why am I getting my weird hot dog headaches again I ain’t even had a hot dog in years
I get weird headaches when I eat hot dogs.
I GET WEIRD HEADACHES WHEN I EAT HOT DOGS, WHAT’S NOT CLICKING??
How come nobody asked for context regarding the “category 5 root beer event” post but suddenly you’re all going full Sherlock fucking Holmes because I mentioned offhand that hot dogs give me headaches.
[Image description: a tweet by Twitter user “Kai Heron” (@KaiHeron) that says: “Strengthen Indigenous land rights because they’re good stewards of nature” has become a refrain among Western environmentalists. Land Back is vital for Indigenous self-determination and liberation, not because Indigenous peoples do the West a service by conserving nature. /end ID]
one of the things I hate about this webbed site is trying to find the original post of a Reddit screen cap just to find out the people in the post blocked me?? ok I guess I’ll just repost the screen grab like a booger eater lmao
just gonna turn this post into a mega thread of Reddit tumblr screencaps I can’t find the original post of but I think are absolutely fucking hilarious.
not even trying to look for these anymore tbh because I have so many it’d be painstaking work lol
tumblr is thwarting my ability to make the longest image post
Fun fact: The original version of this joke was made by Lachlan Hodson on twitter, and we know this because we were eating lunch with him when he came up with it, and he sprinted home to make the graphic without finishing his meal.
The tweet was so funny we gave it a retweet on Batshit Auspol’s twitter account and then watched it get immediately nicked without credit by a big twitter account, after which it went viral across the web, so it would be nice if Lachie could get some love for this!
Quick reminder that Israel has deprived Gaza of electricity and internet. I read that they only get about 3 hours of electricity a day.
Meaning that extremely few people and only the most tenacious of reporters know what’s happening over there these days. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.
More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”
[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]
“Well, they deserve it! October 7. And it’s complicated.”
Like anyone reading this can comprehend this horror.
This was in 2014.
Some people in the notes literally still responding to this about how October 7 started it so I guess they missed the part about this being a post from 2014.
Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.
More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”
[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]
“Well, they deserve it! October 7. And it’s complicated.”
Like anyone reading this can comprehend this horror.
This was in 2014.
Some people in the notes literally still responding to this about how October 7 started it so I guess they missed the part about this being a post from 2014.
This is the hot coffee case all over again isn’t it
No it isn’t. The hot coffee case involved an elderly woman getting 3rd degree burns (where your skin is cooked off of your body) because a McDonalds served coffee at just about boiling, despite having many complaints about burns in the past. Also, the woman suing only asked for medical costs, the jury slapped a huge punitive judgement on top of that.
Yeah that’s what I mean. Like is this case really what’s happening in this headline or a corporate smear campaign
Kraft says their single serve cups are ready in 3.5 minutes total. True, it take 3.5 minutes to microwave the cup, but there’s more prep time and the instructions call for more ingredients, such as water. There’s also the additional time it take to stir in the cheese powder. So in actuality, it could take closer to 5-6 minutes (estimating here).
Because Kraft is selling the speed and convenience of the single serve, it’s sold at a premium (11 bucks for an 8 pack, excluding tax, which yowza!), which is much higher than similar products that, in reality, would take as much time to prepare as the Velveeta.
Like I can’t speak for everyone but I see those Velveeta cups at the grocery store and they’re more expensive than even the other Kraft single serves, and you just know it’s not because of the Velveeta powder.
This is a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff isn’t getting all 5 million, it’ll go to everyone who is *COPD with chronic bronchitis ad voice* entitled to financial compensation.
The firm representing the plaintiff specializes in cases like this, which also includes cases such as Frito-Lay lying about not using real lime in their “hint of lime” Tostito chips (so they can charge more), Kellogg lying about how much fruit they (don’t) put in their fruit pop-tarts in spite of the advertising (so they can charge more), the use of synthetic vanilla in premium goods claiming to have real vanilla (so they can charge more), and, oh yeah, arsenic in baby food.
If you’re wondering why this matters, consider that this isn’t a MRE. It needs prep, not just in time but in additional ingredients, which would be damned inconvenient at best if, say, you didn’t have access to water. This, and the time issue, is, in a very real sense, false advertising. It stands to reason that Kraft made a decent profit off this false advertising.
In a similar vein (see: “hint of lime” chips not having lime but a vaguely defined “natural flavoring”), it’s about truth in the advertised product, and that the company knew it was lying to its customers. Like if Special K isn’t putting real blueberries in its cereal (just pineapple and blue dye), but advertising the cereal as having those blueberries, what happens if a kid allergic to pineapple, or allergic to the dye used, eats the cereal and has a reaction? What if there’s no water to make the damn macaroni and cheese?
