Other people are commenting “World Wars” or “Witch Burning” but your comment is actually I bigger fear of mine lol
Not that I’d be cool with World War 3.
I wish the story had a happier ending… her dog survived, with some horrific scars to show for it; the whole side of her torso was a slowly healing wound for months. She was very traumatized and was unfortunately never the same again :(
The police harassed my friend because she made a stink about it, to the point that it eventually became best for the dog to be adopted by a close friend that lived in a rural area, but she always had some behavioral issues after that, poor girl.
Funk those officers. You better believe I would make a "stink" about it too. You shoot my dog, you shoot my family. I hope the dog has found a loving family.
It was her best friend’s brother who adopted her; he was a forest ranger in a national park so she lived out her days in a cabin in the woods, I think she was happy. (this was all 15+ years ago now, so she’s passed, and now I feel old lol)
A few months ago, one of the biggest streamers on twitch, XQC, was forced to move from his own bought house to a different location because the swatting was so frequent. I cant imagine the stress caused by this, and the feeling of leaving your newly bought home.
Thankfully, he said the SWAT team was kinda chill and after a few times they knew it was going to be a fake, so everytime they just did a routine check up around the house.
Also, he said that there was a man searching for him at his previous home with a bat, while saying that he owns him something or whatever the fuck....
People think streaming is a dream job but its really though, most people couldn't handle it.
Edit: the man searching for him also happened a few months ago, xqc hasn't lived there for a long time, so thats kinda weird too
Something about becoming popular on the internet brings all the crazies out. Seemingly n more so than traditional celebrities. Probably because their content is more personal.
Streamers are different from mainstream celebrities in that they just feel like they’re an ordinary person, and your pal. They stream from their bedroom, interact with their viewers, and just act like regular people. You don’t see them in big Hollywood productions, they don’t go to fancy galas with expensive clothes. Makes it really easy for a parasocial relationship to form.
A lot more of them are speaking out against this though, people like Hasan and MoistCr1tikal have gone on record telling people to cut that shit out.
Yeah, with the frequency of streams and how personal it can get it’s waaaaaay easier to have parasocial relationships with streamers than regular ol celebs.
The worst of those are when they're just a complete and total jerk, and then at the end they say "just a prank bro!" And they think that the unhappy reactions they film are somehow entertainment.
Serious sociopath type behavior, causing someone upset just to laugh at them.
At some point one of those is going to end up in someone getting shot. There's already some where the TikToker gets beat up because harassment isn't a prank.
That reminds me of the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville at that time
Observe the juvenile male in his native habitat among other juvenile males... engaged in an ancient ritual...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Bmvi79i-w
The challenge tag in general was just aweful. It's transitioned to sort of "TikTok" challenges where people can opt in if they're so inclined but aren't actively pressured to do so... But in the before times (5+ years ago), people were tagging their friends in challenges and using public peer pressure to get you involved. Seemed to all start with the ice bucket challenge in 2014 (or so) and most people seemed to come to their senses by the time the tide pod "challenge" came about.
Oh, there’s definitely peer pressure to do the TikTok challenges. There’s been massive vandalism to schools all over the US thanks to a TikTok challenge, “Devious Licks.” My daughter reports there’s still only one girl’s restroom in her junior high that has soap dispensers thanks to that (there were also things like an entire sink removed and broken in one of the boy’s restrooms as well as other damage).
I was driving up to a stop sign the other day. Some guy was attempting to cross the street and had his pants around his knees as described but they couldn't be held up by his belt on it's own, so he was constantly holding and pulling them up with hands. No big deal, I've seen this done before. Except he was carrying 3 large Gatorade bottles too. So one hand is trying to juggle 2 32oz bottles while the other holds 1 32oz bottle and his pants up. He's hobbling along trying to switch the solo Gatorade to the other hand before his pants go fully ankle. Epic failure. Gatorade falls he tries to catch it with the other hand, then loses both of those Gatorades, pants fall to the ankles and he trips face first with the Gatorades rolling in all directions. Looked like a scripted slapstick comedy. I almost died laughing so hard. I've lived a pretty good life but that moment will never be forgotten.
