I remember being little and my dad telling me “be nice to the garbage man. He works hard and makes good money and deserves a lot of respect for keeping our town clean”. So when a teacher said that if we did poorly in school we’d grow up to be garbage people I repeated what he said. She did not like that lol
@@erisdiscordia5661 This reminds me of how clowns go to clown college just so they can do funny things in front of your children. Now, they're seen as creepy or associated with child murders so it's unfortunate lol.
Your dad is a good guy. My parents told me that if I didn't study hard I'd end up like my mother, cycling through any weather to go clean other people's houses (she was a good student but failed high school... because I was born a month before the final exams). 31 years old now and never having kids so... I think I'm on the right track.
@@adam.n-steve wait clowns are associated with murder? Since when??? I mean, I get the horror trope and whatever, but when I see a clown I just think it's a funny little guy who paints clown eggs?
@@joeunknown7601 i mean i guess, but like Damien for example will laugh at the most like, boring memes and MAKE them funny, but like Robin get's the unhinged memes and 'keeps' them comical
Robin, am glad you're ok. Am also glad that you read the nice comments of people worrying about you. Robin you, Jacc and Lexi (and Greg and Aaron too!) truly bring smiles on people's faces, like mine. And you also make the horrible days be bearable. Just wanted you to know, that i truly appreciate you guys for it.
20:45 Fun fact, that line actually made many students spite their educators and continually carry calculators on them, hell, back in elementary school in the 2010s, I was told this line, I giggled as I kept a cheap dollar store calculator on me EVERYWHERE. I still have this calculator, it is a small decoration in my office.
One of my professors at Uni. was the author of the textbook that we needed to get. But instead of having us pay like 200 dollars (minimum) for it he just had copies of the book unbound and hole punched. He said all we had to do was pay like 20 dollars (basically just for the paper) and get a binder to hold the pages in. He was a great professor.
I love Robin. He has such passion, but always has been the laid back serious one. Even back in the day doing gmod vids with Bree, Damien, Zach, etc, he always felt like the parent of the group, reigning everyone in. It's a nice balance to have, even on this channel. You have such vastly different personalities, and they all work together so beautifully
Robin, from one neurospicy bisexual to another: quit putting yourself down. It's not funny, it's not true, and it isn't good for your mental health and self-esteem. You're not ugly or stupid, no matter what your crappy inner critic says. You're an awesome VA, you're funny, and you're unafraid to call out BS when you see it, which is a vital quality to have these days. Take care of yourself, please.
@@aryssamansfield9735 there isn't much to elaborate on I use self depreciation as a means of understanding where I fall short it's not a bad thing to recognize your problems as long as you try to fix them
I do really appreciate Robin doing the tough subjects, but also I live and breathe for his laughing fits like the one in r/Creepyasterisks a few weeks ago
I actually had a psychedelic experience where i got it into my head that I was going to die... I scrambled to get some Simon and Garfunkel playing but once i did i lied down and thought... "ahh I can die happy now" so itd probably be them. Not sure what song i picked but i think it was Keep The Customer Satisfied!
6:57 yeah that’s accurate. I had to ride in an ambulance once bc I was 11 and fell 30 feet out of a tree and my parents didn’t know if I had broken my back/neck bc I couldn’t move due to shock. My leg also looked like question mark so they weren’t gonna try to move me. I’m pretty sure they were paying off ambulance/hospital fees for a couple years.
Robinnn!! so glad to hear that he's doing great and that really helped elevate a bit of the sadness from this whole video. He and Jack are my favourites I have completely watched both playlists on this channel with their names as narrators.
5:50 I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, so I gonna say it; the fact that they refer to it as the "replacement" level is proof enough that these big businesses don't see working-class people as people. They could have said something like "sustainable", but the wording makes it seems like people are just objects to be thrown out and replaced when they cannot work anymore due to old age, personal issues, etc.
eh, replacement and sustainable actually would mean two different things in this context. replacement level just means that people are giving birth often enough that the next generation will have as many people in it as this one, 'replacing' their parents. this is common terminology in the study of any population, human or not. whether or not that amount is 'sustainable', however, is an interesting question. ecologically speaking, our current population really isn't sustainable so long as it keeps consuming in the same way; I know little of economics, so I won't try to claim any authority on this matter, but climate change does have, and is having, an effect on economics, because the current economic philosophy is that of constant growth to maximize the profitability of the planet, to the exclusion of nearly all other considerations, including exhaustion of natural resources and longterm damage to our planet's habitability. unfortunately, one way or another, those things WILL become considerations for everyone, whether we like it or not. but, well, that aside, you're kinda right: while the term 'replacement level' isn't fundamentally anti-human in itself, these articles full of their dire warnings about not reaching replacement level absolutely are. they like to scaremonger by conflating population shrinkage with an extinction spiral-- if they're still trying to look scientific, that is. this isn't really a credible threat: while, yes, a declining birth rate can lead to extinction under certain circumstances, we're much closer, currently, to going extinct by overpopulating until we've consumed all available resources and begin starving to death, than we are to dying out because of low birth rates. of course, the real, ugly truth is, they're not afraid of our species going extinct; they're afraid of one of two things-- losing money, or immigrants. the first, because losing working population is going to mean, one, a workforce who can afford to be more choosy, because they're less replacable (heh), and two, shrinkage in consumers and producers, which all adds up to less profits. that being said, the thing that happens when a population is unable or unwilling to work certain jobs, is that a less choosy population starts fill those roles; immigrants. and then begins a whole nother narrative about 'replacement', but that's not worth getting into in an already long comment lol
I know someone who was literally told at work by their boss "Don't come in next week.It's almost December and you still have 3 weeks of vacation you need to take out so I took the liberty to send you home for a week "
0:16 the reason Centralia is still burning and started burning is that they were filling a pit with garbage and burning it and there was a hole In which some fire went through and lit up some coal so it's just burning all the coal and at it's current rate will burn for over 250 years
Fun fact, the Australians have also made a town in their country uninhabitable, it was called Wittenoom, and was deemed a declared contaminated site because of Asbestos contamination.
19:45 I calculated how much money my dad's smoking habit cost him each year and it led him to try to stop smoking. These things would be really useful actually.
