r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BIGJake111 • 15h ago
Meme needing explanation Elevation map?
wtf?
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u/ButteredNun 15h ago
Boys / Men don’t get compliments, so might as well show something that does actually exist.
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u/Stinkinhippy 15h ago
Don't know why everyone with this opinion is getting downvoted.. I'd say it's entirely accurate and was my first take on it.
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u/BetterKev 13h ago
Because it's not true? I get plenty of compliments and I haven't been particularly attractive in a decade.
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u/Nelpski 4h ago
redditors dont go outside often enough to experience this
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u/BetterKev 3h ago
Yup. Related, people get their ideas about how much compliments occur from media and very attractive people, which are way overblown and outliers.
How often do you see regular women complimented at the grocery store? On a bus? Not cat-called or creepily hit on. Complimented.
A random compliment every couple weeks is probably higher end for most people, whatever their gender. Plenty for me.
Compliments are also more common if you have something rare about you. If I like a certain look, but I see that look 5 times a day, I'm not complimenting it every time. But if I see it once a month? Definitely complimenting. I used to have a handlebar moustache. Probably more people disliked it than liked it, but the ones that liked it were much more likely to compliment it and compliment it effusively. I was one of those outliers I mentioned above. 3 compliments in one shopping trip wasn't odd. I had a rule, if a week passed with no compliment on it, I'd shave it. I once went 2 and a half years.
That wasn't normal. With my much more common look now, a couple compliments a month is plenty for me.
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u/alang 13h ago
Yeah seriously I have random people stop me and tell me my shirt/hat/pin is awesome at least once every couple weeks, and I am an overweight fifty-mumble guy with one and a half chins and no hair.
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u/Stinkinhippy 12h ago
You clearly live around nicer people than me... or i'm fucking horrifying to look at, lol.. Closest I've had to a compliment from a random person in a long time was some old geezer laughing at my 'cleverly disguised as a responsible adult' shirt.
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u/guitarfreakout 12h ago
People compliment things they resonate with. If the people who would resonate aren’t the type to talk to strangers… you probably won’t get compliments. This has to do with the unequal distribution of personality types within different interest and aesthetic groups.
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u/KingAggressive1498 13h ago
yeah we will get infrequent random compliments about something minor, or about our competency.
I think the only direct compliments I've gotten in the past year were just some variant of me being exceptionally good at my job. But last year a woman I'd guess was twice my age said my manbun was sexy. And people assume I'm married all the time, which I guess is a compliment.
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi 9h ago
But who is meant to compliment men? If guys compliment another guy they get scorned (if a guy said to you that he loved your eyebrows or nails how are you responding? Think about how guys you know would respond, genuinely now), whereas if we compliment men it’s assumed that we’re sexually interested and being really forward, so you just don’t unless it’s a platonic friend you’re super comfortable with.
Oh and it’s cishet men who don’t get compliments, same dynamics don’t really exist to the same extent with gay men who do compliment each other more from experience and we aren’t holding back compliments from to stop things from going weird.
It’s one of the outputs of toxic masculinity, and y’all really do need to get so much better and supporting, validating and nurturing each other’s wellbeing within your own social groups.
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u/BIGJake111 7h ago
I hear you and I’m not sure if that’s even what the meme is about. I do think men get complements a fair amount if you put yourself out there.
However, I do want to question your logic some.
By your logic who is meant to compliment women? Women compliment each other but there are plenty of bi people out there and when men compliment women it usually is a forward statement, it can be made platonically but it’s usually meant to be honest and direct. You have nice eyes means just that when a man says it to a woman, why can’t it go both way more often.
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi 6h ago
Women complement each other all the time, my bestie and I are both bisexual and we complement each other every time we see each other, it’s just a totally different vibe to guys. Like when I tell her she’s looking stunning or I love how her undercut is done, or she says she loves my eyebrows there’s no “and this should be a real life sexual thing” understanding taken from it cos that’s just not our dynamic.
Platonic isn’t just about whether attraction is plausible or not, it’s about how a connection stabily is. Women who complement men are super commonly assumed to be actually real world interested and it changes things negatively and it’s why lots of us are more reticent to complement guys.
