And how many wipes do they need after dumping their girlfriend?

Same! There’s a lot of stuff from my childhood that I remember being awesome, then going back to revisit it and being horrified. Like, I vaguely remembered the movie Gremlins being cute and funny when I was a kid. But reading the plot now makes me wonder how I survived childhood without PTSD.

I just looked it up and the selling puppies was the plot of the 2nd movie.

What in the fuck‽ It’s true

Lol yeah dude, I wouldn’t just make that shit up. It’s wild!

I watched this with my kids the other day just to share some of my childhood memories with them.

I sure was surprised to learn the plot of the movie was that some bad guys had developed a new type of bullet and needed to test it out on the thick skulls of live animals. They try to kidnap Beethoven so that they can shoot him in the head. In order to accomplish this, they abuse the dog until it attacks one of them and then cover themselves in fake blood so the family is forced to agree to have the dog put down.

Somehow childhood me had blocked all of this out and just remembered “haha funny big dog”.

Hope you guys like pizza, cause that’s all I bought.

So are we not gonna talk about the whole area labels for cannibals?

Lol I think we’re around the same age. Definitely too young for evil clown Tim Curry.

Yeah I don’t know why the article mentions Gen Z’s “tech-savvy reputation”. Being able to operate a cell phone doesn’t make you tech savvy.

Gen X and Millennials grew up using command line and troubleshooting computer problems before the Internet. Their tech skills are way higher than Gen Z.

Stephen King’s IT was broadcast on network TV during primetime. I remember being excited to gather around the TV to watch a movie and oooooh boy was not prepared. I don’t think my parents let me finish.

I saw this in my 20s as well, somehow never having heard a thing about it. I thought it was gonna be a standard sci-fi movie. Boy was I surprised.

Also, I’ve heard about that lost footage that they filmed but never released. Shit sounds wild.

Better rule, if the vehicle detects that the turn signal is not active and you’re making a turn, it engages temporary self driving and delivers an electric shock to the crotch .

Yeah, 3 shots of olive oil and you’re dead? That can’t be right.

Edit: Yeah it’s not right. Here’s the source the reddit post didn’t link: https://spoonnaturallubricant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MSDS_Olive_Oil_Grade_A.pdf

Oral: Expected to possess a relatively low degree of acute oral toxicity (LD50 expected to be >2000 mg/kg)

The commenter took that point and used 2000 mg as lethal dose, when the reference material basically said “I dunno, but at it’s more than this.”

Hitachi Magic Wand?

Yeah you’re right. I stuck to the old askreddit rule of not adding clarifying text and put it in my comment instead. That kind of gets buried though. My bad.

I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.

Well said. Skimpflation describes exactly what I’m talking about. It’s subtle, because they’re banking on the fact that people won’t notice immediately and then will gradually accept the new recipe. Probably the same reason that people remember Cadbury Cream Eggs being better when they were kids - and a million other tiny things.

“Hey boss, we took the fish out of our fish sticks like you asked.”

“Great job, Johnson. Slap a “Great new taste” sticker on it and call it a day.”

I just watched this episode 2 days ago! Strong Bad was my go to source of internet humor 20 years ago and still holds up.

I think it’s different enough from shrinkflation that it needs its own name. My gripe specifically was with Naked Juice, where if it was just being sold in a smaller bottle, I would buy more. But the recipe has actually changed to a point where I don’t want to drink it at all now, because it’s just not the same.

From an article linked above, my emphasis added, this is different because consumers are less able to protect themselves from it by being informed:

“We have long observed shrinkflation and bad value for money maxi packs,” Laura Clays, spokesperson for consumer protection organisation Test Achats, told The Brussels Times. “However, these tactics were mainly dubious from a financial point of view. This is still unacceptable, but consumers were able to protect themselves by keeping an eye on the price per unit.”

She stressed that in the case of “cheapflation”, the consumer is left more or less powerless. “This tactic is really about what people are ingesting, which is even more sneaky. While this will likely not have major health effects, eating less fishy fish sticks is definitely not a healthier meal option, so that’s not ideal.”