5:35 - When the kids I babysit for found out that their parents pay me to hang out with them, they used it as an excuse to make me play more video games with them.
Same except it was cartoons and Disney princess magazines. OH. OH THE HUMANITY... OH. OH THESE THINGS I WOULD BE LOOKED AT STRANGELY IF I BOUGHT AS A TEENAGER AND CAN NOW BORROW CHILDREN TO DO IN PUBLIC WITH! OH GOODNESS! They're in college now. Great kids.
Not only was tyler only cooking for three weeks, but was also out of his right mind thanks to weed, AND not old enough to get drunk, AND cooked a 4 -4.5 star dish, the giga chad of cooking.
i do hope we get more epilogues like this at the end of each video, y'know? just pleasant, authentic little updates after the main content just to reassure us that the narrators are still indeed of sound mind and reminding us all that the world is not entirely doomed and hopeless. like aftercare but for memes
If I had to choose a song for the last minutes of my life, I would pick Gabriellas Sång (Swedish for Gabriella's Song, there are CZcams videos with English lyrics). It is so incredibly positive and sad at the same time. If I was an actor and the director wanted me to cry in a certain scene and I couldn't do it, I would tell them to play me this song. It's like an instant onion cutting effect. Basically the lyrics are like a memory flashback of your whole life, or what you would wish it to be. I'm normally a really stoic person, but if someone played this during like a funeral or something, I would become a sobbing mess 😭
Thanks for the recommendation. The bulk of my Swedish music experience so far has been Håkan Hellström which isn’t so bad, or ‘dance bands’ which are a travesty somewhere between evil and comedy
19:37 if it were my debit card doing a wrap-up, it would probably be like- "You bought 30 mechanical pencils in 2022" "You sure are enjoying buying Power Rangers figures" "Bro why are you buying so much paper"
19:06 That’s ₹12,366,825 and they show ads that lays buys potatoes from them in a very gentle way, by making them pay a sum that they’ll never be able to pay.
It's great to hear Robin is alright with these subs! I do love a rant / conversation about injustices in the world, even if they're frustrating. Just know when to wind down and get into a comforting mental space ^^
nah, not because youre a coward, its because it’s just not safe at night for everyone in general, i almost got jumped by a crackhead woman in seattle at night
17:56 THANK YOU! Refer to them as either Native Americans or the specific tribe that they are from, DO NOT REPEAT THE FALLACY OF COLUMBUS AND EVERY OTHER MOTHERFUCKING GOD DAMN EUROPEAN. - Signed, a Cascadian
My school literally told us (this was in like grade 1) that columbus called the natives "indians" because they were too dumb to realize that "india" wasn't india
12:46 And then he shot you 37 times, claimed it was all in self-defense, and got either zero consequences or was "fired", which usually means he just moved 10 blocks down the road to a different precinct where he could pick up right where he left off. Oh, and your family can't press charges against him, and even if you sue the precinct and win, they don't pay a dime in legal fees. I sure do love our paramilitary terrorist group we call a police system.
Here in Germany, we get 25 MANDATORY vacation days, and we HAVE to take at least 20 of those, with our employers having to pay out the excess as if we had worked those extra days.
I tried to have a convo about the wage shit with my dad. His argument was - life aint fair - raising wages would raise prices for everything - you can rent an apartment in the that's in a crumbling rickity old run down building on the bad side of town on minimum wage
So, this came out like a wall of text, and is only tangentially related due to the last point made, so I apologize for that. For context, this is in the central US. I checked to see the ‘two bedroom rent on minimum wage’ for where I live, and there were only two options that showed up, so it’s a very small sample size. Minimum wage was calculated at 1160 with a 4 week month, 40 hr/wk, and no taxes. One was $600, 2 bed 1 bath, technically on the ‘wrong side of the tracks’, but only 6 blocks (one block being crossing the tracks) away from a restaurant, a pharmacy, the library, the courthouse, a gas station, an atm, and the hospital. House itself didn’t look too shabby either. The other was $1100, 3 bed 2 bath, in a fairly nice looking neighborhood, but towards the outskirts of town, down the highway from a few gas stations, and bit bit further than that you have some restaurants, the college campus (not a main campus, just a branch from a bigger university, not even as big as the high school here), a couple of banks and the movie theater. The closest of the things I mentioned being about 1 mile (20 blocks) from the house. Of course the second house itself is better than the first one, but for ease of accessibility to anything useful, I feel that the much more reasonable $600 house would actually be the better choice, and with the minimum wage I outlined, not only would you be able to afford the house, but you would qualify for EBT/foodstamps, meaning that you have a (somewhat) decent place to live and something to eat. Further, in my experience, taxes take about 13% of your raw income from your paychecks, meaning that you’d get about $1000 of your pay each month, completely removing the more expensive house from the options, but allowing you to still get the cheaper house while leaving you $400 for everything else, including any food the EBT doesn’t cover. Where this may fall apart, however, is utilities, because they can be quite pricey, and the website I used doesn’t say whether they are included in the rent or not. If not, that takes about $200 out of your ‘wiggle room’ as I like to call it.
@@comradewindowsill4253 Yeah, hence why I called out the sample size myself. That said, location also matters because I live in what I like to call the biggest little town in the middle of nowhere. A livable wage may be more attainable here than other places (just the fact we have one location as opposed to the seeming more probable situation of having none) entirely because it’s the middle of nowhere.
14:44 If the employer fires a deceased employee before that employer receives official notification that an employee is dead, they can cancel insurance and other benefits, avoiding a payout.
For the debit/credit wrap-up thing, while I don't think they'd be able to give you times (since transactions don't go through immediately) they might be able to summarize the sources automatically. It might not be clear at first if the account has a weird name though, and it wouldn't be able to differentiate between locations, so that might just ruin the point of doing it in the first place.
Yep, Centralia Pennsylvania! I used to live nearby and would visit occasionally. My friends and I would take walks on the abandoned highway. That town was so unsettling lol
14:30 can confirm, that's how it works in Germany too. If I did not take all of my vacation days, the staff department is required to send me a letter a few months in advance to remind me that I still have some. Unused vacation days will expire at the end of the year and they are obligated to make sure this doesn't happen because I didn't know better.
