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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Watched Home Alone tonight trying to figure it out. 1990. Were they rich?

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Holy shit yes, I don't care about relative anything, have you seen that house? That's rich.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flew so many people to the other side of the world they didn't even notice their own kid missing? How rich you have to be for that?

[–] AsheHole@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The really rich uncle paid for it. In the opening you learn their niece lives with them and her parents are in Paris. I believe it's their ridiculously expensive house in the second movie that is being renovated in NYC as well.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plane tickets from New York (?) to Paris in 1990 at Christmas time for an entire family would have been expensive as hell

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

I thought the rich uncle paid for that. Haven't seen it in a while, but anyway yeah, they weren't hurting that's for sure

It was Chicago. Nearly all of John Hughes' movies take place in Chicago.

[–] AsheHole@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, the house it was filmed in and suburb they were supposed to be from is "Winnetka" which is a northern suburb and where a lot of exceptionally rich people live. Houses in that area go for millions. Though, it's possible they were a house broke family. The mom was also supposed to be a fashion designer and it was the uncle who paid for the Paris trip.

Edit: house is currently pending sale for over 5mil, and pictures show there's a full basketball court and home movie theatre inside. Wow