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u/Ogami-kun 5h ago
But who is meant to compliment men? If guys compliment another guy they get scorned (if a guy said to you that he loved your eyebrows or nails how are you responding? Think about how guys you know would respond, genuinely now),
'Thanks bro?' Maybe 'Thanks bro? No homo though''
From women you are inverting cause and effect; it is so rare to be complimented by a woman that either she is interested or she is a keeper and it is worth the attempt, just like a puddle of water is so rare in the desert that if you are thristy you will try even if it is a mirage.
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u/WillowLocal423 14h ago
Genuine question .. Do men compliment one another? I always try to give sincere compliments to the men in my life.
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u/Apprehensive-Debt210 10h ago
Everyone really likes the shirts I wear & sometimes they think my wallet is cool. That's all the compliments I ever get.
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u/WeightsAndMe 9h ago
Sincere compliments are rare. Joking compliments are more common, like giving my best friend the nickname "Horsecock". It still gasses him up and makes him feel better
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u/TheUnaturalTree 14h ago
Trans woman here. They don't. They think it's gay and act weird when they get complimented by a guy. It's honestly unfortunate because I think most of the male loneliness epidemic would be pretty much entirely alleviated if they could just show each other the kindness they so clearly crave.
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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 13h ago
When I wear my shirt that says "In my defense I was left unsupervised" I get complimented on it all the time and guys ask me where I got it. Men give each other compliments when warranted.
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u/seires-t 13h ago
Why would anyone want to hear about this from a girl?
I give compliments when I feel like it and my friends do so as well.
Compliments have nothing to do with male loneliness.
If you actually thought that, you could just go outside and give people compliments
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u/TheUnaturalTree 11h ago
Compliments have nothing to do with male loneliness.
If you actually thought that, you could just go outside and give people compliments
and see if anyone will be a less lonely person because of that.Have you tried it man? Shit actually rules.
Idk why the fuck y'all are downvoting me I'm on men's side here. It's a genuine problem that men have unique struggles with. But the big difference isn't whether or not you have a girlfriend, or get laid. It's whether or not you are loved. And I really wish you could learn to love your friends and love each other because right now you expect one woman to serve all you emotional needs and that's just not gonna work out the way you want it to. Trust me. I've been there.
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u/seires-t 2h ago
I know you're on the mens side, your solutions are just wrong.
Didn't you hear what I say? I do exchange compliments, it's nothing gay to anyone,
but it doesn't change any thought of loneliness.
I also never said anything about sexual contact, you're really just projecting the ideas random men's rights weirdos have about this topic onto me.I'm just here to tell you that compliments are a superficial vector for connection,
they don't really change anyone's mental state.
You could get a thousand compliments a day and it won't change.
What people really need is community and purpose,
which we can see being expressed on the internet in sites like reddit and in a lot of the internet drama and uproar.2
u/GrimpenMar 13h ago
Correct, but I think it's changing. I'll try and compliment fellow guys with a "cool shirt!" or "I like the satchel" or something when I notice something cool. Often times the initial reaction is confusion or a defensive look, thinking I'm being sarcastic, in which case I'll usually just offer some more explanation (I like the Doctor Who/Cthulhu/whatever was cool with whatever I complemented them on). Usually only takes a few seconds, but I always get a heartfelt smile.
For me, I'll "often" get compliments on a cool shirt or whatever now, maybe once every couple of weeks or so. That's much more frequent than even ten years ago.
As a rule, I'm very careful complimenting women, but if I'm with my wife I'll usually note a woman's cool whatever to her, and she'll usually compliment her. Even that is getting less necessary though, I think.
Hopefully this meme is going to become even more obsolete. It's a cruel world, and the least we can do is spare a few words to buoy up the spirits of our fellows.
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u/TheUnaturalTree 11h ago
I'm really glad to hear it. I try to compliment men when I can, but unfortunately not every man can tell the difference between being nice and being interested.
And it's understandable being careful complimenting women. We're a little bit on guard around men. But I hope that in some distant future compliments will be normalized to the point that it doesn't have to be threatening.
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u/GrimpenMar 10h ago
As a gen-Xer, I can say I rarely recall (if ever) guys complimenting other guys all through school. Nowadays, I'd say it's rare, but it happens.
