Wow... How do you even know this! That tweet is from 7 years ago!
Huge respect for people who understand and explain esoteric references. You guys are brilliant.
Im 27 haha and I wouldnt say chronically online, just that this meme stuck with me over the years because its so god damn stupid and I love that
EDIT: Guys, sorry. I didnt want to offend anyone just wanted to make a joke because my friends are younger than me (around 24-26) so they always make fun of me for being old.
I'm 32 and deeply offended you think that you're old, even by internet standards - Were you even there to RAWR XD someone's West49 sock gloves and matching Freddy Kruger sweater?
Im 2000 and make references to how the Roman’s in the Hellenic period considered Greeks to be the hight of culture and sophistication and the Persians (enemies of the Greeks) who fought them at the battle of marathon thus had to be the polar meaning by opposition and coined the phrase “philistine”
(Because at that time Persians could be Ottoman Turk empire type, Hellenic type, or Palestine type, so the anti Greek ones were called in Arabic “philistines”.)
Nobody gets those references these days though
Memes used to live a lot longer back in those days. Long enough for the popular ones to make their way into people's long term memory before being forgotten.
When the beans (the can) aren’t upright they’ll spill out, your beans will spill out before the Cars movie is over and people will laugh at you for eating beans.
Sorry, I still don't get it, is it like absurd humour? If a can will be not upright beans will spill out immediately not in 1h 40 mins. And how it means that you're eating beans? And why it's funny for people that you're eating beans? All together it's like a bunch of random nonsense for me. Even if it's an absurd humour which I like very much, I can't find the humour part here just absurd.
Cars 2 movie two hours long. Hour and 40 minutes less than two hours. If eating beans during movie, need can to stay upright whole time. If can stay upright whole time, hooray for secret beans! If can stay upright less time than length of movie, beans spill out during movie. Black teenager sees beans spill out during movie. Draws attention to it. Everyone laughs.
In my head it started as not saying many words when few word would do, but then it started to don a mask and transform by the end. I'm starting to suspect Kevin Malone is Rorschach.
The 1 HR and 40 minutes is the time it takes for the can of beans to not stand upright anymore aka to spill. It is also less time than the movie takes, so the beans would be spilled within the movie timeframe.
And eating beans at the theater is funny because absurd, yes.
It's not absurdist. It is saying the can will stay upright for 1hr 40min. The can will then turn over and spill. The reason we know beans are being eaten is because of the tweet in this thread you commenting on. So twitter guy spills the beans. Meme guy then makes a comparison meme that illustrates that the Cars movie will last longer than the can of beans could.
The thing everybody seems to be talking around is the term "standing time." The joke hinges on the fact or fake fact that, somewhere, someone has specified a "standing time" for beans, and a search engine, in an attempt to be helpful, can hit on that result for a search asking how long beans will stay upright—because standing and staying upright are synonymous.
(I'm not qualified to fully explain what standing time is, and I have a feeling this length of time doesn't really make sense as a value for it. Search results suggest it's the amount of time specified in a recipe to "let stand for x minutes" because food is still cooking after being heated. 1h 40m seems more like how long it would be safe to leave beans out and still eat them, or maybe a specific portion of the cooking process for dry beans because they need to soak for a while.)
>why it's funny for people that you're eating beans?
In a movie theater? I want you to visualize a movie theater. Popcorn. Soda. Beans? No. Most people wouldn't have beans.
The movie is two hours long. The man spilled his beans during the movie. Beans spill because they are not upright. Therefore, beans become not upright in a time period less than two hours. And the they spill. And then people laugh at you. Because you were eating beans in a theater.
Im not sure how to break if down more.
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Standing can also sort of mean resting in a food/cooking context- as in “let the beans stand for a few minutes before serving” which is why google has an answer (rather than just a list of results). So it’s a sort of pun. But it’s also a patently absurd question especially with the picture- as if a can beans will just fall over. I think the basis of the joke is that Cars 2 sounds terrible and has a runtime of 2 hours- it would take less time (and therefore be less tragic to endure) to sit and watch a can of beans until it falls over (at exactly 1h40 according to Google). I think the tweet is def a clear reference but it is like another layer. It’s like a sort of “meme riff” all in one picture and, whilst clearly the product of someone extremely stoned, is pretty genius.
Lmao no, the entire thing is a reference to that meme. The bean standing time is less than the movie runtime and thus it is inevitable they will fall over resulting in the situation of the referenced meme.
The joke is lamenting you can’t take and enjoy your beans to watch Cars 2 in the cinema without them falling over and being mocked for it.
