I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it's both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just "standard" stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn't a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country's orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.
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Have you seen Archer? It's an animated comedy but it hits some of the same vibes, at least for the first 3-4 seasons. Things get... weird after that.
Gotta wait 7 years for it to kick in though. That's a long dry spell.
Same here. There's just something about the gang that helps me see the good. They're objectively terrible people but at the end of the day they always stick together.
tch tch tch tch. well, how is his wife holding up?
shut up and take my upvote
It seems to also include Japan and Russia. Birds flying across oceans still blows my mind.
Well tell canada to come burn the white house down again, maybe that will get the message across
"I would call you a cunt, but you have neither the warmth nor the depth."
I would imagine the migratory bird treaty act protects them, as they are migratory birds.
taint-chinned and proud
My sister used to only eat a steak if it was charred black and covered in ground black pepper. Not sure if that's "better" or worse than burnt bacon.