13:34 Robin - My boyfriend and I have known each other for the better part of our lives. 23 years this year, to be exact. We have a helluva story, like a lot of other people in this world. The short version is, we were high school sweethearts, stayed together for several years, got a place together after graduation, my narcissistic mother refusing me to see my father when we thought he was going to pass away because she didn't like my boyfriend because he wouldn't bow down to her narcissistic ways, causing him and I to break up because he didn't want to be the reason I couldn't say goodbye to my dad, got back together almost 3 years later (by this time, he'd had a kid who was 9 months old) and it wasn't the right time for either of us, so we broke up again. I met my kids' father 6 months later. We'd went on to spend 7 years apart while we went through our own journey's that we needed to go on. Then, he got a divorce about a year before I did... He and I went through really bad, abusive marriages. While the abuse was different between him and I, it's still abuse. Mine was physical, mental/emotional, verbal, and then financial when he became brave enough in the last 2 years, and for my BF, he dealt with verbal and mental/emotional. We found our way back to each other a year after that, and we've been together almost 6 years now. He's my rock, the only one that I trust with my life, and the only one that I have to count on. I lost my family within 2 years, I don't have friends that I can count on, it's just us. We've gone through hell and back together, going through a lot of adversary. Dealing with problematic homes since the landlords care only if they receive rent and not making sure that their home is actually habitable. Still today, we're dealing with bullshit. I found out that the apartment building I'm in was built in the 60's, and the water pipes are connected together instead of separately for each unit. The 3rd floor apartment could put grease down the sink and it's ME that will end up dealing with the clogged draining, causing water to rise up and flood my kitchen. I have videos and pictures of when that happened, causing me to lose access to over half of my cabinets now and losing many, many kitchen appliances and items (cookware, bakeware, etc.) that I'm STILL trying to get back. Well, we found out that the a/c unit's condensation drainage pipes are also connected... A blockage from, honestly who knows what, caused the 3rd floor down to the 1st floor (my apartment) to keep the pipe from draining correctly, resulting in a complete flooding of my apartment. I called the landlord and told him that this pipe was literally GUSHING water, and he said that "a/c's do that sometimes" and he would send the maintenance man over, who was on-site. It took him 40 minutes to respond. When he came in, his eyes went wide and he said it was the WORST he's EVER seen this happen. It flooded my apartment with so much water, I lost 80% of my items. My bed, clothes, electronics, things that were my family's that I'll NEVER get back because they've passed away, and much more. My bedroom closet shares the wall that is where the a/c/ unit is. We've been trying to clean up the water out of the carpets since Wednesday, and it's almost Sunday. It was so bad, half of my bedroom is still water-logged carpet - and it keeps spreading because we just can't seem to get it all up. This is just the most recent thing that's happened. We had a previous apartment that was a big, beautiful 3-bedroom home. For an apartment, it was huge. We were paying so much money for this place... then we couldn't use most of it. Rain would pour into my son's room, so we had to move him. Then, our girls' closet started having water pour into it because there was a leak coming from the upstairs apartment. Our girls lost so much because we had no idea until it happened. Then, we found out the real history of the place, the property management company, and what actually transpired to get where we were. We talked to the previous tenant when he came to pick up a package that had been delivered there instead of his new place. That still wasn't even the worst thing, imo, that we went through. We had to completely pack up what we could put into a single vehicle, and move to another state because of a terrible, terrible situation with our home. Throughout everything, we've stood together, held each other up, and kept going. I have a disability, and throughout that journey, he has stood beside me. In fact, there are times when I need his help to get to the bathroom, get dressed, etc. He's never once judged me, made me feel bad (we're 35 years old, and what's happening to me shouldn't be happening until I'm more like 60-70 years old). I love this man with all my heart, he's amazing. BUT, we CAN'T get married. I'll lose all of my benefits for myself and my children, insurance that is desperately needed, EBT, etc. He works his ass off day in and day out, making pretty good money, but we STILL can't afford everything on his salary. So, we HAVE to do what we have to do in order to make it. A lot of these videos speak so many truths for so many people. Our kids (we're a blended family, but we don't use the word step. We're just family) have asked us many, many times when we're going to get married. They're all for it! My two love their step-dad so much, and both have said so many times they wish that he was their father instead of what they got. Now that they're older, they understand that just because we aren't married, that doesn't mean we aren't a family and that our love isn't real. Their father and stepmother told them that because we weren't married, that means that he isn't family to them and that his love for my kids isn't real. They see what a real relationship is supposed to be like. Mommy isn't crying every night, and daddy isn't yelling/screaming, hitting, etc. That's what matters. We aren't unlike other people. Our story is similar to so many others. The details, the specifics, are different...but it's the same when it comes to making it, living life and trying to figure out how to survive. When a man goes to work every day - gone from the home for 12, 13, or even 14 hours - still isn't making enough to pay rent AND pay for food, clothing, etc., - that's the same. Way too many people are struggling because of how our world is. But is it going to change? Probably not. Will he and I ever get married? Probably not. That one little piece of paper, something that doesn't define our love, is what will be the thing that changes everything when we get older. What if something happened to me, and he isn't my husband, so who is next to be able to make that call, the decision, on my life? Legally, he won't be able to. Even though he's the one whose been there all those years. Life shouldn't have to be like that.
Maybe this won't mean much coming from a stranger on the internet, but having read your story I really wanted to tell you that you are an amazing person. I think our backgrounds probably are Immensely different, but I can understand and relate so much to your experiences. I grew up poor (still am too) so I know how it's to live struggling and worrying about a lot of stuff. I'd love to say "money doesn't matter!" or things like that, but the constant stress trying to survive shouldn't be underminded. However I do think that, even struggling, a loving and supporting family will always be the best your kids can have. And I think you're an amazing parent to do that. I will be wishing for the best to you and your family
14:51 this is really sad. my dad died 7 says ago, like, 40 minutes ago hit the 1 week mark. we still get letters in the mail from scam letter’s and ads. its so awful hoe these companies remind everyone of what they lost.
About the "Millenials arent having kids" thing. Hopefully wages will increase when theres less people around to accept shite deals. If theres suddenly a labor shortage, then they'll have to increase wages to lure people in.