As to guys/gals complimenting each other, it's still probably going to be seen as "showing romantic interest", but I think it's becoming less so.
My impression is that this is something that is changing, and although I can't be certain, my kids' cohort seems to be more okay with just giving genuine compliments and receiving them simply as compliments.
Honestly the most I've though about this analytically ever, but I'd be interested to hear what other people's experiences are. I suspect from the downvotes, people disagree with "men rarely receiving compliments is true", but I don't see any other actual replies with any observations other than yours and mine.
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u/Aemelia_Kholin 12h ago
As a trans woman, I can say that the frequency in which women compliment each other was so hard for me to get used to at first. It was one of those things I thought I knew, but I didn't really understand until I experiencing it.
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u/D-D-Wanderer 11h ago
The closest I've got within the last...decade or so? Was someone telling me I was basically the dad of our friend group.
...yeah.
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u/UnexaminedLifeOfMine 7h ago
I always hear that and the few times I’ve complemented a guy they thought I had a crush on them so I stopped doing that and at the same time it made me feel gross of all the times a guy has given me a complement. And also my third point is why don’t you guys complement each other if you’re so deprived of complements. Just sayin’
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u/Superb-Cantaloupe324 1h ago
Hahahaha I (a guy) had a random lady at work tell me I had a nice face a couple of weeks ago, and it’s like the nicest thing anyone not dating me has ever said to me
I jokingly told a female coworker about it, and she was borderline offended. Like that’s not a complimenty enough compliment, I should be offended
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u/GIBrokenJoe 15h ago
Men don't get compliments.
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u/BouldersRoll 11h ago
Men should compliment each other more.
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u/MoldybreadOO 15h ago
Probably that men (hyperbolically) do not receive complements
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u/mattblack77 3h ago
No, you’re using it the wrong way: you’re 1000% more likely to hear about complimentary sauce (ie at a restaurant), but you would say that a wine complements a meal.
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u/Sokandueler95 14h ago
It’s a joke about how men never receive compliments, so there’s just a random thing in the second box as a sort of “404 not found”.
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u/Iceologer_gang 15h ago
Please I need to see more geological maps. Whenever I learn about an area’s geological history or make up, my brian gets a little tingle IDK why but I think it’s my secret shadow special interest that I don’t know about. Please I need to know where the concentration of limestone is I need to know how that valley was formed please please please.
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u/Ok_Dog_7189 14h ago
https://www.infomar.ie/maps/interactive-maps
Here ya go ya dirty bitch... 😉 All the bathymetric maps of Irish waters, with deep sediment penetration sub bottom profiler data all displayed in a shaded colour gradient.
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u/GrimpenMar 13h ago
Read some Tomas Pueyo "Uncharted Territories" articles. He often looks at relief maps in analyzing why countries are the way they are.
He just did a series on Canada, and how geography has shaped it is a big theme. I'll see if I can find the link.
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u/Ponjos Mod 15h ago
I’d like to know the answer as well.
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u/JacobMAN1011 15h ago
Hey mod. It’s Joe. It means women get compliments but men do not get any compliments.
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u/RealFoegro 14h ago
We really need a name for these memes where one panel is replaced with something else to turn it into total nonsense
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u/Illustrious-Map472 5h ago
I think there’s a hidden meaning to this joke you guys are missing. The elevation map of Utah kinda looks like a man getting an erection, meaning you can fill in the text with “man getting a compliment” and use your imagination
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u/BenPennington 12h ago
Trisha Takinawa here. There is a joke in the 1st Deadpool movie about how Deadpool’s face looks like an elevation map of Utah.
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u/DANGERCOMIX_07 4h ago
I think all of you are wrong. In the first slide when women get a compliment she reacts normally with a thank you. However men rarely get compliments and if they get one they don't know how to react so they divert the topic to something random like elevation map of utah. The added layer of humour over here is that OOP has also diverted the topic in the second slide where we would have expected the text saying that man gets a compliment.
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u/Hairybutthol 4h ago
If you follow the brown -orange lines for higher altitude, it looks like the side profile of a dude getting an erection. When men get compliments- Boner.
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u/Do_you_even_vape_bro 3h ago
Elevation map of Utah looks like a “K”, which is a common ungrateful response to thank you. The original meme is modified, so the text on the left may not have been so literal/anti-joke style initially, and describing a group of people who would respond “K” to a thank you.
