[HN Gopher] Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
Author : TheresNoTime
Score : 595 points
Date : 2022-01-29 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (gdcolon.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (gdcolon.com)
| layer8 wrote:
| "Hold to preview" doesn't work on iOS Safari (it opens Safari's
| context menu for images).
| aj7 wrote:
| Can you use this stuff on Twitter? Asking for a friend.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| you know 30 dollars is 5 dollars more than it is in town, that's
| expensive.
| notRobot wrote:
| Some increadible creations in the original twitter thread!
| https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366...
|
| Favorites:
|
| https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheDerg/status/148679846766197555...
|
| Bad Apple:
| https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
| zamadatix wrote:
| For Bad Apple I was thinking "wow this is actually a really
| accurate one given the limitations" then I burst out laughing
| just past halfway through from the absurdity.
| imperio59 wrote:
| Imagine this but with emojis...
| pseingatl wrote:
| How do you save the generated sound? Say as a .wav or .mp3?
| halpert wrote:
| Doesn't seem to work on an iPhone?
| nexuist wrote:
| What do you expect, it was $30...
| j4yav wrote:
| Seems to work for me on mine.
| vogt wrote:
| Try flicking the ringer on. I had to do that, even though I
| usually do not when playing something from safari
| evancox100 wrote:
| Thanks for the tip. Same in Chrome
| zeta0134 wrote:
| Heh, this thing really needs a proper share feature. Lacking
| that, I exported my masterpiece instead:
| https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/nyan.%F0%9F%97%BF
| Terry_Roll wrote:
| Does anyone know how the site manages to make its cookie
| persistent in the browser? I've noticed a few sites manage to
| remain albeit it empty after the browser wipes everything, dont
| know if this is a browser problem or something else, like code
| running extremely slowly in the OS.
|
| Edit. To be clear there is no content in the cookie, but the
| cookie still shows in the list of cookies in the browser. Its
| weird, but its not the only site.
| HollywoodZero wrote:
| I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?
| dudeinjapan wrote:
| It is quaint and surprising, and therefore some Earthlings find
| it humorous.
| jchw wrote:
| It's basically a giant inside joke. Explaining it won't do any
| good, not helped by the fact that in a lot of cases with ironic
| and absurdist humor, it's not really funny on its own premise.
|
| The meme basically took the phrase "Don't lecture me with your
| thirty dollar haircut" and stuck it next to a bunch of emoji.
| For some reason, this transformed into videos where the emoji
| was interpreted as memetic audio clips. In some cases, I'll
| admit the joke just boils down to "loud stupid noise funny."
| But the reason why people find it funny, is literally because
| they know it's not. You'll even see them saying things like, "I
| know this isn't funny, but I can't stop laughing." If anyone
| understands enough psychology to explain WTF is going on here,
| I'd love to know.
|
| On the other hand, the meme, which is admittedly not really
| funny on its own, spiraled into a fairly neat website where you
| can actually sequence music, sort of like Mario Paint. I think
| that's it's neat regardless of what you think of the humor that
| lead to it.
| financetechbro wrote:
| All the psychology u need to understand is that it's a
| __meme__
| klohto wrote:
| dang wrote:
| Please don't be a jerk on HN.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| That doesn't look like a jerk comment
| dang wrote:
| I read it as insulting someone's comment, which is a way
| of insulting the commenter.
| klohto wrote:
| 50/50, I wasn't honestly sure but it was snarky.
| [deleted]
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| The original line, the meme after that, or this website?
|
| The line is silly and strongly acted, I think it's easy to see
| why it's funny.
|
| Then sharing it around and tossing some emojis and sound
| effects on isn't a huge improvement but whatever it's
| entertaining to throw some images and sounds onto things.
|
| And it should be easy to see why this website is popular just
| as a music tool, with the line not very important and largely
| there to put things in a silly mood. Some people will find it
| funny and some won't, but there doesn't need to be anything
| funny about the website for it to be _fun_.
| sergiotapia wrote:
| dang wrote:
| Please don't be a jerk on HN.
|
| Edit: you have a long history of breaking the site
| guidelines. We've asked you many times to stop, but you've
| continued. You did it here just recently:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800. If you don't
| stop this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to
| ban you, so please stop this.
