the funniest part of the story is the idea that anyone’s grandma in the 90s had a computer and printed recipes, instead of a handmade old growth hardwood box full of 100 year old recipes handwritten with a quill pen
edit: nvm, my brain didn’t register the “in the future” bit
getting bamboozled by shittymorph every goddamn time is one of the very, very few things i miss about reddit
i remember when my store manager came to work with her brand new razr phone, thinking all us peons would be like “ooooh aaaah i wish i was you even more now!!!”
obviously fake, since the people who can afford to be alive don’t do “sorry.” about anything
we ah all bri’ish
i absolutely adore that i haven’t seen a single meme, post, or comment that isn’t ruthlessly shitting on this fucking guy
wow pretty problematic
here’s pete seger singing guthrie’s this land is your land, which was written as a smackdown response to the absurdly nationalistic god bless america
everyone’s got something they’ll spend extra money on just for its looks. increasingly though, people are realizing that the $150 plates aren’t doing any better of a job holding their dinner than the $20 walmart plates
not only that, but the idea that you need a different plate for bread, a plate for entree, a plate for salad, a plate for pasta–it’s asinine. gotta be one of the bigger scams of the industrial age. same thing with utensils: you’ve got your dinner fork, dessert fork, fish fork, salad fork, fruit fork, and on and on. um excuse me, fuck all that noise, give me 1 plate and 1 fork, and call me an uncultured philistine if it makes everyone feel better, but i’m not buying all that crap
back in the day bored housewives used to love to throw dinner parties just to show off their fancy serveware, pretending that they’re downton abbey or something. i’ve experienced it, since it’s the same shit at every holiday get together. it’s almost surreal, sitting in the midst of a perpetual conversation about dinner plates, very similar to dudes at a superbowl party, except the plates are the superbowls
you can’t reason with them. no matter how much you try to tell my mom it’s not the 90s anymore, she absolutely refuses to accept any reality other than her 10 giant plastic bins stuffed with beanie babies is a priceless collection
ok. you and your friends give a rat’s ass about it.
no one else does.
https://blogs.deloitte.co.uk/mondaybriefing/2021/08/whatever-happened-to-the-antiques-market.html
https://www.joshuakennon.com/antique-furniture-prices-have-collapsed/
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/what-has-happened-to-the-pottery-market.5906/
https://www.antiquesage.com/collectibles-market-dying/
the only old stuff that’s actually worth a high price is quality furniture: storage chests, tables, cabinets, shelves, etc-- made from old growth wood and built like a tank. that stuff will last generations and will probably still be cheaper than a modern piece of comparable quality (aka custom made by an artisan)
no one under 50 gives a rat’s ass about great grandma’s “look at me i’m victorian high society” china cabinet. when i managed an antique store we had more old people coming in trying to sell their shit than we had anyone coming in to buy. went out of business because antiques are dead for the next who knows how many generations
always assume every corporation always has every bit of data you’ve ever given them, even if they tell you they “deleted” it
i don’t know how many years ago i got completely bored with the entire AC franchise, but it was long enough that i find this hilarious
when is this stupid “we need to sit down and ‘talk to nazis’ in order to change their minds” attitude going to finally fucking die?
we’ve been way too fucking tolerant of that shit for way too many years, and thanks to that, we’re living in a fascist country now. excuse me, but fuck that shit.
fuck trump, fuck everyone who voted for him, fuck everyone who voted third party, and fuck everyone who didn’t vote. the time for trying to “understand” and “engage” cultists who literally throw away any viewpoint they don’t like as “fake news” is long fucking past.
this stupid bullshit is why we got trump the first time AND now.
edit: the only reason biden won 2020 was because of trump’s absolute-worst-fucking-possible response to covid, which would have been fucking hilarious if so many innocent people didn’t have to die from it
TFW when your entire 1000+ game library of roms fits in a tiny corner of storage on my phone
LOL yea let’s laugh at literally every other 1st world country with universal healthcare while we pay thousands a year for insurance that doesn’t pay out