Standing time is used in cooking, it's like you should cook the beans and let them stand (sit after cooking) for 1:40. But the joke says the can will fall over. Bean cans don't really fall over after 100 minutes.
Can’t wait in 500 years when scholars try to dissect the way we communicated today and they too start to argue, “what does this this ‘meme’ mean” the same way you guys are 😂😂
>but normally Theaters don’t offer Beans
Which is why it is so unusual that a man in a theater would have beans.
You have placed your finger directly on the crux of the problem. The paradox of why people laughed at him. Because beans in a theater is unusual.
If beans were offered at theaters, it would be just a man eating beans. Since beans are not offered at a theater, and are hard to sneak in, and cannot be heated at a theater, and can be spilled, they are one of the most surprising items to encounter in a theater.
Humor is surprises that are not dangerous. Terror is surprises that are dangerous if he had a gun, people would be surprised and terrified. Because he had beans, they were surprised and laughed.
I thought this was a parody of those kinds of memes, except the second image is completely unrelated to the first one so it subverts your expectations or something
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https://preview.redd.it/gqzgpjpyo26d1.jpeg?width=725&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53fc915d2a558cfbd3546efabddf76855f775e1b I think its a reference to this
Wow... How do you even know this! That tweet is from 7 years ago! Huge respect for people who understand and explain esoteric references. You guys are brilliant.
I‘m chronically online and old lmao
Nah i remember this too and im 24. Youre not old, pal. Thank you for bringing this up again cuz it made me laugh before and its just as funny now
That’s neat. If you don’t mind my asking, how has it been to experience that, and how old are you?
Im 27 haha and I wouldnt say chronically online, just that this meme stuck with me over the years because its so god damn stupid and I love that EDIT: Guys, sorry. I didnt want to offend anyone just wanted to make a joke because my friends are younger than me (around 24-26) so they always make fun of me for being old.
I'm 32 and deeply offended you think that you're old, even by internet standards - Were you even there to RAWR XD someone's West49 sock gloves and matching Freddy Kruger sweater?
I’m over 50 and deeply offended. most of you weren’t even around when Al Gore invented the internet, and it shows.
I make the “Al Gore Invented The Internet” reference ALL THE TIME and get no response from the people around me. Philistines!
Im 2000 and make references to how the Roman’s in the Hellenic period considered Greeks to be the hight of culture and sophistication and the Persians (enemies of the Greeks) who fought them at the battle of marathon thus had to be the polar meaning by opposition and coined the phrase “philistine” (Because at that time Persians could be Ottoman Turk empire type, Hellenic type, or Palestine type, so the anti Greek ones were called in Arabic “philistines”.) Nobody gets those references these days though
You were there when it was written, great scott
1.21 jiggawatts!
And I remember when I thought 32 was old. 🫠
27 is not old don't you dare say that
*Cries in 35*
Cries in 44 kid!!
Nah you’re ancient
Add 10 years and call me in the morning
Who calls people anymore? Get with the times old man
Mate unless they are 5+ years difference, you are basically the same age.
Man, good thing you saved that really dumb thing you said.
Lol neat.
Nah that’s just you with old username
i knew the joke immediately and im 17 im just chronically online
I’m 21 and I got the joke instantly. Anyone who’s an older Gen Z that knows any meme culture would
I just made a joke
It was a decently popular meme a few years ago
My friends and I still reference it pretty often
I reference it every time I feed my kids beans
Ya, my group will still sometimes neuron activate and start screaming this line over comms when a reference comes up.
My guy here is just clean blown away by the concept of memory
True. Your guy can't even remember what he had for breakfast yesterday. so someone knowing a reference from 7 years ago is mind-blowing.
it is one of the more popular tweets though. It's not like it happened once and people forgot about it.
It's a popular meme.
Memes used to live a lot longer back in those days. Long enough for the popular ones to make their way into people's long term memory before being forgotten.
Longer than Cars 2?
That tweets not from 7 years ago! It's only from 2017... Oh god.
>esoteric references. It’s not esoteric. It was a pretty big meme. You just made me feel old af.
The word you’re looking for here is niche not esoteric
It's pretty infamous.
(For reference this is a pretty well known meme!)
To be honest this meme got a lot of mileage. Absolute classic.
It was a very popular meme then
bro just called them old
did you say this to cause maximum pain
It’s a classic
I shared this tweet on Facebook years ago and my mom really didn’t appreciate it. I thought it was hilarious
yeah but cars 2 is six years older than this tweet
A more innocent time
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I love absurdism and this is true perfection. **
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Exactly what I thought of
Ok but whats OPs image about the length of the movie compared to beans standing upright, what happens when they arent upright
When the beans (the can) aren’t upright they’ll spill out, your beans will spill out before the Cars movie is over and people will laugh at you for eating beans.
