Aren’t professional mourners still a thing in China or something?
Sign me up to be a priest hunter.
You can still be a kind of garden hermit if you get certain jobs in science and ecology.
Also, court jesters.
Hey, we still have plenty of ridiculous clowns. I hear Ricky Gervais’ career is still going strong
They still exist i think
These sound like classes in a weird jrpg
Joint role play experts group?
Priest Hunter lol
Ninja is not an obsolete job! They’ve just become so stealthy and cunning that no one realizes they’re still around 🥷🫥
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
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.
How’s Splinter supposed to teach his turtle boys now? We’re just about getting to the good mutagen technologies!
Ignoring the joke
Apparently you are too
Well yeah That’s what he said
I don’t know… That sounds like just the sort of thing an ancient ninja clan would want you to think…
They’ll change their minds one a skilled but arrogant youth appears on their doorstep. They will, of course, be later killed by his nemesis, but not before transfering their legacy onto him.
That’s what they want you to believe.
Only a wannabe fake would claim to be a “ninja” !
Come on that’s like talking about fight club…
They stll work today, protecting sports memorabilia. They are the ninja baseball batman.
Them: You’re a ninja? I didn’t realize you all still existed. You: Thank you
Well fuck. I’m a useful man…
Looks like that’s useless :/
You were simply transformed into a handyperson.
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”
A Go-fer
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.
TIL, thanks.
If only I could be a Useful Man…
Huh, no wonder anyone’s so damn useless 🤣
If you’re a dude who hunts handsy priests using ninjitsu, I’d consider you a useful man…
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.
With no more High Priestess the priest hunter could finally retire
With decriminalization, they’re probably coming back
No no, see, priests still exist, just not high priestesses.
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.
But also on purpose.
RIP lighthouse keeper
