61% of the worlds population watched at least one World Cup game this year.

If you had sat down and watched even a single game, at that point in time, people all over the world, lots of them, were watching that same game with you. They were cheering with you. They danced in the streets, threw parties, and just generally celebrated with you. Literally a global celebration that you were invited too

It’s such a big deal that, in the past, countries have literally ended wars with each other in order to participate

Being the weird-o kid that pretends like he’s too cool to go that party because “AcTuAlLy ThErE’s CoRrUpTiOn” is not nearly as cool as you think it is

Not liking something like this isn’t a brag… it’s just one less thing you can enjoy in life. One less thing you can watch. One less thing you can talk about. Etc…

The entire world partied for a month and you’re over here thinking you’re better because you were too cool to join in on the fun

Nobody likes that guy that tells himself he was, “too cool” to go to the party

yeah.

I made a comment in a match thread and got the alert on the little bell icon that usually means somebody responded

But instead of a response it was an auto-message that said my comment had been removed because my account is too new and doesn’t have enough Karma to post. But this auto-message also said something like, “message the mods here” and then had a link I could click to message the mods of the World Cup sub, so that’s what I did

And all I was doing was explaining that I’m not a bot and I’ll take a picture or whatever to prove it, I’m just a dude who signed up for reddit that day just to post in the world cup match threads. That waiting days before being allowed to post isn’t the end of the world but considering the World Cup is a limited-time event, not allowing me to post for days would mean I wouldn’t be able to post in match threads for 12 or 13 of the games (at that point there were 3 or 4 a day)

So I was just asking if they could lift my ban considering the circumstances

But they came back and questioned why I had no posted anywhere else on reddit.

So I told them, “I don’t really like reddit. I don’t have any interest in posting anywhere else. I’m literally only here for the World Cup match threads”.

And I guess me telling them that reddit sucks was a trigger because the response I got back after that was super nasty

It wasn’t until later did I think, “I be the World Cup sub is a sub created by reddit admins themselves because of it’s popularity. So I bet the mods of that sub are people who work for reddit. And I just told reddit employees I think their site sucks shit, hence the nasty response”

It’s just a bit ironic because it was their chance to change my mind and prove that reddit doesn’t suck. Instead they banned my entire account and just kind of proved to me that everything bad I think about their site is not only true but actually much, much worse

Did Elon say he was thanking them from his heart? Yes or no?

Did he grab his heart before he threw his hands up? Yes or no?

The answer is, “yes”, to both of those questions.

You either don’t know that because you didn’t actually watch his speech and are basing your knowledge off a gif, or you do not that but just want to ignore that the answer to both of those questions is yes because admitting that the answer is yes helps a person you don’t like

Elon can be, and still is, a piece of shit. But also, no, he did not Heil Hitler at that convention. He’s a try-hard idiot who wanted to give a big energetic wave because he can’t just be normal and wave like a normal human so he ended up doing the Nazi salute by accident. The evidence is that he literally said this is what he was doing and it’s literally what he did. It doesn’t even make sense to Heil Hitler in that situation

But you’ll continue to deny the truth because the lie hurts a person you don’t like and you’re the type of person who will go with a lie if hurts a person you don’t like.

Not me. Elon can get fucked but I won’t lie about what he said and what he did

I got banned for making an account just to post in the World Cup threads but the sub wouldn’t let me post because my account needed to be older and have a certain amount of karma

This “you can’t post message” came with a note saying I could message a mod and then a link to click to do just that, so I did

I explained I wasn’t a bot, I was a human, I’d prove it however they wanted, but I couldn’t really wait days to post because the World Cup is happening now and in 3 or 4 days I’d miss like 12 games

They responded saying that I had zero karma and had not made any posts…

So I replied that yeah, this is exactly true because I don’t like reddit I only signed up to post in the World Cup Match threads

I received a very nasty reply where they told me that reddit was super popular with millions of users and that it wasn’t their problem I didn’t like reddit and then my account got banned

I believe the World Cup is super popular and so it’s not just a random sub ran by random people in the world… but a sub made by reddit and moderated by reddit employees. So I just told a reddit employee I hate their site and so they banned me

It’s a pretty shit site

Wait, I need to buy stock in Champagne first

Yeah, because going outside and talking to people in real life is stupid

it’s suppose to tell strangers about who you are

Like, if you like a band, you wear the shirt. Then when somebody else who likes the band sees you in that shirt they can be like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”. You guys get to talk, maybe you make a friend

But then a bunch of people decided it would be cool to wear those shirts even if they don’t actually like the band or the TV show or whatever that’s on the shirt… but other people who were fans were like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”… but the idiot wearing the shirt couldn’t answer the question because they don’t actually like the band or TV show or whatever and instead of thinking to themselves, “maybe I shouldn’t pretend to be a fan of something I’m not” instead decided to push this bullshit narrative that it’s wrong for other people to ask them about their shirt

So now people walk around advertising shit they don’t like because the world is full of stupid people who make stupid rules that other people stupid people follow to prove how open-minded and non-judgemental they are

Fair, but I think when somebody says “wheel”, they’re talking about the things on cars or bikes or chairs or whatever that help it move

Counting gears and such just seems way to technical for a casual debate between friends at a bar

At least, for me. But every friends group is different

In other words, the average person is dumb and so they’re entertained by dumb things

“You like money and sex? Me too! We should hang out”

People are getting way to technical about it

Human made doors vs human made wheels

Balls don’t count as wheels

I would say you need an actual door so the doorway between your living room and hallway doesn’t count. That’s a doorway, not a door

The issue is, what counts as a wheel?

