#kansas rant

[silentdreams-of-a-nocturnalbeast]

Unreal. I literally can't believe this actually happened.

So I was scrolling through Pinterest on my phone and set it down to go take care of the dishes. I come back and my cat is laying on my phone. Whatever, nothing new. When I picked my phone up I saw it was open to iFunny on the play store and figured there was an ad for it somewhere on my screen when I left and my cat accidentally clicked on it when his ear touched the screen. I backed out and went back to pinterest. But there's more! That was half an hour ago and just now as I was going to my texts, I see iFunny on my damn home screen!

Somehow, my cat DOWNLOADED a whole app to my phone and I didn't even notice! And it's so ridiculous that anybody reading this probably doesn't believe it! Like when Kim Kardashian posts a selfie and claims one of her kids took the picture by accident! That's what this sounds like! If anybody else told me this happened to them, I would absolutely call bullshit.

The only other explanation is there's a ghost in my house and I'm really not keen to go down that rabbit hole.

[bloodfreak-boyking]

remember in s1 e4 when sam wanted to go more subtle than holy water to try and flush out a demon on the plane? and then somewhere along the way between then and the end of the series they just started stabbing every demon to death either with Ruby's knife or the angel blade?? yeah wtf is up with that?

[gemharvest]

Writing BFGF talking about McDonald's as a guy who actually hates McDonald's is such a funny fucking experience. Like, the best opinion I have is I like their ranch and that's barely anything cuz I'm just a huge ranch guy, even if it's fast food buttermilk ranch packets. Sorry BFGF but you should get a better favorite fast food place. /j

[whiskeyncoke-redux]

Let me just start by saying I don't really feel any kinda way about Taylor Swift. Don't love her, don't hate her. She has some good songs, whatever...

But I am tired of them mentioning her every other sentence when they talk about the Kansas City Chiefs or Travis Kelce.

I'm trying to watch the game but there she is. All the time. Like it's not that serious? Focus on the football!

[no27-autonation-honda]

Babes they paired me up with the other person in my age bracket from the conversion class last night and she’s claiming she’s not seeing antisemitism in Kansas

[wttt-dirus-work]

Yo im not even american but we always watch the superbowl as a tradition (2020 when the chief won there was a Québécois in the team)

And i just gonna say that touch down was fucking incredible

Had us believing SF would win but it's KC, really keeping us on our toes haha

[robertsbarbie]

the kansas city teams are actually so fucked up for making a promotional video telling kansas citians to ‘vote yes’ on april 2nd and framing it in such a way that it’s a little confusing acting as if the football team is gonna lose their stadium no! they’re not! but a lot of small businesses and people will lose their jobs and homes if they build the new baseball stadium in fucking downtown

[severalpossiblemusiks]

After listening to the radio at work instead of my own music… I am deeply upset at the state of radio singles in pop and rock

[unpopularly-opinionated]

What do referees and weathermen have in common?

They're both paid to be wrong 99% of the time.

[imfuckingwasted]

i’m tired of bots following me. i’d rather have 0 followers than a million bot followers.

[headofocs-inklesspen]

This is mostly just my honest opinion but attitudes of entitlement begin so fucking early. Like 12-16 years old, especially when reaching the threshold of economic upperclass. I call them the “I’ve never been seriously told no or have had to/will have: to clean toilets, work minimum wage/customer service, worry about money and the cost of living or put my wants on hold just to afford basic necessities” kids. Their parents/guardians Have Money and unless they are unexpectedly cut off they will never fear things like having one bad week/month/accident (car crash, hospitalization, loss of income, home/apartment damage repair or loss, etc) and losing it all.

For context I work for a corporate coffee company (not naming names, but one with recent unionizations/backlash regarding corporate’s (very bad) reactions to unionizations). My store is located in Johnson County, Kansas. For those unfamiliar with Kansas and it’s socio-economic trends, Johnson County is the wealthiest county in the state predominately due to disproportionate wealth distribution. We’re the wealthiest county not because the overall average household income is higher across the board but because the three wealthiest areas in the county are also extremely high up on the list of overall wealthiest areas in the state. Those being Leawood, Praire Village, and Mission Hills which is The Wealthiest of them all (we’re talking the Elite of the Kansas/Kansas City Elite. Billionaires and NFL players and old money families with whole patches of college and university buildings and secondary campuses named after them.)

