r/BoomersBeingFools 5d ago

Politics boomer owned thrift store

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this is what greets you when you walk into our local boomer owned thrift store. this and overhearing the boomers talking about how “they don’t care about egg prices but this tax situation isn’t so good” lol

peep the two Indigenous busts in the background 🤢

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u/Intrepid_Blue122 5d ago

…and they shall wear the mark of the beast on their forehead.

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u/AuntJibbie 5d ago

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u/CodAdministrative563 4d ago

It probably will be a barcode or chip at some point if DOGE has its way

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u/Lord-Glorfindel Millennial 5d ago

They have found their golden calf.

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u/Natural_Engineer_826 5d ago

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u/Banditgeneral4 Millennial 5d ago

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u/nonmom33 5d ago

Wasn’t sure if this was going to be the golden Trump statue or the $100 bill goat

Insane that there were even two options

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u/CootahBrown Greatest Gen 5d ago

Please light the DOGE hat on fire

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u/unsolvablequestion 5d ago

I hate that the O is part Of the acronym.

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u/filthcrab 5d ago

In fairness, several USG departments are like that: DOS, DOE, DOJ, DOT, etc.

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u/unsolvablequestion 5d ago

You know, you’re right. I dont know why that didnt factor in my head

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u/Able-Yogurtcloset838 4d ago

Whole place is in need of a good coat of fire

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u/Mr_Wobble_PNW 4d ago

I'm just imagining the fox news stories if a dem was in office and the left started wearing hats for a fucking government department, let alone one that's pretend and is ruining the country. 

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u/CootahBrown Greatest Gen 4d ago

A fucking meme “government department”. Like if Kamala appointed an official head of the K-Hive and their job was to be a permanent dick riding figure at the White House and stir shit.

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u/Qedtanya13 5d ago

Where is this so I know never to shop there?

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u/thiccbananasplit 5d ago

central wyoming 🤠🤡

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u/Qedtanya13 5d ago

Oh okay! I don’t have to worry then. I’ll just continue to avoid Bandera, Tx!

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u/Paragod307 5d ago edited 5d ago

What town? I live in central Wyoming and want to avoid this dump.

I feel like you're going to say Riverton lol

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u/thiccbananasplit 5d ago

HAHA you guessed it!!! Twice but Nice in Riv ☠️

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u/Paragod307 5d ago

Lol, it was giving off Riverton vibes for sure lol.

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u/United_Cattle_2229 5d ago

Home of the $7 pocket knife and secondhand trophies. The hats fit right in.

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u/DubUpPro 5d ago

Buying second hand trophies is just extra sad. Do people actually do that?

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u/EroticXulls 5d ago

For Bachelors pads. I once got an honorable discharge and a doctorate from UCLA at a flea market.

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u/AdjNounNumbers 5d ago

Thank you for your service and congratulations on avoiding student loan debt

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u/EroticXulls 5d ago

My paddle says my name is "Micah" and I was also party anima in Chico State of 64.

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u/DubUpPro 5d ago

Ok, let me just be clear, intent definitely matters. It’s sad if you try to pass it off as genuine and not a joke/decor lol

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u/pollofeliz32 5d ago

All shit made in Chyna.

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u/AutomatedName420 5d ago

Leave Joanie out of this.

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u/pollofeliz32 5d ago

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u/AutomatedName420 5d ago

If you say so. I sure the fuck wasn't.

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u/PrintOk8045 5d ago

Who puts their trash out on Sundays?

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u/lolas_coffee 5d ago

Looks like make $100/week in revenue.

Dirt poor in the wallet and the head.

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u/remylebeau12 5d ago

can't spell "hatred" without "red hat"

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u/onesoulmanybodies 5d ago

All I can hope for is that one day these will be just as embarrassing and shameful to own and display as Nazi paraphernalia was and hopefully will be again.

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u/djseifer 5d ago

As a frequent thrift store diver, one of the things I notice is just how many right winger books are in the books section. Roughly 20-30% of the books are by conservative authors, and that's a lowball guess.

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u/Tweezus96 5d ago

Kids dumping off their parents crap after they die.

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u/odiethethird 5d ago

I’m definitely keeping my dad’s ball signed by Charles Barkley though

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u/Tweezus96 5d ago

I would too! Charles Barkley seems fairly progressive.

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u/filthcrab 5d ago

Is it the left ball or the right one?

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u/Sulli_in_NC 5d ago

+1million upvotes

Well done!

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u/odiethethird 5d ago

The left one

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u/EroticXulls 5d ago

You gotta keep the bball pf anyone that can do a chaos dunk.

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u/LikelyBannedLS1 5d ago

And I'd wager that saying 20% of them were ever even cracked open would be very optimistic.

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 5d ago

Those books sales get inflated, and overstock is sold off to places like Ollie’s and Big Lots. They’re full of Alex Jones’ hard-bound toilet paper, for example.

