r/lovethissmug • u/Specific-Antelope-72 • 25d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/1gazillionpangolins 25d ago

(Technically Wiktionary, not Wikipedia, but it still counts)

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u/2Ken2Humano 25d ago

They should've gone with McCarthy and Hirohito, which was some actual heightmogging, as the supposedly divine emperor looked tiny and shy next to the big American conqueror.

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u/CountessOfCheese 25d ago

Hirohito could at least have the satisfaction of looking way more dapper.

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u/No-Guidance9484 25d ago

Honestly MacArthur just looks really disproportionate in this photo, like his legs are mismatched with his body. Now that I'm looking closer at it though, it might just be that his belt is really high?

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u/texanmason 24d ago

Trouser waistlines used to be significantly higher.

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u/Infinite-Cycle5518 24d ago

built like a Project Moon character

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u/WhatANoob2025 25d ago

Dafuq is that shitty term?

Like what is the tall guy supposed to do? Duck? Because then the small guy totally wouldn't feel like he's being mocked? So what else can tall guy do? Cut off his feet?

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u/donotaskname7 25d ago

Well, most people who use the term see it as a "good" thing. It's more like they expect the shorter guy to get leg extension surgery or something.

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u/Electronic_Delay_925 25d ago

I feel like I've only ever used or heard these terms used jokingly. Though I'm sure some people use them seriously

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u/donotaskname7 25d ago

Oh man. There's a whole world out there, full of insecure losers, that you have yet to see. Or maybe I'm overestimating how popular idiots like Clavicular are.

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u/Electronic_Delay_925 25d ago edited 23d ago

You're just being insecuritymogged by self-hate-maxxers

Edit: why God is this what I get my first award for

EDIT: CEASE

edit: ok

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u/yingkaixing 25d ago

There's a big rock out there, and if you flip it over, you'll see lots of insecure losers that take mogging seriously before they scurry away

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u/DazzlerPlus 25d ago

Nothing. Thats the point. The contrast is effortless and unavoidable.

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u/sparkling1984 25d ago

Keeping with the theme - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mogging

It's the opposite of your reading. The guy on the left is heightmogging the guy on the right.

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u/MegaIng 25d ago

mogging, not mocking.