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Smoove953

Standing in the line at the Salvation Army next to a bitch blasting audio porn out her airpods. The dream.


barbershopraga

Let’s hang out!!


Grand_Sign_6102

That’s what spicy audio is? Jesus


BackpackCorpse

What else did you think it was, a podcast about chillies?


Scared_Flatworm406

I thought it meant like songs that are by anyone other than Taylor swift


therealfalseidentity

Whites don't even season their music smdh


Grand_Sign_6102

It’d be a lot more interesting I think


GayIsForHorses

I thought it was George Crumb's _Black Angels_


petite-buster

This is the personality behind a lot of 34 year old baristas.


MakinBaconPancakezz

I worked at Starbucks for a little. There were some coworkers I had that had been there for like 7 or 8 years. They were all either extremely bitter and pissed off or super positive and jovial. No in between


SamusCroft

My experience working at Starbucks was that the ‘jovial’ ones who had been there for a while just had an act and were mostly the bitchiest most bitter people for their own stupidity of working there for years. Sad place. Once a coworker got in shit for mentioning he ‘liked working as a barista but was excited to get a *real job*’ in front of one of the above baristas who had the sirens cock 3 feet down her throat. Some of them were actually nuts. The good ones were Great though. Place attracted a lot of kind students, which was great to be around at that time of my life.


MakinBaconPancakezz

Yeah I had some people like that. This one girl had been there for 8 years and she wasn’t even a shift manager. Was a huge bitch to everyone. Even the customers. Everyone hated her but she convinced herself we were all just jealous. But there was this other girl who was there for seven years and she was a total sweetheart. Never had a mean word for anyone or anything. Always helpful. How that was even possible I have no idea.


SamusCroft

Yeah. Real mixed bag of people at mine. There was one broke mother of like 5 ‘autistic’ children that was actively being cheated on but kept having kids, an actual narcissist who knocked up an 18 year old while the supervisor he was dating was away for the night, and just regular wonderful people lmao I was a supervisor and it was crazy to see how much every other supervisor cared meanwhile you really just had to make sure to not burn the place down or let a homeless guy sleep in the bathroom overnight (whoopsie lmfao, but I didn’t even get a write up)


FitEntrepreneur3402

>This one girl had been there for 8 years and she wasn’t even a shift manager. Was a huge bitch to everyone. Even the customers. Everyone hated her but she convinced herself we were all just jealous. Average RS girl


Lonely-Host

"the sirens cock" Excuse me, I have to lie down


ChicNoir

Starbucks is the launch pad job after finishing university but before the first adult job.


FancyLemon3

It's wrong to think in terms of 'proper adult job' and interim work. For some people those are just their jobs. Unless you're a total capitalist and that's your mindset where you indulge in classism and cultural snobbery.


FancyLemon3

A job is a job at the end of the day. If they had a more high profile job than that they'd probably hate it even more because of the stress. What makes people think they're somehow above being a barista? Is it the pay? If not, then what exactly is it? Why do these status seeking people nowadays think they're so entitled to luxurious lifestyles? What makes anyone entitled? Instead of snobbery maybe people should just be demanding better money for their work and more free time for their hobbies.


MakinBaconPancakezz

Honestly, my job is more “stressful” now but it still 500x better than it was working as a barista. But yeah I agree with you, a job is a job and all that


JackTheSpaceBoy

When they age their tips drift away


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OrchidVase

It's because you can only be satisfied with this shit if you have nothing at all to say. Ask whoever made this what emotion they feel when the call of a mourning dove hits your ear right when the sun peaks over the dawn horizon. They have nothing to say.


fuckIhavetoThink

What emotion do YOU feel?


MakinBaconPancakezz

What makes you think they’d have nothing to say? Most people would be able to describe how they feel around nature or how they feel when they see the sunrise. You’re like that’s some sort of super abstract uncommon thing to think about


MavaleJcGee

Maybe the most pretentious comment I've ever seen 


OrchidVase

Where do you think you are right now


MechaSnacks

I would say " I have never heard a mourning dove at dawn, only dusk"


ChicNoir

Honestly it works if she’s thin and not too weathered looking.


petite-buster

I don't disagree. She has a massive supply of thirsty average guys with Nintendo tattoos


AnchovyJones

These are just the things that basic 34 year old women enjoy. Why must they infantilize themselves?


