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[linnea]

So I am curious. In your opinion, what is a Hunt's move? What constitutes a Hunt's move? It has been firmly established as canon that Hunt's is the lowest common denominator. I would like to hear some of your thoughts on Hunt's moves that have been sidled your way. I tried the search function, so mods please delete if we've already discussed this in a Hunt's thread.

[theinevitable]

yesterday I couldn't find the ketchup, so I went and found our collection of little ketchup packets from take-out.
they were all hunt's ketchup.
HUNTSMOVE

V's cat likes to lick its crotch in front of them. at the dinner table.
HUNTSMOVE

today my mom apparently screamed at me for about 5 minutes while I was in the basement playing my guitar at extreme volume. finally, my dad came down, at which point I turned down the volume and heard him telling me politely "dinner is ready." after living in this world for 50-some years and in this house for 10 years, she has not figured out that screaming louder does not always mean the person can hear you. Also needs must learn: once you have screamed several times without being heard, go down and talk to the person face to face. It pains me even more because the woman is brilliant. This is the one thing she just can't figure out, for some reason.
SCREAMING CONSTANTLY, HUNTSMOVE!
COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR MOM ON THE INTERNET, HUNTSMOVE!

today, after I screwed something up at work, some cool liquid landed on the back of my neck. I cannot imagine what this cool liquid on me could have been other than Human Spit. The guys there are all nice, but, what the fuck?
HOPEFULLY NOT REALLY A HUNTSMOVE BECAUSE I WOULD PREFER NOT TO HAVE BEEN SPIT ON BY MY CO-WORKER, BUT WHAT THE HELL ELSE COULD IT BE

today I got into a discussion about varieties of Porn with a nice girl I know. we agreed that Amateur/homemade porn was less ethically troubling, until such scenarios as "come on baby, let me take a picture, I won't show anyone" and "he doesn't love me, maybe he will if I do anal with him on camera" entered our minds.
and then, I realized I had just told a nice, friendly girl "personally, I prefer amateur porn."
HUNTSMOVE

but, the real huntsmove of the day:
a man I work with... my BOSS... referred to this (apparently very attractive) girl he was telling my coworker about as "a notch on [his] belt."
I dub this phrase/concept "the hunt's move."
Also one of my friend Katie's friends literally cuts notches on his belt. I guess that is worse.

typing things in all caps is becoming a habit for me lately-- hunt's move.
leaving out the ' in hunt's move-- hunt's move.
caring about the ' in hunt's move-- hunt's move.
I am getting into a "thing" here, I am going to stop before I go even more too far.

[smick]

I say you apply some goddamned E5, G#5, and C#5 chords to that, as well as your electromuff.

[theinevitable]

yeah, it'll be hell of emo. hell of such as "*twinkly guitar arpeggio*ohmygodmymomissomeanwhycan'tshestopyelling *distortion, power chords* HUNTSMOVE! HUNTSMOVE *quiet again*"

...I am not even kidding. basically when I got home I RAN downstairs, plugged in my guitar, and started whaling (wailing?) on some Chords.
Sorry about previous post. I am in a weird mood where I am basically freaking out about many things.
I am not sure whether it makes stupid angst any better when you know that it's stupid angst and doesn't matter in the long run.

severe apologies for this whole deal. I am trying really hard to think of a good hunt's move, here.

It is a hunt's move to put a deer head on the roof of your trailer so that the Bald Eagles, proud symbol of our nation, will pick it clean for you.
It is a hunt's move, too, to be a Bald Eagle, proud symbol of our nation, and to feed on Trash, thus making Linnea refer to you as a Vulture. HAVE SOME SELF-RESPECT! Eat a Salmon (Rushdie) or something. Carry off some communist babies.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Well now, I don't think a Hunt's move is just anything lame or stupid.  A Hunt's move is when you do something that might be otherwise cool, but you do it in such cheap or half-assed fashion that it kinda sucks.

For instance, when I first started at my company, we had awesome Christmas parties at the Marriott downtown with open bar.  Then when the tech market crashed and the company's stock price was in the shitter, they had the holiday party in a big tent in the parking lot of one of our buildings, immediately after work, no significant others invited.  Now THAT was a Hunt's move.

[side_show]

To me, a Hunts move is have the choice between a high class and low class way of behaving, and just going for low class anyway.

Wearing way too much perfume/cologne = Hunts move

Taking up two seats on the bus because you have a bag/purse/briefcase = Hunts move

Choosing AssBar over TOUAMB = Hunts move

Talking on a cellphone in a non-fast-food restaurant = Hunts move

Repeating a complaint to a service person over and over while they are working to remedy the issue = Hunts move

[CortJstr]

I can't decide if these are Hunt's moves or not but recently at work I've overheard two different people complaining because:

1) The North Face doesn't put it's logo on it's stuff big enough for people to know you're wearing something North Face.