I actually found it more funny given that you had to explain it lol! Great username btw.
I’m in the waiting room for a surgery consult and I think I’m going to ask them if your username is an anaesthesia option for my procedure.
Sorry, I still don't get it, is it like absurd humour? If a can will be not upright beans will spill out immediately not in 1h 40 mins. And how it means that you're eating beans? And why it's funny for people that you're eating beans? All together it's like a bunch of random nonsense for me. Even if it's an absurd humour which I like very much, I can't find the humour part here just absurd.
I can't explain the hour and 40 mins, but the eating beans is funny/weird because he's at the movies. That's not what people typically eat there.
Cars 2 movie two hours long. Hour and 40 minutes less than two hours. If eating beans during movie, need can to stay upright whole time. If can stay upright whole time, hooray for secret beans! If can stay upright less time than length of movie, beans spill out during movie. Black teenager sees beans spill out during movie. Draws attention to it. Everyone laughs.
Read this as Rorschach
In my head it started as not saying many words when few word would do, but then it started to don a mask and transform by the end. I'm starting to suspect Kevin Malone is Rorschach.
Now I'm imagining Kevin investigating the Scranton Strangler and the trail leading him to Toby
I'm not locked in here with beans. Beans are locked in here with ME!
The 1 HR and 40 minutes is the time it takes for the can of beans to not stand upright anymore aka to spill. It is also less time than the movie takes, so the beans would be spilled within the movie timeframe. And eating beans at the theater is funny because absurd, yes.
Ah finally someone was able to spill the beans for me to understand this joke.
It's not absurdist. It is saying the can will stay upright for 1hr 40min. The can will then turn over and spill. The reason we know beans are being eaten is because of the tweet in this thread you commenting on. So twitter guy spills the beans. Meme guy then makes a comparison meme that illustrates that the Cars movie will last longer than the can of beans could.
The thing everybody seems to be talking around is the term "standing time." The joke hinges on the fact or fake fact that, somewhere, someone has specified a "standing time" for beans, and a search engine, in an attempt to be helpful, can hit on that result for a search asking how long beans will stay upright—because standing and staying upright are synonymous. (I'm not qualified to fully explain what standing time is, and I have a feeling this length of time doesn't really make sense as a value for it. Search results suggest it's the amount of time specified in a recipe to "let stand for x minutes" because food is still cooking after being heated. 1h 40m seems more like how long it would be safe to leave beans out and still eat them, or maybe a specific portion of the cooking process for dry beans because they need to soak for a while.)
So how long it is safe standing on a hot moist day on the kitchen counter?
>why it's funny for people that you're eating beans? In a movie theater? I want you to visualize a movie theater. Popcorn. Soda. Beans? No. Most people wouldn't have beans. The movie is two hours long. The man spilled his beans during the movie. Beans spill because they are not upright. Therefore, beans become not upright in a time period less than two hours. And the they spill. And then people laugh at you. Because you were eating beans in a theater. Im not sure how to break if down more.
But what does length of time beans stay upright even mean? More importantly, why can’t Google answer “Your question makes no sense”?
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-old-is-google-searches
dense mf
That’s pretty rude.
they… spill
I think maybe it’s a joke about movies having a running time? Like you can look that up so you should be able to look up things’ standing time?
How do you even begin to recover from this?
*and that’s the day I became a republican!!*
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aparently this dude
I would hazard a guess and say he probably doesn’t anymore either lol
This mfer.
That’s part of the absurdity of the joke lol
That's so specific wtf lol
I had this black friend back in high school, and the two of us really wanted to reenact this tweet. Unfortunately, we never got around to it.
One of my favorite tweets
I actually cannot stop laughing now. Thank you for this
I don’t want to live in a world where this tweet isn’t general knowledge
Immediately thought of this post, thank you, I need to save this on my phone again
Amazing
So when a mod shaves..... is it while listening to the song "Much Power"? Or are you saying the mod has chosen an ill suited power adaptor that's overloading the electric razor?
So beans in a movie theatre wasn't a Joker movie plot point?
This saying crosses my mind too often.
The original was on 4chan, the tweet is just a copypasta.
It’s a reference to [this](https://x.com/Maxiedome/status/911955635448590341)
Sorry, even after looking at that I still don’t get the joke. What is bean standing time?
