what about if you split it?
― mh, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
split what?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a button in the lower right of the ipad on-screen keyboard that splits it into right and left sides that are further apart
― mh, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
the hell you say
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm IA that over the weekend i bought two sticks of the same deodorant, and the deodorant ended up having such a disgusting cheap-perfume smell that it made me nauseous the whole time i wore it. i'm not a delicate flower but i do have some allergies to chemically produced fragrances. anyway, i'm mad that i wasted money and a trip to the drugstore, and i'm mad at arm & hammer, who usually make reputable products, for selling me garbage.
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
when i was at tj's yesterday, i bought a stick of their house-brand unscented, and it's MUCH better. i can breathe again.
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ hahaha
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
- Yelp keeps defaulting me to London. I have never lived in London! - Trying to order takeout and NO phone contact details on the website, not even under 'contact' which is a customer feedback form.
― kinder, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
^That last one reminds me...
What I want to see when I visit a restaurant's website: days and hours of operation
What the restaurant thinks I want to see:
the story behind the name of the restaurantwhat the chef's grandmother used to cook on Sundaywhat TV shows the chef has appeared oncoverage of latest charitable food program sponsored by restaurantawards won by their dessertspictures of Tuscany
― Josefa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
- under no circumstances, their phone number
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also relevant: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?
― joygoat, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha! "The Papyrus font," so true.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh god I love that oatmeal cartoon
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, what I want to see: the opening hours, the menu, the phone number and maybe a link to Google maps.
All they ever have:- a massive Flash gallery of pictures of attractive young people (90%) interspersed with arty shots of a fork (10%) where you can't even see what's on the attractive young peoples' plates- horrible tinny piano music which can't be turned off- what looks like a sidebar of links which reads "Gallery - About - Menu - Contact", except the "menu" and "contact" links don't work, and the "about" page is some typo-riddled rubbish about the fragrance of the sea near the chef's grandmother's house when he was 6 and a picture of Tuscany- but hey, why not look at our massive Flash gallery?
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
and you have to download a giant PDF of the stupid menu because why not
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
my favorite is sites that have some sort of menu that is obviously the "export to html" or (god forbid) "export to flash" from an out-of-date version of a desktop publishing or design tool creating a 5MB web page that is slow as hell
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
pdfs on web sites always annoy me
it also doesn't help that all of the browser integrated pfd viewers are terrible
― silverfish, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Exclaiming "Ah, ya cunt" at a cold tap I've just myself turned on way too hard.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
normally over the back of a spoon for preference of course, but in this particular case washing a salad.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know when but at some point Robot Chicken-style comedy just really started annoying me. Basically when the joke is that something strange is taken out of context and placed into 'normal'/'everyday'. Like "what if Darth Vader suddenly remembered he had to do his laundry?" It's not funny, it's not clever, it's just lazy and easy and cheap. And more often than not, it involves an awkward pause joke, and at that point I just have to turn away.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Agh! I had some time to kill before magnetic fields show. Went to Trader joes and stocked up on a few bags of trail mix. And they wouldn't let me in with my goddamn trail mix, and im too cheap to just throw away pristine bags of food I just bought so I got on the subway to dump my food at work and lo and behold the train switches to express and I don't hear it because try only announce it once and quietly.
― rayuela, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
stephin merritt is so bitchy!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
They didn't have coat check?? I would never take the train to save bags of trail mix - my time is worth money - but it's nuts that they wouldn't let you check it.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol "nuts" geddit
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't seem to be able to get myspace player to play through the several tracks of the artist I'm looking up without jumping to another artist first. Guess that's not irrational.Is it just me or did they change the settings recently?JUst trying to check out one thing I'm unfamiliar with while I'm doing something else and find out I've been listening to a totally different band for a couple of tracks its not very helpful in me building a picture of whether I like/dislike the band I'm trying to check out.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
The course yet again. hours of repetitive nothingness. Well at least I'm learning to type,roughly but Mavis Beacon keeps graduating personas I've set up to allow me to practise typing without looking at the screen to a level I'm not ready for. & now I've got to find a work placement for 2 weeks in June when it's unlikely that everybody in the course will find one and there's almost no hope from the course itself. Think it's a vital part of the marks too.
& we could be spending what time we do have on the course going over examples of the programs we're using in a more in depth way instead of being on typing tutors so much. I'm going over e.gs from other sources and half wishing I'd taken the course online as had been offered as an option. wah.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah they wouldn't let me check it. I was so mad! But in retrospect, I'm more annoyed at my own irrationality. I probably could have walked around the block, stuck them at the bottom of my bag, and come back in like 20 min.
― rayuela, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
rayuela: in Toronto a few friends similarly bought groceries before the show (why do the MF keep playing near grocery stores? Hmmm.) and the security guard gave them a plastic bag to stash it in a bush near the door! It was unscathed post-show.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
that security guard was much more accomodating than mine!
― rayuela, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
too bad they don't travel with their own security guards!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
absolutely, but this type of comedy is A) incredibly easy to write and B) strangely popular with whoever "gets" the reference, so it's probably not going away, unless Seth MacFarlane dies in a plane crash or something
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
you mean seth green? seth identification can be tricky i know.
― i remember when there was time for klax (ledge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, Family Guy did this too, but it feels more like a watered down version of early Adult Swim style.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Either/Or. They both do work on both shows and have the same humor.
Keep tempting fate with that "Seth MacFarlane dies in a plane crash" comments. Dude was probably scheduled to sleep in a boxcar outside Dallas yesterday, but missed his cab.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow, you could just, y'know, not pay attention to him
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel like you may have missed the point of the internet.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
so long as MacFarlane keeps getting TV shows and movie deals people will always think this kind of humor is acceptable
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah my anger isn't really directed at any one person here, just this very lame type of comedy.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow, you could just, y'know, not pay attention to himToo late. Saw the Ted trailer already.
Guy has to be a furrie irl? We're all on the same page with that one, right?
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
online trade mag I subscribe to through work: mostly garbage, once in a blue moon they have actual industry news, which is why I keep my subscription up (free thank god).
however they send out these stupid daily emails almost always with the headline BREAKING NEWS. a dvd release that EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT ALREADY does not count as breaking news.
there needs to be some kind of legal decree that bans them from using the words BREAKING and NEWS in the same sentenence for the next, idk, 25 years.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
the other day I read a breaking news report about how a mom in Chicago is 60 but looks 25 and that dermatologists hate her, pretty cool imo
― tanuki, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's been my complaint since 9/11. Now that was breaking news.
But turning to CNN and seeing Anderson Cooper go "BREAKING NEWS, Mitt Romney says President Obama's health care plan is no good." THAT'S NOT BREAKING NEWS, I DON'T CARE IF HE JUST SAID IT.
Memories of BREAKING NEWS: Survivors being pulled out of the Murrah Building. Kid waving arm out of broken window at Columbine High. 9/11. George W. Bush says he'll run for re-election in 2004…. wait WHAT?
― pplains, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mitt Romney's whole disavowal of Obama's health care is a little notme.gif
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
That said, I don't think anyone needs to stop the presses on that one.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
What was the last news event in which the old networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) all interrupted programming?
I remember as a kid watching "Manimal" or something when the screen would fade out for a second and THIS IS AN NBC SPECIAL REPORT would come on. Would scare the shit out of me.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Not counting The State of the Union or some scheduled event.)
― pplains, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah local news is really bad for this too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha, the last time the local news interrupted programming was when the Razorbacks hired a new basketball coach.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink