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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 10 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Imagine if the us switched to calling soccer football. What would the us call American football then? It would be weird to call it American football in America

[–] Serpent@feddit.uk 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Handball is already a sport, albeit more an "in the park with your friends" kind of thing than "arenas and shit lol."

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Rugby for cowards

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Gridiron it's a much cooler name anyway

Gridiron football

Pitch football

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But then what would they call rugby which is also played with a prolate spheroid called a “ball” which can be carried in the hand or kicked?

Canadian and American football are descendants of rugby.

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

probably just keep calling it rugby

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But we don't call it American football. We just call it football.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

American Football is already taken anyway, great band.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

American gridiron football.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 21 hours ago

Helmet handball.

[–] tonywu@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago