(I doubt she thinks she gave birth to them, but I honestly wonder where the line lies sometimes)
― albvivertine, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
"granddogger"
― mh, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
JUST HAVE A FUCKING KID
Not always possible for a lot of people, you know.
Still, and I say this as person who owns a tiny dog that often sleeps between my legs in bed, people who refer to pets as children are all sorts of horrible.
― joygoat, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Person in question could have kids, and also loves to date guys w/kids already provided. Point taken tho.
― albvivertine, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
my old boss was a gay man, and i know he saw his dogs as his kids. when one of them got cancer and died at age 14, he was out of office for two weeks, and when I saw him when he returned, I know he was broken inside.
i realize a lot of people think of humans as "different" and "not animals" but i don't think there is anything wrong with thinking of animals as your children, even if biologically they are clearly not.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
I would protect my children with my life and would give one of you up before my kids.
Binx the Cat, on the other hand...
― pplains, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
political debates
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Usher's "Climax" and any other song that talks explicitly about, um, climaxing. I prefer sex lyrics shrouded in metaphor and shame, thank you.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
i think i have a much, much lower tolerance for public asskissing than others do. i find it extremely gross and uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch while others seem to not be bothered at all.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
how literally are you talking here
― goole, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
people literally pulling down other people's pants and kissing their anuses
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
I talk to myself a....ok you know what, screw it, I'm not going to be able to top the post above
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
- eye tests
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
^ I find it weird how embarrassed I get to miss one letter, so sometimes I memorize the board in advance.
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
the awkward pauses on the phone when my dad and i are trying to work out whether it's time to end the phone call. i only get this with him. he likes to go down conversational tangents and mention w/e has caught his imagination lately but there's a resultant trepidation in the lulls where we can hear each other wondering if we should finish it up or carry on and it leads to these weird abrupt farewells.
― ogmor, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
i find that a good "hey dad, i have to go" is a pretty good fiction that everyone is happy to use and have used on them. no one ever asks where you need to go or what you're doing.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
BUT WHEN?!
― ogmor, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
during the first awkward pause that feels like a good stopping point.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, my parents do the "Well, I'm going to let you go..." like they would love to stay on the phone but they can tell that I have a busy and important life and don't want to keep me from it, even when I've made it clear that I've blocked out as much time as they want for chatting. See also "I don't want to run up your phone bill..." or "I don't want to use up all of your minutes" dispute having a cellphone plan with free long distance and unlimited minutes. I'll even say that and five minutes later, "Well, I don't want to run up your bill..."
It's not that they don't like me. It's that they don't want to be on the phone anymore and are constitutionally incapable of saying that they have something better to do.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
despite not dispute. The disputes are all related to politics.
exactly! the excuse is a convenient fiction everyone can use to avoid the social awkwardness of saying "I don't want to talk to you anymore." Everyone knows it's not about the phone bill, and everyone's ok with that.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, i find 'i'll let you go' pretty socially awkward
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
"Well. I don't want to keep you any longer.""Your mom says you had a good Christmas?"
― pplains, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
that's why you say "i have to go" instead. it's better for everyone involved. it's like saying, "I'd love to chat all day, but unfortunately some outside condition that's out of my control is preventing me. If I could change it, I would, but I can't. So I'll talk to you later." It puts the blame on some external factor, not the feelings of the people on the phone.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
I agree! But attributing a feeling to someone else rather than own up to having that feeling yourself out of an assumption that the other person will be sad if you own up to that feeling is kind of my family's super power. Sometimes I think I'm the only person who wants to talk to her grandmother on the phone more than she wants to talk to me. I can usually get about five minutes before she's not wanting to run up my bill.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
this is when we're both happy to let the conversation meander w/ no other pressure or boredom & yet during every lull there is an awareness that it will have to end at some point & this is nice but i suppose it could be now? maybe that's what he's thinking? and often the conversation restarts but sooner or later there will be the abrupt goodbye.
