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

Nuclear Poisoning said:
Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.
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I can still fully understand people using these sites, if they live in a rural area, far away from any developed city. My parents use Temu to purchase various gardening knick knacks like hats or scissors, simply because finding something niche in a physical store is difficult or is sold at heavily inflated prices. Hell, even I found myself caving in and using amazon to purchase an AC adaptor for my laptop because it was cheaper, after the wire of the old one I owned broke (and apparently was designed in a way that it couldn't be fixed or replaced by any repairman... fuckin cheapskate bastards).
 
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Skylavijas said:
I can still fully understand people using these sites, if they live in a rural area, far away from any developed city. My parents use Temu to purchase various gardening knick knacks like hats or scissors, simply because finding something niche in a physical store is difficult or is sold at heavily inflated prices. Hell, even I found myself caving in and using amazon to purchase an AC adaptor for my laptop because it was cheaper, after the wire of the old one I owned broke (and apparently was designed in a way that it couldn't be fixed or replaced by any repairman... fuckin cheapskate bastards).
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I use a particular type of overpriced litter for my animals, which comes in 40L bags. I'm relatively close to a pet store that carries the stuff, but not only is it more expensive there, the traffic in that area is such a fucking bitch that it takes two to three times longer to get there than it would to cover the same distance in any other direction. Amazon not only carries the same litter, it's slightly cheaper than the pet store even with delivery costs. So by sucking the Amazon teat, I'm not only saving time and money, I'm saving myself from having to sling these huge bags around every month, and also from the chance of getting my car totaled by some crazed random trying to make a living driving Uber.

Sometimes Amazon is genuinely the best option.
 
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Bare minimum for when SHTF. I'm totally not a hoarder.
 
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ToEnsureVerification said:
Bare minimum for when SHTF. I'm totally not a hoarder.
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God gun collecting is so fucking gay, owning a few guns is fine they're fun to shoot and look cool I get it. I understand the enjoyment that can be gained from firearms, but the people that collect that many guns have a screw loose. Funny how all these when shit hits the fan guys are all fat and old. Their guns aren't going to help them when their fat boomer asses run out of insulin for their beetus week one of SHTF.
 
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glass_houses said:
Are you talking about the Japanesestuffchannel bloke? God, he's aggravating. If he doesn't want to talk on video that's fine, but could at least give us a few lines of descriptive text instead of the same silent thumbs up every fucking time?
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No, DancingBacons, their video was posted in the comment I replied to.
 
Coon Cheese said:
God gun collecting is so fucking gay, owning a few guns is fine they're fun to shoot and look cool I get it. I understand the enjoyment that can be gained from firearms, but the people that collect that many guns have a screw loose. Funny how all these when shit hits the fan guys are all fat and old. Their guns aren't going to help them when their fat boomer asses run out of insulin for their beetus week one of SHTF.
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Guns are useful. Funko Pops are not. I'd much rather have that wall of firearms than a room full of well-organized Fucko Pops.
 
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Something I don’t think I’ve mentioned in the Pokemon thread that GameStop has decided to double down on the PSA grading thing along with TCGs because they know that people are retards and will camp out outside of their stores to wait for them to open and be first in line to buy up all of invest in the Pokemon cards. Not too long ago they were bragging about having had their millionth card graded through them. This shouldn’t be a surprise, given how so many people in the hobby of collecting cards have the same mentality they had in 1999, where every single card could be worth a lot of money. This leans into the thing about FOMO heavily, as these people are grading anything and everything in hopes that something will come back and become valuable.
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Chromeo said:
They're not even that good of a cookie, I wish the Big Thing people got excited about would be actually good once in a while.
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The way everyone where I lived lost their minds when a crumbl opened up somewhere nearby was insane. You think some sort of Christ came, but no, it was fucking crumbl of all things. :story: Tried it and it really wasn't worth it
glass_houses said:
Sometimes Amazon is genuinely the best option.
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Many times where I live, Amazon or Aliexpress is literally the only option. As much I joke about Temu, sometimes I feel tempted resorting to it .Don't feel happy using it sometimes, but with how many stores here shut down, or have been long gone since before I was born. It isn't really fun when Walmart is your only other option, and to get anything good, you have to drive for a while which becomes an afternoon trip.
 
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Pina Colada said:
My mom and I tried one when a store popped up in our town; it was gross, overpriced, and I tasted more preservatives than chocolate chips.
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The only reason I ever even heard of that is once Jack Scalfatty went there and threw a squalling baby tantrum because they were out of some cookie he wanted,
 
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Coon Cheese said:
Their guns aren't going to help them when their fat boomer asses run out of insulin for their beetus week one of SHTF.
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There was a doomsday pepper documentary years ago which I can’t find now, but I vividly remember a scene where it talked about how two of the women were diabetic and their solution was to hoard insulin and bury it in a river bank to keep it “refrigerated” after the power had gone out.
 