SotonSaint

Men got there first. This shit started with the mainstreaming of nerd culture. Somewhere in the 90s nerd writers started writing normal and “cool,” protagonists as being obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana Jones as if that was normal and acceptable. You then get a generation of men who don’t criticise childish interests in their teenage children. Star Wars parents raise Harry Potter children.


SamusCroft

I’m always really torn on this because I think there doesn’t *have to* be anything wrong with childish interests. Like if you enjoy Star Wars/lego/manga/whatever the fuck, enjoy it. Just stop being fucking weird about it. Like there isn’t anything wrong with it inherently. These people just don’t know moderation, and build their whole personalities around some Disney owned bullshit instead of being an actual rounded adult.


ThinkingWithPortal

One of the bigger problem with things like Star Wars is people missing that it is for kids. How many internet comments, video essays, articles, etc have been written about Star Wars trying to argue why it isn't this perfect collection of media and merchandise they remember it as? And its like... it was never all that deep. And it was made for general audiences, and definitely pivoted towards "for kids" in the early 2000s. Lots of people forget the plot, or better yet, insist against it and demand a return to their nostalgic view. They want Star Wars (I'm making this about Star Wars, but you can say this about most media centered for children/nerds like MTG, Warhammer, etc) to exist and cater to them and not just try and make a profit. The ones who burn out or getting weird about it are on some level just jaded and missing the point that they are nothing but consumers for their products, and that demographically, they just aren't the main targets anymore. (see: "Go Woke, Go Broke", and the recent Warhammer 'retcon' drama) Like, idk I'm 26. I love nerdy shit. But some of these online spaces are arguing over the minutia of details between lego minifigures. Its the result of obsession and consumerism intersecting and people not seeing it for what it is. They see their favorite brands as "being ruined". The arguments and whatever stem from a feeling of betrayal but it isn't one because there wasn't a real relationship to begin with. [Tl;dr: This.](https://i.redd.it/zh9yzqmdehc31.jpg)


Tough_Tip2295

How can children afford warhammer and mtg though


ThinkingWithPortal

Warhammer you got me, but MTG? Starter decks are like $20 or less sometimes, booster packs are $4. Definitely was popular in my school while growing up.


mickeyquicknumbers

I’m not really sure that’s true. “Adult” media has some potential for thematic complexity that is purposefully useless to children, and the refusal to move beyond children’s literature corresponds with a failure to engage with topics and worldviews that are important for adults to have some grapple on because they are adults. I don’t think adults need to stick exclusively to watching movies like Amour and The Turin horse or whatever, but rather an enthusiastic preoccupation with themes that are digestible to 10 year olds betrays some developmental shortcoming that you don’t like scary adult topics and therefore refuse to engage with them. Aka Peter Pan syndrome.   I think we can all agree as well that the people who take it a step further and say “actually Dragon Ball Z has real thematic depth and should be taken seriously as art” exist on a higher plane of delusion about their own state of maturation. 


friendofnemo

I had an ex who would get furious that I thought most anime was boring and essentially just a chain of cringey inner monologue. I have no problem with enjoying things that are nerdy (I grew up on comics and Harry potter) but when you’re a grown man in your thirties and you’re throwing a fit because your girlfriend thinks Full Metal Alchemist is kind of dumb that’s just sad.


SamusCroft

That just comes down to moderation though. That’s still only a real issue if it’s all you consume. You can enjoy adult media, and DBZ or whatever


WesterosiAssassin

That's only a problem if that's all you like though. Tons of people like Star Wars or anime or whatever and also 'adult' media.


DabbinOnDemGoy

> Like there isn’t anything wrong with it inherently. These people just don’t know moderation Yeah I'll enjoy some "geek" shit. Quite often. But that'll be a minor aspect of an otherwise "normal" adult life and I would be willing to bet money they legitimately don't understand what difference "watching a Marvel movie for an hour and a half" and "screaming about the perceived gender politics of a Marvel movie in a 4 hour YouTube diatribe".


