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

[roj]

And even so far as trains themed off of the show's mechs. There's a whole video about just how ridiculously many pieces of merch there are for the show especially in Japan.

Remember the Lorax? The Lorax was about protecting the environment and they just used the character to sell cars and plastic toys and shit.

 

[LordOdin]

What about some mechanics with the snap-on/mac/matco/cornwell consoooom?

I've known guys that live in trailers but have $30,000 tool boxes filled to the brim with snapon tools that cost at least another 30,000.

There's a huge quality difference in tools and some other convenient things that make a namebrand tool superior. Sockets for instance are a lot sturdier but the name brands are also often a tighter fit. Secondly they're also a slight but deeper so a nut wont fall out if you put it in the socket to put on. Socket wrenches tend to have a finer toothing to them causing them to have less useless movement usefull for tight spots. Wrenches again tighter fit and sturdier. I can go on and on add to that brands like snap on often put a life time warranty on it so there's that.

 

[マチコ先生]

Seriously, who asked for Jojo Siwa being branded and sponsored to make cereal?

Children, ya cumbrain- the primary demographic of sweetened cereal, esp any sponsored kind--besides the ones appealing to the manchildren with arrested development.

You may not like it, but among kids (i.e. little girls who tend to be more of tiny shoppers), Jojo Siwa is at least if not more popular than urkel at at his time.

 

[grimacefetishist]

I really dislike anything of plastic/polyester. In workout clothes it is nasty. It doesn't keep me dry and it's slippery. When you are squatting with bar over your neck, or laying on the bench to do bench press. You do not want anything to slip.
I only see plebbit people raving over polyester dri-fit. My guess is, they don’t really workout and just want to be "trendy". Or they only run, which is scientifically shown to reduce testosterone in men.

Plastics that are known to be safe isn't really safe, and silicone is the worst. Because it's the most porous. The worst damage is done when you heat up food in anything plastic though. But plastic is really evil.

About the Versace face masks. They are known for silk shirts, so I can't fathom why the masks isn't in silk. Because it's possible, and they do have sleeping masks in silk that looks similar.

Assuming silk meaning buggy silk and not silk cotton, buggy silk (and wool) can't be bleached which makes it a piss poor option for a hygiene aid

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

There's a huge quality difference in tools and some other convenient things that make a namebrand tool superior. Sockets for instance are a lot sturdier but the name brands are also often a tighter fit. Secondly they're also a slight but deeper so a nut wont fall out if you put it in the socket to put on. Socket wrenches tend to have a finer toothing to them causing them to have less useless movement usefull for tight spots. Wrenches again tighter fit and sturdier. I can go on and on add to that brands like snap on often put a life time warranty on it so there's that.

Not to mention that mechanics almost always need to purchase their own tools with their own money, their employer often does not reimburse them for this. In a professional setting where you're going to use that tool every single day to put bread on the table buying quality is an obvious choice, and most high quality tool manufacturers put lifetime warranties on their shit where if you break your tool they will replace it for free for life. I have warrantied a Snap-On socket handle that was made in the 1960's that I found on the ground at a service station, in a professional setting this is not in any way consoomerism.

 

[NoReturn]

Disney Adults Are Having A Magical Time Whether You Like It Or Not (Archive)​

For these "House of Mouse" fans, the brand offers more than childhood nostalgia. It's an ever-present lifestyle and they're not ashamed of it.

Michael Blackmon
BuzzFeed News Reporter
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Eight weeks after her youngest son was born, Cari, a 47-year-old educator who lives in Chicago, made the 30-hour-long drive to California to spend three days at Disneyland. “Very little will keep me from Disney!” Cari told me in an interview in June. She estimates she’s been to Disneyland more than 25 times and said that during that one of her many trips, she “carried [her son] around with a wrap over [her] shoulder, nursing him as [she] walked.”

Last year, she made the trek with her family to Disney World in Florida three separate times. For two of the trips, she and her family “basically drove straight there,” spending about 20 hours in a car to enjoy three nights exploring the Magic Kingdom. During another drive to the Orlando-based amusement park, the family spent two extra days there, though the fun didn’t come without a bit of worry. “I agonized over whether it was the right thing to do, but those trips really helped get us through the year,” she said. “I have some guilt around the fact that the pandemic hit people so hard and we were able to do that.”

“At the time, I felt like the whole world was very black and white — ‘stay home or you are a bad citizen!’ or ‘go out and live your life!’ she said. “I was in between. There were certain risks I would take, and others I wouldn’t. We traveled by car and we’re comfortable with how Disney handled things, and knew that our trips did help people go back to work.”

