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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 an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I went to a Hooters once where our waitress kept almost sitting down at our table.

Like one of the stools was empty, and she would move as if she was going to sit in it, which isn't much since the stools were tall. But then she wouldn't actually sit down.

It was confounding, but I'm sure she did it on purpose.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

After the first 5 words, I was honestly expecting an anecdote about the server sitting in someone's lap..

In my defense, all I know about Hooters is from pop culture and the tweets of that Australian American douchecanoe ambassador/unofficial Hooters spokesgoblin that's so insecure that his display name was (and probably still is. I haven't been back there since before the stupid name change) "Alpha Male"

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did she move it so she could be closer to the table? I could see that for various posture reasons.

For example, she moved the stool so her feet wouldn’t hit it while standing there; from another angle so she didn’t have to lean over the stool awkwardly…

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The stool was the kind with a tall back, and she kept putting her hand on the top of the stool's back, and then used that arm to pull herself closer to the stool like she was about to sit down. It wasn't closer to the table that I remember. And I don't remember if she moved the stool, but if she did, it would have been moved closer to her.

This was many many years ago and so we are reaching the limits of my recollection.

At the time, I thought she was doing it to make us think that she wanted to join us at the table as a way of flirting for a larger tip.