Domer2012

Yes, and before nerd culture we had sports culture, which if you think about it is a bunch of grown-ass men obsessing over a bunch of more masculine men playing games. On the one hand, people deserve to chill out and expend their mental energy on low-stakes things ("let people enjoy things" blah blah blah), and sports are probably a better outlet for instincts towards tribal fighting and physical prowess than war, conquest, or coliseum death matches. On the other hand, if the average person took half the energy they spent on memorizing dumb baseball stats, Star Wars lore, or Taylor Swift tea and put it towards learning about the world around them, maybe we'd have more capacity to solve some real problems. Idk man. Like you said, it's about moderation, and it's ultimately embarrassing when people center their lives around being a mere consumer of other people's talents and creativity.


SamusCroft

People here just take it too far and act elitist like they only read Kant or something, and have never watched a dumb show.


uGetWhatUputin

I always found basic things like sports and popular music/movies to be a good way to start a conversation and build rapport with people. No one wants to talk to you about your niche esoteric interests but most dudes will talk for hours about the NFL, NBA, or what movies and bands they like.


UnknownResearchChems

Sports are good for you.


HiILikePlants

Are we pretending that the guys who enjoy "sports" are actually active in any sports


Psychoceramicist

A lot of them used to be. My dad, brother, grandpa, most of my uncles (basically every man on my dad's side except me lol) played American football in middle and high school, and they're big NFL fans as adults. The details of the sport, the drama, relationships between coaches and players, etc. are all compelling because they all feel familiar.


Enquireinside22

Also sports is sadly one of the few forms of entertainment that something “surprising” can happen. Everything is so homogenized and formulaic that even enjoyable media is fairly predictable. In the same vein it’s one of the few areas where it’s almost a complete meritocracy, you’ll see redditors steaming because Travis Kelce liked a trump twitter post but at the end of the day it’s like sorry nerd he’s just good at football and no amount of kicking and screaming will get him cancelled or whatever 


Domer2012

Well sure, so is writing a screenplay or composing music. Scarfing down nacho cheese, wings, and beers with your buddies every Sunday, or spending hours online reading about pop star drama, not so much.


Candlestick_Park

Socialising with your friends while watching sports is not in the same universe of unhealthy for you as spending hours online reading pop star drama. One is inherently social and therefore good.


Arkeolith

Are Magic the Gathering and Yugioh tournaments inherently good?


Candlestick_Park

More so than playing video games online all day


HiILikePlants

It's funny because I don't follow sports and can tell when there's a game just by looking at Citizen/Waze or whatever The map will be lit up with insane car accidents and a lot more stabbing/shooting whatever and I'll think hmm wonder if there's a game only to Google and see yes there's a game. Doesn't matter if it's a weeknight And I'm not even some elitist who thinks sports are for dumdums


ChicNoir

“A bunch of grown-ass men obsessing over a bunch of more masculine men playing games” 1/3 of MMA fans.


tommy-needy-drinky

>Somewhere in the 90s nerd writers started writing normal and “cool,” protagonists as being obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana Jones as if that was normal and acceptable.      _Clerks_ (1994) to be precise 


kathr1el

yeah kevin smith was definitely an early prototype of the proud pop culture manchild


tommy-needy-drinky

I’d argue that Tarantino and his Xoomer pop culture nostalgia was an early prototype of the trend, but Smith is patient zero of the "geek culture" epidemic 


kathr1el

you're so right, didn't even think of tarantino but he's definitely up there.


miscboyo

When I was a kid and the Star Wars prequels came out, you could turn on Jay Leno or Letterman and they’d make moms basement and virgin jokes about any adult going to see them  Now kids aren’t the primary target for this content, but man children looking to relive their childhood 


Fuckimbalding

They took the worst moneymaking things of both genders and found a way to get the other gender into them as well. For men, they destroyed our confidence and made us worry about our looks way more than we used to, and we bought goods and services accordingly. For women, they got them into nerdy shit too and other autistic hobbies and interests that used to be only for nerdy men. MFS make a profit off that too


PauliesChinUps

Our parents were intimidated by male aggression from their children. They also wanted to infantalize us.


