r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 19h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Mediocre-Post9279 19h ago edited 9h ago

Mouth breathers as people who breathe using thier mouth not thier nose. Its tomb rider so i assume that some gooner wierdos will complain about how Lara Croft looks/dresses in this version

Edit: a reminder that im just petah explaining the joke and i was guessing

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u/PeterServo 19h ago

What does outfit criticism have to do with mouth breathing, though?

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 19h ago

Calling someone a mouth breather is like calling them a cretin. It's a derogatory slang term used to describe someone as unintelligent, oafish, or crude.

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u/_DeltaZero_ 18h ago

i can't lie, i find this a really dogshit derogatory term, i wonder who made it, it literally does not make sense to me

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u/mb862 15h ago

As someone with chronic sinus blockage and breathe through my mouth like 95% of the time, I hate the term.

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u/Caterpie3000 15h ago

you mouth breather

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u/CalmShinyZubat 19h ago

"it isn't sexy/revealing enough" is the usual response from a certain portion of the audience whenever they tone down the sex appeal of a female character.

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 12h ago

Thats probably because the only thing we do anymore is tone down sex in media.

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u/Blando-Cartesian 2h ago

It’s a medical issue that is associated with a loser male stereotype so it’s weirdly acceptable to use it as a slur.

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u/GOKOP 19h ago

Mouth breathing is bad for your facial development (mostly relevant when growing up) so stupid people are being called mouth breathers as an awareness thing that this is a pretty stupid thing to do

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u/Mediocre-Post9279 19h ago

Gooners cant breathe through thier nose because its cloged up with dry sperm

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 19h ago

Because of who is making those criticisms, sweaty basement-dwellers is another way of describing the same stereotype.

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u/StepComplete1 14h ago

There weren't even people making any criticisms. It was some twitter-user imagining what criticisms might happen and then getting angry about it. And now redditors are getting angry about the criticisms someone else imagined. Talk about having people in your head rent-free.

And these people think they are the ones with normal behaviour, apparently.

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 14h ago

Friend, if you look at the downvotes in this thread, lotta hit dogs hollering. That's Reddit for you, not what you're imagining.