the saddest sight in the world is a married couple at a musical and the wife is super excited and happy and the husband looks like he was dragged along and he’s making a big deal about how much he doesn’t want to be there and the wife gets embarrassed or ashamed. this isn’t a funny post, it’s actually heartbreaking and i see it happen at like every other musical i attend.
Yeah, as an usher what makes me sad is when I see wives clearly dressed in their Sunday best, beaming and buying merch and smiling at me as I hand them a program, toting some guy dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt who declines a program. And that’s at least a quarter of the couples who come in or more. Like come on man, she really loves this stuff, can’t you try to enjoy it for her at least?
About as bad as when you see a big-eyed kid who looks like this is the greatest day of their life, all excited to see this show, and their parent/grandparent/aunt/Cousin/Friend/whoever they convinced to take them keeps making fun of them and saying how dumb or ridiculous they’re being. For Gods sake, this is a person you care about and this is a thing that means a lot to them. Smile, get off your phone, and be happy for them.
This reminds me of the time I went to Universal Studios Hollywood for New Years – that’s the time they have The Wizarding World of Harry Potter on. I was so excited and beaming! But the whole time my brother was talking about how me and everyone there is lame, how “only weird people obsess over make-believe stuff” literally taking the fun out of everything and making me feel bad for being overexcited. He brought up how I didn’t even like Harry Potter until just recently and making me feel bad in general. Not one to be super emotional, but I seriously felt like crying because I wanted to be so happy but I had no one to share it with and the person I was there with was making me feel ridiculous for enjoying the thing I had been looking forward to for a long time. You’re not cool when you put down other people for their interests, you’re just plain boring and a dick.
“You’re not cool when you put down other people for their interests, you’re just plain boring and a dick.”
reminder: being an asshole isn’t a substitute for having a personality
Me in history class: Wow, humanity has been through some fascinating times! I wonder if I’ll ever live through major historical events!
Me now: NO NO NO NO NO I WANT TO GET OFF THIS RIDE
it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space tr
Working off of the labor of others, only there because of being born into capital and pre-existing familial or business relations? Yep
And people still try to defend this shit with ‘Well they MUST work REALLY HARD to earn THAT kind of money!!!’
I assure you they don’t. I assure you the people earning the least money are working the most. I don’t see CEO’s doing 60 hour weeks just to keep food on the table. They don’t do that, because they don’t have to, because they get paid so much they aren’t desperate enough to have to.
If you follow me, reblog this. It is an important piece of data. I would love to see one for the annual tax expenditure of minimum wage versus CEO’s as a proportion of their annual income.
This is the aggregation of labor. This is what it looks like. It has happened before. It will likely happen again unless it is changed.
You guys need to understand economics a bit more
The entire first world lives in a supply and demand economy, some places DO wish to pay you more, but due to constraints based off of the enviroment around them.
If everyone makes 15$ from literally the first job they will ever have (which you arnet supposed to have past your teenage years), then all of the jobs above it and now devalued because someone flipping a burger gets paid nearly as much as a programmer for the government. When this happens, you get more important, high-end jobs with unhappy works to which they will need to answer to. Now those jobs are worth less, or the companies themselves need to up their wages even more.
Then you wait a few years and do this exact same thing, prices of things increase because people have more money to spent, and people in turn get mad their first McJob no longer pays for their entire life.
If you want to make money, get a job in which people need. Learn a trade, learn COMPSCI, learn something useful.
And christ, youre really going to attack the trump family and cite Occupy Democrats despite how everything any of them have done in their lives was done to elevate americas middle class?
Yes we get it you took an econ class in highschool can you please just go back to posting furry porn now
being touchstarved makes u absolutely buckwild when someone does smth simple like .share a chair with u
like having someone touch your hand with the tips of their fingers shouldn’t feel like So Much it shouldn’t feel like your whole body is going into anaphylactic shock but here we are. here we are.
ok 2 many of u relate
Someone gave me a compliment and reached out and squeezed my hand and I fell in love and couldn’t speak for several minutes
I was just gonna type this in the tags but I have to say this.
Growing up in North America is surreal. Every tiny little blip of physical affection is deemed as sexual interest. Boys aren’t allowed to hug eachother because “that’s gay.” Girls can’t hold hands because “are they going out?” And GOD FORBID a female friend hugs a male friend.
Having lived in the Netherlands, and reading up about shit like this, Canadians and Americans are starving.
I went to Japan for a school trip in 2012. I went to a highschool there. There were boys hugging, lounging on those blue gym floor mats, holding hands, trowing their arms around eachother. I was startled by how shocked I was.
This mentality of “if you’re touching you must have sexual interest in the other person” is so fucking disgusting. Hug your friends. Hold hands with them. Touch their hands when you want to reassure them.
UGH IT’S SO TRUE.
We are starving and so that’s why a lot of us look at other countries in awe because people are able to have these friendships that look like there’s something really deep and almost romantic while we over here like I can’t even share the same car with you unless we are Very Close
it really pisses me off how people who are good at maths/science/history/etc are seen as the intelligent ones and will go far in life but also seen as the “boring” ones, but writers and artistic/creative people are seen as the interesting and talented ones but also unintelligent and doomed to be unsuccessful like shit bro how the fuck do any of us win
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