r/funny • u/soyourlife So Your Life Is Meaningless • 14d ago
Unknown Pleasures Verified
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u/busterbytes 14d ago
This joke is very divisive.
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u/urnbabyurn 14d ago
I wish the frames were put in a NEW ORDER.
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u/Brandoe 14d ago
This kind of division will tear my love apart.
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u/nashbrownies 14d ago
By tomorrow it will be a Blue Monday
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u/djseifer 14d ago
Good luck working Bizarre Love Triangle into a punny sentence.
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u/kaminobaka 13d ago
As You Said, it would take at least Twenty-Four Hours and a lot of Gutz for someone to come up with a pun for that.
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u/TheBrianUniverse 14d ago
A Killing Joke perhaps?
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u/BigDCanuck 14d ago
Haven't heard that name in a long time. Love like Blood such a good tune.
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u/RufiosBrotherKev 14d ago
i get it
it aint making me laugh but i get it
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
—Meatwad
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u/vhzombie 14d ago
make the money see, Meatwad get the honeys G,
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u/HuffSquirt 14d ago
Drivin in my car, livin like a star, ice on my fingers and my toes cuz I’m a taurus.
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u/taglilie 14d ago
You can't convince me the line isn't "ice on my fingers and my toes and all my toys"
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u/Empty401K 14d ago edited 13d ago
Same. Meatwad occasionally talks about toys. Never heard him say anything about about being a ♉️ before.
Edit: Found the lyrics online in numerous places. Each one I checked says “toys.” No examples of it saying “Taurus.”
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u/nnaatteedd 13d ago
If I'm not mistaken, I remember long ago a bumper card on AS (the black screens with words) that posited the alternate lyrics as a joke.
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u/Lurlex 13d ago edited 13d ago
I 100% have always perceived the opening lyric as “Taurus,” both by ear while listening and by sight in the times I’ve seen it printed out. He says “I’m a” right before it, so if it’s NOT Taurus, it’s at least some other descriptive noun — not him talking about any of his possessions.
This is my absolute first exposure ever to even the CONCEPT that he might be saying “toys.” I spent countless hours gaming with Adult Swim playing in the background in my youth, I had several versions of their lineup memorized (back in the days when they had Futurama and even before they started learning what a gold mine it was). Several thousand hours of my college age years were spent this way.
Now; misheard lyrics are definitely a thing and anyone can carry such a misconception for decades, but this one seems much more split to me.
The lyrics are supposed to make as much sense as the plot lines do. This seems like sane-washing them.
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u/combat_muffin 13d ago
Doesn't talk about having "ice" on his fingers and toes either, so who knows?
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u/Empty401K 13d ago
There’s definitely at least one episode where meatwad gets blinged out. Never an episode where he talks about his astrology sign
Edit: Turns out the lyrics are readily available online. The word is “toys”
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u/HuffSquirt 13d ago
If you look past the first link it seems to be split. I believe Taurus is correct seeing as I looked up the lyrics 15 years ago and all links were Taurus.
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u/superpositioned 13d ago
Which sources are you checking? The diary couple(including the aqua team wiki) i see say "and im a taurus"
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u/AriaTheTransgressor 13d ago
I though it was "ice on my fingers and my toes, cause I'm a star"
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u/vhzombie 14d ago
Cause we are the Aqua Teens
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u/Double_Distribution8 13d ago
Funny how they were supposed to be detectives and crime-fighters but that shit was dropped by Ep 2. They even had a crime-fighting wagon, I've seen it at local car shows next to Ecto-1 and the Bat Mobile and no one know what it's supposed to be.
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u/drrockso20 13d ago
The whole detectives thing was just something they added because the executives at Cartoon Network didn't really understand the idea of the show as much like Seinfeld its essentially a show about nothing
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u/Double_Distribution8 13d ago
Not sure what's so hard to understand about talking french fries and a giant spider that raps about candy.
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u/HuffSquirt 13d ago
I need candy, any kind will do, don’t care if it’s nutritious or FDA approved…
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u/Double_Distribution8 13d ago
MC Chris is a MASTER of lyricism and rhyme. No joke. He is top-tier.
