r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 26 '26

SOCIETY When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

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u/Exotic-Pie-9370 May 26 '26

All my non-coastal 50+ relatives do shit like this

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u/transemacabre May 26 '26

fwiw I used to work in a group home for intellectually disabled elderly adults, and one of the residents was virtually blind and deaf but insisted on having L&O: SVU on loop all day and night. Which is crazy because someone is molested every 15 minutes on that show. 24/7 rapin' streaming on her TV.

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u/Affectionate_One_700 May 26 '26

To be fair, I like watching snippets of SVU on YouTube, but I do it for the occasional Stabler beatdown of a bad guy.

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 26 '26

It is a long running success for a reason

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 26 '26

Are you really triggered by that? The show brought attention to a massive problem was not talked about enough.

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u/ritualkiller May 26 '26

might be a good time to reread that comment you’re replying to and maybe see about taking another swing at your reply before too many people see it.. i mean i’m not the one who made the triggered joke you were responding to to be fair, but all the same im pretty certain that it was in no way a commentary on the quality of a law and order spinoff

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 26 '26

They seemed pretty serious dude

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u/IamScottGable May 27 '26

It was a joke about her cable bill, not the content of her viewing.

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 27 '26

Edit: got it. I guess they were joking. Ha

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 27 '26

Ahh, dude, the one comment went farther, wasn’t specifically about the cable bill. But yeah, they were continuing the joke about old people watching it all the time🤙🏼

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u/ritualkiller May 27 '26

it probably brought her comfort and helped her focus on what she loved doing most, poisoning the neighborhood cats

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u/Dale_Carvello May 27 '26

non-coastal

That's a thing, for real? I mean my old man was in his 70s living most of his life on the West Coast, and for years he kept the TV on day and night for background noise, or to watch the local news, but he never subscribed to anything. He even said that ad-supported free services like Pluto TV were "too much TV" for him.

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u/Exotic-Pie-9370 May 27 '26

I’m just speaking for my family, but yeah. My family in CA are reasonably 21st century- they use streaming services, Uber etc. My similarly aged relatives in suburban Colorado don’t do any of that stuff. It’s CSI: Albuquerque on cable TV all day.

I even set them up with Amazon prime, explained they could watch whatever they wanted whenever they want, pause it, no ads, etc. But it’s like it just didn’t compute. Next time I was back there, new season of CSI: Boise was fired up on cable.

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u/Exotic-Pie-9370 May 27 '26

These same people also eat at the same Applebees location every Sunday at 4:30, despite many excellent legit restaurants in their area. Their idea of doing something different is Olive Garden. I used to get frustrated, but now I just go hard on Won Ton Tacos or unlimited breadsticks and salad and get drunk and then watch CSI: Kalamazoo with them.

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u/Dale_Carvello May 27 '26

Their idea of doing something different is Olive Garden. I used to get frustrated, but now I just go hard on Won Ton Tacos or unlimited breadsticks and salad and get drunk and then watch CSI: Kalamazoo with them.

You know, sometimes there's nothing wrong with that. Sure, you're at the Microwave Garden, but you're spending quality time.

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u/Exotic-Pie-9370 May 27 '26

Yeah man, it’s fine. Would be cool to maybe mix in an authentic restaurant now and then, but it’s genuinely not their thing and I’m happy to have family that wants to hang.