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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
- LewisVerstappen 5y agoLol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?
- xbryanx 5y agohttps://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/this-dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-website-generator-is-a-musical-delight https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/this-dont-you-lecture-me-...
- jccalhoun 5y agoApparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-dollar-haircut https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...
- duxup 5y agoI don’t even pay $30 for a haircut…
- reaperducer 5y agoBarber schools always need people to practice on. $8 + tip.
- chrisfrantz 5y agoMade that mistake once, never again
- latexr 5y ago“Soon after that I started going to therapy. Someone told me that New York University was offering talk therapy on a pay-what-you-can basis. They charged less because the therapists were all in training. It was like barber school: you show up, they randomly assign a young therapist to you, and he or she starts giving your mental health a crude, halting trim. If this does not sound appealing to you, you are wrong. You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have a chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane.” — John Hodgman, Vacationland
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt really depends on what you get done. I could probably do my own with a set of sheers and an extra mirror to get the back :) .
- b112 5y agoMy haircut is like PROD. Not gonna put an intern on it. :P
- bdcravens 5y agoUntil last month, I hadn't gotten a paid haircut since the start of the pandemic. Got a decent pair of clippers with a taper guard, and did "okay" except for the edging on the back, which I learned to just not worry about (though my wife has done it a couple of times, and it comes out decent then)
- duxup 5y agoIt would be easier if we could reject bad hair pull requests.
- remram 5y agoYou can consider the last two years to be a staging environment, depending on your industry.
- okwubodu 5y agoLucky. Mine started at $15 + tip and slowly creeped up to $20 until New Years 2020 when every decent barber seemingly unionized and went to $40/cut. [something something it wasn’t like this under the XYZ administration]
- iKevinShah 5y agoalways had a feeling balding and not having the hormones to grow beard had its benefits
- duxup 5y agoI kinda wish I could test going the full bald shaved head thing… before doing it.
- james-skemp 5y agoIf you go for a very short buzz you'll have a good idea of your head shape, and whether it'll help or hurt if you go hairless. I've heard that shaving it is actually a lot of work, so investing in some good clippers and buzzing is likely easier.
- duxup 5y agoYeah I imagine it’s a pretty big process. The skin up there is sensitive and prone to cuts I imagine.
- riidom 5y agoBeen bald for two years roundabout a decade ago, before and after that having long hair. And oh yes, bald is like 10x more work - at least if you go for bowling-ball-grade of baldness. Never shave when you are in a rush and enter a public transport 5 minutes later.
- drdec 5y agoYou missed your window. March of 2020 was the perfect time to try something like this.
- nkrisc 5y agoEven cheaper if you cut your own hair. I've already recouped the cost of equipment many times over. Works best when you're not going for some fancy look though and just want something clean and simple.
- progre 5y agoI give myself a buzzcut every two weeks. 21mm on top, 5mm on the sides and back, slanted cutter on 5 in the trasition zone. If it goes bad I can always do 5mm all over. Hardest is to catch the whispy fuckers around the bald spot. I also do my kids hair, though the girls keep theirs long so thats just a matter of brushing it real neat and make a straight edge. The boy is too small to take to a hairdresser anyway. I also do my wife's hair. She is the only one where some thought and planning is required. I'm amazed that she lets me.
- nkrisc 5y agoI do my son’s hair as well. Unfortunately for me (or maybe him), it’s pretty curly while mine is completely straight, so I’m pretty clueless on how to handle it. If I do it sheet enough it looks nice and clean. The double, counter rotating cowlicks on him makes it difficult too.
- kingcharles 5y agoThe back? How do you do the back of your head? Any tips? Wife? I just got out of jail and I'm broke so I bought some uber cheap clippers and have been cutting my own for months now. This from a guy who wouldn't blink at spending $250 on a hair cut before he got locked up lol
- progre 5y agoI have a mirror like this one https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-clementina-magnifying-traditional-wall-mirror-w000339154.html?piid= https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-clemen... (Except mine was way cheaper, Ikea probably) oposite my main bathroom mirror. So facing the swing arm mirror I can see the back of my head and since it's through two mirrors the hand actually moves like you'd expect when you look at it.
