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What’s up with h all the hate for Friends these days? It’s a simple feel good comedy that got laughs, why hate on that?
I loved friends, still do
I don’t like it, but it’s plenty well written, it’s obvious why people like it. I think people just like to hate on things they don’t like, it can be fun to be negative with no substantial harm, like complaining for fun.
Because it wasnt simple, and its got a lot of old culture in it that doesnt always hit the same way as it did then.
Its a product of its time, and making fun of it is sort of like making fun of older generations for whatever reason.
I will say I dont like how apparently women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive back then, and it bums me out knowing that Chandler’s actor was struggling with addiction during a chunk of the show.
It does have some really well written bits though, but its usually not the ones people bring up most often.
women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive
What makes you think this has changed?
I mean, as someone who grew up watching and loving friends, it’s extremely problematic.
I mowed and bagged all the leaves in my backyard and put them in my chickens run. They loved it…
The leaves in the front yard got blown to the “woods” between my neighbor and I.
After I mowed up most the leaves in the back, I did another pass with a lower deck setting to get most the pine needles/cones…those went in the woods (the girls don’t like too many needles)…then blew what needles/cones/dog poop remained into a pile, mowed that up (dumped in woods).
Whatever was left got blown under the deck.
Did I do good?
just leave them in place (within reason). your chickens probably loved the leaves because a lot of native bugs use dead leaves to lay their eggs; both mowing the leaves and giving them to the chickens probably killed a lottttt of bugs. and it removes important nutrients from your homes immediate surrounding ecosystem. you’ll save butterflies and fireflies!
And Im going outside to rake up my leaves. And my neighbours leaves. Fuck that… gecko? No one shits on Friends, you little shit! NO ONE!!! lol
Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath… The only person he seems to genuinely care about is his son, Ben… But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons. There are fan theories that Ross completely abandoned Ben (or that Carol and Susan took full custody because Ross was always such a prick) after Emma was born.
Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess, whose need for attention compelled her to constantly keep Ross on a leash without letting him get too close. She broke up with a dude, got her feelings hurt when he had a rebound, then constantly held it over his head after they got back together. When he got tired of it and found someone else, she crashed their wedding in the hopes that he would leave his fiancée at the altar.
Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections. But that was largely because he was more into the hookup culture, and he reserved his attempts at deeper romance for the few partners he really got along with. He never tried to hide the fact that he was a playboy, even around the women he was sleeping with. He was an idiot, but he at least cared for and about the other main characters, in a way that none of them ever seemed to reciprocate.
Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin. The series was 10 seasons long, and black people only had speaking roles in like 25 episodes… And a lot of those were because Ross and Joey dated the same black woman for like 10 episodes in the last season. They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.
No one needs to shit on Friends, it’s already shit.
The issue is parasitic HOAs that don’t allow it.
HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
For calling themselves “land of the free” there is surprisingly little freedom, unless you are rich of course. At that point you can rape kids and get away with murder.
Officially it was a suicide. Or at least according to the Don(ald).
As long as you don’t let your grass grow too much
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Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden
Himelayan blackberries are invasive
Not if you live in the Himalaya ☝️🤓
Let’s bring this plant home from the other side of the world from the edges of human atmosphere and plant it back home. It will probably be nice to look at.
They’re a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They’ve displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.
Just like the settlers!
i mean… i can do something to help, might not effect the long term though 😋
On the contrary, I overpicked and killed a blackberry plant as a kid. Sounds like a solid tactic.
The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They’re like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)
Bamboo as well.
Oh man. My mother was a huge fan of landscaping with invasive species. This is also a place that has had a lot of local plants absolutely smothered by kudzu vine. Bamboo was going in right as I was moving to another state. Maybe it was a good idea to cut contract with her, I can’t imagine it’s been cheap or easy to maintain
Perpetual work. Sounds like a viable business strategy.
Thanks, I know what I’m planting!
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water
Mint is “ok”.
Mint doesn’t need to be put in the ground. Just put it in a pot outside, it’ll do the rest, and leave you with some level of plausible deniability.
I know this because my ex got some different types of mint to grow, since we both loved it. She put them in pots on the front porch, about 4 feet off the ground.
That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from, just that the pot was flourishing, and then so was the yard. The new owner of that house is still finding mint growing in random parts.
Is mint bad for yards? A fully mint lawn sounds incredible.
It can choke out native plant life, if left to do its thing. It is an invasive species for non-native areas, and that can even come down to what type of mint is native.
The main issues are that mint doesn’t have a lot of requirements to grow, and is notoriously hard to kill. If it’s in a place it can survive, it can and will thrive left unchecked.
Yeah no joke, mint grows THICC. Smells lovely though and very nutritious ang good for Mojitos! Mo-ji-tos!
Also mint is native in some places it’s like that.
Blackberries are “ok”.
Certain blackberries are deeply irritating invasive species. Delicious, but an outright menace that can destroy local forests. Methods to control them are extensive and extreme. Never eat road side blackberries in the US, certain states use herbicide to stem the tide. Bushes next to highways are more likely to be sprayed. Low pedestrian traffic and cheaper maintenance than cutting them back.
… You ever tried clearing a yard or whole garden overgrown by wild blackberries for years?
God, they’re delicious, but they are EVERYWHERE, regrow as soon as you turn around, and you either are very slow and careful or get hurt a lot. Nasty little suckers, those thorns.
I’d guess OP has the same trauma as me
LEZERD!!
I recently got into FRIENDS purely cuz it’s cozy. But it’s hard to reference it without looking a little behind.
“OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!”