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I was reading this thread and took my stupid pyrenees for a walk now it's somewhat acceptable temperatures. We got back and she followed me upstairs to my room which is still in the 30s even at 11pm because the stupid people that built it put enough insulation in it so that old people wouldn't die of hypothermia in winter or some shit. She went and flopped down in the way of one of the fans pulling cold air from outside in through the windows before fucking off downstairs where it's cool enough for her. I just thought this might be funny, then I remembered how shit I am at drawing. At least if I pretend to be shit at drawing no one will think to find my secret furry porn twitter account.

I just wanted to say
CONSOOM FAN
CONSOOM COOLING BECOME EXCITE FOR NEXT ROTATION
MAKE YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY ICE BATH
PLEDGE DEVOTION TO BIG AIRCON™
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Stupid fucking polar bear, average French soy cunt. Average coolsoomer. Some liberal ass bullshit fucking oh england is too warm SAID NOBODY IN THE HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean hey at least I have something to point to as a reason for being basically the only guy posting in the ai thread lol. Can you tell I went to trade school at all?

I don't know if it counts but it's the closest I have outside of a fucking terrible shitpost but hey that's why it's in a spoiler. But I fucking love absinthe, I just fucking love french shit, ask me about my piss kink. But a couple times family and friends have bought me super expensive bottles, so far none have tasted as good as the fucking cheapest standard bottle on amazon. Idk if it's just my tastebuds but so far no alcohol significantly more expensive than the coop's shit has been worth the price, most are actually worse imo. Maybe that's just me but honestly I'd rather take the cheapest bottle of absinthe and genuinely just spend the £~100 difference on funkos let alone something actually worthwhile. Not even touching the celebrity shit that's just the same liquid but for 5x the price because of the branding, not exactly consoomerism, just regular old overpriced shit, but man the fucking reactions you get from people when you say that is insane. People will genuinely be annoyed at you for daring to enjoy something cheap. They want you to be unable to enjoy the cheaper shit even if you think it tastes nicer, maybe out of jealousy and wanting to validate their expensive purchases, similar to how retards will defend buying some shitty soulless miku funko for like £30 instead of just getting a full blown respectable figure for £15. They just can't fathom getting joy from something 'cheap' or 'uncultured', anyway have I mentioned I fucking love french people at all? Idk just from reading this thread I haven't seen anyone talk about alcohol snobs despite them basically being boomers but for funkos.

Actually no wait. I almost hit post here. I do have something meaningful to contribute. There's this guy on youtube (franchise kicks) that I follow because he runs a second hand reselling type store, buys liquidated stock to resell as a 'business' (the channel has 350k subs so that's the real business). He also buys funkos. I always found it funny because of the thumbnails. tldr I have an extention that replaces all thumbnails with a random screenshot of the video. Removes clickbait basically.
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I just want to ask if you notice anything instantly? Every single one of his liquidation videos has his wife in, every funko video has him stuck in his mancave with the wife obviously not giving a shit. I mean ngl I have interests that my gf does not give a shit about, same the other way around. I always just found it kinda funny that you have a couple and then the wife just fucking nopes out of there the second a funko is involved. I can't remember exactly because it happened long before I even knew of this website's existence but he also has fucking thin as all hell skin. He got some minor criticism in one of his videos that was probably a fraction of how harsh you guys will talk about my drawing lol. It was basically just 'can you list a running total in the corner' or something that mundane, the guy went on a multi comment chimpout about how it was his channel and his choice and that you don't have to watch if you don't want to and fuck off and all that shit. The type where there's like 10 minutes from first comment to last so you know they were sat there malding, or well, malded? He's already bald so? He will just go off on the smallest absolute nobody with 0 likes because well, he collects funkos are you really expecting any sort of maturity? Probably the type of person who would set google alerts for anyone who would say 'franchisekicks franchise kicks clint miller' just so he can see anyone talking about him to bitch about them. Also there's a load of people who say the entire thing is a scam and he's either putting shit in the boxes or more likely that the liquidators are intentionally putting higher value shit in the boxes he gets to basically set a false expectation to scam the audience. I forget what he does with the pops, I could be bullshitting but I'm fairly sure he keeps the 'good' ones and then just resells the shit ones on again which considering he got them from a fucking reseller idk how the fuck can that be anything other than guaranteed losses, I don't know how that works and honestly there are seldom few things I want to do less than watch through a man that's in his 50s unboxing pops for hours to try figure that shit out. He also collects shoes, I thought that was something skinny black basketball americans did not obese white guys but I digress, it's 2025 the body positivity probably outweighs ;) the racist cultural appropriation. Or maybe it was always a white guy thing, I don't really know, I have a good relationship with my parents.
 
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