• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Still remember the time I went on a tear about how weird it is for adults to be more excited for Disneyland than kids are

    A guy sitting in front of me turned around and said "Hey, I go to Disneyland!"

    I couldn't think of a snappy comeback so I just said "Shut up Disney Man"

    • Dirtbag [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Lol “Shut up Disney Man” is a snappy comeback, you done good.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm conflicted

      On the one hand, I think certain aspects of "people need to grow up" are influenced by capitalism's desire to crush the joy and wonder out of people and turn them into docile worker drones

      On the other hand, I've never met a Disney adult who wasn't at best a shitlib and Disney itself is part of our modern dystopian media oligopoly

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I'm not even touching on the people's likes, I mean specifically the sort of adult who shells out $1000+ for their "perfect" experience at Disneyland

        It's perfectly okay to like Disney (I like Lilo and Stitch, and Gravity Falls is legitimately funny as fuck), but there's a sizeable portion of people who have Disney as an Identity to the point where they will freak the fuck out at the park they spent $400 for churros at because Snow White is on break and can't sign their sign book

        They want their magic kingdom and they don't care who they have to trample over to get it