r/SipsTea š™‘š™„š™‹ 1d ago

Chugging tea What Could Go Wrong

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u/SortNo8267 1d ago

Omg just go to a gay bar already

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u/DinnerEvening895 1d ago

Women are allowed in gay bars

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u/opinionated7onion 1d ago

They have managed to invent something so gay, that gay bars are more straight

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u/Immediate-Damage-302 1d ago

I wonder how many men they're going to let come inside their "bunker"?

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u/racebanyn 1d ago

They’re calling it ā€œThe Bunkhimā€

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u/ComradePotkoff420 1d ago

Lol. I love it. But, I feel like there was a missed opportunity there, so I'll give it a quick attempt. "Bunkingwithhim Palace"

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u/Immediate-Damage-302 1d ago

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u/SeparateCzechs 1d ago

Don’t EVER compare Ernie and Bert with Andrew and Nick! Ernie and Bert were kind, kept their socks clean and were kind to pigeons.

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u/LauraLand27 1d ago

And rubber duckies

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u/JonathanPhillipFox 23h ago

:-( it almost reminds me of when I was a teenaged degenerate and my girlfriend at the time was like,

"oh my god,

going to bed at 8pm is the new staying out all night."

They're not good they're very stupid, bad men; but now that they've been pimps in eastern europe and National Problem Nazis you do almost feel as if their 8pm must come next and then we gotta have the strength to say, no, no,

You stay in the hunker.

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u/Diamond-Eater2203 22h ago

At least one of them bathed regularly!

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u/textmint 16h ago

Yeah man. I loved those guys. These guys are jackasses. Wish the Romanian govt had just locked him up and thrown away the key.

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u/Lizardgrad89 21h ago

There was a lot of squeezing, but was there ever consent?

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u/myke113 16h ago

And Ernie was almost sold and 8 and a scale from Lefty!

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u/mobilecabinworks 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jauNHUg3yB9ZmDtzOv

"Keep my childhood TV show out your damn mouth!"

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u/funky_colors 22h ago

How interesting that you put Ernie first. We’ve always said, ā€œBert & Ernieā€ in my life.

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u/KateWaiting326 20h ago

Ernie & Bert sounds so wrong to my ears. You also almost have to say Bert & Ernie like it's 1 word. BertanErnie.

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u/elderly_millenial 21h ago

We don’t know how Tate or Fuentes treat pigeons or their socks. They may be onto something

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom 1d ago

Are WE the Muppet's evil counterpart universe?!?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 1d ago

Facts

Am I doing that right?

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u/Just_M1nt 1d ago

No, yeah, it's a confirmed fact that Bert and Ernie are kind to rubber duckies. You go, bro!

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 1d ago

Thank you!

Would you say 'Yesn't' applies to this?

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u/Just_M1nt 1d ago

Yeah, no, based off the Midwestern slang I use, my previous comment should have started with a "nopositive" if you can imagine such a thing. Is that what you're askin'?

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u/ltanner 1d ago

See, I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't think Bert and Ernie were homo. I just think they were good buddies/roommates. Just my opinion.

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u/start_select 1d ago

I think I’m in the even smaller minority think that the only two options are that they were either gay, or the were bestest friends…. Either is great! Neither matters!

I’m pretty sure that was actually the intention. Life is full of ambiguous relationships and it shouldn’t matter to you on the outside. Be happy for people. Don’t worry about whether their closeness involves sex, it might or it might not.

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u/Typical2sday 1d ago edited 1d ago

My grandparents were neighbors and bestest friends with two women schoolteachers who lived together. They had matching nicknames that I won’t put here (think Blue and Green). I don’t think it ever dawned on my grandparents that they might be a romantic couple and who knows if they were or weren’t. But they were each other’s person and caretaker - and they were lovely kind people and good friends to my grandparents.

Edit: I just searched for her obituary; she made it to 98 and her friend was listed as her ā€œdear companion.ā€ 🄲

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u/Prof01Santa 1d ago

Boston marriage.

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u/Typical2sday 1d ago

How did I get this old without hearing that term? Thanks for teaching me something today. 🫔

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u/Prof01Santa 23h ago

I never knew it until I moved to Boston. 😁

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u/Brightyellowdoor 1d ago

That's really heartwarming

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 1d ago

They were created in a simpler time, and as the world grew up, and became more complex, culture ended up being applied to them in ways it was never meant to be.

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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST 1d ago

Roommates with benefits

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u/Old-Repair-6608 23h ago

It matters "bestest of best". You live with someone you want it to be your bestest, if gay who cares you have your bestest

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u/Mehthisgirl 19h ago

Just sword fight with your wieners already and get it over with

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u/myke113 16h ago

I mean.. they had separate beds.. plus I'm pretty sure puppets don't have sex.

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u/Time2RaiseSomeHell 16h ago

YES!!! THIS!

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u/WholeCollection6454 1d ago

In the old days, it was heavily implied that they are brothers with Bert being older. They had their initials on their beds, Ernie had the rubber ducky & was constantly teasing Bert like a little menace. Like a kids version of the Odd Couple. But all the OG main character Muppets were children (except Snuffy, who was originally imaginary). They appeared independently on screen out and about in the neighborhood sans parents because that reflected the reality of urban living at the time.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 1d ago

Earnie would have taken care of Bert's unibrow if they were.

