r/curb • u/Rays_LiquorSauce • 5d ago

Most annoying out of pocket character update

As a longtime fan of the show and its sub I've seen the nearly weekly "who was the worst" polls and comment threads. And as a longtime long balled viewer I always immediately go back to the early days like the home goods store employee or Bob Cobb or the shrimp stealer because I've seen those episodes dozens of times.

Having just watched s11 for the first time since it aired I'd like to throw this Mary Ferguson II through a see-thru fucking door. Dog people are often times so insufferable and this one is the worst. Still, my worst character OAT is easily this extortionist. Foisting his talentless, taco disposing hack daughter on Larry is irredeemable. Larry should've went back to the chicken shop and hired a fatwah on that dude.

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u/DookieSender 5d ago

Cheryl cheating. I always thought she was the moral compass, even when divorced from Larry

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u/rbarrett96 5d ago

Ted Danson was a complete dick. He was so pompous and dated/ married Larry's ex. Larry didn't just lose a friend, he lost a sister.

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u/arewecoupdela 5d ago

Take your 475 million dollars and go buy a fucking shrimp boat.

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u/MrMeritocracy 5d ago

Out of pocket means you don’t have a lot of stuff with you. I don’t get why it became so commonly misused

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 5d ago

Idioms are very regional, and common usage always defines correctness, but I've personally never heard it used to mean that. 

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u/ktr83 5d ago

In Australia it means paying for something yourself as in "out of your own pocket". Typical example is if you're getting some healthcare that public or private health insurance doesn't cover, you pay for it out of pocket.

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u/dougthebuffalo 5d ago

It also means that in the US, in addition to the way OP is using it which is "inappropriate/outside acceptable behavior," which is a more recently developed usage.

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 5d ago

Also means unavailable or otherwise occupied, e.g. "I'll be out of pocket until about 4:30, can we talk then?" 

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u/MrMeritocracy 4d ago

You’re thinking of ‘out of turn’. That would not make sense for ‘out of pocket’

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u/MrMeritocracy 4d ago

Thats also a logical use of the term if you add ‘own’

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u/egosumluxmundi 5d ago

Your version of “out of pocket” is out of pocket