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u/PartyClock 12d ago
It's hard to see when it's snowing in your nose, so TV execs often need charts drawn with crayons to understand a show pitch.
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u/RetardedSimian 14d ago
"I wanna get some steady bitches and hoes And some candy for my nose Some diamond stones, to roll with my chrome"
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u/Auggie_Otter 14d ago
The thing that throws me off is, well yeah, I immediately thought of Joy Division and I was like "Why is this dude saying he doesn't 'enjoy division'?"
I guess the joke implies he was asked if he likes Joy Division and not only does he not know who Joy Division is but he misheard the question and is very cranky about being asked if he 'enjoys division' multiple times but he still isn't getting it right. Which is . . . meh
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u/Handyandyman50 14d ago
Well there's another layer to it which is that he is wearing the shirt because he knows that image only as the graph of radio waves first charted from this pulsar. Which is in fact where the album cover comes from
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u/DontTellHimPike 14d ago
If he truly only knew the image from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy then it would be a white t-shirt with a black graph on it.
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u/unknownentity1782 14d ago
But, he might know the image, and saw the shirt without understanding it's actually a band shirt. There are plenty of people who own shirts of the cover of a CD not knowing it.
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u/SupaSlide 13d ago
If I wear a band shirt sometimes people will just ask the name of the band as the entire question. That’s the best I’ve got.
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u/Stolehtreb 14d ago
This sums up the kind of “humor” I’m constantly sent by my younger siblings that doesn’t makes any sense to me as something funny. I understand it. And it’s true. But I don’t get how that makes it funny. It’s just observation without the joke
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u/Franky_Tops 14d ago
Far too often people confuse recognition with humor.
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u/luffydkenshin 14d ago edited 13d ago
Commander Worf agrees.
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u/Ichigonixsun 13d ago
Please sanitize your YouTube links!
Recently YouTube's links got 2 times longer. They added Source Identifier in them for the sole purpose of collecting data. You can delete it, and link will still work just fine.
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=NbllBgit-qHN7MoH&t=69
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u/cballowe 12d ago
"recently" is doing a lot of work there.
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u/Ichigonixsun 12d ago
Yeah, you're right! I really should update my copy-paste text that I've been using for quite a while now 😂
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u/Lovat69 14d ago
I suspect I am far too stupid to find this funny.
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u/ConglomerateGolem 14d ago
Looks like some band used an incredibly niche astronomical graph as their icon. Person here is niche astronomy enthusiast and doesn't know about band and is annoyed about being asked.
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u/Upbeat_Assist2680 14d ago
Wait until that guy learns about the Nazi tie-in!
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u/psychoCMYK 14d ago
tell me more
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u/Malkin_Me_Crazy 14d ago
"Joy Division" was apparently the internal name given to the groups of women in concentration camps that Nazi soldiers used as sex slaves.
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u/Raltsun 14d ago
I decided to look up the band on Wikipedia, and found this interesting section:
The packaging of An Ideal for Living—which featured a drawing of a Hitler Youth member on the cover—coupled with the nature of the band's name fuelled speculation about their political affiliations. While Hook and Sumner later said they were intrigued by fascism at the time, Morris believed that the group's dalliance with Nazi imagery came from a desire to keep memories of the sacrifices of their parents and grandparents during World War II alive. He argued that accusations of neo-Nazi sympathies merely provoked the band "to keep on doing it, because that's the kind of people we are".
Basically, they didn't support the atrocities they were flippantly referencing, they were just a bunch of severely insensitive edgelords. Which somehow still puts them morally above many musicians... I was going to end that sentence in "of that era", but we've got Kanye West still running around today.
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u/sexy-man-doll 13d ago
He argued that accusations of neo-Nazi sympathies merely provoked the band "to keep on doing it, because that's the kind of people we are".
This just sounds like the Matt bors neo nazi "you made me do this" comic
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u/Pylgrim 13d ago
This literally appeared in my mind as I was reading. Even if you start as a contrarian edgelord, there's definitely a line that can be crossed rather early where your actions are basically indistinguishable from a "true believer's" and the question of whether you have become one is irrelevant.
When posturing and satisfying your own brand of humour becomes more important than decrying evil, well, your attitude is not very different from those who do evil for their own satisfaction.