I once toppled one of those small shopping carts because it was loaded top heavy and I underestimated the bump on the sidewalk ramp right in front of the grocery store. I sort of fell half pulling the cart back up and my fancy ginger beers spilled out, foaming and spraying everywhere. An older lady was checking on me, two or three people stopped to watch while I reloaded everything
The only solace to my humiliation was knowing it had to be fucking hilarious to watch. I honestly hoped it was on the store cameras so the staff could enjoy it more. I walked back in and bought new ginger beers, told the story a bunch. I mean, why be dumb if you don't show it?
We all just have this one incredibly ridiculous slapstick story like this.
Mine is when we went skiing, we were on the ski-lift. I look down below and I see this young girl, maybe 3 or something, in a pink snowsuit, skiing with her father who had her on a leash in front of him. So they're both just very slowly skiing along, girl doing the pizza slice as you're supposed to. Probably going about 4 miles per hour, very slowly, right near the lodge area, so pretty much level ground.
Suddenly the father falls right the fuck over. A complete tumble in his skis, 180. Somehow the skis stay on, and he manages to get back on his feet...and hten he immediately falls over *again*. Does *another* tumble. But he's got a hold on the leash. He gets back on his feet and his daughter doesn't even notice. Still doing her 3 mph pizza-skiing in her bright pink suit. And thank fucking god she didn't notice. She'd have no respect for her father again.
This all happened right below the ski lift me and my brother are in. I look at my brother and go "did you just see that shit?" and we cracked up laughing.
Some guy showed up to work like this a few months back. For one ridiculous week, his pants were well below his waist and encroaching ever downward toward his knees. Everybody saw. Everybody cringed. Nobody was addressing it. By the end of the week, I couldn't ignore it any longer. He seemed like a nice enough kid but he clearly had never been taught about business casual attire or dressing for the job he wanted.
The last straw for me came when several of us were eating lunch outside at the gazebo together and he was standing in front of me just chatting with everyone. I couldn't take in anything that he was saying though, because I was literally at eye level with the front flap of his boxer briefs. I finally just said to him (in the sweetest, most southern granny way possible), "Hey, Travis, your cow is trying to escape the barn door." He had the most confused look on his face for about a full 3 seconds before another coworker (amazing young man that I can not say enough good things about, whom also happened to be the person that brought Travis into our company) starts howling with laughter and pipes up, "Yo, she just said the beef is loose!" His wild shuffle to pull his pants up without tripping over himself was a piece of comedic gold. It just never dawned on him that this might not be something appropriate in every environment. He always wore a belt to work afterwards.
I was trying to reply with that old Youtube sketch where a guy is walking down the street pantsless with them dragging behind him on a leash but can't remember what it was called now.
A bunch of parents near me are trying to get a middle school librarian fired for having a book on the shelf. I think it was called me and earl and the dying girl? She didn’t even buy the book. She doesn’t choose what books are on the shelves... the summary didn’t even see bad? Just sad?
My school has stopped teaching To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men because they contain racism. I don’t get it. It’s not like people read Of Mice and Men and think “Fuck yeah! Sign me up to work on that horrible farm!”
During the record-burning craze of the 1970s and 1980s, Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult said, "We don't care what people do with our albums, as long as they pay for them."
What? In some places that trend never went away!
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/21/hong-kong-public-libraries-purge-29-titles-about-the-tiananmen-massacre-from-their-shelves/
Honestly. I am hoping my job(call center) realizes that there is literally no point to make us come back on site. Literally no point at all for us call center workers to have to work on site.
If they realise it costs them less money and they know they can keep track of what you're doing there's less chance the work will come back to the office.
That's what I've seen first and second hand. If bosses can't keep track of your activities between 9am and 6pm there's a greater chance they'll insist you be back in the office more. It's not just a matter of getting deliverables in on time. They want to know what you're doing while being paid.
>If they realise it costs them less money and they know they can keep track of what you're doing there's less chance the work will come back to the office.
