45 Painfully Relatable Memes To Laugh At While Social Distancing This Thanksgiving
2020 has been throwing us one curveball after another, but there still are things to be thankful for. Netflix gave us The Queen's Gambit, the economy hasn't collapsed, a few Covid vaccines are on the horizon. Not to mention, your bedroom doesn't have to be your workspace or classroom for a few days, and you get to stuff yourself with turkey and mashed potatoes until your heart's content.
To keep your spirits high and give you something to do while you lay in bed getting through the food coma, Bored Panda has compiled a list of hilariously relatable memes that perfectly sum up this year's Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy them as much as your grandma's pie!
This post may include affiliate links.
If you are someone who tries to watch what they eat, holidays can be difficult. Especially Thanksgiving. Being surrounded by so much delicious food that often emerges in our lives only once a year sure is hard to say no to. Not to mention the stress that often accompanies a busy holiday gathering..
If you fear you might overeat, use a smaller plate. Turns out, perception can be a big factor in losing the brakes. A study by Cornell University claimed that halving plate size leads to a 30% reduction in the amount of food consumed on average.
The Food and Brand Lab of Cornell University suggest you eat healthy foods on larger plates to encourage consumption, while eating less healthy foods on smaller plates to trick yourself into feeling satisfied with less.
However, it's worth noting that another study suggests that these numbers might not be true and further research on the relationship between plate size and consumption is needed.
Also, consider drinking a full glass of water before a meal. It helps to provide a sense of fullness, which lessens the likelihood of overeating. Just don't substitute it with soda, alcohol or other calorie-dense drinks.
Another mistake we often do is we skip breakfast, anticipating a bigger dinner, thinking we will more than make up for the calories as the day goes by. According to Rush University Medical Center, disadvantages of skipping breakfast include: higher chance of being overweight, higher chance of consuming unhealthy snacks, and lesser chance of meeting consumption recommendations for fruits and vegetables.
But even if all of this fails and you still lose it at the table, try to get rid of any guilt when leaving it. Nothing bad will happen if you've allowed yourself a second serving of turkey or a bigger slice of pumpkin pie. Dietician and upwave review board member Shoshana Pritzker, RD, CDN, reminded people that, "One meal isn't going to make you fat, or get diabetes or high blood pressure or any of those other illnesses or ailments that come from overeating all the time." It takes many months to put on the pounds and many months to drop them, so one afternoon of indulgence isn't going to cause you to buy bigger clothes tomorrow.
My dad's family: *two hours frothing rage* Me: *five seconds about Covid* My dad's family: *drops me from Zoom* Me: *gets out Ben & Jerry's, enjoys rest of day*
My grandma was the one who started the s**t talking. And she was ruthless.
But, what can we talk about this days, if not about Trump, covid and covidiots?
Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na
That dogo is very cute. P.s. There was no comment on this photo, so I decided to make one 🐶
Note: this post originally had 69 images. It’s been shortened to the top 45 images based on user votes.
To those who celebrate Thanksgiving today, I hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday. To those who celebrated a month ago, Happy Belated Thanksgiving. And to everyone else, I hope your Thursday was made a bit brighter by laughing at memes by us weirdos who do celebrate Thanksgiving.
You are too sweet. It really is hard to avoid family you love, but it’s easier to sleep at night without a guilty conscience.
Why the hell is everything about politics in the USA? Where I live in the UK, people rarely talk about politics, certainly not to people they barely know. I don't know the political views of any of my family, friends, neighbours or colleagues, and it is usually considered rude and impolite to ask. I don't even know what political party my partner voted for in the last elections and I really couldn't care less.
I guess it's because we're sick of Trump and his supporters' bullsh*t, which is still continuing even though he has been voted out. Sucks...
