I rarely look at traditional social media but when I do pop into FB for the odd reasons such as a relative having a baby I notice that my feed, as restricted as it is because I purged almost everyone years ago, that people are still putting trite motivational quotes up there and I cringe whenever I see this. The really pathetic thing is that it is almost never my successful friends and family members that are the ones posting this garbage.
I do find some pretty interesting statements over on 9gag though because there isn't really any sense of trying to lecture or inspire anyone over there... for the most part the stuff that makes it to the top of of leaderboards are statements that are funny or statements that make you nostalgic.
Here are a few of those now.
I have mentioned many times that I have reached a point in my life where I don't actually feel like being drunk all the time and when I do get drunk the hangovers are just too much for me to bear anymore these days. I have a drinking problem in the fact that I consume way too quickly and I can't really moderate this. But anyway, I thought the above was a funny statement.
This one is kind of tragic and of course is true for everyone. There were other ones on there about "one day you and your friends got together to play and nobody realized it was going to be the last time you got together to play." There are tons of things in your life that you do for the last time and perhaps it is better to not think about it so much because it just becomes depressing if you think about your own mortality and the passage of time like that.
This is almost certainly staged but made me laugh anyway. I recently rediscovered my love for Taco Bell when visiting Thailand where they actually have Taco Bell including some of the more popular western items that I have missed so much. Someone took a huge gamble on opening a fast food chain into a market that is almost completely unfamiliar with Tex Mex and I don't know if it is going to work out. Of the Taco Bells I went to while I was there only the one in the Bangkok airport was busy and fast food margins are very low. I don't know if it will be there much longer. I'll just enjoy it while I can.
I may have actually spoke about this before and if I am repeating myself I apologize for that. A friend of mine recently traveled from one place inside the country to another place inside the country. If you are doing that you do not need to bring your passport even if you are a foreigner. Well just out of dumb bad luck while he was visiting the other city his driving license expired and when he went to the airport to fly back home they REFUSED to allow him on the plane because his ID was expired. I understand why they wouldn't want you driving a car on an expired license but we need to look at what the purpose of ID really is. It is proof of identity isn't it? he is still the guy on the ID and still the name on the ticket matches his. What friggin difference does it make that the ID expired a few days ago? Seriously, some people are just dicks. They could have let him through they just chose not to.
This was rigged to get the desired result but it is still pretty funny that spreadsheets will do things like this on a regular basis. I don't remember exactly what triggers it but I used to have a huge problem getting spreadsheets to recognize dates, even if I specifically stated that the cell in question was not mathematical. I don't often have to deal with spreadsheets anymore and well, I consider that a real win in life.
This last one is mildly political but honestly folks, is ANYONE's government doing a good job right now? I can't point to any country on the planet where the people are super-happy with their leadership. I don't care for governance and am just kind of happy that here in Vietnam, despite being a communist country, the government basically just leaves everyone alone. This is a big part of the reason why I continue to live here. It's not a super fantastic place but at least the government lets you simply get on with life without being involved in every little aspect of your life.
That's my takeaways from 9gag in the past week or so. If you are still bumming around regular social media during your downtime I highly suggest that you start wasting your time on it instead of FB, IG, or Twitter. At least with 9gag you are going to get some laughs out of it.
Those were pretty funny! @gooddream
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Taco Bell is my wife's favorite fast food joint so we go there on the rare occasion that we actually go out to eat. There are a few things I enjoy there, but if it were up to me I would probably rather get a burger somewhere. I don't eat as much beef these days, so a fast food burger is a rare treat. That's too bad that the ones there might not last. I totally agree with the one about your license too. It's pretty dumb when you go to a bar and they card you then won't serve you because your license is expired. I'm still the same age! That didn't change!
your story about being carded at a bar is probably extra embarrassing / humiliating because you are probably being told that you wont be served by someone that is 20 years younger than you.
Taco Bell is amazing in my world but the ones here don't have the full menu that you have in USA. I don't think it is on the menu anymore but i've been to USA TB's that will still make it for you if you ask called the "meximelt" ... that is my favorite thing and i wish they had it more places.
Ah yeah, I remember the Meximelt. My go-to is either the Mexican pizza (thank goodness they brought it back) or the beefy five layer burrito. They have a new chipotle chicken burrito that I enjoy too. I can always find something there to eat, but if given the choice, I would still probably pick a burger.
I read that they brought back the pizza. They don't have that over here. The menu is very limited and I don't even know what most of them are. They try to cater to a local taste so I just go for the classic crunchy taco supreme.
I would take tacos over burgers anytime but this has a lot to do with the fact that burgers are global and tacos just aren't. Well, places will have tacos on the menu but it is abundantly clear right away that they don't actually have any idea how to make tacos. Just throw whatever in a tortilla and it is now a taco seems to be the way they operate over here. I disagree :)
Taco shops have started to become really popular over here lately. The Barria style tacos are popping up everywhere too. I'm not really a fan of all the deep fried tortilla stuff unless it is in the form of chips. I still miss the days when Taco Bell had the $.59, $.79, $.99 menu. That was like the golden age! They got rid of the cheesy potatoes an the pintos and cheese too which I really miss.
I can still hear the commercial. That was when you went to Taco Bell with a fiver and had confidence that you were going to get an absurd amount of food. I don't know what 5 will get you now but I bet it isn't much.
My wife and I just stopped there for a late night snack after a concert last night. She got the crunch wrap supreme with chicken and I got a Mexican pizza and it was just shy of $13.00
I still don't get FB and still not tempted to sign up even though I am like he odd one out. It just never appealed to me watching people bragging about how great their lives were when we all know they were not that exciting.
i think a lot of FB customers ended up with buyer's remorse even though they didn't buy anything. Of the 6 people in my immediate family only 1 of them ever posts to FB and even she doesn't do that very often. All of us were regulars about 4 years ago and well, we just got tired of the BS.
I heard the trend has been downhill for years with FB and would be happy to see it vanish.
most social media could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't care a bit.