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Having a slow day, came across some youtube videos, apparently the current craze is called, coneing. Its when people drive up to a fast food restaurant, order a ice cream and grab it from the ice cream so the fastfood worker gets ice cream splattered all over themselves and the resturant wall.
Anit funny, and I feel sorry for the worker, so why are people jerks?
jillan
(39,451 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
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(19,768 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)It get's their rocks off. I guess more of this will happen as the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Trouble is you can't even call them jerks because they don't understand the word.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Or else they'll find things in their food that shouldn't be there. Don't be a dick to food service workers.
mac56
(17,561 posts)"A very special Blizzard for you, sir..." (hoch.. spit..)
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Yes, this is adolescent jerkiness at its worst, but it is hardly outside the known realm of human behavior.
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I hope the workers are getting the money first, and not giving the change until after the person has taken the ice cream.
This guy just grabs the ice cream with his hands--he doesn't mess w/the workers...
SteveABG
(134 posts)Appear to be the same. They just grab the ice cream and leave the cone in the worker's hand.
Pretty dumb, but it doesn't look mean.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Acted out in the realm of politics and economics, but in how people treat each other. The prison guards in Nazi Germany didn't just do what they did as their job. They had to learn that they could feel powerful by practice. IMHO, we're being conditioned to do these things.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)Have you been to youtube? It's full of people doing stupid shit.
People acted like asses long before anybody here decided that it meant we are moving towards fascism. The difference is now these yahoos can record their idiocy and let the whole world see it.
I wouldn't read too much into it.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
And what could be more absurd than the things we believe today? True over 200 years ago, still true today.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)or something like that....
I hate the trend in reality shows where some panel of abusive experts scathingly critiques quivering underlings, but this one had a whole new twist.
It's a guy who goes around reforming poorly performing restaurants (a la Gordon Ramsey) by working with the owner to secretly surveil the employees with hidden cameras before humiliating and blasting them with the incriminating results.
We are being indoctrinated into fascist, punitive mindsets, where owners must be abusive and the employees must be watched, trained, and controlled. Gone is any sense that a business can or should be a common effort, where the boss and the employees work together to give the best possible service and benefit everyone.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)But I think the "Nazi concentration camp guard" analogy might be a slight exaggeration.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I've seen many of the coneing videos, and while immature, it seems that many of the workers don't get doused at all.
JFN1
(2,033 posts)we are only about one step beyond "cave man."
The mammalian part of our brains are afraid of everything (because everything can eat us) and the reptillian part of our brains (which wants to eat everything) are trying to dominate our immediate environment.
We're a very young species (the dinosaurs were around for a couple hundred million years - we're barely over a million), we're still at our beginning, and if humans survive our "childhood," we may finally grow into something more than frightened, angry savages...but personally, I think we're going to need quite a bit more time to do this, on the order of 25,000 to 100,000 more years, before we've matured beyond...this...
brettdale
(12,332 posts)Shows, that coneing has now progressed to "Fire in the Hole" thats when you throw water food or anything messy at the fast food worker, working the drive thru.
These videos are cruel in nature to see young female fast food workers, get orange jucie/ milk shakes thrown in their face, by these jackass males is terrible.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The reason they do it is because there is an audience for it.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)it looks pretty harmless to me and it probably makes the worker's boring day a little more interesting.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)of Ice Cream attack
Javaman
(62,444 posts)and instant gratification takes many forms.
if the person is an asshole then their form of instant gratification usually comes at the cost of others.
JHB
(37,133 posts)I know in real life this will cause problems, but cartoons have taught me the most effective and satisfying solution is a big-ass bazooka.
dont h8--appreciate
(11 posts)And site!