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Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk “ Candy bar closed in 10 minutes” Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk
So… give them a Ken? Lol
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Oh a boy**'s** toy? Well both if them belong to the company until you choose. I dont think the company is a boy or a girl, and i think most of our shareholders are adults
Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don’t determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.
I wish they just didn’t give out crappy plastic toys at all.
Some of those “morals” need to decay.
anarchy and moral decay can’t happen at the same time
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The third group of us secretly want both toys
I don’t think that’s a third group. I think it’s a subset of the first one.
The rest of know it doesn’t matter, the toy will be broken or lost in the car by the next block!
There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn’t learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.
I’m glad I wasn’t sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.
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Interesting question, is anarchy better than Kleptocracy? How does money function without the backing of a government, would you have to go back to a bartering system? Could you even have a global supply chain in the absence of a stable government? Could people be able to self actualize in an unstable society?
money
Plenty of ways, it’s older than governments.
But also we don’t need it, and while it does setve a purpose, there are other ways to do that, most of which are less trouble.
global supply chain
Yes? Most of them arent at the behest of governments right now. I have personally put together a supply chain that covered a couple thousand miles, and that was me being a stoner; far from an expert.
For your “stoner supply chain” did you exchange currency backed by some organization or did you exchange precious metals? How did you and other parties agree on the value of what was exchanged?
Well it was drugs(legal now, i think legal then), refined drugs, and candy that was drugged with the refined drugs. I paid in candy. Everyone was hippies, and mostly happy with the arrangement while it lasted.
Like i said; i did this because i wanted to get high on hard candy.
Its not all that complicated, but there were intermediate processing steps, a bit of distance, and a finished product with a couple inputs. I did this as an unhoused stoned 20 year old with zero education on the topic. It’s hard, it’s not magic.
Everybody involved wanted the product (hard candy that gets you high) to get made, and so they made it.
We live in a world that traps everything behind money. That makes money seem important. It’s not.
I want computers to exist. If nobody’s making them, im gonna ask an electrical engineer if they’re doing anything, and out a team together to build the thing. I don’t need money. I need computers to exist. If i need rare earth bullshit, ill ask who has that, and if they want computers to exist.
Why be difficult though when you clearly know what the customer is asking for
Why not pick one of the answers provided when you’re clearly in a made up scenario?
Because I’ve got infinity time to argue when I’m in a made-up scenario.
Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.
Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.
[briefly checks if this scenario is real]
And then rocks fell and everyone was albert einstein.
To clarify: By believable, I don’t mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.
But “made up” doesn’t imply unbelievable, just not real in the specific instance. While based on very believable interaction, it’s pretty likely this specific interaction is indeed made up
It can. You’ve gotta read between people’s words.
Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.
You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn’t real.
Because if someone says something sexist/racist/stupid, don’t let them get away with it.
idk dismantling the pointless notion of boys toys vs girls toys bit by bit at no cost to the interlocutor other than a slight annoyance sounds pretty based
Why be a misandrist when you clearly know the boy isn’t being given a choice because people like you and the mom don’t give a damn about what boys as long as the toy ‘matches’ the kid’s penis?
Yeah I’m calling you out for being a creep.
Lmao
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They’re not being difficult, the customer is pushing a sexist agenda rather than select one of the choices named. It’s perfectly reasonable for boys to want a Barbie-themed rock band figurine, or a girl to want a van for her Barbie rock band to pretend to drive to their next gig.
They definitely are being difficult, even if you think the cause is just. Everyone knows what she wanted to get
Yep. She wanted to get her shitty take validated.
So give her a Barbie and move on
Why be difficult , though, when you clearly know what the employee is asking?
If it was the customer telling the story I’d be asking just that
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I’m not sure how what I said is either of those things
Ma’am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you’d like.
Sir, I demand to receive the toy that contains the XY chromosome and if you don’t provide it immediately I will be speaking with your manager.
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Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?
Yes
Damn, that’s a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.
Does it have to be fashion police or can it annihilate anyone?
It can annihilate any kind of police
As the holder, you get to decide what is a fashion crime.
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Sandals & socks? not a problem.
Phew! I’m safe for now.
Kid in the back seat playing with a pair of Barbies
I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they’d change their minds instantly upon seeing them.
Employees like this are even more annoying than these types of customers. You knew what toy she wanted so just hand her the toy and move on. It’s such a waste of everybody’s time when someone who has a job with customer service tries to ack slick with the customers.
Have you ever actually encountered a cashier like this, or just read so much copy-pasta about them that you feel like you’ve encountered dozens
I worked retail for decades and I’m genuinely offended you’d side with a customer. those shits don’t get enough guff for their garbage ass behavior. you wanna come in a scream at me because your mad about “duh gubbermen”? well I’m gonna detect your dumb ass talking points and fuck with you for the duration of our interaction. I’ll tell you the toy car has pink hair and rainbow flames on the side and the license plate says “Bi or Die” and the “Barbie” toy is a MtF school teacher named “Claxison” that lives on government assistance. Come in here again and tell me you think “happy holiday’s” is an attack on Christmas, I dare you!
