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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 119 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ninja is not an obsolete job! They've just become so stealthy and cunning that no one realizes they're still around πŸ₯·πŸ«₯

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 60 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Ignoring the joke, it is actually obsolete. The last ninja family refuses to name a successor, pass on certain techniqies, etc. so technically, no more official ninja

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know... That sounds like just the sort of thing an ancient ninja clan would want you to think...

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 20 points 11 months ago

That's what they want you to believe.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well that sucks. If there are never goin to be ninjas again the least the family could do is write down all the secret techniques for histories sake.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

How's Splinter supposed to teach his turtle boys now? We're just about getting to the good mutagen technologies!

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[–] le_throosh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hidden Figures should be required reading (required viewing?) for anyone in STEM

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

These sound like classes in a weird jrpg

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[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well fuck. I'm a useful man..

Looks like that's useless :/

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You were simply transformed into a handyperson.

[–] bstix 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't the same as a handyman. The title "useful man" was for a servant who'd never actually serve the master.

Today it'd be a "runner" or some kind of "assistant to the assistant"

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 11 points 11 months ago

Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Does a priest hunter find new priests, or is it a person who kills priests?

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First one; then the other.

[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I's reign.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Which "for"?

Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.

Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or a priest who also keeps the monastery flush with game meat?

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[–] poppy@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There’s a podcast called Jobsolete that covers, as the name implies, obsolete jobs! It’s inactive now but they have an ok size catalog that it’s worth going back and listening.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the podcast is now obsolete?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago
[–] chtk@feddit.nl 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would have been great as a garden hermit.

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[–] tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

With no more High Priestess the priest hunter could finally retire

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They said we don't need toad doctors anymore, but I'm not so sure.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is the doctor treating sick toads, or treating sick people using toads? Both? Maybe it's just a pejorative and real toads aren't involved all

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[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Them: You're a ninja? I didn't realize you all still existed. You: Thank you

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

Huh, no wonder anyone's so damn useless 🀣

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not on the list but I always wanted to be a knocker-upper

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 11 months ago

Sign me up to be a priest hunter.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

If you’re a dude who hunts handsy priests using ninjitsu, I’d consider you a useful man…

[–] oldone@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I always thought court philosopher would be a good gig

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Damn I wanna be a high priestess of athena polias

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

That's okay, I'm not a useful man.

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cigarette girls still exist, in Vegas at least.

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Professional mourners are very much still a thing. Had them at a few funerals I attended. Very awkward to see them more invested into crying for the departed than the family. Some of the family members also seemed to think so, but hey, it's tradition and respectful of the dead.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Aren't professional mourners still a thing in China or something?

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Now, imagine being, let's say 50 years old, and losing your career. You previous job that you have been doing for 20 years is gone. And soon your home and possessions are too.

Do you have time to go back to school to learn a new skill and then start from the bottom again? And by the time you are done retraining, will anybody hire a 50 to 55 year old rookie when they can get a younger person for less money instead?

It's easy to say, "Just move and do something else" when you are 20. But the older you get it becomes very difficult to nearly impossible for a large number of people to do so. Not everyone can be retrained and there are few low skills jobs these days.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I bet a number of those jobs had transferrable skills. "Cigarette Girl" likely had sales and customer service skills. "Toad Doctor" may have either moved on to small amphibians, or something with crystals.

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