BonesOfTheMoon

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

You are miles ahead of them on spelling.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So I've had a fake white supremacist Facebook alt for years. I use it mostly to befriend them and report the racist shit they post and get their accounts deleted. I was hugely successful at doing so for a long time, but since the latest political climate in the US Facebook has decided they're absolutely fine with all of this and won't remove anything at all.

However I still hold onto it because sometimes I give information to journalists who cover white supremacists, and sometimes I get enough information on the person to tell their workplace, etc. Basically I just use it to collect information.

Anyway oftentimes some of the men try to hit on my (female) alt, so I end up delicately fending them off sometimes in messenger. Thankfully that's something I'm good at, but let me tell you the conversation is not scintillating with Nazis. Even these young Patriot Front guys are dumber than bricks, even though many have higher education of some sort. Several men have messaged me from contraband phones in prison, and several have been military members.

There is nothing funnier than a member of the Klan trying to sext though. I've had conversations with people with acquired brain injuries that were far more intelligent.

 
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ate them in Canada for many years, am not American.

 
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He just sprayed the paper towel instead of the table and the Spaniard didn't like that.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also I don't think voters appreciated having her shoved in at the last minute.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I worked at a horrible restaurant almost 30 years ago run by an obnoxious Spanish man who would not let you have butter for bread, and once when a guest sat on his crappy plastic chair and it broke turned around and put it on his bill. He would follow you around and fuss at you for stupid things, and he liked to follow one waiter named Ken around and criticize his table wiping. "Meestar Ken, that ees not how you do it, first you spray, DEN wipe".

Finally he did this one too many times, and Ken looked at him and said "get fucked you fat Spaniard, I already got a new job", and left just before the dinner rush.

 
 
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Health care workers: we ride at dawn bitches!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A guy came into the clinic I work in wearing a spray paint respirator mask with a beekeeper's veil overtop, and with dishwashing gloves that he had pulled ordinary latex gloves over. It was wild.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was considered an essential worker, and so I toddled off to work every day as usual. I remember while my spouse was driving me in how eerie it seemed with how quiet the city was, and seeing 68 cents per liter gasoline prices was such a shock. The quiet was what really got to me.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My friend had brain surgery for an aneurysm, and every so often she fumbles a word as a result. One day she wanted to say the word lumberjacks, but her brain came up with logfarmers instead.

 

I want to hear about how you left your mail in the box for several days before you picked it up and stuff like that.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair most of my managers would agree with calling him that, but we're not American.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not perfect, but it's so nice just to really be yourself at work because you don't have to impress your manager.

 
 
 

When you think everything is on the internet, it's not always. This salad was served at the Press Box restaurant in Niagara Falls, New York, and was called the Press Box salad. The dressing was the key. The Press Box restaurant was a hole in the wall kind of place where you went into the kitchen and wrote your order on a notepad, and the cook came and slapped it in front of you, no servers. It was decidedly not the cleanest place on earth, but 10 bucks would get you a giant porterhouse steak, one of these salads, and a split of Schlitz beer. There were a couple other dishes unique to this place, but the salad is my culinary white whale and I finally found a recipe after all these years. This photo is from a diner in Oswego that makes it, the owner used to work at the Press Box, but I'm excited to make my own. I think it was the best thing I ever ate in my life.

The restaurant was partly funded by the mob, and the owner would tell you to hurry up and finish your meal, LOL. A real character.

 

Bargains make me happy. Canadian phone carriers are all corrupt AF and SO expensive, but my two year contract was almost up so I had to choose to upgrade or pay off my phone, as that's how it's mostly done here. When I went into the store the clerk told me to upgrade my phone would cost 30 something more dollars a month, over 100 bucks, and I wouldn't get a better plan for it. I stared at him and told him I was going home to look into other options and would find another carrier, and he argued with me that it's a premium phone and that's a really good price. Uh, no it isn't.

So my workplace has an employee discounts program for various things, and there were several various phone plans which I had never investigated, and to make a long story short, I got an employee pricing plan and upgrade. The price she quoted me was 60 dollars plus 1 dollar for the phone, which is even a savings from my previous plan, but when I went to pick it up the plan price had dropped (they change for various sale periods) and I got a Pixel 10 for 45 dollars a month plus 1 dollar for the phone, 30 GB more data,and international calling which I didn't have before. And I still deal with my carrier and don't have to change stores or anything, it's just done through an employee pricing plan.

So TL;DR I got a good price and new phone, and I like all of that. I really love when I can get a good bargain.

 

It's something I struggle with. Some bad news comes out about some public persona doing something shitty and they get cancelled. But sometimes I really struggle with giving up the things they've made because I like them. There are also occasions where the person has been accused of something and it doesn't seem true to me, or I think they're genuinely sorry and have been punished enough, and the context isn't being considered.

What do you think? Who do you feel conflicted about enjoying?

 
 
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