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Krispy Wafer posted:So be it, from this day forth behold Boomer.jpg: I can just see the attorney in the background thinking to himself "I went to law school for this?"
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Krispy Wafer posted:So be it, from this day forth behold Boomer.jpg: My wifes Aunt and Uncle got EVERY one back in the day. Now they have boxes and boxes of worthless dumb little animals.
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Jul 31, 2018 14:28
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TraderStav posted:My wifes Aunt and Uncle got EVERY one back in the day. Now they have boxes and boxes of worthless dumb little animals. and the friends they made along the way.
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Jul 31, 2018 14:31
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Ixian posted:That article and the cherry-picked survey behind it is some quality clickbait for pensioners. Love that the header image is of avocado toast too. Ok I know this isn’t the first avocado toast mention ITT but is it some sort of luxurious Australian delicacy? I can get a bag of avocados from Aldi for like $2 and make many toasts.
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Jul 31, 2018 14:52
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For some reason there's a huge markup when you get it from a restaurant (like $20). Maybe because avocados have such a narrow window of freshness?
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Jul 31, 2018 14:58
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howdoesishotweb posted:Ok I know this isn’t the first avocado toast mention ITT but is it some sort of luxurious Australian delicacy? I can get a bag of avocados from Aldi for like $2 and make many toasts. It's not eating it at home, it's spending $7 for avocado toast at a bistro or coffee shop. Which is something everyone in this thread should involuntarily suffer a twitching eyelid about - except it was first referenced in an article about why Millennials can't afford to buy Boomer's overpriced homes.
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Jul 31, 2018 15:00
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Oh I thought someone had posted this but I guess not! https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1023600915146788867
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Jul 31, 2018 15:03
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It became a meme because some dipshit out of touch guy worth hundreds of millions said he could buy his first house because he didn't waste his money on smashed avocados https://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/05/15/08/39/melbourne-property-tycoon-hammers-millennials-over-spending-habits
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Jul 31, 2018 15:04
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Oh I thought someone had posted this but I guess not! None toast with left avocado
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Jul 31, 2018 15:27
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Oof, that beanie baby divorce Pic makes me seriously sad and uncomfortable every time I see it. Avocados are $4 a pop at upscale grocery stores, which is dangerously close to Lucille Bluth Banananomics
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Jul 31, 2018 15:37
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Oh I thought someone had posted this but I guess not! I'm pretty sure someone just shat on that toast.
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Jul 31, 2018 15:57
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Honestly, that is way more avocado than I would have guessed they'd get. I'm surprised it isn't just a thin green sheen on the toast.
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Jul 31, 2018 16:01
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I haven't quite kept up with the thread titles, but this would have been a good post during Bad With Money: avocado_toast.txt
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Jul 31, 2018 16:05
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Moneyball posted:I haven't quite kept up with the thread titles, but this would have been a good post during Bad With Money: avocado_toast.txt Bitcoin, Forex, and Candles › Bad With Money 2018: I paid $22 for Avocado Toast and got goose poo poo on grilled bread
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Jul 31, 2018 16:18
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Bitcoin, Forex, and Candles › Bad With Money 2018: 401K full of Beanie Baby equity
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Bitcoin, Forex, and Candles › Bad With Money 2018: My most valuable Beanie Baby is an avocado green horse named Freckles.
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Jul 31, 2018 17:07
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Inept posted:It became a meme because some dipshit out of touch guy worth hundreds of millions said he could buy his first house because he didn't waste his money on smashed avocados https://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/05/15/08/39/melbourne-property-tycoon-hammers-millennials-over-spending-habits The great thing about this was that it birthed the Avocado Toast Index, which shows how small those "give up this small pleasure and save eleventy hundred dollars a year!" lectures actually are in the face of skyrocketing city home prices. Good financial habits are still important, but... it's not the toast or lattes (individually, at least). 
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I was about to post that! The toast index is up there with the Big Mac index as my favorite indexes.
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Jul 31, 2018 17:42
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Oh I thought someone had posted this but I guess not! What the gently caress does it mean to Seamless something. I assume it's an app? Is there no end to people making every retarded app name into a verb?
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Jul 31, 2018 18:02
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Nail Rat posted:Is there no end to people making every retarded app name into a verb? What’s the harm? Did you stub your toe?
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Jul 31, 2018 18:04
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Verbing weirds language
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Jul 31, 2018 18:06
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Nail Rat posted:What the gently caress does it mean to Seamless something. Companies in the same space fighting for Google and Xerox status
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the harm? Did you stub your toe? I'd never heard of Seamless before and they're apparently a pretty small player, having been absorbed by Grubhub years ago. By saying "I seamlessed this" I have to google what the gently caress that was, so she's giving free advertising to a service she's unhappy with. Seems pretty dumb to me, unless they actually are paying her and this is a viral stunt in which case GWM. Companies in the same space fighting for Google and Xerox status quote:Companies in the same space fighting for Google and Xerox status I understand why a company would aspire to it, but not why a supposed journalist would do that for free for a company that delivers...whatever the hell that is. Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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Jul 31, 2018 18:08
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Krispy Wafer posted:So be it, from this day forth behold Boomer.jpg: In a couple years maybe we can get an updated one with Funko Pops.