― ogmor, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
phones, man
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
skype4eva
― ogmor, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
I have a strict "use your words" policy when interacting with speech-capable humans. I hate that shit.
this is way more IA than IE but YES. i hear your obviously-voluntary laughter that wouldn't exist if someone else wasn't in the room. no, i'm not going to ask "what's so funny." i am willing to let this nip this interaction in the bud right now, no matter how awkward it is.
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
*willing to nip this
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
ok actual IE: screwing up or seeing someone else screw up a text entry in a way that lets everyone else see how they were originally going to phrase it before editing
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
The fact that the consent form for my forthcoming vasectomy was printed in jolly Comic Sans
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
Well, the "Sans" part makes sense.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
sans deferens
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Work caption competitions and the winning results. One tiny dark photo of a meeting where someone is accidentally pulling a slightly wacky face + one assortment of Movember photos = painful absence of lols, to be repeated at least once yearly in the Christmas newsletter
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
airline pilot intercom "humorous banter"
― #YOLO magic orchestra (clouds), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Employees singing Happy Birthday to a cake inscribed with half a dozen names.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Bonus points if my own is on there as well.
i used to get embarrassed when my dad would ramble on and never listen to the person trying to talk to him but now i don't care. i'm just glad he's still alive so i just watch him and smile. its like watching a big demented baby talk to people. who is hard of hearing. and who listens to jazz all day long and reads the wall street journal. okay, that's a really weird baby...― scott seward, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
scott this is one of the best/sweetest things ever posted on here, thank u much bro
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
what i could never deal with was movies where the protagonist is blamed for/suspected of doing something wrong/evil/criminal/morally indefensible, but you, the viewer, are the only one who knows they are innocent/being framed/mistaken for someone else.― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkwhat i hate though is when someone is being blamed for something they didn't do, and yet for some reason they don't do anything to explain their innocence.― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what i hate though is when someone is being blamed for something they didn't do, and yet for some reason they don't do anything to explain their innocence.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ALL-TIME CARTOON PET PEEVES
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
(CYE was mentioned upthread, but I feel like Arrested Development was another show that deliberately played with the uncomfortableness of this dramatic device)
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
40 Days and 40 Nights did this in the worst way possible, the main character literally gets raped and then broken up with because she thinks that he cheated on her and he never says "hey I was actually raped"
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't "Curb yr Enthus" all about that as well?
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Customer service talk on the HMV thread reminds me:
I went to my building society the other day and the cashier was super cheery and helpful and THEN he said "and there's a chance you may be phoned later on today by our customer service quality control reps, so if you feel you could vote ten out of ten for your service today..."
I felt so bad for that guy having to ask. Also cz I would've voted 10/10 without being asked but being asked to immediately made me think of reasons not to.
Nobody phoned anyway.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
any type of performance that requires being HAPPY! in a really showy way (which means i can't watch any singing/dancing-based reality show)
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, November 26, 2012 10:33 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
given this i probably should not have watched the movie 'pitch perfect' at all but there's a part in the movie where the acapella groups are having a "riff off" where one group starts a song and then another group interrupts with a different song and it's full of attitude and then anna kendrick runs in and starts doing the rap from "no diggity" (because she's an edgy dj) but she's doing it in her anna kendrick voice and i got so embarrassed that i literally had to hide under a blanket
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 January 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Haha oh no! Anna Kendrick rapping "No Diggity" sounds truly terrible.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 January 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit it's on youtube. it's hard for me think of anything more excruciating than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q573_hDhTbE
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 January 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
what i could never deal with was movies where the protagonist is blamed for/suspected of doing something wrong/evil/criminal/morally indefensible, but you, the viewer, are the only one who knows they are innocent/being framed/mistaken for someone else.― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha I feel like the entire character of bates in downton abbey is premised on this
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 28 January 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Arrrrrrggghhhhhh that video made me want to die before the first ten seconds were over. Why are they having a sing-off in an abandoned pool, anyway?
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
uh it's a RIFF OFF
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link