can someone tell me what the difference between these two memes are
because I’m pretty certain they convey the exact same sentiment
No! @nintendette explained this to me the other day!
– Caveman Spongebob (SpongeGar) is when your primal instincts kick in – for example, this image has been used with the title “when you get up in the middle of the night to get food and you hear someone coming” KnowYourMeme page here – Mr Krabs conveys realization and panic – for example, this image has been paired with the title “when you turn in an exam and your classmates start talking and none of your answers match” KnowYourMeme page here
god whenever i see those jokes that are like.. “haha lads we put glasses on the floor at the MET and everyone thought it was art jokes on them” jokes on you bitch! you put something out there in a context of display + consumption of art and people took it seriously because that is what the social etiquette of galleries impedes the viewer to do and you drew a response and reaction out of them and then thousands of other people by laughing at them. you made art bitch. you simulated the experience then proved your own joke with you as the punchline bitch. not the viewers.
The phrase “Harder than finding a needle in a haystack” must have been coined before magnets were invented.
-Hilarious Humor from Outer Space
Okay but you actually stumbled on one of the coolest bits of history- This phrase was coined by the inventor of the electromagnet.
William Sturgeon worked for the East India Company in the 1800s. He was self taught and notorious at the time not as an inventor but as a bar patron who would take up all kinds of bets. In 1822 he made a bet with Stuart Abercrombie that he could eat ten pounds of hard cheddar in one sitting. In 1823 he bet Markus Hellenschneidersen that he could punch a hole through one foot of lead. In early 1824 he bet Erskine Hamlet that he could sneeze with enough force to blast the Earl of Liverpool off his horse. Needless to say he failed every bet, and was generally out of money.
In late 1824, he bet Charles Grafton Page that he could find a needle in a haystack in under a minute. Being certain he could do so but being completely broke, he bet for one million pounds of Page’s money against his own life. Page accepted.
Sturgeon was scared half to death. On the appointed day he would have 59 seconds to find a needle in a modest haystack of one cubic meter. Or he would die. He had only two days to prepare, and in those days he studied. He studied metals. He studied hay. He studied methods of finding anything in the world. And on the Friday of the decision, he arrived at the barn with the world’s first electromagnet.
Unfortunately, electricity would not be invented by Georg Ohm for another three years and unable to use it to find the needle, Sturgeon was executed by a single gunshot to the head.
BUT. His invention, agreed by all to be a brilliant idea, became useful those three years later and he was awarded a posthumous patent (the first in England). Had he lived another few years, Sturgeon would have owned the rights to the electric motor, and would have lived as one of the richest men in British history.
His last words were recorded as follows: “I accept my fate for I have failed a bet against my life. I shall die now, but the afterlife troubles me not- For whatever Sisyphean ordeal awaits me in hell, it can’t be harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
