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Mister Speaker posted:they "can get it cheaper somewhere else" ooh, I hate this one so much. then why are you talking to me, fuckass? go to your mysterious fabled other place where you can allegedly get it cheaper and stop wasting my time 
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"Buy an expensive office chair" they said "it will last forever" they said "it's easy to replace a broken gas cylinder" they said "watch this video on how easy it is" they said.
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DontMockMySmock posted:ooh, I hate this one so much. then why are you talking to me, fuckass? go to your mysterious fabled other place where you can allegedly get it cheaper and stop wasting my time I'm just trying to help you out, I'm a charitable kind of person. Five bucks or I walk
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Y'all would love this guy (Scott Seiss, the IKEA employee saying everything he wishes he could say to customers) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7KBcsdPhxA
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I sure do not love that guy.
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Tiggum posted:The thing I hate is when they make up narratives about the individual animals instead of just telling me facts about the species. I want to look at monkeys and hear interesting facts about monkeys, not watch an inferior version of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Same here. It's always super obvious that the narrative is coming mostly though editing and makes watching nature docs, which I love, feel like watching reality TV, which I hate. Hardcordion has a new favorite as of 19:19 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Projecting human qualities onto animals in general is a peeve of mine! These are animals, not people, and this is real life, not a Disney movie. Stop it! Just let animals be animals. They think and act very differently than we do, and that's what makes them cool! Please just appreciate them on their own terms. They deserve better than that.
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DontMockMySmock posted:ooh, I hate this one so much. then why are you talking to me, fuckass? go to your mysterious fabled other place where you can allegedly get it cheaper and stop wasting my time I did this once because I was trying to upgrade my CPU but keep the same motherboard (looking for a 9900k) and the only one I could find locally was asking for more than a new 11900k and a new motherboard. I think 12th gen was coming out and 11th gen was liquidating so I could get a passable MB and an 11900k for like 850$ CDN and the guy was asking for 900$ CDN for just a (new, presumably) 9900k. That was a stupid upgrade anyway and it's a good thing I never managed to find a 9900k for a decent price but even today I wonder what he based his price on and why he wouldn't budge.
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Facebook groups that have a very specific purpose and then don't adhere to it, making it entirely just another group of a broad theme. I'm part of a local town group where you post specifically only anonymous confessions. Well, that lasted about a week. Now it's just people complaining about drugs and the homeless and liberals, and posting loving memes. I'm part of a vegan group where you specifically post pictures of ugly food you made. Started that way, now it's just people posting other peoples' foods, asking about vegan stuff, and posting loving memes. I'm part of a movie group where we create shared universes based on very specific themes or characters from films. Now it's just random film talk and people posting loving memes. I'm part of a group where you're supposed to post things that look like lovely memes but are actually diagrams from textbooks. Now it's just memes. It's just the opposite of what the group was created for. Why even join a group if you're going to treat it like any of the literal millions of groups that are just for posting memes and talking about whatever the gently caress. Why join it?! Why even CREATE the group if you're going to just let it turn into absolute useless content aggregated garbage? unrelated to all the other stuff I just complained about : What the gently caress is with people and tacos?! I feel like tacos have been part of my life my entire life and they've remained entirely unchanged, but as of a few years ago, people treat tacos like they're the greatest loving thing ever. Tinder profiles for some reason need to mention THEY LOOOOOVE TACOS! I have friends who I never see but on Tuesdays a local place has cheap tacos and it's like a loving EVENT. TACOS!!!!!!! TACOS!!!!! If I can't get someone to go hang out, I can bribe them with the promise that there will be tacos there and they'll fuckin react like offering a man dying of thirst a skein of water -- which, they would toss to the side if you offered them TACOS INSTEAD!!! TACOS!!!!! What the gently caress is so great about tacos?! And what changed that created this weird cultural revolution surrounding tacos? Was there some new technology that made tacos better? Did ingredients for tacos become cheaper? You say "tacos" and people's fuckin eyes light up. I know I'm out of touch but what the gently caress is with tacos? You even see it in movies and television. Someone will say, "Let's go to this thing." And the other person won't. Then they'll say "There'll be tacos..." and the other person wants to go. And the studio audience laughs and applauds. It's like it's referencing some kind of truth that's within us all. But it's not within me. I did not inherit the taco truth. credburn has a new favorite as of 01:45 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Silver Falcon posted:Projecting human qualities onto animals in general is a peeve of mine! These are animals, not people, and this is real life, not a Disney movie. Stop it! Just let animals be animals. They think and act very differently than we do, and that's what makes them cool! Please just appreciate them on their own terms. They deserve better than that. No they’re my friend and you can’t tell me otherwise
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credburn posted:Why even join a group if you're going to treat it like any of the literal millions of groups that are just for posting memes and talking about whatever the gently caress. Why join it?! Why even CREATE the group if you're going to just let it turn into absolute useless content aggregated garbage? People join the group for the stated reason, then they start posting there and get to recognise other posters and have conversations in the comments and start to forget that it's a group with a specific purpose and just think of it as the place where their online friends are and so they go "ooh, I bet my friends would like this, I'll show it to them" and will get really loving pissed off if you tell them that it's off-topic and shouldn't be there because they're just sharing a funny thing with their friends why are you being a dick about it? Which is why you need fairly strict moderation from day one. If you don't, every group turns into the same group.
