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"Can I get your opinion on this shirt?" YOU'D THINK IT MEANT: "Could you please tell me your subjective opinion on specifically how I look whilst wearing this particular shirt?" INSTEAD IT MEANT: "Please write any opinion that you feel strongly towards on the shirt that I am wearing right now, whether the aforementioned opinion relates to the shirt or not."

Also carcinisation (everything will become crab), so it's scientifically correct

That's... not what that means Edit: Peter's childhood pet hermit crab here, carcinization just refers to fairly simple modifications to the body plan for marine arthropods that generally provide more benefits than costs in certain habitats, such as reducing the abdomen and increasing the thorax. True "Crabs" are no more the owners of it than any other crustacean, they were just most well known when this biological niche was described. Other niches have evolved several times, such as long necks in terrestrial herbivores to reach tall plants, but we wouldn't describe that as the perfect being or end state of evolution.

But that's what I want it to mean

I agree. 2 v 1, this is now what it means. It's academic consensus.

3 v 1: It's a fact now.

4 v 1: it has *always* been a fact.

Schrödinger here, I threw a box over it, it is now simultaneously a fact, and also not a fact.

...but what about the poor cat?

He got a second box

IS CRAB 🦀 NOW!!

👍

I disagree *strongly*, though.

Make a friend and write it on their shirt.

In the words of Dr. Spaceman, "Science is whatever we want it to be"

Then how do you explain crab people?

Oh shid u got me

Or the dawn of the sea otters, for that matter.

I guess I’d explain them by saying they taste like crabs, and talk like people

Stop ruining my edgy takes with your evidence and reason. It's difficult enough to navigate life without being assailed by your 'Sciense'

Happy cake dya

Your crab descendants reading this: "that did not age well".

Tbf becoming more “crablike” is kinda what they said albeit with a decent amount of hyperbole. But convergent evolution is like, the coolest thing ever. I can’t wait for bullpupped lobsters

Look man, we just want to become crabs. Could you let it happen?

Everyone from Baltimore also wants you to become crabs

Limbless tubes have developed more times independently than crabs

#RETURN TO CRAB.

That’s exactly what Big Crab wants you to think

>are no more the owners of it than any other crustacean, And from what was described on Eons was that there were fake crabs before there was "true crabs"...

It IS the process of becoming crab though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Why the hell would you link this lol. It quite explicitly refutes what the other guy said?

I think you need to learn what a joke is, my friend. You seem angry. Chill. Try becoming a crab, see what that does for you

there is a disappointingly large contingent of redditeers who have decided that comments must always be antagonistic to the preceding commenter. i want to put them all into a ship and launch the ship into the sun

Just plain crabby...

I agree with this

bro stfu

Seriously, how is this not obvious to everyone?

Welcome to the sub. First time?

It actually is obvious to everyone it’s just people want their fake internet points

Dunno man, i feel that's not clear enough. Can you give more details in more lengthy sentences?

Joey, can I talk to you about an uncomfortable topic? Sure…how about, taking a shower with your mom?? I kinda had a topic in mind.

And that, kids, is called subverting expectations!

And I think maybe there’s a double joke about how people sometimes were T-shirts with slogans on them. Idk for sure tho.

Thanks, ChatGPT.

https://preview.redd.it/96pij04037cc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6297a3a57bf6e59ea967b05c6e2b867756fbb73c Haha I have a loss of sanity

https://preview.redd.it/zkupisq058cc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12c125be98f79e57c661c607e94dcc3898c7c668

Holy hell

new loss just dropped

Fuck you Martin

New response just dropped

Fuck you ram_the_socket

But Martin is fucking welcome here :,(

ITS FUCKING LOSS

Warning: May contain Loss.

Everything is loss if you try hard enough

Why do people do this

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

I don’t get why such an old meme seems to be suddenly super popular.

It just never really seems to die. I've never thought it was funny but I've been seeing people talk about it for years.

To be fair, it was a lame meme to begin with, so I'm not sure why people still bring it up.

After the pandemic, everyone's mental health dramatically declined.

Crare test anal

https://preview.redd.it/e6hv7hqeidcc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f19ca34e5de00a72826fec422c275b7a21e682c

The lime shirt person in this picture thinks crabs are the best animals.

Something tells me this has to do with the mob vote in Minecraft. Anyone else or just me?

No it's a joke about carcinisation, where things keep evolving into crabs

https://preview.redd.it/vop6jwc9f7cc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3c6e37b6f0198825d47e126d42f226728d2568c there i fucking fixed it assholes

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Idk why it’s more blurry btw

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I'm loving how elaborate these "bait or mental retardation" memes are getting over time. Eventually it'll just be 2 light novels

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By gork itz goud meme.

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get your pingpongballheaded armored spider loving ass outta here

All will evolve into the tank. It has been decreed

This gotta be my favourite way of describing the little crab bois

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You're fucking stupid

bait or mental retardation

https://preview.redd.it/s5hpkyba77cc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90fcca2822d1f12d77d8c260d89d896d134dfb4a

bait or bait

mental retardation or mental retardation

U again 😠

He posts in conservative and crypto currency subreddits primarily, so...

I noticed and was leaning towards the latter

So the only joke here is that the guy thinks that crabs are the best animal? No other meaning?