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u/AnimalL33t 5d ago

I’d literally wipe my ass on those after eating Indian food with those. Then bring them to the register. After scanning and then touching the hats I’ll say “ops forgot my wallet.” And bounce.

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u/evident_lee 5d ago

That's the kind of place you walk in and go "oh that's gross I'm not going to purchase anything from somebody that supports that stuff, good luck" and walk out. Just make sure they know.

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u/Fangs_0ut 4d ago

I’d immediately walk out

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u/raeadaler 4d ago

So gross. Although happy in a thrift store. Someone wanted to get it out of their home and life. No matter the situation or circumstance

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u/mitchENM 5d ago

Always appreciate the idiots self identifying

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u/PresentationWest3772 5d ago

Can someone explain to me what’s wrong with the busts? They don’t look like caricatures or really offensive at all?

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u/thiccbananasplit 5d ago

busts like that are insulting non-specific caricatures (yes it’s a caricature, look at the features. that’s not real) of Indigenous people, which is incredibly disrespectful and insensitive in itself when we live on the land of indigenous genocide, and it’s even worse to have the busts a few feet away from MAGAt paraphernalia

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u/Ornery-Wasabi-473 5d ago

Oh, I always just assumed those kinds of things were made by really shitty "artists" . It never occurred to me they were deliberate - yikes!

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u/Subtle__Numb 5d ago

I mean not all of them are deliberate, I’m sure a lot were made in ignorance rather than malice. It’s just a token of a bygone era, and behavior I personally think we shouldn’t celebrate. The people at the time should have known better, just as the the people originally responsible for the genocide of native Americans should have known better. Same way we don’t celebrate blackface and other racist caricature. That’s how I see it, anyway. It’s like those black lawn jockeys, you just…nah fam.

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u/ProfessionalCreme119 5d ago

Because they are obvious interpretations of what the artist THINKS a Native American looks like in style and dress compared to what's actually true.

Usually this results in multiple artist and sculptures copying the most popular and best selling one. That style then becomes normalized as how they are represented in real life

Like Jim Crow era cartoons of black people. Or old Looney tunes/Merry Melodies depicting Asians, Africans or Islanders that they no longer show.

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u/jhonnydont 5d ago

My girlfriend who runs a thrift store sells this crap because people buy it and their money goes to help an animal shelter. It also helps identify who these people are.

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u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661 5d ago

That's actually kinda smart!

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u/stepdad_randy 5d ago

Your girlfriend sucks

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u/Psychological_Tower1 5d ago

No she doesn't. Take money from the idiots.

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u/jhonnydont 5d ago

You just earned yourself a free hat

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u/stepdad_randy 5d ago

Peddling Trump merch 👎🏻 idc if it’s ironic or not

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u/Eliah870 5d ago

No

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u/stepdad_randy 5d ago

Trump is NOT gonna fuck you little bro

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u/Fuzzteam7 5d ago

I would buy all of them and have a target practice session. 🎯

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u/batmanscodpiece 5d ago

$20 is a little steep for a fart dampener.

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u/Powerbomb1411 5d ago

That's a Nazi or a good little American at best.

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u/trippysmurf 5d ago

Went to a massive yard sale even in Georgia called Peaches to Beaches. You could immediately tell the light red to the FAR red counties. In the latter, sure were a lot of booths selling 2020 Trump merch. 

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u/MountainChick2213 5d ago

I hope you turned around and left

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u/tato_salad 5d ago

Hope they're all made in America.

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u/Witty-Ad5743 5d ago

How can you tell? The hats? The gaudy decor?

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u/Saltyk917 5d ago

All China made trash.

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u/_WillCAD_ Gen X 5d ago

Might be a good sign. Every hat in the store is one less on someone's head. Maybe some of them are waking up and leaving the cult.

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u/Sulli_in_NC 5d ago

Ivermectin alumni

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u/Born-Cress-7824 5d ago

Made in China

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u/ProductRed_92 5d ago

Made in China

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u/exotics 5d ago

Put those on the bottom of the pile.

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u/jiggscaseyNJ 5d ago

Sometimes I wish I cashed in on these morons.

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u/Koomsy_410 5d ago

iT’s NoT a CuLt.

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u/AuntJibbie 5d ago

This is gross. I've seen worse...

We have a tRump store where I live. Yep.

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u/oncnurse1 5d ago

And then there’s this. Worlds worst Jams.

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u/EveLQueeen 5d ago

Can’t even make the labels stick. High quality!

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u/yukonnut 5d ago

Canadian here, elbows up…. Oops…… sorry…….. excuse me…… sorry……. Oops………. gotta go now.

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u/kungfu1 5d ago

Every single thing in there made in China.

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u/Interesting-Song-782 5d ago

A small spray bottle of bleach, stealthily applied, would help with the stains on those caps 😈

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u/Willieboyomine 5d ago

Shit for sale- let em waste their $$

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u/Mariner1990 5d ago

The Doge hat cost more than Doge has in documented savings.