Cari belongs to a subsection of the population known as “Disney adults.” They aren’t just adults who like the brand; they are aficionados, obsessives, people who have forged a specific and unshakeable connection with the late Walt Disney’s sprawling empire.

“I once took an Elsa doll with me to Disney World and carried it with me the entire time,” 32-year-old Kendra told me, referencing a trip she took when she was 24. (Some last names have been withheld throughout this piece to protect sources’ privacy). Craila, another Disney loyalist in her early 30s, once prioritized going to Animal Kingdom over “reconciliation with [her] boyfriend,” saying the two broke up midway through a vacation. “As devastating as that was, all I could say and all that mattered was that I was going to Animal Kingdom — with or without him.” The gravitational pull of Disney is so strong that it can disrupt familial relationships too. “I’ve missed my niece’s birthday party every year since she was born because I’ve always scheduled our Disney trip during the same time period!” said Karina, who is also 32.

But the unbridled joy grown Disney enthusiasts revel in is not always understood by other adults. Some feel that the “Disney adult” designation is, as the kids say today, “cheugy.” Others consider house of mouse fans “terrifying,” as writer Tom Haynes did last year, saying, “Disney is designed to appeal to people of all ages, but it’s for children and the adults who still obsess over it desperately need to acquire a kink, or at least a hobby.”

Scroll through Twitter after searching for the term “Disney adults” and there’s no shortage of jokes and would-be origin stories about the polarizing fandom. My own colleague, Scaachi Koul, tweeted last year about her disdain for them. “is it now socially acceptable to publicly hate disney adults?? IS IT?????” The tweet went viral, with a mix of folks condemning it and others spouting some form of the oft-employed phrase when they believe something is above critique: “Shhh, just let people enjoy things.” One thing is for certain: Adults who have made Disney part of their personalities are fascinating.

Last month, I published a callout asking Disney adults to explain themselves, and more than a thousand people responded. They ranged in age from 19 to 72 and lived all over the world — Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, and China. Talking to them helped me understand why Disney has such a vise grip-like hold on them — and their pockets; a general admission single-day ticket to most Disney parks costs at least $100.

Tim and Carissa Helmer, 35 and 32, respectively, have visited the Disney amusement parks hundreds of times, though Tim said “the bulk of those 300-plus times are hers.” Carissa and her family often visited Disneyland about three times a year for vacation when she was growing up, but when she moved to southern California for college, the allure of Disney became even more apparent. The Disney park was about a 30-minute drive from her university. “So every single Friday for five years, I went to Disneyland, because I grew up going there so often. It was home to me,” she said. Tim said his relationship with Disney was similar to that of other children, mostly visiting select parks — Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom — “sporadically.” Though Carissa’s love of Disney had long been solidified, the couple arguably reached full Disney adult status together when they honeymooned at Disney World in 2016.

The Helmers thought about going someplace tropical and Hawaii was briefly at the top of their list, but the plane ride to the other side of the country was a little daunting for the Virginia-based couple. Instead, they decided to indulge in another side of Disney, the side with “gourmet dining and upscale hotels and things like that, that I think a lot of people don't know about and don't think that Disney World had,” Carissa said.

Falling in love with a Disney obsessive appears to be a common gateway into becoming a full-fledged, unabashed Disney adult. “My husband literally did not understand it at all when we first met and actively was one of those people who was like, ‘I love everything about you, but if I could eliminate this one part my life would be made better,’” said Jessie, a 30-year-old who works in tech and splits her time between California and Colorado. They’ve now been together for almost six years, she said, and he’s somewhat of a convert. “He always randomly says, ‘Oh, you know, I could really be in Disney right now.’ Or like, ‘Oh, I miss this park’ or, ‘Oh, I really want to try this restaurant.’ I think once you expose people to that world they realize that there is so much for adults to enjoy about it,” she said. Not only does her husband now have a greater appreciation for Disney, but he also proposed to her at Epcot with a grape soda bottle cap, a nod to the much-loved Disney/Pixar film Up.

For Jessie, whose interest in Disney has grown gradually, the appeal lies in its escapism. “Disney, to me, represents a safe, magical space where the weight of the world and its problems disappear,” she said. “If I'm stressed at work, I listen to Disney instrumentals in the background and everything seems lighter.” Jessie’s sister, Missy, 37, is an even bigger fan, she said. Between the two of them, the sisters estimate they have spent at least $60,000 to $75,000 dollars per person going on trips to Disney, though they suspect it’s probably more. Missy told me that Disney’s parks and resorts are a sort of go-to for her as well, especially on a hard day. “Like, when I have my children and I'm up nursing in the middle of the night and I'm exhausted, I turn on Disney videos and YouTube and watch people walking through the parks,” she said.