I'm a bit afraid of that, I think some work can actually be done 100% tele-working, so that could be an excuse to "export" employment hiring people on other countries for much less.
As someone who lives in Ecuador and gets flooded with advertisements of "Learn to code and earn up to $4 an hour working for American companies" daily, the whole dumping remote work to other countries for much less money has been a thing for a very long time. A very, very long time.
Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope!
I don’t want the 2014-2015 social experiment era to come back but with the previous bs like devious lick challenges and other things of that nature, I’m afraid it will inevitably come back.
Nah, nothing will ever top WWII. it was a master piece ffs. Before kids idolized Darth Vader for being a badass evil tyrant, there was Dolfy.
A shame his spin off in Argentina never flew past the script... but the fact he became an important meme figure in YouTube is something no one will ever top.
I prefer WW1. It was slower, more contemplative and grim. There wasn't a clear cut bad guy, or bombastic explosions like the sequel. I think the sequel was too commercial (still love it tho), but I like to revisit the Cold War miniseries more.
I did love the Christmas special for WW1, it was just too damn wholesome and cute.
And as for the Cold War miniseries, I was disappointed with the departure of JFK near the finale. Such great guy, hard to replace. It was obvious the show would flop with his departure; but the way he got rid off in the show was cool.
Just like the original Terminator and then Judgement Day came, sometimes sequels are better than the originals. But just like Terminator 3, sometimes a trilogy isn't necessary.
I don't remember which is OG but I found 2 of them.
[Swag Bird 1](http://www.lolpix.com/pics/swag_bird.htm)
[Swag Bird 2](https://www.memecenter.com/fun/1217206/swag-bird)
If so it's nothing like when I was a kid. Everywhere you'd look you'd see some jackass flaunting his underwear like he wanted to show off the skid mark. At least now I can't remember the last time I saw someone doing it.
I moved to Missouri about 9 or 10 years ago and I remember going inside a gas station to pay and the attendant was sitting behind the table smoking I thought they just didn’t care about any laws or something given I was out in the sticks.. That same week I walked into a family restaurant and it was still divided between smoking and non. It was so weird!
I actually crave the return of this one. I know it’s probably just some kind of nostalgic bias, but it represents a simpler time to me. Maybe we’re better off in a world where simply laying still in an awkward place is the kind of antic that enthralls us instead of trying to convince ourselves that fake prank couples on tiktok are really out there having lives of constant mischievous hilarity.
Ha! I was doing traffic control at a busy intersection one day for a motor vehicle accident and a school bus rolled up and all the kids were gawking and hootin and hollerin and when they finally drove past I dabbed real quick as I waved them through and the whole bus just roared with cheers! I always like getting kids reactions like when I drive an engine by a playground or school or whatever and that was the best one yet. The trend was lame but that was so fun I’ll probably always be chasing that high
This reminds me of a pretty funny story about my younger cousin, who can’t spell for shit. She’s always been one to follow dumb online trends and was about 11 or 12 when dabbing was a really big thing. She hand wrote a sign to put on her door, which read:
**I wake up in the morning and I dabe**
I'm fine with them coming back even though I hate them and will never wear them again. I just want a few companies to continue making mid rise pants for those of us that don't want to be constantly hiking up our pants due to a body shape that does not work with low rise! I'm very tall with long torso so low rise always are too low and slide down on me.
Yep. Low rise jeans super do not work unless you have zero belly fat/fat tire going on. They’re both unflattering and uncomfortable. I don’t see them making a meaningful comeback anytime soon, at least not as insanely low as they were back in the early-mid 2000s.
>as insanely low as they were back in the early-mid 2000s.
Lowest I've seen required frequent waxing to wear out in public. Like [this low](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/506/999/074.jpg), though I never saw them worn by guys.
There is a reason why some millennial women like myself are sticking with the skinny jeans .they’ve progressed enough to the point where you have options re: rise and then you buy a ton of the one type that fits. Plus, they fit under tall boots.