2:21 So relatable. My husband complains that he never has funny stories to tell from his days off or trips to the store/running errands. He's like how come it always happens with you.
if i had six minutes to live and i had to choose my last song to listen to, it’d have to be a year long song. (yes there is a song that is a year long)
3:58 whenever I go to the zoo , not matter where it is, I swear the elephants are always standing in a group facing each other and looking around occasionally. I think they're trading gossip about the zoo guests.
bill gates has donated a lot for charity, however in his early years he was ultra monopolistic, there was a lawsuit over internet explorer, that's why it's now edge, and when windows used to run on top of DOS he ordered for windows to purposely give a meaningless error when attempting to run on anything other than MS-DOS. I wonder if the donations are to divert attention from his more current monopolistic affairs, like productivity software, or making it increasingly more tedious to to swap your default browser by separating every single option where possible in windows 11.
One of the things that really pisses me off is the people who pretend that rich people and poor people both have problems as if their problems are remotely comparable. As if being indecisive or not getting exactly what you wanted is anywhere near the same thing as struggling to get by while drowning in debt from a system that is designed to make you suffer for not being rich.
22:26 what I would do is I’d get all of my fellow women together, and wait for the men to return and go: “jokes on u mo-fos, we’re running this smit now!” We got pepper spray, high heels, and have had enough. And then fix global warming or something 🤷♀️
Up bank in Australia has something similar to the category thing. You can categorise your expenses with quite a few details a lot of them are automatically put in stuff like groceries and there are categories expenses cafes and restaurants, clothing and accessories, gifts and charity etc. It's very functional.
10:10 What if they're renting a really expensive apartment? Also, what's so wrong with living with your parents? Or getting a roommate?I'm fed up of people wanting an apartment all to themselves but not wanting to put in the work to afford one.
As many commentors have said, stop putting yourself down Robin, you are an amazing person, and I love listening to you read random stuff on the internet! Also, america has SO MANY problems, in its education system, justice system, ecomomy system, but it did do some great stuff int he past and still is one of the best places for diversity. Everything has its pros and cons, and america is slowly succumbing to the cones, but dont forget all the amazing things that still exist here! Also, im planning on going to Norway for college because... yeah no
I live in America. I'm pretty sure if some kid yelled, "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands" here, half of the bus would break into tears. 😂
I don’t think the reason teachers or parents say “do well or you’ll be a garbage man” is that they make bad money, rather as it is a pretty gross job, like the smell is horrible, like I work with dead bodies, and the smell is horrendous but I feel engaged and I do something I love
7:24 this one made me smile simply because of what it shows. I’d rather focus on the not sad part of it and rather focus that it’s pointing that even cis makes use gender affirming care to make themselfs feel better about their gender and bodies. It’s almost like gender affirming care is a good thing for people.
Red Signal, easy "A billion screaming, squamous things approach, Oozing and clawing though the shattered tatters of a sane world! ALL THE DOORS ARE OPEN NOW!" (flatlines)
I remember being little and my dad telling me “be nice to the garbage man. He works hard and makes good money and deserves a lot of respect for keeping our town clean”. So when a teacher said that if we did poorly in school we’d grow up to be garbage people I repeated what he said. She did not like that lol
I love how they say that but to be a trash man you have to have a sanitation engineer degree(as far as I know) which takes 4 years of college
@@erisdiscordia5661 This reminds me of how clowns go to clown college just so they can do funny things in front of your children. Now, they're seen as creepy or associated with child murders so it's unfortunate lol.
Your dad is a good guy. My parents told me that if I didn't study hard I'd end up like my mother, cycling through any weather to go clean other people's houses (she was a good student but failed high school... because I was born a month before the final exams).
31 years old now and never having kids so... I think I'm on the right track.
@@adam.n-steve wait clowns are associated with murder? Since when??? I mean, I get the horror trope and whatever, but when I see a clown I just think it's a funny little guy who paints clown eggs?
@@trishapellis wow your mother really said "I hate life and you will too if you're like me" to a CHILD?
Robin always either gets the most wholesome/relatable or the most cursed/weird memes and such to review, no middleman whatsoever. lovin it.
So every kind of meme
@@joeunknown7601 i mean i guess, but like Damien for example will laugh at the most like, boring memes and MAKE them funny, but like Robin get's the unhinged memes and 'keeps' them comical
Balance is restored.
And also the ones that kill him on the inside.
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We're glad you're ok Robin
Now we just need to figure out what's going on with Jack
tomato and nutella sandwishes, he should be studied.
No one can figure Jack out. He broke as soon as he was born.
maybe he knows something we dont as a species.
@@IPlayKindred and he is a snack
@@IPlayKindredThat is the most cursed sandwich I've ever heard of.
Robin, am glad you're ok. Am also glad that you read the nice comments of people worrying about you. Robin you, Jacc and Lexi (and Greg and Aaron too!) truly bring smiles on people's faces, like mine. And you also make the horrible days be bearable. Just wanted you to know, that i truly appreciate you guys for it.
24:28 I love how Robin gets the anger-inducing subreddits and yet finds a way to be calm at the end.
It's called giving up.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragonJesus Christ
@@iclynnx No Kyouko. Jesus Christ was another dude.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon 💀
20:45 Fun fact, that line actually made many students spite their educators and continually carry calculators on them, hell, back in elementary school in the 2010s, I was told this line, I giggled as I kept a cheap dollar store calculator on me EVERYWHERE. I still have this calculator, it is a small decoration in my office.
One of my professors at Uni. was the author of the textbook that we needed to get. But instead of having us pay like 200 dollars (minimum) for it he just had copies of the book unbound and hole punched. He said all we had to do was pay like 20 dollars (basically just for the paper) and get a binder to hold the pages in. He was a great professor.
Your professor is a real one for that!
- someone who does the same at home
lol meanwhile I had to pay full price to get the exact product you're describing. had to buy the binder from the school store too
He will get like 1% of that $200 cuz publishers will get the most of it.