|
| If you wouldn't mind reviewing
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking
| the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be
| grateful.
| [deleted]
| jjcm wrote:
| Another fun (albeit far more simple) loop machine:
| https://adventuremachine.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/adventuremac...
|
| Along with a build blog for it:
| http://wemakeawesomesh.it/madeon.html
| 255kb wrote:
| Wow, sounds from Mario paint!
| jchw wrote:
| I particularly enjoyed this tweet of it.
| https://twitter.com/retropetet/status/1487147720670269440
| SkipperCat wrote:
| This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all
| those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I
| can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life.
|
| I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many
| sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some
| other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it
| had the same feeling of excitement as finding a $5 bill on the
| sidewalk.
|
| Here's some other great sites. * http://eelslap.com/ *
| https://theuselessweb.com/
| dokka wrote:
| Here's my useless website https://dx.tc/
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| On iOS Safari with theme-color enabled, the status bar
| briefly but rapidly flickers between black and white
| clock/icons. I'm not sure if this is deliberate, but it's a
| nice touch.
|
| (Also: warning to folks who might be bothered/harmed by
| flashing animations.)
| [deleted]
| r_singh wrote:
| I'm mostly scared of clicking shady links these days...
|
| Idk if I'm being too paranoid but my google mailbox is full of
| phishing attempts...
| Riverheart wrote:
| Your paranoia is justified. If NoScript didn't exist I don't
| know how anyone could browse the web with any confidence.
| pmarreck wrote:
| I've been all over the Internet with an ad blocker and JS
| enabled running Firefox Nightly for years now with no
| issues.
| [deleted]
| worker_thread wrote:
| relevant: https://theuselessweb.com/
| suzzer99 wrote:
| https://zombo.com/
|
| Hypnotizing.
| hughrr wrote:
| This is an all time favourite. Also ported from Flash at some
| point!
| iamtedd wrote:
| Lost the secret link at the end, though.
| lelandfe wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66701
| riidom wrote:
| Don't think it's useless. There are some activities you like,
| but you really shouldn't like them, because you have zero
| talent in them. The "shouldn't"-part especially true when
| acoustics come into play.
|
| Or to quote Mike from Gamefromscratch: "I'm here to make your
| ears bleed." :)
| feross wrote:
| Adding my useless website to the list: http://magickeyboard.io
| - it's fun to build one-off random sites and put them out there
| :)
| tomcam wrote:
| The great thing is this worked perfectly on a cell phone with
| no keyboard enabled
| beeskneecaps wrote:
| Amazing. Someone needs to add Missile Command or Space
| Invaders to this.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Oh, that moment when I find I can simply hold down my finger.
| pp19dd wrote:
| Surprisingly ... uh, motivational to type. Add a small editor
| screen on the bottom and it could be some version of written?
| kitten!
| viraptor wrote:
| If you're using vscode, you may be interested in the power
| mode then: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemN
| ame=hoovercj...
| jedimastert wrote:
| Have you ever played the game Little Inferno? I can't place
| it but this feels like that. (And I mean that in a very good
| way)
| rjuyal wrote:
| LOL it is so good on mobile browser. Love it.
| dokka wrote:
| It's excellent!
| sound1 wrote:
| what the hell is this??
| zrobotics wrote:
| The best website you will visit today ;)
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| 100%
| omginternets wrote:
| I have a true soft spot for https://helenkellersimulator.org/
| adventured wrote:
| There are more sites like this one today, by at least an order
| of magnitude, than existed in the early lift-off days of the
| Web (~1993-1997).
|
| You'd struggle to build a mediocre version of this site in the
| early days of the Web. And it'd try to eat your browser alive
| as you used it if someone managed to use early Flash or an
| applet to shoehorn it onto the Web back then.
|
| HN itself is, in part, a link content mill. No different than
| links posted to FB.
|
| People merely like to remember the past far better than it
| really was, it happens automatically as time passes and we
| become emotionally connected to the past in a different way.
| Our ability to experience new things is not the same at 40 or
| 50 years old as it is when we're eg 15-20 years old. We
| experience everything increasingly at a reduced excitement as
| the experiences pile up, our ability to experience new things
| the way we used to is dulled (it's why people don't fall in
| love at 40 or 50 anywhere close to the way they did in their
| youth in terms of sheer emotional joy and excitement (and yes,
| of course there are rare exceptions to the rule)).
