• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    42·
    2 months ago

    I like it. The guy who played Al Boreland now lives a quiet life.

    Tim Allen went pro-Trump, whined about snowflakes and not being able to make jokes anymore, watch Disney replace Buzz Lightyear’s voice and lose a bunch of other roles, and now is “politically neutral”.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      Tim Allen has always been conservative. I’ve been rewatching Home Improvement and it kind of blows me away how much the show leans on gender stereotypes for its jokes! It was only the 1990s but it feels like ancient history now.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        I haven’t seen the show in years but I remember it having a slightly ironic/subversive undercurrent? I always read Tim Taylor as a bit of a caricature, that his whole grunting macho overdo everything attitude almost always backfired on him and he’d be better off calming the fuck down.

        Exhibit A: The character of Al Boreland, who is…well basically he’s Norm Abram. While still outwardly traditionally masculine, wearing a full beard, a flannel shirt a tool belt to his contractor’s job, he’s very secure in his manhood, confident without being macho, soft spoken and even gentle. A perfect foil to Tim Taylor, who finds kindred spirits in Clark Griswold and Jeremy “POWAAA” Clarkson. If you’re really on board with the MAGA alpha male bullshit, do you write a character like Al Boreland?

        I think, like a lot of folks on the right, Tim Allen followed the Republican party as they sprinted toward fascism. I think Allen was in on the joke in the 1990s and became the joke in the 2010s.

        • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          The show totally played it straight with some very cringeworthy episodes in the early seasons. They started subverting it more and more as time went along.

          Some of the stuff they stayed with for a very long time though. Al Borland was the butt of many jokes for not presenting as traditionally masculine, for his relationship with his mother, for being single, etc. At times it could be hard to watch, with Tim essentially bullying Al relentlessly. Of course everything is all great at the end of the episode but it rarely involved an apology from Tim!

      • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        And his show Last Man Standing was a blatantly obvious Republican. I didn’t mind the show though because his kids were Democrat and they were a foil to him.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Lego instructions > IKEA instructions. While I think both are excellent at language free building instructions, Lego are the true masters. IKEA targets adults with their instructions and are seen by a lot of people as tedious and confusing, Lego targets children and they make universally beloved building toys.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    That also looks like me in college when my friends would complain that we didn’t have anything to smoke out of.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Okay but like a shim or just a broken discarded piece of 2x4?

    Or I guess the chaotic evil version of this is a twig with leaves on it.

  • GOTFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    2 months ago

    Jokes on you I had to go buy a kitchen sink faucet and replace it 1st thing in the morning before going to bed for my night shift cause ours broke yesterday evening 9pm. I’m a IT guy with 0 plumbing skill.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    As a woodworker, I’d do the same. Granted it would be a piece of wood with matching dimensions to the foot, but still just a piece of wood.