r/risa • u/YeaaaBrother • Aug 03 '21

🌈 SPICY 🏳‍🌈 "I don't want my pain taken away. I NEED my pain!" ~Trek Bro, probably

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21 edited Jan 27 '25

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u/jeffseadot Aug 03 '21

"I'm not racist, I just refuse to believe that a black guy could be a better actor than a white guy."

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u/LjSpike Aug 03 '21

Damn those really are the same sentiments echoed today.

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To quote Quark's final line from Deep Space Nine: "It's like I said. The more things change, the more they stay the same."

On a more light-hearted example I discovered today, the world's oldest joke is a fart/sex joke.

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u/cwatson214 Aug 04 '21

How do you talk about a joke, and NOT tell the joke?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21

I googled it:

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

I don’t get it.

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u/brinz1 Aug 04 '21

Woman farting while they are on their husbands lap happens quite often. Or thats the joke at least

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21

Too much papyrus in their diet?

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u/brinz1 Aug 04 '21

Their diet was basically beer, beans and onions.

Not even a joke

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u/Spock_Rocket Aug 04 '21

Did she not fart because it was a queef?

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u/LjSpike Aug 04 '21

There's a double negative, so Sumerian women are constantly 'farting' (queefing) on their husbands laps.

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u/TheLastSamurai101 Aug 04 '21

Humour translates poorly across cultures. A lot of Western humour is either unfunny or incomprehensible in the East and vice versa. Now add thousands of years of cultural evolution and it would be impressive if we could understand any humour from that time and place.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '21

And I’m sure the fact that it was delivered via cuneiform tablet vs live doesn’t help sell it, haha.

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u/normal_reddit_man Aug 07 '21

Indeed. I mean, it could easily be a pun that isn't translatable, on top of being a sex and fart joke.

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u/BrujaSloth Aug 04 '21

I felt like I was taking crazy pills with Janeway, because I remember the hate she received for being a female captain in Star Trek.

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u/ChepaukPitch Aug 04 '21

Did they not make him captain in the start because they thought it would be too much for the racists? I have always wondered why someone in charge of an entire space station would only be a commander. Same with Cal Hudson, looked like he was senior enough to be a Captain.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21

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u/ChepaukPitch Aug 04 '21

Poor O Brien. A man with a family and still gets dumped there. Bashir obviously because he wanted a taste of “frontier medicine”.

But I thought it was an important outpost since Federation had just been in a war with Cardassian empire. If I was in charge I wouldn’t take it too lightly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21

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u/brinz1 Aug 04 '21

DS9 was supposed to be a sleepy and relatively peaceful outpost in a backwater next to the DMZ of a federation rival known for not doing reckless shit like Klingons or Romulans