Someone took a photo of me in the Miami airport and posted it on reddit
I've always wanted to talk about how weird it was scrolling through reddit and then suddenly seeing myself on the front page. I was banned from reddit for talking about politics (I am anti trump) on the air force reddit so I wasn't even able to comment on a post about me.
For some backstory, I was returning from a Halloween cruise and it was the only clean shirt I had left (I was planning on wearing it during the cruise as there were no children allowed on the cruise and with the theme I thought it would get a few laughs or at least start a conversation). I never did though and doing laundry on a cruise was quite expensive (I think 50 dollars per load or something like that). I tried to hide the shirt as best I could throughout the day as I do think it was slightly inappropriate to wear in a public setting.
For the record, I love all the comments roasting me and I laughed all fucking day reading them!
Anyways, I have always wanted to publicly talk about this and in my search for reddit alternatives I found lemmy so here we are. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Proof: https://i.imgur.com/rd9DPO8.jpeg
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1pl680g/seen_in_miami_airport_gate_area/
I hate this "culture" (?) of recording/photographing strangers and posting them online, but on the other hand this is sooo funny. I'm sorry it happened to you lmao.
It's absolutely invasive and (almost always, even though people think they could remedy this with a simple sign) against the law in Europe.
You know, I think if I was in this situation I would just wear the shirt inside out
I honestly didn't think about that. But I also didn't think it was that big of a deal either.
It's not a big deal. It's silly and hilarious. Own it 😁
Oh yeah, I love it lol.
yes! i regularly wear a few of my shirts inside out because i dont like the designs on them.
doesn't the print irritate your skin?
Donate them to charity? Get new ones at the thrift store?
Maybe they bought them at the thrift store or received them from charity, that's why they didn't like the design.
Don't assume everyone just has disposable income to throw out perfectly good items.
Jesus, I hate the internet sometimes.
All good until you chafe your nipples.
ThatsThePoint.jpg
The point is to chafe your nipples?
To each their own I guess.
Did you get approached by any big tiddy goth girls?
They swarmed me.
After a few weeks it got so out of hand that you actually had to change shirts!
Actually, i'm like Doug Funny, I only have one outfit...
do you have any intention on dating one? i think you have the courage and confidence to do so. you got this, dominic. we believe in you. seriously!
you could’ve just worn it inside out….
that said, me too buddy… except i just want a little tiddy goth gf….
honestly tiddy size doesn’t matter to me much, i feel like there’s too much focus big tiddy goth gf’s and the rest of the goth gf world is being ignored….
#allGothGFsAreAwesome
What I said to my ex (paraphrasing) “Yeah don’t get me wrong, I love big titties, but I’m more interested in the girl they’re attached to”
A romantic
so romantic! :)
Where's the love for a big booty punk girlfriend, smdh.
You might want to look up "nalgótica" 😉. The reddit post taught me that term.
Oh hell yeah
Absolutely agree
I want a big booty Japanese girlfriend. Please, if there's a God send a Japanese girl with a phat ass my way.
just go to japan, that’s where most japanese girls are
Alright, I'll go as soon as I graduate.
You can have a big tiddy gf, or a goth gf but asking for both at once is being greedy.
Live a little!
So Reddit banned you and is now profiting having your picture on their homepage? I would do a takedown request.
There's no expectation of privacy in public places.
There's no expectation of fairness in DMCA requests.
Greetings, Warner brothers lawyer.
That's an opinion. I have portretrecht, you can't just take pictures of me (or anyone) and post them.
Do you honestly not see the difference between sitting in a busy airport where a lot of people can see you but don't really pay attention to you, as opposed to being featured on one of the largest websites as a top post specifically to discuss you?
expectation of privacy is American law
And Reddit is headquartered in America.
LPT. When being forced to wear shirts with questionable graphics, turn them inside out.
Not 100% guaranteed but better than ending up on Reddit.
Or just don't give a fuck.
