start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

"good egg." the synecdoche is unpleasant and i find everything about its use patronizing.

whistlers
cash machine lingerers
late night phone-in casino programmes

For some reason I picture this list in campus preacher sign format:

http://www.washtenawvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/images_0510/preacher1.jpg

"good egg." the synecdoche is unpleasant and i find everything about its use patronizing.

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, January 23, 2015 9:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well.

Man, I thought Lee Renaldo would accomplish so much more after Sonic Youth broke up.

mm hmm

Woke up angry in the most irrational way. I had a dream I was at the doctor and somebody took the turkey leg and thigh I'd brought and roasted, leaving me with a semi-cooked lump of gristly beef. I got so upset that I said unforgivable things to my closest friends. I woke up growling and grinding my teeth and I still feel angry :(

this is a really irrational one, but i lurk on some weight-loss message boards and everyone there talks about their "journey," which i find off-putting for reasons i can't articulate. i don't know whether it's because it's sort of a new-age cliche, or because it seems a little melodramatic to describe shedding some pounds in the same language as going on an epic trip around the globe. but weight loss is a very emotional process and it changes your life for sure. so i feel like an asshole for wanting people to "use other words please."

Ha, totally with you on that one. But I don't like 'journey' even to describe life's big upheavals. The happy-balanced-eating board I'm on tends to talk in 'process' terms and I like that. They are also quick to admit being put off by anyone who uses what they call 'woo'. There's a hell of a lot of it about when people talk about fat loss on the internet.

also, "journey" implies an endpoint and if you struggle with your weight, there really is no endpoint in your lifetime. you can't take a journey on a treadmill.

They get around that by talking about 'evolving journeys', 'continuing journeys', etc. If you see life as a journey, I guess perspectives on weight, food, movement and so on are just a sub-narrative of your journey.

five year mission to seek out new snacks and new civilizations

mustard that tastes primarily of vinegar

the tube-style packaging for shampoo where the lid is on the bottom -- the lid ends up filling with water while it's in the shower caddy so the next time I go to use it, cold water comes out when I open the cap and uuuuuuuuuuuugh

i swear I'll never buy that kind of packaging again but inevitably once a year I forget :(

... how can the lid end up filling up with water? sounds like a faulty lid

http://www.lorealparisusa.com/~/media/Images/LOP/Home/Products/Hair/Hair-Care/Shampoo-Conditioner/EverPure-Sulfate-Free-Color-Care-System-Moisture-Shampoo/Moisture-Shampoo/HCa4_1_pack-shot.jpg

water runs down the tube into the cap
& under the cap itself

tilt the tube even slightly and water comes out, or when u open it

that's really stupid, with that design, water should drip around the cap. i've used tons of those bottom-cap tubes in the bathroom and never had that problem

argh yes! j'accuse, head & shoulders.

There are a number of shampoos and face and body washes that are packaged that way and they're terrible. It's not just the cold water dripping out, but they also grow black mold. They're disgusting.

VG, I think you've posted about your IA about product design before and I think we could base a FAP around the topic. Tonight I bought Tums antacid mints with a foil seal without a tab to remove it and having to use my knuckle to unseal it bugged the shit out of me.

ugh! i hate that!

totally down for product design fap

With you on those caps. Also I have ia towards screw caps because I always end up trying to screw the cap on with one hand full of shampoo/holding my toothbrush with the toothpaste on it, or whatever.

Not having the facility to lay fabric out at full length so I didn't see that if I changed what I was laying out I could have had jeans as well as a jacket out of the length. So I now have a piece i could have substituted another fabric for cut out of this one fabric and have still to cut something I really have to use this fabric for out of the area i could have cut the jeans from.
I could have cut it from the area I used for the thing I should have substituted/gone int the contrast fabric for. & this thing won't look good with this other piece cut out of the contrast, since it looks like cartoon flowers and would have looked good for the smaller area this is covering not the larger area that has to be covered. - the inner rather than the outer sleeve.
Maybe it will teach me better to think through the possibilities of laying out instead of cutting when I'm half ready but is a major drag.

that was always my biggest failing in dressmaking. i never economized the space of the fabric well enough. it's hard!!

The further drag for me is that it seems most of the fabric I'm buying stops being sold a few months later. maybe people are just selling off one offs or something. So I can't go back and buy more of either of the striped drills that I have lengths of.

I'm hoping that there might just be enough to cut all 3 items from the bottom section, front and back trouser legs and the sleeve. Will see but I don't think it will stretch. I just wasn't thinking there was going to be that length of material left. Plus it had gone off the edge of the table so I wasn't seeing what was there.
Better organisation needed I think.

