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

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 83 points 8 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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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 20 points 8 months ago

That's what they want you to believe.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 18 points 8 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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Only a wannabe fake would claim to be a "ninja" !

Come on that's like talking about fight club...

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[–] le_throosh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dont forget "computer"

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

These sound like classes in a weird jrpg

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[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well fuck. I'm a useful man..

Looks like that's useless :/

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You were simply transformed into a handyperson.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 20 points 8 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"

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A Go-fer

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 11 points 8 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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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First one; then the other.

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[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Which "for"?

Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.

Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] poppy@lemm.ee 35 points 8 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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the podcast is now obsolete?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Meta af

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would have been great as a garden hermit.

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[–] tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With no more High Priestess the priest hunter could finally retire

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 10 points 8 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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[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

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

[–] whyisthesheep@thelemmy.club 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bet toad doctors were so chill.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My dad worked on an assembly line making vacuum tubes. After that he was a calculator repairman for most of his life.

Calculator Repairman.

An entire life that is obsolete now. Because we no longer do much of the drudgery of assembly lines; we have machines that do it. Calculators (and other things) that used to require an entire infrastructure to keep running are now cheap and disposable.

Why can't a high school graduate raise a family of four and buy a house? Because this isn't that world. We've eliminated a lot of the jobs the middle class used to do.

Not on purpose, just because.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 8 months ago

But also on purpose.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

Huh, no wonder anyone's so damn useless 🤣

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

FWIW, fluffer is still available.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 8 months ago

Sign me up to be a priest hunter.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also, court jesters.

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[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

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

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit

Doesn't sound like a bad life!

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[–] oldone@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always thought court philosopher would be a good gig

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cigarette girls still exist, in Vegas at least.

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

Damn I wanna be a high priestess of athena polias

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

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