Cases like this give the more serious cases (ARSENIC. BABY FOOD.) more of a legal foothold.
You can’t really say “burn corporations to the ground” or “lol kill jeff bezos” and in that same breath call the plaintiff a stupid Karen or whatever for calling out the obvious bullshit Kraft is pulling here. Those single serve cups are freaking expensive for what you get and are sold at a markup because they promise a convenience that they don’t actually deliver on.
Even without some of this deeper significance, we should all cheer these things on; we should really sue over each and every dubious claim that any brand makes to push more sales, no matter how small. Sue over every microscopic corner they cut that sacrifices an atom quality to save them one penny in fact. No mercy! These are the people who decide what the poor get to eat; hold them accountable for their every last word!
This is the hot coffee case all over again isn’t it
No it isn’t. The hot coffee case involved an elderly woman getting 3rd degree burns (where your skin is cooked off of your body) because a McDonalds served coffee at just about boiling, despite having many complaints about burns in the past. Also, the woman suing only asked for medical costs, the jury slapped a huge punitive judgement on top of that.
Yeah that’s what I mean. Like is this case really what’s happening in this headline or a corporate smear campaign
Kraft says their single serve cups are ready in 3.5 minutes total. True, it take 3.5 minutes to microwave the cup, but there’s more prep time and the instructions call for more ingredients, such as water. There’s also the additional time it take to stir in the cheese powder. So in actuality, it could take closer to 5-6 minutes (estimating here).
Because Kraft is selling the speed and convenience of the single serve, it’s sold at a premium (11 bucks for an 8 pack, excluding tax, which yowza!), which is much higher than similar products that, in reality, would take as much time to prepare as the Velveeta.
Like I can’t speak for everyone but I see those Velveeta cups at the grocery store and they’re more expensive than even the other Kraft single serves, and you just know it’s not because of the Velveeta powder.
This is a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff isn’t getting all 5 million, it’ll go to everyone who is *COPD with chronic bronchitis ad voice* entitled to financial compensation.
The firm representing the plaintiff specializes in cases like this, which also includes cases such as Frito-Lay lying about not using real lime in their “hint of lime” Tostito chips (so they can charge more), Kellogg lying about how much fruit they (don’t) put in their fruit pop-tarts in spite of the advertising (so they can charge more), the use of synthetic vanilla in premium goods claiming to have real vanilla (so they can charge more), and, oh yeah, arsenic in baby food.
If you’re wondering why this matters, consider that this isn’t a MRE. It needs prep, not just in time but in additional ingredients, which would be damned inconvenient at best if, say, you didn’t have access to water. This, and the time issue, is, in a very real sense, false advertising. It stands to reason that Kraft made a decent profit off this false advertising.
In a similar vein (see: “hint of lime” chips not having lime but a vaguely defined “natural flavoring”), it’s about truth in the advertised product, and that the company knew it was lying to its customers. Like if Special K isn’t putting real blueberries in its cereal (just pineapple and blue dye), but advertising the cereal as having those blueberries, what happens if a kid allergic to pineapple, or allergic to the dye used, eats the cereal and has a reaction? What if there’s no water to make the damn macaroni and cheese?
Cases like this give the more serious cases (ARSENIC. BABY FOOD.) more of a legal foothold.
You can’t really say “burn corporations to the ground” or “lol kill jeff bezos” and in that same breath call the plaintiff a stupid Karen or whatever for calling out the obvious bullshit Kraft is pulling here. Those single serve cups are freaking expensive for what you get and are sold at a markup because they promise a convenience that they don’t actually deliver on.
Even without some of this deeper significance, we should all cheer these things on; we should really sue over each and every dubious claim that any brand makes to push more sales, no matter how small. Sue over every microscopic corner they cut that sacrifices an atom quality to save them one penny in fact. No mercy! These are the people who decide what the poor get to eat; hold them accountable for their every last word!
