the world is laughing at us

[Kevin Hodge]

theres this meme called socially awkward penguin, i've never seen it mentioned on here before and i've always found that bizarre. basically you can take almost anything we say in the sa room, apply it to this meme, and the world laughs.

heres some examples which i thought could have been lifted straight out of one of our conversations on here -

[Kevin Hodge]

theres hundreds of these a quick search on google away. you guys seen this or what?

i have to say, i do find them funny. if i didnt laugh at how lame i was i think i'd have to step in front of a bus.

[Kevin Hodge]

i was talking on the phone to a mate about this and i said "wow you could even do a special SAUK response version, where someone sees socially awkward penguin and has a socially awkward response", but theres actually several versions of that around already -

[HardRockGlamour]

I haven't seen this before, I just did a search and it looks ooookay to me. It seems to be about common booboos that everybody makes every day. 'Normal' people seem to relate to it.

[Mr. Nobody]

lol,..

just saw it, and couldn't stop laughing,..
very perceptive, and really subtle, good humour.
whoever came up with them seems to have an insight into SA behaviour.
some are a bit too familiar and very cringeworthy, but, as you say, you need to be able to laugh at all these faux pas, otherwise,......

[AnathemA]

I want to be exactly like socially awkward penguin when I grow up. I have the "socially awkward" part down, but I'm still working on the "penguin" part.

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Alcoyne

lol,..

just saw it, and couldn't stop laughing,..

very perceptive, and really subtle, good humour.
whoever came up with them seems to have an insight into SA behaviour.
some are a bit too familiar and very cringeworthy, but, as you say, you need to be able to laugh at all these faux pas, otherwise,......

i think what it is is that theres a pretty broad spectrum of awkwardness that people feel before they have to feel miserable all the time and call it "sa". lots of "normal" people i think will have awkward moments and little insights.

its just funny how DIRECTLY the stuff on this site has translated over into this meme.


btw...it wasnt me who started it, promise O_O

[Mr. Nobody]

how about inventing a few,.. .. too painful ?

Guy excercies way too frequently to impress Woman,.

dosen't introduce himself, just stands in the distance trying to look buff

Woman walks by.



pretty girl says "hi" to guy

guy scowls back and grunts "huhh"

guy shouts at himself at home

[Kevin Hodge]

http://memegenerator.net/Socially-Awkward-Penguin



MEME GENERATOR WONT WORK


WONDER HOW THEY KNOW ITS ME



srsly can someone sort that shit out? keeps generating an error message

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Alcoyne

how about inventing a few,.. .. too painful ?

Guy excercies way too frequently to impress Woman,.

dosen't introduce himself, just stands in the distance trying to look buff

Woman walks by.

for me it'd be like


"work out like beast

feel ashamed of large muscles"

[Mr. Nobody]

Guy in moviehall needs loo 5 minutes into 3 hr. film

sits in total discomfort for 2hrs. 55 mins.

goes too loo at end.

[-Simon-]

I don't have an issue with this as it suggests to me that there is a significant proportion of society who will get it, which, I think, would require some level of empathy. Why penguin though?
It's not as hurtful as the countless jokes of which the punchline is that someone has no friends, and is therefore a suitable object of derision and ridicule.

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by -Simon-

I don't have an issue with this as it suggests to me that there is a significant proportion of society who will get it, which, I think, would require some level of empathy.

yeah i guess in a way its encouraging

Why penguin though?
It's not as hurtful as the countless jokes of which the punchline is that someone has no friends, and is therefore a suitable object of derision and ridicule.

need to post a few pics to explain, gonna put it in a spoiler to save it bulking the thread out

basically theres this meme culture on the internet, a lot of it starts off with a funny picture of an animal and then people interpret that some way and its becomes a meme/running gag.

heres the original penguin picture -




evidently someone has related the image to the "ARGH MUST RUN" feeling of social awkwardness. i know when i look at the wee bugger i can feel myself lapsing into "ONLY THING TO DO MUST RUN" mode


this is a trend in itself, other memes based around a funny animal picture are -

insanity wolf -



where people have been so taken by this ultimate display of lethal aggression that they have made about 6.3 trillion captions to go along with it.






then theres courage wolf, where the emphasis is more on self-belief and unflappability -




i'm no meme scholar but theres loads of this stuff

[AshBash]

Nah I dont think it takes the piss out of us,I think everyone does these things I dont think it has owt to do with SA.

[Munkeh]

Oh god, I do that often :/

[Lyacon]

I love these memes (well, the ones that are good) and have seen "socially-awkward penguin" before, but never associated it with social anxiety. Of course I relate to them, but I relate to many of these memes too. Especially foul bachelor frog

[Potential]

Awesome thread. I'd encountered Advice Dog and Insanity Wolf, I wasn't aware of Socially Awkward Penguin.

The ones about anxiety and low self esteem are gold. I should nab a few to use as desktop backgrounds to remind me never to do some of this ridiculous crap again.

[Kevin Hodge]

[Caribou]

^ Sorry to embarrass you. Just seems more suited to the lounge

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Poltergeist

^ Sorry to embarrass you. Just seems more suited to the lounge

i was being satirical


just thought some people might take the "humour" in this rather personally, i aint fussed where the thread goes really


*as i said, pretends everything is fine*

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by seth brundle

i was being satirical

Goodoh.

[HelloWorld]

Originally Posted by Moomin

Am I the only one that pronounces it a french accent like:

Meh Meey

mémé

Consider it stolen! I vow to do so from now on.

But beware, if you say it fast enough, it sounds like a poshly-spoken child calling their mother.

[Mr Ploppy]

Rare to see a thread moved OUT of the Basement

[Rane]

[-Simon-]

Thanks for the tutorial, Seth. There's a whole thing I didn't know before.

(just read that before posting and think maybe it sounds sarcastic, it's not supposed to be)

[Narwhal]

At least you can't relate to this one

[Munkeh]

[Mr_Bean]

ha these are pretty good.

[Mr_Bean]

[Mr_Bean]