whew chinaski that sounds awful. i have my complaints about barbers but didn't realize the extent to which they make so many people uncomfortable.
i went back to the "new guy" i found and he's perfect, the place is perfect. online appointments. music playing overhead is not great but not loud and ignorable. no small talk. he did a fantastic job on my beard trim / shave and used like 5 different products that smelled like cement but in a good way. when he did talk it was about what he was doing and he was very accurate in his questions / descriptions. pricey but worth it, somewhat reasonable for just the trim. why i'm posting this here i have no idea.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
i guess i've gotten into the shave part and the hot towel and mini spa treatment, it's nice.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
Oh, I love getting a barbershop shave. It is like a mini spa treatment. They always do a much better job than I ever do, and it feels damn good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
I got a haircut yesterday. I paid way too much and the haircut was not what I asked for but the conversation was really good.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
i follow a lot of outdoors / national park / hiking / biking kinds of orgs on social media, and lately there is a push to make people aware that they should be packing out their feces in wag bags. which is great. but i'm a little embarrassed about how everyone loves poop humor online now, "funny" use of the poop emoji etc. i like poop humor!! part of the fun though is that it has to still be generally considered juvenile and inappropriate. and now it's like the internet has made it feel not like that and just another witty marketing campaign. another example of the internet ruining everything i guess.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 14 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
POOP EMOJI was in the NYT crossword today
sorry
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
ah! bummer lol
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 14 October 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
make poop gross again
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 14 October 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
related: everyone calling covid wastewater tracking the "poop meter" or w/e
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 14 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
every adult using the word "poop" like a three-year-old
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 14 October 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
any use of the shortened slang phrase "inspo" meaning "inspiration"unsurprisingly you hear this a lot in a pottery studio
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 October 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Any adult British person using the word "poop"
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 October 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
Or even poo/lav/wee etc. Nothing wrong with shite/bog/slash.
― pick the mouse that can reach all the cheese in the maze (Matt #2), Saturday, 15 October 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Historians of naval architecture get a pass, I hope?
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
unless they haven't had enough fiber i imagine
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
was gonna mention Pelosi saying 'poo poo'
― nashwan, Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
I don't like hearing adults say poo or poop ever - somehow it's smellier than shit or crap
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
friends with two of my husband's friends on facebook, a married couple. they are sweet. they are burners and fire spinners. one of them will like a meme that's like "you deserve to have limitless wealth" and tag the other, who then replies "so true" or something. idk man. it's innocuous. it's embarrassing. kind of think it's rationally embarrassing? people who just want their lives to be disneyland all the time. understandable but the aggressive thoughtlessness makes it seem creepy to me.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
I have an acquaintance I added on facebook some years back, and he would appear in my timeline constantly because his girlfriend (now wife) tagged him in posts all the time about how much she loved him and how excited she was about their impending wedding, and then all the minutia around planning said wedding, which lasted literal years. I found it all fairly embarrassing and somewhat annoying, although I didn't care too much because I hardly knew them, but I can't imagine even their closest friends and relatives being super thrilled with these endless posts that really could have just been shared between the two of them and left everyone else out.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
people performing their private lives publically are deeply baffling to me. also people who mistake social media for "the universe" or w/e.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
if you like this 'you deserve to have limitless wealth' meme you will receive a limitless number of phishing texts per day.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
back to work
at coffee machine small talk with colleague
ask him what he's doing here since he's usually in our other office
colleague explains that he is always in this office
I am an idiot
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 09:56 (one year ago) link
"hey, you got a haircut"
"yeah, i do that sometimes"
...
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
I have a loud voice so any time I like stub a toe or hit my leg/arm on something, I tend to yelp like I've been shot, and then people act all concerned "are you ok" and I feel sheepish like, i stubbed my toesie-wowsies, i'm ok, nevermind my loud dramatic ass.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
the man who taught his asshole how to yelp -- a William S. Burroughs tribute
― sarahell, Friday, 6 January 2023 08:24 (one year ago) link
Getting congratulated on my work anniversary by my Linkedin connections.― pplains, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:35 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― pplains, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:35 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
This would infuriate me but you already know that.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
I always wonder what people think who hate their job and get these messages
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
"You hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called 'everybody,' and we meet at the bar." - Drew Carey
You have the option to not show this info, and therefore not get these messages btw
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
For me personally, it's an innocuous thing that makes me irrationally embarrassed.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
Maybe they feel like "Yes - despite my curses and agnosy I have stuck it out for three years! I win!"