I love Robin. He has such passion, but always has been the laid back serious one. Even back in the day doing gmod vids with Bree, Damien, Zach, etc, he always felt like the parent of the group, reigning everyone in. It's a nice balance to have, even on this channel. You have such vastly different personalities, and they all work together so beautifully
To answer the thumbnail: “THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIIIFE, MY LIIIIIFE”
AND NOTHING HURTS ANYMORE I FEEL KINDA FREEEE
My answer: what I've done linkin park
Big shot
Radioactive
I’d do End of the world as we know it
Robin, from one neurospicy bisexual to another: quit putting yourself down. It's not funny, it's not true, and it isn't good for your mental health and self-esteem. You're not ugly or stupid, no matter what your crappy inner critic says. You're an awesome VA, you're funny, and you're unafraid to call out BS when you see it, which is a vital quality to have these days. Take care of yourself, please.
Yessss negative self talk stops today!
"Neurospicy bisexual" I'm gonna start using that one in my regular vocabulary. But yeah, Robin is great and should really stop putting himself down.
Putting yourself down can for sure be a form of self love
@wxbrainiac could you elaborate on that? Like lampshading humor as a coping mechanism or recognizing your own faults is good for growth orrr???
@@aryssamansfield9735 there isn't much to elaborate on I use self depreciation as a means of understanding where I fall short it's not a bad thing to recognize your problems as long as you try to fix them
I do really appreciate Robin doing the tough subjects, but also I live and breathe for his laughing fits like the one in r/Creepyasterisks a few weeks ago
I love the bad2sentencehorror video he narrated. He was almost crying laughing and so was I.
I actually had a psychedelic experience where i got it into my head that I was going to die...
I scrambled to get some Simon and Garfunkel playing but once i did i lied down and thought... "ahh I can die happy now" so itd probably be them.
Not sure what song i picked but i think it was Keep The Customer Satisfied!
I said, out loud, "This sub has Jack Energy, but Robin is probably gonna read it because he's the resident sadboi, apparently"
3:49 You have to go to the zoo to see a sad elephant? I just have to look in the mirror
Same
Oooooophffff....
I visit your mother's house
6:57 yeah that’s accurate. I had to ride in an ambulance once bc I was 11 and fell 30 feet out of a tree and my parents didn’t know if I had broken my back/neck bc I couldn’t move due to shock. My leg also looked like question mark so they weren’t gonna try to move me. I’m pretty sure they were paying off ambulance/hospital fees for a couple years.
HOLY CRAP!!! ARE YOU OK?!
@@melissajacobs5822 yeah lol, just snapped my leg luckily. No long term injuries and it happened 5 years ago.
Robinnn!! so glad to hear that he's doing great and that really helped elevate a bit of the sadness from this whole video.
He and Jack are my favourites
I have completely watched both playlists on this channel with their names as narrators.
What about Lexi >:(
I know garbage man pay rates depends on area. My garbage man makes 50k a year, and drives a Tesla when he isn’t working.
Garbage men in NYC make over $100k/yr.
7:55 Xtian is an abbreviation for Christian. Like how Xmas is an abbreviation for Christmas
5:50
I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, so I gonna say it; the fact that they refer to it as the "replacement" level is proof enough that these big businesses don't see working-class people as people. They could have said something like "sustainable", but the wording makes it seems like people are just objects to be thrown out and replaced when they cannot work anymore due to old age, personal issues, etc.
eh, replacement and sustainable actually would mean two different things in this context. replacement level just means that people are giving birth often enough that the next generation will have as many people in it as this one, 'replacing' their parents. this is common terminology in the study of any population, human or not.
whether or not that amount is 'sustainable', however, is an interesting question. ecologically speaking, our current population really isn't sustainable so long as it keeps consuming in the same way; I know little of economics, so I won't try to claim any authority on this matter, but climate change does have, and is having, an effect on economics, because the current economic philosophy is that of constant growth to maximize the profitability of the planet, to the exclusion of nearly all other considerations, including exhaustion of natural resources and longterm damage to our planet's habitability. unfortunately, one way or another, those things WILL become considerations for everyone, whether we like it or not.
but, well, that aside, you're kinda right: while the term 'replacement level' isn't fundamentally anti-human in itself, these articles full of their dire warnings about not reaching replacement level absolutely are. they like to scaremonger by conflating population shrinkage with an extinction spiral-- if they're still trying to look scientific, that is. this isn't really a credible threat: while, yes, a declining birth rate can lead to extinction under certain circumstances, we're much closer, currently, to going extinct by overpopulating until we've consumed all available resources and begin starving to death, than we are to dying out because of low birth rates.
of course, the real, ugly truth is, they're not afraid of our species going extinct; they're afraid of one of two things-- losing money, or immigrants. the first, because losing working population is going to mean, one, a workforce who can afford to be more choosy, because they're less replacable (heh), and two, shrinkage in consumers and producers, which all adds up to less profits. that being said, the thing that happens when a population is unable or unwilling to work certain jobs, is that a less choosy population starts fill those roles; immigrants. and then begins a whole nother narrative about 'replacement', but that's not worth getting into in an already long comment lol
I know someone who was literally told at work by their boss
"Don't come in next week.It's almost December and you still have 3 weeks of vacation you need to take out so I took the liberty to send you home for a week "
13:31 We don't need to take a break from such subreddits, ✨ *_we just need to break spines to some people_* ✨.
I support this.
I support this.
0:16 the reason Centralia is still burning and started burning is that they were filling a pit with garbage and burning it and there was a hole In which some fire went through and lit up some coal so it's just burning all the coal and at it's current rate will burn for over 250 years
I think I can confidently say that I think we appreciate Robin's rants. We got people to do the cute, so it's good to know you prefer the angry ones.
Fun fact, the Australians have also made a town in their country uninhabitable, it was called Wittenoom, and was deemed a declared contaminated site because of Asbestos contamination.
I’m glad you’re doing well. I think it’s healthy to just vent and be angry about random things for a few minutes. It’s cathartic in a way.
It's good to know that Robin is doing well and is okay. It's comforting to have him confirm that for us.
The political nascar joke was first told by Robin Williams. Weapons of Self Destruction.
19:45 I calculated how much money my dad's smoking habit cost him each year and it led him to try to stop smoking. These things would be really useful actually.
0:11 While still missing some atomic bombs they lost somewhere
5:35 - When the kids I babysit for found out that their parents pay me to hang out with them, they used it as an excuse to make me play more video games with them.
Same except it was cartoons and Disney princess magazines.
