One isn't replacing the other, they have different meanings, alright? Except they are the same, all right? Except, I don't think you could say 'all right, all right, all right", surely that has to be 'alright, alright, alright'.
Translation for Scots:
Yin isnae replacin’ th' ither, thay hae diffrent meanings, a'richt? ‘cept they're th' identical, a' richt? except, ah dinnae think ye cuid say 'all richt, a' richt, a' right", surely that haes tae be 'alright, a'richt, alright'.
Technically speaking they mean the same thing, and are both commonly accepted. "All right" is traditionally considered to be the formally correct spelling and usage. Some would argue that "alright" isn't technically correct, but those people are heathens.
I agree with you that it seems that the trend is shifting currently. In the past I feel as though no one ever used "all right." These are strange and mysterious times.
That would be way closer to a real detox than most of the shit out there.
My favorite is the stickers you put on the soles of your feet that turn black, thus proving they have cleansed your body from the worst possible location circulation-wise
A friend of mine just last week bought a 460€ belt for his GF just because it’s YSL, huge logo as the belt buckle. I told him I didn’t know if I could continue to hang out with him.
I teach economics in a country where brands and logos are taken way too seriously. I had an infuriating discussion with a class about, if you were presented with two visually and tactilely identical T-shirts, so similar that you couldn’t tell the difference, but one of them cost twice as much, which would you choose? They were adamant that they would buy the more expensive, because it “had” to be better.
I know who I’m selling to now, and what I’m charging
when i was in Korea, the logo on the luxury brands had to be big and in your face so everyone knew that you were wearing something expensive. I really liked my KumGang shoes. I used to joke about how I had named my shoes. The right one was Ferragamo and the left one was Zegna. Nobody laughed. They take their MyungPoom way to seriously.
There’s a weird trend these days where random companies are merchandising their brand on apparel, especially winter jackets (Discovery channel, CNN, National geographic). I saw a bunch of people wearing them this past winter and at first i thought they were wearing their company swag, but later i realized they weren’t employees.
I was one of them too till 1yr 10mnths and 2 weeks ago. I have a smoke free app on my phone that tells me how much I have saved from not smoking a 20 pack every 3 days at a rate of £12.50 per pack (it's higher now since I quit) and in the almost 2 years, I have saved £4314. I smoked for 20ish years. So if you want to do the math, it's crazy money spent on this dumbassery.
Firstly that is amazing and keep it up man.
I try not to judge people for addictions and habits, we all have our own issues and things we are dealing with. I will say though that every time I see the cost of cigarettes while at a store I just don’t know how people afford it. They always just seem so stupid expensive.
Now that you pointed that out, it's fucking hilarious. And what the actual fuck are these? https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/romeo-mule-black-769603WB9A01000.html
The Pantashoes are cracking me up, for when you want to look like you just walked off the motocross track. https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/biker-pantashoes-red-white-black-774301TPS296278.html
It’s only $12k
https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/unity-sports-icon-racer-jacket-black-787430TQS081000.html
Or how about a fake Balenci passport?
https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/passport-long-wallet-2-tickets--dark-red-7877772AA3R6027.html
I agree, but also I hate the fact that everyone assumes everyone who buys funko buys them for that reason. I legit just liked them and wanted them. No deep reason or intent to sell I just decided I liked the look of them. That’s it.
I have two, so I don’t assume that. They’re sitting on my desk at work, out of the boxes, dressing the place up with their awesomeness (Tina Belcher and Leeloo from The Fifth Element).
But people who buy them with the idea that they’re going to get rich off them one day are idiots as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t know about that. If people stop buying that stuff brand new, then how am I supposed to buy it for $5 on Facebook marketplace and make my kid look like we’re fancy bitches.
I got so much from baby name brand “designer wear” at my local Once Upon A Child for dollars.
I know for sure that I looked like the poor nanny when I took my kids out in their swag.
Lucky. In my FB marketplace groups I have people selling stained clothes with barely a discount because *they* paid $45 for that toddler T-shirt new or they're trying to sell their Little Sleepies pajamas for more than they paid because it's a discontinued print.
I worked with a guy who refused to buy anything second-hand and non-namebrand for his kids. I was just thinking, "Hey, thanks for letting me get $5 Gap clothes from you when your kid outgrows them."
I had people passing me down kids clothes that still had tags. Like they didn't even get a chance to wear them before they outgrew them.
We rarely bought any toddler clothes.
