Can we please

Not funny.

Not a meme.

- Approximately 99% of stuff that gets posted here are not memes. I think you're fighting a losing battle here.
Can we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their un-funny, non-memes and screenshots and whatever little harmless things in which they've managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
- FINE.
What are the essential criteria of a meme in your view?
- I would say a Twitter post isn't one. At least scribble on an image of some.kind.
- IMHO an idea that spreads person to person, not just PSAs that are unlikely to be shared further.
  So the avocado face on the bottom right of this image IS a meme. And if this Tweet turns into a copypasta, then it's a meme.
You're 100% right. But I've seen comics and tweets do well here, so this post isn't going against the norm
- Yep. Came for the memes. Unsubscribed for the other shit.
- You’re a Reddit refugee aren’t you
It's being spread through communication - It's a meme. Memes don't have to be funny.
Could we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have... whatever little harmless things in which they've managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
Did you even SEE the avocado with a face? Meme.
/s if needed..
Reminds me of where I used to live, Reddit.

Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.

I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.

I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.
But I think it's important that we don't let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.
What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own "weird barbies"?
- The difference is that you should enjoy things not because nothing matters in this world (that would be hedonism.), but because the world matters to you, and you will fight to make it better.
  There comes a point in everybody's life where they are faced with their own mortality and finally figure out what they are meant to do. None of us will be here forever, so, I think we should use our short time on this Earth to fight for a world where everyone is free to find their way in life, and be themselves again.
  Kinda vague, but everyone is different, so, everyone will have to figure it out on their own.
I'd like to think even as a jaded adult this isn't just an impersonation.
And I assume the Ken dance off scene is an allegory to the obliteration of the ego resulting in self reflection?
- Ok if you had the opportunity to make Ryan Gosling do a dumb song and dance number you would have done the same thing.
  It's funny for actors to play against type because it's unexpected. Like Leslie Nielsen in "Airplane!", for example.
Totally irrelevant to your comment, keep up the strike and hold the line! Assuming you're the real Margot Robbie and have a prolific platform. I know it's not fair, especially to the less recognizable members but a lot of other people who are thinking about unionizing are watching the WGA and SAG strikes to see if labour can still win. It's not just you guys, we're all with you. Even if they're too stupid to realize this strike is more important than a new season of NCIS. Labour winning this strike proves that labour isn't out of the fight and capital hasn't completely won. Stay strong! Hold the line!
- Thank you.

If I hear Christmas music before at least November, I will go nuclear

completely agree. people can have their decorations whenever and whatever else their heart desires, but i draw the line at christmas music

I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me

Last year local Home Depot started clearancing out Halloween decorations to make room for Christmas stuff in September.

You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don't take away my joy. That does.

- This is the reason. It's all just so commercial now and it never ends!
How does me putting an inflatable grim reaper in my yard in February take away your joy?
- Nfi but this comment just brought me great joy. I’m grinning.
- If just one person does it, it doesn't. But there are always more.

I don't criticize people for enjoying those things, I criticize the corporations for relentlessly monetizing those things, making them insufferable and sucking all the enjoyment out of them for money.

I just want to end misspelling "avocado" .

It's like "Gandhi". Seems like freaking no one on the internet knows how to spell that name.
- Ghandi?
- I once turned in a project on that very individual at secondary school in which I had his name misspelled the entire way through.
  It did not go well.

Upvoted Taddington. Hope ur ok hun

Cinnamon is carcinogenic???? You know what, I don't care. I love cinnamon, and this propaganda won't change my mind. I'm going to plug my ears and go "lalalalalala"
- As far as I can tell, there isn't any evidence for this in humans. Enjoy your cinnamon.
- That's why your body rejects eating a spoon full of cinnamon as seen in that stupid challenge a few years ago.
You forgot the sugar levels of pumpkin spice, which make Mountain Dew look like a health drink.
- So i can enjoy one guilt free?
Pocket sand, you've been upgraded to pocket cinnamon
Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)
Huh?

This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️

This is the way.

Serious.

If you are seriously annoyed by any of these things, then it should be a reminder of how unburdened and care free your life is that such a thing actually bugs you, and spark a sense of pride and contentment instead.

Until I go to build my D&D table.
All it costs you is a couple of friends every time you start a new campaign
- I miss dnd and mtg. Even the kids down here dunno either.

Costco has Christmas decorations up already actually

Halloween decorations now are fine, it's the Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations infringing on Halloween that are the problem.
- It's ridiculous that Christmas decorations and shopping starts popping up in stores 4 months early in September (late August in some cases). No other holiday is like that. It's like seeing Valentine's Day stuff out in November or Halloween out in July. Personally, I feel oversaturated and sick of Christmas by the time it actually arrives.
I guess I'll be giving away candy canes at Halloween. Maybe also some of those old fashioned ribbon candies that taste like mothballs... That's kind of in the spirit of Halloween isn't it?
DG too.

