And then tells other people about you and makes you feel like some sort of freak for reading, I dunno, like Martin Amis or something. This isn't complicated or weird stuff, you guys!
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I get the feeling she'd be sorely disappointed if she heard my "weird" music and realised it was just music and not, y'know, a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
years ago a friend loaned me a Brian Greene physics book that I started reading at work and seriously for like months afterwards got 'LOL EGGHEAD' from coworkers as though I was reading some hardcore advanced theorem textbook. I wanted to explain "um but see I'm reading this because I DON'T UNDERSTAND PHYSICS AT ALL and this makes it easy for spongheads like me" but they were all such uncurious ignorant weirdos about it it wasn't even worth explaining
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
i am interested in what ppl are reading
sorry
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Okay but don't judge me when the answer is "Star Trek book."
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
I like being asked in a natural conversational way --- some ppl just hate quiet rooms and have to barge in all BLAH BLAH WHAT ARE YOU READING
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
hate it when I go to a quiet place in our office to read and suddenly everyone in the buidling decides to stand nearby and have loud unignorable conversations
This place is commonly referred to around my office as "Pplains' desk."
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Hey, I asked for the window. My bad.
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
a tribe of chanting hippies ritually disembowelling animals to the sound of backwards guitars and screaming.
this is my new favourite band
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Deerhoof?
― schwantz, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking No-Neck Blues Band but that could work.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
. . . and grooving with a pict
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
- seeing 360 new answers in the Breaking Bad thread while I'm still working through Season 4- trying to make my eyes glaze over every time I see the words "Breaking Bad" in any form of social media
― Rummmpatitum, Rummmpatitum Traboo, Traboo, Traboo (onimo), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
Why is telemarketing not illegal? Seriously. WHY. Why.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
freedom of speech. But there's this thing called the federal do-not-call list:
so put your number on this paper:https://www.donotcall.gov/
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh, it's on there.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
two years ago, I wanted to get free Fandango tickets, so I did this TrialPay thing where all I had to do was submit a request for an insurance quote, did it, and thought nothing of it, got the freebies.
Of course, since I had to use my real info to qualify, I started getting emails/calls for insurance a few days later, and I figured "big deal, I already have insurance, they'll die down in a few days".
Two years later, I still occasionally get calls from people trying to sell me insurance. SOMETIMES 'FREE' ISN'T WORTH IT.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
- when a friend who has my email address opts to Facebook message Jeff instead of email me to catch up. This is a friend of mine from way back in the day, too, not a mutual friend or Jeff's friend first or anything.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
ppl who cut off 1/4 of a donut and leave the rest
JUST TAKE THE FUCKING DONUT, YOU MARTYR
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
I take a whole doughnut and the 3/4 one to restore balance.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
xp OTM
Especially because you know they had their filthy pee paws all over that donut to cut it into bite size pieces.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
exactly!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
i even called someone out today who I saw cutting a donut
I was like 'Oh so you're one of THOSE people. Seriously. Just take the donut. No one's going to eat the remainder.' and she was all 'but I don't want a whole one' and I just wanted to throw it at her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
or stab her with the plastic knife as an example to others
but I didn't so I am not writing this from jail
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
I will eat your remainder donut. But not if it's maple, bleh.
― kate78, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah maple almost always sucks, it always tastes like airfreshener
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
at least on 95% of donuts
There was an extremely anal retentive dude who worked as kind of a business analyst manager in my friend's old job. They'd have a box of donuts on Fridays, but for a number of weeks, there would be a couple extras at the end of the day that'd be tossed out.
Said friend took a bite from a donut around noon and replaced it on the other side of the box, bite mark obviously showing, and the control freak guy almost had an aneurysm
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Maple is my favorite donut. ;_;
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Jalamaplepeno.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Apple cider donuts until I die.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
my favorite donut shop made a peanut butter and jelly donut that is like, ride or fkn die awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I like my donuts to be donut-flavored you weirdos
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 3:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this reminds me that I had a blueberry-basil gourmet popsicle at a food fair and it felt like i was eating soap. that made me mildly annoyed, but I wouldn't really say IA. The thing is though the texture of the popsicle wasn't even very good.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
it tasted like high-end soap though
I bought some rosemary/salt bread at the farmer's market and it tasted really not v good. the rosemary had this kind of overcooked soapy/anise kind of taste to it, it was v overpowering and gross
i hate it when things smell yummy and taste bad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
The high end version of what are you reading is Oh you're reading that well let me tell you what I think about that. Which is fine as long as you're at or close to the end of the book of course
― cardamon, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
I drove through Little Rock today with a guy who's lived in Little Rock since 1989 but apparently doesn't know how to get anywhere from Point A to Point B in Little Rock.
"Wait, you're telling me I can get to this place out west without having to drive due north?" "YES."
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
I'll totally eat a half a donut if there's one there, cat pee or other filth be damned. That shit boosts your immune system.
A local grocery store leaves out donut scraps under a dome near the bakery and it's always a delightful crapshoot to see what's there when I run in to buy a lime or whatever.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
The grocery store across from our old apartment always had the BEST baked goods under that dome. Lots of heft pieces of apple and cheese danish, brownies. I miss that place so much.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
http://media.globaltv.com/uploadedimages/content/general/rotator/underthedome_gtv_rotator.jpg
― kinder, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aoffice-products%2Ck%3Aantimicrobial+stapler&keywords=antimicrobial+stapler&ie=UTF8&qid=1376490043
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
the city where my office is located currently has at least five separate roadworks ongoing, all within a mile of each other, so no matter which way I go to work, I get stuck in slow roadwork traffic. it's like they looked at a map, figured out where the detours would be for each roadwork and then said, let's do one there too!!
i am all for public works and fixing roads but RAGH maybe don't do them all simultaneously
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Bad brand names make me IA. The new litterbox I bought yesterday is Nature's Miracle®.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
iirc the original Nature's Miracle product was one to clean pet urine. imo, anything that can neutralize the cat urine smell is a miracle
― carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Flatscreens over the mantle.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
YES
god, I have had friends who have lived in new homes or condos that have had built-in television shelves or mounts at that level. who the fuck wants their television five feet up the wall? god, my neck hurts so much just thinking about it.
― carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
The Arkansas football coach still has his Wisconsin house on the market. We did a little blurb about it with a link to the slideshow. Dude was worth however many millions of dollars, and still stuck the flatscreens over the mantle.
The Tom Petty's house thing made me think of this. He had a painting of the American flag sitting on the mantle, leaning up against the rock wall. That also makes me IA, but it's the flatscreens which really hurt my feelings of decorum.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link