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People at work have heard my alarm tone and think its hilarious that as a middle aged man my alarm tone is so flowery and gentle until I explained that being awoken suddenly by a harsh abrasive noise puts me in a very combative and abrasive mood for the next several hours and I come to work 45 minutes after it goes off...

Who said they were?

Even the American left has had their national exceptionalism so deeply ingrained that they cant stop screaming "We're number 1!" while they are drowning.

Thats why they were the perfect mark. The idea that it could happen to them was so preposterous.

You're not far off correct. Supercars average 3000 to 5000km a year, the average car averages 15k (very much ballbark numbers)and while they are an amazing toy and a hell of an experience to even ride in they are absolutely terrible "cars".

I havent watched LTT content in a while but I was watching that stream and Lukes face when Linus says that will live forever rent free in my head.

Thats just it.

Lambo sold 10,700 cars in 2025. An all time sales record. Toyota sold 10.3 million. Ferarri sold 13k, Vw/Audi sold 8.9 million, Aston Martin sold just under 6k, Ford sold 4.4 Million, Bugatti sold 136 cars, Stellantis sold 5.5 million cars, Koenigsegg sold 60 cars, GM sold 2.8 million. I know Lemmy hates flashy rich assholes and their toys but the really high end brands not leading the EV charge is seriously drop in the bucket territory.

Add all of those "prestige" brands together and they are barely 1% of what GM Alone put on the road.

The scheduling conflict was "literally anything else"

I think you have what I mean twisted. What life is like for people stuck in the poverty or trailer park cycle is not a universal experience and for all the people that do get it or do empathise and have an understanding that "this is a window into a world I'm not from presented in a humorous way" theres someone sitting there laughing thinking that the whole thing is a wild exaggeration, laughing at the idea that people are really like that or using it to confirm their own biases "the parts that confirm my biases are facts and the parts that dont are just entertainment"

Me hating the show isnt a commentary on its quality, the creators and cast should be very proud of it. I just cant stand to sit and watch it because some of it is too real to be funny as someone who also came up really fucking poor.

Thats the same reason I hate Trailer Park Boys.

So much of it is laughing at the poors. I know people who are so sheltered and middleclass they think "LoL can you imagine if people lived like this"

Bruh, you ever known people born into generatiknal poverty?

I will always defend BBT as 6 seasons of a great show dragged out and dumbed down for prime time. I think if someone went through it and discarded the filler jokes, arcs that go nowhere and excessive laugh track it could have been really good.

My wife likes the show as background noise and I've studied it. Theres some real relationship writing and some genuinely good character growth, some of the non "Ha! Nerds!" Jokes are actually pretty funny.

As a grown man the subject of getting smacked with a thong/flip flop came up and well... we tested it. Grown men spanking each others bare arses with a flip flop. We all agreed that while the activity was slightly gay, it was also hilarious and incredibly painful.

In short, it sucks as much as it did when you were a kid.

ATM I'll settle for anyone who actually wants paedophiles, sex traffickers and rapists exposed and punished.

I can at least support the idea of sitting across the table and arguing with a conservative about fiscal policy when we agree on how to treat kiddie fiddlers. Instead of the current argument of "Why are you doing nothing about the child rapists?"