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

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Hmm, image inside block quotes

Mark G, Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

I was lazy, on my phone. Should've noticed it didn't pick up the URL

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link

i was at the laundromat this morning and i don't usually fold there (or anywhere, lol) but i had wanted to EXCEPT this early-20s-ish (ugh so young) couple had put all their clothes into one dryer forever (put stuff in multiple dryers for shorter time idiots) and were sitting on the nearest folding table in front of the sign that says "please do not sit on folding table"

computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link

like the dryer was stuffed so tight with clothes just going around as if it was a washer. think about it.

computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link

Just take em home and put yr wet clothes inside the oven.

pplains, Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link

Said to them, not you, h.

pplains, Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link

when i have an ilx thread bookmarked but i can't read it because it's regarding the one of like two tv shows i watch and i haven't seen the latest episode

so it just sits there, blaring at me

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link

ilx needs a bookmark sensitivity feature

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link

My solution is to not read TV show threads since they are always awful.

Jeff, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link

Breaking Bad thread is one of my all time favorites

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link

I just wiped out the Better Call Saul bookmark.

The Wire thread hung over me for like a year.

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link

I read the Better Call Saul thread for awhile, even though I haven't seen an episode.

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link

but I also read Nintendo Power in the Super Nintendo and N64 eras, even though I only had an NES at the time.

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link

when i was an early-80s kid i got flight simulator for xmas and i read the shit out of that manual even though we didn't have a computer capable of running it

i could tell you some stuff about the minor airstrips surrounding the chi/nyc/sea/lax areas. miss u 4 eva meigs field

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link

when i have an ilx thread bookmarked but i can't read it because it's regarding the one of like two tv shows i watch and i haven't seen the latest episode so it just sits there, blaring at me ― mookieproof , Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:18 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Lol this is my entire life. I have 6 threads currently like this, including University Challenge, wtf me
Worst is when you finally finish the season and open the thread to join the
glorious discussion and below your bookmark is just one post going 'wow great season' yes i'm looking at you Homeland s4

kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link

Ha I identify strongly with that last bit there.

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link

Carefully navigating the dangerous waters between the Community and GoT threads on my phone in order to read Rolling Is This Racist

kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link

Local area having idiot teens throwing stones at passersby just because they are at hand. I assume this is pretty standard for disaffected youth but it does seem to be causing a lot of consternation among people who are trying to do things like litter picks locally.
There's a path you have to walk back along from the woods where the litter pick was being done and first a car that was collecting rubbish bags to take them back to the disposal point and then a guy walking a wheelbarrow containing more collected stuff had stones thrown at them as they went along it. Kids hang out at a point along it.. Looks like that might be the last straw for the guy and future litter picks are in doubt. He had had a sign showing the paths through the forest and local wildlife vandalised by somebody the day before. Can't be sure if it is the same people but likelihood of collection is pretty high.

There area lso various flowerbeds and things around the estate that have stones around them that I've seen kids throw at people for no apparent reason.
I'm not sure if they're actually intending to cause harm or thinking anything about the result of having stones thrown at people but it is a major pain in the arse. I'm thinking it is just a game on their part and they're not really thinking beyond their own enjoyment. Which is verging on creepy.
Just wondering how you handle things so that things like that don't repeat.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link

Interview subjects who use "Yeah, so," "OK, so," or "Right, so" as placeholder text and begin the answer to every question with one of those. You could be the world's leading authority on something, but you're going to have to work twice as hard to convince me.

WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"

WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link

I'm going to be meticulously checking my sentence beginnings for the rest of the day

mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link

Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"

our dear prime minister does this a lot

kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link

Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"

― WilliamC, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:05 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

An SVP at my company starts nearly EVERY sentence with this and I would like to strangle him.

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link

I always expect those sentences to turn into "Look, you do what I tell you." or something equally noxious.

Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link

our dear prime minister does this a lot

― kinder, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:47 AM (9 minutes ago)

So does Obama -- I hate it so much.

WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

No, you look, pal.

Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link

Look, a scissor-tailed flycatcher!

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link

oh, fuck you

neetsooh ebebay (wins), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link

No, you look, a scissor-tailed flycatcher, chief!

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

"Look out!"

"Go fuck y--"

neetsooh ebebay (wins), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link

"Look, ____" basically means "My perspective is clearly superior to yours and I no longer have the patience to point out all of the facets of your stupidity, so just shut your cakehole and trust me, idiot."

Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link

Did Old Lunch just "look" us by explaining what that phrasing implies.

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link

Look, this is just how it is.

Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/YZiG2ff.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link

Look, I've obviously struck a nerve here, so I'll withdraw my complaint.

WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

Hear me out, it's not that big of a deal.

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

gaaaaaaahh

WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

I think that this is similar to adding ", right." to every sentence.

Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/gw6XV8m.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link

Elvis Presley: What? Why?

kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link

Thanks for catching what might be the funniest magazine cover copy ever.

Honey Mustard On My Tunic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

pplains would appreciate this -- someone in my city owns the original LOOK magazine logo that was on the building and had it in their front yard, or at least they did when I used to drive through their neighborhood years ago.

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

I did not know that.

Definitely did not know about the sign in the front yard either.

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link

if I have occasion to drive that way I will take a picture

mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link

IT'S STILL THERE?

I am showing enormous restraint on my part here, but I have to post this one:

http://i.imgur.com/RYabjwa.jpg

THIS LADY RIGHT 'CHEER, AMIRITE?

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link

"The Child – Divorce's Big Problem"

pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link

The front yard sign is still there, I think! It was just in front of someone's house

You can live in the former LOOK magazine headquarters, though: http://111citylofts.com/

mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link

Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"

My wife says any time I start a sentence with "So listen," she braces for bad news.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link


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