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8mo ago

Get a rope.

I'm not explaining this one to the kids. Someone else can.

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NEW YORK CITY!?!?
- Get a rope...
  
  Am I crazy, or was that the commercial where they made and released an "extended cut" to show that they had tied the guy up with the rope just to stop people complaining about the implied lynching? Or did my adolescent brain invent that story?
  
  Somebody get a rope
- That really chaps my hide.
- We make pretty good food. Lots of people from all over the world living it up in the city.
  I'd bet you can get damn good salsa, but perhaps not as easily as just talking to some gente right there in Texas.
  Never been to tx, no plans to, just saying the real mexicanos will know what's up, whether in NYC or Texas.
  
  Never seen the commercial there referencing, I take it?
  
  Some Texas food is fucking good, but lots of it is shitty chain food, and garbage salsa has been had there as well.
  There’s also really good (California level) burritos available in Boston if you know where to look. Anna’s Taqueria specifically.
- Better be top
- Home of the brave (eaters of salsa)

For the kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S828Y7Eais&t=0
- Thank you. You're doing the work of some lord or other.
  
  “Lord” came from a phrase like “loaf warden” or “loaf guardian.” Because bread was the very important staple food, and someone had to be responsible for its safekeeping. Likewise, “Lady” comes from “loaf maiden,” presumably having something to do with the creation of bread from raw materials.
- Haha, oh my gosh... Pace tastes like the most disguising, sugary, boring ass salsa ever. It's wild to see they ever tried to market themselves as authentic.
  
  When it came to the pronunciation in that commercial, the very last thing they tried to market themselves as was authentic. Kinda hurt to hear.
- Lmfao
  My parents love that sauce. I like the spicy one the others are boring American flavored salsa
  
  Are they made with real Americans?

It’s always funny to me that these billionaires have to cosplay as a badass. Can’t be your actual self, gotta always pretend to be a strong man.
- And to make it worse, I'm like 85% sure that this is an AI generated image, so it's him asking AI to show him what he looks like in cosplay.
  
  It is AI. This is actually Elon musk in a cowboy hat:

Can I just say that as someone who enjoys dressing in the fancier western getups (think Tombstone) this more cosplay-rugged look screams insecurity when worn by people trying to look... Like they do manual labor?
Like he's a billionaire. Where's the tailored frock jacket, vest, and bolo tie, with a $3k hat. At least that way he wouldn't be a poser
- Or the regular, modern version: boots, jeans, belt, flannel, aaaaand $3k hat. In the summer, you swap your wool hat for straw, but don't you DARE wear short pants or a t-shirt.
  
  Right? You can make that look cool, especially with his level of money
  
  You can't stop me, grandpa.
  
  The belt buckle needs to be the size of a dinner plate and be made from pure silver and gold.

Bezos did it first:

The delusions of the rich lmao.
Imagine being one of the literal wealthiest people on the planet and still having to play dress up so you can feel like a bad ass lmao. Hope he gets the help he needs, and I mean that sincerely.
- Not just dress up, that’s heavily edited, too.
  If he goes to such lengths to make an image of what he wants to be, he must really hate what he is as much as we do.
  I would pity him if he wasn’t so dangerous.
  
  Don’t most of us hate him for what he is?

Big hat, no cattle
- There was, however, a horse mentioned that one time...
  
  I don't think the flight attendant accepted his offer.
  
  What was its name? 🤔

I'm totally heterosexual by the way. In case anybody would question my sexuality. But nobody would because I'm so obviously heterosexual. I mean, I drive a humongous truck, and I wear cowboy attire and I absolutely love Brokeback Mountain, the cowboy documentary, and I eat meat, and I am heterosexual, so yeah.
- Also, one of my favourite hobbies is making my own fudge which I then pack and send to all my friends.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6KJ2U9YGwE

Is this an AI photo?
- Let's say it wouldn't exactly shock me if Elon posted AI photos of himself looking tough.
  
  It 'worked' for Mr Putin.
- i am positive that it is, and if not it is super airbrushed. it has that uncanny valley look. it looks about 98% human. Elon at his best looks no more than 70% human.
- Bases on the comments the last time I saw this posted: probably.

No. Get a rope.

Tax(his)Ass

Oh yeah, his truck will fit right in at the road house
- It’ll keep the raccoons out of the actual trash.

I'm getting a lot of Westworld players vibes from the photos in this thread.
Not the "good" players vibes, more the "I'm here to pose a badass, get drunk at the saloon, fuck a prostitute and then shoot her" vibes...
- He would definitely be eating an apple

NEY YORK CITY?!
- Permanently Deleted

It’s hot AF is Texas. What’s with all the layers he’s wearing.

I'm not explaining this one to the kids. Someone else can.
Just cover it in the same talk as cosplay, or cultural appropriation if you're feeling cheeky.
- i think they were talking about the pace commercial reference from the "new York City" and "get a rope" lines.

"Texas"
~Elon Musk
- "Taxes"
  ~Everyone else

All hat, no cattle.

A rich poser.

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Why y'all hating on NYC salsa? Must be a reference I don't get.
Also, fuck Musk.
- It’s a television commercial… (in the voice of Frau Farbissina)
- As an American 90s kid...
  There was a series of TV commercials for Pace Picante Salsa. In this series of commercials, there's a group of cowboys gathered around somewhere, like a campfire, and they're eating something Tex-Mex.
  They get to comparing their salsa jars and they realize Pace is made in Texas, but "This stuffs made in New York City!", to which additional cowboys and/or extras chant in unison, "NEW YORK CITY?".
  
  Then "get a rope"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S828Y7Eais&t=26s&ab_channel=TheDeadMediaGroup
- No you don't understand, they cannot mix tomatoes salt and peppers together in the northeast.
  
  ...well see, there's your tell already: the primary ingredient in real salsa is peppers, not tomatoes...

That picture has to be doctored because he is out of shape and fat
- Eh, a really good photographer can fix that
  With editing tools

- That is the newest looking hat I've seen since one time when I bought a brand new hat. Seriously, mine looked more beat up than that within a month, tops. Also mine wasn't the cowboy hat (or fedora). Honestly I can't remember what kind of hat it was it was like 15 years ago at the very least.

Poser

In all fairness, unless you're getting your salsa from the taco kiosk in the gas station, most salsa in Texas tastes like it was made in New York City.
(Or if you live in El Paso, but I've never really seen that as part of Texas. It's its own place)

He doesn't look goofier than anyone else that dresses up like a cowboy that isn't actively doing rodeo/ranching on horseback.
- I hate to tell you this- they all look goofy if they aren't actually doing cowboy stuff.
  Do you think someone walking around in a firefighter outfit for fashion reasons wouldn't look ridiculous?

The Vandals - Urban Struggle

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