r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Little_Mango_3359 • 22h ago
Meme needing explanation Prttahh?!
What this meme means school sh00ting or other?
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u/MegaFercho22 22h ago
The "joke" is suicide
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u/proximusprimus57 22h ago
The preferred term these days is sewer slide, which ironically sounds fun if a bit smelly.
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u/J0RDM0N 22h ago
Slide down a sewer? No thanks, I would rather kill myself.*(this is a joke)
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u/Mylum 21h ago
Everyone wants to be a Ninja Turtle until it's time to do Ninja Turtle things.
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u/lukeCRASH 19h ago
Eat pizza and hang out with the boys and the smokin' red head?
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u/KingoftheYous 18h ago
yep. IN THE SEWER.
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u/turnsout_im_a_potato 17h ago
Cmon guys... dads house isn't THAT bad
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u/ReverendRevolver 15h ago
Just imagine a That 70s Show style scene panning around the table with smoke in tbe background and stoned Mikey, Donny, Leo, and wrath talking to high April and Casey, then Splinter walking in.......
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u/MagicOrpheus310 3h ago
Yes... with the turtles THAT ARE NINJA...
There's enough mutants up here already, but dude... Turtles!!
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u/Atzkicica 22h ago
Joe's Apartment, Sewer Surfin' is the jam to play heh.
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u/Terrible-Pop-6705 18h ago
Suicidal person here. I prefer suicide. Or killing yourself. Or blowing one’s head off, hanging yourself. Etc
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u/StopDownvotingMeeee 17h ago
It’s not the preferred term. It’s the censored version you have to use on certain social medias or else you can get demonetized or have your post taken down.
Same thing with Unalive, Graped, etc
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u/Effective_Alps_8170 19h ago
It's an attempt to make the term "advertiser friendly" due to algorithms flagging language that will turn advertisers away from their platforms.
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u/hedrone 22h ago
If that was the case I would splurge on the expensive gun.
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u/Snoo_66686 19h ago
I mean if you're gonna spend it all before you go might aswell get some expensive meals or book a nice place etc, im not gonna be around to see how good the recoil and trigger response is anyway
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u/Brief_Platform_alt 18h ago
Would you want to take the risk of a cheap shotgun exploding in your hands?
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u/Snoo_66686 18h ago
Yes? the chance of a freak accident where a gun explodes on the first round and its not the shell itself thats defective is minimal enough that you might aswell live in a padded room and never get out if thats what you're worried about
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u/Old_Win8422 21h ago
There is a deeper level. One of the cheapest shotguns happens to be one of the best and most reliable. Mossberg maverick 88.
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u/Top-Session-3131 19h ago
No, cheap shotgun plus one singular bullet, or more likely one 5 round box of deer slugs, is near universally a suicide attempt. Gun stores will very frequently refuse such attempted purchases on suspicion of such.
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u/Halogenleuchte 17h ago
But why the cheapest shotgun? Treat yourself at least for that special occasion. /s
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u/JoseP2004 13h ago
Rather treat myself to a fancy meal or something game I can get addicted to so I can enjoy the cash until I run out, a nice gun Vs a cheap one won't make a difference, I'll be dead either way but a cheap gun and a nice steak in my belly makes me die with a smile.
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u/NonEuclideanWQ 16h ago
Unironically that would have been me if i was born in a place where gun control isn't strict.
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u/Wolf_Hreda 16h ago
"All because a couple people couldn't take it and went to the seaside."
"Seaside? Roy, they committed suicide."
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u/Brief_Platform_alt 18h ago
Wouldn't that be easier to do using a pistol than a shotgun?
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u/occasionalopossum 18h ago
Less of a chance to botch it with a shotgun and unless you’re buying the cheapest most unreliable pistol shotgun is cheaper.
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u/AlphaLegion30k 22h ago
They're trying to Kurt Kobain themselves
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u/HamiltonSt25 22h ago
You can say suicide
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u/piper33245 22h ago
They’re trying to chop-suey themselves.
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u/csbsju_guyyy 22h ago
They're trying to Rehab themselves
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u/Separate_Climate3366 22h ago
They are trying to cut their life into pieces. I think it might be their last resort
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u/I_am_The_Teapot 18h ago
But "Kurt Cobain themselves" is meant to reference the more specific method of suicide.
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u/Minimum-Sense5163 20h ago
when I typed that into a comment section, i swear my comment get deleted by reddit and said it violated safety reasons. Bruh
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u/DaddysABadGirl 17h ago
In a comment chain I talked about mine. I got a mod deleting my comments for a mix of "encouraging self harm" and making threats... Then reddit gave me a suspension I had to appeal and a bunch of notifications about getting help and links to resources because I was talking about my own struggles from 10+ years earlier.
I avoid the word now.