|
| The feeling people experience when they talk about the early
| days of the Web, is identical to the feeling people on TikTok
| that are ~16-20 years old today will proclaim when they look
| back and talk about how amazing that era was - when they're 30+
| years old; they'll talk about how nothing like that exists any
| longer, and social media is no longer fun like it was when they
| first discovered TikTok in 2020. That's nothing more than vast
| subjective, emotional projection; it's real for the person in
| terms of their subjective experience, and the extended context
| is false (where they project their emotional feeling outward to
| encompass more than their personal experience really covers;
| the difference between N _experience for me_ vs N _experience
| for everywhere else_ ). There will be some young group of
| people having an amazing experience 20 years from now, that
| those 40 year olds (longing for the old 2020 TikTok days) can't
| share in it, they can't experience the new thing the same way
| (instead they'll sit around talking about how things have
| sucked since TikTok faded in 2024 or whatever); the typical 40
| year old today - dulled by a lifetime of experiences - can't
| get the same thrill from TikTok that a 16 or 18 year old can
| when experiencing it for the first time.
|
| People that highly enjoyed ICQ or IRC or AIM in the 1990s, do
| the exact same thing today that those TikTok users will do in
| the future and for the exact same reason. It's true for their
| personal experience (it's true that they can't enjoy things
| like they used to, which is what is really being admitted), and
| that's all it's true for (it's false that there isn't anything
| like that experience out there today; it's that the person can
| no longer experience things like they used to when they were
| young; outside that subjective bubble a whole generation of
| people is out there having a huge amount of fun on TikTok and
| to them it's vastly superior than some low quality gifs on an
| ugly Geocities page circa 1997). And on the cycle goes, forever
| repeating.
|
| This is the same as older people proclaiming music used to be
| better in their day (whatever day, 1960s rock, 1990s grunge or
| rap, etc) and music today mostly sucks. It's a very common
| emotional feeling, and it's true for their subjective
| experience; and it's false when projected beyond themselves,
| when they attempt to apply it widely (because they're
| attempting to override other people's emotional experiences
| _out there_ , which you can't actually do via such a
| projection).
|
| If you sit down to play with new action figure toys at 40 years
| of age, will you experience it in the same amazing way that you
| did when you were playing with similar action figure toys at 6
| or 7 years old? When everything was still so new in the world.
| Will the excitement and thrill and repeat play value be there?
| Will your imagination work the same way? Is it the modern
| action figure toys that are the problem? Maybe a 40 year old
| person would proclaim they just don't make action figure toys
| like they used to, otherwise they'd be having a lot more fun
| playing with them; thus, action figure toys today suck, and so
| on. Now hand them over to a 6 or 7 year old today and witness
| the real difference: time had its way with you, as it does all
| things, a lifetime of experiences, physical change and
| emotional sediment has dulled your ability to interact with
| things the way you did in your youth.
|
| Here's a hint to the widespread nature of the feeling (about
| the old Web): there are a lot more older people using the Web
| today, with a long duration of experience at using it, than
| there are new people coming on for the first time to experience
| it fresh. The balance between the two has never been more
| skewed than it is right now. So the most common sentiment is
| going to be the older, experienced users projecting their
| subjective emotional context (longing for the old Web) as
| supposedly representing _the_ objective context (when in
| reality it 's only true for them and their context of
| experiences).
| hillsideduck wrote:
| In my opinion your text is really beautifully written. It
| fills me with a sense of melancholia because of this
| inescapability that is portrait in it. This might not really
| add anything to the discussion. I just wanted to let you know
| that your words have been read and appreciated.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| > People merely like to remember the past far better than it
| really was, it happens automatically as time passes and we
| become emotionally connected to the past in a different way.
|
| There's something to what you're saying, but where are the
| modern equivalents to DMOZ.org where all those "quirky" sites
| would be listed in a transparent and easy to browse way? The
| topic-specific "awesome" lists that people sometimes point to
| are a piss-poor substitute for what DMOZ made available.
| Sometimes the present really is worse than the past.
