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[–] [email protected] 120 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ninja is not an obsolete job! They've just become so stealthy and cunning that no one realizes they're still around πŸ₯·πŸ«₯

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Ignoring the joke, it is actually obsolete. The last ninja family refuses to name a successor, pass on certain techniqies, etc. so technically, no more official ninja

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know... That sounds like just the sort of thing an ancient ninja clan would want you to think...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

That's what they want you to believe.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well that sucks. If there are never goin to be ninjas again the least the family could do is write down all the secret techniques for histories sake.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

How's Splinter supposed to teach his turtle boys now? We're just about getting to the good mutagen technologies!

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hidden Figures should be required reading (required viewing?) for anyone in STEM

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (2 children)

These sound like classes in a weird jrpg

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well fuck. I'm a useful man..

Looks like that's useless :/

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You were simply transformed into a handyperson.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't the same as a handyman. The title "useful man" was for a servant who'd never actually serve the master.

Today it'd be a "runner" or some kind of "assistant to the assistant"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does a priest hunter find new priests, or is it a person who kills priests?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First one; then the other.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I's reign.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which "for"?

Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.

Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or a priest who also keeps the monastery flush with game meat?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There’s a podcast called Jobsolete that covers, as the name implies, obsolete jobs! It’s inactive now but they have an ok size catalog that it’s worth going back and listening.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So the podcast is now obsolete?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would have been great as a garden hermit.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

With no more High Priestess the priest hunter could finally retire

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They said we don't need toad doctors anymore, but I'm not so sure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is the doctor treating sick toads, or treating sick people using toads? Both? Maybe it's just a pejorative and real toads aren't involved all

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Them: You're a ninja? I didn't realize you all still existed. You: Thank you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I bet toad doctors were so chill.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

That's the one that jumped out at me almost religiously. I feel like I lost out on something deeply fulfilling and tailored to my very soul.

Edit: It doesn't mention living in a toadstool or a hermit hut covered in them as I had imagined, but I'm sure it's perfectly legal to do that while still upholding your oaths and croaks.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Huh, no wonder anyone's so damn useless 🀣

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's not on the list but I always wanted to be a knocker-upper

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

FWIW, fluffer is still available.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Sign me up to be a priest hunter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

If you’re a dude who hunts handsy priests using ninjitsu, I’d consider you a useful man…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I always thought court philosopher would be a good gig

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Professional mourners are very much still a thing. Had them at a few funerals I attended. Very awkward to see them more invested into crying for the departed than the family. Some of the family members also seemed to think so, but hey, it's tradition and respectful of the dead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cigarette girls still exist, in Vegas at least.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Damn I wanna be a high priestess of athena polias

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

That's okay, I'm not a useful man.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Aren't professional mourners still a thing in China or something?

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