Story time: I had to give a presentation on a group project at university. I was wearing a shirt with a fist silhouette on it, which you could have mistaken as a symbol of a political movement, had there not been the text "nothing says I love you quite like fisting". Over lunch I had to go home, ~6km, on a bicycle, in the summer, on short notice, because of the plumber being in the house. So I was sweating like fuck and changed shirts. For some reason our team got summoned up to the front again later and my shirt read "I have 5 stars on youporn" with five stars over it. This was in front of 5 professors, ~10 post docs and university employees and ~80 students. On my way out from the cafeteria I greeted the hot blonde from engineering, who looked like she could be an adult content actress, and she laughed the cutest snort-laugh in a shockingly deep voice I've ever heard. Most of the profs "loved" me by the way; three of them competed over getting me into their projects and supervising my master thesis.
Not the complement you think it is.
It wasn't really meant as a compliment. She usually looked like she was coming straight from the set of a porn movie. But I think, like me, she wasn't giving a fuck either. She was good at what she did and the right hand of the head of the engineering faculty. Don't judge a book by its cover, I guess?
She could replace my right hand any day.
Yeah I didn't think about that.
this is art lol
I'll have what she's having
A nap?
Hell yeah
Why in the hell does this remind me of "oof size: large"
Love how this is the part the camera decided to focus on. I actually thought that this was edited in, not sure what it supposed to have told me though.
what were you reading tho
Clockwork prince by Cassandra Clare. I found the three book series at a thrift store and got though the first book on the cruise and was working on the second.
Was it a good book series? Worth reading?
If you like fantasy, romance and a bit of mystery. It wasn't anything amazing but I found it for a few bucks at a thrift store and it's held my attention so far. Apparently there are a ton of books in the series.
Judging by the heft of that book, the author isn't hurting for inspiration.
Its a YA fantasy novel, written at the start of those getting more popular again. If you are looking for a series to just read for awhile, its not bad - the novels are all actually a decent length, and she has written several series within the same universe.
There is a lot of teenage angst in all of the books though.
Can we turn this into a book recommendation thread? If you want fantasy horror, anything by T. Kingfisher is great. I love the Sworn Soldier books (reinterpretation of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe) and the World of the White Rat series.
If you like litrpg I recommend life at reset.... Basically(no spoilers this is book 1 chapter 1) guy is head of huge guild in a mmorpg, he gets betrayed by his friend and turned into a literal monster. As it progresses it goes in several weird directions of philosophy as weird as that sounds.
Was the cruise worth it? Never been on one so don’t know if bringing books is a thing or not.
I mean who doesn't want a big tiddy goth gf?
Personally, I'm leaning towards the small tiddied goth gf. Big tiddies are impractical on many levels.
I'm a firm supporter of all goth girls of all body types, all of the time.
Vote for me for US President, I literally could not do any worse.
You have a platform that I could get behind
Me. I want two.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Sick shirt. Welcome to Lemmy! Great place to talk about political stuff! And also never ever see anything but politics god I'm so tired of seeing trumps face...
Anyway, welcome to the fediverse, did I mention I use linux?
beans arch unix socks corn 3 days cant shit
3 days can't shit is a deep cut. I wonder how many on Lemmy even remember that.
Edit: also read that in the fairly odd parents intro song
3 days can't shit was like RIGHT after the API exodus and was an incredible thing to experience right away
It really was great. Im going to have to look at those posts again and reminisce.
Another good one (though more personal) was everyone dogging on me with the "how do you flush this" posts. Good times.
If you're sick of politics, make your own subscription list (on lemmy) or feed (on piefed) without politics. e.g.:
I mean yeah I could do that, but they keep me up to date with the current madness. Which i think is important, even if I hate it.
Good information though thanks, I might look into that for an alt.
Yeah it's good to take a break from the politics tho. Did I say good? I mean necessary.
For real. Some days i just set my phone down and not touch it just so I don't see anything.
I don't use Arch btw
Me either. Im currently moving from Kubuntu to MX Linux, we'll see how that goes.
I've tried Lubuntu with limited success and now it's Zorin.
Other than not being able to install whatever missing sound codex makes my Fallout TV show MKVs silent yet, it's going well so far 🤷
I haven't tried zorin yet. What codex are tiu missing?
Opus 7.1
I ducked it and typed "Sudo apt install opus-tools" in the terminal as instructed, but all that seems to accomplish is to install Microsoft Core Fonts for some bizarre reason 🤦
I might be wrong but isn't it libopus-dev? I thinkni remember coming across it before. I can't look it up properly atm but I can later after Christmas celebration to help.