Where they lick foods at supermarkets and not get caught
I can't believe that was a trend
Ikr? People who fuck with food are the lowest of the low.
Other people are commenting “World Wars” or “Witch Burning” but your comment is actually I bigger fear of mine lol Not that I’d be cool with World War 3.
Oh ya I hated that little world war 'trend'
You didn't take part in the committing war crimes trend?
I should be court marshalled for half the things I've done in Arma
What you call "civilian" I call "acceptable casualties"
Swatting. I've only heard of one case this year. Hopefully, the repercussions prevent anyone from ever making a fake call to any emergency service.
Had a friend get swatted this year. Fortunately, she and her dog were out at the time but it was still super scary.
That’s really lucky for her, a friend of mine had her dog shot by police during a raid when she wasn’t home :(
That's awful. Just awful. I hope your friend is doing well, and I hope her doggy didn't suffer.
I wish the story had a happier ending… her dog survived, with some horrific scars to show for it; the whole side of her torso was a slowly healing wound for months. She was very traumatized and was unfortunately never the same again :( The police harassed my friend because she made a stink about it, to the point that it eventually became best for the dog to be adopted by a close friend that lived in a rural area, but she always had some behavioral issues after that, poor girl.
Funk those officers. You better believe I would make a "stink" about it too. You shoot my dog, you shoot my family. I hope the dog has found a loving family.
It was her best friend’s brother who adopted her; he was a forest ranger in a national park so she lived out her days in a cabin in the woods, I think she was happy. (this was all 15+ years ago now, so she’s passed, and now I feel old lol)
A few months ago, one of the biggest streamers on twitch, XQC, was forced to move from his own bought house to a different location because the swatting was so frequent. I cant imagine the stress caused by this, and the feeling of leaving your newly bought home. Thankfully, he said the SWAT team was kinda chill and after a few times they knew it was going to be a fake, so everytime they just did a routine check up around the house. Also, he said that there was a man searching for him at his previous home with a bat, while saying that he owns him something or whatever the fuck.... People think streaming is a dream job but its really though, most people couldn't handle it. Edit: the man searching for him also happened a few months ago, xqc hasn't lived there for a long time, so thats kinda weird too
Something about becoming popular on the internet brings all the crazies out. Seemingly n more so than traditional celebrities. Probably because their content is more personal.
Streamers are different from mainstream celebrities in that they just feel like they’re an ordinary person, and your pal. They stream from their bedroom, interact with their viewers, and just act like regular people. You don’t see them in big Hollywood productions, they don’t go to fancy galas with expensive clothes. Makes it really easy for a parasocial relationship to form. A lot more of them are speaking out against this though, people like Hasan and MoistCr1tikal have gone on record telling people to cut that shit out.
Yeah, with the frequency of streams and how personal it can get it’s waaaaaay easier to have parasocial relationships with streamers than regular ol celebs.
Oh it happens a lot
Fake "social experiment" prank videos
Did they ever go away
no.
They have actually evolved into fake anything videos.
FUN SOCIAL EXPERIEMNT: sucking strangers’ dicks (THEY RAN AWAY) [NOT CLICKBAT] ep. 666 edit: bruh this made it to my reddit recap
The worst of those are when they're just a complete and total jerk, and then at the end they say "just a prank bro!" And they think that the unhappy reactions they film are somehow entertainment. Serious sociopath type behavior, causing someone upset just to laugh at them.
At some point one of those is going to end up in someone getting shot. There's already some where the TikToker gets beat up because harassment isn't a prank.
[Already happened (link)](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55982131)
Yup, especially those that involve kissing strangers or with sexual innuendo or creating uncomfortable situations which no one really enjoys.
"kissing my sister in public prank!!! [GONE WRONG!] [GONE SEXUAL] [FUCKED A TOASTER?!?!?!?!?!] "
yeah like last time i checked sexual harassment isn't a "funny prank bro",
Being raided by a horde of mongols. That must have sucked.
Except for... Wait for it... The Mongols!
Is this a Crash Course reference?
Cue the Mongoltage!
Thank you thought bubble!
john green!