OH. OH THE HUMANITY... OH. OH THESE THINGS I WOULD BE LOOKED AT STRANGELY IF I BOUGHT AS A TEENAGER AND CAN NOW BORROW CHILDREN TO DO IN PUBLIC WITH! OH GOODNESS! They're in college now. Great kids.
22:54 my grandma got diagnosed with cancer and dementia and never told anyone because she forgot
You always brighten my day guys I really love your content, keep up the good work :D
Not only was tyler only cooking for three weeks, but was also out of his right mind thanks to weed, AND not old enough to get drunk, AND cooked a 4 -4.5 star dish, the giga chad of cooking.
Thank you Robin, and happy pride month to you as well! Your narrations make my day so much better especially when you rant or say something wholesome.
i do hope we get more epilogues like this at the end of each video, y'know? just pleasant, authentic little updates after the main content just to reassure us that the narrators are still indeed of sound mind and reminding us all that the world is not entirely doomed and hopeless. like aftercare but for memes
If I had to choose a song for the last minutes of my life, I would pick Gabriellas Sång (Swedish for Gabriella's Song, there are CZcams videos with English lyrics). It is so incredibly positive and sad at the same time. If I was an actor and the director wanted me to cry in a certain scene and I couldn't do it, I would tell them to play me this song. It's like an instant onion cutting effect. Basically the lyrics are like a memory flashback of your whole life, or what you would wish it to be. I'm normally a really stoic person, but if someone played this during like a funeral or something, I would become a sobbing mess 😭
Thanks for the recommendation.
The bulk of my Swedish music experience so far has been Håkan Hellström which isn’t so bad, or ‘dance bands’ which are a travesty somewhere between evil and comedy
3:10 - My dad's side of the family hunts & they do so for food. They eat everything they hunt.
they are missing mark zuckerberg 3:37
**lizard noises**
19:37 if it were my debit card doing a wrap-up, it would probably be like-
"You bought 30 mechanical pencils in 2022"
"You sure are enjoying buying Power Rangers figures"
"Bro why are you buying so much paper"
14:59 employer: there is no excuse your uncle can't come into work
Family: but he's dead
Employer: that's no excuse
19:06
That’s ₹12,366,825 and they show ads that lays buys potatoes from them in a very gentle way, by making them pay a sum that they’ll never be able to pay.
It's great to hear Robin is alright with these subs! I do love a rant / conversation about injustices in the world, even if they're frustrating. Just know when to wind down and get into a comforting mental space ^^
It's always nice seeing an Emkay video regardless of what subreddit they do.
And for the thumbnail: Pursuit of Happiness
Robin you are a mad man for taking these, but you're so so damn good at these subreddits.
22:16 Honestly I'm a guy and i feel scared to go out at night. Because im a fucking coward.
Same
nah, not because youre a coward, its because it’s just not safe at night for everyone in general, i almost got jumped by a crackhead woman in seattle at night
lmao this is one of my fave subreddits for a hot minute 😂
America: they aren't having enough kids!
Also America: they want resources to support themselves, how dare they?!
Everyone: "poor robin, always stuck with the worst subreddits"
Robin: "joke's on you, I'm into that sht!"
This subreddit hits way harder than it should.
10:00 it’s because he’s the KING OF THE UK AND 14 COMMONWEALTH REALMS, Robin
None of these words mean anything to me
19:00 Terminal. This country is at the terminal stage of capitalism and there is no saving us.
5:45 - As a teacher, there are plenty of kids.
17:56 THANK YOU! Refer to them as either Native Americans or the specific tribe that they are from, DO NOT REPEAT THE FALLACY OF COLUMBUS AND EVERY OTHER MOTHERFUCKING GOD DAMN EUROPEAN. - Signed, a Cascadian
My school literally told us (this was in like grade 1) that columbus called the natives "indians" because they were too dumb to realize that "india" wasn't india
im genuinely glad robin is ok, since i kinda thought he was just pissed at everything from how he's usually only in the subreddits that get you pissy
12:46 And then he shot you 37 times, claimed it was all in self-defense, and got either zero consequences or was "fired", which usually means he just moved 10 blocks down the road to a different precinct where he could pick up right where he left off.
Oh, and your family can't press charges against him, and even if you sue the precinct and win, they don't pay a dime in legal fees.
I sure do love our paramilitary terrorist group we call a police system.
The Doctor Who theme. That's what I want to hear last in this world.
Here in Germany, we get 25 MANDATORY vacation days, and we HAVE to take at least 20 of those, with our employers having to pay out the excess as if we had worked those extra days.
0:40 i think it was Robin Williams who said it first. He said it during one of his stand-up shows. 90s or 00s I think.
As Robin one said:
“🎶🎵 They only care about them till their born! 🎵🎶”
Thankful that "Lifetime Achievement Award" is almost exactly 6 minutes.
I tried to have a convo about the wage shit with my dad. His argument was
- life aint fair
- raising wages would raise prices for everything
- you can rent an apartment in the that's in a crumbling rickity old run down building on the bad side of town on minimum wage
I already hate your dad
So, this came out like a wall of text, and is only tangentially related due to the last point made, so I apologize for that. For context, this is in the central US.
I checked to see the ‘two bedroom rent on minimum wage’ for where I live, and there were only two options that showed up, so it’s a very small sample size. Minimum wage was calculated at 1160 with a 4 week month, 40 hr/wk, and no taxes.
One was $600, 2 bed 1 bath, technically on the ‘wrong side of the tracks’, but only 6 blocks (one block being crossing the tracks) away from a restaurant, a pharmacy, the library, the courthouse, a gas station, an atm, and the hospital. House itself didn’t look too shabby either.
The other was $1100, 3 bed 2 bath, in a fairly nice looking neighborhood, but towards the outskirts of town, down the highway from a few gas stations, and bit bit further than that you have some restaurants, the college campus (not a main campus, just a branch from a bigger university, not even as big as the high school here), a couple of banks and the movie theater. The closest of the things I mentioned being about 1 mile (20 blocks) from the house.
Of course the second house itself is better than the first one, but for ease of accessibility to anything useful, I feel that the much more reasonable $600 house would actually be the better choice, and with the minimum wage I outlined, not only would you be able to afford the house, but you would qualify for EBT/foodstamps, meaning that you have a (somewhat) decent place to live and something to eat.