An MKV could include a host of different audio stream codecs. You'd have to first find out which one(s) your files are using, with a tool like
mediainfo, for example.Some media players like mpv or mplayer variants usually come bundled with a bunch of typical codecs.
Could it be that it's a "proprietary" one like DTS or AC3 (alias Dolby Digital) which for that reason your distro does not ship out of the box?
Sorting by scaled might diversify your experience (i dont know why the sleep deprived me can only think complicated words)
I know, just lazy to tap the sort button lol. Get some sleep! Never Lemmy and deprive!
Trending on reddit, comes on Lemmy to talk about it. I love it!
Jesus fuck. What company did you cruise with? I've worked fot NCL and have been on a Princess cruise; both offered laundry services free.
It was virgin voyages. I just looked it up and it was actually 30, but still.
Hell, I'm annoyed that my apartment's laundry service is like video game MTX where you need credits for the machine. The machines are like 2 and a half bucks each, but you can only buy a minimum of $10 worth of credits which gets me 2 loads, and then leaves some credits left over that I can't use or get refunded.
Bro I feel you. The apartment i live in right now does that too. Its 2.50 to wash and 2.50 to dry. I can't wait to move.
I used to have that and hated it too but then I moved into a place that only accepts loonies (CAD $1 coins) and I just want to go back to the card based MTX. Mainly because I'm with a bank that has no physical locations to take coins out and the laundromats around me guard their coin machines like hawks
Based virgin voyager wearing his goth tiddy shirt
I know this is Lemmy and Reddit is bad etc., but FYI when you get banned from one subreddit by its mods, it doesn't ban you from the entirety of Reddit. You could comment if you wanted.
Sure, but unlike Lemmy, the admins CAN ban you from all of Reddit, permanently, for little to no reason.
They can do it with ample reason too though, tbf 🤷
You can absolutely get a total site ban with no reason.
All it takes is some offended moderator to cry to site admins, and more frequently than not its because you dared to not press puckered lips against the pumpkin colored donut hole of their false-god emperor.
I'd wager good money on the fact that they even run bot nets that mass report any undesirable comment, cause mass reports tend to provoke sitewide bans real fast. possibly automatically
I was temp banned a few times from the air force reddit and then I think they reported it to the admins because I had a perma ban. I tried making another account and it shortly got banned as well. It's definitely a site wide ban.
Ah, yeah, when you create another account to bypass a subreddit ban (or if they think you did it for that reasons), the admins suspend your account. It can be very hard to come back after that, because all future accounts could be flagged as trying to bypass the sanctions.
TBF, even if it isn't a perfect system, as an ex mod of a very active sub (a national sub), I prefer that the admins take actions.
Yeah, while I think it is a stilly thing to ban for I do respect them for actually sticking to their rules.
nah say shit like "I'm surprised more nazis haven't been shot yet" enough times and Reddit will ban you
source: happened to me. never advocated violence, doesn't stop them from misinterpreting it. fucking idiots. unfortunately also happens on Lemmy - I was poking through the logs recently and saw someone had blatantly misinterpreted a comment as exactly the opposite of the message it was conveying
I got banned for "encouraging violence" in the COMBATFOOTAGE subreddit for saying we should fly more drones around the Ukraine warzone to make the Russians waste more ammunition trying to shoot them down (the post was a video of some Russian moron emptying his magazine trying to take a Ukrainian drone down).
When I disputed it, claiming it's not encouraging any kind of violence (unless you count violence towards drones as violence?), I got a permanent site wide ban. After 15ish years on reddit, I called it. That site has sunk so low in the past decade - seems to get worse as time goes on. The censorship there is insane now.
The dissonance of "not allowed to advocate for violence", while at the same time, not only hosting combat footage, but also it being perfectly allowed to advocate for war or military operations, or talk about how "x country needs to shoot y enemy in this war" or similar, never ceases to amaze me. I literally don't get it. What is war if not exactly that?
But I guess, if it's state-sanctioned it's perfectly fine. Even if, either way, it still results in violence and people dying. Just sucks that you can't say that a war criminal deserves to die. Fucking double standards
Same for saying "the only good nazi is a dead nazi"
The only thing I can think of is if he had multiple accounts and went into the banned sub on a different account. That gets you banned totally.