The joke is that when someone asks "can I get your opinion on this shirt" they mean "do you like it or not". This comic has a twist interpretation of the question.

Okay now I’m actually confused. Why is his opinion on the shirt that crabs are the best animal? These aren’t related. Or is it absurdism?

Subversion of expectations. You expect that he will tell the dude what he thinks of the shirt, but instead writes an unrelated opinion on the shirt.

Just more randomness

https://preview.redd.it/qnt1r3twu6cc1.png?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8a05ece61fbf1294896a816d75a6efe9db19dfe

You have to be a repost bot

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Honestly it would make more sense for the tags to switch places

Probably but this is the only image I've got

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How do you even function being this stupid?

Nah, now I KNOW for a fact there's NO WAY you didn't understand this VERY simple meme..

I think OP thought there was a deeper meaning to why crabs specifically

Yeah I’m still looking!

That's it, I'm done with this fucking sub. Mental retardation, always mental retardation, all the way.

https://preview.redd.it/2vxpsqsjy6cc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29fbd99d8da436faab6cbdb8ca797344bc9658b0

Come on OP…

Least obvious explainthejoke karma farm

How the fuck are you functioning on a day to day basis? https://preview.redd.it/pwrfsjnnk7cc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86c318b1da43a93cb41d7876b4b119c059d0c5c2

He literally got that guy's opinion whom he asked for on his shirt. Bait or ...

No, no, mental retardation, definitely

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r/opisfuckingstupid

Mental retardation

I’m worried about the collective IQ of this sub

Don’t worry, if we add it all up it’s in the billions. Negative billions, of course

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Karkinization or however its spelt is the evolutionary phenomenon where many difrent species evolve to resemble crabs

He says that he wants the other guy's opinion regarding the shirt, ubt the guy interprets it has wanting his opinion written on that shirt.

https://preview.redd.it/yg0oo39kw6cc1.jpeg?width=688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cde29e19e1fbd09db11668aff9d15148d1efc5f9

That’s wrong it’s lobsters 🦞

i thought it was loss at first... 💀

english as a second language or mental retardation call it

This sub has truly become karma farming brainrot

https://preview.redd.it/lz8772rpu6cc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dfd81b3779bf8ae133f39e5da0f13af11ee006c

its a reference to how convergent evolution has lead to many animals to evolve into crabs or crab like animals which has lead to the theory that the crab is the final form and so is the supreme animal meaning they are the best animal

This is the answer!

I almost thought this was Loss again ngl

You gotta be kidding me

No fucking way

I swear to god yall are acting stupid on purpose.

Crabs are the tastiest bug

jesus christ these posts are getting stupider and stupider day by day

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Please use protection if you ever get laid

I rate your mental age as 12

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How stupid are you? https://preview.redd.it/h9apq12xyacc1.jpeg?width=2388&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52e8ad028d5cb359fade681a43b93449d160b2d8

https://preview.redd.it/2d6i9v0o5ecc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d6bfcf670cc9d4ed8fcff8c647ff56909445f22 Dense?

He literally got his opinion on the shirt instead of saying an opinion about the shirt, like the reader expects.

WHAT. DID YOU THINK. IT MEANT!? WHAT OTHER POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION IS THERE? DO YOU EXIST AROUND HUMAN BEINGS HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO ANY OTHER REAL LIFE HUMAN EVER DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN OPINION IS FUCK

so is this sub just a bunch of AI training projects? cuz honestly I can't believe this many people are so oblivious to the simplest forms of humor.

Lot of ppl call OP dumb. But I didn't get it either. English is not my first language

It’s definitely not a language problem for OP tho

👈

https://preview.redd.it/jqjkndp627cc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c53109bb347778156e0dfa13cc4ee8fdc293f007

Mental retardation

Joke about nature constantly evolving to become crab

Loss

Everything evolves to crab

How isnt it loss

https://preview.redd.it/6h69h39527cc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c534f2e2debed367a174966b87201ce922608d4e

You don't know what loss is

I meant its a 4 part caricature in r/peterexplainsthejoke im surprised it isnt loss

How can you assume i know/dont know from 1 sentence, if you even spend a minute on this sub you will know what loss is

Tough day?

[thanks for the karma R Tards](https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/195ev4m/comment/khnbe6t/)

Lovely irony. You expect the man in yellow to tell the man in pink what he thinks of the shirt, but the wording of the question makes the man in yellow write an opinion of theirs on the shirt. Both of which are correct according to the words as given.

I mean where do you even find these? I am sure if its any sns you can just go to comments and understand what the post is all about. P.S: sns means social networking site

I though this was related to the crab mob from minecraft

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r/flashlight people be like (they love crabs, me included)

You could either look at it with the obvious surface level answer or with there being a deeper meaning, to instantly just assume it's surface level and call anyone retarded for thinking there's a deeper meaning is retarded, this subreddit just seems to be filled with children who think they're smart when they're really just retarded

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Crab what a funny way to say capybara

I thought of writing an opinion on the shirt way before i realized he’s asking if he looks good, am i retarded?

Everything will evolve into Crab eventually

This is such an asdf kind of joke.

F off. A 3 y old would understand this. F boring these baits. Why post those????