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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Dan's Fan City

Charleston S.C.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Nah they make good steak and shrimp and they don't bother me so Ima leave them alone. There are much bigger criminals to worry about in this country than shady local businesses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Every mattress store you’ve ever seen is likely a front for some shady shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Came to say this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

It's way more than one shop. Meh, shop there anyway if you like anything they sell. Chances are your government is blowing ridiculous money on bullshit anyway. Pay cash too when you can. And do everything you can to resist digital spending tracking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

In 1991 two small businesses were busted for being fronts for illegal gambling parlors. 30 Cleveland cops were part of the bust. I lived next to both of them at one time. One was a t-shirt printing shop, I forget what the other was. A year later I moved into a neighborhood that had a pizza shop with a very nice sign, no windows and never seemed to be open. It was not uncommon to see a patrol car parked in front

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

There are three recently opened smoke and vape shops in my village that are 100% money laundering schemes, they all sell American sweets as well for some reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Local drive-thru chicken joint took a noticeable dive in quality over the course of about 2 years while I was growing up, then it was on the news that a bunch of people got busted selling crack out of the place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

We had a KFC that got shut down about 20 years ago for selling drugs out of the drive-thru. Good riddance imo, I've never in my life had good food from a KFC.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

I grew up near a place called the "McGuffin Lumber Company." It was just a tiny storefront business, and I never saw anyone go in. And, of course, "MacGuffin" is a Hollywood term for an arbitrary thing that motivates the plot of a movie, like the Maltese Falcon in that film. So it was a running gag in my family that it must be a front.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago

Only one? All vape shops are money laundering fronts, until proven otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Bakery across from prisoners rights office I used to volunteer at. Went to get a loaf to make a sandwich once. Open shelving all around, mostly bare except for a few dusty loafs. Ask this big, very white man with a head like a toaster, for a said loaf and he goes in the back and comes out with a bag of Wonderbread rofl.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

There used to be a coffee shop in my town. Every day they had a two-part secret phrase that would let you get drugs, but it sounded like an order. I think I activated it one time. "Can I please get a double-double with whip cream?" "Sure. How's your dog Mittens?" "I have no dog?!" Later, the coffee shop shut down because they got caught drug trafficking. They would double cup the coffee orders that had the drugs, and put the drugs in between the paper cups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I remember reading a story about something like that at KFC. And the code phrase was you wanted an extra biscut or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This was an entire episode of Castle (the guy from Firefly) except it was a Pizza shop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen Castle, but I was pretty sure you were referring to Nathan "the guy from Firefly" Fillion. Ouch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

That's a fun way to do it.

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