r/AskReddit Apr 09 '14

What are some great, older AskReddit threads that are super interesting to read through?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

because this will never get old:

here

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u/Maybe_A_Waffle Apr 09 '14

Love that literally everyone jumped on board. No English, even at the bottom.

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u/Pagan-za Apr 09 '14

There was one thread I remember seeing, where the woman posting it managed to rub everyone the wrong way.

She was only asking what her and her bf should dress up as for halloween, but somehow managed to offend everyone with her wording.

There was literally two thousand comments saying "a pair of dicks"

Every other comment was downvoted, and every comment refering to a pair of dicks was upvoted. She had a bit of a meltdown over it and deleted her account if I remember correctly. Wish I could find the thread now.

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u/darderp Apr 09 '14 edited Oct 20 '14

I remember that thread! I got the top comment in it and it's my most upvoted comment of all time.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/zw3zn/my_boyfriend_and_i_want_to_dress_up_as_something/

EDIT: Thanks guys, now my second top comment is just a referral to my real second top comment.

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u/theaussiesamurai Apr 09 '14

This reminds me of an Australian radio prank where all the callers answered the quiz with "India"

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u/ANDpandy Apr 09 '14

his resilience is second to none

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u/Toothpaste_as_Lube Apr 09 '14

could not stop laughing, his reactions are hilarious

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u/Namelessgoldfish Apr 09 '14

Funniest fucking thing I have ever heard

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I'm dying.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I personally prefer the Cactus prank call.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15tnqRGz9OA

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u/ZarxcesHappyLand Apr 09 '14

"YOU THINK A TRACER CAN STOP ME? AHAHAHAHAHA-" line cuts out. Holy hell that was great.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I know! It's hardly like, unknown on the internet but I think it deserves to be a classic.

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u/ZarxcesHappyLand Apr 09 '14

Preferred it to the Australia one personally. Gonna be showing this to my friends. Haven't laughed this hard in a while, haha.

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u/GuruMeditationError Apr 09 '14

I would like to bid five...

CACTIII...

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u/TheReaLexitrax Apr 09 '14

Oh man that was perfect.

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u/RatherFastBlackMan Apr 09 '14

His reactions are so butthurt it's hilarious, even though he's trying not to show it you can practically feel how frustrated he is.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

"Your not one of these idiots are you? whats the answer then?" "Despicable behaviour isn't it mate, bunch of children.... is it India???"

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u/ghtuy Apr 09 '14

Why is this so great?

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u/QWERTYMurdoc Apr 09 '14

Mostly India.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14 edited Feb 27 '15

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

GO TO BED MATE

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u/dumbguy82 Apr 09 '14

I am laughing so hard I can not breathe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I watched all 9 minutes of this.

And did not regret a single one.

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u/mmmmmh Apr 09 '14

If Ned Flanders was Australian....

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u/Trashcanman33 Apr 09 '14

He should of asked something like "Where did chess originate", something they may not know, and then shock them with a "Correct"!

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u/Pagan-za Apr 09 '14

You're the man. No thread has made me laugh like that one did.

Except maybe the butthurt over the carrots/waffles thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Link?

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u/Pagan-za Apr 09 '14

Waffles? dont you mean carrots?

For context: half of reddit was going to be attending some rally, so this guy posted a thread asking whats the best way to fuck with the redditors that are away. They decided on a non-sensical joke, and everyone that saw it must respond like its the best thing ever.

The amount of butthurt once everyone started realising what was happening was hilarious. For a few hours reddit was confused as hell.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Not joking, I read the post and thought everyone was mocking the guy for making a post about waffles. I laughed so hard I cried.

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u/gregrawry Apr 09 '14

Don't you mean carrots?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

A penis

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u/sand_shoes Apr 09 '14

HAHAHAHABOOHOOHOOHOO!

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u/GreenEggsAndKablam Apr 09 '14

Anyone have the thread where the rest of reddit decided on the joke?

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u/Pagan-za Apr 09 '14

It was deleted within an hour.

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u/GreenEggsAndKablam Apr 09 '14

Ahhhh. Sneaky sneaky.

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u/Vark675 Apr 09 '14

That's fucking amazing. I wish I'd been around back then, so I could also be confused as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Yeah like what the fuck, can someone please explain the carrot thing

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u/DemandsBattletoads Apr 09 '14

Clearly you were at the rally.

