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[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 209 points 1 year ago

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 64 points 1 year ago

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 130 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 year ago

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 66 points 1 year 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 year ago

The third group of us secretly want both toys

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[-] uriel238 53 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] TherapyGary 145 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

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 73 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

that's fuckin hilarious!

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[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 28 points 1 year 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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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

So... give them a Ken? Lol

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

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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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Why be difficult though when you clearly know what the customer is asking for

[-] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not pick one of the answers provided when you're clearly in a made up scenario?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Because I've got infinity time to argue when I'm in a made-up scenario.

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[-] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 year ago

idk dismantling the pointless notion of boys toys vs girls toys bit by bit at no cost to the interlocutor other than a slight annoyance sounds pretty based

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 34 points 1 year ago

Because if someone says something sexist/racist/stupid, don't let them get away with it.

[-] petrol_sniff_king 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ma'am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you'd like.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Sir, I demand to receive the toy that contains the XY chromosome and if you don't provide it immediately I will be speaking with your manager.

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[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Why be difficult , though, when you clearly know what the employee is asking?

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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

They're not being difficult, the customer is pushing a sexist agenda rather than select one of the choices named. It's perfectly reasonable for boys to want a Barbie-themed rock band figurine, or a girl to want a van for her Barbie rock band to pretend to drive to their next gig.

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[-] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Why be a misandrist when you clearly know the boy isn't being given a choice because people like you and the mom don't give a damn about what boys as long as the toy 'matches' the kid's penis?

Yeah I'm calling you out for being a creep.

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