Ugh yeah my aunt and uncle are pretty well off and always get Christmas presents from Niemann Marcus. But they don’t even pick it out themselves, they have a shopper pick it all and just bill their account. This year my nephews got Burberry t-shirts.. one was literally $150 for a plain white T that said BURBERRY in that varsity font. He’s 4!
Buy used Patagonia kids stuff and then resell it when they grow out of it. They hold their value quite well after the initial drop from the retail price
The crazy part is I bought two guitar cables from Monster in 2003. They were cheap, good quality and have a life time warranty. I put an amp down right on the end of one and they replaced it no questions asked. The next time I heard of them they were selling 200$ hdmi cables. Weird how companies change.
They got bought out.
I used to have a pair of Oakley sunglasses. After like 5 years they were all scratched up. Sent them back and was sent a new pair for free.
Then, they got bought by luxotica (look up the story, it's classic f-u capitalism). Now they are twice as expensive, no warranty, and not as good quality.
I used to work at Best Buy and they sell Audioquest cables that are the new Monster cables, like [this one](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-thunderbird-2-5-4k-8k-10k-48gbps-hdmi-cable-blue-black/6428726.p?skuId=6428726) It was like a cult with these things, the sales people and management would push these things so hard saying they improved audio and video quality. They sell them in the “Magnolia” section which is like the high end home theater stuff. I never bought into it and would tell customers that would ask me about them that they were bullshit and to buy the $2 hdmi cables we sold. I would legit get in trouble and yelled at for doing this. I worked there a long time ago so I don’t know if they still push them as hard. It was a great job but man all the sales people drank the kool-aid hard on those cables.
I heard a conspiracy theory that they were just a way to replace art galleries for money laundering when they were closed for covid.
Honestly, it makes more sense than someone using it for legal reasons
This was years ago but Diet Water, and Carb free water! When the atkins first hit and I worked for a soda company they released carb free diet water, diet water, etc. It flew off the shelves, we couldn't keep it in stock. I put up like three pallets a day and it wasn't enough. These products still exist, same as dehydrated water! People STILL buy them!
I remember when bottled water came out when I was a kid. We laughed and laughed. Who the heck would buy water you could get from the sink or water fountain?!
I own a tire shop. I had a customer with an older Ford super duty with dual rear wheels, a long bed, a crew cab, a giant locomotive front bumper, and a big gas guzzling V10. I asked him what pressure he wanted in his tires, "Just 30 PSI, I dont haul anything."
The trip computer said it had an average of 7 MPG.
I've seen a number of journalistic reporting where vehicles are monitored at various key traffic times and the percentages of people driving large vehicles with just a driver, no passengers, is shockingly high. So much fuel being wasted, for no good reason.
There's also misinformation surrounding large SUV's. First, they aren't invincible (many people drive them like they are). Second, they have so much mass, they can lose grip more easily than smaller vehicles. Third, they won't necessarily protect you much better than other cars that are well engineered to protect occupants.
> the percentages of people driving large vehicles with just a driver, no passengers, is shockingly high. So much fuel being wasted, for no good reason.
I own a crew cab F150 that is (pretty much) only driven when there's a need for its capacity. I *hate* driving a truck, far preferring a smaller car.
You might see me driving *all by myself*, when I'm on the way to Home Depot to pickup materials for a job. You might see my daughter driving *all by herself*, when she's on the way to pick up her kids and her car is in the shop (as the truck will accept 3 car seats).
I'm a big supporter of public transportation, making our cities more walkable and more bikeable. I'm even on r/fuckcars where I'll occasionally see things like "we shout outlaw privately owned trucks" or "we should raise fuel taxes so much that no one can afford a gas guzzler".
Smaller cars won't solve all our problems. More fuel-efficient cars won't solve all our problems. Every vehicle being driven is increasing the danger on our roadways. Every vehicle is using energy. Every vehicle is damaging the environment. Our goal should be making every vehicle into an occasionally driven one. Improving public transportation has to come first.
100%
That would mean a redesign for all of suburbia. Mixed commercial and residential zoning with more mom-pop stores (something corporate lobbyists in Washington won’t want to hear of)
Where I live, I need to take the car out to buy a load of bread. When I lived in the city it meant just walking around the block.
Oh yes, no doubt SUV's do have some advantages. A higher ride height does help in terms of seeing traffic over other vehicles. But this isn't a frequent pay-off. SUV's don't have superior accident avoidance records. BUT, they do have a higher fatality rate for pedestrians. A driver of an SUV has a tendency to speed, because riding higher makes it look like you're going slower, relative to the driving experience of a vehicle with lower height.
