Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Save the Loli said:
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No reports if he used any camping equipment featured in Yurucamp. And I'm not sure if it's better or worse than when Yurucamp fans trashed one of the campgrounds that appeared in the show.
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And since I mentioned Bocchi the Rock earlier, there is a warning on the official site in three languages basically telling fans of the show to stay the fuck out of the neighborhood where the show is set.
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This is like a monkey paw wish from someone who wants people to touch grass more.
 

Troydan is back with fast food consoomer challenge videos; this time by dressing up as a worker from KFC.
He vomited most of it, and it was so much, that he joking subtitled his hurling with “Elon!” more than multiple times in the video.
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
I think this superfluous "home organizer" type crap is for people who are already too lazy to keep using it after the first or second time, and/or hoarders, and ultimately useless, because cleaning a hoard with storage knickknacks is like trying to bail out the Titanic with a bucket. If you have more shit than you can handle, even more shit is not the answer.

The few times I've seen somebody giving real organization advice on social media, i.e. throwing worn out shit away, it brings out the smug, offended hoarders in full force. "You'll regret throwing all that out one day!" Yeah, no, lady. There's never going to be a day when anybody with a job regrets throwing away a stained up sofa cover or a pair of sweatpants with a rip on the ass.
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altough part of me wonders if society also has a disdain for keeping things, and considers it 'hoardin', as a way to shame us from planning for the future
big difference between "dont throw away that napkin, or that plastic stress toy i bought on a whim, i might need it one day!" and "dont throw out those wood boards or old fabrics, or broken down machine you can take parts from"

if we label it all under the same umbrella of 'hoarding' we can effectively medicalize the act of saving things instead of throwing out and buying more, which, in the long run, actually saves you apace and money
the classic catch 22 of labeling every undesirable behavior as a mental disorder to keep us in line
 
As a lifelong chopstick user who owns an absolutely beautiful box set of artistic chopsticks I bought when in Vietnam, I cannot emphasize enough how much this soycel twee nerd shit bothers me on some deep existential level.

Captured from some basic bitch FB page.


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cybertoaster said:
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JFC these weebs ruin everything...

Phones are one of the things that I will never ever buy used, why? because every single phone out there has been in the shitter.

Not kidding, take a used phone for analysis and they will always find fecal matter particles.
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Always assume anything you buy second hand has had shit or worse on it and clean it well. That said I wouldn't buy a phone second hand either.
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
altough part of me wonders if society also has a disdain for keeping things, and considers it 'hoardin', as a way to shame us from planning for the future
big difference between "dont throw away that napkin, or that plastic stress toy i bought on a whim, i might need it one day!" and "dont throw out those wood boards or old fabrics, or broken down machine you can take parts from"

if we label it all under the same umbrella of 'hoarding' we can effectively medicalize the act of saving things instead of throwing out and buying more, which, in the long run, actually saves you apace and money
the classic catch 22 of labeling every undesirable behavior as a mental disorder to keep us in line
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Hoarding is a very different animal to frugality. My grandparents, for example, threw nothing out, but they also bought nothing. My parents spent years renovating a shitheap house with no money, my father squirreled any possible useful item away he came across... but he always had a plan for that item and even though itd sometimes take years, it would eventually be used.


I've personally lived with three different hoarders. I even helped one move house. Ten year old food (that they were feeding to other people) so much equipment to cook food in there was no place to cook food. Dozens of old toothbrushes, tins of cigarette butts. One had a fridge full of food and when the fridge died, she just left the food in there to putrify for six months. What's really crazy is that she kept saying that she was going to repair the fucking thing and sell it. There's a very definite difference between keeping good cloth for future projects, or keeping some nice timber tucked in the back of the shed until you decide what to use it for. There may be the odd useful thing in a hoard, but the vast majority of objects are dirty, broken, and completely useless.

There's a special level of Hell reserved for hoarders who abandon their hoard and fuck off out of town, leaving some other poor bastard to figure out how they're going to dispose of tons and tons of contaminated rubbish that the hoarder found dumped at the side of the road and dragged home.
 