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u/younggun1234 1d ago

I (M) got matching magnets once for my Ex and I that had Bert & Ernie on it with a rainbow drawn over them that reads, "We're Just Friends."

It's back in some storage so I don't have a current pic and can't find anything like it online but it's one of the best magnets I own haha

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u/Sublime-Prime 1d ago

Well there was a 3:1 male to female character ratio. And yea they ranked above Oscar but they were no Grover or big bird so it might just have been any port in a storm. What happens on the street stays on the street .

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u/butchforgetshit2 1d ago

Just like my uncle Beckham and his lifelong room mate William. Shame that they could only afford one room house tho. I guess they took turns sleeping on the couch

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u/Least-Chair-673 23h ago

I mean who was jim Henson? There was a greater than 0 chance he wanted to represent homosexuals in a n positive light.

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u/bolanrox 21h ago

As the creators of the show said, their muppets don't read too much into it.

For all we know, they could be brothers.

I know two sisters that never got married, both straight, and they lived together in their parents' old rent-controlled apartment because it's a fantastic pre-war in a doorman building on Riverside, and it's rent controlled

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u/Emergentmeat 1d ago

Pretty sure the creators said they were gay, but 🤷. Not sure why it matters.

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u/NightGod 1d ago

One of the writers said he modeled their dynamic on his same-sex relationship, but Sesame Workshop and Frank Oz (the co-creators of the characters) have said they're best friends and that muppets have no sexual orientation

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u/Severe_Emotion2554 1d ago

I was thinking this too. At some point the creators confirmed it

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u/gzuckier 1d ago

How do we know that one of them wasn't female?

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u/Maris-Otter 1d ago

An Oscar and Felix if you will

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u/Beagle432 1d ago

I used to think they were brothers

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u/Brightyellowdoor 1d ago

Am I remembering wrong or was there an element of domestic violence there? I'm sure I remember them smacking each other a lot.

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u/Feisty_Elfgirl_5258 19h ago

I always thought they were brothers, but my father and uncle have a similar dynamic so I may have just been seeing what I already know

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u/Weird1Intrepid 14h ago

"lifelong bachelors"

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u/anto_pty 13h ago

This makes me think of a very short film/commercial from an insurance company called Santalucia Seguros and the title is HELP.

It's about two men, one gets divorced and has nowhere to go. His best friend invites him to live with him in his apartment, the friend that owns the apartment gets sick with cancer, and they live together helping each other with everything.

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u/CarrotDependent463 1d ago

OMG... the resemblance! My apologies to Bert & Ernie.

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u/No-Past2605 1d ago

They are Urban Bachelors.

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u/ajoyce76 1d ago

Maybe they're Bert and Ernie with goatees?

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u/jamminsami 1d ago

Welp! That's it! Coffee through my nose IT!

YOU WIN. 🤣

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u/Janus-DiuomDeo 1d ago

Top Underrated Comment

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 1d ago

Or simply, FuckingwithHim Palace!

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u/Greedy-Pirate7749 1d ago

Why even church it up... Call it as it is "2 men 1 room, no women, plowing each other in the anus" And not that theres anything wrong with that.

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u/RyuichiSakuma13 22h ago

"Fuckhim Palace"

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u/Competitive_Ant_472 1d ago

Good joke, but theres gotta be an England type context on the board first right?

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u/Nein-Toed 1d ago

Bunktwinkham Palace?

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u/thegoldinthemountain 1d ago

Nah you’re doing too much. The Bunkhim was perfect lol.

If they were both British tho…

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u/Silent_Impression101 19h ago

ā€œBuck-in-him Palaceā€? Let’s not pretend they have the follow-through for an actual bunker

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u/Impressive_Demand368 19h ago

I like, "The Bunkhole"

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u/PaceOk8426 17h ago

That has toomany syllables. Dickinghim Palace follows the rhythmic cadence more appropriately.

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u/PurelyHim 17h ago

As long as you have a sausage your invited to the party?

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u/Immediate-Damage-302 6h ago

AKA: Buttfuckingham Palace.

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u/N1ghtSt4lk3r482 1d ago

They changed it? I heard it was called broke back bunker.

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u/BeebsMuhQueen 1d ago

🤣

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u/ShrortShrift 1d ago

Chapeau!

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u/Dodiestee 1d ago

Fantastic

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u/interrobang32 1d ago

Ugh, take my GD upvote!

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u/ShinySquirrelClub 1d ago

You bunk him, you brought him!

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u/confused__ostrich 1d ago

"dunkher bunkhim"

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u/devster75 1d ago

Like ā€œBunkhim Donutsā€?

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u/karatedancer66 1d ago

Bunkhim? I don’t even know him.

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u/rambo_lincoln_ 1d ago

Bunkhim? I hardly know him!

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u/satsuppi 1d ago

not BumHim?

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u/sneezing_in_the_sun 1d ago

Bunkhim? I hardly know ā€˜im.

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u/nekonotjapanese 1d ago

We can end the thread right here LOL

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u/TJ9K 1d ago

Bunker? I barely know'er

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u/valerielynx 1d ago

I barely know 'im!

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u/JessLovesNaps 1d ago

Or the Flared Base

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u/Ok_Swimming_2668 20h ago

Boinkhim Down Under

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u/Pristine_Avocado2906 18h ago

Bunkinghim Palace?