mine started right around age 23 iirc but i've extended my lifespan considerably by picking a few saturdsys a month and putting it on pause
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 2 June 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
I flipped out in my late 20s and tried to conform to a bunch of conventions that I thought would make life better. Now it's, like you say, searching for those saturdays
― mh, Friday, 2 June 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
Well, I'm 56 and I still haven't had one.
Then again, I had a bad illness at 21, so every year is a bonus effectively..
― Mark G, Friday, 2 June 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link
Wait, was I supposed to have one?
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 June 2017 07:26 (seven years ago) link
They overrated.
So, basically if you get to a certain age, and decide you want a sporty car, that's level one.
A sporty girlfriend, that's level five (two if you're not actually married, etc)
What else?
― Mark G, Friday, 2 June 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
change career paths when you have a good job, go back to school, change your lifestyle by becoming some crazed marathon runner, become an expat somewhere with a low coat of living, post on craigslist looking for someone interested in cannibalism to eat you
― mh, Friday, 2 June 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link
i'm one for five there, and i keep juuuuust missing on the cannibalism partner
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 June 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
keep hustling karl, you'll find that special cannibal one day
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
the problem is that traditionally, you have to eat others before you are eaten, and that has been an absolute mess to arrange
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 June 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
classic catch-22
when will our poLIEticians wake up and deregulate the cannibal industry
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B54QkYF_vsoriginal is from a Moby music video natch
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
animator is very much a facebook viral artist; this stuff is too obvious even for political cartoons
http://stevecutts.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/santa-fb.jpghttp://www.stevecutts.com/uploads/2/6/3/8/26381140/7987204_orig.jpghttp://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/modern-world-caricature-illustrations-steve-cutts-6.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 2 June 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Definitely some crossover with the trenchant commentary thread there
― Moodles, Friday, 2 June 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
really makes u think
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Steve-Cutts-illustrations-3.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 2 June 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Caca Cola
― qualx, Friday, 2 June 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
in what universe is acer's brand identity up there with Mcdonalds
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Monday, 5 June 2017 04:13 (seven years ago) link
why even bother changing spellings if you aren't making a poorly formed joke. i am really hating this artist thing
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Monday, 5 June 2017 04:15 (seven years ago) link
I call this one "Corp-rophilia"
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 June 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
keeping up on the latest trends is the only thing that fills the void in my soul
― frogbs, Monday, 5 June 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
if i eat consumer products i'll shit money? goddammit i've been doing this all wrong
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 June 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
Not sure I get the recurrent "trenchant commentary" sarcasm with a lot of this stuff, like these cartoons. Yeah they are simplistic, obvious, etc., but doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging? These cartoons are not at all insightful but they are "accurate" in a broad sense, and evidently in America at least they are not at all obvious to something like 38% of the population.
I don't know, seems like a lot of liberal guilt snobbery at the wrong people but then again I'm "not on Facebook" which is the ultimate snob move
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 5 June 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
most of the memes on here are neither insightful nor "accurate", reducing complex issues to slogans is a bad thing that makes public discourse worse
― Covfefe growing vpon the skull of a man (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I should add that I am grateful to you guys and appreciate all the dirty work as this thread has kept me safe from FB in homeopathic doses
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 5 June 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i-w600/keep-calm-and-reduce-complex-issues-to-slogans.jpg
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Are we doing this in all these threads now
― K-hole MacLachlan (wins), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
new board description
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
I agree w/ that in general! Just not convinced it's a worthwhile position in a messaging battle w/ corporate bots. It's gonna take a lot of people some of them not too sharp to get out from under this mess.
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 5 June 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging?
Depends on who you add, surely. Your FB list is determined by your real life friends and family in a way most social media isn't, if there's an echo chamber there it's gonna translate.
My personal experience is people who tend to post these things also tend not to have friends who disagree with their basic premise, or if they do they know better than to engage with them on it.
Though frankly I don't think it's a valid premise from the get-go to think that anyone in America has never been exposed to messages like "corporations are bad", "money doesn't buy happiness" or "x-mas is too commercial".
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 5 June 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
I only interact with wins on fb tbh
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
The trouble is I've never met the type of person these cartoons propose - the totally dumb consumer, someone with a brain covered in NIKE ticks, sucking shit out of a pipe. I know the cartoons are exaggerated, but they're still saying that a type of person or a type of consciousness exists and I'm still not sure it does
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
Like I think the vulgarity of marketing today is definitely worth noting, crass adverts squirting out of your phone and fridge and toaster and watch, targeted to the absolute lowest common denominator ... but the cartoons seem to think this LCD person actually exists and needs to be woken up.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Skipping 18906 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
Jeez
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Monday, 5 June 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18838849_10154671444413379_2154816818744377490_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=9a898080f1a1246f780df71d6a9028a0&oe=59A1B265
You can buy these
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 5 June 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
love too pedant
― sleepingbag, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
problem is that after you use them for long enough they start to provide only some of the possible options. suddenly there's only two & too. if this pencilmaker wants to invent a time machine so that i can go back and see what the rest of the pencil used to say, i might be interested
dislike/angry face, downvote, switch to separate account, downvote again
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
do it kingfish
― qualx, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
load them all
― qualx, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
suddenly there's only two & too.
As well, 'colons are underrated', which is just simply not true.
― jmm, Monday, 5 June 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jbJo1tZ.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
tl;dr
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
99% sure it's fake but whoever made it was impressively in full metal jacket character
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
thats a famous reddit reply that got meme'd
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what gorilla warfare is but I bet it involves feces
― waterbear say hi to me (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
you're confusing gorillas with reddit
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
that's got to be the greatest reddit comment of all time
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
certainly the most "effortlessly sums up the spirit of"
― Covfefe growing vpon the skull of a man (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
in response, the receiver of that attack solemnly downvoted
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
inscribe that on an obelisk and let it be mankind's epitaph imo
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
(not mick foley's, to be clear)
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
I think that post predates Reddit. Probably a 4chan thing, and probably a joke to begin with.
― JRN, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 02:23 (seven years ago) link