G.I. Joe Classified Series: The Chatty Pointless Thread & Performance Art

I'm going to admit my absolute nightmare of an intrusive thought about Dreadnoks and their favorite foods. And I say this as a Dreadnok apologist, I love my headcanon that they're freewheeling anarchists who are often not very bright but nowhere near as evil as actual biker gangs in the real world.

But I was translating social media hieroglyphics a few months back with someone trying to circumvent the content filters on one of the more oppressive apps, and she used the grape emoji as sexual assault, and I had the intrusive thought: wait, was the biker gang drinking grape sode like, code for them being sexual predators like criminal biker gangs often are? Then does that mean chocolate donuts are...

And then I stuck my fingers in my ears, closed my eyes and went "LA LA LA THEY'RE JUST CARTOON BAFOON VILLAINS, LARRY DID NOT MEAN THAT STOP IT EVIL BRAIN"
 
That said: they totally had “grape soda” and “donuts” because the file cards couldn’t say “booze” and “drugs”.
 
Yes, but I must cling to the hope that is low bar media literacy.

Grape flavour did not imply they dropped the G in town.
 
I mean I have my whole head-canon that with some marked exceptions (Firefly, Interrogator, Cesspool and Headman come to mind) Cobra’s “evil” isn’t full-tilt monstrous. So like that kind of, er, grape-ing isn’t their style.
 
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Like I said, it was an intrusive thought connecting modern cultural references with an old cartoon joke. Mostly because as you pointed out, they were drinking grape sode and eating donuts cos Hasbro wasn't going to have them doing shots of Evan Williams and doing lines of coke off strippers' belly buttons.
 
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