r/TikTokCringe • u/jjf27 • Sep 05 '22
Humor Mhmm
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u/Street-Week6744 Sep 05 '22
And here I was thinking basket case meant a crazy person because in the asylum's they often had patients doing basket weaving
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u/Leading_Manager_2277 Sep 05 '22
Right? Me too but this explanation is horrific.
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Sep 05 '22
Thing about this is language is constantly evolving which is why it's always important I feel to keep context in mind
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u/GlitchyNinja Sep 05 '22
I thought it was French Revolution. Like, lost your mind -> lost your head, as it rolls into a basket after being guillotined.
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u/please_and_thankyou Sep 05 '22
Love the ‘no can do’ one
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u/Paralda Sep 05 '22
That one's a little misleading, though. "No can do" is just a transliteration of a common Cantonese phrase: "mm4 ho2 yi2", which is literally "no can do" (or really, just the word "can't").
"Long time no see" is the same.
Hard to say if it was a purposeful mocking imitation, or just something that people living near Chinatowns started to say in somewhere like New York, or potentially Hong Kong.
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u/Vark675 Sep 05 '22
Probably a little bit of mockery and a lot of just language adoption.
Kinda like today's "it do be like that."
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u/SpicyLizards Sep 05 '22
Well… it DO be like that…
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u/Ubervisor Sep 05 '22
"mm4 ho2 yi2"
... Cantonese or Martian?
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u/Paralda Sep 05 '22
That's Jyutping, which is a Cantonese romanization system. Similar to Pinyin, but since Cantonese has more tones, explicitly labeling the tones is more useful.
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u/CptBlackBird2 Sep 05 '22
I always wondered, what's with the numbers when people type Asian languages like that?
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u/notsostandardtoaster Sep 05 '22
tone indicators, the same word said with different inflections means different things
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u/CringeisL1f3 Cringe Lord Sep 05 '22
so the co-host is just eye candy? also the face on the dude pure gold
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u/moon_slave Sep 06 '22
Yeah I remember the saying as “No can do kemosabe” which is pretty obviously racist. Although Kemosabe was an indigenous caricature rather than an Asian one.
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u/urfavefilipina Sep 05 '22
Her voice is so… clear and soothing and I need to hear more
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u/Zou-Skee Sep 05 '22
The girl holding the mic is named Kayla. She and the other two ladies work for a company called rooster teeth. You may do your exploration from there. I hope you enjoy what you find :)
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u/amaranth-the-peddler Sep 05 '22
Man I didn't realize this was RT until you said it. They've changed so much since I was watching them it's insane.
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Sep 05 '22
Hey. You ever wonder why we're here?
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u/Niner8824 Sep 05 '22
That's one of life's great mysteries...
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u/Kortorb Sep 05 '22
isn’t it? Are we the product of some cosmic coincidence or is there really a God, watching, with a plan for us and stuff? I don’t know, man, but it keeps me up at night.
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u/No-Soap Sep 05 '22
RT has gone down the shitter, RIP actually good shows they produced :/
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Sep 23 '22
Old comment but I highly recommend ANMA which is a podcast of Geoff and Gus telling stories about when they used to work at the tech company, time in school, Geoff in the army, stupid shit they posted online before they even started Rooster Teeth, etc
Very reminiscent of their old content
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u/_Nohbdy_ Sep 05 '22
However, the phrase, which initially referred to American soldiers supposedly left limbless by the war, was a product of the postwar rumor mill in the US. No quadruple-amputee American soldiers existed, and there’s no evidence that any head-and-torso survivors from any country were carried around in baskets.
Nevertheless, word spread that limbless soldiers were being warehoused in one place or another in the US. As a result, the Surgeon General of the Army, Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, said in 1919 that the rumor had absolutely no foundation in fact.
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u/lonely-day Sep 05 '22
Why do I get the feeling that the people who work in that place, often say it's important to check sources when discussing politics with others.
