Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[MirrorNoir]

"I would have died to have these toys as a kid."
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These look so cheap and barebones. When I was growing up, I'd have taken Playmobil over this junk in a heartbeat. (From the Disney Boomer Consoomer Couple's newest video.)

The Super Mario toyline is kind of fucked up when you think about it being a blotched toy line.

There is a smaller line of two inch figures with very basic (usually just arms) articulation that are usually found in the checkout line of Wal Mart and they are decent if only for the fact that you have a decent variety of villains (granted nothing from Mario 2 save Shyguys) and a four inch line that is kind of bulky and limited character selection plus suffers from having god-awful distribution (case in point, Bowser is super rare as he was one of the first figures made and the early lines, especially those put out as part of the larger "world of nintendo" line with other Nintendo IPs had super bad distribution issues).

Both scales have their fans but character selection is limited to just the mainline modern Mario stuff mostly, plus the fact that character distribution between the lines is annoying as fuck.

Case in point: they FINALLY start making Kooplings, but first in the 4 inch line then they stopped and started making them in the 2 inch line instead and then stopped making them there so they could catch up and redo them for the 4 inch line.

It's super crazy as hell, especially since the Kooplings are among the most popular Mario villains out there but who knows if they'll ever complete the gang, let alone in both scales.

Adding to this, the only characters we get from Super Mario 2 are Bob-Ombs and Shy Guys. We still don't have Wart, Fryguy, Mouser, or Triclyde for instance.

Similarly, the diaramoa/playsets are pretty cheap looking and are messed up by the different scales they have plus seem to be more for kids than adult collectors.

I have SOME of the figures in the 2 inch scale (most of the Kooplings, Dr Mario and regular Mario, and some Shyguys plus a bunch of 2 inch Metroids for sci-fi displays) but it's a line where it could be so much more if they actually didn't halfass things.

Certain things I will never EVER understand. For example, I simply cannot fathom why anyone would want a Funko Pop. They're soulless and generic looking and impress NOBODY besides maybe the most fanatical of collectors and even then. If you want a figurine of a character there is very likely a decent looking one somewhere online, especially for popular media. Sure it typically costs more but they look better most of the time. But I can understand why someone might want to collect Hotwheels even if I haven't cared for them since I was a kid.

Actually part of the appeal of Funko is that they EXPLICITLY GO AFTER properties with NO toy representation. Or only crappy ass toys that are long out of production and would cost you more than it's worth .

That's part of how they draw at least, the casual buyers in. The hardcore ones are the completist types and those who think they will be worth big bucks, which is how they make a lot of their money.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Not as bad as Funko Pops, but I present to you.... The PRE-stickered beverage bottle! For the most basic of bitches who want to look, from a distance, like they've been places and done things! And what's even better(?), it's all one big sticker! No worries about overlapping and peeling!

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Is there a word for chain restaurants that are more expensive than Applebee's and Olive Garden but about the same experience? The highway was closed so I had to drive through a rich part of the city that was a victim to suburban sprawl, and there are miles of Chuy's, red robins, Carrabba's, Brixx, Bravo, Blaze, Chick-fil-As etc. I hate that people would rather spend money somewhere safe and sanitized than take a chance at a hometown restaurant that could offer a unique experience. It's killing small business and making people fat fucks. Tophats please

 

[moocow]

Art from One piece one of the most famous manga of all time

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Page from Justice League

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I know this is just the result of a site hiccup, but I laughed my fucking ass off when I saw this and just had to inflict it on (er, I mean "share it with") all of you.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Is there a word for chain restaurants that are more expensive than Applebee's and Olive Garden but about the same experience? The highway was closed so I had to drive through a rich part of the city that was a victim to suburban sprawl, and there are miles of Chuy's, red robins, Carrabba's, Brixx, Bravo, Blaze, Chick-fil-As etc. I hate that people would rather spend money somewhere safe and sanitized than take a chance at a hometown restaurant that could offer a unique experience. It's killing small business and making people fat fucks. Tophats please

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[D.Angus]

Is there a word for chain restaurants that are more expensive than Applebee's and Olive Garden but about the same experience? The highway was closed so I had to drive through a rich part of the city that was a victim to suburban sprawl, and there are miles of Chuy's, red robins, Carrabba's, Brixx, Bravo, Blaze, Chick-fil-As etc. I hate that people would rather spend money somewhere safe and sanitized than take a chance at a hometown restaurant that could offer a unique experience. It's killing small business and making people fat fucks. Tophats please

I think it's the fact that customers can get away with more scumbag behavior at a chain vs a mom n pop place. You act like an entitled cunt at Red Robin, they're going to bend over backwards to your demands. You act like an entitled cunt at your local diner, they'll more then likely ban you and half the town will likely know who you are and outright refuse to serve you. Happened to a lady in my area, and every business that isn't a chain, outright refuses to serve her.

