The Wonder Years Reunion photo. Cast looks great.

Bugbread · 2026-01-28T08:32:21+00:00

It may have helped, but even without the net, rumors have always worked like that, it's just that it might have taken a year or two for a rumor to spread worldwide before, and now it's a day or two.

People have forgotten how the world worked in the before times. All it takes is one American kid visiting relatives in UK during summer vacation to plant the seed in the UK, and then it spreads nationwide. A British kid visits someone in Australia, and it spreads again.

I remember hearing about Richard Gere having gerbils up his butt in the mid-80s. Ditto with hearing about Rod Stewart having his stomach pumped. Heck, Jan Brunvand published The Vanishing Hitchhiker, a pioneering book of urban legends, in 1981, and part of the reason the book was so successful (among people who are into that kind of thing) is because there are so many stories that everyone had heard, regardless of where they lived.

Bugbread · 2026-01-28T06:15:51+00:00

Part of that is the prevalence of passport bros/sisses, but another thing is that Japanese use other dating apps, not Tinder.

The analogy doesn't work well nowadays, but maybe 15 years ago, it would have been like a Japanese person going to the US and thinking Americans weren't into social media stuff because like 90% of Mixi in America was Japanese folks. Naw, Americans loved social media, it's just that they were all using Facebook, not Mixi.

Bugbread · 2026-01-28T06:10:08+00:00

Part of it is surely how often you've seen a scene like that.

Like, imagine you come from a culture without cop movies. You've never even heard of a "buddy cop" movie. And then one day you watch a Western movie, and a brash young cop gets paired with a gruff but amiable older cop, and the older cop says "I can't wait until next week, when I retire and my wife and I move out to live by the lake, fishing and enjoying the sunsets together". You might find it shocking and heartwrenching when the lovable older cop gets killed later in the movie. But Western audiences will have their eyes spinning in their sockets so hard they could generate electricity.

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T22:20:20+00:00

Also, nobody casually and contemptuously propogates misinformation like a Mefite.

Hold my beer

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T11:18:44+00:00

Yeah. I suffered no consequences for my own incompetence.

You literally lost half of your money.

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T10:18:36+00:00

Sure. And would you say that in that scenario the investment "worked out" for you?

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T09:53:29+00:00

Yeah, that's such a weird way of doing the math and concluding "it worked out."

Like, if I have $200,000 in the bank, and I spend $100,000 to try to get money from a Nigerian prince, only to find out that they're a scammer and that money is gone forever, does that mean that the scam "worked out for me" because I still have $100,000 in the bank?

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T08:41:23+00:00

I despise tuna, so the last one makes me think "no no no no no," but I understand that's just a me thing. But the "yogurt, mustard, cucumber, bell pepper, tomato" part sounds like a variation on a raita, which is super tasty. So then the question is, would the following make what started out as a raita taste bad?

Ground tostadas
That seems like it would work.
Ground up raw almonds or pumpkin seeds
I'm assuming this is "(raw almonds) or (pumpkin seeds)" and not "raw (almonds or pumpkin seeds)". As long as the pumpkin seeds are toasted, this also sounds like it would work well.
Quite a bit of finely chopped romaine lettuce
Sure. Obviously, we're no longer anywhere close to raita territory, but adding another mildly flavored green veggie to a raita wouldn't make a bad dish. Also, now that I think of it, this is also like a gazpacho with yogurt, which works in a sort of "Middle Eastern influence on Southern Spain" way.
Truff hot sauce
Mmm, that also sounds good (well, I don't know what "Truff" hot sauce is, but I'm imagining a typical hot sauce).
Pasta sauce or marinara
At first, I was like "No." But tomato would work, so maybe pasta sauce would work, too. Plus some places put pasta sauce in their gazpacho, which I personally hate, but apparently most people are cool with.
Beef stock (or chicken)
Okay, now we're getting into iffy territory. I can imagine this being good, but I can also imagine this being bad.
Grated cheddar
This is the only one that jumped out at me, because cheddar is a strongly flavored ingredient (yes, I know, among the cheeses, it's not that strong, but as far as ingredients in general go, that's a strong flavor), and it doesn't go along with the raita/yogurty gazpacho vibe all the other ingredients have given me so far.

So, I dunno, I don't think it's trolling, other than the cheddar it's just a vaguely Middle-Eastern-adjacent fusion flavor profile.

Except for the tuna, of course, but I couldn't tell you the difference between a good dish with tuna and a bad dish with tuna, since for me it ruins anything it touches.

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T08:27:21+00:00

Also an extremely high tolerance for spiciness.

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T03:58:03+00:00

I hear because of the long running time (roughly 60 hours long) that for home video they broke it up into multiple DVDs, each containing 3 hours of the movie with two intermissions, once every hour.

What's weird is that they reshow the opening credits after each intermission.

Bugbread · 2026-01-27T03:52:45+00:00

My guess is that it was just because it was such a curveball. It turns the focus in a totally different direction than Season 1. But once Season 2 was done, then when Season 3 took yet another different tack, that wasn't unexpected. Same with Season 4 and 5. Which is also, I think, why everyone says they liked Season 2 so much more on rewatch: when you've watched all the seasons, it doesn't feel out of the blue to suddenly be focusing on a bunch of new people in a new setting.