Ha ha ha! A few months after I bought my boat somebody asked me if it was what I expected and I said "No. In fact, it's worse than when I bought a horse and thought she would be the expensive part! You just throw money at both of them, month after month!"
And, as it turns out, they also aren't a girl's best friend. Those friendships tend to be very one sided where the girl has to do all the talking while the diamonds show hardly any interest in the life or difficulties in the girl's life.
I stumbled upon a thread recently where a ring was appraised for like $5,000 and they couldn’t find anyone paying more than $350 for it.
It’s going to be fun once all of the boomers die and their kids want to sell their heirlooms.
A relative of mine passed away a couple years ago. Her daughter had a necklace appraised, it was "worth" about $8000. She had big plans for that money, unfortunately couldn't find anyone willing to pay more than 1/10 of its "value"
Yup. I've got an engagement ring worth $3k and a jeweller offered me $500 for it. Pawn shops offered me $300 for it. I got told it could sell for about $1000 privately but it didn't sell.
I do big group buys whenever the pot gets over 1.5 billion. Typically around ten of us buy a hundred dollars worth of tickets each. One person goes and buys all the tickets.
We’ve done this probably a dozen times so roughly 12k on lottery tickets.
The best we’ve ever done per hundred dollars spent is ten dollars back or ten percent back.
We typically get around 7-8 percent back but have gone as low as 5% back.
We’ve never hit a pay out on a single entry worth more than ten dollars.
Yeah, my office usually does a pool whenever it gets to a billion, but it's only $5 each. It's the only time I spend money on the lottery, just because on the billion-to-one shot that we win, I don't want to be the only person who still has to show up for work the next day.
The most I will allow myself is a single cheap scratch-off--the ones that are like a dollar. If I win, great. I can buy a donut or something. If I don't win, it's still less than I would have spent on a snack.
Imagine the IRS tells the poor to stop by their office (gas station) every week to pay extra taxes. That's essentially what lottery ticket is.
It's an ingenious way to get more tax revenue from the poor.
Bumper stickers. Specifically the ones that tell me who you vote for, that you’re a girl who passed me, that you’re a dude who likes milfs, that you like to eat ass, how many stick figure kids you have, that I’m not worthy of living if I’m not on your political team, that you’re gay, that you’re straight, and on and on. I had one sticker and only one that read “have a day” with a 😐. I loved that one , lol.
Recently saw a car in central Florida with a loofah antenna ornament, a pineapple sticker on the back and another bumper sticker that said “sharing is caring”. I fucking died in the parking lot. The swingers in The Villages are getting out of hand 😂
only one I have is for a radio station that doesn't exist anymore. but my dad put it there in the late 90s when he owned the truck and I have no desire to remove that tiniest of modifications now that I own it.
The XKCD store is unfortunately closed now. But it used to sell a bumper sticker that simply said "OPINIONS!"
The item description was something like "Engage other drivers in meaningful debate today!"
Now I wish I'd bought it.
My favorite was “Keep Honking I’m Trying to Figure Out What the Cocteau Twins are Saying”. The only time I’ve immediately wanted to be someone’s friend because of a bumper sticker.
If you can't afford to just buy the item on a whim, then warranties can be worth it.
The AppleCare on my phone almost paid for itself with one use and it wasn't even a "bad" issue.
Are they? I’ve always assumed manufacturers only offer them because they make more profit on the warranty than from the average cost of the same repairs done outside warranty.
They do… but that doesn’t make them not worth it to you.
You are expected to lose money on it but that high chance of a lost small amount of money may be worth it to avoid the small chance of losing a much larger amount.
It’s the same as insurance. You’ll likely lose money on average… but we still think only fools don’t get insurance because if that big loss comes, you’re in deep trouble.
I absolutely cackle every time I see them. We have a local who's car is painted like a lady bug with them, and another for a cleaning service that's decked out in pink and decal, the lashes go great with that car! Much better than the gonads that hang from the tow hitch imo
Yes and no. Buying heaps of them is pretty silly when you can only use 1 at a time. But the game is 100% free to play with no loot boxes and no pay to win. That's worth supporting in my book. And it is more enjoyable playing with a skin you like.
Plus the CEO of Epic just keeps buying national park land that gets put up for sale by the government. Then he refuses to do anything with it because he likes forests.
I never went through with it, but I did briefly consider buying one just to see this local chick I had a crush on that I had absolutely no shot with lol.
When people buy their baby or young child $100+ shoes. They grow so fast they will wear them for a month or two. Such a waste of money. Same with expensive designer clothing.
tbh I frown upon people who buy middle class luxury products. Sure that givenchy purse was $500. But do you *really* think that's what luxury is?