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 3 February 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
once got a reminder to congratulate the work anniversary of . . . my ex-wife
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 February 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
does linkedin suggest any good responses?
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
I hear if you report your death they update your account to give an end date for your employment
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
do wonder if there are any people out there who give a shit about work anniversaries at all.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 6 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
It'll sound a little cheesy but I do, if only to celebrate that this is one of the few things in my life I managed to do really well (though it does scare me that I've spent 40% of my life here)
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
But I don't really care about hearing about it from LinkedIn
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
SOme people want to know about work anniversaries becase after a while it means they get more time off per year
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
hah yeah I get a splash at 20 years. I already get like 30+ days off a year including holidays, not sure I need more, but will gladly take it and use it.
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
I’m coming up for 10 years at my current place (which yep I mainly know because I get an extra day added to my annual leave allowance)I def have feelings about this lol agree with pp about the LinkedIn thing - I think I would find most things about LinkedIn embarrassing tbh
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
Related to this is how every single company is doing that wretched Spotify year in review thing now, Mubi “these are the films you saw in 2023” sainsburys “take a look at how much rice you bought” stop fucking showing me my life! It’s embarrassing!
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
i was in a small museum gift shop yesterday and they were playing “here comes your man” by the pixies over the sound system. when it came to the chorus i sang “here comes your man” and at the exact same time another dad about six feet away also sang “here comes your man.” we didn’t acknowledge it but my son heard it and it was embarrassing
― na (NA), Saturday, 10 June 2023 17:33 (nine months ago) link
I get embarrassed when I get the lyrics wrong to a song I've known for years. Especially when it's in front of my kids.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 10 June 2023 17:43 (nine months ago) link
My wife savagely (and rightly) mocked me for believing that the Talking Heads song "And She Was" included the lyric "and she could see an earmuff factory."
The lyric is, sadly, "she could see a nearby factory." Allegedly the factory that made Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink.
I was vindicated shortly thereafter, because she had spent 20 ywars misunderstanding the lyrics of the Elton John song "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues."
Specifically she sang "rolling like flounder," where the actual lyric is supposed to be "rolling like thunder."
When we started dating, we made a mixtape, and titled side A "Rolling Like Flounder," with the B side titled "Earmuff Factory."
― sayonara, capybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 June 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link
I think there's a whole thread for this, but one time I got clowned hard by a girl who for some reason was friends with me, despite being vastly cooler than me in every way, for thinking the line from "Eyes Without a Face" was: "Got no human race".
― beard papa, Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:18 (nine months ago) link
Look over there / a dry ice factory / good place to get some thinking done / if only my ears weren't so cold
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:14 (nine months ago) link
When The was 7 or 8 my mom bought me some brown corduroy pants that were supposed to be for special occasions. The sound of my thighs rubbing together as I walked was horribly embarrassing to me. I wasn’t a big kid, the embarrassment was totally irrational. But it killed me, I seriously thought about hiding them in the trash because I hated that noise so much. I don’t think I’ve owned corduroy since then.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:19 (nine months ago) link
Now that I think about it, I have always been embarrassed by corduroy unless it's really fine-grained and soft. It's bulky-looking and it crunches and rustles and I find all of that inexplicably awkward. Sometimes I forget and buy corduroy pants and then never wear them.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:38 (nine months ago) link
I had a similar reaction to a pair of corduroy pants as a kid.
― beard papa, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:46 (nine months ago) link
Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows?
They're making headlines
(That was my favorite joke in 1975.)
― sayonara, capybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:12 (nine months ago) link
lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:20 (nine months ago) link