"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"
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Sounds poor and mad
Maybe it's appropriate to get mad at such pointless waste.
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Serious answer:
That's cool. What makes it special?
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they're proud that they could afford it and even when they're being tone-deaf, there's no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they're stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you're the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren't so expensive that a middle-class person can't plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. You can act like that's true about you. My status-conscious former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say "I really like the 2008 model." She couldn't argue with that.
I feel special when my 6 year old laptop runs circles around your new shit because I know how to maintain it and don't install every fucking app I find.
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This is right, where every other comment in this thread is wrong.
Don't take the bait.
Even just a flat OK is better than taking the bait. Honestly, silence is better.
Do you care? Then you are poor and mad.
Well "ok boomer" is just replying with another rage bait
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Maybe it's appropriate to get mad at such pointless waste.
I wouldn't say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to "good" conspicuous consumption as it's possible to get. Think about it: it's generally a "buy once, keep it forever" item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don't require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It's a waste of money, but it's a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
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Well "ok boomer" is just replying with another rage bait
Yeah, bait for them. The point is to make them more mad than you are, that's how you damage their social reputation.
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Yeah, bait for them. The point is to make them more mad than you are, that's how you damage their social reputation.
They can hit you with the "you’re cringe" and then your reputation is damaged
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I feel special when my 6 year old laptop runs circles around your new shit because I know how to maintain it and don't install every fucking app I find.
& also you probably know to spec it appropriately; most slow laptops I see have 8 gigs ram.
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They can hit you with the "you’re cringe" and then your reputation is damaged
"No U" - reputation saved
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"No U" - reputation saved
Oh, the oldest trick in the book
There's still the uno reverse picture. So many counters! Exciting!
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I wouldn't say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to "good" conspicuous consumption as it's possible to get. Think about it: it's generally a "buy once, keep it forever" item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don't require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It's a waste of money, but it's a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
The "specialist" working for a car's worth for a single watch, could be something useful instead. It's proportionnally as much waste as a private jet. For the price, the jet is also very little resources consumed but an ungodly amount of labour goes into them that could instead be doing something useful !
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The "specialist" working for a car's worth for a single watch, could be something useful instead. It's proportionnally as much waste as a private jet. For the price, the jet is also very little resources consumed but an ungodly amount of labour goes into them that could instead be doing something useful !
The kind of waste I'm talking about doesn't give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed "useful" are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It's not "useful". Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren't "useful".
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& also you probably know to spec it appropriately; most slow laptops I see have 8 gigs ram.
Is 8 considered little?
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Oh, the oldest trick in the book
There's still the uno reverse picture. So many counters! Exciting!
I don't know if you're being serious or not.
You've got to follow the pulse of the crowd. "You're cringe" either sounds like the final blow to a shaky-legged cringe lord, or the last gasp of air from a voice-cracking, 14-year-old tough guy, depending on who the crowd is already inclined to agree with and possibly on whether they know what a floppy drive is.
The bottom line, though, is if you can get the crowd to cheer, then you can get other people to cheer.
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I don't know if you're being serious or not.
You've got to follow the pulse of the crowd. "You're cringe" either sounds like the final blow to a shaky-legged cringe lord, or the last gasp of air from a voice-cracking, 14-year-old tough guy, depending on who the crowd is already inclined to agree with and possibly on whether they know what a floppy drive is.
The bottom line, though, is if you can get the crowd to cheer, then you can get other people to cheer.
I think you got the wrong video there haha
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What's my motivation? Is there a reason why I'm listening to Alec Baldwin brag about his watch? What's stopping me from simply walking away?
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What's my motivation? Is there a reason why I'm listening to Alec Baldwin brag about his watch? What's stopping me from simply walking away?
You need to listen to him because it's a meeting at work, he's higher up than you are, and your job is at risk.
https://youtu.be/bkjfZctGMq8?t=241
The link skips half of the speech, if you have 8 minutes, watch the whole thing.
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You need to listen to him because it's a meeting at work, he's higher up than you are, and your job is at risk.
https://youtu.be/bkjfZctGMq8?t=241
The link skips half of the speech, if you have 8 minutes, watch the whole thing.
If he's higher up than me and my job is at risk and I need the job, wouldn't mouthing off be a bad idea?
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If he's higher up than me and my job is at risk and I need the job, wouldn't mouthing off be a bad idea?
True, could get shot in the face
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I think you got the wrong video there haha
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Nope. Now I know!