- iso1631 5y agoMy wife cuts mine and the kids, takes about 5 minutes and no problem with our double crowns. Before then I'd get a haircut whenever I had the time, usually once every 6-9 months. At one point I went for 5 cuts in a row (about 3 years) getting a haircut on a different continent each time.
- serial_dev 5y agoI thought it was supposed to be expensive? Don't you lecture me with your fancy and expensive haircut? Though I didn't watch Dragon Ball that long, so I don't know. Maybe he is belittling him that his haircut is so cheap?
- riidom 5y agoMine maybe when inflation-adjusted.
- stjohnswarts 5y agolol no doubt $15 is top for me (and $5 tip). All I get is a head shave, it literally takes them 5 minutes tops.
- starkd 5y agoAnother version of this is "don't lecture me with you and your store-bought hair cut"
- Trasmatta 5y agoDBZ memes are some of the first ones I remember as a kid, before we called them memes. I'm enjoying the resurgence of them (although this particular one isn't my favorite).
- FabHK 5y agoThanks for the link & background, KYM is superb (and of course on !kym with DDG). Off-topic: from "top entries this week" on KYM, I just learned that the Bodganov twins (of Bogdanov affair fame, reverse Sokal hoax), have died (within 6 days of each other). Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794879
- tim333 5y agoYeah anti vaxxers got by covid.
- wodenokoto 5y agoIt’s a pretty funny line. Anyone know what the original Japanese was?
- tetromino_ 5y agoIn original context, was a $30 haircut supposed to be cheap or expensive? In 2022 in my neighborhood, $30 is somewhat on the expensive side for a men's haircut (a basic haircut at a trendy barber shop is $25) but extremely cheap for a women's haircut. But what was the intended meaning of the phrase in Japan in the 1990s in relation to the characters speaking it?
- tokumei 5y agoDamn, I’m getting my hair cut at the wrong place. I like my guy though. He massages my head.
- polka_haunts_us 5y agoWell first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made the creative decision to make the character who says it talk like some Redneck Trucker. The context is said Redneck Trucker is a robot who has been programmed to kill the main characer, Goku. One of Goku's friends says something about how if he does that he is just a slave with no free will. Our Redneck Trucker then points out that humanity has used their free will to do plenty of bad things, followed by our line here. So if you want to simplify its meaning, you could just translate it to "Don't talk down to me". So in context, $30 is an expensive haircut, and the purpose is to indicate the speaker feels the target is talking down to him, but the actual reason has nothing to do with the target being rich as opposed to being human. It could also be some meta commentary from the English side about how ridiculous the hair of everyone in the show or even the general genre is.
- mike_hock 5y agoIt would be $50 today assuming moderate inflation.
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- worewood 5y agoDoes not work well using a mouse on an Android phone. Choose your UI events wisely, guys!
- osrec 5y agoA mouse on an Android phone? Does your phone not have a touch screen?
- worewood 5y agoIt HAD a touch-screen before getting water damage. Repair consists of replacing the entire screen as the digitizer is glued to it and I am too broke to do that rn; so I got a usb2go adapter and been using it this way for months
- fouc 5y agoWhy not? An external keyboard & mouse with the android phone as a display should be allowed
- stjohnswarts 5y agoMost people don't have time/resources to test every possible interface for a free website.
- kafkaesque 5y agoI've been trying to find this site that, if I recall correctly, just has a gradient background that I think is animated and it's just an audio file of a man saying "Welcome to the" something-something in different ways. I tried googling it but because it's so nondescript it's hard to find it.
- tornato7 5y agoCould it be https://zombo.com/ https://zombo.com/ ?
- kafkaesque 5y agoYes! Thank you so much!
- saifexplore 5y ago[flagged]
- still_grokking 5y agoWhat's missing is a feature to share your creations. preecho||_pause|op|_pause=2|samurai|adofaikick|_pause|hammer|!looptarget|shaker=2||buttonpop|_pause||ride2|midspin|_pause|samurai=2|adofaikick|YOU|!combine|YOU=2|_pause|hammer|shaker=2||bwomp|_pause|bwomp||!loop||_pause=2|adofaicymbal|_pause=3|!looptarget|mariopaint_flower@-3|mariopaint_flower@-2|mariopaint_flower@-1|mariopaint_flower@0|_pause=2|!loopmany@2|mariopaint_flower@0|_pause=2|mariopaint_flower@0|mariopaint_flower@2|_pause=2|@-2|@-3|_pause|slip|_pause=2|americano@0|_pause=7|smw_kick|smw_kick@1|smw_kick@2|_pause|
- TheresNoTime 5y agoObligatory https://twitter.com/thechairguy06/status/1486601075717115905?t=hedUwcNzwlOZ-viaYxnqdg https://twitter.com/thechairguy06/status/1486601075717115905...
