Monthly meme dump

I'm a little early this time around and that is because I have been spending more time in the gym than I normally do in an effort to get back into a certain level of shape that doesn't make me want to punch the guy in the mirror. I no longer participate in "traditional social media" such as FB, IG, and I never participated in Twitter. I left those things behind about 5 years ago and my life has been a lot better because of it. So maybe I don't know what my college roommate had for lunch and I no longer get to see pictures of airplane wings or feet in the sand because somebody went on vacation but honestly, my life doesn't change much without that knowledge in it.

These days I only look at 9gag when I have downtime and if you don't know what that is, that is fine. It is normally a collection of memes interspersed with political propaganda and the usual arguments that come along with such things. The difference in the comments section of 9gag pointless political arguments is that the people involved don't know one another so they aren't dissolving lifelong friendships just because one of them likes Trump and the other doesn't.

I save the memes that I find funny or insightful and well, I am here to present them to you.

I'm starting off on a bad foot here because this is not a meme. It is a news post made by an oblivious news source called "Access" and I am happy that I have never heard of them. The response is just gold though, and that is what made me laugh.

It is well-known that dogs simply melt my heart. I don't even particularly care for bulldogs but the young ones, well they haven't yet grown into the moody and drooling skin flaps that they will eventually become. I want to be friends with Winston, of this much I am certain.

This one is special to me, very special to me, because I made it. I was lambasted by the meme community for my poor cropping but honestly, the commenters on 9gag are just as big of a-holes as anyone else on the internet. My meme did make it to the trending section though and that was a big win for me. It is also a true story because this app, called Zalo, is kind of like the Whatsapp of Vietnam. Instead of talking, people send cute animated animals to one another often and well the real estate agent wasn't being rude but probably just doesn't understand how exclamation points can dramatically change the feel of a message.

Is a quote a meme? well this is a highly contested argument on 9gag and 4chan but I don't care. I like the quote and the author and it is also quite insightful. As someone that has been intentionally single for several years now I am on the fence with this one. I am mostly content being single but there are times when I am lonely. Nadi helps to take the sadness away on the rare moments that I feel that way, though.

Tweets are heavily frowned upon in the 9gag community but I always upvote them because I don't have Twitter and never will. This is something that I can directly relate to and I am willing to bet that it has happened to a lot of you at some point also.

They could have chosen a better fond color and trust me, this was pointed out extensively in the comments section. I know quite a few Canadians because no matter where you are in the world, they seem to constitute a larger that you would expect portion of the expat mix. I pick on them, and they pick on Americans... that's just the relationship that these two nations have. It's mostly light-hearted and when I showed this to my Canadian pals, they agreed entirely.

Not funny, but it is certainly insightful. How many times have all of us stressed over something that we have no control over? How many of us have allowed something that you cannot change to affect your overall mood. I think we could all use a bit of meditation time to do the old adage of "grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

That's it for today. I will end this as I always do

There's Nadi in her Kansas City Chiefs jersey that she actually didn't hate because it was cold that day. She is not a fan of wearing shirts and I am not a fan of putting her little doggy arms in them.

If you have any memes to share back, please do so. I am always in search of more dank.