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[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

I believe that Ronald may be made of asbestos

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

He clearly started the fire

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Maybe. All I know is that Billy Joel and his crew didn't.

Unrelated to the post, but there's an updated version of that song from Fall Out Boy: https://youtu.be/2LkVKCWL0U4

[-] dellish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Fair warning: nobody asked for it and nobody should listen to it. It's terrible.

I don't think it's terrible.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean I figured that out when they said Fall Out Boy.

Plus, why would listen to that version when The Hoff did a version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRUe9xXin4 (It is also awful, but I mean that's obvious. It's David Hasselhoff.)

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fall Out Boy slander will not be tolerated

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I speak only in great truths.

One of those truths is that two string quartets have thought it was a good idea to cover that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djULDN0aubM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD9BaPsHwEc

The correct number, incidentally, is zero string quartets.

[-] VerilyFemme 2 points 1 week ago

Not the biggest fan of the Fall Out Boy cover, but everyone here that wasn't alive when the original came out is doing themselves a disservice by not listening.

The lyrics have been updated, it's not a cover. Hearing Trump's name in the same song that mentions MySpace and Sandy Hook has got to be the same level of cultural whiplash as Billy Joel mentioning "Wheel of Fortune," Watergate, Joseph Stalin, and "Stranger in a Strange Land." Except it really hits home, because those of us that weren't adults when the original came out recognize and have memories of almost everything in the song, just like Billy Joel intended.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Almost everything is correct, because not everyone is as way into boxing as Billy Joel. He mentions multiple boxers in the song.

I mean I'm not shocked, he was a boxer himself before he became a professional musician, but it's still funny he apparently thought everyone else was as into boxing as he was and so those names would resonate as much as Liberace's or Satayana's.

[-] VerilyFemme 2 points 1 week ago

That's something I never noticed. And a little Billy Joel trivia I didn't know. Really could not see the man knocking someone out.

Exactly. I enjoy the updated lyrics.

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Why do some folks have a [+1] after their names?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Are you using Voyager? That might be the user tags feature that's counting your upvotes per user. You can toggle it in the settings.

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I am, thanks for the info. I just enabled that feature recently and didn’t realize that was part of it. Cheers

[-] Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 22 points 1 week ago

I'm an elder millennial and I remember thinking there was a very real possibility that Ronald would be in MY McDonald's at least ONCE when I went there. I thought about that when I was a kid too.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, some McDonald's had a yellow phone which you could pick up and "talk to Ronald." I was terrified of the idea.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

lol I was a kid then too and I’ve never heard of this. What kind of shit would he say? Was it just a line to the managers office? And what kind of things did the kids say to him? It’s like some kind of help line “My parents beat me and make me wear long sleeves in the summer.”

Or more likely it was just some stupid recording.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I'm sure it was just a recording, but I was terrified of the idea that you could pick up a phone and talk to Ronald. And I wasn't a kid who was afraid of clowns or anything.

It doesn't help that it looks creepy as fuck.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"Mac and Me" propaganda works!

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Recently, McDonalds announced an initiative to remove all instances of Ronald McDonald from their stores.

So, Ronald McDonald removed all instances of McDonalds from around him.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

The god of hell fire himself. I'd watch the series.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

I think you could get a five episode miniseries with an epic arc where Ronald, God of Fire takes humanoid form and finally accepts his sexuality.

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Our Ronald in McHeaven Hallowed be thy fries

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thy kingdom come, burgers well done,

[-] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

"We clown in this mf. Take yo sensitive ass back to hell!" — Ronald McDonald, 2025 EIEIO

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You'll be safe under his golden arches

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Turns fire into fried hamburgers!

[-] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Now everybody’s down at McDonalds, they’re down with Ronald McDonald, and now they’re hitting the bottle and everybody cool.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

He looks like he's contemplating murdering the person who burnt his shop down.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This could become a religion.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's so crazy to me which random ass people claiming some connection to divinity get elevated to dios while so many other cheap magicians are discarded.

[-] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

6 hours before: "This is fine"

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

It secretly believe in ronald. It's just that I hate him and wish he weren't real.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My child, have you thought about how your the only thing standing between your soul and eternal hellfire is a Quarter Pounder meal deal?

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago
[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is in poor taste abd very obvious photo manipulation, Ronald isn't even sitting on anything.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck walking on water, Ronald can sit on air.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

this is in poor taste

Translation - I'm desperate to draw attention to myself by being offended on someone else's behalf

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Naw, just tired of "Lol, religious people exist. Upvotes to the Left."

Leave the edgy antitheism on reddit

[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Ronald the unburnt breaker of diets heir to the French fry throne

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fire cannot kill a dragon

[-] Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

God damn Ronald! Okay okay... I believe in magic.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

"You're gonna be flame-grilled Anakin..."

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

He’ll always remind me of this: McDonald’s rap

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

So I know a guy who was in a band that had a logo involving a crucified Elvis. He told me he once went down to Tijuana and he saw a guy making the famous velvet paintings and he had a bunch of Elvis and a bunch of Jesus being crucified. So the guy I know asked the painter if he could paint Elvis being crucified. He said he almost got chased to the border by incensed Catholics.

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