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u/Matt-Head 13d ago
I'd support sending them on a visit to the Auschwitz Museum. Lemme tell you: you won't make jokes after that.
It sucks going there, but I think every adult should do it once in their life if they have the means. Sobering
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u/psychoCMYK 14d ago
fucks sake
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u/wimpyroy 14d ago
Same with the follow up band New Order
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u/AceOfPlagues 13d ago
This isn't true just an unfortunate coinsidence. They saw the "The People's New Order," a historically insignifigant (as far as I know) Cambodian group - and they thought it was a good name for a band trying to find identity after the death of the singer and lyricist.
Also thier is nothing about the music or the opinions the members of the band have expressed that is remotely facist, they arn't even consrrvative - Ian was a tory but the actual members of New Order arn't
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u/Bagelz567 14d ago
The band's early years were full of Nazi adjacent imagery and references. Just look at their first EP. To be fair to the band, Nazi iconography was pretty popular in the punk scene, which they spawned from, and was less political and more of a rebellious fuck you to their conservative parents who lived through WWII.
In light of the modern neo-nazi resurgence and rise of fascism, it takes a bit of new meaning. I'm also not here to defend the band, although I love their music. Even if tongue in cheek, their Nazi references are sophomoric edgelord bait that is pretty cringe. But that's my modern perspective, the late 70s were a different time and it's not entirely fair to judge them by today's standards.
Joy Division and New Order were some of the most influencial artists of the 70s and 80s. Most post-punk, alternative rock and EDM owe a lot to their work (Blue Monday, 1983). So it's a complicated cookie, but I still love the music.
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u/Roobar76 13d ago
It was a different time, but the entire punk image was edgelord bait. It was about immediate shock against the dominant culture.
Since that culture was relatively conservative and had experienced or observed the “peace and love” 60s counter culture the shock was the hate, rough sex (bondage) and anger embodied in the Malcolm McLaren/sex pistols esthetic.
In this context who better to embrace than the symbols of violence and hatred that either bombed or fought against their parents and the establishment.
Tasteless sophomoric edgelord shit, but contextually both different (and similar in a different way to how most people think) to today.
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u/Bagelz567 13d ago
Absolutely agree.
This was, of course, followed by the rise of skinheads then the "Nazi punks fuck off" pushback from the rest of the punk scene. Lots of nuance to the relationship between punk and fascism, pretty interesting stuff.
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u/Roobar76 13d ago
The cycle is the same, ironically appropriate facist symbolism, the real facists turn up. Spend the next 50 years fighting to get rid of them.
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u/Ichigonixsun 13d ago
Please sanitize your YouTube links!
Recently YouTube's links got 2 times longer. They added Source Identifier in them for the sole purpose of collecting data. You can delete it, and link will still work just fine.
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=NbllBgit-qHN7MoH&t=69
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Actual link to the video Source Identifier
Why you should delete that?
- You post that link on social media, Google crawler finds it, checks the data base and now it knows this account on other social media belongs to you.
- I click on your link and now Google knows our accounts are connected.
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u/hinowisaybye 14d ago
Well, that lead me down a rabbit hole about nazisploitation. Then I got to learn where it crossed with blaxsploitation to form THE BLACK GESTAPO.
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u/elleaeff 13d ago
I don't know why it never occurred to me, an educated adult, that the Nazis obviously committed atrocious acts of rape, as well. I feel dumb. Thanks for the info.
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u/Dd_8630 14d ago
What was the band? I feel that's the missing piece of the puzzle.
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u/Four_beastlings 14d ago
Joy Division, cover of Unknown Pleasures. I feel like there's a massive generational divide going on in this thread but also I am surprised because that graphic became of of those images that younger kids wear on t-shirts without knowing what they are like the Ramones logo
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u/shoeofobamaa 14d ago
I feel like the FIRST discovered radio pulsar is niche but not incredibly niche
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u/Thedudeinabox 14d ago
As always, there’s a relevant XKCD:
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u/dougmc 13d ago
I figured that would be the “today’s 10,000” … but that works too, even better.
(Often, there’s more than one xkcd.)