 

[Corpun]

Funkos feel like they are a literal psyop. Perfect scam for consumers of popculture because producing a line of them is so interchangeable. They all promote this weird sense of rarity even though millions are made and it all feels like the actual value of Funkos is far less than what they really are (not the selling price, the actual value I mean) to the point I feel like the Funko bubble might POP sometime.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I think it's the fact that customers can get away with more scumbag behavior at a chain vs a mom n pop place. You act like an entitled cunt at Red Robin, they're going to bend over backwards to your demands. You act like an entitled cunt at your local diner, they'll more then likely ban you and half the town will likely know who you are and outright refuse to serve you. Happened to a lady in my area, and every business that isn't a chain, outright refuses to serve her.

I have friends and relatives who refuse to get out of their comfort zone. I'll buy them dinner at a mom and pop Mexican restaurant that I think is fantastic, and does bend over backwards to make sure you're satisfied. Then they'll take me out to dinner and it's chipotle. The price is the same, but the food is mediocre. I would rather give my cash to someplace I can sit down and enjoy myself and company. I wish I knew why people have such a hard on for tacky places that try to look authentic

 

[NoReturn]

This isn't exactly consoom product, but it's close enough I figured it would be worth talking about here because it requires consoom.

Putting aside the fact that hustle culture and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, look how many of these are just some variation of "become an advertiser for someone else".
Clickbank is just a place to get affiliate codes:

Field Agent is just old school secret shopper shit:

The rest of all shit that explains all the absolute garbage videos you see on YouTube, the weird "eyelashes" businesses, the low-quality shit on Etsy, etc.
Directly and Amazon FBA might be the only actual "jobs" in there.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

"I would have died to have these toys as a kid."
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These look so cheap and barebones. When I was growing up, I'd have taken Playmobil over this junk in a heartbeat. (From the Disney Boomer Consoomer Couple's newest video.)

When I was a kid, if I asked for new toys from mum and she said no, I'd make some myself out of paper and cardboard. Maybe I'll get lucky and find some scrap coloured paper from school and use that too.
I would make temporary toys with origami and throw it away when I'm done.

One thing I'd like kids these days to learn is being innovative like that and stop want want wanting new plastic stuff.

 

[The Feline Solution]

I think it's the fact that customers can get away with more scumbag behavior at a chain vs a mom n pop place. You act like an entitled cunt at Red Robin, they're going to bend over backwards to your demands. You act like an entitled cunt at your local diner, they'll more then likely ban you and half the town will likely know who you are and outright refuse to serve you. Happened to a lady in my area, and every business that isn't a chain, outright refuses to serve her.

Baffles my mind that there are people out there, probably more than a few, who go out to eat not because they enjoy the food or the atmosphere but to be a cunt to service people first and foremost. We really need a culling.

This isn't exactly consoom product, but it's close enough I figured it would be worth talking about here because it requires consoom.

Putting aside the fact that hustle culture and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, look how many of these are just some variation of "become an advertiser for someone else".
Clickbank is just a place to get affiliate codes:
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Field Agent is just old school secret shopper shit:
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The rest of all shit that explains all the absolute garbage videos you see on YouTube, the weird "eyelashes" businesses, the low-quality shit on Etsy, etc.
Directly and Amazon FBA might be the only actual "jobs" in there.

Best side hustle is selling drugs, these people are clueless.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

I have friends and relatives who refuse to get out of their comfort zone. I'll buy them dinner at a mom and pop Mexican restaurant that I think is fantastic, and does bend over backwards to make sure you're satisfied. Then they'll take me out to dinner and it's chipotle. The price is the same, but the food is mediocre. I would rather give my cash to someplace I can sit down and enjoy myself and company. I wish I knew why people have such a hard on for tacky places that try to look authentic

Alot of people have anxieties both natural and learned around food that they control by sticking with what they know. New foods are always "dangerous" because you might get something you don't like or even hate. They really don't like that feeling. A new restaurant with different selection isn't exacting to them, it's uncomfortable with unfamiliar foods or familiar foods that are slightly off from what they are used to. There are so many thing that are different and to these people different is more often than not worse.

Familiar, safe and easy, that to them makes an enjoyable eating out experience. Chain restaurants serve these people well because they are all around recognizable and you know what you get even if this location isn't one you have been before. Foods have been tested by millions of people to hit all the basics.

