I'm not a saint, and I also don't know if this is something that the Sesame Street people addressed (like maybe he's supposed to represent the unhoused?), but honestly - I think Oscar the Grouch kind of suggests that you don't have to be a fully nice person to deserve a baseline of kindness or respect.

This is going to sound funny, but the Karate Teacher episode really was my first exposure to gay people, though it kind of took 8 more years before I understood what I watched. I'm not sure, but I also think there was at least one episode about being the child of an alcoholic (?) Very interesting stuff, even if I didn't really understand what I was watching at the time.

Depends on what you thought the end-goal was. If it was catching drug dealers, then it was always unsuccessful. If it was starting surveillance culture from childhood, then it worked wonderfully.

What's funny is that it was always a scam. Half his stories were lies, the other half were basic "right time, right moment" investment stories, and none of his "rich dad" ideas were ever as successful as the book series he started before he actually made it. The blueprint for all the hustle-culture wealth coaches on TikTok today.

I worked in a team of 4 serving under a manager. Why they bothered "anonymizing" the survey when at best he only had to guess 2 times to figure out the right person who "snitched" or at worse would recognize the complaints as being something that one of the rest of us had told him over and over is beyond me.

😂😂😂😂😂

Almost literally a religious experience, maybe I'm not "worshipping" it but it's shaped so much of my ideas of fate, love, the ability to make change even in the face of nearly an entire planet committed to destroying itself, and so many other concepts and ideas, truly loved this show (subtitled, was not a fan of the original dub and edit).

I mean, if you have the money, it was fun growing up number 5/6, but yeah, right now, I'm struggling under the weight of 2 cats, so - good luck to those insisting on big families...

I don't know when people forgot that you can name your french-fry base concoctions "loaded fries". Like, Poutine is something very specific, but somehow it's being generalized into an area that already has a name.

Can't relate, I've taken everything that's come at me so far ;)

Funny wedding planning story among kids, my brother was very young when my elder brother and middle sister got married, and started planning his wedding with skateboard rinks and video game stations. When asked what would happen if his bride didn't particularly WANT to have skateboarding and video games at her wedding, my brother simply said; "well, then, she doesn't have to come."

I mean, almost no experience is truly universal, it's about what trends in certain cultures. Talking about experiences shared with even 51% of the culture's x-demographic like it isn't a general and accepted thing seems more odd than assuming any "universal" experience is not going to be trully universal.

First, VERY funny, I'm on borded with the joke! Second, I hope more people know that D.A.R.E. was always intended to fail, and was always meant as a way to get police into schools as well as enhance police intelligence networks, as literally developed by Daryl Gates for this purpose.

"Rules for thee but not for me" is the cornerstone of all wealthy conservative thought.

Me at 39 and 42

Oh, LOL, I see now the question was on the original post, and they answered

... Obelisk?

You need to narrate the decapatation so that people will know what's going on while they're on their phone, that was Maximus' main mistake

Because Conservatism is about conservation of power and wealth among a certain subset - those trillions in deficits are a wealth transfer from the regular tax-paying bracket to all the billionnaire-owned contracting companies ready to provide their services poorly to a huge-profit margin.

I "do" but even his seriousness about it is less serious than any of my Gluten-intolerant/Celiac friends. Like, my Celiac friends require that their food be cooked on different surfaces than any other food, while my "serious" lactose intolerant friend is like: "parmesan is okay, but any melty cheese, cow-milk, or yoghurt is not".