- rjuyal 5y agoMy favorite (@OliyTC)https://t.co/WMubKL3hPM https://t.co/WMubKL3hPM https://twitter.com/OliyTC/status/1487183820893802499?s=20&t=0OiGo10dB-UAdwhndsPXXg https://twitter.com/OliyTC/status/1487183820893802499?s=20&t...
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- hinkley 5y agoYou're going to hell.
- makach 5y agooh you evil man
- ineedasername 5y agoWell that's the first time that's happened to me in a while. This round, good sir, is yours.
- twic 5y agoOkay, now where's Bad Apple? EDIT oh it's here, i hadn't scrolled down far enough: https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483 https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
- halpert 5y agoDoesn’t seem to work on an iPhone?
- j4yav 5y agoSeems to work for me on mine.
- vogt 5y agoTry flicking the ringer on. I had to do that, even though I usually do not when playing something from safari
- evancox100 5y agoThanks for the tip. Same in Chrome
- nexuist 5y agoWhat do you expect, it was $30...
- guerrilla 5y agoYou can make some real music with this. Too bad there isn't a share button instead of a save button, it'd probably go viral.
- echelon 5y agoThis is the third time I've seen this today. It's already on my Twitter feed and one of my Discord servers.
- guerrilla 5y agoYeah I just found the original thread, packed with good jams https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/1486541449738993666?s=20&t=AKPaR84vklvvGYOus4-Jlg https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366...
- staindk 5y agoYeah it seems that you would be able to store the 'save' text as URL parameters - though obviously at some length it'll be too long of a URL (and different browsers have different 'max URL lengths' AFAIK).
- philsnow 5y agoYou can pack more than you'd expect into ~4k if it's zipped and then base64-encoded.
- imperio59 5y agoImagine this but with emojis...
- HollywoodZero 5y agoI got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?
- sergiotapia 5y ago[flagged]
- dang 5y agoPlease don't be a jerk on HN. Edit: you have a long history of breaking the site guidelines. We've asked you many times to stop, but you've continued. You did it here just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800. If you don't stop this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop this. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- jchw 5y agoIt’s basically a giant inside joke. Explaining it won’t do any good, not helped by the fact that in a lot of cases with ironic and absurdist humor, it’s not really funny on its own premise. The meme basically took the phrase “Don’t lecture me with your thirty dollar haircut” and stuck it next to a bunch of emoji. For some reason, this transformed into videos where the emoji was interpreted as memetic audio clips. In some cases, I’ll admit the joke just boils down to “loud stupid noise funny.” But the reason why people find it funny, is literally because they know it’s not. You’ll even see them saying things like, “I know this isn’t funny, but I can’t stop laughing.” If anyone understands enough psychology to explain WTF is going on here, I’d love to know. On the other hand, the meme, which is admittedly not really funny on its own, spiraled into a fairly neat website where you can actually sequence music, sort of like Mario Paint. I think that’s it’s neat regardless of what you think of the humor that lead to it.
- klohto 5y ago
- jchw 5y agoI particularly enjoyed this tweet of it. https://twitter.com/retropetet/status/1487147720670269440 https://twitter.com/retropetet/status/1487147720670269440
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoyou know 30 dollars is 5 dollars more than it is in town, that's expensive.
- everyone 5y agoAll theses pop-culture computer games SFX, but no 'oof' sound from roblox?
- zamadatix 5y agoYellow smiling head, you may have to scroll to see it.
- SkipperCat 5y agoThis website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as finding a $5 bill on the sidewalk. Here's some other great sites. * http://eelslap.com/ http://eelslap.com/ * https://theuselessweb.com/ https://theuselessweb.com/
- lextuto 5y ago
- dvtrn 5y agoSpeaking of eelslap, another slap-happy nugget from those days: https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/spank-the-monkey https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/spank-the-monkey
- dokka 5y agoHere's my useless website https://dx.tc/ https://dx.tc/
- eyelidlessness 5y agoOn iOS Safari with theme-color enabled, the status bar briefly but rapidly flickers between black and white clock/icons. I’m not sure if this is deliberate, but it’s a nice touch. (Also: warning to folks who might be bothered/harmed by flashing animations.)