| OnlineGladiator wrote:
| > There are more sites like this one today, by at least an
| order of magnitude, than existed in the early lift-off days
| of the Web
|
| There are probably 3 orders of magnitude more crap though, so
| the good stuff is harder to find. And the random fun stuff
| doesn't bother with SEO so it's easy to feel like the
| internet is full of more crap, because it is. In the early
| days people were building websites for fun, nowadays people
| are doing it for money (or marketing, or they feel obligated
| to have a LinkedIn even if they hate it, or whatever - nobody
| used to feel obligated to use the internet). Sure, there are
| still some gems, but they're drowned out by turds.
|
| The early days are more fun because true believers are
| building something they really care about, by the time
| something becomes mainstream it's already generic.
|
| Your point about music doesn't apply because music has
| existed for millenia. The internet has existed for decades.
| xipho wrote:
| Given your follow-up that points out "that's just the way it
| is", old toys don't work for the old, I'm curious as to how
| you think about the resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons?
| Something that was played, for people of my generation, 30+
| years ago. Many of us have re-found that joy, and if anything
| it's better than it was before. Playing with our kids,
| playing with other adults, of all ages. Want to re-imagine
| with your action figures? Use them on your campaigns, on your
| boards, and put them in your story (imagination). You'll have
| twice the fun because something you remember is now fused
| with something you're having fun doing. The thoughts, ideas,
| emotions you experienced long ago will work their way into a
| new generation of imaginative, curious (how will the story
| go), ideas, young or old.
| tialaramex wrote:
| 2nd edition D&D or even 2.5 is pretty different from 4e and
| 5e (is there already 6e?) though...
|
| I really like 4e, our big serious campaign is 4e with
| increasing amounts of customisation because of course
| Wizards never really polish the high level game, there's no
| money in it. But it's a very different game from 2nd
| edition.
|
| My Wizard was written out (the other PCs basically killed
| him, hint taken) but you couldn't write a character like
| that in 2nd, limitless power just comes naturally to Magic
| Users in the old game, in 4e Magical Trevor had to make
| some really difficult compromises to be able to have his
| flexibility and he still wasn't the star of the show.
|
| (The other characters think giving Orcus a god-killing
| weapon was a bad idea, and they blamed Trevor even though
| it might work, apparently Orcus is "bad" and it's better
| that the universe is destroyed than he gets a god-killing
| weapon. Trevor did not agree)
| Aeolun wrote:
| I think the charm of 2nd edition is exactly that it's
| such an unbalanced mess.
|
| 4th by comparison feels like a MMO with all the
| uniquesness sucked out of it.
|
| 5e backpedals on that and goes more or less back to where
| 3.5e used to be, but less complicated (magic still hasn't
| recovered to it's former levels though).
| 101008 wrote:
| Found this one, good one! https://mondrianandme.com/
| salgernon wrote:
| In the 90s, Berkeley Systems sold a screen saver package that
| included a module called "Mondrian" - but were sued by his
| estate and had to change the name.
| billiam wrote:
| Old enough to remember every single thing on the early Internet
| was some version of this, other than the astronomy and physics
| papers that my girlfriend and her fellow scientists exchanged.
|
| Websites that take my time > Websites that take my money (and
| my time).
| dtjb wrote:
| https://makefrontendshitagain.party/
| balls187 wrote:
| just missing the blink tag.
| Aeolun wrote:
| I have a soft spot for https://findtheinvisiblecow.com/
| pier25 wrote:
| Or this one:
|
| http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
| twinge wrote:
| Useful for dramatic effect:
|
| https://inception.davepedu.com/
| hatware wrote:
| Made me think of:
|
| http://www.hiyoooo.com/
| pkdpic wrote:
| Love these, not as cool but makes me think of:
|
| http://unknowablesymbols.com/rain
| reidrac wrote:
| On the same line, perhaps: https://TomArayaScream.com/
|
| (I forgot they have a domain that redirects)
| ugh123 wrote:
| Reminds me of all the great stuff zefrank made back in the day
| http://www.zefrank.com/ although much of it lost(?) in old
| Adobe Flash tech.
|
| .. and new stuff today
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...