Srsly thats just a regular hunk. Bear is an important term cos there really wasn’t any word for “handsome heavyset man” before the LGBT community came along and opened our eyes to the truth. Calling skinny buff dudes bears is like all those douchebros who are like “i want a thicc gorl” *points to stick thin woman who just has big booby*
THANK you. And originally it DID just mean fat hairy men exclusively, it was only later that ‘musclebears’ became a thing. But Bear was a reaction to the gay male culture’s obsession with what we now call a twink (which is, to whit: a thin, hairless, youthful man between 18-25), as well as a reaction to the idea that gay men had to be femme in order to be gay, as well as offering body positivity to gay men who were fat, which is an important distinction–Bear Pride is a gay male fat positivity movement/identity, that’s real important and we gotta not forget that, because that support and representation and pride is a protest against the part of gay culture that toxically commodifies male bodies and demands thinness and hairlessness. /soapbox
anyway i am here for my bear brothers.
now that we know the difference, bears please feel free to send me marriage proposals
what up your local trans bear sharing some background history
Person B to A, after making sure that they’re looking impeccably pretty and have got their water bottle, hand sanitiser, lip balm, moisturiser and a warm scarf in their backpack: I’m ready.
Person A, lazily getting up from the sofa and not even bothering to brush their hair: Yeah, me too. Let’s go.
Delete the post where you pretend to know what you're talking about with regards to disordered eating. Even a cursory glance at medical research and clinicians' perspectives makes it evident what you've said is wrong: the human body is entirely capable of telling the brain to eat food when the person doesn't need it. I don't want you to DM me to argue your point like you did last time we had a disagreement, delete the post and apologize.
The post you’re referring to was for the frankly alarmingly large number of people I know who demonstrably fail to feed themselves enough and feel guilty when they do because they think they’re being wasteful or selfish, they think the problems that come with chronic hunger are just what normal life feels like and sometimes they’re terrified of gaining even a little bit of harmless weight. Sorry if I wasn’t perfectly inclusive of the one in a million people alleged to chronically “over” eat but the possibility of eating “wrong” is still better to bet on than under-eating, which is both more dangerous and several times more common than qualifying as obese.
I wouldn’t have published this except I think my jaw actually dropped at the entitled way you just tried to outright order me around like you’re filing a customer service complaint and even demand I apologize for a post that only implores people to feed themselves when they feel hungry. I am in fact not wrong for saying that no matter what you googled, but either way this is not how you speak to people who obviously mean to be helpful, no matter how catastrophically incorrect you mistakenly think they are. If someone means well, you talk to them sympathetically as an equal or don’t talk to them at all. The way you worded this is the way you word something when your intent is to be aggressive and belittling. Don’t talk to anybody this way again.
Bro showed up to Tumblr like it’s Burger King lmao
>Japan bombs Pearl Harbor which brings America into World War II
>The draft for WWII creates a labor shortage in the US
>Because of the labor shortage, companies start significantly raising wages.
>FDR is worried that if wages go up too fast it could create runaway inflation, so he signs an executive order creating the National War Labor Board, which standardized salaries during the war in order to stabilize prices.
>Companies wanted a way to compete for talent in a limited labor pool despite not being able to offer higher salaries, so they started offering benefits packages to attract workers, the cornerstone of which was health insurance
>After the war, companies didn’t want to give up their role in providing health insurance because it served them well in terms of both recruiting and retention (i.e. you’re less likely to quit your job if it means losing your health insurance)
>This model becomes increasingly common across the US to the point where private health insurance companies are paying for the majority of healthcare expenses in the US
>Because the majority of healthcare costs were being paid by insurance companies rather than the people receiving care, hospitals began massively inflating the sticker price of their services with the expectation that the insurance company would negotiate those numbers down (as private insurance companies are want to do)
>Insurance companies take advantage of the increase in sticker prices by increasing premiums and passing off more of their costs to the consumer while continuing to negotiate down the actual price paid to hospitals
>This cycle repeats until the average hospital bill is completely divorced from any of the actual costs of the service
>In 2024 the average cost of giving birth in America is over $18,000
you are in love with an internet facsimile of “me” comprised of about 2% of my thoughts and feelings in a highly distilled form and then further curated for legible content. however instead of examining your parasocial impulses or any of that nerd shit i think you should try to get that facsimile pregnant with your brain
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, “what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?”
and now it’s like, “ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it’s pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we’ve normalized this experience”
I don’t give a shit as long as those in need benefit
You know what should make you mad? The government spending your tax dollars to fund wars and genocides. Unfortunately people will be silent on that but mad if the money goes to help someone in need. Funny how that works.
I don’t know, I’d rather someone “steal” tax dollars to pay rent and groceries and have some left to buy something nice instead of it going to buy the latest military technology and paying people to go to another country to kill and subjugate them.
Ya know if im a robot then my social anxiety is like malware or smth, its been hitting me hard lately like cmon the only thing that should be hitting me hard is a hot older woman…
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