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Funko Pops, to me.

I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn't work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there's so much representation and variety that it's good to have a few.

If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Crocs. I got my first pair when I was a teenager and they still work now (edit: 30yrs old); though I recently got a new pair because the bottoms were completely smooth on the old pair.

"Ugly" cars. Aka Pontiac Aztec, PT Cruiser, Fiat Multipla, etc. Yeah, they might be ugly as sin, but they're more interesting from a visual standpoint. I'd rather have the road filled with ugly cars than filled with cars that mostly look the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Crocs were hated? When?

For me they just popped out of nowhere and everyone started wearing them all of a sudden which I found it weird. I am yet to own crocs myself. Not that I hate them, nor I am trying to avoid them, I just found them as weird.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Crocs were hated? When?

I would say they are still hated right now.

I just find them ugly, but there are some people with almost visceral reactions to them. "That's not even a real shoe" kind of thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lol yeah I do kinda find them ugly but since they are everywhere, they look less ugly as I got used to seeing them ig.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Many got over the hate and now appreciate them. They are also common addons for overnight hiking/bikepacking trips for when you set up camp and your feet are tired.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

PT Cruisers would be fine if they were just ugly. Those things were notoriously unreliable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they, though? They're just Dodge Neons under the hood. And there were a ton of pt cruisers. I still see them now, 20 something years later. People seemed to take care of them and pass them onto their kids as they got older.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dodge Neons weren't reliable either. I rarely see PT Cruisers these days unless I'm at a scrapyard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

My neighbor drives one around and it definitely belongs there, it just gets louder and makes more random mechanical failure noises every time he drives it by

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Everything from Chrysler is junk. I worked for several dealers and general used car lots with my auto body shop business. Everything dodge/chrysler/plymouth was cut rate junk since the late 70's and still is. At wholesale auctions, they are the joke cars people only bid on because they are so damn cheap it justifies playing roulette. Everything goes wrong with them.

Like here we are nearly 20 years since I painted and I still remember there is a champagne/charcoal/silver metallic paint that came on Dodge/Chryslers. The color code was 4Q2. There were more unrelated variations under that color code than almost any other at the time. The only one I encountered that was worse was the charcoal metallic used on Chevy/GMC trucks and suburbans. That one has tone variability between yellow, red, and blue where getting it wrong meant remixing the color coat. With 4Q2 it was metallic grain size, tone between blue and yellow, and the flop characteristics (apparent color tone and clarity when viewed from an oblique angle).

I remember many times thinking to myself that someone knew, if you have not figured it out, say "4Q2" out loud and fast... It was freaking personal, all those times I struggled with that color. Those cars were the dead inventory that was ever present on many lots I worked for, and they sat at the mechanics bays for much longer than any of the rest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Preaching to the choir lol I wouldn't touch a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Fiat with a ten foot pole

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wearing crocs as I type this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I own two pairs. I apologize for nothing