| dvtrn wrote:
| Speaking of eelslap, another slap-happy nugget from those days:
| https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/spank-the-monkey
| cxf12 wrote:
| This reminded me of the kind of creativity I used to find on
| site called stumbleupon. Wonder what happened to it?
| arsome wrote:
| Bought by ebay, floundered, then sold back to the original
| owner, then died and turned into something called "Mix" which
| looks like some kind of photo sharing knockoff.
| abakker wrote:
| Another sad story of the internet.
| Stupulous wrote:
| It's a real shame. It's so hard to find web 'toys' nowadays-
| games without objectives, but with pretty, interactive
| visuals. I used to have a set of hundreds of them, but that
| list was deleted when StumbleUpon went under. I found them
| very relaxing. Anybody have another source for such things?
| 91dylwyn wrote:
| Love it! theuselessweb found me http://eelslap.com/
|
| My fav from back of the day http://www.davesweboflies.com/
| TheresNoTime wrote:
| Obligatory
| https://twitter.com/thechairguy06/status/1486601075717115905...
| rjuyal wrote:
| My favorite
|
| (@OliyTC)https://t.co/WMubKL3hPM
| https://twitter.com/OliyTC/status/1487183820893802499?s=20&t...
| [deleted]
| ineedasername wrote:
| Well that's the first time that's happened to me in a while.
| This round, good sir, is yours.
| hinkley wrote:
| You're going to hell.
| makach wrote:
| oh you evil man
| B1FF_PSUVM wrote:
| Commendable, personally I try to stretch it to 30 billion dollar
| websites ...
| jeffrallen wrote:
| What is this... I don't even...
| guerrilla wrote:
| You can make some real music with this. Too bad there isn't a
| share button instead of a save button, it'd probably go viral.
| echelon wrote:
| This is the third time I've seen this today. It's already on my
| Twitter feed and one of my Discord servers.
| guerrilla wrote:
| Yeah I just found the original thread, packed with good jams
| https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366.
| ..
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| It can be used for steganography.
| dgellow wrote:
| I feel out of the loop. Could someone explain what is happening
| here?
|
| Edit: nevermind, I read the other comments
| worewood wrote:
| Does not work well using a mouse on an Android phone. Choose your
| UI events wisely, guys!
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| touch screens with pointing devices are very hard to
| accommodate reliably
| kingcharles wrote:
| Well that answers that question. I had someone with a broken
| touchscreen recently and I told them Android might accept a
| mouse shoved into the USB-C as it worked fine when I shoved an
| external USB mic in there. Guess I was right.
|
| Taking your point though, I'm going to add this to my testing
| script for my web sites now.
| worewood wrote:
| Nice to hear! That will also help with accessibility, some
| tools for people with disabilities depend on those events
| being properly configured.
| [deleted]
| osrec wrote:
| A mouse on an Android phone? Does your phone not have a touch
| screen?
| fouc wrote:
| Why not? An external keyboard & mouse with the android phone
| as a display should be allowed
| worewood wrote:
| It is allowed, in general. But some apps/websites don't
| play well with it. In this case, the creator, while
| developing the site, chose some UI events which don't fire
| with a mouse on a phone. I.e. the "hold" action on a sound.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| Most people don't have time/resources to test every
| possible interface for a free website.
| worewood wrote:
| That is true. I did not want to sound entitled, it is a
| free for-fun project after all. Just wanted to bring
| awareness about UI events to other hnews readers
| worewood wrote:
| It HAD a touch-screen before getting water damage. Repair
| consists of replacing the entire screen as the digitizer is
| glued to it and I am too broke to do that rn; so I got a
| usb2go adapter and been using it this way for months
| sowbug wrote:
| Don't you lecture us with your $30 phone.
| worewood wrote:
| (._.)
| LewisVerstappen wrote:
| Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the
| loop?
| jccalhoun wrote:
| Apparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z
| https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...
| FabHK wrote:
| Thanks for the link & background, KYM is superb (and of
| course on !kym with DDG).
|
| Off-topic: from "top entries this week" on KYM, I just
| learned that the Bodganov twins (of Bogdanov affair fame,
| reverse Sokal hoax), have died (within 6 days of each other).
| Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879
| duxup wrote:
| I don't even pay $30 for a haircut...
| okwubodu wrote:
| Lucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to
| $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly
| unionized and went to $40/cut.
