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🍹Early to RISA 🧉 sh.itjust.works Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works
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EmilieEasie fedinsfw.app EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app
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I loved the Flintstones, good parody

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Jo Miran lemmy.ml JoMiran@lemmy.ml
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And a car, and his house had an attached garage, and an oven big enough to fit a rack of brontosaurus ribs.

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ikt aussie.zone Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
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pretty sore feet though iirc

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Shieldtoad sh.itjust.works Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works
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And a car, and his house had an attached garage, and an oven big enough to fit a rack of brontosaurus ribs.

And his best friend lives next door.

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raman_klogius ani.social raman_klogius@ani.social
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Letting the days go by

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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

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Floodedwomb lemmy.world Floodedwomb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-05
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Fred Flintstone wasn't a loser, he was just an average guy.

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WIZARD POPEđź’« lemmy.world Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

Leviathan dinosaur egg.

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PuddleOfKittens sh.itjust.works PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

It's obviously just a picture made up to fit the aesthetic without great thought to worldbuilding, but if you ignore the perspective it could be made of multiple vertical sheets of rock.

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MeowerMisfit817 lemmy.world MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

The roof and the garage seem to be other rocks. And the chimney too.

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Pencilnoob lemmy.world Pencilnoob@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

I think in the movie they show houses being made with stacked layers of rock chiseled out like a 3d printer

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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It's obviously just a picture made up to fit the aesthetic without great thought to worldbuilding, but if you ignore the perspective it could be made of multiple vertical sheets of rock.

Yeah, if you're watching Hannah Barbera cartoons looking for detailed animation and well thought out worlds, you've gone to the wrong place lol

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valar lemmy.ca valar@lemmy.ca
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Who ever said Fred Flintstone was a loser?

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

Based on the show's content, they probably used Bronto-Jackhammers to split the rocks and finished it off with stone hand tools.

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Mantzy81 aussie.zone Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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Based on the show's content, they probably used Bronto-Jackhammers to split the rocks and finished it off with stone hand tools.

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ColeSloth discuss.tchncs.de ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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Fred Flintstone wasn't a loser, he was just an average guy.

Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.

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Hawk lemmy.dbzer0.com Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.

Al wasn't bad at his job at all, he just cared little.

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Nounka lemmy.world Nounka@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-24
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Idd.

And 12000 yaer later there was a dude called Al Bundy. He had a wife that liked to shop. 2 kids in school, a car and a own home. Paid it all with a shooselling wage...
He is also seen as the loser...

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heartSagan5 lemmy.zip heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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He has a house. The way AirBnB, house flippers, and corporate rentals has priced many out of the market; that’s wild to call him a loser.

Do the Flintstones even have a mortgage?

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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Idd. And 12000 yaer later there was a dude called Al Bundy. He had a wife that liked to shop. 2 kids in school, a car and a own home. Paid it all with a shooselling wage... He is also seen as the loser...

Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.

The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.

They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.

It's well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.

Despite owning a house it's been said over and over that it's an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.

The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.

Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.

The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.

They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.

It’s well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.

Despite owning a house it’s been said over and over that it’s an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.

The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money.

But most important of all...it's a fictitious, satirical television show

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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I am sad that I have but one upvite to give

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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
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Who ever said Fred Flintstone was a loser?

Fred Flintstone was a loser

  • /u/valar

There, you just did, through the magic of selective quoting:p

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Simulation6 sopuli.xyz Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

It was Buckminster Fuller cement home. I couldn’t find a link for them, but they were made from a mold and looked sort of like that.

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ColeSloth discuss.tchncs.de ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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Al wasn't bad at his job at all, he just cared little.

Tell your customers they're giant fatties tends to drive away business....

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ColeSloth discuss.tchncs.de ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes. The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food. They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on. It’s well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart. Despite owning a house it’s been said over ...

You trying to make a point somewhere?

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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Al Bundy was considered poor and a loser because he was a shoes salesman.

A shoes sales man with a nice house, 2 cars, 2 kids and a wife that liked to spend money.

Fuck if that's what being a loser is, what the fuck even am I?

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Sam_Bass lemmy.world Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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crane operators used to be well paid

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Fred was a loser? I mean they depicted him as treating Barn like one, but Barn always had the better end of the deal.

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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He has a house. The way AirBnB, house flippers, and corporate rentals has priced many out of the market; that’s wild to call him a loser. Do the Flintstones even have a mortgage?

yeah, every now and then i think about going out to the hills and building a stone and mud hut. slapping an A/C unit on the side with extension cords leading all the way down through a grassy field to the nearest airport or quarry. not a fire hazard at all.

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.

those are big dinosaur molars. dinosaurs with bad dental hygiene

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Sharkticon lemmy.zip Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-12-21
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Who ever said Fred Flintstone was a loser?

The show did. Rather often. Hell it was even in the movie.

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valar lemmy.ca valar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-04-02
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The show did. Rather often. Hell it was even in the movie.

I watched a lot of Flintstones and I don't remember it that way.. A blue collar oaf maybe but respected.

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