GreenNight posted:

Would you all pay $200 for this? Supposedly it all works.

DrBouvenstein posted:

One of the most bizarre TV-edits I saw was for Mallrats. It was on either Comedy Central or TBS I imagine.

At the start, when Brodie is asking Quint if he ever farted in front of his girlfriend, then explains he did once while she was going down on him...they changed it to "throw up" instead of fart, and "making out with" instead of "going down on."

I get changing the oral sex to just making out...but why change fart?! I mean...I sort of get they were going for;
"Ok, farts come from the butt, near the dick...so we need a bodily function from the mouth, since we changed it to making out... we'll go with vomit! Perfect!"

But
1) They still could have kept fart, and it would work. It would have worked just fine, because it would be considered rude by a lot of people to fart in front of them while you're making out. Especially if it's early in the relationship and it's literally the first time you farted in front of them.
2) If they insisted on changing it to a mouth-based bodily function, why not burp?

Dick Trauma posted:

https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1697649564814127493?s=20

Clockwork Sputnik posted:

I don't think those are full size 19" component. Seems like they're 12" mini. And 60 watts per channel. So it's missing the speakers at least. It's the predecessor to those ubiquitous AIWA systems on every best buy shelf with the gaudy lights. It's worth 50 bucks at most.

Internet Old One posted:

Even though most of us lived through it society has progressed so that it’s difficult to even imagine the sort of pointless random crap that offended boomers back in the day. I remember adults having psychotic breakdowns over talk of boogers and toilets when I was a kid.

By popular demand posted:

I always wonder if the next generation would decry the modern destruction of linear communication infrastructure in a similar way we decry the loss of past public transportation infrastructure.

By popular demand posted:

I always wonder if the next generation would decry the modern destruction of linear communication infrastructure in a similar way we decry the loss of past public transportation infrastructure.

Dick Trauma posted:

https://x.com/Eric_Erins/status/1701284797966913554?s=20

credburn posted:

...is the next gen called Gen Alpha?

OwlFancier posted:

The alternative would be making up more letters after Z or making the alphabet a kind of inverse-hexadecimal and make 0 the 27th letter.

credburn posted:

We went from X to Millenial, we don't have to follow the drat alphabet.

By popular demand posted:

I always wonder if the next generation would decry the modern destruction of linear communication infrastructure in a similar way we decry the loss of past public transportation infrastructure.

credburn posted:

We went from X to Millenial, we don't have to follow the drat alphabet.
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OwlFancier posted:

The alternative would be making up more letters after Z or making the alphabet a kind of inverse-hexadecimal and make 0 the 27th letter.

Trabant posted:

Should've called them Omega.

credburn posted:

We went from X to Millenial, we don't have to follow the drat alphabet.

I find this very upsetting.

Alpha is the first thing. What does this mean? What does that suggest? This is an enormous burden for the next generation to carry.

evobatman posted:

I recently watched through Person of Interest for the first time, and also took a trip to New York this summer.

There weren't many payphones to be seen.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Community notes: the tubes are actually pipes

Dick Trauma posted:

Desert Bus posted:

My (25F) boyfriend (25M) keeps asking me to invest in his "soup tube" business idea, and I am not sure how to deal with it
nsfw

I have been living with my boyfriend for about 7 months. Two weeks ago he sat me down and presented a powerpoint presentation with his business idea. I knew he'd been working on an idea, but he didn't want to tell me about it until it was finished. Based on his enthusiasm and his prior seemingly intelligent nature, I thought maybe it'd be a pretty cool idea.

Instead he presented to me an idea about "soup tubes". The idea, if you can call it that, is to construct a series of tubes throughout our city that leads to centralized soup kitchens. For a monthly subscription, a customer can "subscribe to a tube of soup", and a tube extension would be built off the nearest mainline tube and directly into the customer apartment or home. Based on subscription level, that would determine the quantity of soup a customer could pour and how many types of soup. The "tubes" are basically the size of pipes, like you might see under a sink, but he insisted that "it MUST be called soup tube, not soup pipe, tube just zings better."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. At first I asked if he was crank yanking me or something, but he was completely sincere. Obviously, the idea is completely insane. The notion that the city would authorize somebody to construct a series of tubes everywhere that carry soup into homes is of course ludicrous. And even if such an initiative were approved, the costs for such an operation would be ridiculous. You would have to charge outrageous prices for customers to install and "subscribe" to a soup tube, and who would pay for such a service when canned soup costs like a dollar or two? Or you can buy soup from a restaurant for a few dollars? I explained these things as politely as I could but he dismissed them and all said that "tube based soup delivery is the wave of the future."

He then asked me how much I wanted to invest, and I told him nothing, and he looked absolutely heartbroken. Since then, almost every day he has asked again for me to invest, and keeps trying to sell me on the idea. He is also doing the same thing to a lot of his friends.

It is starting to drive me up the wall. First, I am at a loss as to how he can believe such a stupid idea is worthwhile, second it is really god damned annoying to be asked on a daily basis to invest in a system of soup tubes, and third I am also concerned for his sanity. Other than his apparent obsession with this though he has shown no other signs.

I would like some advice as to how I can reason with him, or whether I should even continue this relationship.

TL:DR - My boyfriend wants me to invest in a business venture wherein tubes would deliver soup.