Further, in my experience, taxes take about 13% of your raw income from your paychecks, meaning that you’d get about $1000 of your pay each month, completely removing the more expensive house from the options, but allowing you to still get the cheaper house while leaving you $400 for everything else, including any food the EBT doesn’t cover.
Where this may fall apart, however, is utilities, because they can be quite pricey, and the website I used doesn’t say whether they are included in the rent or not. If not, that takes about $200 out of your ‘wiggle room’ as I like to call it.
@@aqwkingchampion13 ye this sample size is so small it's anecdotal lol, this doesn't really prove or disprove anything
@@comradewindowsill4253 Yeah, hence why I called out the sample size myself.
That said, location also matters because I live in what I like to call the biggest little town in the middle of nowhere. A livable wage may be more attainable here than other places (just the fact we have one location as opposed to the seeming more probable situation of having none) entirely because it’s the middle of nowhere.
16:35 I remember that post saying "this man said he would not love her if she was a worm and she is crying" or something like that
Back to my favorite summer channel love these guys
14:44 If the employer fires a deceased employee before that employer receives official notification that an employee is dead, they can cancel insurance and other benefits, avoiding a payout.
For the debit/credit wrap-up thing, while I don't think they'd be able to give you times (since transactions don't go through immediately) they might be able to summarize the sources automatically. It might not be clear at first if the account has a weird name though, and it wouldn't be able to differentiate between locations, so that might just ruin the point of doing it in the first place.
Yep, Centralia Pennsylvania! I used to live nearby and would visit occasionally. My friends and I would take walks on the abandoned highway. That town was so unsettling lol
this subreddit is somehow very relatable
Never heard of this subreddit before, but I’m gonna give it a shot👍
18:34 Unexpected Ted Lasso reference FTW!
Nice one, Robin. Keep spreading that positivity! ❤
14:30 can confirm, that's how it works in Germany too. If I did not take all of my vacation days, the staff department is required to send me a letter a few months in advance to remind me that I still have some. Unused vacation days will expire at the end of the year and they are obligated to make sure this doesn't happen because I didn't know better.
If the company is so bent out of shape about a dead man not being in the office, put his ashes on his managers table 🙃
13:34 Robin - My boyfriend and I have known each other for the better part of our lives. 23 years this year, to be exact. We have a helluva story, like a lot of other people in this world. The short version is, we were high school sweethearts, stayed together for several years, got a place together after graduation, my narcissistic mother refusing me to see my father when we thought he was going to pass away because she didn't like my boyfriend because he wouldn't bow down to her narcissistic ways, causing him and I to break up because he didn't want to be the reason I couldn't say goodbye to my dad, got back together almost 3 years later (by this time, he'd had a kid who was 9 months old) and it wasn't the right time for either of us, so we broke up again. I met my kids' father 6 months later. We'd went on to spend 7 years apart while we went through our own journey's that we needed to go on. Then, he got a divorce about a year before I did... He and I went through really bad, abusive marriages. While the abuse was different between him and I, it's still abuse. Mine was physical, mental/emotional, verbal, and then financial when he became brave enough in the last 2 years, and for my BF, he dealt with verbal and mental/emotional. We found our way back to each other a year after that, and we've been together almost 6 years now. He's my rock, the only one that I trust with my life, and the only one that I have to count on. I lost my family within 2 years, I don't have friends that I can count on, it's just us. We've gone through hell and back together, going through a lot of adversary. Dealing with problematic homes since the landlords care only if they receive rent and not making sure that their home is actually habitable. Still today, we're dealing with bullshit. I found out that the apartment building I'm in was built in the 60's, and the water pipes are connected together instead of separately for each unit. The 3rd floor apartment could put grease down the sink and it's ME that will end up dealing with the clogged draining, causing water to rise up and flood my kitchen. I have videos and pictures of when that happened, causing me to lose access to over half of my cabinets now and losing many, many kitchen appliances and items (cookware, bakeware, etc.) that I'm STILL trying to get back. Well, we found out that the a/c unit's condensation drainage pipes are also connected... A blockage from, honestly who knows what, caused the 3rd floor down to the 1st floor (my apartment) to keep the pipe from draining correctly, resulting in a complete flooding of my apartment. I called the landlord and told him that this pipe was literally GUSHING water, and he said that "a/c's do that sometimes" and he would send the maintenance man over, who was on-site. It took him 40 minutes to respond. When he came in, his eyes went wide and he said it was the WORST he's EVER seen this happen. It flooded my apartment with so much water, I lost 80% of my items. My bed, clothes, electronics, things that were my family's that I'll NEVER get back because they've passed away, and much more. My bedroom closet shares the wall that is where the a/c/ unit is. We've been trying to clean up the water out of the carpets since Wednesday, and it's almost Sunday. It was so bad, half of my bedroom is still water-logged carpet - and it keeps spreading because we just can't seem to get it all up. This is just the most recent thing that's happened. We had a previous apartment that was a big, beautiful 3-bedroom home. For an apartment, it was huge. We were paying so much money for this place... then we couldn't use most of it. Rain would pour into my son's room, so we had to move him. Then, our girls' closet started having water pour into it because there was a leak coming from the upstairs apartment. Our girls lost so much because we had no idea until it happened. Then, we found out the real history of the place, the property management company, and what actually transpired to get where we were. We talked to the previous tenant when he came to pick up a package that had been delivered there instead of his new place. That still wasn't even the worst thing, imo, that we went through. We had to completely pack up what we could put into a single vehicle, and move to another state because of a terrible, terrible situation with our home. Throughout everything, we've stood together, held each other up, and kept going. I have a disability, and throughout that journey, he has stood beside me. In fact, there are times when I need his help to get to the bathroom, get dressed, etc. He's never once judged me, made me feel bad (we're 35 years old, and what's happening to me shouldn't be happening until I'm more like 60-70 years old). I love this man with all my heart, he's amazing. BUT, we CAN'T get married. I'll lose all of my benefits for myself and my children, insurance that is desperately needed, EBT, etc. He works his ass off day in and day out, making pretty good money, but we STILL can't afford everything on his salary. So, we HAVE to do what we have to do in order to make it. A lot of these videos speak so many truths for so many people. Our kids (we're a blended family, but we don't use the word step. We're just family) have asked us many, many times when we're going to get married. They're all for it! My two love their step-dad so much, and both have said so many times they wish that he was their father instead of what they got. Now that they're older, they understand that just because we aren't married, that doesn't mean we aren't a family and that our love isn't real. Their father and stepmother told them that because we weren't married, that means that he isn't family to them and that his love for my kids isn't real. They see what a real relationship is supposed to be like. Mommy isn't crying every night, and daddy isn't yelling/screaming, hitting, etc. That's what matters. We aren't unlike other people. Our story is similar to so many others. The details, the specifics, are different...but it's the same when it comes to making it, living life and trying to figure out how to survive. When a man goes to work every day - gone from the home for 12, 13, or even 14 hours - still isn't making enough to pay rent AND pay for food, clothing, etc., - that's the same. Way too many people are struggling because of how our world is. But is it going to change? Probably not. Will he and I ever get married? Probably not. That one little piece of paper, something that doesn't define our love, is what will be the thing that changes everything when we get older. What if something happened to me, and he isn't my husband, so who is next to be able to make that call, the decision, on my life? Legally, he won't be able to. Even though he's the one whose been there all those years. Life shouldn't have to be like that.
