• GluWu@lemm.ee
      42·
      9 months ago

      I remember grocery shopping as a kid filling the cart completely full and when we went through the register it was over $100 and my mom was going jeez that’s a lot of money for a lot of food. It took 3 people several trips to unload the car.

      Today I go through the self checkout, get a few frozen meals, some store brand cookies, and a case of cheap beer for $80. I can carry the two bags and beer with one hand.

      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
        19·
        9 months ago

        I’ve been going to Costco every week for several years. Pre Covid my big trips were around $350. Yesterday I went and got some beer, wine, and some beef jerky and it came out to $350

        My big cart days are a lot closer to $700 too now. Certain items I remember being $10 are now $16-18. It’s insane.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        9 months ago

        Just a note here, I bet your mom wasn’t buying “dinners,” she was buying “ingredients.” Ingredients take up a lot more space in the cart per dollar spent. Sometimes that’s because you pay a premium for prepared foods, (flour vs cookies) and sometimes it’s because there’s inherent waste, like onion skins, and both ends of that head of celery, and the bones of the whole chicken, and the stem, seeds, and vacant space inside a bell pepper. Also, not judging the beer, but in my childhood Dad bought all the alcoholic beverages from the liquor store in a separate trip. So it wouldn’t have been in the grocery bags, nor on that receipt.

        Inflation is real. But it’s important to:

        A. Make accurate comparisons

        B. Value the work that went into turning those ingredients into dinners.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        They’re raising the prices because we’re buying “frozen meals, cookies, and beer”. All of that can be made at home for cheaper. Well, the beer and cookies may cost the same but they will be twice as good.

        Figure out what is your biggest purchase and find the recipe for it. Pasta, Indian food, cookies, and even beer can be made at home if you know what you’re doing.

        Prices were lower before because everyone knew they could probably whip up something similar. If you have a bag of flour, some butter, and some sugar you can basically make half of the things at the grocery store.

        • GluWu@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          I guess I don’t buy frozen “meals” I buy frozen prepared meat. I eat meat everyday as my main meal. It’s a lot of work to keep meat in daily servings frozen and then prepare that everyday as well. There are a few things I make that I can freeze in daily portions like shredded beef or pork, or just chicken thighs/breast that I’m just going to fry and sauce.

          Premade cookies are my vice. I like switching things up and there are a bunch of different ones. Plus they’re my snack that can just stay in the unsealed package so I can grab a couple anytime throughout the week. The Walmart brand are only $2.50 per package and the knock out thin mints are a good as the “real” one. 100% worth it, I can’t make those. Or many of the others like store brand oreos. I occasionally get a craving for real chocolate chip cookies. So I make a huge batch and consume it in an unhealthy amount of time.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I’m really weirded out because I strongly remember averaging $100/week grocery trips as a kid, and now that I have my own family we’re averaging $100/week. Checking a CPI calculator I should be spending ~$180/week with the exact same spending habits

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
      24·
      9 months ago

      In this case it’s funny…if the person asking that were a white straight guy asking about any other group, folks would be getting out their pitchforks.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    74·
    9 months ago

    If there is a fire it must be bothered. It must be prodded several times and sticks need adding to it. The fire cannot be trusted not take care of itself.

  • AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works
    67·
    9 months ago

    I was going to say all men are different and you can’t find something that will appeal to them all.

    But then sploosh.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      Same man, same. I usually don’t fit the traditional expectations of men, but holy cow a big rock being thrown into a body of water from a great height sounds amazing

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    9 months ago

    Hitting something with a ranged attack. Doesn’t matter the target, doesn’t matter the projectile. Basketball at hoop, dart at dart board, pee at poo stain, bb gun at empty can, snowball at tree, bullet at bullseye, it’s all the same to us

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      37·
      9 months ago

      I’m so baffled that most people reading this don’t get its satire of a lot of comics, sci-fi, video games, etc but with the genders reversed and people thinking it’s a reasonable position.

      The author isn’t being literal, they are making a joke about men who unironically say this and expect it to be considered normal.

      Please don’t yell at me for this I am just the messenger.

