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credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club

Fat Loser posted:

I'm still trying to wrap my head around WHY this person was sitting down on a moving escalator.

So far I've only come up with that they're drunk, high as balls, or stupid as gently caress. Possibly all three.

People who stop on the escalator deserve to be eaten by the escalator.

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Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


credburn posted:

People who stop on the escalator deserve to be eaten by the escalator.

it's the law in saitama. also it's more efficient for everyone to stop when the escalator is at capacity.

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR

🔊😴
I've definitely left my old retail job after close, exhausted, and sat down for the escalator ride. You just gotta actually remember to stand up before the end.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule

Baron von Eevl posted:

I've definitely left my old retail job after close, exhausted, and sat down for the escalator ride. You just gotta actually remember to stand up before the end.

If you wanna live, that is. And seeing as it's retail, that's not a given.

luchadornado
Oct 7, 2004

A boombox is not a toy!

Scratch Monkey posted:

wtf does “aesthetic” mean here?

Don't trust the others, social media has turned it into a style. My daughter talks about decorating her room in "aesthetic" and I've gotten tired of telling her that's not a thing. Because it is apparently a thing, even if it's bastardizing the language.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
I always assumed it meant something along the lines of like "style" but it requires more of a description, like "Mayan aesthetic" rather than just "aesthetic".

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Karate Bastard posted:

Oh, and speaking of horses and escalators, also don't look up shredders on youtube
Oh it's not that bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXLOAozIZF0

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Aesthetical is used for 'beautiful' in other languages. English was slow on the uptake and ran out of time writing all the letters

Sam Faust
Feb 20, 2015



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8I1ImzoXvU

W424
Oct 21, 2010

Fat Loser posted:

I'm still trying to wrap my head around WHY this person was sitting down on a moving escalator.

So far I've only come up with that they're drunk, high as balls, or stupid as gently caress. Possibly all three.

Looking at the clothing I'd add Russia? to the list

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

luchadornado posted:

Don't trust the others, social media has turned it into a style. My daughter talks about decorating her room in "aesthetic" and I've gotten tired of telling her that's not a thing. Because it is apparently a thing, even if it's bastardizing the language.

You're probably correct, but it occurred to me it could also be deliberate misuse of the word to drum up more online comments.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

luchadornado posted:

Don't trust the others, social media has turned it into a style. My daughter talks about decorating her room in "aesthetic" and I've gotten tired of telling her that's not a thing. Because it is apparently a thing, even if it's bastardizing the language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta41xU-tkFA

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

W424 posted:

Looking at the clothing I'd add Russia? to the list

They already listed Drunk as a possible explanation.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

davidspackage posted:

You're probably correct, but it occurred to me it could also be deliberate misuse of the word to drum up more online comments.

#shehulk #destructionofproperty #drunkandunruly

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

It’s short for “aesthetically pleasing” hth.

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Give it five years and they'll have it down to just "aes"

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

It’s short for “aesthetically pleasing” hth.

How is someone swinging around on a lamp pole (presumably successfully) aesthetically pleasing?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
In that case it means"trying to evoke a certain mood and atmosphere". I don't know why kids are apparently into singing in the Rain or whatever, that's an entirely different question

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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS
Dec 10, 2003

...blyat
don't say the kids are using words wrong it's rude go read ur newspapers boomers I'm with it

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
Are you guys loving kidding me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swloMVFALXw
Even if the zoomers posting about aesthetics have never actually seen this, they've almost certainly seen dozens of references to it. It's like the first time you see Casablanca and realize you know half the lines because it's been quoted somewhere else.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:

don't say the kids are using words wrong it's rude go read ur newspapers boomers I'm with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


a e s t h e t i c? This doesn't look anything like vapourwave, though.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Also, that is the shittiest loving lampost. If you've ever been in a city with a sports team that won a championship there's dudes who weigh twice as much as her treating them much, much worse and they stay standing.

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club
Trying to be aesthetic...

I run it through my mind again and again

Like, when I go for a jog I try my best not to be decoration

edit: does she mean... decoration? Or something like.... no...

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
Even though I would never use the word "aesthetic" in that way, I instantly understood what it meant in that context.

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club

Air Skwirl posted:

Even though I would never use the word "aesthetic" in that way, I instantly understood what it meant in that context.

Wait, what? What does it mean??

DontMockMySmock
Aug 9, 2008

I got this title for the dumbest fucking possible take on sea shanties. Specifically, I derailed the meme thread because sailors in the 18th century weren't woke enough for me, and you shouldn't sing sea shanties. In fact, don't have any fun ever.

credburn posted:

Wait, what? What does it mean??

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

It’s short for “aesthetically pleasing” hth.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
you are all dorks

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

credburn posted:

Wait, what? What does it mean??

If you have to ask you'll never know.

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

It’s short for “aesthetically pleasing” hth.

Spazzle posted:

How is someone swinging around on a lamp pole (presumably successfully) aesthetically pleasing?

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Isn't using bastardisation that way a bastardisation of bastardisation?

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Are people honestly not understanding the use of the word "aesthetic" in this context or is this a joke or reference I'm not getting?

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




Air Skwirl posted:

Even though I would never use the word "aesthetic" in that way, I instantly understood what it meant in that context.

Yeah this

loving hell goons gonna goon

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

Ah poo poo, someone already posted Singin'in the Rain.

There's a whimsy about it, probably don't do it on like a modern looking lamp post you'd just look like a psychopath

The Peccadillo has a new favorite as of 11:04 on Feb 6, 2024

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Sound required
https://i.imgur.com/fC26D8h.mp4

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
i think that guy could do with a few more pockets

darkwasthenight
Jan 7, 2011

GENE TRAITOR

Tiggum posted:

Are people honestly not understanding the use of the word "aesthetic" in this context or is this a joke or reference I'm not getting?

Goons are just old, it's fine.

The definition of aesthetic is the same as pornography anyway - you'll know it when you see it.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Here's a way some people might get it: if you knew someone who put a modern desktop in one of those transparent coloured Mac monitor cases from twenty years ago, and you asked them why, and they said "aesthetics", would you be confused about what they meant?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
I would be confused by what they found aesthetic about those ugly-rear end Tide pod cases

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Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

FreudianSlippers posted:

Give it five years and they'll have it down to just "aes"

Nice #aes

For a clown to do

At the circus

Idiot

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