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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

My solution is cut both apples in half, and take two halves, because I am more equal than others.

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 minutes ago

Some animals are more equal than others...

[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Line em up and cut a third off both apples in one go? Everyone gets 2/3? Seems simple right? Consider the core. I don't think it's possible if you consider the core. You have to kill one of your friends.

You have to kill one of your friends.

You have to kill one of your friends.

Choose which one of your friends to kill.

Reach for the knife before someone else does.

You have to kill one of your friends.

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Rotate each apple 90 degrees so that core is parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the knife, now its split equally

If more than one person hates the stem part then yea it's murder time

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The core isn't evenly distributed along the axis though, it's like a small thingy in the center. Definitely murder time

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 36 minutes ago
[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or you could sacrifice yourself, you murderous bastard.

[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 1 points 52 minutes ago

But then I would be dead.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Cut both apples in half. One half for the blonde, one half for brownie, one half for the ginger, and the last half for the animals or something.

Last half for the painter of this picture.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

I get the apple with the leaf for solving the puzzle.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago

Just eat out the apples together, ignoring the knife. Just take a bite and pass the apple to the next person, repeating the process until there is just a core. Not very sanitary, but mission accomplished.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And you have one less rival for getting a girlfriend.

[–] chatroom@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a Bechdel test but for incel men?

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you have one guy draw the knife over a long surface and distance, the other two can use that one slicing motion to cut the apples any number of times.

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

Like shaving with an old razor blade.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 60 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I will be the cpt obv

1/3 1/3

<=======]==o

2/3 2/3

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Ok but like how do you know it's 1/3 of the apple without any other tools.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

it is a magical long sword of apple slicing (+5 damage and THAC0 against apples, +1 otherwise)

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 10 points 5 hours ago

Let’s not go too deep on this alright

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Cut first, choose last. It's as fair as you can get when eyeballing it

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago

If your stroke is good enough you don’t have to share the two apples with anyone.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ah damn it's one of those single-use knives.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago

Only if you didn't bring extra knife ammo

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's why you get the knife subscription plan.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 16 hours ago

Don't give them any more ideas.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

Yeah fuck buying things for life - I am now buying things for death

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cross contamination there's a girl there you'll get girl germs

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 73 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] anas@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Luigi says [ Removed by Reddit ]

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 102 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Non-murder solution:

Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.

More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Apple’s aren’t square so it’s not so easy to figure out where to cut that will give you a 1/3 - 2/3 split.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

The knife looks long enough you could probably cut 1/3 of each apple while they are placed side by side, which might be easier and safer to cut than stacking the apples.

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

If the knife is long enough, you could simply line the apples up and do that.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Take both apples and attach them to a drill. Position the knife on apples so that it starts slicing a long slice as they rotate and run the drill. You'll end up with a long piece of 2 apples and 2 cores. Keep the long peels, give each core to each one of those peasants.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 14 points 17 hours ago

Bold of you to assume I'm not going to go Voorhees on both of them, have an apple as desert and save the second apple for later.

Obviously, I'm not going to eat the other two people. Without cooking them. And with the apple cores, I can make a lovely sauce to go with

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 46 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

What I find particoularly annoying and interesting, is that most of those "silly/dumb" social network questions are engineered with at least 2, sometimes more layers, for the purpose of getting a reaction not really from the "dumb people" but also, possibly mostly, from the smartass that can't help point out something they think they noticed, incongruity and the likes, unaware that those are there on purpose to bait them in.

This case is a lot more blatant, possibly fake, but the "controversial" interpretation of stabbing one of the children is not an afterthoughts of the sick mind of us memers terminally online, it's probably the core reason the thing has been shared and worded that way.

I just hope my own reaction has not been 100% predicted.

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 day ago

That's socialist propaganda! You see, you cut both apples in half with one cut, everyone gets half an apple and the remaining half is given to someone who struggles affording life.

(/s)

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 17 hours ago

I'd rather eat an orange. Apple skin gets stuck in my teeth.

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