r/mildlyinfuriating • u/bullfrogftw • 18h ago
The floor is sticky One of my cities most venerable and famous 'Midnight Ballerina' clubs has just had their Instagram acct nuked over their marquee sign
2.9k
u/SkullFullOfHoney 16h ago
1.4k
u/Trumpisanorangebitch 14h ago
Free speech absolutist Elon Musk. Lets people spew slurs left and right and bans people for being anti-Trump.
→ More replies (140)299
u/Help_One_AnOtter 15h ago
I believe this one got their X account temporarily taken down for "hate speech"
18
u/CardinalOnCrack 3h ago
Erm actually, not wanting to get invaded and taken over by a neighboring country is hateful, do better.
56
u/tillybowman 13h ago
can anybody eli5 a non us/ non canadian non native speaker what that message means? what the two different writings account for?
43
u/LiberalFartsDegree 13h ago
There is a subtle message in "never neighbors" (American spelling), and that is: we will never become American.
177
u/alepor_ 13h ago
Canadian (UK English) spelling vs US (Americzn English spelling).
Loosely
Always neighbours, and Canada will not be an American state.
70
u/tillybowman 13h ago
that was simple. thanks. wild you get a suspension for that.
→ More replies (13)16
u/SomeDumbDoggo 6h ago
I mean given that elon is a major player in the insecure, white supremacist cryptofash movement plaguing the USA.... is it?
→ More replies (1)28
u/evilJaze 9h ago
Just to clarify: Canada doesn't use UK English, we have our own which is a hybrid of US English and UK English.
8
u/K_isfor 13h ago
So Canada uses the British spelling which is the first one with a U. The second one is the American spelling. My best guess is it's saying that even though they're beside each other as countries they'll never be friendly
36
u/Mysandwichok 12h ago
Not that they will never be friendly, just that they won't become American. It was at a time Trump was pushing hard on Canada becoming the 51st state.
7
u/Bitter_Radish5381 8h ago
Wait what's the the difference between neighbors and neighbours?
28
u/wheredoIcomein 8h ago
Trump was threatening to annex Canada at that time and make us the 51st state. By saying we'll never be neighbors (using the US spelling) it's saying we'll never be American. By saying we'll be neighbours it's saying yeah we're next door, but we're staying Canadian.
Some how free speech Elon thought this was hate speech.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (1)5
u/Independent-Reader 8h ago
Trump admin and Elon are such soft soy boys to get their panties in a bunch about someone else's speech.
3.7k
u/tcrudisi 18h ago
Oh my god. This is a contender for one of the funniest signs I've ever read.
1.4k
u/bullfrogftw 18h ago
They have been on fire since Covid, if their acct gets reinstated I recommend checking it out, or just google search Penthouse Vancouver sign guy. They also published a book of their best work
540
u/Kingsmen99 18h ago
You’re allowed to say strip club on the internet believe it or not.
455
u/vaginadeathsquad 18h ago
I like ‘midnight ballerina’ more though! Sounds delicate…
156
u/jeepsaintchaos 17h ago
I didn't connect the dots and thought it was something really cool, like goth ballerinas dancing to Korn or something.
45
20
u/LogiCsmxp 12h ago
They might actually do that some days, just with less clothes than usual for ballerinas.
8
u/LifeguardDry7372 15h ago
I'd pay for that. Although Korn might not be appropriate
25
u/16Shells buttsbuttsbuttsbuttsbutts 15h ago
late 90s/early 00s it wasn’t unheard of. korn, white zombie, danzig, manson, limp bizkit, static x… the good ol’ days.
12
8
u/jessihateseverything 7h ago
The best stripper I ever saw danced to living dead girl. Sure were the good old days. Now they've closed all the strip clubs near me except for one and it's....it's not worth going to let's just put it that way lol
5
u/LifeguardDry7372 14h ago
I still have all those CD's. Except Danzig, idk I couldn't get into that.
8
→ More replies (2)2
266
69
u/bullfrogftw 18h ago
Me too, I find it hilarious, and I worked in strip clubs for a decade
30
u/thejoeface 18h ago
I also worked in a stripub for a decade and most of that time I used ballet flats so I also really loved your title
10
u/Intelligent-Hunt7557 16h ago
Guessing “stripub” was a typo? Would patronize a strip-pub tho!
10
u/meesta_masa 12h ago
I'd rather patronize a strip-pizza joint. Just women walking onto the stage wearing pizza slices and tossing them at patrons.
→ More replies (1)2
u/thejoeface 7h ago
Lmao yes it's a typo
2
u/Practical_Maximum_29 4h ago
Honestly, most of the strip clubs I ever visited were basically pubs with strippers/dancers. I think stripub is less of a typo and more a reasonably fairly created portmanteau!