Jessie believes a common misconception about Disney adults is that they aren’t people who are well-traveled, but she has visited more than 50 countries; the parks still come out on top. “Many of the best memories of my life were spent at Disney World,” she said. Her sister corroborated this with a story. “I remember Jessie was in [Zimbabwe] on a trip, and I remember her saying to me, ‘It's amazing, and it's incredible in so many ways, but I really, really miss Animal Kingdom right now in Disney,’” Missy said. “I feel like that's something that any other person would hear and think that we were absolutely crazy. We probably are.”

There are certainly people who think adult Disney fans are a little off. Disney adults, especially millennials, have been criticized for flocking to Disney parks and making them more congested. And increasingly, it seems that a good chunk of those people go to amusement parks without children, a fact included in a 2019 New York Post article blasting child-free millennials for going to Disney parks, calling the activity “weird” in a headline. “The same people that think it's bizarre to spend thousands of dollars and a lifetime dedicated to something ‘cult-ish,’ like Disney, are the same folks tuning in to watch their favorite sports teams for hours every single week and spending thousands of dollars on merchandise, tickets, clothing,” said Jessie, who is partnered but has no children. “The same folks curse at a television screen when athletes they've never met and never will meet drop a ball or miss a shot hundreds of miles away. To me, that's asinine. So to your question, I say, to each their own.”

It’s natural to want to defend something you enjoy, especially when it seems like other people don’t have the same reverence for it or if they seem to want to make you feel bad for liking it at all. (As a lifelong Mariah Carey fan who has had to weather lots of criticism about my unwavering love for the singer, I get it!) There’s something about Disney adults that makes them easy targets, possibly because of the idea that they have Peter Pan syndrome, but they’re fully self-aware about the brand they go up for. Because honestly, what makes a Disney adult any worse than an avid Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings fan?

Reid Salomonsky, 36, who will have served in the US Navy 11 years this August, has been to Disney World at least 10 times since 2016. The husband and father of two said he is known as the “Disney guy” in the workplace; he’s decorated his entire office based on different lands within the Magic Kingdom park at Disney World. But he doesn’t let any reactions to his interest in Disney get under his skin. Sometimes colleagues will comment on his commitment to Disney. “I go all the time and it brings me joy like no other,” is what Salomonsky said he tells them.

John Blackham, 32, is a technical writer for a software company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing up, he wasn’t really indoctrinated into Disney. “My parents, they're not exactly Disney skeptics per se, but they're much more [into] Jack London than they were ever Walt Disney,” he said, telling me they would often go on adventures exploring the outdoors, visiting historic sites around old Sacramento, and venues where Mark Twain once lectured. Blackham grew up watching Disney films, but wasn’t particularly loyal to the brand until he took a class trip with his choir to Disney World when he was 17. He didn’t have high expectations, thinking it would be similar to what he had experienced at other amusement parks. “Six Flags, where it's very utilitarian,” he said, as an example. “Like here's the roller coaster, here's another roller coaster.” But Disney was an overwhelming sensory experience, from the smells to the bright signs and distinctive sounds. A fan of design and construction, he was taken with the turn-of-the-century Victorian architecture on Main Street, the road leading up to Cinderella Castle, and the mid-century modern view of what the future would look like — as interpreted by people from the ’60s — in Tomorrowland.

Disney has had quite an effect on Blackham, who even interned at Disney, where he eventually met the woman he would marry. (Naturally, they honeymooned at Disney World.) He said that Disney is also responsible for exposing him to identities outside of his own, a big change for someone who grew up in Nevada County in California, also known as “Clorox Country” because of how white it is.

Blackham recognizes that Disney adults take a lot of heat for the brand they have embraced, and he believes some of the criticism lodged against the company is justified. “There's lots of multitudinous factors, and I understand most of them,” he said. In 2018, a Disney janitor experiencing homelessness was found dead in her car, and the tragedy has frequently been brought up as a critique of Disney’s poor wages for its employees. He also cites the idea that Disney is “this mega media corporation that has bought up all these smaller ones, like some sinister, evil empire that's slowly taking over all forms of media and trying to indoctrinate our children to being loyal customers to a degree — there is some truth to that.”

But he also thinks the hatred can be disproportionate. “I think sometimes in our society, in particular with pop justice, pop morals, if I can use those terms, there's sort of this like Curie litmus test where there's not a lot of room for nuance, not a lot of room for messy contradictions where we want everything to be neat, ordered, and structured,” Blackham said. “So it's like, ‘Disney has bad facets to it, ergo Disney is bad. How can you still like it? You must not know these things or you must also be like, morally reprehensible in some way or a slave to the corporate marketing stuff.’” Essentially, Disney adults want you to know that they don’t have on rose-colored glasses. “Believe me, most of us are well aware of the negative sides of Disney,” said Blackham. “And yet we see something in it that we have undiminished love for. Let people love what they love, and [do] not assume that they need waking up.”

