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Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?
by mkoryak 4y ago
Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?
- sebzim4500 4y agoSomeone 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 agoIt 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 agoClick on the link? The video description explains it.
- mkoryak 4y agoClicked 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 agoThat 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 agoThe 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 agoIn 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... )