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What is the best tweet
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I've never used them but my friend who did kept them in a plastic jug designed to hold the bags upright.
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Lady
something something robble
boomers desperately clinging to relevance
It took me entirely too long to realize what the object in that tweet even was supposed to be. Who looks at one of those things extremely close up like that??
Boomers
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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
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Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Bag-ception (I can show myself out thank you)
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
What bread doesn't use those plastic tags? Do I have analog bread and I didn't know? Am in bread beta?
Also my spouse never puts them back on the bread bag and it's weird. Where else would it go? Just put it back!
Also my spouse never puts them back on the bread bag and it's weird. Where else would it go? Just put it back!
karzac
(he/him)
My bread brand brought twist ties to bear, recently. They used to do tags, but a few months ago they traded for paper-covered wire ties (as opposed to the plastic-covered kind) and I find them much more useful, since I can then repurpose them for use around the house.
OK, yeah, I can see that. It's easier to collect cartons for recycling in your household, while you'd have to try to group bags together with something else before tossing. I can definitely see how a business gets much more use out of bags.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I buy bread from my farmer's market. Occasionally fresh-ish bread from my supermarket. Neither use bread tags. The former uses like a kind of tape like substance and it sucks because you can't reseal them WITHOUT a bread tag. The supermarket fancy breads from the bakery are in paper bags with a clear stripe where the end of the loaf pops out of the top. But I think they stopped selling those in that fashion since COVID.
There's even a tool specifically designed for opening milk bags. It's called a "Snippit".
It's got a hook on the front, if you like to hang it from the milk pitcher that the bag sits in, and a magnet on the back, for keeping it on the fridge.
But can people under 40 identify what it is?
By under 40 do you mean the 40th parallel?
imo it's not an insult to anybody born after the eve6 guy lost his virginity to assume they can't know why this tweet is so funny
Anyway I was just checking to see if you were all discussing the Eve 6 twitter... apparently not. Good account.
BRB, gotta give Game Freak a tip for a new Pokémon.There's even a tool specifically designed for opening milk bags. It's called a "Snippit".
It's got a hook on the front, if you like to hang it from the milk pitcher that the bag sits in, and a magnet on the back, for keeping it on the fridge.
I actually worked at a cafeteria on my university campus that used bagged milk, funnily enough it was right near the Canadian border in WA, so maybe we got the milk from Canada.
karzac
(he/him)
That would make sense!
It is insulting, but it's a pretty understandable impulse to discuss how things have changed during the course of our lives to the point where young people today won't have the same experiences we did. This one example was dumb and bad and wrong. But it's amusing to think about how the kids of today on average won't experience say, trying to talk to their crush over a land line in the evening, only to have their parents or siblings eves dropping on them through a different phone elsewhere in the house. As an educator I very routinely have to just stop what I'm saying and then describe something that would be common knowledge to you and me, but is something kids growing up today wouldn't know about unless someone explains it to them. Like, I had to explain to some middle schoolers last year the pause/fast forward/stop symbols on a CD player, the history behind what they meant, what CDs were to begin with, etc. The insulting thing I think is less the mentality and more how you talk about it. Because kids are smart, and they're better at seeking out and researching stuff on their own than any generation was previously. Talking down to today's youth makes you look like the idiot, not the other way around.
karzac
(he/him)
I agree that it's interesting to think about how things have changed over the course of people's lives. One of my favourite things to ask people is "What's the first major news event you remember?" (For me, it's Princess Di's death). Framing in that way of personal experience is totally cool - "no young person will ever have the feeling of having to share the landline to talk to their crush again" is a totally reasonable weird nostalgia thing.
What annoys me is the assumption that people won't even be able to recognize or comprehend an image or experience that they didn't personally encounter. Like, for my own part, I grew up after rotary phones and typewriters were obsolete, but I can still recognize them, one because my grandparents had them and two because I'm not a fucking idiot and I've learned about things that are outside my direct experience. I guess it's the assumption that "young people" - i.e. "people younger than the poster, be they 12 or 37 or 53" - live in solipsism, unaware of anything outsite their immediate view.
On top of that, there's the idea that this is somehow a unique thing. Like, yeah, we all have things that we did that younger people won't understand and things that older people did that we don't understand. Welcome to 20 000 years of human history. "Only 1790s kids will recognize a guillotine". It's not something that's unique to this generation.
What annoys me is the assumption that people won't even be able to recognize or comprehend an image or experience that they didn't personally encounter. Like, for my own part, I grew up after rotary phones and typewriters were obsolete, but I can still recognize them, one because my grandparents had them and two because I'm not a fucking idiot and I've learned about things that are outside my direct experience. I guess it's the assumption that "young people" - i.e. "people younger than the poster, be they 12 or 37 or 53" - live in solipsism, unaware of anything outsite their immediate view.
On top of that, there's the idea that this is somehow a unique thing. Like, yeah, we all have things that we did that younger people won't understand and things that older people did that we don't understand. Welcome to 20 000 years of human history. "Only 1790s kids will recognize a guillotine". It's not something that's unique to this generation.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Maybe the old days really were better