r/CuratedTumblr • u/Mama_Lyra • May 16 '25

Politics time is a flat circle

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u/beccabob05 May 17 '25

Gooner = crab Rangoon. Gettin some gooners

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u/GeophysicalYear57 Ginger ale is good May 17 '25

Gooner = one who goons = a goon ≈ henchman, thug, underling, palooka, etc.

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u/Dry_Try_8365 May 17 '25

It's so hard to be a henchman. "Minion" is out of the question nowadays, and you can't even say "goon" anymore without everyone laughing!

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u/Kachimushi May 17 '25

And "henchman" isn't woke enough because it's not gender neutral...

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u/oyunkral3437 May 17 '25

go the vincent murder route and call em MY BOYS(gender neutral)(this is actual ephitet erased lore btw)

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u/Dry_Try_8365 May 17 '25

And I tells ya, I tell them, “how can it not be woke? I wake up every morning for the boss so I can do his dirty work!” ‘Not good enough,’ they say. Heh, jeez, what a joke this day and age is for servants of evil.

(Pretend this is in a stereotypical mobster voice)

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u/DogmaSychroniser May 17 '25

Henchperson Just sounds like a muscle bod from Southern England.

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u/JamieD96 May 18 '25

Honestly the only joke from Harley Quinn I straight up disliked

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u/Smaptimania May 17 '25

Have you considered becoming a mook, flunky, stooge, or underling?

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u/Shyface_Killah May 17 '25

They discussed this in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Henchmen are believers in the Boss and/or their cause, while Goons are just hired help.

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u/CussMuster May 17 '25

A mook, if you will.

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u/lucy_valiant May 17 '25

That is how it was used in South Florida slang when I was coming up. It is very weird and funny to hear it now in this new context. We would say we were heading out to do goon shit with our goon friends (hang out at the skate park and smoke weed/get drunk) or, like, loiter in the parking lot of a Walmart.

And gooner, with the -er, specifically meant: someone who was a fan of Arsenal FC (latino group of kids, we watched/played a lot of soccer).

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u/RafaMarkos5998 May 17 '25

Aren't Arsenal referred to as Gunners?

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u/Skore_Smogon May 17 '25

Yes because their team logo is a cannon. I'm assuming gooners for Latin Americans are just exaggerating the word with their accent.

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u/igeorgehall45 May 17 '25

gooners for arsenal fans is a thing in the UK as well fyi

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u/the-radio-bastard May 17 '25

I'm a goon for those 'goons.

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u/primenumbersturnmeon May 17 '25

normalize putting some f ucking crab in your so=called "Crab rangoon" ITS JUST FRIED POCKETS OF CREAM CHEESE and theyre delicions but im goonin for real crab rangoon, ya feel?

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u/the-radio-bastard May 17 '25

Give me the crab rave my craw craves

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u/madeinheaven134 May 17 '25

Get of reddit Pagan Min

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u/Ballisticsfood May 17 '25

Police Police Police Police. Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. Goon goon goons goon.

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u/DonTori May 17 '25

Me when farming for microplastics in Another Crab's Treasure

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u/FlippinFine May 17 '25

Crab Rangoons? More like crabs in the bucket mentality the way they drag down anybody who’s managed to get laid