• ditty@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I admire cart narc and believe he is doing God’s work, but I can’t help but cringe and close his videos because of the cringey, aggressive, and awkward reactions from the lazy bones.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Sameee. I was the cart pusher for a long time for my first job so his videos were cathartic at first, but once you get past the popular uploads it gets real cringy real fast.

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    5 months ago

    The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.

    To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we alll recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. The return of the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart.

    Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart present itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not retunrning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.

    A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.

    The shopping cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.

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    5 months ago

    It’s not uncommon for me to return carts OTHER PEOPLE left out. Just ones near me that are blocking parking spaces.

    I have literally watched people push a cart to an empty parking space and ditch it. Wish I could say I stared them down but I was in my car.

    I can’t even fathom the level of selfishness these people have.

    • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I watched a family of three walk from the store to the literal last, furthest parking spot that they chose to park in (the lot had plenty of parking much closer) with their cart. They unloaded it into their Tesla, and then put it on the grass mound next to their spot, also next to the road, and drove away.

      I get that some employees like being able to kill time getting the far, stray carts, but… Hooooo-ly shit I could smell the entitlement wafting off them when they walked by.

  • dave@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

    A great guy -> How great a guy I was. A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

    Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?