- feross 5y agoAdding my useless website to the list: http://magickeyboard.io http://magickeyboard.io - it’s fun to build one-off random sites and put them out there :)
- dokka 5y ago
- 255kb 5y agoWow, sounds from Mario paint!
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y agoCommendable, personally I try to stretch it to 30 billion dollar websites ...
- fredley 5y agoFantastic YTMND vibes.
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- Ansil849 5y agoAt first I thought this was some web 2.0 (or 3.0 or whatever) version of those old prank call soundboards.
- layer8 5y ago"Hold to preview" doesn’t work on iOS Safari (it opens Safari’s context menu for images).
- notRobot 5y agoSome increadible creations in the original twitter thread! https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/1486541449738993666?s=20&t=AKPaR84vklvvGYOus4-Jlg https://twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/148654144973899366... Favorites: https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheDerg/status/1486798467661975555 https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheDerg/status/148679846766197555... Bad Apple: https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483 https://twitter.com/Legonzaur/status/1487018326601748483
- zamadatix 5y agoFor Bad Apple I was thinking "wow this is actually a really accurate one given the limitations" then I burst out laughing just past halfway through from the absurdity.
- jjcm 5y agoAnother fun (albeit far more simple) loop machine: https://adventuremachine.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/adventuremachine https://adventuremachine.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/adventuremac... Along with a build blog for it: http://wemakeawesomesh.it/madeon.html http://wemakeawesomesh.it/madeon.html
- EamonnMR 5y agoOh man that explosion sample was everywhere on 90s java applet games.
- zeta0134 5y agoHeh, this thing really needs a proper share feature. Lacking that, I exported my masterpiece instead: https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/nyan.%F0%9F%97%BF https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/nyan.%F0%9F%97%BF
- jeffrallen 5y agoWhat is this... I don't even...
- 29athrowaway 5y agoIt can be used for steganography.
- kazinator 5y agoPRO TIP: If you hover over an icon added to your work area, you can use the mouse scroll wheel to adjust the pitch of that element's sound sample. (I see now this is given given in some instructions above the text area.) This elevates the tool from a simple toy for toddlers to the pro music audio domain. Saving uses local files which is silly; you want to save into a URL.
- pseingatl 5y agoHow do you save the generated sound? Say as a .wav or .mp3?
- dgellow 5y agoI feel out of the loop. Could someone explain what is happening here? Edit: nevermind, I read the other comments
- lloydatkinson 5y agoContext?
- Terry_Roll 5y agoDoes anyone know how the site manages to make its cookie persistent in the browser? I've noticed a few sites manage to remain albeit it empty after the browser wipes everything, dont know if this is a browser problem or something else, like code running extremely slowly in the OS. Edit. To be clear there is no content in the cookie, but the cookie still shows in the list of cookies in the browser. Its weird, but its not the only site.
- aj7 5y agoCan you use this stuff on Twitter? Asking for a friend.
- smilekzs 5y agoI like how this still does jQuery, if not only for nostalgia's sake...
- olah_1 5y agoif you have fun with this, play around with the music maker in ansiwave bbs: http://bbs.ansiwave.net/ http://bbs.ansiwave.net/
- laurensr 5y agoShut down the internet in Windows 98 style: http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/ http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/
- gzer0 5y agoBrilliant!
- arriu 5y agoAm I the only one that feels this isn’t front page material for the ycombinator news site?
- Rallen89 5y agoConsidering that it has 800+ upvotes or whatever and the majority of comments are positive... yeah. Stop complaining about something you voluntary clicked on a public forum. Get with the times :^)
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoIt’s the trashbat.co.ck of the 2020s
- TempoOptimiser 5y agoI reimplemented the playback routine to use the Web Audio API for accurate no-lag playback: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439347-thirty-dollar-rewrite https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439347-thirty-dollar-rewri... (Posting anonymously because my employer doesn't like me publishing code without their permission.)