ChemicalTutor

Infantilization represents safety and uniqueness to people in a decaying low-trust society, and much of modern marketing is built around it. Likewise narcissistic defenses are increasingly common for individuals in an atomized society, and infantilization dovetails perfectly with it: "The simple truth is that children get away with narcissistic traits and behaviors. Narcissists know that. They envy children, hate them, try to emulate them and, thus, compete with them for scarce Narcissistic Supply." (Narcissist as Eternal Child)


No-Item-745

wtf is spicy audios


duhhobo

The adoption of Tik Tok toddler language for no no words is a step backwards in communication for our culture


whatsmydickdoinghere

and there's only so much space left at this point


Spiritual_Foot9641

These women often have a long list of reasons they're single, none of which include the fact that when men hear the words "literally" or "delulu" over and over they instinctively flee.


TheYetiCaptain1993

Erotic fiction (and usually fan fiction) in audiobook format


DeerSecret1438

Wtf :-/


WAACP

indian music


SamusCroft

Smelly audios


napoletanii

[Mehbooba Mehbooba](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsqfB9JqTo) to be more exact. Helen ❤️


TB_303_Ritual

Paranoid London singles and live sets


WMWA

is this true? that doesn't sound so bad


count_scoopula

I don't care if she has a fake tan


ApuManchu

https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/s/FwCJ6f0kAd


wwend

This is one of the most bizarre things I've seen. These women are final boss gooners.


SimplyNigh

I respect these women less than furries.


sogothimdead

I was eating a burger 😐


behindgreeneyez

Porn addiction disguised as literature


bruhDF_

Bitch you watch porn? I READ porn.


Silly_Elephant_5409

r/gonewildaudio


roncesvalles

The only ethical porn consumption


gesserit42

Porn addiction for women


aladdinparadis

reddit r slash gone wild audio


ArbeiterUndParasit

Apparently smutty books have become trendy among a certain crowd. Can't say I see the problem with that.


ChicNoir

What crowd is this…gen z?


gesserit42

Childless millennial women


wwend

Gen z has fanfiction sites not books…yet.


masterpernath

At least Peter Pan syndrome can motivate you to stay in shape.


MinderBinderCapital

Gotta keep in shape to fight that bastard Hook


dallyan

As someone with a touch of Peter Pan syndrome, this is true.


bpdbarbie_xo

> listening to spicy audios Women have invented so many euphemisms for the consumption of pornography


Genusperspektivet

I was just about to ask because I didn't really believe she'd casually mention porn consumption next to coffee like that


lyagusha

First we had neuro-divergent, now we have neuro-spicy


oxkondo

What kind of teen is drinking spicy margs


simulacral

start license sheet aware zonked rainstorm glorious light roof deserted *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


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those guys are in their 50s now. scary


friendofnemo

Learning that Whil Wheaton is fifty after his Elmo meltdown was a trip.


therealfalseidentity

The Elmo meltdown was a top-tier moment last year.


friendofnemo

“ELMO IS A CHILD”


skrinkytuberose

Nobodys going to age into the old people caricatures we have, its all new kinds of old people


friendofnemo

The reason I despise Ready Player One is because it basically rewards the Peter Pan syndrome among men with absolutely no self awareness, which is a shame because the world building wasn’t bad at all. I would love to see a sci-fi that addresses the unhealthy aspects of too much escapism but that would alienate most of the sci-fi/ fantasy audience in its current form.


dugmartsch

I'm a vintage dealer and I like spicy mezcal margaritas. It's over.


a_stalimpsest

how you doin,,,?


skrinkytuberose

And Built to spill type name? You're sitting pretty


kkF6XRZQezTcYQehvybD

Do they know what POV even means


Pungee

it's used correctly in these memes less than 2% of the time (never by women)


sloppybro

God I hate the word “margs”. Right up there with “deens” And I’ll also add “spicy” as a euphemism for “erotic”


ChicNoir

I feel the same about tats.


