A Brief History of Ukraine Threads and Memes on Fark, November 1-15 2022

Each image is a link to the thread which it references. The headings that start with 2022-MM-DD are links to that series of posts, in case you want to make bookmarks to a specific day of memes.

Russia fires dozens of missiles, 80% of them downed, parts of Ukraine have no electricity, folks are totally ready. Workers fix the damage within hours, power is back. Ukraine will freeze to death in the dark, muhaha! Repeat.

mashup of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Revenge of the Sith, where Arthur/Obi-Wan cuts Black Knight/Anakin's appendages off

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at Canadian Hockey instead of Ukraine electrical infrastructure

Russia: Finns are dying of cold due to cutting ties with Russia. Finns: Partying naked on or in a frozen lake.

(I have not actually seen Finns doing this, but I am pretty sure they could.)

Fellas: Should we bonk 'em, sir? Zelenskyy: Bonk 'em.

distracted boyfriend looks at Joey Kocur and Bob Probert instead of fancied up oatmeal vs. plain oatmeal

I should Buy A Boat Cat thinks he should buy a a Fella Bonk Bat before they're all sold out

pony with skates and hockey stick on ths ice

(You probably already guessed, the sub-thread was about hockey.)

2022-11-02

doge meme with 'much birthday, such age, wow'

fund a drone for Ukraine and give it a name, for $3000 get the DJI Mavic 3

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Russia has entered back into the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Turkey and Ukraine after Russia suspended its participation on October 29

Braveheart, with one of the Scots as a fella

mobilized men of the Russian 4th Guards Tank Division are sheltering in an abandoned house in Svatove without food or water after fleeing fron the front line under intense Ukrainian fire that killed their commander.

two guys, one has been shot in the head, the other says, 'Oh my god, Carl! You've become a Republican!'

2022-11-03

coloring book page about naval drones destroying Russian things

Update on the war from November 3rd. Quite a few useful insights on Russia's withdrawal of command elements from Kherson right bank, possibility of 'operational level' developments in Svatove

We've replaced the contents of this fire extinguisher with Folger's crystals. Let's see if they notice.

Sure, Jan.

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at instant coffee instead of Kherson liberation

(Instant coffee was a sub-thread. Also no one remembers the 1980s "We've replaced the coffee in this restaurant with Folger's crystals" commercials.)

Fermi's Great Filter is social media: Change My Mind

Coloring book page about Will Rogers with some jokes

Person riding a giant chicken with a mallet, caption 'Pollo'

2022-11-04

Pentagon announces additional security assistance to Ukraine, including 45 regurbished T-72 tanks

(The T-72s were originally from Czech Republic.)

Car with blue and yellow racing stripes and HIMARS license plate

Russian anarchists are burning switchboards and electrical substations of the Russian railways in order to make Russian logistics more difficult

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at rare prime rib and power knife sharpeners instead of 10 day old Fark alt accounts

(Subthread was about power knife sharpeners of all things.)

flying pony with gun, Cloudsdale Helldivers, Death From Above

2022-11-05

Canada's deputy PM Chrystia Freeland is reportedly the US's preferred candidate to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary-general of NATO

street art depicting an anti-tank hedgehog as a seesaw where children are playing

a sea lion saying that this is a war between Russia and a US proxy, namely Ukraine

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at Ukrainian sunflower girls instead of Russian shill

(A Russian shill showed up and then got his comments deleted. Go figure.)

Jewel Staite was thinking about the time a random man came up to her on set and said, 'What are you guys shooting? Anyone famous in it?' and she was like 'Guess not.'

Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters: Production. 'We as a country did our best not to do production,' LaPlante said.

A battalion of freshly mobilized conscripts from Voronezh was almost completely annihilated near Makivika in the Luhansk region. Of the 570, only 41 survived. Totally going well when 93% of your battalion is killed.

Woman: So you see, that's where the trouble began. (HIMARS with smiling nose art.) Woman: That smile, that damned smile.

