@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563 SUV = Millennial's socially-acceptable tax-avoidant term* for station wagon
(My title and registration call my SUVs station wagons; if they were trucks, I'd be assessed higher taxes by my state.)
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I don't drink with no JOHN HUGHES movie..
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What movies are those? I seem to have some homework!
@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563
the humor may be a little dated or obscure, 40 years on but it was a hoot when it first came out. It's a very LA/California movie, lampooning a lot of cutural currents present in the times that may seem obscure or cryptic today. Still a worthy movie watch..
@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension
this would make a great double feature with Repo Man..
also a very LA/CA/Hwood movie from the same era. May also contain humor that today will seem odd, obscure or dated. Kind of a fun trip down memory lane. Both movies have some iconic shots of 80's LA that is no longer there because of time & new construction.
@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563
another good pairing of 2 very 80's very LA/CA/HW movies would be: "Grease" and "Xanadu".. lots of iconic LA scenes that are no longer there or too changed with time. Xanadu is really underrated as a fun movie, btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfRtMHnI7FY&list=RDWfRtMHnI7FY&start_radio=1
@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjcDYj9YEHE&list=RDTjcDYj9YEHE&start_radio=1
@sweetcherry @LoganFive @GroupNebula563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgnTREVCXk&list=RDMAgnTREVCXk&start_radio=1
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it was primarily intended for sweetcherry.. she was the one that asked intially.
the rest of you are merely faceless innocent bystanders.
why haven't they made a comeback yet?
Hi! I like station wagons! They're comfy and easy to drive!
@jimfl @LoganFive it's been official for a while now
https://web.archive.org/web/20250506140518/https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/100747030460104470
@helldude fool. you do not go "viral" on mastodon. you go "woolly". you simpleton. you absolute station wagon
Growing up, _all_ our cars were station wagons, because my dad had found that NSW road rules had some obscure clause that said station wagons could park in No Stopping For Any Reason At All zones for 15 minutes. I don't ever recall that we used this secret superpower, but don't knock station wagons!!!
@liferstate @LoganFive
This, 100%.
What impresses me so far, here, is a higher level of quality engagement.
And poop jokes.
@Cassandra I’ve had a few hit those numbers (pinning them to my profile helped I’m sure), and I’m pretty sure the larger beige accounts have as well, on occasion. It’s certainly not often for me. I do feel like some of this is really a numbers game: how many people are actually seeing the toot depends on time of day, how many followers you have, etc. I think someone with 5000 followers is going to get boosted more than someone with 500. (And length of time tooting and just being on the Fediverse increases your follower account.) But some brilliant toots (speaking of others toots) still barely take off sometimes and I have no idea why. The toots of mine that take off the most aren’t necessarily my favorite, but I’m guessing they have the widest appeal.
Sorry for the rant.
Also depends on if some hashtags are included and if it's on a current "hot" topic.
I recently had a toot go fungal (I prefer describing it as fungal instead of viral, sounds nicer lol) about privacy that hit 893 boosts and 1207 favs.
Other times a post just resonates I guess. Last year or the year before I had a post about dishwashers hit a couple hundred boosts 🤷♀️
I have 273 followers currently.
The privacy post or the dishwasher post? : D
The privacy post is here https://toot.lgbt/@totalclaireity/116049590628136071
The dishwasher post was quite a while ago and I can't find it but essentially it was how dishwashers use far less water and electricity than doing dishes by hand so stop feeling guilty about running it when it's not a full load.
Honestly though better to go watch @TechConnectify videos on dishwashers (and everything else). His first dishwasher video was in a reply to my thread : )
“What do you have to hide?“ Everything. Full stop. Period. Every. Thing. What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world. Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces. It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”. Every. Thing. It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with. #privacy #surveillance
Thank you for the kind words!
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i tooted the word 'pizza' and got two boosts. anything goes.
I don't think it's very common, but I do have one post from 2023 with 1.4K boosts. I did not expect it to resonate with so many people but I'm happy it did (for more awareness, not for popularity reasons)
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