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Human Being's avatar

The subway take is giving me war flashbacks to those people who attacked Mayor Pete for not being “gay enough” during the 2020 democratic primaries.

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Alex's avatar
Nov 5Edited

It is weird that "queer-as-worldview-and-philosophical-bedrock-that-is-ontologically-liberatory-and-opposed-to-all-kinds-of-isms" has really broken containment from academia and become a thing that people in the real world confidently opine on.

Of course, this means that someone can be trans and gay, or genderqueer and asexual, or any combination of queer identities, and not "really" be queer, because you think they haven't de-stigmatized, de-colonized their brain. Or just because they disagree with you. Or they're cringe. Or you just don't like them.

Social media really does make everything worse.

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JohnMGK's avatar

“ (yes, this is real.)”

I don’t think it is? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-oral-sex-corn-dogs/

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Cartoons Hate Her's avatar

Omg how did I fall for that??

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John O'Laughiln's avatar

damn it, i fell for it too. i'm not gonna log into truth social to check stuff like this but i wish there was some fediverse-like way to validate it. also imo even twitter screenshots on twitter should get ocr'd and linked to their source. i don't care if it's effectively snitch tagging people, it would be a huge net win by making fakes clearer

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Human Being's avatar

I could forgive a certain level of stylistic inaccuracy if it took place in 1903. There’s no good excuse for screwing up 2003. I would imagine that most of the adults involved in the making of the show were at least of middle-school age in 2003.

Anyway, my takes:

Needs more capris and skirts/dresses over capri leggings

Needs more cap sleeves

The clothes fit too well and look too clean. Where are the too tight, low-rise jeans that gave even the thinnest girls muffin tops, or the flared hems that have been destroyed by rain, snow, mud, and being accidentally stepped on?

Needs more flip flops

Needs more scarves

Needs more layered tops, especially for boys. Half of those boys should be wearing long sleeve tees with a baggy open button down on top.

Hair looks too healthy and contemporary. We need some limp bobs, fried flat ironed hair, hair gel, bad dye jobs, unblended highlights.

Needs some proper, corny graphic tees (show me "I went to Cincinnati and all I got was this dumb t-shirt" or "I'm with stupid") and tie-dyed t-shirts from summer camp.

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Tony Hon's avatar

Can't look at the 2003 discourse and people saying the goth and stuff are missing without thinking about the cybergoth dancing under the overpass. Iconic 00s time capsule

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BirdOfGoodOmen's avatar

Member technoviking?

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Tony Hon's avatar

iirc he ended up having a villain arc

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BirdOfGoodOmen's avatar

oh no.

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Alex S's avatar

Australia still has goths btw. Not sure how they hung on.

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BirdOfGoodOmen's avatar

Glad we're getting another Many Such Takes. This and the New Right Poast keep me in the loop with the best of the web's gags, goofs, and gaffes.

Edit: also for the people who want to know what fashion ca. 2003ish was, just boot up The Sims 2. It's better than the other Sims games so you should boot it up anyway, but you can see the best and worst of 00s fashion there lol

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Human Being's avatar

Change my view: Donald Trump is a series of sentient Dril tweets

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Pam B's avatar

I believe the 25 year old commuter lives in NW Indiana. I'm not going to say it's overly popular in Chicago to have that kind of commute, but it is an option for those who work downtown. What's sad is the lack of interaction in the office of forced to return to in office work, combined with that long commute. If you had office camaraderie that would at least be something to liven the day. And yes, please take your backpack off as soon as you get home.

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tian zhao's avatar

I'm ashamed to say that I knew exactly what was happening with all of these

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Jasper Savannah's avatar

I'm a new reader, and this was so funny, esp the wikipedia edit on bin laden's shooter's page

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Cartoons Hate Her's avatar

I'm so glad you liked it!!!

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Nichol's avatar

"I hope you realize that setting the timer counts as part of the 15 minutes" Nice find. 👌

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Stu's avatar

Could the tradwife thing be related to luxury hobby farming?

E.g. have a rich partner or something from of passive income and spend your day taking pictures with your chickens or baking cakes from expensive ingredients to make yourself feel fulfilled rather than drinking wine or staring at the wall. You can put it all on Instagram too.

Possibly you have a housekeeper and someone hired to look after your animals or water your crops/plants when you don't feel like it.

Lots of TV stars and musicians start break even or loss-making farms to make artisan cheese or expensive meat. They usually employ people to do the jobs that they don't want to do.

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Stu's avatar

*some form of passive income - edit won't work and autocorrect is awful

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anvlex's avatar

I believe “two sodas” is a Barstool/Pardon My Take inside joke

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horse's avatar

How and why does the bin Laden shooter have three parents???

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