Still confused. These look like normal people with some nice makeup on.

Is the joke that americans are fat?

Naming your kid Taylor is cringe

Please tell me he lives in Texas

I mean, a gunner is a job in the military. Not much different than naming your kid Gunars, which means warrior. Gunman would be more on the nose. I’m just saying, when I hear Gunner’s mom yelling at him not to spill his soda in the car in the grocery store parking lot in 15 years, I’ll be like, “yep, that’s a normal name.”

Also, mass shootings arent the norm. They are extremely rare.

But yes, naming your kid “gun” to “own the libs” is indeed cringe as fuck.

I doubt they’ll have much more trouble than other kids. Names are names, and most people accept that you just get whatever name you get and can’t do much about it. All the girls named Reagan seem to be doing just fine.

I read an analysis once of how happy people were with their names. The trend was that the more unusual the name was, the less happy the owner was with it, up until you got to the very popular names, where happiness declined again - but it still wasn’t a huge deal. A reasonable assumption is that most people feel quite neutrally about their names until it causes them some inconvenience - people mispronouncing it, people misspelling it, or being confused with other people with the same name.

The only deviation from this trend was that people who were named after admirable family members tended to be actively happy about their names.

Lesson being - when naming your kid, consider naming them after your great uncle who died heroically in the war. Failing that, just get a list of the top 100 baby names, discard the top 10, discard any duplicates with minor spelling deviations, and then just pick one at random.

They’re riffing off of traditional masculine naming conventions. Gunner is associated with the traditional male role of aggressor (compare, Hunter, Victor, Dominic), and is also a job (compare, Carter, Taylor, Mason).

Honestly, I think it’ll age better than Baylor or Kyson.

You said it would be worse than the depression, when the whole world economy collapsed. Regardless of issues of supply chains or broken trust, it is easier to sell your goods to a customer who has money.

The US is going to pointlessly throw itself into a depression, while the rest of the world is going to keep trucking along just fine.

Sounds like this would be better for the US, not worse. When someone eventually assassinates Trump and rolls back his tarrifs, the US will be able to plug back into a world economy that has been happily humming along.

Badass. He’s a baller. Also, iirc, being a smoker has some kind of performance benefit for high altitude climbers. Like, you are less likely to get altitude sickness because you are used to never getting enough oxygen anyway. But this guy is doing it because he’s a blue collar worker in a developing nation. And being a high altitude porter is already much more dangerous than smoking.

The joke is that blues music is traditionally associated with poverty, hardship, racism, and social inequality, while the scene is of wealthy white people in their opulant home. The joke is about how out of touch the privileged are.

It helps if you imagie the woman speaking in an upper class british accent, possibly after voicing her opinion about “those dreadful coloured people around the corner.”

The hero we deserve

Headline:

BLM riots in Manhattan

Me:

Well that’s pretty out of character for the Bureau of Land Management…

I mean, the answer is that it is both. Like, not having close friends sucks. And not getting laid sucks. And both are valid and legitimate things to complain about.

Like, honestly, the “skill issue” take is super toxic. It’s basically the same as telling a poor person that not being rich is a skill issue. The lack of understanding and compassion for peoples’ legitimate problems will only radicalize them further.

No. I’m pointing out to others who may read this thread that if they have been stuck in the mindset of choosing between options of sugary cereal, that they have the other option of simply not consuming it. We often forget that these sorts of options exist, because no one talks about them.

Also, the example you pulled from my post history is profoundly weird, because it makes me look good… Like, I’m saying that I enjoy something, but recognize that it is an indulgence and then moderate my indulgence because other things are more important to me. I dunno, sounds pretty reasonable to me.

I mean, the better alternative is to just not buy sugary cereal.

Reminder: 80% of jobs never reach job boards. Most businesses hire people via their social networks.

If a government agency cant find them, they will be very difficult for average users to find as well

How about we all just use VPNs and go through whatever country still hasnt enacted age verification?

People like this should have to pay the legal fees of the defendants.

iirc, in the US at least, you can sue the people suing you to recomp lawyer fees.

Sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through to avoid talking about your problems like an adult.