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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Back in January I went into a Bagel Me! and it looked like New York City from the 90s as depicted in tv and movie. Such a weird feeling.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    "Here's the $0.85 for the coffee, thanks!"

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your welcome! Enjoy your styrofoam cup coffee from a deli that smells of Malboro cigarettes. The sugar has weird moving black things and milk has been left out for 3 days.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    It’s actually because they started offering syrup filled, whip cream and caramel covered drinks directly on the menu. They were briefly infamous for like 1000 calorie macchiatos.

    Little espresso shops had flavor shots before, but the rest were pretty much donut shops that sold regular utility coffee, and the sugar and fat was external (donuts sandwiches and pastries).

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    "Do u think y2k is gonna happen?,"

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't know but I've been stockpiling canned food in my basement and I bought a portable toilet just in case.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Portable … toilet?

    I too own a bucket.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    this made me look up "bucket toilet" and actually you can very much make an actual toilet like that, which is good to know.

    big bucket, plastic bags, some sawdust in the bag, and a toilet seat ontop.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why not just hold the bag and poop directly into it? You can save on all that other stuff and you can do it anywhere. Even better: just shit on the ground. It's the end-times, it's fine.

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    If you put this passive agressive bullshit up ima gonna smoke indoors and pay 25c for my drink.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Maybe drink too much, assault a woman and call the bartender the f slur. Feeling cute.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    What the fuck is the f slur? Other than fuck

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Imagine a bundle of sticks all rolled together….

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think it's the one that rhymes with Taggart. And is another word for a bassoon.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is faggart like a new slur? Or do you just have questionable rhyming skills?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    This sign goes hard in countries that belonged to former Yugoslavia.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Depending on the country, paying like it's 1995 would be the best power move. Here's, dunno, 100 francs? 5 marks?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh yes. If you're a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.

    "Toast of shame" - Mladic and Karreman drinking together

    Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    what am I missing? why is the picture titled the toast of shame?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.

    https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/nov/17/features11

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    In the middle is luitenant kolonel Thom Karremans, leader of the Dutchbatt peacekeeping force near Srebrenica, to the left is Ratko Mladic the last of the Serbian forces.

    Mladic promised the to let there population of the enclave to go free, and Karremans believed him.

    They were slaughtered instead.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I never use any public WiFi on my phone, why would you use wifi like it's 2005?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I used to when i never paid for data

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Just page me.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    I don't expect places to have wifi. If only phones had their own way of connecting to the internet.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cool. Lemme just paint the ceiling with my brains so I can approximate what it was like when I wasn't around.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I didn't like talking to other people in 1995, and I sure as hell aren't going to start enjoying it now.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    When my family goes out we usually have to put our phones away. It was my rule, but now I break my own rules and my kids have to tell me to put my phone away. I guess my kids are better than me now.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    what did coffee cost in 1995 ?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you think McDonald's has the monopoly picks for the 1996 Olympic Dream team yet? There is no way they can be as good as last time right... Bird, Jordan, Magic, there wasn't a bad player on the team!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The 1996 McDonalds Monopoly game was one of the games that the sweepstakes company fixed, right?

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  • Former police officer stole the winning pieces for years, made $24 million for him/friends/family apparently. Was supposed to go on trial September 10 2001. The next day 9/11 happened and no one paid attention to what happened.

    3 years prison for postal fraud or some shit. One year he sent the pieces into a charity, that may have been 1996 like you asked

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    We Do Not Have ✨WiFi✨

    Use The Hotspot On Your Phone Like A Normal Person

    Or Get A Data Card For Your Laptop IDK Or Care

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There’s a place near me that I don’t go to very often, and almost never if I’m alone. They have great food and it’s pretty cheap, but they don’t have WiFi.

    That normally wouldn’t be a problem, because I rarely use any of my cell data, but it’s a super old building full of interference and I can only get cell signal if I happen to get one of the 3 seats within 10 foot of the front windows.

    If I do go by myself, I get weird looks for bringing comic books or video games and just existing by myself, but there’s nothing else to do while waiting for food so..

