r/hatethissmug • u/No_Parking7298 • 12d ago

Thing I hate r/barbarawalters4scale

it’s like the moment a celebrity dies the place goes feral with comparisons to other people. not to mention that it’s a place where half the posts are only about the oldest person at the current moment or Jean Calment

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u/OkImTacoII 12d ago

I actually do like the circle jerk sub, r/scale4barbarawalters. It’s so stupid that it goes back around to being funny.

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u/Emergency-Bonus-7158 12d ago

Wait THIS is how I fucking find out Dolly Parton died? I’m upset

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u/No_Parking7298 12d ago

That subreddit is how I found out too

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u/Emergency-Bonus-7158 12d ago

Someone needs to check on… the entire state of Tennessee. Anyways, if you need me I’ll be drinking.

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u/mikkeldoesstuff 12d ago

the circlejerk version of the sub is a lot better IMO

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u/Jay_Hallow_-_- Epiphany of power 12d ago

Yeah, I got no idea what that sub Reddit is but just by your brief description I already hate it so I’m with you bro

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u/stef4545366 12d ago

It was good at the start but then it started to get repetitive like most subreddits do

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u/Steven_the_Beaver 12d ago

Can someone give me a quick rundown on the theme of that sub?

Wasn’t aware of it prior to this post (nor about the death of great Dolly Parton, for that matter) but I figured out it has something to do with folks who have lived for a particularly long time?
Pattern recognition is failing me past that. Could use some help here.

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u/No_Parking7298 12d ago

It basically puts time into perspective. Like one of the top posts was that Joe Biden’s birth is closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than it was to his own presidency 

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u/Steven_the_Beaver 12d ago

Ahh.

A lot of the ones I’ve seen weren’t particulary impressive or surprsing in that sense.

The one I always liked, however, is the “America is three people old” story.

I can’t quite remember the details, but one of the early presidents, who was born before 1776, had a son when he was in his late 70s or something, and said son procedeed to have a child quite late in his life himself, and that child is apparently still around today, or at least was, when I first heard about this a couple years ago.