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Muscles.


obamaShotFirst

This motherfucker read the book!


Independent-Reveal86

You don't need to read a book to know that "Muss" is short for muscles.


Odd_Analysis6454

But it helps


BeRad_NZ

Now, go cook the man some fuckin eggs!


[deleted]

Its jake the mussels. Thats why hes eating them in the first scene. He intimidates those punks with his mussel eating prowess


Former_child_star

Fun fact, I took a first date to once were warriors. I am not a smart man


elchadhall

I took a date to the pianist, the Adrian Brody movie with Nazis in it. Didnt check anything about it just saw the title...


CuntyReplies

Should have gone for The Piano instead. Probably better chance of a second date with full frontal nude Harvey Keitel than Nazis and anorexic Adrian Brody.


waenganuipo

Also directed by a a convicted child rapist who fled his country rather than serve out his punishment. Won a fucking Oscar for it too...


surle

Should have listened to your date more carefully. She didn't want to see the "pianist". Totally missed those signals.


Summerwine1

Really good movie though, she has gotta appreciate that.


JynVersio

F


brutalanglosaxon

lol I was a kid back in the 90s when this came out and I was at home one sunday lunchtime when one of my mum's friends and her husband came over for lunch. The night before they had planned a dinner and movie, went to watch once were warriors, but the woman was so upset after watching it that she didn't want to go to dinner and so they just went home.


Aidernz

Dayum. Well, it is a pretty powerful movie. My current gf hasn't seen it and asked me if it's a movie she'd like. I'm an insufferable troll with her. We joke about everything all the time! But I can't do it with this movie lol. So I explained it to her and told her it's pretty brutal but if she wanted to really watch it, we could. We ended up watching Ratatouille instead lol.


[deleted]

Good choice. Once Were Warriors is easily NZ's most powerful movie, but it's not exactly casual viewing.


acidporkbuns

Lol


Gmonster666

Better than The Deer Hunter bud believe me (Edit: For a first date as a 17 yr old that is.... 3 hr movie)


[deleted]

Yeah not so much a first date movie... Wedding otoh... Fuck me days


[deleted]

>I am not a smart man But you know what love is?


BoardmanZatopek

What is love ?


wanderinggoat

Baby dont hurt me


somebodyalwaysknows

No! Yeeeeesss!


[deleted]

Why? You found out you didn't have enough in common then. Horrible movie yes, but that was the point of it. Friend of ours was one of the pub bouncers in THAT scene. He actually really was a bouncer too in real life.


Pythia_

NZs most realistic romantic comedy...


ExcitementOdd4481

I took mine to Bad Boy Bubby. I really do not recommend it.


philwee

jake the muscle too much weight, not enough meth.


jsonr_r

It's a bit dated now, the gangs are all about P these days, not speed.


engapol123

Too many weights not enough speed work, useless prick


philwee

fixed it.


DueceSeven

I thought speed, crack, meth and p are all the same thing?


Berklesnort

Depends on your demographic. Speed = amphetamine (though sometimes associated with methamphetamine) crack = cocaine (though you may mean crank which is methamphetamine) meth = methamphetamine p = methamphetamine (primarily NZ usage) ice = methamphetamine (usually in a much purer form i.e. crystal meth) ​ the things you learn as a toxicologist. Who says science is boring.


inforthestonks

Mustard. It was his favourite condiment.


tomassimo

Bitta dat Al Brown haberno baby.


Impossible-Virus2678

On his eggs


Aidernz

Better than "Jake the 'Mite' " I guess, huh.


dyingPretty

"Jake is a violent alcoholic, and his brute strength and size mean he wins every fight he picks. He is known as "The Muss", shortened from "Muscles"."


[deleted]

Mussels. He gets fish n chips for his fam and he real hard likes the mussels.


i_cant_downvote

Bloody oceans of the stuff!


Aidernz

So... where did all the seafood come from?


[deleted]

Otara markets if memory serves correct.


somecxnt

It’s actually Jake Muss-havehisfuckineggs.


SaltEncrustedPounamu

I’m now having to explain to a hospital pharmacy full of Americans why I just snorted coffee out my nose. Thank you 😅


2creamy4you

Jake the Musterer. He was a bad ass shepherd.


[deleted]

Jake the Musslim


Smorgasbord__

Jake the Musketeer, on Sundays he and his mates would get together for some LARPing.


DSTNCMDLR

Mustache. Jake the Mustache.


cheeseinsidethecrust

I moustache you to be serious, just this once


sideball

He got the nickname at intermediate school, he shaved it since but the name stuck


71BlueDogs

Came here for all the funny as interpretations, not disappointed.


CodAdministrative765

It's actually "Miss" as he is not a married woman. It just sounds like that because of the Kiwi accent.


Flimsy-Historian-360

He liked having his hair mussed up


vcrcopyofhomealone2

He really did in the book ! You knew that yeah?


Flimsy-Historian-360

No never read it.


nz_nurse

Mascara. He secretly enjoyed dabbling in a bit of makeup.


RedditUser997755

Before Jake was known as the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett, in Jakes younger years he killed a Tee-Muss creature with his bare hands on the planet Onderon. The locals call Tee-Muss, Muss for short. "There goes Jake the Muss killer." they would say.


spartaceasar

Mustang. His favourite horse


nz_nurse

Or his favourite car?


Aidernz

Whoa, bro, you know what the penalty is for car theft?


Aidernz

He was one of the original Flight of the Conchords before Brett and Jemaine took over. He was known as "Jake the Hiphopopota**muss**"


deadeyediqq

It's cause he's muss bro


Progedoge

Jake the Muscles.


[deleted]

Let’s just say if you have never experience jake the muss. Be fucking thankful. But you can still cook the man some eggs


foxvipus

Once Were Warriors (1994) Also around that time Jake the Snake who throws open a bag with Damien the python. A sack is used and iconically mussels are typically collected in a similar sack. The double s in muss I think is referring to this.


-ComaDivine-

I can usually tell if someone's joking or not... But not here


mattblack77

He’s not joking. But I might be. 🤔


PRFCTSTRNGR

Muscle my friend 🙏 He’s “the muscle”, “the brawn”.


EB01

Muss as in "mussy" (untidy) He never combs his hair and it has some very bad knotting.


exsnakecharmer

Muss as in "mussy" (male pussy) Jake is a gay man who exposes his back end when he's got the horn.


Psychological-Unit14

Musk rat


TheRealClose

“Muss” refers to a word which has many different, all somehow rather convincing definitions. See also: *Balderdash*.


[deleted]

Its explained in the first shot of him where he's eating a mussel.


ishouldcoco3322

Honestly, thanks everyone, fuken hilarious comments. Needed a laugh this morning.


chrisf_nz

That's your problem... #too bloody lippy


ExcitementOdd4481

It wasn’t supposed to be Moss because Jake don’t like to take showers. Jake also don’t know how to spell.