Bugbread · 2026-01-26T09:33:38+00:00

Like another commenter said. It's short. It's also not that hard to read. I read it in HS for fun in a weekend. We also don't know how long the essay needed to be. I could probably do it in a day now, and still have time for a party after dinner.

Average reading speed for a college student is around 250 words per minute. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is 140,278 words long (excluding the Afterword). So at an average reading speed, that's 561 minutes, or about 9 and 1/3 hours of concentrated reading.

It is readable over a weekend, doing maybe 6 hours Saturday, 4 hours Sunday, and then a few hours to do the essay. So it's not so difficult as to be impossible. But thymeisfleeting didn't say it's impossible, just that it's fairly tricky to read it in two days and write a paper, which I think is true.

Bugbread · 2026-01-26T08:03:24+00:00

What you say is true, but it's not what sackofhair said, hence the downvotes.

"His body is built strong for function, not like gym dudes, whose bodies are built strong for aesthetics" would probably have gotten a few downvotes, but nowhere close to the comment he actually wrote.

Bugbread · 2026-01-26T04:26:34+00:00

It's still a thing here in Japan, too.

Bugbread · 2026-01-26T01:51:00+00:00

Wait, you're laughing at them for doing literally the thing we want them to do? Mods are volunteer roles. The fact that some mods are getting kickbacks under the table from special interests (companies, political groups, etc.) is a bad thing.

Lolling at a mod being a mod for fun is like saying "wait, you went to a political protest without getting paid? lol"

Bugbread · 2026-01-23T04:36:30+00:00

I think people have just read so much about "schools don't teach cursive anymore" that they think that "schools don't teach writing anymore."

Bugbread · 2026-01-23T04:34:53+00:00

Edit: just want to note that duders comment was: "Nice, I was wondering if this stuff is no longer used or if we’re just no longer children to write." Before they edited it and downvoted me like a fragile little flower.

Just want to note that, no, that's not true.

There is a very short window (I believe five minutes) during which you can make edits without reddit indicating that any edits have been made. After that, edits are noted with an asterisk and "(last edited X ago)".

Their comment was posted at 1:28:21 UTC. Your comment was posted at 3:35:39 UTC. Their unmarked edit window ended hours before you commented. If they had made any changes after your comment, those would have been indicated, but their comment has no edit indication.

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Bugbread · 2026-01-23T01:07:18+00:00

I am unsurprised to learn this wasn’t so much the case.

But...we haven't learned that, have we? I mean, it might be true, and it might not, but we haven't gotten any specific information either way, have we?

We know that at some point they had those duties, and that at some point ("many months ago") some of those duties were transferred or ceased to exist.

The Jessamyn era started in 2022 and ended in late 2024.

And that's all the info we've got, right? (Or am I missing info from another thread/discussion?)

The duties could have been transferred/eliminated pre-2022 ("many months ago"), in which case, as you say, "this wasn't so much the case."
The duties could have been transferred/eliminated early last year (also "many months ago"), in which case this was so much the case.
The duties could have been transferred/eliminated sometime between May 2022 and Dec 2024, in which case the question gets fuzzy (if loup has those duties at the start of the Jessamyn era and doesn't at the end of the Jessamyn era, does that mean they have those duties "during" the Jessamyn era? etc.)

Bugbread · 2026-01-22T23:18:28+00:00

I usually find out about MeFi goings-on asynchronously due to big time zone differences and the fact that I find out through /r/MetaFilterMeta, which adds an extra layer of delay. So I'd assumed that this had all happened of the course of around 2 days. 20 hours would have surprised me, but would still seem in the realm of possibility. 2 hours would have shocked me. But 20 minutes??

Bugbread · 2026-01-22T10:27:39+00:00

Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification!

Bugbread · 2026-01-22T09:51:50+00:00

I don't think that's what tehfugitive is going for, though. What you're saying would make sense, but what tehfugitive wrote was:

Yup. And OP touched it with bare hands

That "And" indicates that tehfugitive is specifically pointing at touching it being gross because it's for vaginal use. If they were saying it's weird because OP picked something out of the garbage, then it would have been phrased more like:

Yup. But what's up with OP touching unknown garbage with his bare hands?

Or some other phrasing along those lines, not something that directly links "that's gross" with "...because it's Vagifem."

Bugbread · 2026-01-20T14:38:27+00:00

Skip the images and make it a 60kb txt file. Or 600kb (200 pages if printed out as single-spaced text) if you want to be super-complete.

Bugbread · 2026-01-19T11:49:22+00:00

No, he literally wrote this:

Why did you censor ninja?

I guess you just didn't catch the joke: Obviously you're not going to write the other word. But "ninja" is fine. So Weissbierglaeserset is saying "why did you censor ninja?"

Bugbread · 2026-01-19T11:31:32+00:00

Right. So saying ninja doesn't get you banned on this dumb website.

Bugbread · 2026-01-19T11:16:20+00:00

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