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[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Crush both apples with the blunt side of the knife. Divide applesauce equally.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

4.5% of the population are psychopaths. 1.4% have a degree in maths.

coincidence?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 201 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah damn it's one of those single-use knives.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cross contamination there's a girl there you'll get girl germs

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not if they get me germs first

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service and sacrifice, brave little Hitachi wand.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why you get the knife subscription plan.

Yeah fuck buying things for life - I am now buying things for death

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Don't give them any more ideas.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only if you didn't bring extra knife ammo

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[–] waigl@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Non-murder solution:

Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.

More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The knife looks long enough you could probably cut 1/3 of each apple while they are placed side by side, which might be easier and safer to cut than stacking the apples.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

That seems more possible than turning the knife 90 degrees mid-cut

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Take both apples and attach them to a drill. Position the knife on apples so that it starts slicing a long slice as they rotate and run the drill. You'll end up with a long piece of 2 apples and 2 cores. Keep the long peels, give each core to each one of those peasants.

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] anas@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luigi says [ Removed by Reddit ]

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I will be the cpt obv

1/3 1/3

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2/3 2/3

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ok but like how do you know it's 1/3 of the apple without any other tools.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Let’s not go too deep on this alright

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[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cut first, choose last. It's as fair as you can get when eyeballing it

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's funny is that you've actually stumbled onto an entire problem that's studied quite heavily. I remembered a Numberphile video about this. The problem is called "envy-free cake splitting". It's pretty straightforward. A split is envy-free if no one believes someone else got more than them. For three people this was figured out in 1960 and you can read about it here. It has been solved for N participants as well and you can read about the general problem here.

For two people, it's obvious. One splits and one chooses. The first person is incentivized to make it even because they don't know which they'll get.

I was going to give a summary of the process for three people but it's too much to explain succinctly. Just check the article I posted lol.

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[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What I find particoularly annoying and interesting, is that most of those "silly/dumb" social network questions are engineered with at least 2, sometimes more layers, for the purpose of getting a reaction not really from the "dumb people" but also, possibly mostly, from the smartass that can't help point out something they think they noticed, incongruity and the likes, unaware that those are there on purpose to bait them in.

This case is a lot more blatant, possibly fake, but the "controversial" interpretation of stabbing one of the children is not an afterthoughts of the sick mind of us memers terminally online, it's probably the core reason the thing has been shared and worded that way.

I just hope my own reaction has not been 100% predicted.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With no snark intended I'm pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no. the meme was created to make you think of stabbing people, with engagement bait paired in. op adds the awkward puppet meme, as if it's a novel idea, but thatsthejoke.xls

the above commenter is pointing out how this kind of engagement just falls for the engagement bait, and describes the type of person who would do so

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[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Line em up and cut a third off both apples in one go? Everyone gets 2/3? Seems simple right? Consider the core. I don't think it's possible if you consider the core. You have to kill one of your friends.

You have to kill one of your friends.

You have to kill one of your friends.

Choose which one of your friends to kill.

Reach for the knife before someone else does.

You have to kill one of your friends.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or you could sacrifice yourself, you murderous bastard.

[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

But then I would be dead.

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[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you have one guy draw the knife over a long surface and distance, the other two can use that one slicing motion to cut the apples any number of times.

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

Like shaving with an old razor blade.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My solution is cut both apples in half, and take two halves, because I am more equal than others.

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Some animals are more equal than others...

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago

That's socialist propaganda! You see, you cut both apples in half with one cut, everyone gets half an apple and the remaining half is given to someone who struggles affording life.

(/s)

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Cut both apples into 10 slices each. And then, the richest person takes 18 slices. Because that's how capitalism works, baby.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your stroke is good enough you don’t have to share the two apples with anyone.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

shouldn't be that hard, but I understand that 94% can't do it.

line up the apples, a line that will cut the first apple into 2/3 vs 1/3 will also cut the next apple in same proportion. 1 person gets the 2 sliced 1/3s

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stack the apples on top of each other, and proceed to do a single spiral cut down from the top stem, out towards the edge, and then back to the center in a single fluid motion. It won't solve the problem, but it'll look damn cool

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Let's assume you can stack the apples, and passing through both is still 1 stroke. That means cutting through 10 could still be considered 1 stroke.

Stack the apples.

Cut entirely through the top one directly in half.

Continue cutting through the second one.

As you cut through it, one of the people takes the top apple, rotates it 60 degrees, and puts it under the bottom apple.

Finish cutting through the now top apple and continue cutting through the now bottom apple (the original top that was already in half).

Repeat this until you've cut each into 6 pieces like this (picture not mathematically accurate, for visual purposes only).

Give everyone 4 each.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Bold of you to assume I'm not going to go Voorhees on both of them, have an apple as desert and save the second apple for later.

Obviously, I'm not going to eat the other two people. Without cooking them. And with the apple cores, I can make a lovely sauce to go with

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Just cut them right down the middle. Four slices each person takes one and the last is left to rot. It says share equally not share the entire apple

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cut both apples in half. One half for the blonde, one half for brownie, one half for the ginger, and the last half for the animals or something.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Last half for the painter of this picture.

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[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I guess the answer they are going for is slice the apples straight through, horizontally, 1/3 the way up from the bottom, so you have 2/3, 1/3, 2/3, and 1/3 apple portions. Then you give 1 person the 2 1/3 portions, and the other 2 get one of the 2/3 portions each.

But we all know the actual answer people are thinking of

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

Just eat out the apples together, ignoring the knife. Just take a bite and pass the apple to the next person, repeating the process until there is just a core. Not very sanitary, but mission accomplished.

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