things you once thought socially acceptable which now horrify you to remember

xp do they have self-checkouts or were they regular staffed ones? this sounds odd and like I might screw it up. normal in my area is each staffed checkout has a line, self checkouts are relatively new but typically have one line for the whole area and first in line takes whichever frees up next

I’ve never heard anyone call for a customer at a grocery checkout unless it’s a register that just opened and no one’s noticed

These are staffed express checkouts, multiple lines, with screens telling each group which checkout stall to go to. They just got them here too.

well, that’s new

Sounds like the DMV, except the express part

omg lol yes now that WF has been bought by Amazon they can adopt disruptive innovations from the DMV and the passport office

willing to bet "twitter" is gonna be all over this list in ten years or less

"Twitter"?

I have anxiety about the WF line too. All the ny stores are set up crazy. I hate going there.

I look forward to more of this "following guest" reconnaissance.

My wife has pointed out that she got Following Guested at a Duane Reade before that - we are in Boston now and going to another DR - will report back about whether this infection has been retained.

excellent reportage

We went to CVS instead and it was 11.00 on a Tuesday so it was just us and some ghosts, reportage ends.

there’s a duane reade in boston?????

t/s: following guest vs following ghost

following Geist

https://i.imgur.com/4mQqZct.png

No, no Duane Reade, I looked for pharmacy and assumed one of them would be.

Watched 1st half of Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious' recently and immediately thought of this thread. The combo of his homophobic "jokes" and the audience guffawing seriously made me nauseous.

I was just thinking of how all of us enlightened 40+ year-olds could probably still do the whole Honeymooners routine from memory.

US pop culture had already hammered the existence of The Honeymooners into me, but I saw three minutes of it on a family trip to America when I was 11, and that’s still all. Didn’t it run for a few decades, on and off? Is it the “bang zoom to the moon” domestic violence thing that’s a “routine” that never changed?

i don't really want to go on record as defending the honeymooners, but there is *never* any doubt that alice is utterly in charge

otm

it still runs here and there on local late night, and they never stopped doing the New Year's Eve marathons in NY

speaking of something that aged poorly, i just caught the ending of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on cable and hollllly shit that comes super hateful now

it did at the time. Naked Gun 33.3 too.

The freshman hazing scenes in Dazed and Confused wouldn’t stand a chance today

Really? Even when it was a new movie, the whole point of those scenes and much of the rest of the film was that this was how people acted in the distant past, and it was clearly no longer acceptable.

I was talking about the Eddie Murphy "Norton? I've been lookin' at you... lookin'' at me..." routine.

the "homina homina homina" bit is still funny

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhSV-PCtyQ

*someone does or says something slightly unusual*

"are you on crack"

wait thats out now?

speaking of something that aged poorly, i just caught the ending of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on cable and hollllly shit that comes super hateful now

yeah I recently rewatched it and it goes from "this is actually still really funny" to "wow that comes off poorly" really quickly. I would guess there's a whole host of 80's/90's films that in retrospect were super homo/transphobic

Revenge of the Nerds is also a pretty egregious example...no gay panic but there's a scene that's basically straight up rape which ultimately becomes the hero's triumph. its gross.

lol "basically" is unnecessary hedging

there's a much more recent film which has a similar scene played similarly but i can't for the life of me remember what it is

The Boat That Rocked?

Observe and Report?

*someone does or says something slightly unusual*

"are you on crack"

― flappy bird, Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:30 AM bookmarkflaglink

Someone posted a newspaper article (taken from a cellphone, obv.) on my NextDoor group about two people who had been arrested for smoking meth in a crawlspace. Her comment was "Freakin' crackheads!"

I mean, not to split hairs or anything, but "meth head" is part of the national vernacular now, but also, there's way too much racism bounded up in the word "crackhead" for it to ever be used, especially by Gladys Kriavitz of the Oak Meadow neighborhood group.

Observe and Report is the opposite

The Boat That Rocked?

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:06 AM (one hour ago)

yes, that's it! and i think i read about it on ilx a month ago haha

I would guess there's a whole host of 80's/90's films that in retrospect were super homo/transphobic
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:54 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

00's too. I watched the hangover for the first time recently and hoo boy...

https://images.app.goo.gl/yS7v7rpDfSmCgU1K6

speaking of something that aged poorly, i just caught the ending of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on cable and hollllly shit that comes super hateful now

― Nhex

man why the fuck are they even showing that on cable, that movie is the fucking poster child for transphobia. did they have "all this and rabbit stew" as the short subject beforehand?

More details about you guys.

https://time.com/5688255/you-guys/

i'm into "y'inz"