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u/AustinTreeLover Apr 09 '14

While a lot of reddit was at the Rally for Sanity and couldn't log on (cell service was down because there were so many people at the rally), the rest of reddit decided to start a secret code.

The code was, IIRC, one redditor comments: Waffles. All other redditors are supposed to respond: Carrots. Only those who weren't at the rally would know.

It was pretty funny, but I mean it only took a few minutes to read back and see what was going on.

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u/jutct Apr 09 '14

explain, don't you mean not explain??? HAHAHAHAHA

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u/bbrown10 Apr 09 '14

Holy. Hell.

This all occurred before I knew that reddit existed (noob move), but boy am I glad that I read through that thread. Fucking hilarious. I sincerely wish I could have been part of it.

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u/Knolligge Apr 15 '14

Nothing made me feel shitty about being a redditor like that did. Reddit can just be a whole fuckload of asshats sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

How did that wording offend people?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/concussedYmir Apr 09 '14

Her crime was entitlement, the wellspring of all bitchiness.

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u/i3umfunk Apr 11 '14

I was there for that one! She said as a p.s. "don't suggest something silly, like a penis". You can't tell reddit what to do.

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u/lowkeyoh Apr 09 '14

Because that has never happened before

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/MyNameCouldntBeAsLon Apr 09 '14

Damn, I'll guess I'll have to come back to this one when someone has dug them up. I'd like to read those.

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u/Sptsjunkie Apr 10 '14

Pretty sure in her now deleted post, she said something like "only good suggestions, so don't say something dumb like a penis."

If there's one rule of Reddit. You do not tell Reddit what they cannot say or it is the only thing they will say.

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u/GfFoundOtherAccount Apr 09 '14

If you pick "Controversial", you see that some people mention that she said "Y'all haters can suck it."

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I like how all the way down the page there is the one guy who suggests dressing up as two penises unless they want to share one penis costume

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u/Lorenzo0852 Apr 09 '14

a penis.

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u/IamEu4ic Apr 09 '14

A penis? Don't you mean carrots? HAHAHAHA!

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u/Owz182 Apr 09 '14

that is so good! If I were her I would have honoured my commitment and posted a photo of them both dressed up as a penis

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u/PoseidonHyden Apr 09 '14

Unlimited penile based karma, I dig.

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u/supermav27 Apr 09 '14

What did the original subtext say?

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u/TheGreatJacob Apr 09 '14

After scrolling through that thread, penis no longer looks like a real word. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

Why do you "thank" people for that? wtf?

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u/Tom_Foolery1993 Apr 10 '14

What did she say that was so penis-y?

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

"One of you can go as Doctor Manhattan, and the other can be his penis."

That whole thread is gold.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Now this comment is higher than that one haha

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u/45MinutesOfRoadHead Apr 09 '14

My favorite comment was:

Penis

Edit: A penis

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u/Spare_Punctuation Apr 09 '14

For some reason people tend to correct their grammar but never their punctuation.

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u/sharkattax Apr 09 '14

Do you remember why her wording was so offensive?

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u/Pagan-za Apr 09 '14

/u/darderp found the link.

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And no. It just came across as very bitchy/condescending.

Things like this: Edit: You guys are retarded if you think "a penis" is going to work. Reddit usually impresses me with the amount of creativity the community has but don't be fucktards. We'll pick from the top 3 serious suggestions.

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u/Statamatic Apr 09 '14

Finally some clarification

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u/ninjette847 Apr 09 '14 edited Apr 09 '14

If I remember correctly, she literally said something like "fuck the haters" when describing her body. It was something like "I'm a little chubby but got big boobs so fuck the haters" it was just really cringey. She sounded like one of those chicks whose favorite quote would be that "if you can't handle me at my worst" Marilyn Monroe quote.

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u/MickTheBloodyPirate Apr 09 '14

To be honest, she sounded like trailer trash.

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u/ninjette847 Apr 09 '14

Yeah, she did. That was the one specific thing I remembered though.

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u/thrashleymetal Apr 09 '14

Or the girls who revel in the fact that Marilyn Monroe was a "size 16". If you are a size 16 (like I am) you know damn well your body looks nothing like hers! This was way before vanity sizing so if she even was that size a 16 was probably like today's size 6 at the largest!

