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[–] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This reminds me of the story about Triboulet, a jester for the king of France.

One day, Tribulet slaps the French king's ass. This makes the king so mad he threatens to have Triboulet executed if he doesn't come up with an apology that was even more insulting than than this prank.

Tribulet responded by saying: "I'm sorry your majesty, I thought you were the Queen!"

This provoked the king even further, so he condemned him to death. However since he had served faithfully for many years, the king offered him the choice of how he would die.

So Triboulet said: "Good sire, I choose to die from old age."

This finally made the king laugh, which led to him allowing Triboulet be banished from France instead of executed.

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    Speaking of Legendary, if you've ever played Balatro you can come across Triboulet as one of the five legendary Jokers in the game. All five are based on famous jesters and entertainers from history or media with their effects always being a reference to their story.

    In Triboulets case he gives 2x mult to any played king or queen.

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  • [–] 92 points 3 days ago* (5 children)

    King guy is so resentful he instructed the executioner to use the smallest, shittiest axe ever for a decapitation.

    You know, make sure it takes a few very messy hits. Maybe he requested an extra blunt edge too.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 days ago* (21 children)

    Youtube for some reason started pushing roast shorts to me. 90% of it just racist shit with an uncomfortable audience laughing. I hope they take me off that reel at some point, as they've removed the downvote button

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    That shit does absolutely fucking nothing. I don't know how many time's I've clicked either of those and had it continue to suggest the same channel or even the same video.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Are you logged in?

    I use these quite regularly and they've always worked just fine for me.

    'Don't recommend channel' in particular has pretty consistently removed channels from my recommended list... (As long as I refresh the page afterwards)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    The biggest joke is the show less shorts button, i clicked that every month since it excist and like a clock they come back every month and when i search for a specific video it's difficult to find because every search is cluttered with shorts

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    My wife has been showing me TikTok videos of black guys asking things like, "guess what I do for work," and the responses are every bit as racist as you'd expect.

    She thinks it's everyone making fun of racists and black people owning the jokes, but to me it looks like attempts to normalize overt racism.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yep. I keep seeing videos of some british guy going around asking international students / workers, "what's a word that you find hard to pronounce", and initially it's played off as cute, but after the fifth person, it's clear that he's doing it to mock them as he's pretty strong in how he corrects them....

    there is a narrative to normalize this kind of "us first" behaviour...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    That, I think, demonstrates the duality of roasting. You have to go for the obvious, the low hanging fruit but do it in a way that brings something else than just: duh-huh black, duh-huh gay, duh-huh ugly etc

    The only roaster I’ve watched purely for his roasts is Greg Giraldo - a now dead, ex lawyer, drug addict who only got into comedy because he thought he could do better than what he was going out to watch.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Heads up before the head off.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    History fact: he's holding what was called a "knave's axe". It was specifically used for tricksters - they'd give the victim a running start, and throw the axe. If the victim survived the single axe throw, it was considered divine mercy and the crime was forgiven.

    Academic sourcesI made it up

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