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Re:It's an Age of Marvels by odiroot on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:52AM (#40343388)
> More than anything else, I think the modern American super market would blow the minds of anyone born before 1900 more than any other marvel that exists.

Modern American supermarket would blow the minds of anyone from the Warsaw Pact countries ;), up until probably mid 1990's.

Re:It's an Age of Marvels by tomjen3 on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:18AM (#40343677)
There is a video where it literally blows the mind of an immigrant from Cuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBA41QgIty8

Re:It's an Age of Marvels by mavhc on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:09AM (#40344220)
Literally literally, or metaphorically literally?
Re:It's an Age of Marvels by brabel on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:43AM (#40344605)
"It literally blew his mind" doesn't mean what people nowadays think it means :D
Re:It's an Age of Marvels by Karellen on Monday May 13, 2024 @01:05PM (#40345495)
...but you repeat yourself
Re:It's an Age of Marvels by tomjen3 on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:05PM (#40346310)
Literally, in that he is unable to process things, just in the same way my fuse blows - it is resettable.

Not literallly in the cartoon sense.

Re:It's an Age of Marvels by chasd00 on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:02PM (#40348377)
on top of it all, they took him to an Aldi which is pretty small/basic. They should have taken him to a large Central Market.
Re:It's an Age of Marvels by creer on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:10PM (#40350111)
Still current for some countries: 2 weeks ago, a shopper clearly confused half to death barely manages to make themselves understood to me in 3 words of english: They are asking what is the price of the bag of oranges.

Because there were 3 different prices on that price tag. The price, the one if you have the card, the one if you have the app or some other deep magic. (They were not stupid - presumably they could understand on their own the additional price per unit - but most likely not which price this was based on and why...) What a world we live in /s!