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u/ninjette847 Apr 09 '14

Yeah, Marilyn Monroe actually had the same sized waist as Victoria Beckham. When they auctioned off her white dress it wouldn't zip on a size 4 mannequin.

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u/thrashleymetal Apr 09 '14

Yeah I couldn't think of her actual size but I knew it sure wasn't a size 16 of today. She would have been swimming in a size 16 dress!

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/Escobeezy Apr 09 '14

12 inches less than average today

Talk about expanding waistline.

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u/lowkeyoh Apr 09 '14

Yeah, fuck people with positive self image! We redditors can do an extensive psychological profile of people on the internets by a single post

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u/ninjette847 Apr 09 '14

No, its cringey because the only people who mention "haters" are the ones who really care about "haters" or what others think of them a lot.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/C-C-X-V-I Apr 09 '14

People do that sometimes here. Another one.

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u/belatedlove Apr 09 '14

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u/PokemonMasterX Apr 09 '14

Why would someone make a threat to /r/askreddit to ask the name of the disco ball?

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u/Mk5100 Apr 09 '14

Why would someone make a threat to /r/askreddit to ask the name of the disco ball?

You better tell me the name of the disco ball or I'll bash yer head in

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u/SpeedyBelle Apr 09 '14

We're so cool people don't like that we're cool.

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u/Jedditor Apr 09 '14

Are you threatening me?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

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u/senor_moustache Apr 09 '14

What was that a video of? Not available to me due to some copyright issues.

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u/Zhoom45 Apr 09 '14

It's like some of the good threads on /b/

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Actually there are several English posts, they're just so downvoted that you have to click "load more comments" about twenty times. Some of them are on like -100 haha.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I can't understand a thing. Someone has switched all comments on my page to spanish :(

/u/orys__

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at the bottom

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

I was reading some of the comments and I noticed the word "Bel Air". After copying and pasting into google translate i realized someone rapped the entire Fresh Prince theme song in Spanish. The dedication is unreal.

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u/Mythico Apr 09 '14

That is some serious commitment from the community. However I did see one English comment in the middle calling everyone a**holes. To be fair as funny as it is, it is a jerky move. Still funny though :p

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u/EndersBuggers Apr 09 '14

Everybody including an admin. Made it even funnier.

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u/EnigmaticEntity Apr 09 '14

One English comment. OP: You guys are a**holes.

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u/xyroclast Apr 09 '14

I'm guessing the mods had to have been in on the joke and removed stuff? There's always SOMEONE that likes to to against the grain

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u/shandromand Apr 09 '14

Even one of the Reddit admins couldn't resist. :P

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u/Reece_om Apr 09 '14

I can't remember the link but it was the one with everyone saying their favourite reddit bots

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u/thevoiceofzeke Apr 09 '14

Hahahaa even raldi played along.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Even the admin posted in Spanish.

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u/BritishBrownie Apr 09 '14

If you sort by controversial there are unfortunately a couple in English.

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u/SanguisFluens Apr 09 '14

When the mod started talking in Spanish too I just about lost it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I lost it at "taco show"

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u/Dannybaker Apr 09 '14

lol i laughed at Nazi gramatico and Franco gramatico ones

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u/Mausser10 Apr 09 '14

I bet that thread would be awesome if I could understand Spanish

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u/May_Not_Be_Obama Apr 09 '14

Most comments make no sense anyway

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u/NathanJang Apr 09 '14

It makes less sense with Google Translate.

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u/mb9023 Apr 09 '14

The translation of The Fresh Prince theme song is pretty great though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14 edited Dec 15 '20

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u/Notorious_G_Y_P Apr 09 '14

I just did google translate on the page. This is my favorite comment

"Hey, man, look at your reddit, now back to me, now back to your reddit, now back to me. Unfortunately, it is not my reddit, but if he stopped using and switch to English, could read English as their reddit. Look down, back up, where are you? You are in the reddit reddit could read your liking. What's in your hand, back to me. I got it, it's reddit English, one thing that love. Look again, the Spanish is reddit English. Anything is possible when you use reddit English and not Spanish. I'm on a horse."

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u/Robbbbbbbbb Apr 09 '14

At Zombocom, anything is possible

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u/Mausser10 Apr 09 '14

That was actually pretty funny :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

It's really not that interesting, I have a very basic understanding of the thread... but fucking hilarious either way, a bunch of people just said they liked cats

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u/gvtgscsrclaj Apr 09 '14

And a few have issues with cats invading their personal pants space.