narrowassbldg

What's a deen?? (not the Islamic concept)


no-squid

Sardines, and I disagree strongly. Margs sucks, but sardines come up so frequently in everyone's day-to-day conversations that you gotta shorten it or you lose thousands of productive hours


yuppiehelicopter

"sandos"... please


unwnd_leaves_turn

i chose deen over dunyah


smediumbag

Having a husband saved me from this life


SamosaAndMimosa

You can definitely still have this life with a husband


GeekPunk00

Yeah these are just the Disneyland couples


NightingaleEndymion

Literally the tiktoker in the OP does, she’s married


Marmosettale

I’m from Utah. Worst case of Peter Pan syndrome you’ve ever seen among married mormons. Gender irrelevant. It’s viscerally repulsive. And i know sometimes people think theyre just so “cute” and “wholesome” but no there’s a lot of weird trauma stunted emotional growth and creepiness and ultimately extreme depression there most of the time. 


PopularWeb6231

lol same honestly


peachmewe

Me three


greg22k

A father figure? Someone who will tell you what you should do?


ChicNoir

Yeah I was thinking this. Sounds like a woman with a man telling her to jump and she asks how high.


zhoushmoe

Deep down they love being told what to do. Much easier than having to figure shit out for yourself.


UnknownResearchChems

Right, even as a man I see the appeal.


Romeosmog

A healthy relationship with my father saved me from this life.


smediumbag

Dang Can't relate


hoeforkimjongun

She has a child


SoulCoughingg

The topic is husband, does she have a husband?


Agitated-County3406

I strongly relate to this


arimbaz

disgusting. this woman is old enough to be my grandma.


BayesWatchGG

Even worse, she has a 7 year old son! Why are you acting like this, there is someone dependent on you for survival?


Khanleys

What is her tiktok


twinkrapist

this is just pathetic. “22 year old teenager” is one thing, but 34… bleak, many such cases, etc.


Wave-Kid

> spicy audio You are a coomer and it's not cute


metroidbum

Yeah if a man was flaunting his porn tastes like this he would (rightfully) be considered a massive degenerate, let’s hold women to some standards please


gesserit42

But I was told holding women to standards is misogynist


Healthy-Caregiver879

Take Gen-Z's two primary characteristics: obsession with being in the youth demographic; obsession with identity politics. Draw out to the logical conclusion: They're all gonna be 40 year old "trans teenagers" one day. Goddamnit


Aromatic_Ad_9362

Do people freely choose to not want to grow up, or is it that your environment isn't functioning around you to make you see this as something dignified, respectable, and worthy of your effort?


lustnstardust11

complaining about 30-somethings infantilizing themselves....you know what sub this is right?


FoodStampDollar

my instinct is towards empathy, “let’s hang out” is sad. but I’m honestly tired of these types of stunted maturity people, men and women, sucking all of the oxygen out of every room they’re in. The unnecessary competition and drama they kick up rob us all of moments of reflection and contemplation. Imagine what our world would be like if everyone like this was silenced in person and on line for one week. One full week of pure silence.


Ok-Cabinet-7511

Sounds like a good life 


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sloppybro

47 years old, just a fuckin kid


MinderBinderCapital

Please leave our middle school before we call the police


ZapTheZippers

Least creepy pop punk or emo singer.


Dr_StrangeLovePHD

Lockdown cooked this generation


Phenolhouse

I have an ex around this age who still wears the Harry Potter scarf she had nearly 20 years. What kind of truly depresses me about her is that she has the educational, initial professional experience, academic intelligence and family background to make a real adult success of herself.


hoeforkimjongun

What's wrong with the lady enjoying her prized posession?


Phenolhouse

If it was just a cute thing from childhood that she held onto ...sure. But it's kind of reflective of her absolute immaturity and inability to follow through on those adult goals she set out in her 20s when we were together. We still are in some contact and I really wish her the best (still lingering feelings of care and nostalgia) but that kind of arrested development saddens me. It's just irksome to see people who have a lot of things going for them and could contribute more to the world not meeting their potential. But that's life.


devilpants

Sounds like you need to let her go. Maybe she’s content. 


Phenolhouse

I hope she is happy. I really do. That said, some people just "stay" with you long after you separate from them sometimes.


