i thought there were like two or three degrees of irony, not one. meh.

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    some people have never had the unbearably awkward experience of eating at a hooters as a teenager with an older family member and it shows.

    • Rem [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Family friends took me there when I was like 12 or something, very uncomfortable experience

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        It's just a mindfuck. You're sitting there asking yourself "Where the fuck do I look? Do I try to play off the fact that a half-naked woman is standing right next to me asking if I need an extra napkin for those wings? Do I just stare dead on at her tits and tip generously? Do look at the ceiling and try to stop sweating so profusely? How the fuck am I supposed to act in this place without behaving like a creep?"

        • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          It wasn't at me, it was their righteous crusade against the local tightwad that didn't want it. We have a definite local tightwad issue but stopped clocks etc. Also, Jesus that was like 15 years ago, now I feel old. Cool thing was it was a former pizza hut and has That Roof but they painted it orange.

          • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I'm just permanently surprised that people are still opening these things. one popped up right by my parent's house since I moved out and it's just weird as hell. I guess as pressure is put on the weird misogynist guy to stop being weird and misogynist they're just going to be more and more susceptible to marketing based around sublimating that pressure.

              • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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                4 years ago

                so it all worked out in the end. used book stores are the one good capitalism.

                • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Hopefully it's not closed from Covid. Not much money in it and it's pretty normal for people to touch pretty much everything.

    • LibsEatPoop [any]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, my older relatives decided to visit Vegas when I was 14 and took me with them. I was not ready for what I saw there.

      • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I guess it was before it got cleaned up and sanitized? by the time I went there as a kid it was all pretty tame but just annoying as fuck. idk why we stayed at circus circus but we were right next to a rollercoaster and the room smelled like it was one giant ashtray.

        • LibsEatPoop [any]
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          4 years ago

          idk if it was before or after but it was too much, in every aspect. i remember the first thing i said was that this is a huge waste of electricity, looking at all the lit-up signs, hotels etc.

          • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            We opted to spend most of our time there going out to the hoover dam and that was fun to see the gigantic engineering, it was also funny because they talked about how Las Vegas was a podunk nothing town back when they were contracting how much electricity went where so they barely got any of their electricity from the hoover dam now