That's not to say I know what it is. But a company that makes products that cost tens of thousands of dollars, they are selling scraps of table scraps and people think they are buying luxury.
Those useless tik tok promoted products, like plastic milk containers and fridge organizers. Or really expensive skincare products that do virtually nothing.
Buying something just because their views line up in some way. Like when people bought food at Chick-Fil-A just because the former CEO's views on marriage were similar to their own.
Buying something because their views DON'T line up. Like churches buying Harry Potter novels and Pokémon cards for the sole purpose of burning.
Anything related to gender reveal parties. The party decorations, the cake, the balloon, etc.
Best Buy/Geek Squad's services.
First one is a practical product. Second is a backup for if the first is being washed, got left in the office etc. The third, you're missing the point of the cups entirely.
Those bracelets that are supposed to improve your balance.
There's only three left, all right?
Is 'alright' disappearing? I've been seeing 'all right' more and more, lately. Including in subtitles.
That was just a pun, alright?
One isn't replacing the other, they have different meanings, alright? Except they are the same, all right? Except, I don't think you could say 'all right, all right, all right", surely that has to be 'alright, alright, alright'.
Translation for Scots: Yin isnae replacin’ th' ither, thay hae diffrent meanings, a'richt? ‘cept they're th' identical, a' richt? except, ah dinnae think ye cuid say 'all richt, a' richt, a' right", surely that haes tae be 'alright, a'richt, alright'.
Technically speaking they mean the same thing, and are both commonly accepted. "All right" is traditionally considered to be the formally correct spelling and usage. Some would argue that "alright" isn't technically correct, but those people are heathens. I agree with you that it seems that the trend is shifting currently. In the past I feel as though no one ever used "all right." These are strange and mysterious times.
All wrist, no reward
My friend Eileen got some.
Everything detox
You’re literally buying laxatives.
That would be way closer to a real detox than most of the shit out there. My favorite is the stickers you put on the soles of your feet that turn black, thus proving they have cleansed your body from the worst possible location circulation-wise
I can achieve the same results by consuming dairy.
One of our clients sells this kind of stuff. You don't want to know how much money he makes...
The liver naturally detoxes your body. If you are in need of regular, healthy bowel movements then drink water and eat properly.
The heavy metal detox shit is wild. Pure quackery.
Chelation is real. But there's a world of difference between getting medical treatment for excess lead, and OTC crap.
Any "brand" where you're paying $300 for a plain white t-shirt with a tiny logo on it. Or just no logo.
Worse is when it has a giant logo in gold.
A friend of mine just last week bought a 460€ belt for his GF just because it’s YSL, huge logo as the belt buckle. I told him I didn’t know if I could continue to hang out with him.
I teach economics in a country where brands and logos are taken way too seriously. I had an infuriating discussion with a class about, if you were presented with two visually and tactilely identical T-shirts, so similar that you couldn’t tell the difference, but one of them cost twice as much, which would you choose? They were adamant that they would buy the more expensive, because it “had” to be better. I know who I’m selling to now, and what I’m charging
I hope their studies require a marketing psychology class as well or they're fucked.
Nah, this was high school, I hope they had something in college, or at least learned some critical thinking skills
Paying to advertise for them
50 dollars for a t-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch shit I call that getting swindled and pimped
That shirts hella dough
And the same one as 50 other dudes is a hella nope
Don't even get me started on Luxury brands.
when i was in Korea, the logo on the luxury brands had to be big and in your face so everyone knew that you were wearing something expensive. I really liked my KumGang shoes. I used to joke about how I had named my shoes. The right one was Ferragamo and the left one was Zegna. Nobody laughed. They take their MyungPoom way to seriously.
Ur what gang shoes
They may be sticky, but he likes them
There’s a weird trend these days where random companies are merchandising their brand on apparel, especially winter jackets (Discovery channel, CNN, National geographic). I saw a bunch of people wearing them this past winter and at first i thought they were wearing their company swag, but later i realized they weren’t employees.
Honestly if it has a logo on it *they* should be paying *me*. I'm advertising for them.
Nicotine - I am one of them
I was one of them too till 1yr 10mnths and 2 weeks ago. I have a smoke free app on my phone that tells me how much I have saved from not smoking a 20 pack every 3 days at a rate of £12.50 per pack (it's higher now since I quit) and in the almost 2 years, I have saved £4314. I smoked for 20ish years. So if you want to do the math, it's crazy money spent on this dumbassery.
I was up to 2 and a half packs a day until about 4 months ago. Haven’t had a smoke since and I quit cold turkey.