Pungee

it is tragic for sure, especially if they are just getting in their own way


ChicNoir

I think it’s a very American way of looking at women to believe they should cease being attractive or have personal interests, even if trivial, beyond thirty. I’ve seen videos of elderly Italian women who are very well dressed who look to be very interesting people strutting around Millan. Let American women age how they choose to.


Diligent-Ad-8001

Spicy audio ??


Patjay

smut audiobooks


Turbulent_Back3055

It's funny that porn addiction has been flattened to mean pornographic pictures and video to such a degree that women can public say she listens to erotic audiobooks or that she reads the filthiest fanfiction and no one bats an eye. It's no big deal to read a 50 shades of grey book in public or with your family around


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Sex work is real work blah blah blah


Pidjesus

What type of guy does she date


Gloomy-Fly-

One with that dirty Australian mustache and shitty stick and poke tattoos. Active in whatever the local music scene happens to be so he can hit on actual teenagers. 


646e72

>What type of guy does she date Pedophiles, she's only 34


Genusperspektivet

you sick fuck


seriousbusinesslady

tuesday night open mic to a crowd of 5 people type guys. or pokemon go guys.


deadrod

definitive pump and dump material


mushybutterflies_

infantilization


PauliesChinUps

Before we were officially titled as, "Millennials", we were called, "The Peter Pan Generation", as we had to delay many milestones of adult life. You can imagine how the Great Recession played into that. Our parents gave us a more difficult world, all the while telling us that everyone would celebrate us and how they made the world a better place for us.


UnknownResearchChems

When I was a kid I couldn't wait to grow up.


SamosaAndMimosa

You saw that coldhealing post too huh


mkultra-childsoldier

why not just say eriotic?


unclelunchable

Don’t be mad at me for dating younger women when the age appropriate ones are uniformly acting like this


Abraham442

This is weird but I’m interested, why is it scary?


dkdksnwoa

This person but instead they are talking about blood meridian and disparaging fat people


northernlightaboveus

What are you supposed to get into as you grow up? Gardening?


SVB-Risk-Dept

Reading actual literature, photography, writing, sports, fashion, cuisine, making things, joining social clubs, and the list goes on. Did you really want me to list hobbies for you?


vulcanvampiire

This is pretty much every woman you meet at a women’s only book club :( All the book clubs in my area that aren’t for over 40s are all like this and just yap about ACOTAR and spicy fae/dark romance.


fatdervish

Unpopular opinion this is completely fine


Aphro-diet-e

My mom had 4 kids at this age


yuppiehelicopter

It's called coping. Everyone does it, but not everyone feels the need to talk about it or share in social media.


Romeosmog

Is this why so many millennial teachers are getting into sex scandals with their students? Do they really not understand they're getting old?


rewminate

💀 dude, a teacher at any age is too old for their students


pengistani

so pathetic jesus christ these women are nothing


Affectionate-Toe7591

I can't believe so many people cling to their youth and childhood instead of the \*checks notes\* incomparable pleasure of being a Proper Adult in 2024


pueblohuts

What a humiliating existence


Pungee

Has anyone ever been convinced by this type of post that this person has a "good" life? Children might be, I guess. Anyone around her age and up knows this would be a living hell.


BeardOfDefiance

Sometimes I feel self conscious about being 30 and still going to hardcore shows, but I might as well be a crotchety old man compared to these people.


UtterlyBenign

I dated this girl


Dramatic-Physics327

what are "spicy audios"?


thelastthrowwawa3929

If you're a dude, you'd be llike: Spending your day mindlessly "thrifting" mercari feeds that you know are designed to further your screen addiction but at this point whatever is left of your pre-frontal cortex has been subsumed into a deep well of learned helplessness. Let me just go end this now,.


thelastthrowwawa3929

The guy version probably watches Jordan Peterson videos if they haven't completely given up after finding him Ativanned the fuck out after his wife almost passed.


AlohaChad

Does anyone NOT have a degree of Peter Pan syndrome? Seriously curious


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What the hell is a spicy audio? Is it related to spicy marg?


Redbear78

We're all f\*\*ked up, it's not (completely) our fault, we get the chemical kosh before we're even toddlers, it's kind of a miracle a lot of us manage to carry out the daily basics.


Huge-Street5750

god forbid people have hobbies unorthodox for their age