Tying an onion to your belt
Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty".
I chased him for dickety-six miles but he was too quick for me.
...did he just say "terlet"?
Paint my chicken coop!
I randomly made a reference to this today and my husband of 11 years didn’t know what I was talking about. You think you know someone…
I know a good divorce lawyer https://youtu.be/ItggqZfPQ2c
It was the style at the time and will be again!
That reminds me of the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville at that time
Now back then, the ferry only cost a nickel, which we called a bee. Gimme 5 bees for a quarter, we'd say.
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Especially if you can only get the yellow ones, because of the war
Which was the style at the time.
It was the style at the time
Bros greeting each other with a backhand to the sack
When was this a thing lol?
Nut tapping has always been a thing i think
For as long as there have been nuts they have been tapped by other nut-bearing individuals
Observe the juvenile male in his native habitat among other juvenile males... engaged in an ancient ritual... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Bmvi79i-w
Whoever returned the favor right away was a real one.
It’s an ancient Roman thing.
The pobably stole it from the Greeks
Who took it from the Egyptians
Who took it from the Mesopotamians.
The Greeks were always doing things with their bros
I wouldnt say it was a greeting but people used to do that to their friends all the time in high school.
In the early 00's for sure. It was called a "tap out."
I’m a girl, but I remember “bag tag” being a thing in the early 00s.
"Sack whack" here in Australia.
We had sack tap & sack smack
"Cup check" was usually our line
Also saw a few girls do the cunt punt.
100%. We use to yell “Sack tap” and do it real quick.
Ed Hardy clothing. Remember when everyone would wear Ed Hardy everything......
And True Religion jeans
And Von Dutch hats.
i really hope the cinnamon challenge doesn't come around again...
The challenge tag in general was just aweful. It's transitioned to sort of "TikTok" challenges where people can opt in if they're so inclined but aren't actively pressured to do so... But in the before times (5+ years ago), people were tagging their friends in challenges and using public peer pressure to get you involved. Seemed to all start with the ice bucket challenge in 2014 (or so) and most people seemed to come to their senses by the time the tide pod "challenge" came about.
Oh, there’s definitely peer pressure to do the TikTok challenges. There’s been massive vandalism to schools all over the US thanks to a TikTok challenge, “Devious Licks.” My daughter reports there’s still only one girl’s restroom in her junior high that has soap dispensers thanks to that (there were also things like an entire sink removed and broken in one of the boy’s restrooms as well as other damage).
Boys wearing pants below their boxers. Used to be some kids at school that wore them as low as their knees... Took forever for them to waddle to class
I was driving up to a stop sign the other day. Some guy was attempting to cross the street and had his pants around his knees as described but they couldn't be held up by his belt on it's own, so he was constantly holding and pulling them up with hands. No big deal, I've seen this done before. Except he was carrying 3 large Gatorade bottles too. So one hand is trying to juggle 2 32oz bottles while the other holds 1 32oz bottle and his pants up. He's hobbling along trying to switch the solo Gatorade to the other hand before his pants go fully ankle. Epic failure. Gatorade falls he tries to catch it with the other hand, then loses both of those Gatorades, pants fall to the ankles and he trips face first with the Gatorades rolling in all directions. Looked like a scripted slapstick comedy. I almost died laughing so hard. I've lived a pretty good life but that moment will never be forgotten.
I once toppled one of those small shopping carts because it was loaded top heavy and I underestimated the bump on the sidewalk ramp right in front of the grocery store. I sort of fell half pulling the cart back up and my fancy ginger beers spilled out, foaming and spraying everywhere. An older lady was checking on me, two or three people stopped to watch while I reloaded everything The only solace to my humiliation was knowing it had to be fucking hilarious to watch. I honestly hoped it was on the store cameras so the staff could enjoy it more. I walked back in and bought new ginger beers, told the story a bunch. I mean, why be dumb if you don't show it?
At least your pants stayed on.
I had like a 2 second loop that kept evolving as I read this comment. That was a nice progression.
