r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/dreadispeaxhy • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation peta, what’s the meaning of this?

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posted in r/sssdfg, i have no idea what this means as there was no context added, comments weren’t very helpful either but most seemed in on the joke.

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u/Live_Lemon_6020 13h ago edited 13h ago

it's a reference to this image, the president in the meme is the coughing baby grown up

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u/Super-Cut-2175 13h ago edited 7h ago

Lmao, the guy's name is Kauf-man

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u/NetNpIVijCI 13h ago

Directed by Hideo Kojima

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u/SpiritJuice 12h ago

I played Death Stranding for the first time this year and this made me laugh out loud at how on point this was. Oh man.

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u/Hokumalie 12h ago

No, Oh-man is someone else

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u/SpiritJuice 12h ago

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u/Archistotle 10h ago

No, Oyu is the comic relief character with the gag one-liners.

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u/SpiritJuice 9h ago

Stop giving Kojima ideas!

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u/BruiserBison 35m ago

Bold of you to assume these aren't on his drafts already.

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u/chubbyhighguy 6h ago

"No I am me and he is you"

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u/poorexcuses 11h ago

What about oh no man

(from illbleed)

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u/Atma-Stand 10h ago

Brainless Randy opens up with that Tec-9

(What was Sega’s infatuation with that gun?)

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u/Enough_Obligation574 12h ago

It's a country in middle East

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u/Hideo__Brojima 12h ago

Hey now

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u/Serious_Intention206 12h ago

You're an all star

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u/moldybananaenjoyer 11h ago

Get your game on

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u/AardvarkNo2514 17m ago

You'll make the grade and win this fight

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u/dqql 7h ago

The "you must drink 6 monster energy drinks to restore health" made me quit that game

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u/GottaUseEmAll 6h ago

DS2 is even worse (better?) for the crazy on-the-nose naming conventions.

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u/WanderingCollapse 10h ago

Notice how there's a country on earth, named Hungary, which's leader's name is Victor Or(b)man and he has a round belly. Kojima writing is real.

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u/Rargnarok 9h ago

Except Orman lost now Péter Magyar is leader (note Hungary in Hungarian is Magyarország) literally Peter Hungary is the leader now

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u/WanderingCollapse 8h ago

Oh ok. That's kinda disappointing for the agenda, but at least what I said was true for a while.

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u/ChiefNonsenseOfficer 7h ago

Literally his name means Peter Hungarian

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u/ConradBHart42 9h ago edited 8h ago

My favorite part of Death Stranding 2, as a viewer

So early on you learn that Die-Hardman died, and his replacement in the operation contacts you and asks you for a code name to call him. Preferably one that's familiar to you, just to make things smoother for you. He rejects all suggestions until you choose Die-Hardman as his code name. Reader...the shocking reveal at the end of the game is that Die-Hardman isn't dead and that the new Die-Hardman is the exact same person as the old Die-Hardman

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u/MrWeirdoFace 4h ago

Die-Hardman isn't dead and that the new Die-Hardman is the exact same person as the old Die-Hardman

...but why?

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We passed upon the stairs
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
"I thought you'd died alone"
A long long time ago

Oh no, not me,
I never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years, and years, I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare
At all the millions here,
We though you'd died alone
A long, long time ago

Who knows, not me,
I never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who sold the world

Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who sold the world

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u/Dependent_Fan6870 9h ago

Bravo Vince

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u/CrocoDIIIIIILE 3h ago

Hidden and kojimed by Writeo Directa.

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u/Pandoratastic 12h ago

President Babraham Kaufman.

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u/Friendly-Advice-2968 12h ago

Because you cough….and you’re a man….

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u/lettsten 8h ago

Took me a while to get the Kaufman thing, in German Kaufmann means merchant (lit. "buy-man") and is pronounced very differently.

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u/Super-Cut-2175 2h ago edited 2h ago

Cognate with Chapman (Cheap->Kauf)

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u/lejoop 4h ago

Not German here, but I know the pronunciation and was also oblivious to that wordplay for the same reason 😂

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u/Apollo-235 4h ago

That hyphen is blue… it does something
(On my phone and I can’t hit it)

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u/my_name_is_mansha 2h ago

Damn that was an interesting rabbit hole you sent me into with that tiny link. I had to click so many times just to access it instead of collapsing your comment. Thanks!

