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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 204 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This triggers a memory!

Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.

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[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 128 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don't determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Whats wrong with anarchy? Talk all the shit you like; it works better than kleptocracy or fascism.

[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Interesting question, is anarchy better than Kleptocracy? How does money function without the backing of a government, would you have to go back to a bartering system? Could you even have a global supply chain in the absence of a stable government? Could people be able to self actualize in an unstable society?

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

money

Plenty of ways, it's older than governments.

But also we don't need it, and while it does setve a purpose, there are other ways to do that, most of which are less trouble.

global supply chain

Yes? Most of them arent at the behest of governments right now. I have personally put together a supply chain that covered a couple thousand miles, and that was me being a stoner; far from an expert.

[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

For your "stoner supply chain" did you exchange currency backed by some organization or did you exchange precious metals? How did you and other parties agree on the value of what was exchanged?

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well it was drugs(legal now, i think legal then), refined drugs, and candy that was drugged with the refined drugs. I paid in candy. Everyone was hippies, and mostly happy with the arrangement while it lasted.

Like i said; i did this because i wanted to get high on hard candy.

Its not all that complicated, but there were intermediate processing steps, a bit of distance, and a finished product with a couple inputs. I did this as an unhoused stoned 20 year old with zero education on the topic. It's hard, it's not magic.

Everybody involved wanted the product (hard candy that gets you high) to get made, and so they made it.

We live in a world that traps everything behind money. That makes money seem important. It's not.

I want computers to exist. If nobody's making them, im gonna ask an electrical engineer if they're doing anything, and out a team together to build the thing. I don't need money. I need computers to exist. If i need rare earth bullshit, ill ask who has that, and if they want computers to exist.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn't learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

I'm glad I wasn't sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The third group of us secretly want both toys

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

neither of them are boys. One is a doll the other is a toy car.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

So... give them a Ken? Lol

[–] JayObey711@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald's. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it's not your fault.

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[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 144 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I used to fuck around like this all the time when I worked a fast food drive thru

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Same. Same in call centres too. Did some fun stuff like getting colleagues to say a word you have to work into the next call like “spoon” which is easy with a little “good afterspoon”. Or doing dumb shit like pretending we had Tourette’s.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Damn that's hilarious- I wish I knew about that game when I worked at a call center!

My favorite when I worked drive thru was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I'd put on my announcer voice- like Stamets level shit- to greet them, and then say "to place an order, press 1" but there was no keypad, so they would just say "uh...one?" And then I'd be like "para español, marque dos"

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 17 points 1 week ago

that's fuckin hilarious!

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[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 27 points 1 week ago

I always cheated at that one and pretended someone had asked me a question next to me. Or that I had misheard them.

"Oh yeah you can have my spoon sorry about that it's crazy here anyway..."

Or "I'm sorry WHAT about a dragonfly?"

My favorite was finding new ways to accuse chiropractors of fraud.

"Oh yeah it looks like you had the wrong diagnosis code in there, see this is for kidney failure. Haha I know you're just a chiropractor and you're not trying to treat the kidneys DOCTOR." Really lay it on thick with the doctor, because if the chiropractor is calling himself he's almost guaranteed to be one of the pricks that insists he's a real doctor and not a street magician with a degree.

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