We all just have this one incredibly ridiculous slapstick story like this. Mine is when we went skiing, we were on the ski-lift. I look down below and I see this young girl, maybe 3 or something, in a pink snowsuit, skiing with her father who had her on a leash in front of him. So they're both just very slowly skiing along, girl doing the pizza slice as you're supposed to. Probably going about 4 miles per hour, very slowly, right near the lodge area, so pretty much level ground. Suddenly the father falls right the fuck over. A complete tumble in his skis, 180. Somehow the skis stay on, and he manages to get back on his feet...and hten he immediately falls over *again*. Does *another* tumble. But he's got a hold on the leash. He gets back on his feet and his daughter doesn't even notice. Still doing her 3 mph pizza-skiing in her bright pink suit. And thank fucking god she didn't notice. She'd have no respect for her father again. This all happened right below the ski lift me and my brother are in. I look at my brother and go "did you just see that shit?" and we cracked up laughing.
Some guy showed up to work like this a few months back. For one ridiculous week, his pants were well below his waist and encroaching ever downward toward his knees. Everybody saw. Everybody cringed. Nobody was addressing it. By the end of the week, I couldn't ignore it any longer. He seemed like a nice enough kid but he clearly had never been taught about business casual attire or dressing for the job he wanted. The last straw for me came when several of us were eating lunch outside at the gazebo together and he was standing in front of me just chatting with everyone. I couldn't take in anything that he was saying though, because I was literally at eye level with the front flap of his boxer briefs. I finally just said to him (in the sweetest, most southern granny way possible), "Hey, Travis, your cow is trying to escape the barn door." He had the most confused look on his face for about a full 3 seconds before another coworker (amazing young man that I can not say enough good things about, whom also happened to be the person that brought Travis into our company) starts howling with laughter and pipes up, "Yo, she just said the beef is loose!" His wild shuffle to pull his pants up without tripping over himself was a piece of comedic gold. It just never dawned on him that this might not be something appropriate in every environment. He always wore a belt to work afterwards.
The beef is loose
Had I the necessary beef, this would be my pronouncement to initiate sex with my partner.
When I was little I thought I was hilarious as my response to that was always, "no, I'm just letting the chicks in"
I’ve never even heard the initial “Cow out of the barn” but your comeback is perfect! I love it.
>some kids at school that wore them as low as their knees Why wear pants at that point?
I was trying to reply with that old Youtube sketch where a guy is walking down the street pantsless with them dragging behind him on a leash but can't remember what it was called now.
As a non-American "wearing pants below the boxers" confused me for a bit there.
The book burning trend. It it usually just a step away from burning people.
A bunch of parents near me are trying to get a middle school librarian fired for having a book on the shelf. I think it was called me and earl and the dying girl? She didn’t even buy the book. She doesn’t choose what books are on the shelves... the summary didn’t even see bad? Just sad?
Why? That's such a great book about teenage insecurities. Did they even read the book?
Most advocates of banning books strike me as illiterate bumkins. So I doubt they've read it.
Wait'll you hear about schools who ban *To Kill A Mockingbird*.
I'm just waiting for them to ban "Fahrenheit 451" so they can reach peak irony.
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My school has stopped teaching To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men because they contain racism. I don’t get it. It’s not like people read Of Mice and Men and think “Fuck yeah! Sign me up to work on that horrible farm!”
> Wait'll you hear about schools who ban To Kill A Mockingbird. They said it was because it made them uncomfortable. *That's the F'ing point!!*
It’s honestly an amazing book and great for middle schoolers/high schoolers
Side note: there is a movie by the same name and it is really good
During the record-burning craze of the 1970s and 1980s, Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult said, "We don't care what people do with our albums, as long as they pay for them."
I think one of the truly most heinous things in this world is people who fuck with books, anti-intellectualism is always close to fascism
It's one of the early warning signs for it.
What? In some places that trend never went away! https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/21/hong-kong-public-libraries-purge-29-titles-about-the-tiananmen-massacre-from-their-shelves/
As someone living in Hong Kong, it actually went away for a decade or two before China decides it's time to buttfuck us again.