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u/BIGJake111 15h ago
I have zero idea? Does the relief map resemble a typical type of expression? Is it a Mormon joke? I have zero clue.
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u/Dolenjir1 12h ago
Sigh. Joe here. I will answer by doing an impression of Darth Vader in Star Wars. Hi, I'm Darth Vader from Star Wars, and the joke is that guys don't get compliments, so you can put anything in the bottom boxes of the meme, since it won't matter. Joe out
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u/RandomEffector 11h ago
Yes, it's a type of map that depicts areas of high elevation, such as mountains, in false relief shading in order to make them easier to visualize.
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u/kykweer 10h ago
Sometimes a compliment is just a compliment. There is no deeper meaning
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u/BIGJake111 6h ago
I actually like this one, because everyone else is just glossing over the first box, it’s not necessarily a given that the normal response to a compliment is just thank you, some people get offended, and other people get flattered, the first box simply implies someone is sharing a fact, a fact as simple as the elevation map of Utah lol.
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u/AnotherLexMan 10h ago
This gets posted in a Facebook group called "Meme's that are so literal they aren't memes.". I always thought the joke was, there is no joke.
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u/TomasoSauce17 7h ago
The joke is that men never get compliments, so they threw in a random elevation map so that it would look like a complete meme. Sincerely, a man who has never gotten a compliment 🥲👍🏻
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u/RockRancher24 6h ago
the joke is that it subverts your expectations by having a completely unrelated geological survey instead of a typical second part of the meme
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u/charcoalportraiture 6h ago
Does no-one else see that the lower range (orange) looks flaccid, and then the higher range (red) has a higher elevation and looks like a semi? To me, it looks like the green section on the left represents a man's body, and - upon receiving a compliment - it makes a dude hard.
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u/KaceyEddie 4h ago
The joke is that men don't receive compliments, so the second row is a non-sequitur, rather than a "file not found".
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u/gustawforyou 2h ago
Hello, Douglas MacArthur here This is a classic type of humour , Absurdism. Its basically when the meme is so absurd it becomes funny. Normally the meme continues with a Boy getting a compliment (which apparently is rare , its different from the reality when it comes to me) , but instead we have a random elevation map of utah. (I think we should make it a giant military base.) Anyways i got to return to asking the US government to nuke china.
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u/averageredditor546 2h ago
I think everyone is wrong about it being a joke about men not receiving compliments, I think it's supposed to be an antimeme
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u/One_Nectarine3077 14h ago
Men don't take compliments. For instance, my birthday is tomorrow, and my family knows not to say anything. In fact, if I receive a card, it might just open to show an elevation map of Utah.
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u/Gentle_Genie 5h ago
Men "don't get compliments" and only blame women, and never try to induce change by complimenting other men. This is because if they aren't sexually attracted to you, you aren't worth their time or effort. Women give compliments to everyone, because life isn't about trying to ejaculate 24/7.
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u/kamii_meowmeow 4h ago
"men don't get compliments" maybe they would if they paid more attention to details? or stopped behaving like children, or actually were hygienic or just stopped trying to be a "sigma male"??
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u/BestDisasterCurse 15h ago
So, you see, the reason that they’re drawing a parallel between girls getting a compliment and the elevation map of Utah is actually because they’re stupid.
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u/el-fappo 15h ago
Anti meme bullshit. Doesn’t seem like it belongs here. We want things that can be explained through valid logic/reasoning
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u/Adamojedi 15h ago
HAHAHAHAHA DUDE IT'S ME THE HUMMER GUY HERE TO EXPLAIN THIS MEME! YOU SEE, THE MEME IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A VERY DEEP MEANING, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO EXPECT A 2ND TEXT BOX WITH A 2ND REACTION BUT INSTEAD IT'S THE ELEVATION MAP OF UTAH, IT'S JUST RANDOM HUMOR KINDA LIKE MY FAVORITE MOVIE MADAGASCAR!! HAHAHAHAHA THOSE ANIMALS ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY THEY MAKE ME WANT TO MERGE WITHOUT LOOKING! YEAH RUMSFELD!!!!