|
| [something something it wasn't like this under the XYZ
| administration]
| iKevinShah wrote:
| always had a feeling balding and not having the hormones
| to grow beard had its benefits
| duxup wrote:
| I kinda wish I could test going the full bald shaved head
| thing... before doing it.
| ineedasername wrote:
| Have a go at it here: https://www.happilybald.com/what-
| would-i-look-like-bald/
| robocat wrote:
| Beware a possible unobvious side effect if you have light
| coloured hair: my hair colour went darker after getting
| shaved in my 20s. I regret the colour change, because I
| liked the old colour more, and it never regressed to the
| lighter colour. I suspect it was caused by UV sunlight on
| the follicles or something?
| drdec wrote:
| You missed your window. March of 2020 was the perfect
| time to try something like this.
| james-skemp wrote:
| If you go for a very short buzz you'll have a good idea
| of your head shape, and whether it'll help or hurt if you
| go hairless.
|
| I've heard that shaving it is actually a lot of work, so
| investing in some good clippers and buzzing is likely
| easier.
| duxup wrote:
| Yeah I imagine it's a pretty big process. The skin up
| there is sensitive and prone to cuts I imagine.
| riidom wrote:
| Been bald for two years roundabout a decade ago, before
| and after that having long hair. And oh yes, bald is like
| 10x more work - at least if you go for bowling-ball-grade
| of baldness. Never shave when you are in a rush and enter
| a public transport 5 minutes later.
| riidom wrote:
| Mine maybe when inflation-adjusted.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| lol no doubt $15 is top for me (and $5 tip). All I get is a
| head shave, it literally takes them 5 minutes tops.
| reaperducer wrote:
| Barber schools always need people to practice on. $8 + tip.
| chrisfrantz wrote:
| Made that mistake once, never again
| latexr wrote:
| "Soon after that I started going to therapy. Someone told
| me that New York University was offering talk therapy on
| a pay-what-you-can basis. They charged less because the
| therapists were all in training. It was like barber
| school: you show up, they randomly assign a young
| therapist to you, and he or she starts giving your mental
| health a crude, halting trim. If this does not sound
| appealing to you, you are wrong. You should always pay
| full price for a haircut, but if you have a chance to buy
| discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup
| on that shit is insane."
|
| -- John Hodgman, Vacationland
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| It really depends on what you get done. I could probably
| do my own with a set of sheers and an extra mirror to get
| the back :) .
| bbarnett wrote:
| My haircut is like PROD. Not gonna put an intern on it.
| :P
| remram wrote:
| You can consider the last two years to be a staging
| environment, depending on your industry.
| duxup wrote:
| It would be easier if we could reject bad hair pull
| requests.
| bdcravens wrote:
| Until last month, I hadn't gotten a paid haircut since
| the start of the pandemic. Got a decent pair of clippers
| with a taper guard, and did "okay" except for the edging
| on the back, which I learned to just not worry about
| (though my wife has done it a couple of times, and it
| comes out decent then)
| lfowles wrote:
| If you have a baseball cap you can hold the brim (pointed
| down!) against the back of your neck and trim along it
| for something half decent :)
| bdcravens wrote:
| Great tip - I'll have to try that
| nkrisc wrote:
| Even cheaper if you cut your own hair. I've already
| recouped the cost of equipment many times over.
|
| Works best when you're not going for some fancy look though
| and just want something clean and simple.
| progre wrote:
| I give myself a buzzcut every two weeks. 21mm on top, 5mm
| on the sides and back, slanted cutter on 5 in the
| trasition zone. If it goes bad I can always do 5mm all
| over. Hardest is to catch the whispy fuckers around the
| bald spot.
|
| I also do my kids hair, though the girls keep theirs long
| so thats just a matter of brushing it real neat and make
| a straight edge. The boy is too small to take to a
| hairdresser anyway.
|
| I _also_ do my wife 's hair. She is the only one where
| some thought and planning is required. I'm amazed that
| she lets me.
| kingcharles wrote:
| The back? How do you do the back of your head? Any tips?