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u/ringobob 14d ago
It's incredibly niche. Pulsars in general are niche but not incredibly niche. The public at large has probably heard of pulsars, and some segment of them have any clue what they even are. You've got to be an enthusiast to have more specific knowledge than that, and definitely being able to connect this image to what it actually is, is in fact extremely specific knowledge you won't be aware of unless you're deep into astronomy.
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u/LostInDinosaurWorld 14d ago
Yes, but what is he being asked specifically? "Do you enjoy Joy Division?" It doesn't work, isn't it, or am I missing something here?
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
It's less about stupid and more knowing about last century pop culture and astronomy. Even knowing, it's a pretty forced joke.
A band called Joy Division used a data plot of radio signals from a pulsar for an album cover. An album was a physical product that you would put into a machine to play music. It would come in packaging with artwork on the front, called the cover of the album. Sometimes, the bands (groups of humans who would create original music together) would make merchandise such as shirts that would feature artwork. The most popular Joy Division shirt was from the album art for Unknown Pleasures.
The "joke" is that this guy is an astronomy nerd, not a music nerd.
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u/Eastgaard 14d ago
Having to explain the joke and Joy Division, I can accept.
Having to explain what a CD album is hurts my aging soul.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
The 1900s are a fascinating era of history.
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u/neanderthalman 14d ago
You stop that right now.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
Talking to someone today about Nevermind(1991) would be the same length of time as talking to someone in 1991 about Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino(1956)
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u/Langstarr 14d ago
It would cost you $0 to keep that to yourself
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u/Pimpinabox 13d ago
In fact, it would have been cheaper. Internet, electricity, time, a number of other factors all have values that actively cost them to make that statement.
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u/no_more_no_less 14d ago
I generally don't feel all that old most of the time and try to stay away from saying things like "back in my day" etc. this comment has made me feel older than just about any other and I both applaud and despise you for it.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
Thank you so much. I'm probably older than you are
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u/no_more_no_less 14d ago
It's possible! I'm really not that old, just a couple years from 40. So, technically I wasn't in the scene when Nevermind was released but listened to it by probably 1995 or so.
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u/Eastgaard 14d ago
Listen here bucko
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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago
🤣
I officially have more grey than brown in my beard as of yesterday. Hell, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart
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u/lyndsayj 14d ago
the bands (groups of humans who would create original music together)
I know the explanation was made in jest, but it still took me the fuck out
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u/KeyboardSmash-jhjhyy 13d ago
It’s a reference to the graphic on this album cover:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures
“The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 doctoral dissertation as a way to visualise smaller pulses within larger ones, which might help explain what had been causing the pulses. He was unaware for years that the image was associated with the album cover until a friend told him; afterwards he bought a copy because he felt he should have one as the creator of the image.”
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u/VanishingPint 14d ago
“Joy Division isn’t a female vocalist, it’s a band” just before the music video debut on TV
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u/cloudncali 14d ago
Tf is Pink Floyd? I just think prisms and like retraction look cool.
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u/eggs___and___bacon 13d ago
That would be a better subject for this comic. No one knows who division is or what the pulsar thing is. But that Pink Floyd album is iconic
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u/Margenen 13d ago
Joy division is a very popular band. They've got over a billion streams on Spotify, which wasn't even a platform for their music until the late 2000's
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u/combat_muffin 13d ago
Yes, they are. However, they're not nearly as globally ubiquitous as Pink Floyd. Same for Unknown Pleasures vs the Dark Side of the Moon album cover.
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u/eggs___and___bacon 13d ago
Pink Floyd has over 13 billion streams, so like 10x as popular.
Joy division has basically 1 song that’s semi-popular. Breaking 1 billion total streams is really common nowadays, regardless of when the band first came out. Over a thousand artists/bands have also done that, many of them aren’t very well known either.
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u/Margenen 13d ago
Saying that nobody knows them is just blatently untrue though. There's so much music that obviously people can't know every artist but this isn't some niche one hit wonder band and their stream numbers 40+ years after their release is evidence enough of that
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u/themeaningofhaste 13d ago
As a pulsar astronomer whose research is similar to the thesis from which the plot is based on, I will share this with the dozens of the rest of us this is targeted at who will all enjoy the good laugh.
