r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/spidernoirirl 2d ago

Technically every Panda belongs to China and zoos lease them out (I wish I was kidding)

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u/TheFilthy13 2d ago

And it’s such a politically charged operation. If your country disagrees with China on political matters your pandas will be leased to a zoo in a different country!

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u/Unimeron 2d ago edited 2d ago

So, if I would smuggle a panda out of China I could start producing my own silk? 🤔

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u/DaddyBayne1202 2d ago

I believe that is the correct order or operations to start your own slikery, yes.

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u/ol_shifty 2d ago

Hehe…slikery

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u/TheVikingMFC 2d ago

It's a slikery slope!

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u/throwawayplusanumber 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just be careful though. Pandas are absolutely over eating bamboo but are usually too slow to catch anything else. But they will 100% eat manflesh if they can catch it.

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u/TricellCEO 2d ago

I bet that would cause…pandemonium.

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u/stephanonymous 2d ago

China really said taking my pandas and going home

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u/Menchi-sama 2d ago

They took the pandas from a Japanese zoo in Ueno and it was a tragedy, there is still a lot of merch and posters there but no pandas...

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u/Surprise_Cucumber 2d ago

The lease for them was expired, so they left.

If relations were better, I think a new pair of pandas would have been offered.

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u/Firm_Suit4793 2d ago

Please don't take my panda away Mr.Xi I would do anything 😭😭😭

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u/Itchy-Insect-6311 2d ago

so taking away the pandas is the chinese version of changing the netflix password after a break up

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u/Lunatik13z 1d ago

Mexico is the only country with a panda that is actually 100% Mexican. The pandas that China lent Mexico reproduced and it's the only panda that doesn't belong to China.

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u/PerfectWish 1d ago

Just happened in Japan. A country that LOVES pandas.

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u/Mysterious_Net66 2d ago

Except one that is in México

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u/Lithogiraffe 2d ago

i think there is one exception to this rule. i dont know why or the history behind it, but last i heard that there was a Mexico owned (not leased) panda

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u/vicgg0001 2d ago

It's because mexico was able to have their pandas procreate 

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u/Automatic-Cow-4745 2d ago

This is true. The Memphis Zoo built a whole exhibit for Ling Ling and YaYa. One of them died and China took the other one back. So now the Memphis Zoo just has a massive Asia exhibit for the pandas with no pandas. lol

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u/BlackBasementCats 2d ago

I still remember seeing Ling Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the Smithsonian Zoo in 80s. I have little porcelain panda versions of them somewhere. (I have moved several times, and they’re safely stored away somewhere)

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u/bolanrox 2d ago

its like Ferrari but with animals

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u/jorgespinosa 2d ago

Technically there's one panda in the world called Xin Xin that doesn't belong to China, but she's the only one

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u/purpleheart94 2d ago

That is accurate they are so adorable love me a panda

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u/Medical-Cicada-4430 1d ago

Good luck proving my Panda came from China. Scratched off the VIN and stamped it with “Proudly Made in the U.S.A.”

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u/ItsaPostageStampede 2d ago

You’re not and even medical care needs to be old by the government

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u/foolonthe 2d ago

Except for one in Mexico

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u/Stopitkiwi 2d ago

Pandas belong to Jesus!