• @[email protected]
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    1171 year ago

    Where the hell did the idea of tipping your landlord come from, anyway? I’ve heard a few people in recent years bring it up as if it was an actual thing, and I’m just like WTF?

    • no bananaOP
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      I believe it has roots in r/landlordlove. A satire Very Serious™ subreddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        291 year ago

        Flat earther-ism used to be satire, too.

        Now we have people killing themselves in attempts to “prove” that the Earth is flat.

        Never doubt the ability of satire to fly over people’s heads at 10,000ft, and for those people to swallow that satire uncritically; hook, line, and sinker.

        • no bananaOP
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          51 year ago

          I know. Landlords deserve a tip for real.

        • Herbal Gamer
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          Now we have people killing themselves in attempts to “prove” that the Earth is flat.

          You wouldn’t happen to have footage of something so hilarious?

          • @GoofSchmoofer
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            101 year ago

            It’s a video of a guy that falls off the edge of the world. You can hear him saying “see I was right!” as he bounces off the shell of the turtle.

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          Of course we aren’t!

    • @xantoxis
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      511 year ago

      Pretty sure it’s not an actual thing anywhere, just a subtle pervasive joke.

      • no bananaOP
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        351 year ago

        There have been some smaller landlords who have actually asked for it. If it has been successful for them or not I cannot say. I would assume not, it’s fucking asinine.

        • @[email protected]
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          They’re asking for it? WTF.

          But hey, I think the value of a tip is the appreciation it shows when it is not expected.

          • no bananaOP
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            41 year ago

            It’s been more like coercion as far as I could tell, but yes.

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        No I had an old landlord strongly imply he should be tipped.

        They basically said “you know it’s traditional to tip your maintaince man at Christmas, and I do a lot more than that”

        I obviously did not tip.

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          Your maintenance man is NOT your landlord, and honestly probably deserves a tip. I tip my garbage men on christmas.

          Fuck your landlord for implying he does more and deserves a tip though.

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        “I thought it was internet legend like white people clapping when the plane lands”

  • @Stovetop
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    391 year ago

    NGL I thought this image was supposed to be the landlord pulling bags of money that the tenants paid by what each says.

    No that doesn’t make much sense, but I seriously have a hard time conceiving of any scenario where a landlord is supposed to be shown in a sympathetic light.

    Fuck landlords.

    • no bananaOP
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      111 year ago

      Landchads deserve a tip

      • Smorty [she/her]
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        Please define landchads. A friend of mine some land and I wanna know if he’s a Chad or an evil lord

        • no bananaOP
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          21 year ago

          Landchad = landlord

          Landleech = tenant

          Afaik

  • lad
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    Well, I’m going to say that in some cases landlords are just the usual people who were a bit luckier. I don’t think that applies to most of places with a high price for living and/or housing, but I have a friend that technically was a landlord while he finished his education and lived in dormitory he lended his newly finished apartment in a neighboring town.

    What I’m trying to say, I think, is that not for everyone being a landlord is a lifestyle

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      Tbh the problem isn’t the individuals who happen to be landlords, it’s the system of landlordship where someone can own someone else’s home and make profit off of their lives. Just because you live and act within a system that doesn’t make you the problem. You can be a massive anti-capitalist and still need the money to buy food.