The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[overgeeked]

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

As a life-long obsessive gamer I get loving things to excess. I'm fully on board with that. I don't care that teenage girls love it. More power to them. My problem with pumpkin spice is that it went from something that some people actually loved to this meme / marketing phenom that swallowed the Earth. The moment the AC is turned off every other flat surface in the country is festooned with pumpkin spice advertising. I don't object to pumpkin spice per se, or teenage girls loving it, I object to every third image I see out in meat space from late August until Thanksgiving being pumpkin spice related.

 

[Ondath]

I understand this can't happen due to harrasment risks, but I do wish we had the chance to ask a person who puts us on ignore "Why?". There's a user with whom I had no negative interactions AFAICT, but I realised they put me on block, and I would've liked to ask them why. If I was being a wangrod without knowing it, I would've tried avoiding doing that later

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The moment the AC is turned off every other flat surface in the country is festooned with pumpkin spice advertising.

I have some big news for you about global world temperatures, in that case.

 

[Cadence]

Yeah, the initial backlash was largely gendered or even sexist. That doesn't mean anyone tired of it now is sexist -- it's become so omnipresent, that "help, help, everything smells like pumpkin spice" is a perfectly rational response.

Similarly, the initial backlash against disco music in the late 1970s and 1980s was because of who popularized that music. (Not straight White dudes from the Midwest.) Regular people tired of a music genre that saturated the airwaves were independent from the people who staged burnings of LPs popular with the LGBT community and minorities living in cities, though. (The culture war is a lot older than we sometimes realize.)

Give it a few weeks, you won't be able to see the pumpkin spice stuff through all the Christmas decorations and advertisements...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I understand this can't happen due to harrasment risks, but I do wish we had the chance to ask a person who puts us on ignore "Why?". There's a user with whom I had no negative interactions AFAICT, but I realised they put me on block, and I would've liked to ask them why. If I was being a wangrod without knowing it, I would've tried avoiding doing that later

For your sanity's sake, just assume it was a misclick or a case of mistaken identity.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I have some big news for you about global world temperatures, in that case.

So what you're saying is ... there is one good thing about climate change! That's right ... we are reducing the pumpkin spice season!

Man, makes me want to buy a really big SUV.

 

[niklinna]

Pumpkin Spice - the Wiccan cure-all.

No, no, that's patchouli.

 

[Ryujin]

No, no, that's patchouli.

That's the Dirty Hippie(tm) cure-all.

 

[niklinna]

That's the Dirty Hippie(tm) cure-all.

Ah, must've been a lot of dirty hippies at that witch campout I attended then! They had a sign up that said something like, "Patchouli is not a substitute for bathing or deodorant."

Edit: Typo!

 

[niklinna]

In other news: the irony of a thread about safety tools being shut down because people on both sides were using the report tool too much.