Most Disney adults I spoke with were relatively unfazed by the criticism of their fandom. If anything, they’re proud of it. “You know, people can have their opinion. I don't really pay a lot of attention to it, to be quite honest,” said Dan Grossman, a 36-year-old father and account manager for a software company in Connecticut. He has a sleeve of colorful tattoos — which he conservatively estimated cost him around $7,500 total — based on one of his favorite rides: The Haunted Mansion. “I'm successful in my own right, in my own job. I take care of my family and my kids and that's what we enjoy doing and spending our money [on],” he said. “Don't tell me that at the end of the day if I want to throw on, you know, Aladdin or something that I enjoy, that I'm crazy.” ●

 

[Steely Dan]

Disney Adults Are Having A Magical Time Whether You Like It Or Not (Archive)​

Maybe I'm not as jaded as some people here, but I can't help but feel sorry for consoomers like this. I can't even imagine the existential dread that you must feel to be someone in your 30s, unmarried, without children, without a job that you find meaningful, and your only respite of the crushing weight of this reality is a mouse-themed park of a multinational billion dollar corporation that doesn't know that you exist, doesn't care that you exist, and only wants your money.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Not to mention that mechanics almost always need to purchase their own tools with their own money, their employer often does not reimburse them for this. In a professional setting where you're going to use that tool every single day to put bread on the table buying quality is an obvious choice, and most high quality tool manufacturers put lifetime warranties on their shit where if you break your tool they will replace it for free for life. I have warrantied a Snap-On socket handle that was made in the 1960's that I found on the ground at a service station, in a professional setting this is not in any way consoomerism.

If you are buying something that you use daily for work then thats more of an investment than an expense. The quality of life improvement of using the proper equipment is probably going to be worth more than the cash you paid for but there are cases where is definitely just consumerism, i had an uncle for example who bough National Geographic-tier photographic equipment despite not taking a single picture in years, i don't even know if he ever even learned how to use it, even the manuals were pristine, also the same kind of guy to buy a ton of top tier home improvement equipment just to have it sit on the garage and hire someone to do the repairing anyways because he can't be arsed.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

At least other gamers will show their displeasure towards a game company, even if it amounts to nothing. If people just rolled over and took it we would be light years ahead in loot box technology by now. I pretty much agreed with most of what he said in the video, its not even a maturity thing its a bias problem. These people know what they\re doing they just feel so strongly about nintendo that they'll gladly be their little consumer whipping boys.

I still remember the rightful upset at the sheer laziness of Sword & Shield, yet last time I checked it was one of the highest selling titles in the series. You now have complaining about the awful looking remake, but I bet that'll sell great too.

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Disney Adults Are Having A Magical Time Whether You Like It Or Not (Archive)​

For these "House of Mouse" fans, the brand offers more than childhood nostalgia. It's an ever-present lifestyle and they're not ashamed of it.
View attachment 2325163Michael Blackmon
BuzzFeed News Reporter
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I can't understand Disney Adults for a number of reasons, even the excuse of nostalgia doesn't work for me. You can love their older works because they (mostly) felt like the creative teams actually had the ability to care about more than pushing park attendances or merch sales, while still hating modern Disney. I'd say nostalgia for their older works is what makes the dislike so strong because you feel the magic is gone and isn't coming back, so why bother with anything new Disney releases? I can't understand how there can still be so many people that grew up loving Disney that can look at the garbage they're shovelling out, especially the creatively bankrupt remake cash grabs, and still think any of it is good.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Not to mention that mechanics almost always need to purchase their own tools with their own money, their employer often does not reimburse them for this. In a professional setting where you're going to use that tool every single day to put bread on the table buying quality is an obvious choice, and most high quality tool manufacturers put lifetime warranties on their shit where if you break your tool they will replace it for free for life. I have warrantied a Snap-On socket handle that was made in the 1960's that I found on the ground at a service station, in a professional setting this is not in any way consoomerism.