Will hopefully mean judging by what i've used and have left that I might get a different jacket out of the other length of striped drill I have. Was half thinking of making that into another pair of jeans since one of the first ones I made came from it earlier. & wanted to do another pair now I have more practise.

https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&authuser=0&ei=xWbGVPurN8K6ggTtz4HQDA&ved=0CAcQ1S4#authuser=0&q=%22purchased+for+a+cool%22

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN????? I HATE IT

Haha I had a similar IA thought about the phrase "state of the art" this morning.

I go through the rounds with "state of the art" a lot.

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

"thanks man"
"sure, may i go pee now"

oh I'd just get up and leave after like 15 min probably, maybe leave a note being like "sry dude, you suck"

"a cool $____$" has been around since at least 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cool_Million

it occurs to me that IA threads are all the material you would need for multiple seasons of a Curb-style sitcom

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Points

Slippers that advertise that you can wear them outside. That's the whole point of slippers - shoes that you don't wear outside so you don't get outside grossness inside your house.

somebody at a coffee shop or wherever asks you to watch their stuff, and then returns like 45 minutes later

i hate hate hate having to be the guardian of some stranger's shit. why are you putting the onus on a total stranger to watch your $1500 laptop or your purse with all your cash, cards, and electronics? why are you putting your trust into that person?

At my wife's employer's holiday party for some reason I became the default guy to watch women's purses. Someone would throw their clutch at me and sashay off to the dance floor and I'd just have to be like "guess I'm hanging out at the table through Blurred Lines, All About the Bass, and Uptown Funk".

i actually did abandon some guy's stuff at penn station because my train was arriving. i had told him i didn't want to watch his bags but he begged and i reluctantly said okay. then he took off for 25 minutes. sorry not sorry dude, hope nothing got stolen (although if it did it would teach him a lesson).

another food IA: when people freak out about "preservatives" and "processed" food and say stuff like "don't eat anything with ingredients you can't pronounce."

a) enjoy throwing out a third of your groceries, bruh. or going to the store every day so you can keep getting new minimally processed, preservative-free food that you're under pressure to consume during the three-day window that it's still fresh and appealing. sure, you can freeze it, but some foods don't freeze as well as others and a lot of it ends up tasting like freezer burn if you don't vacuum-seal it in thick plastic.
b) there's a lot of stuff out there with long scientific names (and i can even pronounce some of them). what is the plant species of that fruit you're eating?
c) unless your doctor (and i mean *your* doctor, not some quack on the internet) tells you to watch out for certain foods because of sodium or possible carcinogens, you're most likely going to be all right. you're going to get run over by a drunk driver before you die from eating a piece of cured meat with nitrates/nitrites.
d) people have been preserving and processing food in some way since the dawn of humankind. if anything, our collective life span has only increased.

(i'm on the fence about GMOs though. i think they can be used for good but not while monsanto's running the world. that's more about corporate evil than about health concerns though.)

also the phrase "no colors that aren't found in nature" (e.g., a dress code rule about hair color). uh, flowers? fish? there are some pretty wild, electric colors found in nature.

i got IA this morning at an intersection when i arrived at the same time as another driver and i waved them to go, and then they wouldn't go but instead did that thing where they waved for ME to go. i swear 80% of the time when i motion for the other driver to go first they refuse. it's not even them being polite, it's something else. someone waves for me to go, i just do it. idgi.

this happens with walking as well. i'm about to cross the street and a car is waiting to go, i motion them ahead and they'd apparently rather wait for me to cross the street in front of them. idk

the sky is a cool color too

i'm terrified of drivers so if i'm crossing the street i'd really rather they go first.

i've seen that thing happen where two cars are at a four way intersection and it's just two drivers flapping their hands at each other desperate to let the other person go first.

sometimes a car is nearing the intersection and i'm really not sure it's going to stop -- i don't trust drivers to stop at reds even though it's the law. and sometimes they're at a full stop and if i need to cross i worry they're going to start up again and run me over. i guess i'm just neurotic.

every green light i drive thru now i do a quick check left and right just in case.

we live at an intersection where drivers will simply fly down the hill and go right through the stop sign, sometimes going about 70 mph. we're on a side street that people like to use as a shortcut to get around a really annoying stoplight so maybe that's it.

The latest Chrome update on my phone has moved the tab select button over a bit and put a menu button where it used to be.

I can't train my finger in these new ways of working and keep opening the menu by accident :(

haha omar if you're still on the eastside i think i know what stoplight you're talking about.

oh yeah you know the one. it's horrible.