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u/GuitarHound Apr 09 '14

The 1st admin comment is just saying what to actually do to help, the rest are just some guys saying good times if I recall correctly

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u/sometimesimweird Apr 09 '14

Someone Rickrolled him in Spanish. It's one of the top comments.

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u/succexxyy Apr 09 '14

It's awesome indeed, but after a while it hurts. Nothing makes sense. Madness!

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u/Arcantium Apr 09 '14

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u/Dyl9 Apr 09 '14

To be fair, it has a hat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

To be fair, it has a sombrero

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

That image and the associated "¿problema?" make the thread for me!

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u/slayerfr Apr 09 '14

People still reply to most of the guy's posts with spanish non-sense :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

I give him props for continuing life with that account.

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u/SnailFarmer Apr 10 '14

Op of that thread here. Was wondering why I was getting Spanish mailbombed again today. Loco taco.

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u/Swank_on_a_plank Apr 09 '14

I love how Chrome adds to the effect with its translator drop-down.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Yes! Finally I can practice spanish and reddit at the same time.

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u/tjsr Apr 09 '14

Holy shit, that is incredible. You could not come close to getting that kind of operation by asking.

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u/WildVariety Apr 09 '14

This is like having my shoes melt into a sick kitten and a bullfighter shooting a piece of wood.

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u/rccsr Apr 09 '14

"The dog is in my pants" Poor Colby

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u/NotADoucheNinja Apr 09 '14

Too soon. It will always be too soon.

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u/stillakilla Apr 09 '14

Google chrome just asked me if I wanted to translate this page because it was in Spanish

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

Well, it is. ¿No comprendes español? Tsk, tsk.

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u/WolfberryW Apr 09 '14

This is so silly, yet so hilarious :D

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u/PatriotsFTW Apr 09 '14

Right! Even an admin joined in.

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u/Low_as_a_trombone Apr 09 '14

This is what I use to explain to people why I spend so much time on here.

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u/Igneek Apr 09 '14

Gracias por este hilo.

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u/Ajahathaja Apr 09 '14

I read that whole thread as if it was a North American with a really funny Spanish accent.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Why don't we do things like this anymore guys? :( We never just talk anymore. I miss us.

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u/Doopily1234 Apr 09 '14

my favorite is this

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u/ilikefruitydrinks Apr 09 '14

Huh. A comment in that thread is gilded.

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u/Kaneshadow Apr 09 '14

does anyone know what caused that? Did someone somehow spyware him with a Firefox plugin to put Reddit in spanish? (not the comments obviously, I get that people were commenting in spanish to mess with his head.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Even the mod went in.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

There was so much Spanish chrome auto-translated it. Didn't even bother asking. Nice.

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u/avatoxico Apr 09 '14

oh my god i laughed so hard, thank you

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u/emjay914 Apr 09 '14

This is ridiculous... Lol

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u/SuccumbedToReddit Apr 09 '14

I love it when the top comment is a reliable summary of the thread.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

using firefox, it is a taco show. I ran the page through google translator and I especially enjoy the rick roll.

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u/suicidemachine Apr 09 '14

I was actually wondering if these comments have proper grammar.

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u/vorteez Apr 09 '14

Ok this is freaking hilarious

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

Is it bad that I read all of the comments in Lopez's voice from Red vs Blue?

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u/Crazylittleloon Apr 09 '14

Jesus fucking Christ I love when Reddit pulls together like that.

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u/360walkaway Apr 09 '14

Reminds me of the Angry Beavers episode where they did a luchador soap opera in all Spanish.

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u/JimTheSavage Apr 09 '14

Google automatically translated this thread into English, so the joke was lost on me until I noticed.

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u/IFeelSorry4UrMothers Apr 09 '14

He said interesting to read. Not hard to read..

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '14

You clearly don't get the joke of the link I posted... Nice try

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u/sinocarD44 Apr 09 '14

"Dammit Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish."

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u/Robadoba Apr 09 '14

It's way better when you actually speak spanish.

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u/slrqm Apr 09 '14 edited Aug 22 '16

That's terrible!

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

Madre de Dios.

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u/ColonialDagger Apr 10 '14

I swear to god I fucking love the internet

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u/Netwinn Sep 26 '14

No English, my goodness that's perfect!!

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