Trump was the better alternative both times. He actually increased his vote tally, just not as much as Biden did for the dems. Anyway, leave your TDS out of this. The question was about why Americans love politics so much, and your TDS shows that you don't understand the world existed more than 4 years ago. Americans have always been obsessed with politics.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
The % suck of trump is far less than the % that is honored to have a president who isn’t an pedo yes man like Biden. If Biden takes office we will be at war within a year and moving closer to the fourth Reich, the news Nazi regime. All thanks to idiots like you Ms.M
It used to be this way until Obama was elected. For some reason Republians heads exploded when that happened and they spent 4 years vowing revenge to never let it happen again. Then in 2012 it happened again and more heads exploded, conspiracy theroys got even weirder. In 2016 they doubled down on fear mongering and somehow elected Trump who is a blatant rasict. Since Trump won, all the racist felt it was ok to be more racist and public about it. Democrates didn't back down and stood up to it for 4 long years. Now in 2020 some Republians saw the error of electing an idiot who has pissed away his daddy's fortune and either didn't vote or voted for Joe. Additionally, Mitch McConnel has spent the past decade convincing all Republicans to vote on party lines so nothing ever gets done. This is why after 7 months we still don't have a second stimulus check, the amount of homeless and poverty stricken has increased by nearly 20% and foreclosure are expected to explode when restrictions end...
In December. And how odd is it that restrictions are set to expire when Trump and Kushner are slumlords to thousands that can't afford to pay their rent because the president and McConnel have refused to do anything.
Bob Belcher like
I'm kind of confused by this also. I live in the U.S. and my Thanksgivings tend t be very pleasant; we never talk about politics.
You have your culture and we have ours. Why you gotta be hating.
tuzdayschild yes
Can nothing be about politics? That’d be nice.
Lucky
Come on bro, I’m not American either but we all know what Americans have been going through. I have strong opinions about the killing-related issues (plural!!!) and I don’t even live there.
Brainwashing by media, is my guess. Signed, American citizen. Who, btw, watches BBC news. And, for the record, my UK in-laws are raging a-holes who rant politics constantly since Brexit.
LOL, my ex-husband was from the UK. I hear ya!
Ugh, imma just vent for a sec. so, currently my great grandma is dying at 99 years old (paternal side) and my moms side of the family is hosting a huge thanksgiving celebration (that side of the family is huge) and along with that part of my maternal side supports Trump! My family of course did not go to the thanksgiving celebration. We instead had a traditional dinner with no visitors. I’m all done venting now.
Yet another liberal who is intolerant in the name of tolerance. Way to go. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
where's the "hypocrisy" here? She literally said she was gonna vent. Venting is, in a sense, just saying all that is on one's mind and that's what she did. I don't know what point either of you made, but I guess that's ok. you do you.
To those who celebrate Thanksgiving today, I hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday. To those who celebrated a month ago, Happy Belated Thanksgiving. And to everyone else, I hope your Thursday was made a bit brighter by laughing at memes by us weirdos who do celebrate Thanksgiving.
You are too sweet. It really is hard to avoid family you love, but it’s easier to sleep at night without a guilty conscience.
Why the hell is everything about politics in the USA? Where I live in the UK, people rarely talk about politics, certainly not to people they barely know. I don't know the political views of any of my family, friends, neighbours or colleagues, and it is usually considered rude and impolite to ask. I don't even know what political party my partner voted for in the last elections and I really couldn't care less.
I guess it's because we're sick of Trump and his supporters' bullsh*t, which is still continuing even though he has been voted out. Sucks...
Trump was the better alternative both times. He actually increased his vote tally, just not as much as Biden did for the dems. Anyway, leave your TDS out of this. The question was about why Americans love politics so much, and your TDS shows that you don't understand the world existed more than 4 years ago. Americans have always been obsessed with politics.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
The % suck of trump is far less than the % that is honored to have a president who isn’t an pedo yes man like Biden. If Biden takes office we will be at war within a year and moving closer to the fourth Reich, the news Nazi regime. All thanks to idiots like you Ms.M
It used to be this way until Obama was elected. For some reason Republians heads exploded when that happened and they spent 4 years vowing revenge to never let it happen again. Then in 2012 it happened again and more heads exploded, conspiracy theroys got even weirder. In 2016 they doubled down on fear mongering and somehow elected Trump who is a blatant rasict. Since Trump won, all the racist felt it was ok to be more racist and public about it. Democrates didn't back down and stood up to it for 4 long years. Now in 2020 some Republians saw the error of electing an idiot who has pissed away his daddy's fortune and either didn't vote or voted for Joe. Additionally, Mitch McConnel has spent the past decade convincing all Republicans to vote on party lines so nothing ever gets done. This is why after 7 months we still don't have a second stimulus check, the amount of homeless and poverty stricken has increased by nearly 20% and foreclosure are expected to explode when restrictions end...