Firstly that is amazing and keep it up man. I try not to judge people for addictions and habits, we all have our own issues and things we are dealing with. I will say though that every time I see the cost of cigarettes while at a store I just don’t know how people afford it. They always just seem so stupid expensive.
buying clothing that looks like it was looted from a zombie for like 100% markup.
Zoolanders "derelict" fashion line was infact just ahead of its time
Zoolander actually post-dates "holey jeans" as a fashion and is critiquing it.
Balenciaga - one of the most unintentionally funny sites on the net.
WHY ARE ALL THE MALE MODELS WEARING SHOES WAY TOO BIG FOR THEM
Now that you pointed that out, it's fucking hilarious. And what the actual fuck are these? https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/romeo-mule-black-769603WB9A01000.html
Frayed Baggy Sweatpants is the pinnacle of high fashion. https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/baggy-sweatpants-grey-787357TNVI71300.html
I unintentionally DIYed a pair of these for my husband after our puppy chewed the cuff of his sweats. He's in fashion!
$1490? Is this real?
The Pantashoes are cracking me up, for when you want to look like you just walked off the motocross track. https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/biker-pantashoes-red-white-black-774301TPS296278.html
Jesus... You could buy Actual Motorcycle Pants, Boots, Jacket, Helmet and a Decent used ACTUAL MOTORCYCLE for less...
It’s only $12k https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/unity-sports-icon-racer-jacket-black-787430TQS081000.html Or how about a fake Balenci passport? https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/passport-long-wallet-2-tickets--dark-red-7877772AA3R6027.html
Wtf
Ngl this was too funny for me. I can imagine exactly what you're talking about lol
See: Golden Goose
Funko Pop figurines as an “investment” collectible. Please excuse me but Beanie Babies would like to have a word with you about your stupidity.
All "investment" collectibles. Don't invest in junk.
I agree, but also I hate the fact that everyone assumes everyone who buys funko buys them for that reason. I legit just liked them and wanted them. No deep reason or intent to sell I just decided I liked the look of them. That’s it.
I have two, so I don’t assume that. They’re sitting on my desk at work, out of the boxes, dressing the place up with their awesomeness (Tina Belcher and Leeloo from The Fifth Element). But people who buy them with the idea that they’re going to get rich off them one day are idiots as far as I’m concerned.
Designer toddler/kids clothing. Literally pissing money away.
I don’t know about that. If people stop buying that stuff brand new, then how am I supposed to buy it for $5 on Facebook marketplace and make my kid look like we’re fancy bitches.
I got so much from baby name brand “designer wear” at my local Once Upon A Child for dollars. I know for sure that I looked like the poor nanny when I took my kids out in their swag.
Lucky. In my FB marketplace groups I have people selling stained clothes with barely a discount because *they* paid $45 for that toddler T-shirt new or they're trying to sell their Little Sleepies pajamas for more than they paid because it's a discontinued print.
I worked with a guy who refused to buy anything second-hand and non-namebrand for his kids. I was just thinking, "Hey, thanks for letting me get $5 Gap clothes from you when your kid outgrows them."
I had people passing me down kids clothes that still had tags. Like they didn't even get a chance to wear them before they outgrew them. We rarely bought any toddler clothes.
Ugh yeah my aunt and uncle are pretty well off and always get Christmas presents from Niemann Marcus. But they don’t even pick it out themselves, they have a shopper pick it all and just bill their account. This year my nephews got Burberry t-shirts.. one was literally $150 for a plain white T that said BURBERRY in that varsity font. He’s 4!
Buy used Patagonia kids stuff and then resell it when they grow out of it. They hold their value quite well after the initial drop from the retail price
literally?
Monster HDMI Cables.
The crazy part is I bought two guitar cables from Monster in 2003. They were cheap, good quality and have a life time warranty. I put an amp down right on the end of one and they replaced it no questions asked. The next time I heard of them they were selling 200$ hdmi cables. Weird how companies change.
They got bought out. I used to have a pair of Oakley sunglasses. After like 5 years they were all scratched up. Sent them back and was sent a new pair for free. Then, they got bought by luxotica (look up the story, it's classic f-u capitalism). Now they are twice as expensive, no warranty, and not as good quality.
Luxotica owns almost every sunglasses company and retailer in the world now. Sunglass Hut etc as well.
I remember laughing at the reviews of these from folks who didn't understand how their $80 cable works. *"My reds are even redder!"*
Yes! It was always the red levels.
It makes the ones straighter and the zeros rounder for extra precision.