 

[Shig O'nella]

I would make temporary toys with origami and throw it away when I'm done.

NGL - that sounds really fucking neat.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Tyler, The Creator is consumerism (slightly) done right:

Keeps it short, simple and somewhat vintage with his personal stuff. It’s pretty much what I expect for him to collect in this stage of his career.

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Except for the amount of watches he has when some of them don’t work.

 

[Becky McDonald]

This does remind me of another board elsewhere, years ago, where a man posted about when he got sick, and in a hospital, he told his daughter not to throw all his shit out, she could sell it. The father collected old video game systems and shit. She just replied, "Dad, I'll just throw all that shit out". He had to explain to her, that she could buy a car with the funds, however, she even then, with her father very ill, just let him know, up front, she could not be bothered with that. it was too much trouble. it's trash. Also caused me to make sure I had good homes for some of my goodies, as I know to most family, they'd just not want to be bothered.

Old post, but common people legitimately DO NOT KNOW how much valuable old stuff gets tossed out on a regular basis.

A female friend of mine (someone I've known since school and consider more of a sister than anything else) got a job at a funeral home a couple years ago, and her job is literally to just load the deceased's personal effects into a giant, rusty metal barrel and spend all day burning it down. Anything you can think of, she's reduced to ash at some point. 19th century furniture. Card collections. Old video games, including their boxes. Action figures. Piles of memoirs and manuscripts that were never published.

Sometimes she saves particularly neat stuff she think I'd like, under the table of course, since it's not exactly easy to explain. I reckon if she sold the stuff she was given off (and she's hardly ever supervised), she'd easily have a six-figure net worth by now. But they just cannot be bothered. So it burns.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Old post, but common people legitimately DO NOT KNOW how much valuable old stuff gets tossed out on a regular basis.

A female friend of mine (someone I've known since school and consider more of a sister than anything else) got a job at a funeral home a couple years ago, and her job is literally to just load the deceased's personal effects into a giant, rusty metal barrel and spend all day burning it down. Anything you can think of, she's reduced to ash at some point. 19th century furniture. Card collections. Old video games, including their boxes. Action figures. Piles of memoirs and manuscripts that were never published.

Sometimes she saves particularly neat stuff she think I'd like, under the table of course, since it's not exactly easy to explain. I reckon if she sold the stuff she was given off (and she's hardly ever supervised), she'd easily have a six-figure net worth by now. But they just cannot be bothered. So it burns.

Why would the funeral home dispose of a person's belongings, besides what might be in their pockets? I thought they just prettied up the dead bodies and sold coffins?

 

[Becky McDonald]

Why would the funeral home dispose of a person's belongings, besides what might be in their pockets? I thought they just prettied up the dead bodies and sold coffins?

Truthfully, I never bothered to ask. But the technical term is a "burn barrel", as they've talked about it in parlance, and it's when their descendents aren't interested in taking ownership or they don't have any. Normally the city takes care of that sort of thing, but I think if their house was privately-owned, they get it instead. Might be to do with biohazards as well if the owner dies in their home, better to burn it than have a municipal worker die from disease.

I also might have changed one or two details for PLing purposes. Not too much though.
I have read some other people reporting this sort of thing on the internet too since I felt it was really fucking weird when I first heard about it, so it's not just where she works that does it. Guess it's more efficient or something.

But yeah, if any of you know an elderly/ill relative that owns something you want, ask them to give you it now rather than wait for them to die.

 

[HerrKlicks]

A three part tale of a terminal consoomer
(well, she actually made two other videos on the stupid machine but I can't be fucked to grab those)

Yes, she's one of *THOSE* people that live in Canada and think they are SOOOO UNIQUE for having european ancestry/family
Because, yuno, there aren't many people with polish roots in Canacuckistan or anything...

Since she even tagged DeLonghi in the unboxing I assume this is just a shitty placement.
DailyDot ran a story on it too because that's like all their content is:

'I literally cannot justify this anymore': Woman quits Starbucks after paying $7 for pumpkin spice latte

A woman went viral on TikTok after blasting the price of Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Lattes, swearing off the brand due to the high cost.

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Her TikTok to possibly dig for more lulz

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The killer astroid can't come soon enough!

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

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Best side hustle is selling drugs, these people are clueless.

I saw people singing praises to drug dealers as good, down-to-earth people as opposed to landlords, so

 

[The Feline Solution]

I saw people singing praises to drug dealers as good, down-to-earth people as opposed to landlords, so

I met more nice drug dealers in my life than nice landlords, so i kinda agree with those people. Definitly less chance of getting stabbed by a landlord, though.