Lots of people are getting targeted on Reddit by the Admins for political reasons.
How about that lady sleeping in front of you though?
So originally she was right next to me at a charging station that faced the wall. I sat next to her because I was waiting for her to get up and leave so i could sit and face the wall and charge my phone AND be more comfortable reading my book. She kinda put her head down on the table and started snoring so loudly, it was hilarious. I looked around a bit at a few people next to me and we were all kinda laughing at it. She eventually got up and sat down somewhere else and I didn't notice because I was too into my book at the time I guess.
It's crazy how rare it is to see someone reading a book while waiting nowadays. Good on you.
You didn't ask. Still have you heard about our lord and saviour. J/k. Fuck religion. Definitely suggest reading Dungeon Crawler Carl series
have you talked to any goth lady after that, and do you have any intention on dating one? i think you have the courage and confidence to do so. you got this, dominic. we believe in you. seriously!
Im moving back home to ohio soon so im trying not to fall in love with anyone until then.
i really hope there are goth ladies in ohio (and a lot of people here can agree that there are). seriously!
Did you find her at the air port?
No but I did pay 17 dollars for a reuban.
You could have used that for bait to catch one
I have a small invader zim plushie I use for that
This is the 2nd time I've seen invader zim in the same context as BTGGs. Is there some connection between the two?
Yeah the theory is that all the goth girls grew up watching invader zim.
Nobody?! Aight OP, Imma take the shot.
Can't believe y'all let OP slide on this!
Oh dont worry. Over on reddit everyone said it lol.
Brain: You might offend him.
Also brain: Send it.
This is a hella entertaining thread OP!
Lol
Which person are you
Clearly the elderly person in the bottom right corner. As you'll see in the evidence image OP posted.
The old lady snoring in the corner.
Lol oh what a silly mixup of a story, the internet sure is funny sometimes eh
Thats funny In Brazil we say "gótica rabuda", that means goth with a big ass
The expression “gótica rabuda”, in turn, is funny to Spanish speakers, because it means “goth woman with a big dick” — see “rabuda” and “rabo”.
Eu gosto muito uma gótica rabuda rsrsrs
All the comments calling you Kip Dynamite are killing me lmao. Own that shit, you never know when you'll find your big tiddy goth.
Absolutely lol
I swear to god eventually all human beings will be banned from reddit and only bots will be allowed there
Everybody was a bot on Reddit besides me... And now I'm no longer there...
it is a bot invasion.
Were you banned from the AF subreddit or from reddit completely? If so I don't see how complaining about trump would get you banned from reddit.
Anyway, did you find those big tiddies?
I think it was more of a 'i got temp banned so many times it eventually became a permaban'
SPOILER: It’s the sleeping dude.
Just kidding!! Welcome to Lemmy.
Haven’t read all the comments here but I hope some are of welcome. This is a safe space for lovers of goth tiddies.
804 upvotes is epic in this land so all I can say is there’s your welcome.
I feel dirty any time I lose my spine and peek back at a favorite Reddit sub or two. It’s so gross now.
I’m still figuring this place out myself.
It’s a journey. Again: welcome.
Nothing wrong with looking at niche content on Reddit, it just doesn't exist here. However I recommend doing what I do- don't interact, don't even vote.
Peak airport energy: minding your business, reading a book, accidentally becoming internet famous 😅
I drew a comic of myself once that got turned into a meme. So I totally get how surreal it is to be scrolling through the front page of reddit and unexpectedly seeing a picture of yourself. Although mine was certainly under more pleasant circumstances.
In any case you seem to have a positive outlook on the whole thing, which is great.
The only sad thing about this post is that big tiddy goth girls won't know to find you on lemmy. Redditor failed at marketing.
This is funny! Own it.
Looks like the other guy in the photo is also thinking about big tiddies.
I don’t think that’s a dude, dude.
Damn, you look like you lost weight!
Good job! (Either of the weight loss, camera skills or possibly both!)
