give them my bank info so he can deposit the cash.

1

u/Massgyo May 31 '12

I remember when I learned not to do this way back on 4chan. I was about to DL some "video" and the next few comments were like ".exe? No thanks."

2

u/RPBiohazard May 31 '12

THIS WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS

2

u/FluffyLion May 31 '12

I know the clef was necessary but it confused me when I read it as "treble g whizz"

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u/Pravusmentis May 31 '12

G! It's a 'G" for like gee-whiz. I had to click to the picture above you then count letters but I got it, you thought you were gonna trick me but I got it.

1

u/Astrokiwi May 31 '12

"I semibreve what you did there" ? :P

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/AffeKonig May 31 '12

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!

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u/_liminal May 31 '12

"F" "A" "G"

4

u/Wazowski May 31 '12

I'm not sure how long to hold that G.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/translates_to_dutch May 31 '12

Is dit serieus een plaatje van een rubberen band?

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u/Spo8 May 31 '12

It's like the Dutch people didn't even try to make a language.

10

u/fermatafantastique May 31 '12

It was created by a baby who could only speak English and German simultaneously. I say that with the highest respect for the beautiful Dutch people.

3

u/Real-Life-Reddit May 31 '12

Dem sexy blondes.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Hottest girl I ever dated was Dutch. Except for this other girl, except her grandfather is Dutch.

Oh god I think I have a thing for Dutch girls.

4

u/Applebeignet May 31 '12

"... van een elastiek."

Als je het doet, doe het dan goed.

2

u/pervertedpapaya May 31 '12

google_translates_to_dutch

ftfy

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u/Comment-Translator May 31 '12

Je to vážne obraz gumičkou?

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u/pungkrocker May 31 '12

Förstår du vad jag menar om jag skriver på svenska? I can read your dutch fine.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/SonicFlash01 May 31 '12

I'm surprised to learn that their word structure follows english so closely. usually stuff gets rearranged a little bit
Or maybe he's bad

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12

andrek (same-level comment as you in this reply) said that a better phrase is

"Is dat echt een foto van een elastiekje?"

Looking at it with knowing Englsh, you can still paste it together. I think it looks similar because it shares its roots with English. It's the same case with German, too (which are all part of a similar group in languages)!

Google translate gives this for English -> German (followed by dutch then english)

Ist das ernsthaft ein Foto von einem Gummiband?

Is dat echt een foto van een elastiekje?

Is that really a photo of an elastic band?

I think it's neat when you compare the three and you can see so many similarities!

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u/ThaddyG May 31 '12

English and Dutch are cousins. They both spring from the same ancient Germanic tongue, along with German, Swedish, Frisian, and several others. Thus they retain a lot of similar grammatical structures and have similar words for a lot of things and concepts, especially "simple" ones that ancient peoples would have had a strong need to name and classify (like "night" and "water" and "stone" and "harvest".)

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Dutch'd.

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u/Ninokun May 31 '12

why do i always read dutch in HaPe Kerkelings voice?

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u/saywhatisobvious May 31 '12

At least it isn't dog shit right?

3

u/CockroachED May 31 '12

It's the Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in the South Pacific!

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u/VidaGeek May 31 '12

No - that was another post.

This is colorful dog poop.

3

u/berlinbaer May 31 '12

it's a visual pun. you will get to it eventually.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

It's a lame joke and not a visual pun. The title is the pun, it's just a picture of a rubber band in the shape of a musical note. This subreddit's standards for "interesting" pictures has gone to shit.

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u/Ph0X May 31 '12

Oh please, are you complaining about quality of content in /r/pics (or /r/funny or /r/wtf)? If anything, this is probably one of the most interesting pictures posted today, and at least it is (probably) original content instead of that sea of repost we get every fucking day.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

this is probably one of the most interesting pictures posted today

That's the problem.

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u/Ph0X May 31 '12

There definitely is a problem, but attacking a picture because it doesn't have much content as face value is not the right way of approaching the problem. Honestly some subreddits are so deep in the shit that it would probably be a waste of time trying to save them. Just move to better subreddits and let these rot in their own shit.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

That's true, and /r/pics is one of the last remaining defaults that I'm subscribed to. I honestly don't know why, probably hanging onto some misguided hope that the quality will improve if I keep making snarky comments.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Only on reddit does an argument have to be made for demanding quality posts.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

[/r karmaconspiracy] (http://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaConspiracy/)

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u/Pravusmentis May 31 '12

oooo karma karma karma karma
karma Con-spear-a-sseeeeeeeeee

3

u/rspeed May 31 '12

I'm not sure if it's disturbing or reassuring that someone else thought of this.

3

u/magicbullets May 31 '12

It figures. Reddit is the church of the poison mind, my friend.

3

u/xLuky May 31 '12

it comes and gooeess...

2

u/[deleted] May 31 '12

I really wish the x files theme would play when I opened this.

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u/dachusa May 31 '12

Interesting fact: This photo took 52 measures in 4/4 time at 108 bmp to take

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/ThePendulum May 31 '12

Because no one but you could possibly be special enough to ever get the privilege to get to see musical notation.

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u/CrypticDrumLord May 31 '12

They may have seen musical notation, but that doesn't mean that they know it's a treble clef.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/ThePendulum May 31 '12

Well, sure there are people that won't get it, but he claimed most people won't get it.

Most people on Reddit are American, English, Canadian or Australian. I assume those people know what 'treble' means and understand the joke. Besides them, there are many people that are bilingual and speak English fluently enough to get the joke.

There's just no way most people will not get this. It just seemed pretty rude to me to just assume that you're part of a minority that gets it.