2022-11-06

Skeletor says, 'When the food shortages begin, remember that vegans are the closest thing there is to a free-range, antibiotic-free, grass-fed meat source.' (posted by aungen)

HIMARS launching a Snickers instead of a rocket

A series of commercials said that Snickers candy bars helped people to be normal people instead of crazy

Russian bots and trolls on twitter ahead of he US midterm elections (chaos and craziness)

distracted boyrfriend Fark looks at other Farker's memes instead of Don Cherry's tailor

Rick: I'm shocked. Shocked to find that shitposting is going on in this thread! Official: Your low-effort memes, sir. Rick: Thank you very much.

cute woman in red bikini in a field of sunflowers

I ahave been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary security benefits to Americans.

brunette in field of sunflowers showing off her butt

target locked: launch alicorn bride princess love missile!

2022-11-10

vatnik saying Russia is regrouping, Antoine NAFO replying with 'special copium delivery', Andrew A Gill replying with 'Have some sympathy, his copium used to come by rail but now it's gotta go by ferry.

coloring book page about the Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled gun

Biden saying that Russia's retreat from Kherson shows that they have real problems.

Putin lost the battle of Kyiv. He lost the battle of Kharkiv. Where will he lose next? Battle of Melitopol, hopefully.

distracted boyfriend Meme Space looks at Stock Photos instead of news photos, celebrity pics, and others

distracted girlfriend Thread looks at German and/or Dutch food instead of Kherson

(A sub-thread involved German and Dutch food.)

shooped picture of soldier running from giant watermelon with teeth, 'Another biolab creation from Ukraine: Carnivorous Kherson watermelons'

Twilight saying, 'The Codex Astartes does not support this action!'

The Vatniks are fast, but the harvester is faster!

Moose and Canadian soldiers saying, 'It's time to take over the world! Unless now is a bad time. We can reschedule.'

Pro-Russian Dimitriyev says that according to his sources, there's an actual panic among Russian forces in Kherson.

the link to the twitter thread there.

distracted pony girl Russia looks at Escaping Ukraine instead of Invading Ukraine

2022-11-12

Fella saying, 'I wish all Russian soldiers a very pleasant rout'

Captain Crunch box, except it's 'Cap'n HIMARS' Tungsten Berries', the Captain is a fella, the ship is HIMARS, and the cereal is tungsten shot.

Russia announces new social media app to keep in touch with deployed loved ones: Ouija board.

Fellas as Jules and Vincent from 'Pulp Fiction', saying, 'Pronounce nonsense one more time, I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker!'

(There were sub-threads about chocolate milk and raccoons, but neither of them really spawned memes. More's the pity.)

2022-11-13

french toast with a Volvo, captioned 'Sunday champagne brunch 10:00'

An older thread, sir, but it checks out.

ASB News says that Ukrainian soldiers will lay down their arms and join the Russians before they shoot a brother. The west will never understand the cultural link between Russians and Ukr.

No. Just no.

you have surrounded your given name with a foul stench! From this day forth, all the toilets in this kingdom shall be known as... Trumps!

reversed distracted boyfriend looks at how mirrors work instead of Kherson

Mirrors reversing things was a sub-thread.

2022-11-14

Zelenskyy visited Kherson in 2 days after Ukraine liberated it. Putin basically never visited Kherson.

Chinese W85 machine gun mounted on the back of a pickup

(This is a Chinese W85 machine gun, not super-common, but makes an interesting technical.)

distracted boyfriend Thread looks at Hot peppers in unexpected places instead of War Content

HIMARS will soon be firing from Kherson. The approaches to Crimea are within range. This will degrade Russian defences/LOC's while 'left-wing' of the counter-offensive takes Mariupol and Melitopol by January... --Ben Hodges

Kherson operation a triumph for Russia, we now have three washing machines and a raccoon

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at likes/dislikes cats and/or dogs instead of touching eyes or genitals after chopping hot peppers

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at cat shit coffee instead of liberation of Kherson

How Ukraine was before the invasion: Angry Cat. How Russia saw Ukraine before the invasion: Tiny Cat. Ukraine now: Angry Cat in mechanized armor.

(Mid-afternoon, a missile struck Poland and killed a couple of Poles. Poland could potentially invoke Article 5. However, reports are saying the missile was Ukrainian and intended to intercept Russian missiles. Situation still sort of unclear.)