→ More replies (1)6
2
6
5
→ More replies (1)2
17
u/-GoodNewsEveryone 14h ago
You're also allowed to say otherwise without pointing it out believe it or not.
People who make their whole personality policing other people's word choices are a whole new level of cringey as all hell.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)-1
u/pogulup 15h ago
Anyone using this censored language gets a downvote from me.
8
9
→ More replies (1)3
13
u/crusty54 3h ago
What does it mean?
36
u/MercyfulJudas 3h ago
It's making fun of Trump. Trump's people tried to clean the pool at the Washington Monument in DC, but made it even more contaminated, then doubled down that he didn't do anything wrong.
Now, Trump has officially renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America.
Hope that helps.
8
u/crusty54 2h ago
Oh yeah I forgot about the lake already. He does so much stupid shit every day that each individual thing only holds my attention for a short while. Thanks.
15
7
→ More replies (1)2
u/Mcnuggetjuice 2h ago
Can you explain to me? Is it about that ontario lake? But what pool? I don’t get it.
Sorry I am from europe
5
u/tcrudisi 2h ago
Yes. Lake Ontario was "renamed" Lake America.
The pool is the White House reflecting pool that went from beautiful and naturally maintained to being painted and algae-infested.
170
u/bwoah07_gp2 16h ago
Of all the signs they've done, Meta nukes their account over this? This is innocent! This is just ridiculousness 🤦♂️🤦♂️
100
u/OneOfAKind2 15h ago
Instagram kowtowing to a fascist regime.
→ More replies (1)18
u/20past4am 6h ago
It's just where the money is. Some ten years ago it was popular to be pro-queer and politically correct so the big tech companies all went with the rainbow flags and cracked down on hate speech. Now fascism is popular so now they appeal to that.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (1)•
u/Canadian-Man-infj 33m ago
I think this controversy will actually end up being GOOD for business, though, if you think about it. I'm sure there are A LOT of people who will go to show support; people who, otherwise, wouldn't have visited. I think they'll be okay, in the end.
476
u/aooelsner 18h ago
→ More replies (1)219
u/420_69_Fake_Account 17h ago
Well it’s actually in Canada
-7
u/Cakeminator 15h ago
Canada is technically American. North American, same as the US. Technically
41
u/KhellianTrelnora 15h ago
Oh yeah?
Then why didn’t THEY name it Lake America, huh? Some americans.
/s
Sigh.
Fuck. That hurt to even parody.
9
u/Cakeminator 14h ago
It hurt to even read 🤣🤣 In every day speech I typically call it "US citizen" because I feel it is weird to call them Americans when people from Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil etc, are also Americans 😅 just north, middle, and south American
5
u/Grathwrang 13h ago
a workable analogy would be like if europe wasnt called europe it was called France.
And then we called everyone in europe French.
2
u/Cakeminator 12h ago
I am both European and Danish. I would not get mad being called either. If someone called me French because I am European, I would just assume ignorance and not bother 😅
You can be both American and from the US, or be American and Mexican.
One is a continent, the other is a nationality. It seems strange to me that people from the US kinda tries to have a monopoly on it.
→ More replies (1)7
u/Grathwrang 10h ago
so you get it.
I as a Canadian, if I were called an American would assume ignorance. Americans are from the United States of America. Canadians are from Canada. Mexicans are from Mexico. etc
edit:
You could call us North Americans, but not Americans.3
u/Cakeminator 9h ago
Not the exact same tho. You are, as a Canadian, an American and a Canadian. American Canadian if you will.
Im not French. I am European though. European Dane.
2
u/Grathwrang 2h ago
...no an American Canadian implies someone with lineage from America and Canada. Sorry bud, you can't just make stuff up.
→ More replies (0)6
u/FallBeehivesOdder 9h ago
Many of us in Canada have begun using the First Nations name for the continent: Turtle Island.
4
9
u/ashgs872tbhjs 13h ago
Technically we're Vinland. That dude who had a boner for Amerigo Vespucci 500 years later can take his name and shove it
4
u/Cakeminator 13h ago
If you were a German pronouncing this, it'd be Finland.
As a Dane, I can approve of the name Vinland
892
u/throwawayqweeen 18h ago
My least favorite sign from them was "two girls, one world cup." It's on my way to work and it disgusted me every day lol. This one is my absolute favorite though!
181
153
38
u/safadancer 14h ago
When we lived there, I used to detour to walk past it whenever I could because it was so horrible and funny
→ More replies (1)5
312
u/ConsiderateCassowary 18h ago
What’s a midnight ballerina club?
366
u/pbbrittany 18h ago
Strip club
35
u/Skatchbro 16h ago
Here in St. Louis we go to across the river to Sauget, IL for our clubs. Hence the name Sauget Ballet. It’s pronounced Sew-jhey so it makes sense to us here.
