Блоги: заметки с тегом memes

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Robert — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:45:44 +0500

Naples

Robert — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:53:04 +0500

On October 26, 2024, I was in Naples to speak at Linux Day 2024. I also had a few hours to see the city.

It is a place unlike any other in Italy; it’s a semi-anarchic country of its own. “Math diplomas in 3 minutes, only in Naples” is an advert I saw there. Free entrepreneurship runs wild.

Folks don’t follow the rules of the road at all. Everyone must pay attention to not be hit by a car or motorbike.

Yet, thank god Italian legislation isn’t fully enforced there; Naples’ ways are the cultural heritage that gives the place its special vibes.

I visited a (legit) clothing store, which however didn’t have any price tags. I negotiated a discount on an “already discounted price” (yeah, right), only to have the clerk ask me to pay the original price at the checkout. I reminded him about the negotiated discount, to have him reply “just kidding”. I would have stormed out of the store if this was not Naples.

Neapolitans also really care about their soccer team. One could even say they are religiously devoted to it.

Oh, and they speak in their own tongue; not in Italian.

Naples is Italy’s meme city.

I love the country more than ever after having been to Naples.

Italy is so beautifully diverse: Genoa, Venice, Florence, and Naples are four key cities to see here.

The Vance—Walz debate in one image

Robert — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:37:17 +0500

Robert:

Why is “nucular” Walz friends with school shooters?

The Roman Empire

Robert — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:02:23 +0500

Robert:

I do indeed think about the Roman Empire every day.

Its greatness will be restored.

How I use the lift

Robert — Sun, 14 May 2023 01:06:59 +0500

Robert:

Most of my lift use goes like this:

Enter lift.
Look in the mirror.
Exit lift and take the stairs.

I live to be a human meme.

An anthem for a micronation

Robert — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:37:18 +0500

Robert:

A good anthem for a micronation would be “We believe in memes”.

Trapped in a rug

Robert — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:35:07 +0500

Robert:

I’m going through my earlier school memories and I want to share them with you. I even have an entire notebook where I wrote internal “memes” we had in sixth grade.

This one is from second grade. There were many rugs in the room, as we would sit on them. (We were in class on them for most of the time until we started using proper desks in third grade.) One was in a corner, waiting to be laid down. For no apparent reason, our teacher decided to punish Matthew, my classmate. It probably was because he was distracting us from reading a book, but I’m not sure. She could have yelled at him, given a warning, or in the worst case scenario sent him to the headmaster, but she decided to go in a different route. She was a good teacher, so she jokingly rolled him into a rug, reminding me of a scene of the “80 days around the world” cartoon, where Passepartout is kidnapped and transported to Palmyra rolled in a rug, in a pile of them. We all laughed, Matthew included, and then swiftly returned to the lesson.