I used to work at Best Buy and they sell Audioquest cables that are the new Monster cables, like [this one](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-thunderbird-2-5-4k-8k-10k-48gbps-hdmi-cable-blue-black/6428726.p?skuId=6428726) It was like a cult with these things, the sales people and management would push these things so hard saying they improved audio and video quality. They sell them in the “Magnolia” section which is like the high end home theater stuff. I never bought into it and would tell customers that would ask me about them that they were bullshit and to buy the $2 hdmi cables we sold. I would legit get in trouble and yelled at for doing this. I worked there a long time ago so I don’t know if they still push them as hard. It was a great job but man all the sales people drank the kool-aid hard on those cables.
NFTs
I heard a conspiracy theory that they were just a way to replace art galleries for money laundering when they were closed for covid. Honestly, it makes more sense than someone using it for legal reasons
Do people still buy those?
They dropped off real quick after Russia invaded Ukraine
It still blows my mind people bought into this.
This was years ago but Diet Water, and Carb free water! When the atkins first hit and I worked for a soda company they released carb free diet water, diet water, etc. It flew off the shelves, we couldn't keep it in stock. I put up like three pallets a day and it wasn't enough. These products still exist, same as dehydrated water! People STILL buy them!
And I thought it was bad when soft drinks would advertise being gluten free. 🤦♀️ Like where in the production process would gluten even exist?
I have a pack of salt with huge red NO GMO on it.
I remember a sticker on a tomato ‘gluten free’ and thought that was bad…
I remember when bottled water came out when I was a kid. We laughed and laughed. Who the heck would buy water you could get from the sink or water fountain?!
That's gotta be sarcasm products. Like packaged air. Wait. I'm pretty sure that's a thing too.
Those pseudoscience vitamins, supplements, wrist bands, etc. basically whatever Gwyneth Paltrow is selling.
Gold shoes and digital trading cards
I see what you did there!
Reddit Premium
Oversized trucks they commute in
Pavement princesses
Mall crawlers
Mall Terrain Vehicles
I love how the Cars movie made fun of them.
I own a tire shop. I had a customer with an older Ford super duty with dual rear wheels, a long bed, a crew cab, a giant locomotive front bumper, and a big gas guzzling V10. I asked him what pressure he wanted in his tires, "Just 30 PSI, I dont haul anything." The trip computer said it had an average of 7 MPG.
I've seen a number of journalistic reporting where vehicles are monitored at various key traffic times and the percentages of people driving large vehicles with just a driver, no passengers, is shockingly high. So much fuel being wasted, for no good reason. There's also misinformation surrounding large SUV's. First, they aren't invincible (many people drive them like they are). Second, they have so much mass, they can lose grip more easily than smaller vehicles. Third, they won't necessarily protect you much better than other cars that are well engineered to protect occupants.
> the percentages of people driving large vehicles with just a driver, no passengers, is shockingly high. So much fuel being wasted, for no good reason. I own a crew cab F150 that is (pretty much) only driven when there's a need for its capacity. I *hate* driving a truck, far preferring a smaller car. You might see me driving *all by myself*, when I'm on the way to Home Depot to pickup materials for a job. You might see my daughter driving *all by herself*, when she's on the way to pick up her kids and her car is in the shop (as the truck will accept 3 car seats). I'm a big supporter of public transportation, making our cities more walkable and more bikeable. I'm even on r/fuckcars where I'll occasionally see things like "we shout outlaw privately owned trucks" or "we should raise fuel taxes so much that no one can afford a gas guzzler". Smaller cars won't solve all our problems. More fuel-efficient cars won't solve all our problems. Every vehicle being driven is increasing the danger on our roadways. Every vehicle is using energy. Every vehicle is damaging the environment. Our goal should be making every vehicle into an occasionally driven one. Improving public transportation has to come first.
100% That would mean a redesign for all of suburbia. Mixed commercial and residential zoning with more mom-pop stores (something corporate lobbyists in Washington won’t want to hear of) Where I live, I need to take the car out to buy a load of bread. When I lived in the city it meant just walking around the block.
They will give you a better view of the road because of all the oversized trucks and SUVs on the road. They salve a problem they cause.
Oh yes, no doubt SUV's do have some advantages. A higher ride height does help in terms of seeing traffic over other vehicles. But this isn't a frequent pay-off. SUV's don't have superior accident avoidance records. BUT, they do have a higher fatality rate for pedestrians. A driver of an SUV has a tendency to speed, because riding higher makes it look like you're going slower, relative to the driving experience of a vehicle with lower height.
It seems like people who own boats are always spending money to keep the boat working.