12
11
2
u/ayeteeex 4h ago
I lost my ID over there one night, now I'm banned from buying OTC cold meds. I guess they bought stuff for meth with my ID
→ More replies (1)50
u/NahdiraZidea 18h ago
I assume exotic dancers of some variaty
99
u/sirhackenslash 18h ago
Because of tariffs they only have domestic dancers
→ More replies (2)5
u/Prior_Dimension_6680 17h ago
And I bet they never returned those 1$ bills either, they kept the IEEPA refund and the bills. Usually I can respect a hustle but it just seems wrong.
4
u/Practical_Maximum_29 4h ago
Canada got rid of $1 bills in 1989. The $2 bill followed in 1996.
No one's been tossing loonies or toonies at the midnight ballerinas (god I hope they're not!) since then.
Extra hazard pay is required, if so!62
u/hthratmn 18h ago
Its a weird tiktok term for a stripper
117
u/sirhackenslash 18h ago
It's an oooold term. In Detroit people were calling it the "Windsor ballet" in the 80s. Back when you could just border hop like you were crossing the street to get drunk at 19
44
6
u/Signal_Wind_6058 16h ago
No passports needed to come back through the tunnel! On to Lafayette for coney dogs! Or White Castle at 8 Mile and Woodward
23
u/Athrynne 17h ago
In Western New York they call it "The Canadian Ballet," and have for years, so it predates TikTok.
2
u/hthratmn 16h ago
Funny enough, thats where I live and have somehow never heard it. But now I know. I associate the term with social media creators using it to avoid getting flagged for demonetization.
29
u/mylogicistoomuchforu 18h ago
Wrong. The term has been around in many variations long before tiktok.
6
u/luxsatanas 13h ago
Historically, ballet was heavily intertwined with sex work. It's really not that weird
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)-3
u/ConsiderateCassowary 18h ago
Ugh, of course it’s TikTok
6
u/Odd_Dirt7415 8h ago
Ahhhh, they said the same about Reddit, then before it was Digg, then it was Facebook (when it was dominated by millennial college kids), then it was myspace, the cycle continues there must always be a
Lich Kingmeme generator.→ More replies (2)4
u/Jabbles22 18h ago
I normally hate this style of censorship but I kind of like this one.
2
u/ExpressRabbit 4h ago
It's been around for over 40 years. It's not a tik tok thing.
→ More replies (1)2
u/MurkDiesel 1h ago
yet another faith-based conservative euphemism for "naughty" things
sneaky faith based conservatives are everywhere trying to normalize censorship
439
u/OnlySortaStupid 18h ago
What do these words mean?
→ More replies (1)1.1k
u/LovelyLettuceLeaf 18h ago
It’s mocking Trump who has had issues with the reflecting pool and recently signed an order to change Lake Ontario’s name to Lake America. Most likely Trump supporters were upset with the sign and mass reported the account, leading to its removal.
122
u/youhavenosoul 17h ago
So FB and IG is always coming back to say “well, we investigated, and found no violations”, but the gets taken down instantly? Cowards.
39
u/LovelyLettuceLeaf 17h ago
I reported a post of a picture of a gun that was threatening someone and instagram said it didn't break any rules.
60
u/ThatKehdRiley 16h ago edited 16h ago
I stopped using FB because I (transfem) was getting violent threats just for posting outfit pics to groups, and they never found anything against community standards.
EDIT: lmfao, downvotes for sharing a real problems that myself and others have experienced like this is absolutely wild.
9
u/Lt_Flak 16h ago
I'm so sorry. I hope you found a better and more supportive community.
10
u/ThatKehdRiley 16h ago
The only spacess it doesnt happen in are closed trans communities. So I've found them, but it is crazy we have to isolate to avoid that insane hate.
→ More replies (4)12
u/LeelaDallasMultipass 15h ago
If it helps, I'm a feral ND perimenopausal widow, and if I catch a WHIFF of TERFy bullshit, I go full "Do you need your adult guardian?" when I talk to a fellow middle-aged white lady who thinks I'm an "ally" in her "fight." If ANYBODY is going to fully understand the bullshit of being a woman, it's somebody in the throes of hormonal insanity who keeps having her safety threatened by MEN, but go off, Sister Privilege from Our Lady of Perpetual Cuntitude.
4
u/ashgs872tbhjs 13h ago
They also don't enforce their nudity rules anymore. I quit IG because they wouldn't stop showing me OF rips no matter how often I reported it. Couple months later they had that thing where they made everyone's recommendations just gore and such for a few hours. Good riddance.
3
u/derndingleberries 3h ago
Ive reported so much racism on instagram, but apparantly calling people the n word and monkey etc isnt racism to instagram.