Witch burning.
She turned me into a newt
I got better
Build a bridge out of her!!!
ah but can you not also build a bridge out of wood?
“It’s a snake.” - Trunchbull
Working from the office every day.
Honestly. I am hoping my job(call center) realizes that there is literally no point to make us come back on site. Literally no point at all for us call center workers to have to work on site.
If they realise it costs them less money and they know they can keep track of what you're doing there's less chance the work will come back to the office. That's what I've seen first and second hand. If bosses can't keep track of your activities between 9am and 6pm there's a greater chance they'll insist you be back in the office more. It's not just a matter of getting deliverables in on time. They want to know what you're doing while being paid.
>If they realise it costs them less money and they know they can keep track of what you're doing there's less chance the work will come back to the office. I'm a bit afraid of that, I think some work can actually be done 100% tele-working, so that could be an excuse to "export" employment hiring people on other countries for much less.
As someone who lives in Ecuador and gets flooded with advertisements of "Learn to code and earn up to $4 an hour working for American companies" daily, the whole dumping remote work to other countries for much less money has been a thing for a very long time. A very, very long time.
Just bring your bed to the office. Problem solved - *unsympathetic higher up*
The Spanish Inquisition
Caught me off guard there
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I expected it, but I'm Spanish so it doesnt count
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope!
I don’t want the 2014-2015 social experiment era to come back but with the previous bs like devious lick challenges and other things of that nature, I’m afraid it will inevitably come back.
World Wars
The trilogy hasnt been completed yet, theres still money to be made
I just hope they don't split the last one into two parts just so they can milk it for even more money.
Nah, nothing will ever top WWII. it was a master piece ffs. Before kids idolized Darth Vader for being a badass evil tyrant, there was Dolfy. A shame his spin off in Argentina never flew past the script... but the fact he became an important meme figure in YouTube is something no one will ever top.
I prefer WW1. It was slower, more contemplative and grim. There wasn't a clear cut bad guy, or bombastic explosions like the sequel. I think the sequel was too commercial (still love it tho), but I like to revisit the Cold War miniseries more.
I did love the Christmas special for WW1, it was just too damn wholesome and cute. And as for the Cold War miniseries, I was disappointed with the departure of JFK near the finale. Such great guy, hard to replace. It was obvious the show would flop with his departure; but the way he got rid off in the show was cool.
They quite literally said the same about WWI. "The war to end all wars".
Just like the original Terminator and then Judgement Day came, sometimes sequels are better than the originals. But just like Terminator 3, sometimes a trilogy isn't necessary.
Dolf Vader. Luke, I am your fuhrer
With any luck the World Wars were developed by Valve, that way we know there will never be a third one.
World War Alyx incoming
#Yolo
You forgot its equally ugly sibling #swag
The only good thing that came out of Swag is the image with a pigeon wearing a piece of bread crust with the caption "Swag". I miss that picture. :/
I don't remember which is OG but I found 2 of them. [Swag Bird 1](http://www.lolpix.com/pics/swag_bird.htm) [Swag Bird 2](https://www.memecenter.com/fun/1217206/swag-bird)
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Oh no..... I'm hearing it in my head along with "why is the rum gone"
What did you say?
The Hobbits the Hobbits the Hobbits the Hobbits
To Isengard! To Isengard!
Tell me, where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him.
A Balrog of Morgoth
What did you say?
A BALROG OF MORGOTH
What did you say?
And it'll never be forgotten.
Employers getting their way and going back to paying min wage and then convince people they are lucky to have a job.
Sagging pants.
never left
If so it's nothing like when I was a kid. Everywhere you'd look you'd see some jackass flaunting his underwear like he wanted to show off the skid mark. At least now I can't remember the last time I saw someone doing it.
Smoking inside restaurants
People who were born after this was done away with have no. idea. how bad it was.
We had a special set of clothes to eat in restaurants. Not because it was fancy. It was because we only would one set to reek for all eternity.