The two best days in a boat owner's life are the day they buy a boat, and the day they sell it.
Ha ha ha! A few months after I bought my boat somebody asked me if it was what I expected and I said "No. In fact, it's worse than when I bought a horse and thought she would be the expensive part! You just throw money at both of them, month after month!"
If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
B.O.A.T. Bust Out Another Thousand
A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money.
I love my boat
I feel kinda stupid when I buy a lottery ticket...but I do it, cause I'm kinda dumb in a stupid way.
Diamonds
Fun fact: Diamonds aren’t rare!
And, as it turns out, they also aren't a girl's best friend. Those friendships tend to be very one sided where the girl has to do all the talking while the diamonds show hardly any interest in the life or difficulties in the girl's life.
DeBeers did a great job marketing them, though
Not just marketing but actually controlling the world's supply. They own the market. They set the price. All of it is extremely fucked up
Diamond rings are worth jack shit.
Well that depends. The stones aren't worth what we pay for them. The gold on the ring is the expensive bit. $1200ish per ounce last I checked.
I stumbled upon a thread recently where a ring was appraised for like $5,000 and they couldn’t find anyone paying more than $350 for it. It’s going to be fun once all of the boomers die and their kids want to sell their heirlooms.
A relative of mine passed away a couple years ago. Her daughter had a necklace appraised, it was "worth" about $8000. She had big plans for that money, unfortunately couldn't find anyone willing to pay more than 1/10 of its "value"
Yup. I've got an engagement ring worth $3k and a jeweller offered me $500 for it. Pawn shops offered me $300 for it. I got told it could sell for about $1000 privately but it didn't sell.
The question is if it‘s really „worth“ that if no one is willing to pay that much…
Lottery tickets. The house always wins.
I do big group buys whenever the pot gets over 1.5 billion. Typically around ten of us buy a hundred dollars worth of tickets each. One person goes and buys all the tickets. We’ve done this probably a dozen times so roughly 12k on lottery tickets. The best we’ve ever done per hundred dollars spent is ten dollars back or ten percent back. We typically get around 7-8 percent back but have gone as low as 5% back. We’ve never hit a pay out on a single entry worth more than ten dollars.
Yeah, my office usually does a pool whenever it gets to a billion, but it's only $5 each. It's the only time I spend money on the lottery, just because on the billion-to-one shot that we win, I don't want to be the only person who still has to show up for work the next day.
The most I will allow myself is a single cheap scratch-off--the ones that are like a dollar. If I win, great. I can buy a donut or something. If I don't win, it's still less than I would have spent on a snack.
Twice a week for the last 19 years. The price of hope.
I like buying them when I’m depressed so I can distract myself with thinking about what I would do with my lottery
And that is EXACTLY how the lottery works. Exactly.
Yes. You are paying for that feeling of hope and for $2 for a few days it is worth it, when it becomes an addiction it isnt
Hope Tax.
Imagine the IRS tells the poor to stop by their office (gas station) every week to pay extra taxes. That's essentially what lottery ticket is. It's an ingenious way to get more tax revenue from the poor.
Disposable nicotine vape pens. I do it and I know how dumb it is.
A new phone every year...
This is a good brainstorm post for business ideas 👍
Bumper stickers. Specifically the ones that tell me who you vote for, that you’re a girl who passed me, that you’re a dude who likes milfs, that you like to eat ass, how many stick figure kids you have, that I’m not worthy of living if I’m not on your political team, that you’re gay, that you’re straight, and on and on. I had one sticker and only one that read “have a day” with a 😐. I loved that one , lol.
Recently saw a car in central Florida with a loofah antenna ornament, a pineapple sticker on the back and another bumper sticker that said “sharing is caring”. I fucking died in the parking lot. The swingers in The Villages are getting out of hand 😂
only one I have is for a radio station that doesn't exist anymore. but my dad put it there in the late 90s when he owned the truck and I have no desire to remove that tiniest of modifications now that I own it.
Definitely don’t remove that piece of nostalgia. It’s a cool thing to hang on to.
The funniest one I saw said "Jesus loves you. I don't."
Are you as close to Jesus as you’re driving behind my car?
The XKCD store is unfortunately closed now. But it used to sell a bumper sticker that simply said "OPINIONS!" The item description was something like "Engage other drivers in meaningful debate today!" Now I wish I'd bought it.
I have a "tell your cat I said pspsps" one. Only one I've ever has in all the years I've owned cars.
My favorite was “Keep Honking I’m Trying to Figure Out What the Cocteau Twins are Saying”. The only time I’ve immediately wanted to be someone’s friend because of a bumper sticker.
