The Tolkien Joke and Meme thread

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[Ent]

Hum. The above just about defines our world today.
I find myself unable to take it as a joke or a meme.
I must be missing something. Ent often does that.

 

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[Ent]

The thoughts behind the expression:

 

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[Olorgando]

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That's the predecessor to the current gangster heading FIFA, old-gangster Joseph "Sepp" Blatter.
It was during his time that, for the first time, two World Cup hosts were nominated at the same time (In 2010?), Mordor for 2018, and the current travesty being played close to northern-hemisphere winter in a country that has zero point zero historical ties to the sport. The current gangster heading FIFA (not that that other criminal group, the IOC, is any better) is Gianni Infantino, He grew up in the criminal-corrupt atmosphere at UEFA, the European "subsidiary" of FIFA, the latter's corruption admittedly going back to Blatter's predecessor João Havelange. Running at least in part on a sort of "anti-corruption" platform for the FIFA presidency, Infantino has turned out to be the equivalent of naming Al Capone to head the FBI ...

 

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