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[–] Squirrelknight@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This reminds me of the story about Triboulet, a jester for the king of France.

One day, Tribulet slaps the French king's ass. This makes the king so mad he threatens to have Triboulet executed if he doesn't come up with an apology that was even more insulting than than this prank.

Tribulet responded by saying: "I'm sorry your majesty, I thought you were the Queen!"

This provoked the king even further, so he condemned him to death. However since he had served faithfully for many years, the king offered him the choice of how he would die.

So Triboulet said: "Good sire, I choose to die from old age."

This finally made the king laugh, which led to him allowing Triboulet be banished from France instead of executed.

[–] orenj@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Squirrelknight@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Speaking of Legendary, if you've ever played Balatro you can come across Triboulet as one of the five legendary Jokers in the game. All five are based on famous jesters and entertainers from history or media with their effects always being a reference to their story.

In Triboulets case he gives 2x mult to any played king or queen.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 92 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

King guy is so resentful he instructed the executioner to use the smallest, shittiest axe ever for a decapitation.

You know, make sure it takes a few very messy hits. Maybe he requested an extra blunt edge too.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's not taking the big head off, just the small one.

[–] SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also known as the β€œbobbys helmet”.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

maybe he's just a shitty king?

[–] Bademantel@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

That's not mutually exclusive.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Youtube for some reason started pushing roast shorts to me. 90% of it just racist shit with an uncomfortable audience laughing. I hope they take me off that reel at some point, as they've removed the downvote button

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That shit does absolutely fucking nothing. I don't know how many time's I've clicked either of those and had it continue to suggest the same channel or even the same video.

Same with the list of 4 related shorts. No matter how many times I say no...boom there it is

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you logged in?

I use these quite regularly and they've always worked just fine for me.

'Don't recommend channel' in particular has pretty consistently removed channels from my recommended list... (As long as I refresh the page afterwards)

Reporting also works really good for me.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The biggest joke is the show less shorts button, i clicked that every month since it excist and like a clock they come back every month and when i search for a specific video it's difficult to find because every search is cluttered with shorts

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Ublock origin has a script for that. I'd forgotten they did that shit.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Change your search to a video search. You'll actually get things related to what you're looking for.

[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My wife has been showing me TikTok videos of black guys asking things like, "guess what I do for work," and the responses are every bit as racist as you'd expect.

She thinks it's everyone making fun of racists and black people owning the jokes, but to me it looks like attempts to normalize overt racism.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep. I keep seeing videos of some british guy going around asking international students / workers, "what's a word that you find hard to pronounce", and initially it's played off as cute, but after the fifth person, it's clear that he's doing it to mock them as he's pretty strong in how he corrects them....

there is a narrative to normalize this kind of "us first" behaviour...

[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

I'm sure it's Larry fucking with the algorithm

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

You curate your YouTube algorithm by revising your watch history. Delete the initial roast videos you watched and it shouldn't recommend then anymore

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Three dots on the upper right give some options:

[–] BlindPenguin@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

If you're on Firefox or some random Chrome browser, check out BlockTube.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

That, I think, demonstrates the duality of roasting. You have to go for the obvious, the low hanging fruit but do it in a way that brings something else than just: duh-huh black, duh-huh gay, duh-huh ugly etc

The only roaster I’ve watched purely for his roasts is Greg Giraldo - a now dead, ex lawyer, drug addict who only got into comedy because he thought he could do better than what he was going out to watch.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

break free, choose, use pipepipe and freetube

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

pipepipe only works half the time for me, and doesnt so recommendations

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a brilliant analysis of the state of comedy and that it's now basically a tool for billionaires to uphold and propagate their agenda / world view and using Joe Rogan and his comedy space ship and podcast and circle as the vehicle

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Oh... so just like everything else.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heads up before the head off.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

History fact: he's holding what was called a "knave's axe". It was specifically used for tricksters - they'd give the victim a running start, and throw the axe. If the victim survived the single axe throw, it was considered divine mercy and the crime was forgiven.

Academic sourcesI made it up