I worked in retail too before. You’re going to meet every type of person, and a lot of them aren’t pleasant. It’s in the best interest of everybody to simply complete the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible. I don’t want to see their ugly mugs nor do they want to spend time with me. If I let every customer like this get under my skin, I would gone insane long ago. The people in retail who actually do spend the time messing with customers usually just end up provoking them, which leads to the crazier ones to flip out and cause problems for everybody else.
It’s not a waste of the employee’s time at all. Don’t start a “be difficult” contest with someone working hourly.
☝️ Found the customer from the post.
I love that lol
This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald’s. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.
Well obviously the boy toys are the ones I use my penis to play with.
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Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it’s not your fault.
“Bless your little heart sir. I know it’s not easy choosing the “boy toy” when one isn’t pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!.”
This triggers a memory!
Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the “girl or boy toy with your happy meal?” question. We were both girls so we automatically answered “girl toy.” After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said “one of each please” we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.
I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.
Hot take is hot!
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I’d be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.
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Nothing ever happens
I used to fuck around like this all the time when I worked a fast food drive thru
When I worked at Taco Bell as a teenager our headset was on the same frequency as the burger king across the street. We could hide out in their parking lot and fuck with their customers. We did that a lot.
Same. Same in call centres too. Did some fun stuff like getting colleagues to say a word you have to work into the next call like “spoon” which is easy with a little “good afterspoon”. Or doing dumb shit like pretending we had Tourette’s.
Damn that’s hilarious- I wish I knew about that game when I worked at a call center!
My favorite when I worked drive thru was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I’d put on my announcer voice- like Stamets level shit- to greet them, and then say “to place an order, press 1” but there was no keypad, so they would just say “uh…one?” And then I’d be like “para español, marque dos”
that’s fuckin hilarious!
That’s so funny
Like Stamets level shit
I… Wat
Am I mistaken in assuming that most of Lemmy’s long-standing users have heard at least one of your voice recordings?
Probably. I’ve only posted it a couple times and deep in comment chains usually lol
Ah- well, it’s what I know you for lol
I always cheated at that one and pretended someone had asked me a question next to me. Or that I had misheard them.
“Oh yeah you can have my spoon sorry about that it’s crazy here anyway…”
Or “I’m sorry WHAT about a dragonfly?”
My favorite was finding new ways to accuse chiropractors of fraud.
“Oh yeah it looks like you had the wrong diagnosis code in there, see this is for kidney failure. Haha I know you’re just a chiropractor and you’re not trying to treat the kidneys DOCTOR.” Really lay it on thick with the doctor, because if the chiropractor is calling himself he’s almost guaranteed to be one of the pricks that insists he’s a real doctor and not a street magician with a degree.
I want to know more. Sounds hilarious.
My favorite was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I’d put on my announcer voice to greet them, and then say “to place an order, press 1” but there was no keypad, so they would just say “uh…one?” And then I’d be like “para español, marque dos”
I would be super petty when Midwestern transplants would butcher the word “quesadilla” as “cassadila” by responding “sorry, a what? Oh, a quesadilla, okay” which got really funny (to me) when they would order several different kinds of quesadilla and I would do the same schtick every time within a span of 2 minutes
This was before I got woke, so sometimes I would put on an Indian accent and act like I was taking their order from an overseas call center
I used to fuck around in all sorts of ways there: putting a sign on the drive-thru menu telling people to yell bc the mic was damaged; not turning on the lights at night so people thought we were closed;
My favorite thing though was doing customer surveys (which would get printed and pinned in the back) and leaving insane reviews- like one went on and on about how the cashier was sooo hot, and then at the end mentioned he reminds me of my dad (that employee was a babyfaced teen which made it extra bizarre)
Omg, this has me cracking up.
Makes me think of that “aceggot” story
I think you’re underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.
Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.
Source: I used to refer to milk as cow’s milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.
(Everyone else didn’t bat an eye, because that’s what it is).
Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun
However, this assumes that the customer knows what the brand names “Barbie” and “Hot Wheels” stand for. Perhaps she just had to bring such a menu of toys to a boy and didn’t have the cultural knowledge behind the terms. It would have been helpful: A doll or a toy car?
Fucking no. Any customer at a fast food drive-through for their kid knows what a fucking Barbie and Hot Wheels are, that is some stupid fucking mental gymnastic bullshit levels of pandering.
Lemmy wants a toy bicycle because fuck cars also will it run Arch?
