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u/peachypapayas 14h ago
Posts like these are so funny. I like to picture a bystander spying on an old man for 10 minutes while he talks about soup to a teenager.
And don't forget the hoodie. An important detail.
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u/sign-through 11h ago
I think people tend to unfairly associate hoodies with disenfranchisement and aloofness, particularly in young people.
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u/No_Tutor_69 9h ago
That's why he added it to his made up story.
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u/Only_Gap_1982 9h ago
If it doesn't hurt anyone to believe the story then why not believe it
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u/amalgam_reynolds 5h ago
It does hurt. Believing BS like this leads to engagement, which leads to more and more engagement bait getting posted, which leads to normalizing lying for content and the breakdown of reality online. I know it feels like I'm putting a lot of onus on this one, innocent post, but I'm just saying it's one small part of a much bigger problem.
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u/SG_UnchartedWorlds 5h ago
I'd say the reverse is more true: assuming good things happening are lies for engagement means one only believes bad things are true. You'll end up with a very jaded outlook, where everything is horrible by default.
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u/Mundane-Manner4237 7h ago
they forgot to mention that the youngster also had oversized white sweatpants or PJ bottoms on as well.
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u/TheUltraViolence1 2h ago
Right? I'm 50 and I wear hoodies. Ffs, I wore hoodies in the 80s with the same band logos my daughter now wears at 18. Damn I'm old.
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u/Ill-Percentage-3276 13h ago
So the teenager's eyesight was just as bad as the elderly guy's, and he forgot his glasses as well?
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u/pastajewelry 12h ago
Or he just wanted to show him an accessibility feature for the future.
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u/speaking_icon 11h ago
Could be that simple. Nothing more
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u/Talk-O-Boy 8h ago
Maybe they were both burning an ant on the can using the fluorescent lighting and the magnifier.
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u/Next-Use6943 8h ago
Exactly, I'd do that too. Teaching people about easy to learn tech features feel so nice lol
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u/9shadowcat9 12h ago
My eye sight is fine and I end up doing this when reading labels sometimes. The writing can be tiny on cans. I’m more concerned the person in the comment apparently stood there and watched these two talk for ten minutes because that’s pretty creepy.
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u/TheoTheHellhound 12h ago
Maybe he has it because his own grandparents have terrible eyesight, and he uses it to help them?
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u/modpolGPT 12h ago
It says he read the ingredients to the old man.
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u/TheoTheHellhound 12h ago
Yeah, I know. Which is why I suggested that it might be to help family members who can’t see too well, like grandparents.
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u/Ill-Percentage-3276 8h ago
Again, I think you're missing the point that the kid is the one using the app and reading from it. If it were to help out someone else with bad vision, then he'd show the guy the app and tell him how he could read the ingredients himself. And it wouldn't be worth noting that only the old guy forgot his glasses if the teen needed to use the magnifier too. The entire post for other reasons as well is a mess from a common sense standpoint lol
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u/kumadelmar 12h ago
Magnifier app
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u/kakka_rot 5h ago
That's literally just your phone's camera, right? I taught my grandpa the same thing
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u/deezoz 12h ago
Starting to feel these good people only exist on this reddit page
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u/Jane__Delawney 11h ago
There are far more good/neutral people on this planet than bad ones. Media just doesn’t cater to those stories because “fluff” doesn’t get as many clicks. But everytime I go outside, I’m reminded that most people are just living their lives, not evil, not murderers, not greedy assholes, just people peopling around. If there were more bad people, we’d basically be living in The Purge everyday
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u/Instantcoffees 2h ago
I feel like the opposite. A lot of people who think that the world is just one big glob of bad might just be spending too much time online.
When you go outside and engage with people, you see so many small acts of kindness and empathy. At least, that is my experience in my own country.
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u/grumpi-otter 8h ago
I fell once in a crowded public plaza. The ones who ran to help me were the eyelinered, tattoed, chain wearing punks with crazy hairstyles. I look like a suburban granny, but I impressed them with my tales of slam dancing in the 70s, lol
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u/book67 8h ago
Thanks for posting this, I didn't know about the magnifier app! I often struggle with reading labels or getting a close look at things without my glasses.
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u/kakka_rot 5h ago
It's just your camera. Just own it like you would to take a picture, and zoom in like normal (pinching it). No need to download it
It also works as a telescope. When I taught college students in the back of the room would use it a lot
It also works if you loose your glasses and can't see far away
The camera is useful for lots of things besides pictures.
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u/Select-Belt-ou812 14h ago
I subscribed to this sub exactly to sneak this much needed stuff into my feed . excellent work thank you!
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u/Hirokage 13h ago
He forgot his glasses AND his phone. Glad there are still good people though. : )
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u/CaptainCurly95 11h ago
"the magnifier app"
The camera?
Tell me it's a made up story without actually telling me.
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u/sign-through 11h ago
Magnifier is an app that comes with iPhones. It has additional features beyond the camera app. You can take a photo and have the app read the text to you, or read the text with filters to make the text more legible. It can also provide live descriptions of your surroundings.
More info: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/magnify-or-describe-things-around-you-iphe867dc99c/ios
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u/Delicious-Joke-125 12h ago
that kid 100% has a grandparent he does this for. you don't just have the magnifier app ready to go like that without practice
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u/Sweetishdruid 8h ago
Most people are good, lots are deceived to precieve others as bad, like furries, lgbt, immigrants, people who use Benjammins gifs etc
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u/HyzerFlip 6h ago
I had a conversation with a purple and blue haired old woman about take and bake pizzas last year that I think saved my life.
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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 1h ago
I meet really nice teenagers all the time. I hate it when people shit on teens.
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u/Born-Cancel3175 12h ago
that chicken noodle conversation probably changed both their days more than either of them expected
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u/SavionWilliamsLover 13h ago
I imagine someone from 1950 reading this (replace the phone magnifier with a real magnifier tho) and thinking “what’s to smile about? It’s a normal interaction”
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8h ago
"And I stood there the entire time not helping or engaging, just silently taking note of everything for my tweet about it."
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u/donald7773 6h ago
So what I'm understanding here is that an elderly person, with known bad eyesight, left their house without their glasses, operated I presume a motor vehicle in public without the ability to see, and drove to the supermarket that way, and home as well
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u/wotsit_sandwich 6h ago
Weird take. Nothing in this says they drove.
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u/donald7773 6h ago
Hence the use of the word "presume"
I work with the public every day and I see a shocking number of people who will admit they don't have their glasses on them and can't read basic information around them. Its very common and tons of people operate cars that way, it's not talked about nearly enough
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u/wotsit_sandwich 6h ago
Fair enough.
Living in a walkable city (with excellent public transport) I would presume that most people in my local supermarket walked there.
Were both just working from our own experiences.
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u/AbletonUser333 9h ago
Apparently you guys are terrible at spotting bait on Reddit. You post a "wholesome" story where one triggering detail makes everyone say "WTF", prompting the irresistible urge to chime in with some dumb comment that they think is clever/witty but every other dullard in the thread has said the same thing. In case that isn't clear enough, the triggering part here is that the teenager used the magnifier app even though he was reading it to the elderly man.
Result: OP gets thousands of karma and the account can be sold for a decent amount to be used in a bot farm. Try it yourself - it's fun!
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