I rewatched it couple of years ago and I think it’s still funny and not that dated. The only thing I didn’t like was the laugh track.
OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"
My older brother watched Friends every single night, rerun after rerun. Ross and Rachel are the reason I immediately dislike any “will they / won’t they” plots when watching a new show.
I loved Friends growing up.
But it was of a different era and now many of their jokes make me uncomfortable.
The morals of characters in ‘Friends’ make me wonder why it’s ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb’ that are considered questionable.
Best joke was always “O Ill prove it! Ill prove it like a theorem!”
That one aged just fine. Ross’ character, not so much.
I just feel bad about all that sleep you’re gonna miss wishing you were with me!
Oh, no, no, no, don’t you worry about me “falling asleep.” I STILL HAVE YOUR LETTER!
There was some good writing in that show.
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.Does he though??
I looked into it and found this from not even all that long ago.
I’m all for calling slop out, but we gotta be sure. It does kinda have that style but I don’t see other signs.
Edit: He’s posted his art on Instagram since at least 2020, well before AI image models could put out anything nearly passable.
Its already a thing where random internet users will scream “AI slop” at indie game developers and many of them spend more time arguing that it’s not, showing evidence and still losing sales because of it.
The wolf spider art is familiar to me. It also is distinctly different from the salamander art to my eyes. I get it, my mistake. I have edited my comment.
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
Vanilla flavoring used to be made from castoreum, which is harvested from beaver anal glands
Something something anal glands
HA! Anal glands…
I, too, lie about not using AI to make money.
Yeah as someone pointed out to me in another post. AI slop stole from artists like these hence why it looks similar and some of us have this initial negative reaction. Farking waste of air those thieving tech bros!
I knew it was harming the environment.
How do you know it’s AI?
That doesn´t look at all like AI slop
The line weight and huge, perfectly centered round eyes all are hallmarks of AI slop. I accept that I’m wrong about him specifically, but this style looks like like AI to me.
Is he an AI artist?
No, because such a thing doesn’t exist.
But also because (at least as far as I can tell), he doesn’t use AI.
Everyone uses AI
Uhhh no that’s not true. Unless you’re one to say everything a computer does is AI, like the NPCs in video games are “AI”
I refer specifically to generative AI that’s taken prominence this decade.
There are topics to debate on concerning AI use, but in the end art itself is always subjective. What’s funny is that AI has gotten to a level now where if used carefully it might fly under the radar of AI critics, meanwhile they are attacking artists who aren’t using AI but have a style that seems to them to be “fake”.
Don’t shame them for their guilty pleasure, lizard creature!
AMPHIBIAN
Fuxk no. This robs soil and nutrients from the soil and its ecosystem.
Im a master gardener and I mulch my leaves then leave them on my turf grass.
Better shows to watch:
Buffy
The Wire
MST3K
Survivor up to season 16
The New Girl
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Broad City
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Survivor was never good tbh
RiffTrax (MST3K) Aeon Flux. Trust me. Thank me later.
Or all Star Trek media released prior to 2009.
In a single sitting.
After 2009 it gets more hit or miss. There’s still a bunch of worthwhile stuff though.
DS9
Edit: Babylon 5! Acting is hammy but the story is great!
You’re right.
I do love 65% of SNW, though.
I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but had to stop after the holodeck episode.
A holodeck… in the prequel to TOS. Just WTF.
GOT (stop mid season 4)
Yeah to bad they never finished it
“Legend has it, they’re still fighting to this day!”
I still think GoT is worth watching until the end of S6, the battle of the bastards is a fantastic episode and seeing Sansa’s arc play out was pretty satisfying. Then it went to absolute shit.
Does the Wheadon sex pest stuff ruin Buffy?
I haven’t seen it but was a Firefly fan, and some of the things in that show now make me cringe.
Not really, but it’s a nostalgia watch for me. It wasn’t an issue when I watched it the first time, and it’s more about what the cast was doing. Wheadon didn’t even write or direct every episode, so it’s hard to really say he ruined every moment of work from maybe a hundred or so people.
If you can seperate the author from the work, then yeah. There’s nothing I can remember from a recent rewatch that’s like tastelessly pervy in it. It does handle some mature themes, there’s some episodes that deal with like SA and stuff like that, but it was handled with levity.
That said, you’ll probably still cringe a bit because there’s parts of it that are so blatantly late 90s/early 2000s that they’re just funny to think about now. stuff like the “internet ghost” is incredibly dated.
>sexual assault, it was handled with levity
As it deserves!
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Hell yes. Is there a decent quality version somewhere? I have some potato quality divx on a spool somewhere.
Sailing the warm ports can reward you with a dvd rip. PM me for details.
Also, when you want to remove them (partially or in spring), just mow them and leave the mulch. Easiest cleanup, good for the plants and wildlife
I read about mulch once.
Aside from the wildlife that was hiding in the leaves you just ran though a gasoline powered blender that is.
Does this kill the bug?
Like, for real…what are the chances of the bug getting hit by the blade, in the first place? Its one fast blade vs one real small bug. Possibly one with the gift of flight.
Then it’s in a bag full of grass. And aren’t most bugs passive breathers? So wouldn’t all the air rushing through the vacuum into the bag just like, idk, give them superpowers or something?
*battery powered blender…
But yeah, you’re right. Goes without saying that one should try to evict as many leaf-tenants as possible beforehand.
Would be nice if there was some timeframe where this is safe for most wildlife
I tried this for the first time this year. I was surprised how clean it looked afterwards, the leaf mulch mostly disappears into the grass.
