I’m the opposite
Them: You should check out this show I’ve been watching, it’s great. Do you have Disn-----
Me: I can get anything online. How do you spell the name of the show? Thanks for the rec. If you need help getting anything you aren’t subscribed to let me know.
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it’s on ploob
It used to be on ploob, but season 3 is only on nimbo now.
yes that is what I was referencing
Oh… well then you spelled your made up parody word wrong :/
I did not, it was a dual-reference.
Oh, ok. Whats the other reference too?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Oh i love Doug, alright nice dual reference dude 👍
Great, now I’ll never not notice how many brand names are baby sounds
I get this almost daily, my whole family and several friends know I’m good at recommending things to them so they always go to me to ask what to watch. I’ve had to start looking up and writing down where each movie and show is available “normally”. I have no issue saying I get everything via other means but whem it became a thing where people started asking “can you also look up where it’s available” just because it’s not always easy to figure that out and they knew I didn’t know and generally find it quicker than them.
It’s more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.
Sounds like a business model to me. if i didn’t pirate everything i’d sign up anyway
Hi-C’s
“Dodgy Firestick”
l’pirate bay. it’s a french site for classy artsy films
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I borrowed it from an acquaintance on Internet :D
Fell off this passing truck that was carrying shows and movies!
Just give them a usb of the show for Christ’s sake! Sneaker net that shit. Which show btw?
nah teach a man how to fish!
Welcome to Wrexham.
Not the kind of guy who’d watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.
Isn’t that too risky though? That can be an evidence when argued in the court
Or from the other side, taking a random ass USB stick from someone you barely know? Nah. Who the hell knows what it could be infested with.
A lot of risk narcing on someone irl
If your coworkers are the level of douche bag that they might take you to court, then probably don’t even talk about your favorite show with them
It’s not necessarily deliberate. Your coworkers could be distributing the copy to someone else and police’s gonna find out where it comes from
I almost envy the place where this is the kind of shit police are able to worry about.
I don’t know where you’re from but in my country, police are cyber-patrolling (lol) to hunt down
illegal contents.Edit: I remember it’s a piracy community
I would think that cyber ops would be more concerned with fraud, underage sexual content, sexual predators… That kind of stuff.
Usually the MPAA sues people for distributing video content, and in many places, they’re not super aggressive about it.
If they are going after sneaker net distribution, this is the most inefficient use of resources ever! As a taxpayer I would be outraged to hear about something like this. I can’t imagine this being an issue outside of N. Korea
I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn’t give back the USB. 🙁
USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks
They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.
If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it.
Back in the day it was a terrible loss though
I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.
I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.
I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.
So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)
And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of.
About $3.20.
So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.
Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!
So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!
Words are fun.
I did this for a coworker not too long ago.
I think it was for Firefly…
They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win
Depends on how cool they are
Right, exactly. The alternative to this meme is offering them access to my Plex server.
“Oh, I download it from well known and respected torrent sites. All the services I might use are crap.”
I just respond with a hearty “yeeearghhhh!” and continue the conversation. The coworkers that know get it, the rest think I’m a lunatic.
I just honestly answer that I don’t know.
