Apologies for the first depiction of the fed, I didn’t make this image :/

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Fidel was brilliant. Maybe this chapter with Mexico’s President is not well known abroad, but Fidel trolled the shit out of Vicente Fox during the Monterrey Summit of 2002. George W. Bush did confirm he was attending the summit, but he wasn’t gonna share the scene with Castro, so the Mexican president solved the conundrum in the most sloppy way that, to this day, still provokes me utter embarrassment. He asked Fidel to get out of Mexico, as soon as Bush would appear.

    Fidel, being the brilliant bastard he was, taped the call. He even asked the Mexican president to repeat the “plan”, so Fidel had it clear and could serve as asked. This call still shows the kind of leadership that the USA endorses, promotes, and imposes to the peoples of the world. It’s a pity there are no translations of this.

  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    361·
    2 days ago

    Wait fidel got the cia to fund him?!?! This guy gets better every time i learn something new about him

        • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          Gen X here. Well,borderline. I choose which as convenience dictates. Psych is correct.

          • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
            32·
            1 day ago

            Now you have me wondering if it was regional, because it was definitely sike in Florida all the way through the '80s.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                little secret: Florida isn’t as different from the rest os the US as people think. it just has a different law about journalistic reporting on police reports than the rest of the country which makes their police blotter easy fodder for hack comedians who don’t know robbing a gas station with an alligator in florida is the same energy as robbing a wawa with a badger in Pittsburgh, but the latter isn’t reported by default

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
            12·
            1 day ago

            i learned it as sike comes from the swamp reclamation ditches in florida that skateboarders would hang out near. you’d shove someone in the ditch (sike) and say “sike” when you did a real dumb low stakes prank

            • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              That is an interesting thought. And y’know, it’s not like English hasn’t had competing spellings for words before.

              As long as there’s a valid etymology, I’d treat either as correct. But granted, they can become correct through use even if it does come from a bone-apple-tea situation.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                absolutely. there wasn’t any prescribed spelling for anything until i think it was the mid 1800s. and dictionaries are meant to be descriptive of the language as it is, not prescriptive of what it should be

      • Noite_Etion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        2 days ago

        Both “psych” and “sike” are used as interjections to indicate that a previous statement was a lie, joke, or prank, but psych is the original, formally recognized spelling, while sike is a popular slang variant. And yes, “Psych” derives from “psyched out” (to mentally confuse or trick someone).

        • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
          142·
          2 days ago

          Millennial here. “sike” is a Bone Apple Tea. It’s the equivalent of those “when you smell his colon” memes (misspelling “cologne”). If you use “sike” I consider you a dumbass; you really should know better.

          That being said, it hit just right when the Piranha Creeper said it:

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    Now check this out, we should put an explosive in that stupid cigar he keeps smoking.

    … Lay off the cartoons jerry