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Jul 31, 2018 18:11
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People namedrop a company on Twitter after a bad experience all the time. It's not to give them free advertising, it's to 1. Git Dat traffic from people following Seamless 2. Get free apology credit from Seamless
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Jul 31, 2018 18:13
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Nail Rat posted:I'd never heard of Seamless before and they're apparently a pretty small player, having been absorbed by Grubhub years ago. By saying "I seamlessed this" I have to google what the gently caress that was, so she's giving free advertising to a service she's unhappy with. Obvious with context, unless you're old.......... you're not old are you?
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Jul 31, 2018 18:14
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Bird in a Blender posted:In a couple years maybe we can get an updated one with Funko Pops. I wonder how that guy with the wife with the outrageously permissive "contract" is doing? Last I looked it seemed like his collecting hadn't curbed even a little.
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Jul 31, 2018 18:15
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potatoducks posted:Obvious with context, unless you're old.......... you're not old are you? I assumed what it was, it's just dumb. She should have Vanguarded that $22 instead. Or maybe Chase Mobile Bankinged it. Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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Jul 31, 2018 18:18
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Krispy Wafer posted:I'm trying to remember what ridiculous Boomer trait could be used in place of an avocado in articles about their financial habits.
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Jul 31, 2018 18:21
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drat Bananas posted:Late, but: A china hutch full of dishes and crystal that hasn't been eaten off of in 40 years, if ever. Growing up we weren't allowed to ever go in the living room/dining room* because we would touch stuff and it would get dirty. *We had a home with extra decorative rooms because my parents didn't eat avocado toast.
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Jul 31, 2018 18:26
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My parents: Make sure you don't put fine China on your registry because we have two sets of it from us and from your grandparents you can have Ah yes yes, in that case I won't register for it
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Jul 31, 2018 18:30
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Bird in a Blender posted:In a couple years maybe we can get an updated one with Funko Pops. I guess the Beyblade and Pokemon card markets tanked?
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Jul 31, 2018 18:42
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Nail Rat posted:I'd never heard of Seamless before and they're apparently a pretty small player, having been absorbed by Grubhub years ago. By saying "I seamlessed this" I have to google what the gently caress that was, so she's giving free advertising to a service she's unhappy with. Seems pretty dumb to me, unless they actually are paying her and this is a viral stunt in which case GWM. I think the popularity of these services varies a lot regionally. Seamless anecdotally is the most popular of those services in New York. Was talking with my sister recently who is in Ohio and all the restaurants she orders from use a different one that I've never heard of (and have forgotten the name of already).
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Jul 31, 2018 18:42
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Grubhub and uber eats seem to be the equivalent here in the Cleveland/Akron area.
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Jul 31, 2018 18:49
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:My parents: Make sure you don't put fine China on your registry because we have two sets of it from us and from your grandparents you can have I also grew up in a house with fine china that nobody was allowed to touch or use. Who were these hypothetical fancy people that Boomers expected to drop by for dinner? The Pope? Did ANYONE use the fine china?
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GamingHyena posted:I also grew up in a house with fine china that nobody was allowed to touch or use. Who were these hypothetical fancy people that Boomers expected to drop by for dinner? The Pope? Did ANYONE use the fine china? We use ours pretty regularly. I never understood the point of having it as a display piece. Not a boomer though, so yeah....
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Jul 31, 2018 19:07
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China was a thing a generation or two before Boomers, back before you could get decent house wears at any department store for cheap. You put your fancy plates on display to show off, even back then you didn't eat off them except maybe for special ocasions. Most Boomers had China passed to them or got it for no other reason that it was what you were supposed to do.
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Jul 31, 2018 19:12
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This is my favorite avocado chart, anyway
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Jul 31, 2018 19:21
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GamingHyena posted:I also grew up in a house with fine china that nobody was allowed to touch or use. Who were these hypothetical fancy people that Boomers expected to drop by for dinner? The Pope? Did ANYONE use the fine china? Along those same lines, I can never get over my parents saying poo poo like "what will be neighbors think?" in regards to, well pretty much anything. Ma, the guy next door is a burn out weed dealer (with pathetic wares no less) and the family across the street is constantly collectively drunk as poo poo, why do we suddenly care about their opinion? Same with "people" instead of "neighbors." What people?? Who is scrutinizing us? No one gives a poo poo about anything. I chalk it up to different times where your reputation on a local scale could have serious ramifications, I don't know. Some small town mentality maybe?
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Gossip in small towns can get ridiculous, but it's all peddled and consumed by old ladies, so I don't know why anyone else gives a poo poo.
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