• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    There’s an entire subset of the population that didn’t want to wash their hands during the pandemic, the bar is much lower than this.

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      If you ever go for a shit in a men’s public toilet, especially in a pub, you get to be lucky enough to hear multiple people not washing their hands after a piss.

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        I was in a bathroom recently, and a guy used a urinal, then the hand-drier, then left.

        He got enough urine on his hands that he decided that he needed to dry them, but still chose to not wash his hands.

        People are gross.

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          And this is why you use hand sanitiser even after washing your hands. Like you would expect the dryer not to be covered in piss, and yet…

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        7 days ago

        Every time I use a public restroom I’m reminded how much better urethral health I must have compared to the average man… The sounds of sheer pain some of these guys make while literally just taking a whiz is… I dunno, saddening? I wouldn’t even know that lots of men moan and shudder and groan while peeing if it weren’t for public restrooms. What are the normie men doing to their cocks???

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          I didn’t think this had anything to do with urethral health. Sometimes it just feels so good if you’ve been holding for a length of time. I moan occasionally, but it has nothing to do with pain as much as relief.

          I also wash my hands every time and talk shit to people who don’t, cause I’m huge and can get away with stuff like that(read don’t put yourself in danger, I’m doing it enough for both of us)

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Screenshot of a post from 4chan reading "The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it. The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society."

    (I might suggest that making good alt-texts on Lemmy may be another good example. Yes, I transcribed that whole screenshot into the alt-text by clicky-clacking.)

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      you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart.

      That’s totally not true; you encourage the continual framework of a civilized society, which should benefit you in the long run as an uncivilized, every-person-for-themself environment is generally much harder to deal with overall.

      It is hardly a litmus test, which by definition is pivotal, sure, but has nothing to do with the level of sacrifice attached.

      I know it’s a tongue-in-cheek 4chan image, but I just felt like going serious on this anyway. I feel like a real litmus test is seeing someone in need and choosing to help them or not.

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    7 days ago

    I put the cart away cause it’s fun to get a running start and then hopping on and riding it across the parking lot

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      Man it sucks to be huge. I used to love doing that. Especially doing it from the front of the cart and doing some sick drifts.

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        What you need is some decently sized children to put in the cart to act as a counterweight (kids love that shit too; some of my happiest memories as a kid is being allowed to sit in the cart as my mom was shopping, and having her pile up the groceries on top of me until I’m just a head poking out. If she knew how happy that made me, I reckon she would have done it more often.

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      For me the gain is a dopamine release in knowing I made someone else’s job just a little bit easier.

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        Same feeling when you put back the weights at the gym. I can‘t stand people who just litter the plates all around on the floor.

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    I pushed carts at a retail store in highschool. I always appreciated when people returned their carts… not so much for my convenience, but out of respect for people’s cars. I’ve definitely seen a few slam into cars after people just leave them wherever.

    Elderly folks or people with mobility issues I totally get. You’re cool, do what you need to do. But the lazy entitled ones drive me nuts.

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      If everyone who was able to put the carts back, it would make a significant difference. In my country, the disabled parking is often adjacent to a pedestrian walkway that cuts through the car park. People often leave the carts in this walkway, which means that it’s quite often that I’m unable to park because all the disabled parking spaces have a trolley that’s drifted into them

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    I just like to ride the cart through the parkinglot and try to aim the cart into the cart corral and jump off last second. I made it into a game, im sure people look at me funny.

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    ALDI solved this with the carts that take a coin. If someone doesn’t want to return it, and leaves it in the parking lot, someone else will return it to get the coin.

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      Somebody inevitably always mentions this in shopping cart social theory threads.

      You must understand, the discussion is not actually about how to solve the issue of shopping carts being returned. The treatment of shopping carts is being used as an illustration of a concept.

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        Who’s going to bring a bread knife with them to Aldi though? Just bring it back or give it to someone on their way in if you’re that lazy (I’ve totally done that more than once).

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            Lol, when I got the notification it just shows your name at first and I was like "wait who did I piss off? I only engage in one political argument a day and this one ain’t it.

            Now let me ask you what someone would carry normally that would be bread knife like? Maybe a cut down credit card? But for a quarter, I don’t think I could bring myself to do something so petty when I already bring back my cart in stores that don’t have this coin system.

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    7 days ago

    Depends, there’s this place I go to where I have to circle around all the cars to bring it to the front of the supermarket. They could put a corral somewhere back there but they don’t because they would lose some parking space. I never return the cart in this store.

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    I don’t usually return it to the front of the store. But no matter where I’m parked in the lot, it never goes to a far-away corral, either the closest corral to the storefront, or better. I try to help out just a little.

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    I put it in the corral always but sometimes I flip it over too. I want them to believe I returned the cart so hard it flipped over.