NoReturn said:
That reminds me, I only just recently learned that Barbie is a knockoff of a German doll named "Bild Lilli"
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Not technically a knock-off, Bild Lilli was originally a sort of high-end call girl and existed in pinups and peepshows. The Lilli dolls weren't selling well so Ruth Handler bought the rights, named it Barbara after her daughter and then sold it as a fashion dolls for girls. Ken is also named after her son.
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Lilli comic for your viewing pleasure, and yes I'm sure some German has jacked off to it.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Not technically a knock-off, Bild Lilli was originally a sort of high-end call girl and existed in pinups and peepshows. The Lilli dolls weren't selling well so Ruth Handler bought the rights, named it Barbara after her daughter and then sold it as a fashion dolls for girls. Ken is also named after her son.
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Lilli comic for your viewing pleasure, and yes I'm sure some German has jacked off to it.
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So they didn't steal barbie, but gentrified her.
 
cybertoaster said:
Phones are one of the things that I will never ever buy used, why? because every single phone out there has been in the shitter.

Not kidding, take a used phone for analysis and they will always find fecal matter particles.
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So does everything in the public space around you - door handles, chairs, desks, goods in shops. Trays on planes are dirtier than the toilets:

The list​

Here’s the full list of the dirtiest places and surfaces on airplanes and at airports:​


1) Tray table: 2,155 CFU/sq. in.
2) Drinking fountain buttons: 1,240 CFU/sq. in.
3) Overhead air vents: 285 CFU/sq. in.
4) Lavatory flush buttons: 265 CFU/sq. in.
5) Seatbelt buckles: 230 CFU/sq. in.
6) Bathroom stall locks: 70 CFU/sq. in.
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Source 2

It's never too late to seek treatment for your mysophobia before it consumes you completely and wrecks your life.

NoReturn said:
At the risk of going a bit off topic, what even was the last piece of media that made you (you = any of us itt) actually feel something other than "amused" or "bad"?
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Suzume moved me.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Bild Lilli was high society, she was an escort/call girl in the more classical usage of the term where she didn't street walk or openly advertise the fact that she was a whore.
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You mean courtesan?

That would actually make sense in a weird way. Barbie is supposed to be fashionable, independent, intelligent etc. Successful courtesans throughout history are often noted as being intelligent and charming as well as beautiful and fashionable. They sold their personality as much as their body.
 
ロボ﹏for﹏hire said:
So does everything in the public space around you - door handles, chairs, desks, goods in shops. Trays on planes are dirtier than the toilets:
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But I barely touch any of that and wash my hands after it, I don't carry a plane tray and use it in the toilet too, and I don't put my face next to it either, see the problem now?
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
the hatred for color is definitely a part of our world becoming cynical and depressing
>"eeew, color? but that's for people who like.... enjoy stuff. fucking preps. enjoying stuff is so lame. its cooler to pretend we dont care about anything"

i sometimes wonder if its intentional, if there's some kinda movement to turn us all apathetic and only have us get excited about approved things
if we loved color and beauty and joy, we might accidentally find it in the real world, we might go outside, smell a flower, watch the clouds, look at a beautiful building or a painting made with love and care and realize theres stuff to care about, and then we'll start fighting for that stuff! before we know it, we'll have some kinda... emotions! itll no longer be cool not to care while were getting destroyed! we'll start CARING about that!
no no no! cant have that! only greys and whites for you, step away from the light now, emotions can only come from buying product, its not keeewl to notice, stop noticing immediately
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Instead of whining on the internet, get off your ass and learn to paint. Take your own advice.

NoReturn said:
At the risk of going a bit off topic, what even was the last piece of media that made you (you = any of us itt) actually feel something other than "amused" or "bad"?

I know a lot of anime is shit, but honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of anything western or live action* at all from the last 5 years.

  • Arcane
  • Unicorn: Warriors Eternal (for animation)
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The barbie movie was actually pretty intensely existentialist but in a way that felt meaningful? They managed to play with the idea of toy/marketing based media in a really funny and meta way that subverted a lot of the tropes that have been discussed to death in this thread.

Cuntspiracy Man said:
There's still something incredibly concerning to me about people's goals being set on cheap amazon products
Say what you will about luxury brands but there's aspects to them that are right, even if they do it for the wrong reason
It seems like the cheaper the fashion and trend is, the quicker it goes out of style, and you end up spending more in the long run trying to keep up
Whereas the more you spend on something and the longer it'll be with you, the less inclined you are to run off to the next toy

At least, that's the case for most people
But I don't doubt there's plenty of rich folk, or maybe even poor people, who consume luxury brands the same way they consume tictacs
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The key is to look for timeless styles and high quality materials rather than a brand name. Most people don't know shit about fabrics and construction so its possible to find high quality garments sold inexpensively secondhand. My favorite coat is a vintage cashmere-wool blend. It's held up amazingly despite being 60ish years old and I bought it for around that many bucks.
 
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