| Wife? I just got out of jail and I'm broke so I bought
| some uber cheap clippers and have been cutting my own for
| months now. This from a guy who wouldn't blink at
| spending $250 on a hair cut before he got locked up lol
| ineedasername wrote:
| _$250 on a hair cut before he got locked up lol_
|
| There are easier ways of getting a cheap hair cut. :)
| Welcome back!
| progre wrote:
| I have a mirror like this one
|
| https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-
| clemen...
|
| (Except mine was way cheaper, Ikea probably) oposite my
| main bathroom mirror. So facing the swing arm mirror I
| can see the back of my head and since it's through two
| mirrors the hand actually moves like you'd expect when
| you look at it.
| nkrisc wrote:
| I do my son's hair as well. Unfortunately for me (or
| maybe him), it's pretty curly while mine is completely
| straight, so I'm pretty clueless on how to handle it. If
| I do it sheet enough it looks nice and clean. The double,
| counter rotating cowlicks on him makes it difficult too.
| iso1631 wrote:
| My wife cuts mine and the kids, takes about 5 minutes and
| no problem with our double crowns. Before then I'd get a
| haircut whenever I had the time, usually once every 6-9
| months. At one point I went for 5 cuts in a row (about 3
| years) getting a haircut on a different continent each
| time.
| serial_dev wrote:
| I thought it was supposed to be expensive? Don't you
| lecture me with your fancy and expensive haircut? Though I
| didn't watch Dragon Ball that long, so I don't know. Maybe
| he is belittling him that his haircut is so cheap?
| okwubodu wrote:
| The episode dropped in 1992 (the dub in 2008). I imagine
| $30 was egregious at that point.
| starkd wrote:
| Another version of this is "don't lecture me with you and
| your store-bought hair cut"
| Trasmatta wrote:
| DBZ memes are some of the first ones I remember as a kid,
| before we called them memes. I'm enjoying the resurgence of
| them (although this particular one isn't my favorite).
| tetromino_ wrote:
| In original context, was a $30 haircut supposed to be cheap or
| expensive? In 2022 in my neighborhood, $30 is somewhat on the
| expensive side for a men's haircut (a basic haircut at a trendy
| barber shop is $25) but extremely cheap for a women's haircut.
| But what was the intended meaning of the phrase in Japan in the
| 1990s in relation to the characters speaking it?
| tokumei wrote:
| Damn, I'm getting my hair cut at the wrong place. I like my
| guy though. He massages my head.
| polka_haunts_us wrote:
| Well first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the
| original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made
| the creative decision to make the character who says it talk
| like some Redneck Trucker.
|
| The context is said Redneck Trucker is a robot who has been
| programmed to kill the main characer, Goku. One of Goku's
| friends says something about how if he does that he is just a
| slave with no free will. Our Redneck Trucker then points out
| that humanity has used their free will to do plenty of bad
| things, followed by our line here. So if you want to simplify
| its meaning, you could just translate it to "Don't talk down
| to me".
|
| So in context, $30 is an expensive haircut, and the purpose
| is to indicate the speaker feels the target is talking down
| to him, but the actual reason has nothing to do with the
| target being rich as opposed to being human.
|
| It could also be some meta commentary from the English side
| about how ridiculous the hair of everyone in the show or even
| the general genre is.
| mike_hock wrote:
| It would be $50 today assuming moderate inflation.
| [deleted]
| xbryanx wrote:
| https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/this-dont-you-lecture-me-...
| EamonnMR wrote:
| Oh man that explosion sample was everywhere on 90s java applet
| games.
| [deleted]
| kazinator wrote:
| PRO TIP:
|
| If you hover over an icon added to your work area, you can use
| the mouse scroll wheel to adjust the pitch of that element's
| sound sample. (I see now this is given given in some instructions
| above the text area.)
|
| This elevates the tool from a simple toy for toddlers to the pro
| music audio domain.
|
| Saving uses local files which is silly; you want to save into a
| URL.
| everyone wrote:
| All theses pop-culture computer games SFX, but no 'oof' sound
| from roblox?
| zamadatix wrote:
| Yellow smiling head, you may have to scroll to see it.
| fredley wrote:
| Fantastic YTMND vibes.
| Ansil849 wrote:
| At first I thought this was some web 2.0 (or 3.0 or whatever)
| version of those old prank call soundboards.
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Context?
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