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Travis343 posted:Well amazon doesn't sell raw meat and vegetables, I don't think. And getting some Domino's delivered doesn't come with the free back pat of getting to say you cooked a meal. Yeah nobody wants to learn things to learn things, it's just to get a "free back pat" for the meal you cooked for yourself from... someone, somewhere Not gonna touch that second part with a ten foot pole
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It's pretty decent portion control too, I dunno how Blue Apron works but the UK equivalents tell you the nutritional content and it's handy. Some weeks I'm too busy/stressed to do a proper shop and I get one of those boxes, if that makes me a lazy millennial satan then at least I am a lazy millennial satan with a nice burger to eat. Got some MeUndies based on the ads, so yeah, their ads sometimes work.
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Well this is really losing the point of what I said in the first place, being able to get groceries delivered isn't the same thing as a subscription service that plans your meals for you and sends you everything you need to do it short of turning the oven on for you And it doesn't excuse all the other dumb subscription services advertising on maxfun shows either
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Travis343 posted:Well this is really losing the point of what I said in the first place, being able to get groceries delivered isn't the same thing as a subscription service that plans your meals for you and sends you everything you need to do it short of turning the oven on for you so, pressing one button to order a meal online is materially different than pressing several buttons to google a recipe, then search for the ingredients on amazon fresh k
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Blue Apron is mad white but being white is rad and has historically worked out great so ???
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Literally the entire premise of My Brother My Brother And Me is that people can't figure out the basics of being an adult and interacting with other people and so they ask a podcast things like "how do I have a conversation with my roomate?" If the listeners of MBMBAM could think about and figure out how to do adult things on their own the show would not exist.
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Mar 23, 2016 14:47
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whew, at first i was gonna order spaghetti from blue apron, but then i pressed ctrl+t and searched "spaghetti recipe" those extra clicks have turned me from a filthy privileged millenial into a proud evolution of the first hunter-gatherers
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Mar 23, 2016 14:47
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MeUndies are pretty good. I bought one pair just to try it out and now I want more. Not super excited about spending $80 on 5 pairs or whatever, which is the only reason I haven't already ordered more.
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Travis343 posted:Well this is really losing the point of what I said in the first place, being able to get groceries delivered isn't the same thing as a subscription service that plans your meals for you and sends you everything you need to do it short of turning the oven on for you Like, every single subscription service I've seen targets one of two things: either a recurring service that you're paying for the benefit of not running out of an easily-overlookable thing when you need it (see: dollar shave club) or you're paying for someone else to give you a selection of things that you'd be extremely unlikely to encounter/find/acquire on your own (like naturebox). Framing it as millenials wanting mommy to do their chores for them is baffling and reeks of you coming to a thing with your own opinion and ignoring anything that doesn't fit it!
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That's what I'm saying, if you want to learn how to cook the internet is right there. You're already using the Internet to order the blue apron. You can learn whatever you want on there. Picking out a meal, learning the recipe, and buying what you need for it is absolutely different than just waiting for the box to come in the mail and following the instructions. The whole thread was bagging on these stupid Internet companies but when I articulate exactly why they're stupid all of a sudden the whole thread thinks they're awesome and rad
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myron cope posted:MeUndies are pretty good. I bought one pair just to try it out and now I want more. Not super excited about spending $80 on 5 pairs or whatever, which is the only reason I haven't already ordered more. You can get the same thing at Uniqlo for like $7 a pair.
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Mar 23, 2016 14:53
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When I saw this thread had like a hundred replies since last time I checked it I assumed Griffin choked to death or something.
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Nature box / Blue Apron, whatever. You're paying a premium for the convenience of not having to make the selection yourself. Not my thing, but I can see why people might want it. The product I never understood was Stack-Soap. It's a bar of soap that has a groove so you can fit the sliver of the old bar in, and not waste it. ...but wet soap sticks to wet soap. You can just 'glue' the old bar to the new bar, regardless of shape. Doesn't everyone do this? This product does literally nothing for you. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mar 23, 2016 15:32
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I said all that poo poo about Internet companies but I'm gonna be honest if there was one that sent me a new crazy strain of weed every month I would subscribe to that
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Bobulus posted:The product I never understood was Stack-Soap. It's a bar of soap that has a groove so you can fit the sliver of the old bar in, and not waste it. ...but wet soap sticks to wet soap. You can just 'glue' the old bar to the new bar, regardless of shape. Doesn't everyone do this? This product does literally nothing for you. Didn't the brothers not understand it either? I distinctly remember in one of the paid spots for the kickstarter one of them exclaiming "why did you give this so much money!?"
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Say what you will about Blue Apron, this is still a better side track of angry careposts than D&D systems bitching for TAZ. We did it guys.
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Who cares what dumb box people order? If they want to order a box with a pre-measured meal or a small bag of snacks, who cares? Chase your bliss and all that.
