Everybody loves surfing, but all gays must die

— Leo's dad at 21:41 on Wednesday 8th of June 2022, for some reason.

## Meme battle with my dad

### Ca va los elgibitos ?

On Wednesday 8th of June, at 20:58, Leo's dad sent them a cryptic SMS : "Yo ! ça va los elgibitos ?"

Of course, Leo knew what this funny little sentence meant, even if it's in three different languages, because Leo is the cat's pyjamas, and also because their dad had already told them about one of his Spanish students at Neoma, who informed him that people in Spain called LGBT+ people "los elgibitos." And man did he love it. Like, he didn't stop saying it all day. And now it was back.

Amused by the off-beat text, and already a little crazy in the head after the other events of the evening (including the Carl incident and a very cursed song), bordering, perhaps, on hysteria, Leo decided to send a completely random meme back to him just to see how he'd react. Nothing better than a good, senseless Al Jardine meme to wet everyone's appetite.

But Leo's dad's response was to send a punching emoji ! What the fuck ?? Who would ever want to punch Al Jardine ? **😭** The guy keeps it clean (except for that one racist remark), plus he's an old man now, wtf.

Thus began a meme exchange that's pretty silly, but what else would you expect from a forty-nine year old guy ?

### Everyone's a Beach Boy

The next few memes were an attempt from a slightly out of touch father to make a stand against homophobia within the Beach Boys through a series of slightly off the wall memes that required an explanation a couple of times. This first one had Alois and Leo scratching their heads until the explanation came. Note the meme format, Drake, known to my dad as "the guy in the orange coat", his very very favourite.

Not quite knowing what to reply and itching to send a Bruce Johnston selfie photo reference, Leo ended up replying with the link to the change.org petition to bring back Bruce Johnston selfie photo on Wikipedia (it's now back, thanks to Alois <3). Their dad didn't get it : "Don't get it. Is it because it's so crap ?"

Yes. Yes it is.

The next meme, more obvious and containing typos, was also a Drake meme. Here it is for posterity as well. Bless my dad.

Leo sent back the meme pictured on the left because it's really funny. Dad didn't know who the people were so they had to explain it was Van Dyke Parks and Mike Love. "That's one for the fans !" my dad replied.

He sent back a fucking "one does not simply walk into Mordor meme." He really did. A fucking Lord of the Rings impact font imgflip meme. What is this, 2004 ???? Mfw I block the release of a good record ?? Baby holding up fist meme ? Puzzled dinosaur ???? The fucking guy from Futurama saying "shut up and take my money" ????

One does not simply block the release of a good record. Hm. Well unfortunately yes they do.

Leo sent back the Salute to NASCAR cover. Not sure their dad got it or even fathomed it was unfortunately a real thing. But he did send back a slightly less dated meme, and it contained a Beach Boys reference AND a pun !!! Getting better !!!! Getting warmer !!!! "Wow, that's a technical one", Leo replied, a little tongue in cheek, and their dad proceeded to send them the fucking link to the imgflip meme generator like it's some dark web obscurity. "You can find it on the Internets." Thanks dad !

Leo sent back this one... a classic but uneventful... nothing could have prepared them for the message they were about to receive.

### Everybody loves surfing, but...

Seriously WHAT THE HELL THOUGH. Out of NOWHERE. Also the picture makes it look like they're fucking harmonising together on "but all gays must die." So fucking cold. And it came out of the left field unannounced, too, leaving Leo in such giggling shock that they struggled to process it at first.

Here is the meme for posterity, alone, because it really does have a very strange energy about it. Something dark and mystical. Something strange. Maybe otherworldly. What a meme. Thanks dad.

File:Surfing1.png

### Post-all gays must die

It seemed that all the memes had been bled from Leo's dad. That last one had been his magnum opus, his Mona Lisa. He was done. Leo was not, and sent a couple more memes, including How Dare You and these two, but the evening's fun was done. What an evening, though.