2) A local deli puts way too much meat on their sandwiches but charges the same as Subway. And that's just misleading and wasteful because who would want that much meat? Subway has determined the ideal amount of meat and if someplace is going to give you more than that then they should at least "advertise" this via higher prices so people know not to go there.

I've got one. Claiming your landlord is responsible for overdrawing your checking account because they waited 6 days to cash your rent check which made you think you had more money than you thought.

The temp who sits next to me won't send an e-mail out without at least 3 pieces of clip art and a background graphic. I'm serious. Yesterday she spent 20 minutes composing an e-mail to 2 other temps asking where they wanted to go for lunch because she couldn't find an appropriate picture to represent Chipotle. Or spell Chipotle, actually.

[theinevitable]

my friend, who is very into what is Proper and Polite, somehow does not get it that it is unbearably Hunts to use his cell phone in a restaurant. he does this in NICE RESTAURANTS.
I have tried to subtly hint. I have even said "parker, turn off the goddamn phone." But his mother and his girlfriend both apparently feel it unbearable to have to leave a voice message. He is consumed by the need to answer his phone. he once answered his phone when I called when he was in the library.
Hunt's move.

[AugustWest]

2) A local deli puts way too much meat on their sandwiches but charges the same as Subway. And that's just misleading and wasteful because who would want that much meat? Subway has determined the ideal amount of meat and if someplace is going to give you more than that then they should at least "advertise" this via higher prices so people know not to go there.

Uh, I,   ah buh....

That one just flabbergasts me.

[CortJstr]

Uh, I,   ah buh....

That one just flabbergasts me.

You and me both, man. Subway gives you like 6 molecules of reconstituted meat-like product.

Apparently the woman doesn't actually want a sandwich she just wants a little bit of meat flavor. And the worst part was that the people she was talking to agreed with her. Although one of the women who agreed once had to throw away a Lean Cuisine because it was "too spicy." A Lean Cuisine was too spicy. Apparently she didn't notice that it had pepper in it. Because regular black pepper is too spicy. I am not making this up.

[wombat]

1) The North Face doesn't put it's logo on it's stuff big enough for people to know you're wearing something North Face.

I don't want this one to get lost in the astonishment over the sandwich story. This one seriously makes me feel I come from another planet... but you know, it explains a lot.

[theinevitable]

I am a big fan of More Meat on sandwiches. Obviously our culture is Retarded at this point. Let's be honest. Retarded.

[CortJstr]

I don't want this one to get lost in the astonishment over the sandwich story. This one seriously makes me feel I come from another planet... but you know, it explains a lot.

It gets worse. She then was saying that they should sell their logo on like a patch so that you could just put it on more affordable clothing. Because she wants everybody to know she wears North Face but can't actually afford it.

[theinevitable]

this is my high school.

except, you know, everyone at my high school could afford hell of north face.



when in Amsterdam, our school group had to pick between The Hard Rock Cafe and the Van Gogh Museum.

I guess that Hard Rock shirt with the fake van gogh painting on the back was pretty cool to own. I mean, it said "Amsterdam" on it. That was totally worth flying across the world, school group. Thank you for helping me choose to go to the Hard Rock Cafe.

[linnea]

It is a hunt's move to put a deer head on the roof of your trailer so that the Bald Eagles, proud symbol of our nation, will pick it clean for you.
It is a hunt's move, too, to be a Bald Eagle, proud symbol of our nation, and to feed on Trash, thus making Linnea refer to you as a Vulture. HAVE SOME SELF-RESPECT! Eat a Salmon (Rushdie) or something. Carry off some communist babies.

Heh. Tiny can.
I agree 100% that it is a total Hunt's move to tie carrion to your trailer. That is country as fuck. Also... I can't really blame the Bald Eagles for doing what they have to do to eke by. At least they eat pretty well when the salmon are running.

It is a Hunt's move to say that you only buy "really expensive name brand perfume" like Baby Phat or Juicy Couture, and then disparage someone else for wearing "no name perfume" like Serge Lutens or Creed (both of these are artisan niche parfumeurs unbeknownst to your shallow media whore self. Just shut up and turn on the television and believe whatever you're told by the advertisers).

It is a Hunt's move to make someone an offer to cause them to uproot and move, and then retract the offer based on your own greed and assholery.

It's a Hunt's move to not stop for speeding emergency vehicles with lights and sirens, but it's even more of a Hunt's move to drive behind them because, "hurr hurr hurrr, everybody else is stopped but I get to speed behind an am-bu-lance."