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DontMockMySmock posted:ooh, I hate this one so much. then why are you talking to me, fuckass? go to your mysterious fabled other place where you can allegedly get it cheaper and stop wasting my time Eh, lots of times people are asking way too much for something and its easy enough to say "hey I'd like to buy local but your price is out of line with what completed listings on ebay are showing". Craigslist pet peeve: people writing "SOLD!" on an ad instead of loving deleting it. I've seen people deliberately go into their ad and put a strikethrough on the item they sold and write "sold" next to it. Or reupload the item photo with the word "sold" written across it. Its psychotic. Real serial killer poo poo.
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Silver Falcon posted:Projecting human qualities onto animals in general is a peeve of mine! These are animals, not people, and this is real life, not a Disney movie. Stop it! Just let animals be animals. They think and act very differently than we do, and that's what makes them cool! Please just appreciate them on their own terms. They deserve better than that.
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Tiggum posted:People join the group for the stated reason, then they start posting there and get to recognise other posters and have conversations in the comments and start to forget that it's a group with a specific purpose and just think of it as the place where their online friends are and so they go "ooh, I bet my friends would like this, I'll show it to them" and will get really loving pissed off if you tell them that it's off-topic and shouldn't be there because they're just sharing a funny thing with their friends why are you being a dick about it? Automatic excuse: "I'm X thing! Therefore everything I say, do, or post about is also X thing!"
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It's a natural community thing. Hate to say it, but Tiggum's right. Accept it or shut that down from the beginning.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Eh, lots of times people are asking way too much for something and its easy enough to say "hey I'd like to buy local but your price is out of line with what completed listings on ebay are showing". then buy it on ebay and leave me alone, fucker. if i've priced it too high i'll find out when it doesn't sell, and i'll eventually lower the price; i don't need you and your opinion to be involved in this process. don't waste your and my time.
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DontMockMySmock posted:then buy it on ebay and leave me alone, fucker. if i've priced it too high i'll find out when it doesn't sell, and i'll eventually lower the price; i don't need you and your opinion to be involved in this process. don't waste your and my time.
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credburn posted:taco stuff I agree. Tacos are extremely mediocre, but people seem to go nuts for them. My daughter watches a cartoon where tacos is like their 'thing' and whole episodes revolve around going for tacos and how much they love them.
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Remember when "taco trucks on every corner" was intended to seem like a threat rather than a possible golden age? I remember.
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Who knows what forces determine which product will be the meme food of its era. Before that it was bacon. Tacos being cheap and low effort definitely helps.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Tacos being cheap and low effort definitely helps.
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Tiggum posted:How are tacos low effort? You've got to prepare all the ingredients and then everyone has to construct them and it's a whole big thing. Tacos are too much effort, honestly. All you have to prepare is the meat though, unless you're busting out the tortilla press and molcajete ofc
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Punkinhead posted:All you have to prepare is the meat though, unless you're busting out the tortilla press and molcajete ofc What absolute sicko eats tacos with only meat in them?! You need to chop the tomatoes and onions too and make the guacamole!
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You can buy that poo poo prepared at the store.
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Henchman of Santa posted:You can buy that poo poo prepared at the store. Sure, if you don't care that it's mediocre at best.
