Image captioned "Mercury in Gatorade".

On the left side, a caption reads "2016", and an image of smiling Mister Incredible from Disney's The Incredibles, with the text "What a clever pun".

On the right side, a caption reads "2026", and has a black and white image of a traumatized Mister Incredible.
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[–] 55 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I'm out of the loop. What's happening?

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  • [–] [S] 124 points 1 month ago

    The left image refers to a pun joking about astrology ("Mercury retrograde" -> "Mercury in Gatorade").

    The right one refers to how basically the food (and related) supply in the U.S. is poisoned, and everyday the news is basically someone spinning two wheels, one with the name of a food, and another one with the name of a disease.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Gatorade recall

    Though it has to do with undeclared dye, it’s not uncommon for US foods to have more serious contaminants

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    I know that part of it but what's the 2016 half?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    There are times where an optical illusion makes it appear that the planet Mercury is in retrograde (when a planet reverses its orbit)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Mercury went in retrograde in 2016?

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