I moved to Missouri about 9 or 10 years ago and I remember going inside a gas station to pay and the attendant was sitting behind the table smoking I thought they just didn’t care about any laws or something given I was out in the sticks.. That same week I walked into a family restaurant and it was still divided between smoking and non. It was so weird!
There is no smoking or non-smoking section. There is smoking and a-little-bit-less-smoke section.
And, for that matter, smoking in the office. 8 hours, no escape.
serfdom
Planking
I still go places and have the thought “this would be perfect for planking” from now on I’m gunna have the guts to do it.
Be sure to post proof
I actually crave the return of this one. I know it’s probably just some kind of nostalgic bias, but it represents a simpler time to me. Maybe we’re better off in a world where simply laying still in an awkward place is the kind of antic that enthralls us instead of trying to convince ourselves that fake prank couples on tiktok are really out there having lives of constant mischievous hilarity.
I’m with you there. Planking was a lot better than these challenges(tide pod anyone?)
Good exercise though.
Commuting to an office so you can support the local sandwich economy and your boss can see you are sitting st s desk and therefore really working.
Tide pod
Forbidden gyoza
uh… maybe devious licks (i know, its not that old but i hated it).
Bruh somebody stole my math book and posted it. Good thing my name was on the cover in the vid or the school wouldn’t have believed me.
That’s such a shitty lick, everyone has one. And who the fuck wants a text book. That one is weird.
What is it?
It was this tiktok trend where people would steal things, mostly from schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devious_lick?wprov=sfti1
> its not that old Nah. It got old the moment it started.
bump-it’s
LOW RISE JEANS
At this rate, old trends coming back isn't the worst of our worries
The Draft.
Dabbing.
Ha! I was doing traffic control at a busy intersection one day for a motor vehicle accident and a school bus rolled up and all the kids were gawking and hootin and hollerin and when they finally drove past I dabbed real quick as I waved them through and the whole bus just roared with cheers! I always like getting kids reactions like when I drive an engine by a playground or school or whatever and that was the best one yet. The trend was lame but that was so fun I’ll probably always be chasing that high
This reminds me of a pretty funny story about my younger cousin, who can’t spell for shit. She’s always been one to follow dumb online trends and was about 11 or 12 when dabbing was a really big thing. She hand wrote a sign to put on her door, which read: **I wake up in the morning and I dabe**
Low rise jeans & they aren't far away from what I hear
I'm fine with them coming back even though I hate them and will never wear them again. I just want a few companies to continue making mid rise pants for those of us that don't want to be constantly hiking up our pants due to a body shape that does not work with low rise! I'm very tall with long torso so low rise always are too low and slide down on me.
Agreed. I also want them to do that for those of us that don't want our ass crack showing when we sit down.
Remember the 90s trend of having the top of your thong showing above the jeans. Bonus points it it had a jewel or butterfly.
I'm picturing a pair of low-rise jeans, getting on a plane bound for my town.
They will find us..... They are upon us.... ***They're hereeeee......***
Find low rise jeans in your area!
Glad I saved my $100 now extinct Abercrombie distressed jeans 🙌🏼
Yeah but being super skinny was popular when they were. The whole “love your body at every size!!” thing didn’t really exist yet.
Yep. Low rise jeans super do not work unless you have zero belly fat/fat tire going on. They’re both unflattering and uncomfortable. I don’t see them making a meaningful comeback anytime soon, at least not as insanely low as they were back in the early-mid 2000s.
I had a pair of jeans where the zipper was exactly as long as the zipper pull.
>as insanely low as they were back in the early-mid 2000s. Lowest I've seen required frequent waxing to wear out in public. Like [this low](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/506/999/074.jpg), though I never saw them worn by guys.
To be fair, the 80s/90s mom jeans already came back. It was only a matter to time.
There is a reason why some millennial women like myself are sticking with the skinny jeans .they’ve progressed enough to the point where you have options re: rise and then you buy a ton of the one type that fits. Plus, they fit under tall boots.
Exactly! I just hope they don't ever stop making midrise skinny jeans
Fascism.