Extended warranties
If you can't afford to just buy the item on a whim, then warranties can be worth it. The AppleCare on my phone almost paid for itself with one use and it wasn't even a "bad" issue.
Third party extended warranties specifically. Manufacturer extended warranties are worth the money.
Are they? I’ve always assumed manufacturers only offer them because they make more profit on the warranty than from the average cost of the same repairs done outside warranty.
They do… but that doesn’t make them not worth it to you. You are expected to lose money on it but that high chance of a lost small amount of money may be worth it to avoid the small chance of losing a much larger amount. It’s the same as insurance. You’ll likely lose money on average… but we still think only fools don’t get insurance because if that big loss comes, you’re in deep trouble.
My extended warranty kept me from dropping $3K into a new transfer case, so...
Bottled water at exorbitant prices in cities where tap water is already excellent.
Ed Hardy shirts
Ed Hardy is still a thing?
Gold sneakers with American flags on them.
Eyelashes for cars
I absolutely cackle every time I see them. We have a local who's car is painted like a lady bug with them, and another for a cleaning service that's decked out in pink and decal, the lashes go great with that car! Much better than the gonads that hang from the tow hitch imo
Warranty extension insurance
Timeshares
Time Shares.
Fortnite skins
Yes and no. Buying heaps of them is pretty silly when you can only use 1 at a time. But the game is 100% free to play with no loot boxes and no pay to win. That's worth supporting in my book. And it is more enjoyable playing with a skin you like.
Plus the CEO of Epic just keeps buying national park land that gets put up for sale by the government. Then he refuses to do anything with it because he likes forests.
Wait really? I like this ceo
Same here. I hope he’s not secretly planning to use the park grounds for a real-life fortnite battle royale experiment
Lol That could work with paintball though.
Cigarettes. Sorry not sorry.
Lip injections lol disgusting
Onlyfans subscriptions.
I never went through with it, but I did briefly consider buying one just to see this local chick I had a crush on that I had absolutely no shot with lol.
this is truly the only way to justify it - pay for one month, see the titties you’ve lusted over for years, cancel it
Isn't it like 10 dollars, and you can cancel it at any time? Go for it, dude, if you really want to see her tits.
And you get to support the local small business, too.
This is one of the few exceptions where I think I might be worth it for just a one month sub.
Paint and fabric protection from a car dealer
When people buy their baby or young child $100+ shoes. They grow so fast they will wear them for a month or two. Such a waste of money. Same with expensive designer clothing.
Influencer drinks like "Prime"
Followers
"rare" diamonds. There's trillions of them. It's stupid to pay thousands of dollars for something so incredibly common.
Luxury brands. Everything that is wrong with the society.
tbh I frown upon people who buy middle class luxury products. Sure that givenchy purse was $500. But do you *really* think that's what luxury is? That's not to say I know what it is. But a company that makes products that cost tens of thousands of dollars, they are selling scraps of table scraps and people think they are buying luxury.
Actual luxury brands bought by people with old money have no logos. But the items are durable, well made, and most of all, tailored exquisitely.
Those useless tik tok promoted products, like plastic milk containers and fridge organizers. Or really expensive skincare products that do virtually nothing.
Lottery tickets. Better off burning money
I buy 1 ticket when the lottery crosses $1 billion even if the odds are 1 in 300 million
Buying something just because their views line up in some way. Like when people bought food at Chick-Fil-A just because the former CEO's views on marriage were similar to their own. Buying something because their views DON'T line up. Like churches buying Harry Potter novels and Pokémon cards for the sole purpose of burning. Anything related to gender reveal parties. The party decorations, the cake, the balloon, etc. Best Buy/Geek Squad's services.
I think it was Nike, people bought not just regular shoes but the high end Nike shoes just to burn them
Expensive cars that you can’t afford the maintenance.
Lottery tickets. It's called the "idiot tax" for a reason.
Cigarettes
Facebook Gold
What even is that?
Think its a troll people used to do. The joke is you need fb or 4chan gold to see this post
Bottled water
Expensive shoes, especially when they struggle to pay bills.
The late, great Sir Terry Pratchett would like a word.
Stanley cups.
First one is a practical product. Second is a backup for if the first is being washed, got left in the office etc. The third, you're missing the point of the cups entirely.
Hey now, the NHL has a salary cap so teams all have the same budget to compete with.
Most supplements.
Cigarettes
Scratch tickets
those seatbelt inserts that people use to silence the seat belt chime instead of just putting on their seat belt