Its like when I talk about cars.

I dont speak in make and model, I speak in chassis and engine codes. Replacing an engine is a 1 weekend job that I could do half drunk back when I was drinking. Unless you’re swapping the engine for something not meant for that car I would describe that job as big but easy.

And then I remember a lot of people know make and model and thats it.

I havent watched LTT content in a while but I was watching that stream and Lukes face when Linus says that will live forever rent free in my head.

I think you have what I mean twisted. What life is like for people stuck in the poverty or trailer park cycle is not a universal experience and for all the people that do get it or do empathise and have an understanding that “this is a window into a world I’m not from presented in a humorous way” theres someone sitting there laughing thinking that the whole thing is a wild exaggeration, laughing at the idea that people are really like that or using it to confirm their own biases “the parts that confirm my biases are facts and the parts that dont are just entertainment”

Me hating the show isnt a commentary on its quality, the creators and cast should be very proud of it. I just cant stand to sit and watch it because some of it is too real to be funny as someone who also came up really fucking poor.

Thats the same reason I hate Trailer Park Boys.

So much of it is laughing at the poors. I know people who are so sheltered and middleclass they think “LoL can you imagine if people lived like this”

Bruh, you ever known people born into generatiknal poverty?

I will always defend BBT as 6 seasons of a great show dragged out and dumbed down for prime time. I think if someone went through it and discarded the filler jokes, arcs that go nowhere and excessive laugh track it could have been really good.

My wife likes the show as background noise and I’ve studied it. Theres some real relationship writing and some genuinely good character growth, some of the non “Ha! Nerds!” Jokes are actually pretty funny.

As a grown man the subject of getting smacked with a thong/flip flop came up and well… we tested it. Grown men spanking each others bare arses with a flip flop. We all agreed that while the activity was slightly gay, it was also hilarious and incredibly painful.

In short, it sucks as much as it did when you were a kid.

ATM I’ll settle for anyone who actually wants paedophiles, sex traffickers and rapists exposed and punished.

I can at least support the idea of sitting across the table and arguing with a conservative about fiscal policy when we agree on how to treat kiddie fiddlers. Instead of the current argument of “Why are you doing nothing about the child rapists?”

I know this is a joke but as someone who works in logistics pack it like its going to be handled by a minimum wage worker whose time and volume metrics are closely tracked. Because it is.

To you its special, to them its 1 of 200 today.

Also people who by and large havent been out living wild social lives for quite a while. Laser beam focused on one goal. Once you have competed, one way or another the pressure is off and you are surrounded by people who are in the exact same position.

Its so prevalent that I had an idea for a movie of a bunch of recently retired dudes being bored with getting old and deciding to re-enact a bunch of their favorite pranks from old movies only to get in JUST far enough to be in deep shit and then realise they are committing felonies and their antics trying to extract themselves.

Fair. Rereading it it is a little ambiguous.

Want to punch it up a little add some egg and some cheese to the potato and fry dollops of it in the pan with the spam fat.

You may have replied to the wrong comment. I was talking about the kitchen gadgets.

Some of those things are just good ideas even when you dont have mobility issues.

Taking off a pair of big heavy steel toed workboots after a long day in the sun is pretty fucking good.

It also makes healthy shit taste better.

You can absolutely fuck up a bag of baby carrots and cucumber sticks and a tub of hummus too.

Also I claim the doctors visit as a work expense because in order to get paid I need one :) its a condition of my employment.

Exactly this.

Epstein courted a lot of people, he was a billionaire. He did business with people, I’m even sure most of it was legitimate (If you exclude the likely price fixing, insider trading and generally scumbag billionaire behavior) I’m fine with lining the people who knowingly fucked kids up against a wall, but before we give the order to fire I want to see some proof of guilt. I just dont support convicting people on vibes.

And anyone who claims to would need to dox themselves to prove it. Also proving that they make terrible decisions.

In all seriousness its not exactly the most simple thing for a layman.

I speak petrolhead, so when you tell me something has a 2000W motor (Light bulbs and plug in heaters are measured in Watts. I honestly believe they do that on purpose to confuse the issue) I immediately do the conversion to 2kw, which is 2.6 hp on an e-bike that weighs 50kg. A 50cc Vespa makes 3.1hp and weighs 100kg. Now you throw a 50kg rider on there and you have a better power to weight ratio on the E-Bike, and shitloads more torque.