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Originally Posted By u/BCMBCG At 2025-08-31 05:29:55 PM | Source


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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They're so damned easy to spot once you know. I started out catching them in our college bars.

Had an agent of some sort follow me around the airport. He was clearly trying to look nondescript but his build, hair, clothing, demeanor, boots, all screamed FEDERAL AGENT. I only noticed him because I saw him a second time, which is a little odd given most people in an airport get where they're going and park themselves. After watching him a bit he was actively avoiding my gaze. I guess the military backpack, combat boots and long hair made me look like a terrorist?

I fucked him with a little, doubling back and making him follow, watching him in store reflections. LOL, he stopped at a closed store to watch me in the glass. Kicker is, it was a woman's store and there was nothing interesting you could see from the concourse. And worse, he stood like a mannequin, utterly uninterested, obviously didn't even know what store he picked. Guess he picked up on me fucking with him and bailed. Never spotted another tail, but who knows?

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why do you guys have gaps around your toilet doors it's so weird

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because we do everything as cheaply and shittily as possible

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

So true. I was in the UK and my grandmother's front door and windows were like something from 30 years in the future. Such solid material and build quality, and when you lock the door it activates 3 locks; the one at the handle, then one near the top and bottom.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it seems like doors would break off their hinges way too easily by folding the wrong way.

It doesn't even make sense for cost savings

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I mean there’s usually a piece of metal near the latch that prevents them from opening the wrong way, you’d have to use a lot of force to break them.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They like to watch.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well just think how your outfit would look from a grainy black and white ceiling camera, from people trained on videos of the Unabomber and Columbine.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Forgot to mention, there was a grenade pouch on the back at the time. Turns out that though they're cheap, they're utterly impractical for anything but an actual grenade. Spherical pouches suck. :(

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's one heck of a terrorist if I've ever seen one! :P

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And humble! 😆

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You totally should have just walked up to him at the women's store and asked him what he thought was so interesting.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have so many regrets about not fucking with him.

"Say buddy! You know you're obvious as fuck, right?"