→ More replies (1)165
u/Unfair_Mortgage_7189 18h ago
Thanks for explaining because I was lost too!
75
u/RabidBadgerMacarena 18h ago
To be fair it'd help if you knew that was located in Canada. (I didn't get it either)
16
u/Level-Priority-2371 18h ago
I still didn't get it until I just read your comment lol
15
u/iHateThisPlaceSoBad 15h ago
Lol what the fuck is this dude. Op saying midnight ballerinas and despite knowing Trump renamed Lake Ontario, I had zero fucking idea what any of this meant.
Jesus christ this is stupid
→ More replies (1)2
u/ashgs872tbhjs 13h ago
"I don't understand simple things. Therefore, everyone else is stupid."
you don't have to throw a tantrum over not know a colloquialism or picking up on a reference dude, it's OK
3
4
2
u/poppedcorn-10 16h ago
Same! I thought it was a Caddyshack reference. edit - I know he says pond instead of lake lol
8
u/eljosho1986 16h ago
It's amusing when a group attacks people for being easily offended and touts free speech, and then gets easily offended and cries that "they shouldn't say that!"
4
u/Minimob0 11h ago
Oh man, their whirlwind news tactics are working, because I already forgot about the reflecting pool crap.
I await every day for that breaking news headline. It will become a Holiday.
2
→ More replies (4)2
u/UnknownQwerky 5h ago
Ohhhh, thank you, the lake change didn't even cross my mind. I was like, "are we swimming in strippers??? No that doesn't make sense."
58
53
51
u/Talking_Gibberish 12h ago
Inciting hate crimes ✅
Opposing a delusional tyrant with a joke ❌
Social media platforms in 2026
48
22
u/Rain_Zeros 5h ago
Hahah this is fucking awesome. Shame about their instagram :/ free speech is only free when the people in charge don’t get butthurt by what you say
17
u/Kingofcheeses 17h ago
Greetings fellow British Columbian
5
u/bullfrogftw 12h ago
Salutations your Honor
2
11
19
u/Ok_Ebb7109 15h ago
TIL the term Midnight Ballerina. Now I can say I was both a professional ballerino and a professional Midnight ballerino in my 20s.
9
u/indratera 9h ago
Can somebody explain the joke I'm utterly lost 😭
24
u/RotundCorgi 9h ago
Trump recently ruined the reflecting pool in Washington D.C. after making it one of his top-priority PR projects.
In the past week, Trump also declared Lake Ontario would now be called Lake America.
→ More replies (1)10
u/indratera 8h ago
Oh got you thank you, I'd never heard of the pool before and didn't have much context on the lake thing haha
2
u/RotundCorgi 8h ago
Lucky you. Lol
4
u/indratera 8h ago
Haha news about the yanks is slow to reach my country sometimes but rest assured we get to know all about your country 💀
→ More replies (1)
7
6
13
4
4
7
5
u/whittlingcanbefatal 8h ago
Canada should retaliate by renaming another of the Great Lakes as "Lake Epstein Files"
6
•
12
10
6
u/Apprehensive-Elk7898 18h ago
(I don’t get it)
36
u/ImVeryUnimaginative Asian 18h ago
The "pool" is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that Trump had "restored," but in reality left it off far worse than before.
The "lake" is Lake Ontario (it's one of the Great Lakes and borders both Canada and the US) which Trump had renamed Lake America.
2
2
u/danny_dough 1h ago
They’re clearly talking about men who cant handle their women at home, but think they have a shot with the cacophony of women beyond those doors.
2
2
8
u/thrftstorenailpolish 18h ago
Businesses, especially small ones, need to remember that you don't get to control your content if you are using IG. Yes, it's stupid convenient but it comes with strings. Bring back websites, blogs, and newsletters!*
*Don't mention substack to me. They platform nazis.
4
u/loki2002 9h ago
Everyone platforms Nazis. It is the degree of rhetoric they allow that is the difference.
→ More replies (2)3
u/AlphonseLoeher 8h ago
Substack is just a blog platform. That's like being upset at an ISP for "platforming Nazis"
2
1
0
u/Immediate-Fee-2121 18h ago
I don’t get it
56
u/proto_synnic 18h ago
US administration couldn't keep the Reflecting Pool from falling apart, and now has renamed Lake Ontario to something stupid.
→ More replies (1)7
u/cannibalparrot 15h ago
Don’t blame me, I voted for “Lake Epstein Files Distraction.”
Or failing that, “Lakey McLakeface.”
4
u/RegularlyClueless 18h ago
Yeah if someone could explain it would be appreciated
→ More replies (10)

3.4k
u/Cynical-avocado 18h ago
I thought we legalized comedy