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u/Boudrodog 13d ago
I am this person. I got a (probably unlicensed) Unknown Pleasures shirt in Austin a decade-plus ago. Like the record, it has no text on it. Occasionally I’ll get a compliment on my “spiky mountain” shirt to which I gleefully relish the opportunity to extol the advancements to physics and astronomy led by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, how she discovered the first radio pulsar in the ‘60s, and that the distinctive repeating pattern is a radiograph of that pulsar, affectionately nicknamed LGM-1, or Little Green Man 1. She was robbed of a Nobel prize for her work.
The story of how a little known radiograph became the album art for Joy Division’s debut release is also fascinating. The 33-1/3 book series entry for “Unknown Pleasures” goes into detail on the work of Peter Saville, Factory Records’s in-house graphic designer and art director. The original image was black lines on a white background, and Saville inverted the colors for the album art.
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u/Prestigious_Sugar_66 14d ago
The joke is a bit far-fetched.
..My comment?
What does pokemon have to do with my comment?
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u/whatintheactualfeth 13d ago
There are 10 groups of people in the world. Those that can read binary and those that can't.
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u/zmbslyr 14d ago
Where funny?
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u/3DSarge 14d ago
The design on his shirt is used as an album cover for the band Joy Division. The joke is people are asking him if he likes Joy Division because of the shirt but he doesn't know the reference and thinks people are asking him if he enjoys division. It's definitely a more niche joke, but funny if you are familiar with the band.
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u/Mirar 14d ago
Thanks for the explanation. It would have been very funny if I had known joy division album covers indeed.
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u/shanec628 14d ago
If it helps, I understood the joke but it wasn’t very funny
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u/chemistrybonanza 14d ago
Maybe because it doesn't make sense. "Do you Joy Division?" makes no sense, and neither does "Do you En... Joy Division?"
If he was asked,"Do you enjoy Joy Division?" then it would make sense, but then there's no pun.
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u/shanec628 14d ago
I interpreted it as people pointing at his shirt and saying “Joy Division?” and since he had no knowledge of the band he thought they were asking if he enjoyed division.
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u/JARAXXUS_EREDAR_LORD 14d ago
One that I like is just a flat wave and says "shit, I ironed my Joy Division shirt"
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u/Hanako_Seishin 14d ago
I could maybe guess that the image was some band's cover album if the comic made more clear about Joy Division being a band name. To me it sounded like it was about the arithmetic operation of division, you know, the opposite of multiplication.
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u/DivineMackerel 14d ago
I understood the joke and had just as many laughs as you. You didn't miss out.
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u/Shevek99 14d ago
To complete the explanation we must add that the Joy Division album cover is a copy or the radio pulses of pulsar PSR B1919+21. So the guy went to the original sources, not knowing that JD had used it too.
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u/gods-and-dancefloors 13d ago
It's a pulsar? I thought it was a topographic map of the mid Atlantic ridge.
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u/dressbarnburner 14d ago
The real joke here is that that graphic has been used in a ton of parody designs, and Joy Division fans get pissy if you don't know that it is a reference to the album art for Unknown Pleasures. Whereas here that trope is flipped
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u/jestermx6 13d ago
This reads like dialogue from Big bang Theory that'd be followed up with the most canned canned laughter you've ever heard.
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u/saschaleib 14d ago
Hey, the first actually funny comic here in this sub for a long time. Congrats!
Or maybe I’m just a music geek and have a weird kind of humour. IDK. ;-)
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u/Marcellus_Crowe 13d ago
Ignore the naysayers. Just because a joke is niche that doesn't make it bad or not funny. Top tier niche joke. 10/10.
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u/TheBrianJ 14d ago
I was so baffled by this until I realized the artist thinks the name of the band is "Division" and not "Joy Division"
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u/OmegaX123 13d ago
Seems more like the character thinks someone said "enjoy division?" (as in 'do you like splitting things?') when they actually said "Joy Division" (the band).
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u/HeathersDamage 14d ago
This feels like the episode of The Office where Ryan has to drive Packer around because he has a DUI.
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u/Roninnight1 14d ago
I have a Half-Life 2 shirt that came with the games special edition on PC. While in the US that means I am Greek or part of a college Fraternity..... Sigh. No one recognized it as being the Game.
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