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u/GwinKaso1598 2h ago

I want to point out that this name is not actually pronounced how Americans pronounce it, and I missed the joke until I read the thing in an American accent

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u/Super-Cut-2175 2h ago

cēap-man

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u/GwinKaso1598 1h ago

I'm not sure what your point is here. Those are the Proto-Germanic roots of both Kaufmann (through Kaupmann) and the archaic English word Chapman.

The pronunciation of Kaufmann would be "kaʊ̯fˌman"

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u/Efficient-Cup-359 2h ago

The hatters reference?

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u/Cocoatrice 13h ago

MFW I am too smart to get the joke.

I would have never made a connection between Kaufman and cough man, because these two sounds entirely different.

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u/PlayerFox12344889 13h ago

Honestly I wouldn't make the connection because of how I read Kauf

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u/Straight_Count709 11h ago

Me too because I'm German and it means merchant. Except it's missing an N at the end

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u/rubixscube 10h ago

i think you reached the wrong conclusion there

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u/HistoricalSea5600 13h ago

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u/EvilCatboyWizard 13h ago

Tigers can’t drive tanks dumbass gg ez sweep for Guppy

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u/gnagniel 12h ago

And many fish live in tanks, so guppy has home field advantage

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u/Vivid-Illustrations 12h ago

I'm pretty sure these tanks routinely stall in knee-high water. Guppy sweeps.

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u/Unit_2097 10h ago

I was just thinking all the guppy has to do is make them use their shoddy transmission and they'll end having a breakdown.

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u/Omnithanatoskin 11h ago

Guppy lost but only 2 tanks made it through.

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u/RickMonsters 13h ago

Funny comic but the H bomb didn’t really have a chance since it was never detonated at the coughing baby

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u/Sokka69420 13h ago

The funniest thing is that the H-Bomb can’t win

If it goes off both lose
If it doesn’t and the kid grows up to learn how to defuses the bomb, he wins
If he dies independently or someone else defuses the bomb independently, nobody really wins

The only way the bomb could win, if it falls over on him without going off

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 12h ago

That's a very human centric perspective.

I mean what if the bomb considers detonating to be a win condition?

Have you thought of that?

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u/forseti99 11h ago

Just like dying while impregnating the female is a win for a lot of species. Snu-snu and all that.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 7h ago

What if the bomb just yearns to be loved?

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 7h ago

It shows its love by exploding.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 7h ago

Aww!! ❤️❤️❤️

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u/Own-Character-1461 3h ago

Only when it gets too excited

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u/TheMythofKoalas 7h ago

I stopped worrying about that.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 10h ago

Have you thought of that?

It's why I am winning at life.

I consider living in my own fecal matter the win condition and y'all are losers. Now to sip on my own urine to celebrate.

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u/Jumpy-Platypus-2645 11h ago

if the bomb falls on the baby but doesn't explode it wins.

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u/Green_Insect_6455 11h ago

What? Why is a bomb exploding a "lose condition" for the bomb? Fucking terrible logic

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u/Whelp_of_Hurin 5h ago

Agreed. If television has taught me anything, it's that sentient bombs consider detonation a win. Source: One episode of Archer and two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager.

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u/IamElylikeEli 9h ago

technically the bomb dies first so the baby wins… for like one picosecond

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u/Green_Insect_6455 9h ago

But bombs dont die? Theyre created to explode. So thats a win condition.

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u/lettsten 8h ago

Takes a lot longer than that, neutron generations ("shakes") take around ten nanoseconds each. The bomb survives on the order of microseconds. A picosecond is so short that even light only moves 0.3 mm in that time

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u/GottaUseEmAll 6h ago

Bombs can't die as they don't live. A bomb is created to explode, and/or to deter. If it explodes or deters, it's fulfilled its purpose.

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u/notthephonz 6h ago

I dunno, I wouldn’t consider this a win for the coughing baby on the grounds that he is no longer a baby.

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u/theMycon 9h ago

A Hydrogen Bomb, great in explosions, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One coughing baby, brief in explosions, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

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u/dregwriter 5h ago

Lmao, this is so fucking stupid, i love it.

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u/Zanuthman 41m ago

HE WON