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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ya'll need to add ”walk an hour”, “eat a salad”, and “do calisthenics” to your daily routines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

And never stop doing it. One lapse or moment of weakness and bamm.. back to the physio.

Constant vigilance 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

If by "one lapse" you mean "stop doing it for like a year"...

But yes I did that second part obviously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

TBF I've been choking on water since I was a wee lad. I just drink too aggressively. A drinking problem, of sorts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Drinking too hard is when you accidentally swallow too much at the same time, painfully forcing it down. I fainted once by doing this...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

ohhh right. I do that, too. But not to the fainting level of effort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I stumbled a few months back stepping over a rope that was about fifteen centimeters off the ground and cracked a rib or something. I didn't even fall, just kinda leaned forward the wrong way a bit. Pain for weeks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Something similar happened to my husband! Threw his back out by slipping and not falling on ice 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Maybe we should be trying less hard to not hurt ourselves. 😝

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I've had light vertigo for 2 months because I sat up too fast in bed. It's fucking horrible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Nothing like sneezing so hard you get a crick in your neck for a week. 44.

Ffffffff

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sneezing is one of the top ways people throw out their backs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

After having my back go out twice from sneezing, I asked my doctor about it. He told me this life changing tip which so far (6 yrs) has never failed. When you feel a sneeze coming on, pull your shoulder blades back and look directly up, you can sneeze as hard as you want in this position and you will be fine. In my experience just the looking up is usually enough to protect the back, the pulled back shoulder blades is just an added layer of protection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

You ever have a sneeze you feel in your arms for about an hour? Like you sneeze, your blood pressure hits 9000 PSI for 8.2 milliseconds and your ghost aches for awhile?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Can't say I have - but that's a very vivid description!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Nope, can't say that I have. You should get that checked out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Born in the 70s. I've sat on my balls twice so far this year. That's never happened before, I used to just laugh at the idea 😓

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Kind of a tangent, but when I was younger I used to accidentally kick myself in the balls by sitting cross legged too quickly and hitting with my heel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Wait until a loose toilet seat at a public bathroom slides to the side, and with all the motion, they get pinched between the seat and the porcelain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

new fear unlocked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard of Poseidon's kiss but this is a new lvl of danger I've never heard of. Thx for the new toilet fear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Poseidon's pinch?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

😰 Oh dear, I know it's going to happen now 😓

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

this thread is giving me an urge to exercise and eat salad

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago

I ate a salad wrong last month, stabbed my self in the soft pallet with a lettuce steam and had a sore throat for 2 weeks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But instead I'll probably sit on my ass and have pizza tonight.

I mean, it's Sunday.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

we will get started on monday (i swear)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly, the first Monday that has an "R" in it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In my 20s I once threw my back out pressing an elevator button.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think you just won the thread

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I just threw my back out by reading his post

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Had a bag at the head of my bed, woke up, still laying down, reached over my head to grab something out of it, went to pull back “down” and tore my rotator cuff. I was 20.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I once sneezed hard and somehow had my hair caught in my armpit, hurting my neck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Thanks, that made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I've had the drink water too hard thing since forever - take a super big gulp, feels like it's trying to blow your esophagus apart all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I sustained a stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal completely at random last year. No trauma, no accidents, nothing. Went on a five-day drive and returned to go to work. A week later my foot started hurting really bad. I kept working on it and eventually saw a doctor. Misdiagnosed as plantar fasciitis, and continued to work on it with insoles. After a while I had to get an air boot. Before long it was x-rayed and turned out to be a stress fracture with no apparent origin.

The six month healing process was absolute fucking garbage and I would never do it again. Having nearly two months off of work was nice enough, but I couldn't do much other than lay around elevating my foot. If I tried to get in my computer the pain in my foot would increase tenfold. Crutches to get around anywhere. Showered by laying spread eagle on the floor of the tub, blasting out my asshole with the shower head. Mornings were excruciating as the blood rushed to the fracture site and caused my foot to swell up big and purple. Genuinely the worst injury I've ever had to heal from. I never thought it would get better. I truly thought this was the new normal. You'd think a small stress fracture would be minor. Still hurts here and there but I'm about seven months out and doing a lot better than before.

Have to assume I'm just getting old, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Probably just an alien foot implant - the injector slips sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember all those injuries you brushed off when you were a kid? They're baaaack....

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Jfc, I'm still dealing with a muscle I pulled turning over in bed. In November of last year.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I am currently lying down, not because I prefer the floor, my because I lay down to stretch a bit, and my back has now completely locked up. I'm not joking: I physically cannot get up, and a doctor is on the way. I'm not even 30 yet...

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you’ve never sneezed and thrown your back out, count your blessings.

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