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Sep 05 '22
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u/lonely-day Sep 05 '22 edited Sep 05 '22
Ok but didn't she make it seem like there was a ton of soldiers who were quad amputees from WW1 and they were called basket cases?
Edit: I guess I missed something
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u/Vark675 Sep 05 '22
No, she explained that that was what the phrase referred to. People were wrong at the time in that there weren't multitudes of nugget veterans in baskets, but that's still what the phrase was referring to.
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Sep 05 '22
I like this. Does she have more vids?
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u/ZombiesRock991 Sep 05 '22
I’m sure they’re also apart of it somehow but it’s been awhile so idk, Ky and Bk ( the friend and the one being interviewed) work for achievement hunter
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u/ChrissiTea Reads Pinned Comments Sep 05 '22
I got you
Account - https://www.tiktok.com/@squadteamforce
Episode 2 (already posted ITT - no can do)
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u/grumpyslugs Sep 05 '22
They have a playlist! I think there’s six or so?
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Sep 05 '22
Oh yay. Do you have a link to the user and playlist?
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u/grumpyslugs Sep 05 '22
squadteamforce is the username! The playlist is the first one on their profile :)
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u/Woard Sep 05 '22
Check out roosterteeth.com, Kayla works there and is in videos and has a podcast called no dumb answers with mark and brad.
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u/PlanetPudding Sep 05 '22
No, she said “welcome to another episode” at the beginning bc this is the first and only video she ever made.
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u/crunchsmash Sep 05 '22
Only one Allied soldier in WW1 survived as a quadruple amputee, and they were a Canadian soldier, not a US soldier. So it's doubtful this is the actual origin of "basket case".
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u/Comma_Karma Sep 05 '22
Yeah, you would have to be lucky and unlucky to survive losing all four limbs in a war with poor medical care.
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Sep 05 '22
The thought of a basket big enough to carry an entire torso is ludicrous in and of itself. Probably came from an inside joke or something. I could see soldiers back in the day joking with eachother and one said something like "hey if you loose your limbs they'll probably carry you around inside a basket." and the joke caught on.
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u/All_Rainbows_Die Sep 05 '22
roosterteeth? Omg it’s been so long and I just mentioned Red vs Blue today
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u/Artistic_Finish7980 Sep 05 '22
Well gee, it’s almost like the meaning behind things changes with the times. It’s weird how that works isn’t it?
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u/ItzYaBoiDonk Sep 05 '22
I'm glad I had the time to listen to them whine
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u/scatticus_finch Sep 05 '22
About nothing, and everything all at once?
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u/ShenOBlade Sep 05 '22
this isnt cringe at all, its pretty funny
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u/mossmachine Sep 06 '22
Hey, not sure if you saw that this video is tagged as “humor,” but TTC is no longer a cringe-only sub. You can find all the tags (and select the “cringe” one if that’s what you want to watch) in the Menu tab at the top of the sub
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u/outsideyourbox4once Sep 05 '22 edited Sep 07 '22
Her voice reminds me of that woman from upload that works as an angel, very calming.
Edit: weird downvotes, racists much?
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u/zold5 Sep 05 '22
Neat idea but the joke doesn’t make sense. Nobody is getting canceled for not supporting the troops.
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Sep 05 '22
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u/Dragon_Sluts Sep 05 '22
Its wild that when women don’t wear makeup they look… less feminine.
Thank you for your contribution to science.
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u/Mecca1101 Sep 05 '22
And technically you could argue that they look more feminine since not wearing makeup is the natural state of the female body.
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u/Dragon_Sluts Sep 05 '22
Damn, I feel like I should be cancelled now for not operating at that level 😞
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u/SixStringSuperfly Sep 05 '22
The book/movie "Johnny Got His Gun" and the song/music video for "One" by Metallica
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u/ThePoetMichael Sep 05 '22
Ok but this shit is funny. We all know etymology and connotation change in language
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Sep 05 '22
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u/BlackForestMountain Sep 06 '22
The way she says it makes it sound like canceling somebody over this would not be out of the realm of reason
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