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Tacos can be great, and tacos can be low-effort, but they cannot be both at the same time (unless you pay someone to put in the effort, of course). In sweden Taco-Friday has become a thing, but like everyone buys something that is no longer even officially labeled "guacamole style dip" that contains like 1.5% avocado. It is now named "tex mex dip" because they have a tiny amount of shame apparently. Also we're sweden so some people put like bananas and pineapple in theirs. I'm so so sorry.
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Tiggum posted:Sure, if you don't care that it's mediocre at best. I mean, can't the same be said about any food? If you want to go all out and make burgers you can bake your own brioche bread and grind your own meat and caramelize onions and make proper mayo but I wouldn't say burgers aren't simple. I don't think having to roughly chop a few veggies and grate cheese make tacos a particularly complicated dish.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Who knows what forces determine which product will be the meme food of its era. Before that it was bacon. Tacos being cheap and low effort definitely helps. Oh wow, you're right, I had forgotten how, before tacos, it was fuckin bacon people would lose their poo poo over. BACON! BACON! EVERYBODY BACON!!! Even just saying the word was a joke or... something. I was so disappointed when one of my favorite bands in the whole world announced their new album at a concert I had gone to see. The album is "bacon." Sigh. The titular song on the album is a lot of fun, though. gently caress, that's right, bacon and now tacos. What the gently caress.
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Phosphine posted:Also we're sweden so some people put like bananas and pineapple in theirs. I'm so so sorry. A little pineapple is fine if you're having tacos al pastor, Mexico's answer to doner kebab.
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Was making everything "Flamin' Hot" a trend or is that evergreen? There's a burrito with Flamin' Hot Cheetos in it at a place near me, it's so loving salty but delicious
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credburn posted:Oh wow, you're right, I had forgotten how, before tacos, it was fuckin bacon people would lose their poo poo over. BACON! BACON! EVERYBODY BACON!!! Even just saying the word was a joke or... something. I was so disappointed when one of my favorite bands in the whole world announced their new album at a concert I had gone to see. The album is "bacon." Sigh. The titular song on the album is a lot of fun, though. Just imagining the scene. The crowd goes silent and the band are like "And now, the title of our new band.... BACON!" Then credburn just loudly breaks the silence with "Oh, gently caress OFF!"
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Brawnfire posted:Was making everything "Flamin' Hot" a trend or is that evergreen?
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BioEnchanted posted:Just imagining the scene. The crowd goes silent and the band are like "And now, the title of our new band.... BACON!" Then credburn just loudly breaks the silence with "Oh, gently caress OFF!" I'd be right there with him tbh I remember reading a magazine article about the weird recent omnipresence of bacon, right at the start of the big cultural bacon-everything push. The phrase describing bacon covering a salad as "like a dark, meaty snow" has stuck with me for years
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credburn posted:Oh wow, you're right, I had forgotten how, before tacos, it was fuckin bacon people would lose their poo poo over. BACON! BACON! EVERYBODY BACON!!! Even just saying the word was a joke or... something. I was so disappointed when one of my favorite bands in the whole world announced their new album at a concert I had gone to see. The album is "bacon." Sigh. The titular song on the album is a lot of fun, though. It's always something and has been for a long time. Since 2000 bacon, superfoods, chipotle peppers, burritos, Sriracha, frozen yogurt, chicken sandwiches, and tacos have all had their turns in the sun. I think it's just how food marketing works and always has. It's funnier when they fail, though. Lots of places have been trying to make hatch peppers A Thing at least down here for like half a decade now, it never takes off but you'll still walk into a grocery store every once in awhile and see it's Hatch Pepper Festival and there's loads of products trying and variously failing to make it work. Brisket has failed to launch as the new bacon a few times also. Outside of specific holidays with specific associated foods it's always a slow news day in the grocery world, so they just hallucinate the dumbest poo poo and hope it catches on
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The taco thing was super annoying when I was on dating apps because at least 1 out of every four, probably closer to 1 out of every three women’s bio’s was “I love tacos and margaritas”. Nothing else. Justloving tacos and margs. I asked one lady how many Margs per Minute she got from her machine at least
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From working at a Mexican restaurant with an attached bar for a year I was introduced to a type of person for whom Mexican food was a thin veneer to make them feel better about spending hours slamming tequila cocktails on a weeknight I had tacos, too! That's food! It was DINNER
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