My car engine has some round shit that spins for belts on it, are those wheels? I would say, for fun, no. It has to be a wheel… used for moving the object around, gears and shit don’t count

I still think wheels win because there are lots of toy cars in the world

Garfield is notorious for being lame to the point where there are no real jokes… Garfield comics are just Garfield saying the same thing everybody says

For instance, I googled “Garfield Comic” and the first one that showed up was Garfield walking up to a mirror, Looking in the mirror, walking away from the mirror, and the last panel had Garfield think, “when did the cat in that mirror get so old?”

There’s nothing to that comic, It could have been one panel if you really wanted it to be and that “joke” is the same thing my Grandma said when we walked past a store with a reflective window

And that’s all this PizzaCake comic is

Literally everybody was like, “if they’re so proud why do they cover their face?” – it’s the political equivalant of, “If it didn’t ring up it must be free”

This shit sucks

Make fun of them all you want, but maybe don’t go with the most obvious jokes of all time

This is the political version of, “it didn’t ring up? It must be free”

PizzaCake is political Garfield

It’s not clever, it’s not funny, it’s not edgy, it’s not smart… it’s the predictable safe, tired, thing and for some reason people eat it up

“HAHA, Mondays do suck!”

“Right, why cover your face if you’re so proud?”

Genius level creativity here, definitely not the same tired joke everyone makes all of the time and have been making for years

If I sprayed them with a hose would it waterboard them?

You don’t have to but we don’t have time to get to know every single person in the world on a personal level, and the way someone looks can tell you a lot about them

I always heard it as, “you wear a hat to be associated with other people that wear that same hat”.

You put on a cowboy hat so that people assume you like big trucks and country music.

You’re free to walk around looking like human trash but then also you shouldn’t be surprised when people assume you are human trash. Remember, you don’t always just represent yourself. You represent other people in your social group. Like if you’re a teenager you represent teenagers.

The assumption is that all the nerds that play cards at comic book stores are fat, dirty, and stinky because enough of the nerds that paly cards at comic book stores showed up fat, dirty and stinky that this became the stereotype.

Had they all shown up in suits we’d probably have a different opinion of them. It doesn’t matter if they’re nice people, we have no idea, we didn’t get the opportunity to talk to them… all we know is that they look mega-gross so we assume they’re all mega-gross. And now, if you admit that you like playing cards at comic book stores, we’ll all assume you’re mega gross too

So, it really would have been helpful if enough of them had cared what others thought of them enough to clean up a bit so they didn’t destroy the reputation of all the other people who wear that same hat

And if you’re a business owner, if you let people look like this in your business, it can hurt your business. There’s a reason we all assume Wal-Mart is trashy as fuck and that’s because the people shopping at Wal-Mart have a tendency to go there looking trashy as fuck. So much so there use to be a website dedicated to looking at all the insane ways Wal-Mart shoppers dressed

Depends, I would say it’s a show of respect

I’m aware other people are around and I’m going to present myself in a way that is un-offensive to those people. And not just other customers, but the staff as well

Does it matter at McDonalds? no, McDonalds is a pretty casual place where you would expect people to show in casual attire; be that pajamas because they’ve been being lazy all day, suits because they’re at lunch during work, or dirty clothes because they’ve been doing manual labor… whatever

But showing up to a nicer place in casual clothes basically says to everyone, “I have about as much respect for this place as I do Wal-Mart or McDonalds”; it can also say, “I don’t have much respect for myself” too. As in, “I’m too lazy to even put on clothes so I just walk around in my cookie monster pajamas”.

Neil respects nothing, and we respect Neil for that

OK, lets go through this again

OP accidentally upset her parents by saying “we have news”. He mother assumed it meant they were about to have a child when in reality she just wanted to let everyone know her two ducks were dating.

When the mother found out the news was about two dating ducks she got visibly upset; and when OP saw this look of sadness fall on her mothers face, instead of feeling bad, she thought it was funny. So funny that she’s decided she’s going to do this regularly

A user on Lemmy pointed out that this is a pretty mean thing to do. What kind of jerk gets pleasure from making other people visibly upset?

You tried to justify her mean behavior by saying it’s warranted because it’s mean for her parents to hound her for grandchildren.

This where I pointed out to you that even if OPs mother is hounding her for grandchildren, and that is mean, so what? One person being mean doesn’t justify you being mean too. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s sad that the entire world seems to be in a competition to see who can justify their mean behavior the best

If OPs mother is hounding OP for grandchildren, and it is mean, OPs mother probably has her own justification for it. If you and OP decide to be mean in return, you do so with justification of your own. Both people are being mean and trying to justify why their mean behavior is better than the other person mean behavior

It’s sad that at least one of you can’t just be nice.

It’s sad that the entire world seems to be in a competition to see who can justify their mean behavior the best… instead of, you know, just being nice

And then you responded by trying to justify your mean behavior the best… proving you learned nothing

If I’m also a bad person I’m a good person

is that the logic here because that doesn’t make any sense

It’s like the whole world is in a competition to see who can justify being the biggest asshole the best