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so the lettuce [1] won. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0

by geek_at 4y ago

mkoryak 4y ago
Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?
- sebzim4500 4y ago
  Someone set up youtube stream with a picture of Liz Truss and a lettuce. People in the chat could discuss what was likely to last longer, the lettuce or Liz Truss.
  - raesene9 4y ago
    It was the daily star, one of the UKs tabloid newspapers, who often have "irreverant" approaches to the news, this one paid off for them I'd guess.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    "Someone" being the Daily Star, a British tabloid
- loloquwowndueo 4y ago
  Click on the link? The video description explains it.
  - mkoryak 4y ago
    Clicked it, but didn't notice the video description, did see a huge amount of people talking and saying mostly nonsense. I did go back to find it. It's 2 clicks away from clicking the link.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  That newspaper started a live feed pitting a lettuce against the PM seeing if she could last longer in office than the lettuce.
- robin_reala 4y ago
  The Daily Star (a fairly low-rent tabloid newspaper in the UK) has been live-streaming a video of a lettuce for most of the week, as a competition to see whether Liz Truss will resign, or the lettuce reach its best-before date (10 days) first.
- gertrunde 4y ago
  In addition to other comments, I suspect that the livestreamed lettuce was a reference to an earlier article saying describing Truss as having effectively had seven days in power before everything fell apart, saying "That is roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce." - various other media outlets seemed to pick up & run with the lettuce reference. (Link: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-made-britain-a-riskier-bet-for-bond-investors https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-m... )
iam-TJ 4y ago
I thought it was a Cabbage! - since 'cabbage' has a double-meaning in colloquial English meaning 'incapable' :D I think the journalists(!?) missed a trick there.
- saalweachter 4y ago
  I think they were taken by the sound-alike Liz Truss/lettuce.
- kingsloi 4y ago
  unless the lettuce is wet?
  - iam-TJ 4y ago
    Wet Lettuce, Damp Squib, any more!? I always thought Truss was more like an Android than anyone I've ever encountered. Lack of emotive expressions, eyes that seemed to stare rather than scan, and so on. Maybe later we'll find it was a failed A.I. experiment by Cambridge Analytica/Facebook !
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so the lettuce [1] won. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0

mkoryak 4y ago

Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?

sebzim4500 4y ago
Someone set up youtube stream with a picture of Liz Truss and a lettuce. People in the chat could discuss what was likely to last longer, the lettuce or Liz Truss.
- raesene9 4y ago
  It was the daily star, one of the UKs tabloid newspapers, who often have "irreverant" approaches to the news, this one paid off for them I'd guess.
- capableweb 4y ago
  "Someone" being the Daily Star, a British tabloid
loloquwowndueo 4y ago
Click on the link? The video description explains it.
- mkoryak 4y ago
  Clicked it, but didn't notice the video description, did see a huge amount of people talking and saying mostly nonsense. I did go back to find it. It's 2 clicks away from clicking the link.
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
That newspaper started a live feed pitting a lettuce against the PM seeing if she could last longer in office than the lettuce.
robin_reala 4y ago
The Daily Star (a fairly low-rent tabloid newspaper in the UK) has been live-streaming a video of a lettuce for most of the week, as a competition to see whether Liz Truss will resign, or the lettuce reach its best-before date (10 days) first.
gertrunde 4y ago
In addition to other comments, I suspect that the livestreamed lettuce was a reference to an earlier article saying describing Truss as having effectively had seven days in power before everything fell apart, saying "That is roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce." - various other media outlets seemed to pick up & run with the lettuce reference. (Link: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-made-britain-a-riskier-bet-for-bond-investors https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-m... )

iam-TJ 4y ago

I thought it was a Cabbage! - since 'cabbage' has a double-meaning in colloquial English meaning 'incapable' :D I think the journalists(!?) missed a trick there.

saalweachter 4y ago
I think they were taken by the sound-alike Liz Truss/lettuce.
kingsloi 4y ago
unless the lettuce is wet?
- iam-TJ 4y ago
  Wet Lettuce, Damp Squib, any more!? I always thought Truss was more like an Android than anyone I've ever encountered. Lack of emotive expressions, eyes that seemed to stare rather than scan, and so on. Maybe later we'll find it was a failed A.I. experiment by Cambridge Analytica/Facebook !

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