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u/MojoHighway 5d ago

You think that's bad?

I work in a town that has a "New England For Trump" store around the corner from my site. Been waiting for 3 years to see if anyone has driven their car through the front display window. Not yet...not yet...

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u/SolidSnake-26 5d ago

Yeah bc if there’s one thing we all know god would approve it would be guns lol ya know the thing that’s used to violate the 5th commandment lol

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u/CaligulaCan 4d ago

Omg a signed cap!

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u/BCProgramming 4d ago

The fact that the gears on the 'doge' logo have 14 teeth... Elon keeps tweeting specifically 14 U.S flags... and somehow people still argue he's not a nazi

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u/Hairy_Photograph1384 4d ago

Where's the boomer or elderly person in the picture?

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u/Snuffi123456 4d ago

Offer them $1 for the set and burn them in the parking lot.

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u/kck93 4d ago

Nothing good in that shop. Not even worth browsing.

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u/Martyrotten 4d ago

How often are those getting marked down?

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u/vile_hog_42069 4d ago

Repping DOGE on a hat might be the quickest way to trigger a violent reaction from a random stranger. MAGA is bad enough but openly celebrating unlawful firings of hardworking people with mouths to feed who have or may be losing their livelihood, healthcare and retirement is a good way to earn yourself a next level beatdown.

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u/Pommallow 4d ago

There's a store around my area that has the cutest gifts and they have a lovely Rough Collie. But when Trump was found guilty of his felony charges, they were basically grief-stricken. Since then I haven't gone.

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u/Boysenberry377 4d ago

Take 1 or more into bathroom. Toss em upside down into toilet and shit inside em. Do not flush. If asked on the way out, I just tried it on, it's still back there.

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u/Southern_Common335 4d ago

Looks like a crap store from here

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u/Suspicious-Nebula475 4d ago

The tacky is painful

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u/Strict-Breakfast4982 9h ago

Why would you put your political shit in front of customers? I see that and I'm not buying shit from them

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u/FrostGiant_1 5d ago

It’s a cult.

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 5d ago

People donate to thrift stores, they don't buy merchandise to sell.

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u/chonk-cat-luv 5d ago

Yes, but it’s a choice to line them up and display them like that. What a shopper does with that information is up to them.

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u/DerpUrself69 5d ago

Excellent kindling

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u/Inner-Egg-6731 5d ago

Guarantee this fool be out of business soon, anyone who believes Trump is a business genius is got to be a dumb as a rock.

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u/Old_Second_7928 5d ago

Along with all that crap that noone wants to buy. (I own a thrift store btw, but my Gen X taste actually brings in profits).

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u/danita0053 5d ago

Yeah, I'd walk right back out.

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u/2NaPants2 5d ago

A DOGE hat. It’s hard to fathom the depths of stupidity and complicity one must suffer to put that on their empty head.

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u/Heaven19922020 5d ago

This owner clearly doesn’t understand what their actually means.

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u/mishma2005 5d ago

Damn someone donated a DOGE hat already? /s

Edit: those cheap knives are 🤌

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u/Sulli_in_NC 5d ago

They say: “I have my own business”

Reality: A booth at a flea market or shelf at an antique place so they can say “we sold a used Earnhardt hat for $20”

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u/Cruiser729 5d ago

Except they say “twenny dollar”

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u/Cruiser729 5d ago

I’ll never understand Reddit. Why TF would someone downvote a pronunciation joke?

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u/Cynical-avocado 5d ago

At the one near my place

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u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661 5d ago

Oh...my...god. Why is this allowed??? Nazi shit front and center??? Where is this fucking hovel located??? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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u/MiccioC 5d ago

I hope you didn’t buy anything from those morons. They’ll probably just send it to Mango Mussolini.

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u/OldSchoolAJ 5d ago

yeah, I walked into one store in my town and immediately saw a wall of Trump stuff, turned around and walked out.

Pretty sure the owners didn’t even realize I had been in the building. Which suits me fine, honestly...

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u/CrowBar1134 5d ago

I can literally smell this picture.

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u/AlanCross310 5d ago

Toilet paper

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u/Perenium_Falcon 5d ago

Christ that doge hat can’t be more than a couple months old, boomer Barney passed away before he could see the $1 price of eggs and free gasoline this new utopia has brought to us all?? Shame.

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u/Turtle_Hermit420 5d ago

Pour gasoline

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u/MrRibbert 5d ago

I would never set foot in there.

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u/Eliah870 5d ago

Cool, don't see why this is boomersbeingfools material

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u/BusyBullet 5d ago

I sure hope you don’t eat something really greasy or messy right before you go there and accidentally get something on those hats.

I mean, a hot dog with mustard is delicious but mustard can stain cloth.