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Your weekly Cringe edit
Hi friend,
Brat summer might be coming to an end, but the memes aren’t. Hope you enjoy today’s newsletter:
Group chat fodder
Annie’s favourite headlines
People refused to shake hands with one of France’s far-right politicans, with one guy pretending to play rock-paper-scissors instead (he drew scissors).
Georjia’s favourite headlines
WYR be blacklisted from a friend’s funeral or have someone wait 4 years to get back at you?
Context: The first part of this week’s Would You Rather refers to Shannen Doherty leaving a list of who she didn’t want at her funeral, including former co-stars, while the second part references Charlotte Dujardin’s hater waiting 4 years to release an incriminating video of her ahead of the Olympics.
Georjia: I can respect the level of hatred and pettiness in both. But being blacklisted from a friend’s funeral would hurt – maybe we weren’t friends at all? That might make me spiral and call up my therapist. I agree with blacklisting people from funerals. If we didn’t vibe well I hope the feeling is mutual and we’re mutually blacklisted from each other’s funerals. If it were a close friend, I would be delusional and think that we agreed not to attend at some point – did they think I would go first? Even if someone waited 4 years to get back at me and it potentially ruins my career and diminishes my achievements, I still have to respect the hustle. I must’ve done something bad for them to hold on to it for years and then drop it at the perfect time. I think I have to take the funeral option, they died petty and that’s all I would want from them.
Annie: Someone waiting 4 years to get back at me is some class-A pettiness. I can’t lie, I’m kind of impressed. What could I have possibly done to deserve that? Maybe I haven’t actually done anything and this will end up being nothing but a crazy story about a projecting asshole who decided to blame me for their dissatisfaction in life. Being blacklisted from a friend’s funeral however feels rough. Sure, someone “getting back at me” could potentially do more damage depending on the material, but imagine mourning a friend and then you’re not even invited to their funeral. Is that worse than being uninvited from their wedding? Possibly so. No chance for reconciliation; this person really said I’m taking our beef to my grave and so should you. But at least I’ll have certainty they didn’t like me, instead of lying awake at night wondering if they did/didn’t. Put me on the blacklist.
Weekly palate cleansers
Georjia: Bob Mortimer in a pub with a dog that fetches your darts for you.
Annie: This little guy saying a Lioness player inspired him to play football. :’)
Meme of the week
Award-winning journalism:
That’s it for this week, see you next Friday!