Sounds like Homestar Runner

My man

I was totally missing that angle.

I remember seeing this after he bought Twitter

The dork in me loves when Tim does not end a line with a preposition.

+1 Sudden Urge!

I slept on most of the post-Endgame catalogue except for maybe 5 songs, and this was not one of them. I eased up on the skip button one day in the car recently and got to hear it again, for what felt like the first time. It gave me chills.

My read on it was that onstage he’d ogle underage girls/attendees, really flexing the rockstar swagger or whatever. He’d somehow relay to them an invitation to meet him after the show, and he’d bring them onto the tour bus where he’d pressure or trap them into having sex.

A silver lining is, as I read it, the rest of the band immediately disavowed him. Some fans/ commenters alleged the other band members had to have been aware he was doing this, particularly citing the close quarters of the tour bus. Yet, the band holds its stance that they really did not know.

I’ve pondered frozen hot dogs. You can get a pack of 36 and whip’em from your car into recipients’ homes and driveways. If you don’t actually break anything you minimize how much anyone else will care, and you might force them to decide whether to whine to the cops/courts about vandal hot dogs or just relish their new reality.

That is much more reasonable, one of a couple possibilities I’m now seeing.

So many of these parents seem to handwave responsibility from fictional scenarios.

Do appreciate the classic “yOu MuSt NoT hAvE kIDs” response to literally any form of parental criticism though.

“But I learned it from you!” 😭

Awkward to say…but you can be an armchair parent even if you have kids :|

This could be. I mentioned in another reply, I did assume I’d only see local currency prices. Seeing 3+ responses questioning the currency makes me think that’s a likely explanation.

Well…I didn’t consider that. I tried to find the ad again but couldn’t make the same one appear. I did get a different Amazon ad which I clicked through and confirmed its price was in USD. I did assume I’d only see ads with prices in local currency but that could be a bad assumption.

Hello Armchair Parent! And welcome.

Plenty of actual parents relate to dropping whatever they’re doing to find out why kids 1 and 2 are screaming in another room (argument, saw a spider, “play” screaming, who knows). That gives an eternity of time to a mischievous 2yo kid #3 to grab the shiny toy so carelessly dropped without being locked GASP! and then tap not just twice but >100 times.

Factor in a parent being a normie mobile user whose browser already has permission to open Amazon links in their Amazon app, and then it’s only a matter of the 2yo clicking big cartoony button “Buy Now” and then big cartoony button “Place Order” but hey what are the chances of that :P

Also my first thought! I wanted to do that with a deck once but that’s a little unwiser.

This doesn’t meet the bar you want, but my marketing professor called the .99 idea the single greatest thing to come out of marketing in a century.

Mackerel

Fun fact! The official name for that holiday is Washington’s Birthday.

I don’t know the story behind its label of President’s Day but on the federal reserve’s website it shows:
“Washington’s Birthday (President’s Day)”

Visually this makes the most sense to me.

He spun that house around 180 degrees, I’d be eepy too.