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    except that in america at least lots of data plans somehow block you from using the hotspot function, i do not fathom how the fuck it's possible but people keep talking about it so i have to assume it's a real thing..

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What? That's... that's insane

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the US is completely fucking insane, all the stuff we hear about countries like china and north korea basically actually happen in the US and no one gives a fuck, and americans just find it so normal that they don't realize others would think it's fucked up

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Yep, Americans have less freedom than North Koreans because we can't tether our phones data service to our laptops. /s

    I fully support net neutrality, but there are bigger problems than not being able to tether your phone's data plan to your laptop.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago
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    But people in the real world don’t like talking to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    i hate phones

    (i have no other comment.)

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  • What do you want me to act like my kin circa 1995? Because if so you may want to get out of the way cause I've got a weed sprayer filled with diesel and a little cigarette!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sure, go back to a time where you might have to fight for your life just for wearing the wrong t-shirt out of Blur and Oasis (Pulp btw).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Is that Lighthouse Coffee?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gaaaaaay!

    (Am I doing it right?)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I saw this exact same sign in a restaurant in Newfoundland

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    1995.... The peak of humanity. Industrial clubs everywhere, fun cheap bars, bright clothes, danceable music, computers you still had a chance of understanding somewhat, home appliances and lightbulbs didn't need firmware updates or spy on you, affordable housing and groceries, relative worldwide peace...

    I think I'd burst into tears if I saw this sign IRL

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    So, a white bread is USD0.77?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Am i the only one who wishes this was common? Put your stupid phones away. How have we not matured enough to not be so addicted to little flashy lights.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I spend most my time on the phone socializing anyway. I'm addicted to feeling connected with people I care about not "little flashy lights". I'm not at coffee shops to meet people I'm there to change pace for a minute and reset before I move to another task. If I'm specifically with someone then sure I talk to them but usually I want to be anywhere else because coffee shops in Seattle are so loud I can't hold a conversation

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  • You have a good point. But it's there in your post; "feeling" connected. But for many people, they actually aren't. They feel connected because of notifications and little dings that give them dopamine, much like a rat in a test lab hitting buttons for treats. Thats why I am surprised no one sees this.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    i guess i am getting old. but i really think it is sad, when a group goes to the restaurant/coffee/bar and everyone is staring at their individual screen

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    McDonald's STILL has newspapers sitting in a rack next to the counter where I am. Growing up these places had magazines and newspapers available to read. People "back then" didn't just randomly talk to strangers, they just kept themselves busy with other things.

    Yes, there's a problem with people not interacting physically anymore, but it's not cause we have electronics, it's cause people don't have a place to go outside the home anymore. This is a problem with a lack of community centers and walk-able neighborhoods, not a problem with phones.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i partially agree with you. but most social media is carefully designed to make you keep interacting with it. because of phones, you can bring a nearly endless stream of distractions everywhere you go. the newspaper you can read a maxim of once.

    it was impossible to get more than a "Mmh" out of my grandfather, while he was reading his newspaper. so i know what you mean. but when he was done with it, he was done with it. after his 0.5 h per day of newspaper, he was an amazing conversationalist and always had time for whoever wanted something. so i would say there is a difference.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Exactly. Keep the poors in their dumb little walled garden social media so they don't ever learn everything. The average person now is terrified of the Internet if it isn't Google or meta. Ironically, the things they trust are the most evil of all by far.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I feel the same ! Like are we this brainwashed ?? Plus theyre not even reading articles or anything to improve themselves, it's endless TikTok scrolling. Also, im not old, and I can still see it. So it's not really an old person thing. More of a "have we literally become idiots addicted to a shiny screen" type thing.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    who talked to random strangers at coffee shops even before phones?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I once was in a lunch group where one of the people honestly asked the restaurant staff about wifi, standing almost next to this sign. The guy smugly pointed at the sign and said nothing.

    It was cringy for everyone involved.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That sign looks like it really blocks access to those refrigerators. is it even necessary to be so obnoxious about your lousy cheap lack of WiFi? Just have a little sign that says “no WiFi” if that is even really necessary, without being sarcastic about it.

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