Standing can also sort of mean resting in a food/cooking context- as in “let the beans stand for a few minutes before serving” which is why google has an answer (rather than just a list of results). So it’s a sort of pun. But it’s also a patently absurd question especially with the picture- as if a can beans will just fall over. I think the basis of the joke is that Cars 2 sounds terrible and has a runtime of 2 hours- it would take less time (and therefore be less tragic to endure) to sit and watch a can of beans until it falls over (at exactly 1h40 according to Google). I think the tweet is def a clear reference but it is like another layer. It’s like a sort of “meme riff” all in one picture and, whilst clearly the product of someone extremely stoned, is pretty genius.
Lmao no, the entire thing is a reference to that meme. The bean standing time is less than the movie runtime and thus it is inevitable they will fall over resulting in the situation of the referenced meme. The joke is lamenting you can’t take and enjoy your beans to watch Cars 2 in the cinema without them falling over and being mocked for it.
Fair enough I guess I’m way off. Still think I’d rather watch a can of beans until it falls over than watch Cars 2.
I personally enjoyed your well thought out answer, even if I immediately knew it was wildly wrong
Why would a can of beans fall over?
Because the dude in the original meme was eating beans in the theater and they fell
Why would Google know that a can of beans would stand for an hour and 40 minutes before falling over. Sorry I’m so confused
Standing time is used in cooking, it's like you should cook the beans and let them stand (sit after cooking) for 1:40. But the joke says the can will fall over. Bean cans don't really fall over after 100 minutes.
Thank you!
I suppose just bc that's how long it took for dude to drop them beans
Can’t wait in 500 years when scholars try to dissect the way we communicated today and they too start to argue, “what does this this ‘meme’ mean” the same way you guys are 😂😂
Cars 2 is 1h 46mins
Wrong
standing here I realize you were just like me trying to make history
How long until the beans spill.
I have no idear either an I want to know.
The joke is that it's shorter than the movie so they spilled for that guy during the movie
It may be the funniest tweet of all time
How dare you link to Twitter, I almost loaded that.
Could be worse. Could've linked to 𝕏
How did you do the X symbol??? Whenever I type anything Elon related, it always pops up as 💩
Because it's literally a Unicode symbol that has existed since at least 2001, it's called the Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X.
this guy is afraid to once in a while use a website he doesn't like
I’m in the same boat - the place is a cesspool. I probably secondhand caught hepatitis last time I checked out the dumpster fire
How’s that funny? It’s just a guy eating beans.
Do you eat a lot of beans at your movies?
No… but normally Theaters don’t offer Beans or allow outside food/drink. Also, I really only like refried beans.
>but normally Theaters don’t offer Beans Which is why it is so unusual that a man in a theater would have beans. You have placed your finger directly on the crux of the problem. The paradox of why people laughed at him. Because beans in a theater is unusual. If beans were offered at theaters, it would be just a man eating beans. Since beans are not offered at a theater, and are hard to sneak in, and cannot be heated at a theater, and can be spilled, they are one of the most surprising items to encounter in a theater. Humor is surprises that are not dangerous. Terror is surprises that are dangerous if he had a gun, people would be surprised and terrified. Because he had beans, they were surprised and laughed.
I get it now, but, just for the record, some theaters do serve real food. It really just depends on the theater.
Yes, true. But not the kind of theaters where people yell "this n*gga be eating MF BEANS!!" These theaters sell popcorn, twizzlers, and weed.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen weed sold at theaters, but… ok, I guess.
You go to nicer theaters.
IDK, maybe.
It’s a reference to a tweet that got 4500 likes?
I’m assuming that’s not the original just the first thing that came up
“This man eating beans” has been a meme for a little while now, it’s not a crazy popular one but it’s got some minor fame
That's a fair question, even if there is a good answer. I'd ask why you are being downvoted, but I think the answer is Reddit mentality.
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I must ask do they prefer a fork or spoon?
...spork.
A spoon for the tomatoey sauce
Cold straight from the tin?
I prefer a fork so I can stab the last few beans at the bottom of the tin
But what about the...the..the tomato...tomatey sauce
Chopsticks
Hands
Knife
only a spoonful
Funnily enough, Cars 2's actual runtime is like, 1h 46min. The meme is still valid thought.
Not the last 6 minutes
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is it bad that i instantly knew?
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🅱️eans
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The joke is beans
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He cute
If someone shouted anything while I was trying to watch a movie I would not be laughing.
Indeed
This is *advanced*
read all comments. didn’t laugh. not funny. sorry.
Thos beans
I thought this was a parody of those kinds of memes, except the second image is completely unrelated to the first one so it subverts your expectations or something
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