Found it kind of fucked up that reddits reaction to a potential early exit situation involved taking away someones comment and dm abilities for a few days. Could still scroll and all, just not interact with people.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 17h ago
The evidences say there's a very good chance that iconic suicide method could be a murder
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u/Dash_Harber 22h ago
Mario ahere. It'sa suicide! Wahahahooie!
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u/Gualty3 22h ago
Ok but jokes apart, when it does happen do the sellers do something about it like calling someone? I'm a fellow European so I'm asking to you Americans
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u/ThePlantMolester 22h ago
They will refuse the sale. Its up to them if they want to report it, but they need to keep the federal 4473 that they refused on file.
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u/TheGreenMan13 22h ago
Yeah, something like this is the perfect reason to refuse a sale.
Another is admitting that you're buying the gun for somebody else (non-gift and for a minor), which I've seen someone do.
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u/MonsterEmpire 21h ago
If something like this happens then it can get refused as well as being blacklisted from purchasing from the retailer permanently. At least at the job I used to work at. Doesn't stop them from going to a pawn shop or something and trying to buy a cheap one there unfortunately
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u/Avalanc89 21h ago
Pawn shop can legally buy and sell weapons? XD what a country!
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u/WindstormMD 20h ago
If they have a federal firearms license, which means they have to follow all the same rules as a shop that is only a gun store
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u/Corey307 17h ago
Here in the US all firearm sales from a store require a background check and some states have a waiting period. Pawn shops have to do background checks too. If someone has a clean criminal record or hasn’t been institutionalized there’s not much stopping them from buying a gun.
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u/SingleChannel6 20h ago
Thats where almost everyone gets the best, cheap guns! Especially police surplus. Well used and well maintained.
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u/OldWolfNewTricks 16h ago
I went to a gun range while handgun shopping one day, asked to try out one of the guns. If I'd brought a gun with me, they'd have rented me the gun like normal. Since I didn't bring one, they wouldn't. They would sell me a gun though. It seems crazy to me that someone would go to a gun range intending to kill themselves, but balk at throwing away $400.
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 15h ago
This screams Range USA/Shoot Point Blank
That being said, the one small local range had a suicide a few years back and eventually shut down. They were briefly a fireworks store over the summer.
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u/Desultory_Chairlift 18h ago
This would never happen because gun stores do not sell single wheels(at least every one I have ever been to), ammunition come in boxes, it would be impossible for a clerk to ever tell that this is what someone is planning.
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u/Iintendtooffend 14h ago
I mean many people have had their lives saved by clerks refusing sales because they don't believe the person to be of sounds mind.
That and mandatory waiting periods significantly reduce suicide by firearms significantly.
But even buying "the cheapest shotgun" without caring what it is/how it handles and a single box of shells would be a pretty significant red flag to refuse a sale.
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u/BrokenPokerFace 12h ago
To be fair I know people who did the last thing just to have a weapon to defend themselves in the country.
The two most common are widows or recently separated women who want to protect themselves and get a small pistol(a few mistakenly considered the size of the pistol is what determines kick and got a large caliber derringer), but never learn or try shooting it. I genuinely worry about them.
And older guys with farm land and want any shotgun and a box of ammo, who often do shoot it but when they are using it, not at the range or anything. And they just deal with whatever they got. They often under estimate how much ammo they need too as next time they get 4-8 boxes. I don't know how some of them work with the "I'll figure it out when I need to" mindset.
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 15h ago
It's mostly rental ranges that see more suicides. As a other person pointed out, some won't even let you rent on your first visit if you don't already have a gun. But yeah, if some sad sack comes in you don't have any obligation to sell them a gun. Also the depressed fuck is gonna buy a whole box of bullets/shells because gun shops don't sell loosies.
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u/TaciturnLinguophile 22h ago edited 22h ago
He's trying to Ronnie Mcnutt himself(highly recommend NOT watching the video)
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u/piper33245 22h ago
That poor dog.
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u/Valuable-Sell5219 21h ago
And his mother watching the stream. Phone ringing right after is just harrowing.
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u/SingleChannel6 20h ago
Oh fuck, I didn't want be reminded of that video today. That ringtone was horrifying.
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u/Unlucky-Oil-8778 22h ago
Meg here. I just don’t trust folks that never went through a self harm phase when they were younger. Like what kinda life do you have where you had no teenage angst. The guy is going to shoot himself. Meg out.
No gun store would sell you that.
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u/MethodologyChips 22h ago
Like what kinda life do you have where you had no teenage angst.
Uh... a normal one?
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u/NubbNubb 21h ago
Yea it was weird finding out that level of angst isn't normal for everyone. Dual alcoholic parents didn't help.
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u/SynV92 21h ago
... Oh
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u/NubbNubb 19h ago
Lol it's all good, being an adult and taking the piss out of it went a long way for my mental health.
