Its like when I talk about cars.

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

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

People at work have heard my alarm tone and think its hilarious that as a middle aged man my alarm tone is so flowery and gentle until I explained that being awoken suddenly by a harsh abrasive noise puts me in a very combative and abrasive mood for the next several hours and I come to work 45 minutes after it goes off…

Even the American left has had their national exceptionalism so deeply ingrained that they cant stop screaming “We’re number 1!” while they are drowning.

Thats why they were the perfect mark. The idea that it could happen to them was so preposterous.

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

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

Thats the same reason I hate Trailer Park Boys.

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

Bruh, you ever known people born into generatiknal poverty?

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

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

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

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

You have way more chances to get back at shitty customers doing food service.

Get a cunty customer and you just smile a little too large, be a little too eager to fix their issue and let your eyes glint just a little. Then fix their issue exactly what they asked for with nothing wrong with it and untampered with. When you return to the table put a little too much emphasis on “Enjoy” when you give it to them.

They will spend the entire meal trying to figure out what you did or call the manager over and make a big scene about how you did something but cant point out what. Ruin my night, I’ll ruin yours.