Thanks! It's probably a mixture of the original photo not being very flattering (Me crouched over reading a book after sitting in the air port for over 6 hours) and camera skills/working out and eating right. This was also just after a cruise where I ate my body weight in food and did little exercise lol.
They did not take a photo of you, they took a photo of that t-shirt. LOL
Au contraire! All I see is a beautiful mustache.
But like, how was the cruise?
Halloween themed cruise with no kids is fucking fantastic.
You da man. Reddit was taken over by right wing nuts, they are banning people who are anti- Trump.
I mean I skim through it occasionally, holy shit, so much anti-immigration views. Was that always the case, or was it recent?
It used to be that conservative views were laughed out of all but a few fascist subreddits. I guess it's changed. I don't go there anymore.
Worse lately
It's a small world.
lol
Laundry day strikes again
So... you sound like a nice dude, so just so you know, there are people in the goth subculture that do not appreciate that joke (and its translations). For different reasons, but the majority find it fetishizing and sexist. I opened saying you look like a nice dude because I don't think that's your intention, or the intention of most here commenting, but that's how many goth people feel and... well, in case you really want to meet goth people, that might be actually causing the opposite effect (that is, your shirt driving them off).
Least horny redditor
Fuck reddit btw
You know what you want and how to get it, more than most people can say
I mean, I would love a goth girl with giant boobs, but boobs are boobs. I just want someone nice who knows how to communicate!
I get it dw, and it's a meme, ifyouknowyouknow.
E: rock your shirt shirtman
So you don't hold the copyright to this picture?
Tut tut.
Why do dudes that fetishize """goth""" girls all look exactly like you would expect them to.
And why do so many goth girls go head over heels for dudes that look like that
I mean none of the alternative people I know are into being fetishized like that. In fact they absolutely hate it.
Having a preference isn't automatically fetishizing people and there's a world of difference between the two. I have a preference for big boobs but I didn't even consider pursuing my now ex until i overheard her having a heart to heart with a troubled friend I was very close too.
Yes I agree, but the whole "big toddy goth GF" meme is 100% fetishization
So we're not allowed to be attracted to large breasted goth women? Are they condemned to live lonely lives since no ones allowed to be into them?
Bro stop being obtuse. Just have some common decency for fuck sake and Stop fetishizing people.
If going for well read people with a sense of ethics that I can easily converse with is fetishizing people then it's alot more positive term than you make it sound. Maybe more people should fetishize each other.
This dude doesn't know a single goth girl
Maybe not but I know a bass player who's style is basically that dude minus the t-shirt and he's been in a very happy relationship with a goth girl for years now.
Well I think the t shirt says a lot about the personality. That's rather what i meant. Not the looks.
There s no way in hell I would ever own a shirt that said that let alone wear it anywhere.
Come on man..
Good. Leave the funny shirts for the rest of us, then.
Fairly well. I've got funny shirts and a cute boyfriend, I think I'm doing pretty well
He's tolerant of humor, and appreciating an aesthetic. If you have a partner, are they tolerant of you being a humorless curmudgeon with the sensibilities of Grandpa Simpson?
I'm sure your are loads of fun at parties.
Pretty much everyone is tolerant of sexiest asshole. Even me, and I'm not into assholes. But even I can appreciate the inherent value of a sexiest asshole.
It's not the least sexy asshole so we're good here.
Especially an airport.
People just have zero class traveling on airplanes these days. If that's your best attempt at looking respectable, then you failed.
And don't claim comfort. There are many ways of looking decent and comfortable at the same time.
(yeah yeah, get off my lawn)
Airlines treat us like trash, we can dress how we want. If I'm not in business class, there ain't no need.
I won't argue that airlines treat people like cattle, but one should still make an attempt at looking respectable.
You're not doing it for the airline. You're doing it for those who have to look at you.
Get out of here with that nonsense. Do you think you're Don Draper or something?
Nah, fuck 'em, wear what you want.
The reactions to your comments show why everyone hates Americans lol. Obnoxious to listen to, obnoxious to look at. At least showers exist there.
I’ve visited one country in Central America and had a layover in another, and I didn’t notice anyone doing any particular dressing up for flights. Just the same mix of casual tees and office casual shirts that I see in the US. Clean clothes = good to go. Maybe dressing up for a flight is a European thing?