• laranis@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    I feel like I missed a reference somewhere. Do the bees represent or reference something?

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        15 days ago

        I thought it represented the idea that on your own you most likely wouldn’t be able to hurt a cop, but if you work together as a group that they wouldn’t stand a chance.

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        15 days ago

        According to my quick search, you completely fabricated that. And I’m a gun nut, you would think I would have heard that somewhere.

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            14 days ago

            Got backing? I couldn’t find a single source. Not without really stretching. OP claims:

            Bees sometimes mean bullets

            Find that, any way you like.

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            14 days ago

            Yeah, but only because I saw Ian’s presentation on Forgotten Weapons. Hardly a widespread meme.

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              14 days ago

              “If I don’t know about it, then NO ONE can know about it! So Speaketh the grand arbitrator of all knowledge!”

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                14 days ago

                Got any sources for “bees = bullets”? Please, show your work. Can’t show mine because I can’t find any.

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            14 days ago

            Posting again: Yes, Ian covered that gun on Forgotten Weapons. It’s rare and weird, who actually has one, has seen one, has used one? How many people would relate that episode to this meme shirt?

            Search anyway you like and show me bullets related to bees in any sort of even mildly popular reference.

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              14 days ago

              It’s pretty common in literature, one that pops up immediately is Hemingway liked to use that imagery, it’s definitely in a farewell to arms.

              I’m gonna stop here and let you have your own opinion just the same.