      • The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world
        13·
        9 months ago

        That’s because there is good satire, and pretty often rubbish niche satire. Satire usually relies on everyone being in on the joke, accepting the ludicrousness of it. Political satire is good at this, gender stereotype satire is pretty deep psychologically layered stuff. Most people are not psychologically trained, or even people watchers. So the satire gets missed.

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          9 months ago

          To me, trying to be dispassionate here, that’s also an issue with capping tweets.

          In a social media feed such as (pre-Elon) Twitter, if one were the depicted author one would expect ones followers to know you are a successful illustrator, political essayist, social commentator and published author on the topics of sexual violence in culture and an NEA fellow off the back of your successful graphic novel, putting the context of the original tweet in perspective and making the satire very obvious.

          To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?

          • Misconduct@startrek.website
            5·
            9 months ago

            Man no get satire so satire bad! Man over analyze reason instead of just accepting it not for man and moving on! Grunting noises or something!

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              9 months ago

              As a man, I feel personally attacked and it’s glorious. Most of the arguments between my wife and I are me over analyzing things.

              I hope the author (if they’re actually writing something) goes hard on that concept.

          • The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world
            4·
            9 months ago

            To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?

            Yes and no.

            We have limited cognitive abilities as humans. With every bit of information on social and regular media screaming for our attention its easy to miss the nuance. Add to that even the difference in culture in countries side by side there can be barriers to this absorption generated by our various cultures. You have to actively break from cultural norms to explore these other ideas and philosophies.

            Might well be a little too deep for “I dont know any men” type memes… 😅

            • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              9 months ago

              A fair point but also, if one wants to say “hey they didn’t give context to their joke, when the poster deliberately removed it from its contextual home!”, there’s nothing that can stop them, but also, they shouldn’t be surprised to find people asking them to understand the context before complaining about the lack of it.

              Consider something like “I didn’t know Stevie Wonder was blind, and it’s therefore not my fault that I didn’t get the joke about Stevie Wonder being blind.”

              Like, sure, maybe it’s not, but also, it would hamper any joke if you had to explain all context.

              A rabbi, a priest, and an Iman walk into a bar (a rabbi is a spiritual leader and officiant in the Jewish faith, Judaism is a monotheistic religion, a religion is a set of beliefs that characterize a worldview including but not limited to spirituality, ethics, morals, social conduct and worship of divine beings…)

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
      29·
      9 months ago

      Very religious single mother with lots of money from a divorce has a daughter, sends her to a girls-only boarding school, she studies theology and joins a convent, becomes a nun - now you have a thirty-something year old woman who has never known a man on a personal conversational basis (may have seen/heard them in passing, possibly a teacher or church leader as well).

      (This is most likely not the case and purely exists as a ridiculous but possible answer to your question.)

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      34·
      9 months ago

      I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don’t have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        The reply is also tongue-in-cheek, it’s just when you pluck these things out of their context and put them as screenshots on a different website in front of people who dont’ follow the individuals involved, you end up with goofy takes about it.

        Also, not for nothing, the way this was screenshot feels like somebody wanted to dunk on the Female Woman Writer instead of reading it in the spirit it was written.

      • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Is that actually a very real issue, or is just another stereotype? The whole thing is so meta.

        • Donkter@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          A little of both. I think it was a more common issue a few decades ago and I know it was a common theme on the internet in the 2000s now that a new generation discovers it over and over it kind of perpetuates as a stereotype but I know male writers are so much better about it today than years ago for the same reason.

    • stillitcomes@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      If you join any big writing community (the Reddit one most obviously) you’ll be stunned at the number of “How do I write [opposite sex]?” posts. Most of them are from men but there are a surprising amount of women making those posts too.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
        9·
        9 months ago

        High speed refers to the shutter speed in a camera – how quickly it can take frames. Slow motion footage is taken in a high speed camera. It’s just a weird quirk of language.

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
          4·
          9 months ago

          Stupidly enough, I actually know this, and know it very well :(

          I just took it as:
          High speed | camera footage
          i.e. camera footage, playing at high speed.

          Instead of:
          High speed camera | footage i.e. footage from a high speed camera

          I am ashamed.