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Bobulus posted:Nature box / Blue Apron, whatever. You're paying a premium for the convenience of not having to make the selection yourself. Not my thing, but I can see why people might want it. I think my issue with blue apron vs the others is it's this weird 'we're disrupting the system man' thing that really just monetizes ignorance and lack of life skills. Like, it overcharges for ~the convenience~ of not having to go to the store but it's not like that's not actually a super important skill to have. Not just literally 'leave your home and go to the store' but like...smart shopping and poo poo. Coupons, store brands, looking at deals and all that, these are really important life skills no matter who you are and trying to throw in a 'or just pay me every week and I'll mail you stuff, don't worry about it' feels...gross I guess? Plus I don't like anything that presents 'cooking' as if it's this barrier filled skill that boy howdy you need a lot of help to start huh? Mystifying the process of making food is how junk food companies and all keep their customers. There's no way you can just MAKE this stuff, better pay us an extra couple of bucks and you can just dump it in a pot and cook. That kinda stuff. The kind of people who can afford to pay someone a constant fee to mail them a box of ingredients can also afford to go to the store and remove the veil of mystery around food making. It's like if someone started a service that just mailed you a fresh shirt and pants every day because gently caress laundry right guys?
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I'm going on a longish vacation and coming back on a red eye mid-week. I'm going straight to work, working all day, and coming home. I'm def having a box of some sort of food prep stuff sent because after a vacation all I want is home-cooked food and gently caress if I'm going to the grocery store on my way home from work. So they have their place and if I traveled a lot or had really crazy work hours I would probably do it on the reg. Also a cursory look at Blue Apron's recipe one of them had loving tempura which is the opposite of lazy. They need to release a monster factory or something so we have something to talk about besides this.
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Travis343 posted:That's what I'm saying, if you want to learn how to cook the internet is right there. You're already using the Internet to order the blue apron. You can learn whatever you want on there. You can learn mandarin on the internet too, go ahead just start picking words out of the dictionary until you figure out what works
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detectivemonkey posted:They need to release a monster factory or something so we have something to talk about besides this. We got the next Crystal Kingdom tomorrow, it's good.
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detectivemonkey posted:They need to release a monster factory or something so we have something to talk about besides this. We can talk about the wonderful commitment to the bit that they didn't repeat a bit on Goofbusters 2. It's really great to me, and people are still commenting on their Facebook saying, like, "No, seriously, you did. Just listen!".
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SpacePig posted:We can talk about the wonderful commitment to the bit that they didn't repeat a bit on Goofbusters 2. It's really great to me, and people are still commenting on their Facebook saying, like, "No, seriously, you did. Just listen!". This is why I hesitate to join FB groups for anything I like, the terror of seeing how loving dumb comments can get. 
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The MBMBaM one is shockingly pretty good
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Scudworth posted:This is why I hesitate to join FB groups for anything I like, the terror of seeing how loving dumb comments can get. The MBMBAM FB is pretty decent, as far as they go.
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The Facebook group is worth it, especially to see all of Lin Manuels antics.
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I wish I could order a better thread from a sf startup
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Ordering things online: Chase your bliss/ stand in your truth/ no tea, no shade, no pink lemonade. I'm a little disappointed we didn't get any new Subway Hacks from goofbusters.
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I really enjoy the Seth Romatelli-esque rants Griffin gets into every so often, and this week's Roze Buddiez bit about Flavor Flav defending Trump was no exception.
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I hadn't heard of Flavour of Love before this podcast, and I had assumed maybe it was an attempt to combine the magic of cooking reality shows and dating reality shows or something weird like that. I was shocked and disappointed.
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Roach Warehouse posted:I hadn't heard of Flavour of Love before this podcast, and I had assumed maybe it was an attempt to combine the magic of cooking reality shows and dating reality shows or something weird like that. You didn't watch nearly enough. That show is pure magic.
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Here's an underrated goof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjAkbRlf8o "A butt with, like, a man's whole head in it!" is actually iambic pentameter.
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Literally the entire premise of My Brother My Brother And Me is that people can't figure out the basics of being an adult and interacting with other people and so they ask a podcast things like "how do I have a conversation with my roomate?" No, the show is about laughing at people who can't figure out things on their own. Which makes the fact that most of their advertisers seem to be companies built around selling product subscriptions to people who can't figure out things on their own really funny.
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Mar 23, 2016 19:57
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why is every thread in this subforum completely loving insane
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Alaois posted:why is every thread in this subforum completely loving insane Generally relaxed moderation.
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mikeycp posted:Generally relaxed moderation. it can't just be that. is there something about podcasts as a medium that just attracts crazy people who NEED to share their views on (x) regardless of how much anybody else actually cares?
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Mar 23, 2016 20:10
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you realize you describe the very idea of internet forums right
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Alaois posted:is there something about Something Awful that just attracts crazy people who NEED to share their views on (x) regardless of how much anybody else actually cares? yes
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PBS Newshour posted:you realize you describe the very idea of internet forums right i just don't see the connection between "a place to talk about a podcast with 3 silly brothers" and "LET ME TELL YOU HOW loving MILLENIALS ARE RUINING THE WORLD BY LEARNING HOW TO COOK DIFFERENTLY THAN ME"
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