Halloween is my favorite time of the year!

My first thought was "It's never too early for Halloween". I can understand hating early Christmas decorations, because Christmas is an all-out capitalist fuckfest with irritating jingles. But who hates Halloween?
- Honestly it's probably in part BECAUSE OF the damn early Christmas decorations that Halloween stuff has been expanding earlier into the fall/summer. Because by mid October you have to wade through a sea of holly jolly bullshit to get to it. Anyone with an issue with the early Halloween stuff, go take it up with Christmas for trying to annex October and not staying on their fucking side of the 31st.
All 3 months of it

Guy across the street spent the weekend putting up Halloween decorations with his daughter. We can this guy "Heavy metal dad" because year round he displays pentagram flags, and wears heavy metal band shirts with the sleeves cut off all year. It's great.

No

no Christmas music allowed until mid December

If I can't criticize every insignificant difference in lifestyle that I have with a stranger that I probably won't ever talk to again in my life. How else will I stroke my ego and fulfill my basic need of feeling superior to others?

Is nobody going to talk about the avocado man in the right-hand corner

Nope. It's awesome
I'd add hating on Hawaiian Pizza into this list.
Irony!

Only hate the really early Halloween decorations at the store when they take away summer things early. Sometimes I need a new pool float in late august...

But how else will I feel superior and generally much more intelligent than other people?

Yes to everything except the advocados. I hate superfoods and what they do to the soil.

Excellent. More of this sentiment please.

Also, it's important for everyone to feel comfortable expressing their dislike for things, so long as jumping on hateful-bandwagons isn't a source of social credit.

I'm a big fan of the 12ft skeleton fad. Especially when they stay up and become Christmas decorations.
- I'm gonna do the "hang a ghost from your drone and fly it up and down the street" trick on the kids this year.
Jack and Sally are particularly fond of October-December, but are almost always welcomed in my general whereabouts.

An eye for an eye ✊😠

Wishful thinking, unfortunately.

My tiny shrivelled flower of joy comes from relentlessly criticizing.

We should. Yes please.

Sure. What about pineapple on pizza though? I mean you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Read up on the climate effects of eating avocado

Read up on deez nutz
Nowhere near as bad as meat and dairy. So you're vegan, right? Otherwise saying this would be hypocritical.
- Avocados also tend to be grown in places where water is less available... If we all became vegetarians tomorrow, avocados would still be a big problem
Yee Avocado is expensive for a reason. Takes an absurd amount of water to grow.
- Requiring a lot of water to grow something isn't inherently problematic. The issues only come in when wealthy landowners steal drinking water during drought conditions to grow things. When it comes down to brass tacks, the cartels are more of an issue with avocado production (and actually one of the bigger reasons they are expensive).
  All that to say, it doesn't really matter in the end. If you enjoy your avocados and can afford them, have at it. We're all doomed to be crushed under the cloven hooves of our billionaire gods anyway.
Read up on the climate effects of eating beef
- Read up on 'whataboutism'
- If I don't eat beef, there's not much incentive to create better alternatives so that I don't.
Every time you eat an avocado, a baby seal dies.

Can we compromise? I'll give you all of those things except the early holloween decorations

Right, Halloween decorations were meant to be year round
- If I'm investing $400 in a giant skeleton, you bet your bum it's going to be a year round decoration with rotating, seasonal/holiday themes
- Oohhhohoho you...
- I’m good with that.
  Corrected

Sure, as soon as you stop bombarding me with advertisements for these things to the point I retch at the very sight.

Fucking seriously my local Lowe's had the Halloween decorations on display before the end of August. Two whole entire months am I getting BLEAURGH'd at by an injection molded demon every time I walk in to buy some screws and a quart of stain. Of course the Christmas decorations are going to be out on November 1st. Remember when there were only 12 days of Christmas? Now there's something like 60.

Don't be so negative...Christmas decorations will be out before Halloween is over.
If the Halloween stuff bugs you, enter the store by the pro desk.
60? Your retailers are slacking.

No your a looser

When they could be playing Pathfinder? I think not!

Could we, without relentless attention-whoring, stop inventing problems that don't exist?

Who tf is out there getting flak for ANY of these things? These are all perfectly accepted

People in various pockets of society? My sister would be one of them.

Does anyone actively enjoy early christmas decoration? Its not the people Im annoyed with, its the stores.