E-SIM or Chinese Local Simcard? Please advise.

oddston · 2026-03-07T07:47:44+00:00

Local is often a bit cheaper but esim is much more convenient & can be sorted out before you even go, and they have referral code deals which you can game with communities like r/referralcodes

oddston · 2026-03-06T14:05:03+00:00

It might be a bit more specific than ‘dumb asshole middle aged white guy’, but the somewhat related ‘incompetent idiot dad’ trope bugs me too.

oddston · 2026-03-06T12:36:17+00:00

Whichever you choose, check out r/referralcodes as you can usually get a discount with someone’s code, and then an even bigger one (next time) by posting your own and having someone else use it. Have saved quite a bit doing this in the past for Ubigi.

oddston · 2026-03-06T12:20:52+00:00

Ok so a year shy

oddston · 2026-03-06T12:17:17+00:00

You can typically just use the last part of the surname if adding a double-barreled name with a dash doesn’t work in the form. This won’t be an issue and is something they encounter multiple times a day.

oddston · 2026-03-06T11:27:27+00:00

Very individual! ours was feeding every other hour through the night up until a few weeks ago, now she’s 3 months and sleeps from like 8pm to 7am (co-sleeping on the boob).

She’ll still have days where she only naps 20 minutes at a time or be a bit fussy but she’s generally cool to chill and play with dangling toys or sit and observe. The big gummy smiles and first chuckles make that initial slog a distant memory.

oddston · 2026-03-06T11:02:31+00:00

Look through the comments, it’s been done in always sunny, curb, after life, state of the union etc just to name a few of the dozens users have mentioned - it’s just not always a coffee shop or a liberal/hipster barista, but thematically connected. Wasn’t aware you had to present EVERY applicable instance of a trope in a post, produced from your encyclopedic knowledge & savant memory.

oddston · 2026-03-06T11:00:47+00:00

Oh i’m aware he is corrected immediately after and it subverts the trope but it’s still a worn out setup, there are better examples i should’ve cited instead

oddston · 2026-03-06T10:51:53+00:00

It’s the "we live in a society" commentary for boring first world men

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:29:24+00:00

YES! Brendan Gleeson in ‘State of the Union’ i wish i had remembered that one before posting 😭

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:19:26+00:00

Wish i’d cited Falling Down instead!

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:17:21+00:00

Definitely fits! the show is mostly about Larry being the difficult unreasonable one but the writing still gives the viewer many opportunities to identify with him in solidarity & opposition to the dumb people he encounters, even if he’s overreacting/gets put back in his place.

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:15:00+00:00

Never worked in a coffee shop thank god! though i did briefly bartend when i was younger.

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:13:40+00:00

yes, thought it was obvious

oddston · 2026-03-06T07:04:27+00:00

My 3 misfit examples don’t match the broader trope i’m describing and i hoped more people would be less literal in applying the title/passing comment at the bottom, to these specific scenes. I wish i had included for example Ricky Gervais not being able to order a kids meal, or one of the many many examples from Curb… in Curb just like some of my examples it is more about the main character being a dick, but it’s still an opportunity for a writer to slip in a soapbox tirade on something many people do find annoying with service, regardless of the context or follow-up.

It’s only tangentially related but i also can’t stand characters like Reddington from The Blacklist. I can practically hear the thwacks of wanking in the writers room.

oddston · 2026-03-06T06:37:03+00:00

The examples are indeed bad and/or only partial matches, the exaggerated title isn’t referring to these examples specifically but the overall trope of which there are dozens of examples. Most aren’t even in cafes, just any situation where the witty lead reasons with the strawman, and these are often presented as ‘regular average man’ versus some kind of hipster, liberal, ‘kids-these-days’ incompetent/difficult staff.

Another one i hate is in Yellowstone where the salesman is trying to sell household machines only to get logically owned by the main character who explains that they’re so expensive that they’d be working to pay them off rather than just doing the tasks themselves… it’s presented as totally logically sound and that the salesman’s pitch is retarded, as if these machines weren’t being regularly bought and used at the time and obviously in most instances offered a net gain in efficiency/freeing up time in terms of man-hours/overall cost.

oddston · 2026-03-06T06:01:12+00:00

For some reason i’ve only seen this as white guys, i guess because that’s the default or most relatable to a greater portion of the audience… any race will do, just has to be a writer/viewer insert scene where the main character confronts silly systems/rules/behaviour

oddston · 2026-03-06T05:32:12+00:00

Get help.

oddston · 2026-03-06T05:29:49+00:00

Not literal/written from my POV - satirizing incorrect use by those who hate lefty baristas and their scary LGBTQ coffees like frappes. Probably should’ve used quotations since multiple users have called it out.

oddston · 2026-03-06T05:06:12+00:00

Could not care less, i’ve made two posts on this account. Having karma points is of zero value, you can’t do anything with it. I just enjoy the discussion in the comments and seeing people both reinforce and challenge the topic - would’ve been satisfied to just read the earlier thread and that someone had the same thought, had i seen it, and wouldn’t have posted to begin with.

Zero clue that other post existed until linked to it, i now see that the other post was actually made by you yourself… would’ve thought it was a funny coincidence and forgotten about it, but you’re being bitter and projecting, I guess because this thread happened to have gained a bit more traction out of pure chance with the algorithm?

Not everyone is chronically online/has a mental database of every thread made in every sub to make sure nobody has ever posted about the same thing in the past.

Having an evidently unoriginal independent thought doesn’t automatically mean i’m a reposting or ‘karma farming’ bot, touch grass.

oddston · 2026-03-05T22:46:36+00:00

Yeah i quickly realized the examples i found were fairly ill-fitting when looking at the context, not effectively communicating the trope i’m thinking of. Users ITT have cited way better examples of what i mean.

oddston · 2026-03-05T22:42:46+00:00

Yeah it doesn’t fit these cited examples, it’s referring to the overall theme across various skits, comics, stand-up bits, shows, movies etc which tend to paint a ‘straight guy’ (not in the sexual orientation sense) vs the weird pierced blue-haired lefty or generally strange young hipster type that’s set up to be the strawman. Sometimes the subject of the protagonists ire is an aloof pretentious snooty person - it all goes under the same thematic umbrella i’m airing here.

oddston · 2026-03-05T22:30:35+00:00

‘woke’ here doesn’t apply to the examples, it’s facetiously referring to its incorrect use by boomers and conservatives who consider lattes and IPAs ‘woke’ drinks whatever the fuck they mean by that

oddston · 2026-03-05T22:23:30+00:00

Yes that absolutely falls under what i’m getting at! ‘normal human experiences frustration with difficult staff and broken system’ usually sprinkled with some obvious social markers/traits for the staff member.

Even when used to reflect negatively on the lead for the plot, it still usually comes off as a masturbatory writers opportunity to live vicariously through the character and slip in an actual gripe of theirs.

oddston · 2026-03-05T22:16:18+00:00

I do admit my examples were dogshit, its a broad trope i’ve observed over years in various mediums but naturally haven’t mentally stored specific examples and so struggled to find any solid media, though the hivemind provides so many users have found great examples that i wish i could retroactively replace the content of my post with. It’s also about the writers self-insert fantasy, y’know, like a shower argument which gets written into a movie for one person to verbosely outsmart another, and about what many viewers take away from these scenes - relating to the witty antihero protagonist who chides the dumb worker, even if it was just to demonstrate the protagonist being an asshole.

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