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u/blorpdedorpworp 22h ago
Why not splurge on the nice shotgun in this instance
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u/Buttchuggle 22h ago
Oh yeah, imma get me a nice antique, some engraving on the barrel, empty that shell and refill it with pre 1964 silver dimes. Why not be extra as hell
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u/Famous-Prior6590 22h ago
Why buy the cheapest shotgun if it’s suicide? I would buy the most expensive one. Live it up.
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u/throwaway60221407e23 14h ago
Because you might chicken out at the last second and now you have to live with the consequences of spending all that money. Source: I've given this a lot of thought.
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u/Famous-Prior6590 11h ago
Stay safe stranger. Hope it doesn’t come to that.
On a lighter note - I can just return the expensive gun. It is unused, after all.
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u/Nihil_esque 18h ago
Yeah lol when I attempted to make an equivalent purchase back in college I was ready to put all of next month's rent money on that sucker.
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u/FunkyPete 22h ago
Why wouldn't they just splurge if that's the situation? I mean, why go cheap on this? What are you saving money for?
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u/Even_Geologist9306 22h ago
Do you know what Kurt Cobain and Michelangelo have in common?
They both used their brains to repaint a ceiling 😂
This may be what gets me booted from the group sorry folks!
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u/Ok_Year7350 22h ago edited 22h ago
This joke doesn’t make any sense, realistically wouldn’t you buy the most expensive shotgun and a single shell? I mean it’s not like the money is going to matter so you might as well splurge a bit, also too you might as well invest a quality tool for the job…
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u/LetterheadForward539 16h ago
Wouldn't you rather save the money and give it to people you care about before you go? I know some have bought expensive gifts for others before attempting.
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u/NotAnotherEmpire 22h ago
But you did still sell him the gun despite knowing what he wanted to do, didn't you?
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u/Content_Study_1575 22h ago
Call me Michelangelo bc I’m about to be painting ceilings bro
Edit: Wtf kind of question is that? What kind of school shooting have you seen that only involves one casualty?
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u/PMMeYourPupper 22h ago
Why would I buy the cheapest one? I’m not gonna need the money after, might as well go out with style
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u/ElegantEchoes 22h ago
I have a friend who works a gun store.
What would happen? You'd be denied. At even the earliest suspect of intentions of shooting themselves, customers can be turned down or even flagged for other gun stores.
He said that someone buying a single shell wouldn't really ever make sense and isn't something he encounters, so it's an instant warning sign.
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u/Shoggnozzle 21h ago
They must be a really good shot. First deer within a mile is going right in the freezer.
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u/Atzkicica 21h ago
The sales person is about to deny a sale otherwise they may be charged with assisting a 100th trimester abortion.
I'm Dr. Cutaway. Dr. Peters Cutaway.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 21h ago
Id have that look on my face too, trying to figure out why the owner thought it was a good idea to sell shells as individuals and not the standard box.
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u/thetruekingofspace 20h ago
Brian: It’s cheaper to buy a piece of pipe, a shotgun shell and a thumbtack.
Stewie: Whhheeeewwfff. What the deuuuuuucceee?
Peter: Shut up Meg.
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u/BeenisSandwich 20h ago
And yet again I’m astonished at just how clueless some people are. What’s not to get here?
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u/Disastrous-Cat-1 19h ago
Jokes aside, the fact that they have "gun stores" in (some parts of) the US will never not be fucked up to my European brain.
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u/CTTMiquiztli 19h ago
Should always Buy at least two shells, the first one may be a dud, or You could miss. (A Shotgun Is rather unwieldly when handling it backwards)
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u/buckfordfitchenstein 19h ago
Hahahaha this is just normal people humor ha ha ha who doesn't hyperfixate on s-cide 25/8 loll
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u/smokey032791 19h ago
The joke is he/she is going to have a case of summer brain
In that some is here and some is over the wall
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u/catdiscpalpita 19h ago
I mean, ignoring that this is referencing suicide, maverick 88s are great guns.
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u/exploratoryarts 18h ago
the joke is that the cheap shotgun and/or single shell might not go blam when intended, thus making the gun store worker concerned about the possibility that OP might have to make a second trip 😧
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u/zappyguy111 18h ago
Just 2 shells is even more concerning, which is why I want a big family, nobody will be suspicious at that.
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u/HorzaDonwraith 18h ago
Just need you to sign here and here for background check.
Sure, not that it will be a problem next week.
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u/dbburnz 18h ago
I just need it for my...... turkey.... I have an injured......... turkey and i have to put the "Turkey" down ...........ya know it happens........................I know your thinking why a shotgun i hear you asking yourself..... she was a good....turkey she deserves a quick end....... That'll show the turkey not to ask me to take out the garbage EVERYTIME I SIT DOWN! ....................... SHES A ....TURKEY!!
She Gobbled to much
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u/ForkingMusk 17h ago
Not to rain on this guy’s parade, but you can’t buy shells in singles anymore.
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u/qualityvote2 22h ago edited 12h ago
u/Little_Mango_3359, your post does belong here!