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

Does the Guardian let people hide Olympics coverage, as they did in 2012?

I actively hate the Olympics, while everyone around me is somewhere between "meh, don't care" and "the Olympics represent the noblest and best impulses of humanity." It's a bit like hating puppies or rainbows.

Take heart, there are plenty of totally legit reasons to hate the Olympics. This year especially.

Well there are the brilliant athletes and then there's the execrable IOC, you can love the one and hate the other

how about when you type the word "Regards" on yr email, but you actually type "Retards", irrational because you always spot it and change it.

Receiving an email that ended with "Retards, ____" would pretty much make my day. Focus on the joy you'd bring if you accidentally hit 'send'.

Dear xxx
I put that file in the load area, but I don't think it's one of the files that gets loaded.
Retards,
Mark G

Misspellings in emails are pretty much all that get me through the day. For instance, I was copied on an email from a coworker (let's call her Barb) to an outside party with the same first name which read, "Unfortunately, you weren’t the fist in Barb".

I like the Olympics, with the exception of:

-any sport that uses subjective scoring
-swimming
-any human interest story
-any commentary about doping. I support performance enhancing drugs. If I'm watching sports for entertainment, I want the athletes to perform super human feats by any means possible.

I will watch 2024's Cyborg Olympics.

> -swimming
> -any human interest story

b-but the refugee girl...

people spinning their wheels and making the same five points about Donald Trump over and over again in the election thread.

sounds like someone isn't watching enough tv!

we had one of those team-defining exercises at work. the bad ones make me angry, but this one was pretty ok. it included a bit where everyone introduced themselves and was supposed to describe a good day they've had at work. pretty innocuous, although it could be anger inducing. but i'm cool with it so far

what makes me irrationally angry is that, when these exercises are done, any pattern that starts is treated as part of the script. what was asked for was "i am <name> and my good day was when <this happened>"

it turned into "i am <name> and I have worked here for <x time> and..."

like dude I don't care, if you keep doing things like this then it's going to be a five data point ritual by the time it gets to the last person in the room!

yesterday i was sitting in a parking lot and someone backed his giant SUV into the spot next to me when the spot in front of it was open for a pull-through

Continually breaking needles while trying to finish off my jacket. Went out and bought a set of the more heavy duty 16s and have now broken the 3rd one of those. So wondering what my options are now.
Finding an industrial sewing machine?

I recently realised my sewing kit gets used for getting the simple card out of a phone (or similar) than it does for mending stuff.

Stevolende, do you have any recommendations for books or websites (especially books) to help with kind of advanced alterations sewing work? Like making seats of pants look better, taking in/letting out waists, narrowing pant legs, and tailoring the fit of dress shirts?

"Pants" in the American sense. Anything else possibly ambiguous also in the American sense.

people on social media all hashtag SUNDAY FUNDAY

Stevolende, do you have any recommendations for books or websites (especially books) to help with kind of advanced alterations sewing work? Like making seats of pants look better, taking in/letting out waists, narrowing pant legs, and tailoring the fit of dress shirts?

― Je55e, Sunday, August 14, 2016 5:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm still really working things out.
Having to work out how to get jeans to fit now taht the old pair I've been using as a pattern seem to have stretched or something.

But pattern drafting by Winifred Aldrich is a good basic pattern drafting book.
& I have making trousers and shirtmaking by David Page Coffin

Reader's Digest book on sewing is a good one. I have a 70s edition

& The Sewing Book by Alison Smith.

Sewing for Men & Boys which is an old Simplicity magazine type guide.

Stil not sure about fitting beyond taking the measurements as guided by Winifred Alrich and trying to get as close to that. Must be a good book somewhere but I'm not sure where. Reader's Digest book has some stuff, but doesn't specialise in it.

the Olympic theme song

http://www.clickhole.com/video/get-ready-feel-goosebumps-here-epic-new-olympic-an-4715

Traveller park up is back since the council did nothing to prepare to prevent it, only stuck in some concrete weights which was supposed to be a temporary measure. A few days ago the ones taht were placed to stop vehicles from driving down to where the park up had previoulsy happened were found moved overnight and the caravans were back.

Now when it's finally become really summery if i have the window open I have the flat filled with the smell that I think is coming from the d.i.y. copper smelting. Certainly saw a plume of smoke coming from where the park up is.

Bummer.

Thanks Stevo

otm

blood sausage as synecdoche for englishness when uk is the one place -- of all that consume this delicacy -- that does not call it blood sausage

(this is professional proofreader/fact-checker deformation i think)

So you guys just call it a penis?

The one place?

about to say, just because we've improved it doesn't mean we don't also enjoy the old one too.

the two place

Blood (pudding) brothers

The Irish call it "boudin noir" IIRC. But I might be getting mixed up.

uk is ... the two place

(mouth opens and closes in shock and outrage)

(battered black pudding appears from side of shot, heads silently towards mouth)

we used to call it black pudding in nz, i don't know if it's still called that or if it's got any takers since it's largely made from a big blob of coagulated blood stuffed into a sausage casing.

can't believe people leave it out of pictures of post-brexit foodscapes

More importantly (heh) who's using black pudding as a synecdoche for Englisheness?

i have zero problem with this practice if and when it emerges

it's better than you deserve *shakes fist*

never understood why blood was supposed to be more disgusting than any other part of an animal

Butt pudding

being a vampire seems preferable to being a fat eater on every level

the best black pudding has big lumps of fat in it as well obviously

I've got a pan full of sausage fat I'm going to harvest for tonight's jambalaya; I claim no high ground

blood pudding is good

I thought black pudding was a big part of a full English breakfast. Almost as much as a full Irish. But not aware of it synecdochally.
Think it may have more provenance in the North. Alongside Ecky Thump.
But mainly aware of it as black pudding. Not heard the term blood sausage which sounds like it should be a translation from german more than a straight English phrase.

"God...fuck this banana." < A thing I actually said this morning.

(In my defense, it was seriously a garbage banana on multiple levels.)

Was it... unappeeling?

^ cruisin' for a bruisin'

It fostered much loathing.