Toolboxes are a huge grift though. There are high quality boxes that cost less than a tenth of a Snap-On box, or you could make one yourself. He's also right that tool trucks encourage a consoomer culture. They make fucking Snap-On grills and shit. It's absolutely retarded how obsessed some people are with brand loyalty towards non-tool products from a tool company. Just because you got a good table saw once doesn't mean you'd buy a Sawstop barbecue grill.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Toolboxes are a huge grift though. There are high quality boxes that cost less than a tenth of a Snap-On box, or you could make one yourself. He's also right that tool trucks encourage a consoomer culture. They make fucking Snap-On grills and shit. It's absolutely retarded how obsessed some people are with brand loyalty towards non-tool products from a tool company. Just because you got a good table saw once doesn't mean you'd buy a Sawstop barbecue grill.

You are absolutely correct, but I was purely talking about the tools themselves.

 

[Vingle]

Assuming silk meaning buggy silk and not silk cotton, buggy silk (and wool) can't be bleached which makes it a piss poor option for a hygiene aid

True, but I assume you mean sateen cotton? I see silk cotton as a blend of cotton and silk. Sateen is the smooth silky feeling, but if you have tried real silk. Anything sateen can't compare.

Whole thing about it being antibacterial is just a myth, it's just residue from chemicals from purifying silk cocoons.
Dust mites just have a harder time living in it.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

Not sure if this fits, but:

 

[Shaka Brah]

Not sure if this fits, but:

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This looks like a Tom Tomorrow cartoon.

 

[LordOdin]

Not to mention that mechanics almost always need to purchase their own tools with their own money, their employer often does not reimburse them for this. In a professional setting where you're going to use that tool every single day to put bread on the table buying quality is an obvious choice, and most high quality tool manufacturers put lifetime warranties on their shit where if you break your tool they will replace it for free for life. I have warrantied a Snap-On socket handle that was made in the 1960's that I found on the ground at a service station, in a professional setting this is not in any way consoomerism.

Hol up you guys have to pay for your own tools? Here the company has a bunch of toolchests and you get assigned one. Usually they work with a company for a discount for instance all my work tools are gedore. My private tools are a mix of the things i like, like a facom socket wrench normal wrenches from gedore knipex for.... I believe the word is pliers.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Hol up you guys have to pay for your own tools? Here the company has a bunch of toolchests and you get assigned one. Usually they work with a company for a discount for instance all my work tools are gedore. My private tools are a mix of the things i like, like a facom socket wrench normal wrenches from gedore knipex for.... I believe the word is pliers.

In the United States at least it's common that mechanics and machinists and the like need to buy all their own tools. The plus side to this is that you get to keep all of your tools and tool box when you leave.

EDIT: It's still a fucking racket though.

 

[Meat Target]

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Disney Adults Are Having A Magical Time Whether You Like It Or Not (Archive)​

For these "House of Mouse" fans, the brand offers more than childhood nostalgia. It's an ever-present lifestyle and they're not ashamed of it.
View attachment 2325163Michael Blackmon
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Full text:

Maybe I'm not as jaded as some people here, but I can't help but feel sorry for consoomers like this. I can't even imagine the existential dread that you must feel to be someone in your 30s, unmarried, without children, without a job that you find meaningful, and your only respite of the crushing weight of this reality is a mouse-themed park of a multinational billion dollar corporation that doesn't know that you exist, doesn't care that you exist, and only wants your money.

"Like standing in line at the DMV on the surface of the sun".

 

[Vingle]

Haven't seen anything posted about this, but about Nintendo.

 

[Leslie Nielsen]

Toolboxes are a huge grift though. There are high quality boxes that cost less than a tenth of a Snap-On box, or you could make one yourself. He's also right that tool trucks encourage a consoomer culture. They make fucking Snap-On grills and shit. It's absolutely retarded how obsessed some people are with brand loyalty towards non-tool products from a tool company. Just because you got a good table saw once doesn't mean you'd buy a Sawstop barbecue grill.

Snap-On absolutely makes great tools, I have some ratchets and wrenches from the 70s as well as a couple newer wrenches and they both seem very durable, but a tool chest is way down the list of things you should spend more money on. Just buy a box at harbor Freight. Snap-on is absolutely treated as a lifestyle brand to some people, especially with the tool boxes. Kids who are just getting out of tech schools are lured in by the tool trucks and are encouraged to buy these $10,000 tool chests full of tools on loans with huge interest rates before they even have a steady job lined up.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Snap-On absolutely makes great tools, I have some ratchets and wrenches from the 70s as well as a couple newer wrenches and they both seem very durable, but a tool chest is way down the list of things you should spend more money on. Just buy a box at harbor Freight. Snap-on is absolutely treated as a lifestyle brand to some people, especially with the tool boxes. Kids who are just getting out of tech schools are lured in by the tool trucks and are encouraged to buy these $10,000 tool chests full of tools on loans with huge interest rates before they even have a steady job lined up.

Kind of like how you keep luring people into buying Skyrim.