there is no way you can win.
otm. When two or more middle schoolers decide that some object or person is fit to be mocked, no power on earth can stop them from mocking it, whether or not the mockery makes sense to anyone else outside their tight little group. it is their version of using The Force.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
tbf it's the only power they have
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
the funniest thing to do imo is to laugh along (the more uncomfortably the better) like you're in on the joke
the proper rejoinder is "When you are my age you will be one of two things: exactly like me or dead."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
btw, NICE UMBRELLA KAREN
Chad isn’t the equivalent of Karen, it’s the harbinger of inchoate rage and destruction ‘Kyle.’
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
I thought the proper rejoinder was to shout SPINNING STAR KICK and then do your best Chun-Li impersonation
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
*this* karen's gonna go drink beer and get laid tonight; enjoy your videogames
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
i didn't think chad was the equivalent of karen, just making a point about gender presumptions
anyways, this karen is gonna enjoy videogames and get laid, you kids go drink beer
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
There's a grim appeal to "well if you're gonna call me Karen, I'm gonna be the Karen-est Karen who ever Karen-ed" that I don't know I'd be able to successfully resist.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, November 15, 2019 8:24 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
TOTALLY. I thanked them for leaving completely earnestly. I was like, welp I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the wine store and go home and do exactly what I want with no interference from anyone, which is get drunk and smoke cigarettes. But enjoy your mom telling you to do your homework.
I had to help one of them find a foothold because he couldn't get down from where they'd climbed to.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
lol got em
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
i just want some affection
― mick signals, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
when you got it you it, karen.
i rarely wear my riding glasses without being in a doing-sportsy scene and costume, and at home i call them my “asshole dad” glasses, because that’s def a style, and not one i want on casual, (though sometimes i maybe can be an asshole who is also a dad).
So walking past a group of kids with my kid at his HS, one archly says “HEY NICE GLASSES SIR! MY DAD HAS THOSE!” and my 15 y/o glances to them, then ahead, and says sotto voce to me without looking “he must be a _real_ asshole then,” quality bonding moment.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I was like, welp I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the wine store and go home and do exactly what I want with no interference from anyone, which is get drunk and smoke cigarettes.
This the most Gen-X response ever. Love it. #realitybites
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Is this Karen thing a goodfellas reference?
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
no
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
I've gotten called Karen, Cathy, Mary etc. because they are so similar to my name and people forget and I just respond to them anyway.
I do feel like 'Karens' have crossed several generations, though.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it was a top 20 name from 1941 to 1971.
― jaymc, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
always makes me think of that “shes changing her name from kitty to karen” line in that cake song which seems pretty uber genx
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
i meant that the personality of a Karen crosses many generations.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
The fucking list of accomplishments in this Kelly cartoon...
https://scontent.fewr1-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72653164_10219100541960219_7641078189195788288_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQlA6fRQ7rl2acZ1eN5S1tZqsKJe0lhrlZXeirn5_Rj_Rd6vIh5KzyLCWjWeUM0Gsvo&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-5.fna&oh=96d2f9a300e3fc18af3cbaaba8e5446b&oe=5E89311A
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
omg "Kennedy Assassination"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
I am beside myself
"Space Shuttle Challenger" I can't breathe help
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
poll
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
the only thing in parenthese is skinny jeans?
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
"not starting the fire"
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
STILL NOT AT THE PUB
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
ah, I see now.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Some day you'll be old like me, but there'll never be a day where I'm as dumb as you.
"In the morning I shall be sober."
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
karen!I LOVE YOU!!!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
The Voluptuous Horror of Being Called Karen
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
not a karen; the world
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Rhonda?
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
accomplishing stuff is dumb. I just want to be shot out into space
― brimstead, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
- karen
was “bye Felicia” a thing before like 2 years ago? I didn’t even recognize what is was from until I had it explained to me. And I saw Friday like 20 times growing up. Were people “bye felicia-ing” each other in the 90s/00s? Sorry in advance.
― brimstead, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
I always put the bye felicia takeoff around the time of Vine.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
If you ever owned a global hypercolour shirt then you are a gen Xer. There must be something crazy toxic in those because they seem to have been strangely resistant to being revived (also they were terrible).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
yeah the bye felicia thing is def an internet-specific meme - it was not a thing in the 90s/00s
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
im pretty sure that’s british only, its right in the spelling
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Nah that was briefly a thing in the US
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
🤔
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
it was a different time back then, we thought it was important for your clothes to tell other people how much you were sweating
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
it was spelled hypercolor. and it was an american company. it was huge for a few years in the cusp of the 80s and 90s. i had a t-shirt as a young kid
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
There are SHadOW ShiFteR shirts now.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/cxWNJfS.jpg
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
I had a hyper colour Red Nose Day T-shirt. It stopped working (?) long before I stopped wearing it.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
TS: Je suis Karen vs. We are all Karens now
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
This thread is much more fun than the “yo yo yo breakdancing ilxors in their thirties” one.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link