My store is located on the edge of what’s probably a decent chuck of the State Population’s total net wealth. My high school kids have classmates who make comments 100% serious about shit like “well it’s only $2000, that seems almost cheap really.” One had a classmate tell him that they couldn’t believe he had an after school job because working while in school, high school OR college, was “only for poor people.”

I deal with self-important “I’m better than you and my parents’ McMansion and the 2023 Lexus I got for my 16th birthday proves it” types on a regular basis.

They are the most entitled people I have ever met. Hell, there are literal elementary schoolers who come in more polite and better behaved.

I had a girl today try to order a drink that doesn’t actually exist and when I asked her questions to clarify what she was looking for and explaining what the different options that I could be were, because I needed to know if she just wanted me to add a different syrup or if it was some TikTok speciality “secret menu item”, got all pissed off and sped off because “well clearly you don’t want to do it”

Kid, I’ve seen drink orders out of the literal depths of hell, we’re talking stuff so far out of comprehension I’m not even sure they can still be safely consumed let alone should be, I could not care less about whatever make believe holiday concoction you’re trying to achieve. I asked you “is this a special recipe you’re looking for or are you wanting some of the sugar cookie syrup added to the regular cold foam” not to be bitchy and over complicated but because it’s an honest actual question to make sure you get the drink you’re expecting. Plus, our sweet vanilla cold foam is SWEET as the name implies and it’s a premade mix, I don’t pour all the syrups and milk together for each order I just have a pitcher of it on hand that just needs to blended up into foam, adding additional syrup is going to make it even sweeter and if that’s not what you want it’s going to be a potentially unpleasant surprise.

And these same kids make these weepy, “I’m the victim here” statements and complaints and TikToks about stuff that, in my overwhelming personal experience, is usually literally just “you asked a corporate coffee shop employee for something that doesn’t actually exist so they tried to work with you and you’re made I didn’t immediately know what, of the literal 100’s of 1000’s of fake “official secret menu drinks”, you were trying to actually order” or “you were told ‘no’ or ‘hey you can’t do that’ by a minimum wage working class employee and you don’t like that”

(Additional fun fact, not only does Mission Hills, Kansas have the Highest Median Household Income in the entire state, it also has one of the Highest Median Household Incomes in the country (according to Forbes it’s the third wealthiest municipality in the county and holds a median household income of roughly $250,000 annually as of 2020 with only a .225% poverty rate. In comparison, I live in Overland Park all of 5 minutes away which sits at approx $87,000 annually with a 4.31% poverty rate and the town I grew up in 1/2 an hour south sits at approx $70,000 with a similar poverty rate to OP. The Kansas total is approx $61,000 annually and 11.4% poverty rate)

[disregardcanon]

not to be the most us american possible but the big 12 championship (football conference Biggest Game TM) is happening and i keep seeing signs from the other team saying “if we lose at least we don’t live in kansas” and i wanna just shout “WELL AT LEAST WE HAVE A GOOD GOVERNOR AND WE CAN GET ABORTIONS”

which is. not kind in any way whatsoever.

[noel248]

Meet my therapist's :) these are just my favorite of there albums

Repost if you agree

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

yay time for 🌈✨travel anxiety✨🎊

[scentedluminarysoul]

"You only like [song] because of [show/movie]!"

Yeah?

So what?

What does it matter where I learned of its existence? I still like it.

Like. Go ask Kansas what they think of SPN fans. As far as I remember, they were fucking thrilled to be playing for an enthusiastic, younger audience again!

Like, fuck off with your pretentiousness.

Same applies to words, btw. Because I still remember the dickheads chiding Doctor Who fans for learning the word petrichor and liking it. It's a beautiful word, and a lot of us wouldn't have known it without the show (and Neil Gaiman).

So who fucking cares? Good for you if you knew that word before? Where did you learn it? SOMEWHERE! As did we. Our place was just different. Sorry you are such an ass.

Can we just stop being dicks to each other for simple joys?

Anyway. Gonna listen to Kansas now.