Maybe this won't mean much coming from a stranger on the internet, but having read your story I really wanted to tell you that you are an amazing person. I think our backgrounds probably are Immensely different, but I can understand and relate so much to your experiences. I grew up poor (still am too) so I know how it's to live struggling and worrying about a lot of stuff. I'd love to say "money doesn't matter!" or things like that, but the constant stress trying to survive shouldn't be underminded.
However I do think that, even struggling, a loving and supporting family will always be the best your kids can have. And I think you're an amazing parent to do that.
I will be wishing for the best to you and your family
14:51
this is really sad. my dad died 7 says ago, like, 40 minutes ago hit the 1 week mark. we still get letters in the mail from scam letter’s and ads. its so awful hoe these companies remind everyone of what they lost.
About the "Millenials arent having kids" thing. Hopefully wages will increase when theres less people around to accept shite deals. If theres suddenly a labor shortage, then they'll have to increase wages to lure people in.
You know its a good video when robin narrates it
Thank you, for letting us know that you are okay, after the angry subreddits!
The insulin cap is only for Medicare (for people over 65). Everyone not retirement age is just SOL I guess.
11:10 I did the Math, and bro didn’t even get 40% of what he won.
If I had six minutes to live I'd spent it all listening to the ads before my playlist
2:21 So relatable. My husband complains that he never has funny stories to tell from his days off or trips to the store/running errands. He's like how come it always happens with you.
if i had six minutes to live and i had to choose my last song to listen to, it’d have to be a year long song. (yes there is a song that is a year long)
2:35 insulin is so expensive, like imagine having to buy an Xbox each week for your entire life to live.
3:58 whenever I go to the zoo , not matter where it is, I swear the elephants are always standing in a group facing each other and looking around occasionally. I think they're trading gossip about the zoo guests.
17:29 If your answer isn’t carameldansen then this world is too far gone
I think Emkay is actively trying to ruin Robin's mental health
Y e s
bill gates has donated a lot for charity, however in his early years he was ultra monopolistic, there was a lawsuit over internet explorer, that's why it's now edge, and when windows used to run on top of DOS he ordered for windows to purposely give a meaningless error when attempting to run on anything other than MS-DOS. I wonder if the donations are to divert attention from his more current monopolistic affairs, like productivity software, or making it increasingly more tedious to to swap your default browser by separating every single option where possible in windows 11.
Thank you! Everyone talks about how great he is, but he's only good now that he's where he is. But getting there, he climbed on the backs of people
One of the things that really pisses me off is the people who pretend that rich people and poor people both have problems as if their problems are remotely comparable. As if being indecisive or not getting exactly what you wanted is anywhere near the same thing as struggling to get by while drowning in debt from a system that is designed to make you suffer for not being rich.
Robin saying "You know damn the fuck well why" made my day for no good reason
22:26 what I would do is I’d get all of my fellow women together, and wait for the men to return and go: “jokes on u mo-fos, we’re running this smit now!” We got pepper spray, high heels, and have had enough. And then fix global warming or something 🤷♀️
Up bank in Australia has something similar to the category thing. You can categorise your expenses with quite a few details a lot of them are automatically put in stuff like groceries and there are categories expenses cafes and restaurants, clothing and accessories, gifts and charity etc. It's very functional.
Don't stop me now by queen. Both for the irony and because that song is always a mood booster for me.
10:10 What if they're renting a really expensive apartment?
Also, what's so wrong with living with your parents? Or getting a roommate?I'm fed up of people wanting an apartment all to themselves but not wanting to put in the work to afford one.
As many commentors have said, stop putting yourself down Robin, you are an amazing person, and I love listening to you read random stuff on the internet! Also, america has SO MANY problems, in its education system, justice system, ecomomy system, but it did do some great stuff int he past and still is one of the best places for diversity. Everything has its pros and cons, and america is slowly succumbing to the cones, but dont forget all the amazing things that still exist here! Also, im planning on going to Norway for college because... yeah no
I live in America. I'm pretty sure if some kid yelled, "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands" here, half of the bus would break into tears. 😂
I don’t think the reason teachers or parents say “do well or you’ll be a garbage man” is that they make bad money, rather as it is a pretty gross job, like the smell is horrible, like I work with dead bodies, and the smell is horrendous but I feel engaged and I do something I love
7:24 this one made me smile simply because of what it shows. I’d rather focus on the not sad part of it and rather focus that it’s pointing that even cis makes use gender affirming care to make themselfs feel better about their gender and bodies. It’s almost like gender affirming care is a good thing for people.
17:20 I would listen to "Bury The Light" (Vergil's theme) but it's 9 minutes...
I am now sad
7:45 why I'll absolutely never be driving any vehicles in the future, can't have a check engine light if you don't have an engine to deal with
Nice to see the amazing ABK in this video!
Red Signal, easy
"A billion screaming, squamous things approach,
Oozing and clawing though the shattered tatters of a sane world!
ALL THE DOORS ARE OPEN NOW!"
(flatlines)