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

Mother's day has apparently been totally distorted from its origins which were about returning to one's mother church meaning the parish you grew up and went through religious teaching in or something along those lines.

Whereas Father's Day has been totally distorted from its origin about returning to Father Christmas. Or was it Father Ted?

father acid burnout

That wasn't remotely what I was saying. I thought Father's Day was a recent invention based on the idea that if there was a mother's day, which that is the correct origin for, then fathers thought they deserved one too. Or at least commercial concerns thought there might be as much money to be made from them, since Mothers Day has forgotten its origins and is more of a sentimental money maker. But, on looking up Father's Day it appears that there has been an acknowledged day devoted to the father since medieval times. I think it was originally in March but has different dates across the world now.

Mother's day apparently became a holiday for domestic servants before it became a more general public one. It was the one day they were allowed to return to their family home and go to the church they were raised in.

that there has been an acknowledged day devoted to the father since medieval times

Because fathers didn't get enough respect and honor back then, right?

fwiw I'm a father and I give exactly zero fucks about it. My own personal parents thought Mother's Day and Father's Day were silly Hallmark inventions and didn't encourage us to do anything about them that we wouldn't otherwise be doing.

Nowadays, schoolchildren are encouraged to make crafty things for both days, and I am appropriately thankful for that. What I find strange is the assumption that adults will give each other presents on these days. I like household harmony and marital bliss, and my wife likes presents, so I dutifully observe Mother's Day, but I told my wife that she should save her exertions for her own actual father, rather than giving me another tie or whatever.

Yes, i always assumed everyone was like my parents, so was alarmed to discover that, once we had a child, my wife was disappointed in my own failure to make a fuss of her on mothers day. I thought that was my daughters job. Why did nobody warn me?

Hah, my wife is similar. A male friend of mine was given an i-pad by his wife for Fathers' Day :0

Inappropriate imo unless you actually call your partner daddy/mommy.

Cab driver has been eating carrots the past 15 minutes. But not like a normal person. He nibbles them in various ways: in half lengthwise, munching off the outer ring, taking numerous rapid micro-bites.

is there any website specifically dedicated to reviewing/cataloging the different versions of DVDs/Blu-rays and what they contain? I used to have the same issue above.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, June 19, 2016 2:25 PM (2 days ago)

dvd beaver does point-by-point edition comparisons, but they're not a comprehensive release catalog

a prairie home companion makes me ia

also televised sporting events of any kind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX9Mcla543g

My daughter and I just started watching the Great British Bake Off. Right now, Netflix only has season 5. Amazon only has season 1. PBS, which belatedly broadcasts it in the US, only has seasons 1 and 2 available to stream; I think season 3 "starts" soon? BBC won't let me watch it at all, I don't think, without using my VPN; I'm not even sure I can legally *buy* it from the BBC right now. And of course I think every episode is on youtube, and obviously there is always torrenting. This for old episodes of a publicly funded (in the UK) show, broadcast for free on a publicly funded (in the US) network.

Why can't I just have all of them available to watch in one place, right now?

re keillor i've never been able to forget this:

he sounds like he is perpetually massaging his own balls

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, June 2, 2006 6:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have probably complained about measuring 'cups of butter' in pretty much every thread on ILX

Walter Presents, the world television thing on All4, twice now they showed the first episode of something on tv and then expected you to watch the rest online. and haven't made this clear until after i've watched it.

if they dropped all the big fat gipsy wedding repeats or grand designs from 2011 they'd have plenty of space...

people who drive enormous, clearly work-untroubled pickup trucks everywhere they go

^^^

Pretty much a way of life here in TX

I almost made a pretentious quasi-marxist post on Father's Day about how much I hate the pop culture/consumerist commodification of "Dads." Like as though we were all just raised by, and now have become, these insipid amalgams of sports-watching, fishing, beer, cliched advice, screw-ups and saves, rather than individuals.

xp rural HI too; it's weird cuz it's clearly filling people's emotional needs so they must be happy w the semiotics but i feel like there's few things unmanlier, by conventional standards, than a sparkling pickup truck

have to say too that it's bogus to say "digital natives" (whatever you think of palfrey's term lol) don't have as big of a problem with compulsive internet use than those of us who experienced it's explosion at an older age

woops wrong thread sorry

lol

digital natives--fuck 'em

ppl who insist on a file being delivered as a powerpoint when all they want is to display static pages that *already exist in a pdf file*

seriously it's some flip-the-table nonsense

^^^^^^

ok here are your jpgs *shrug*

when 17 million of your fellow countrymen vote to permanently fuck everything up for lols

Now you know how we feel over here.

The EU won't even look at our request form after some of the shit we've pulled.

UK votes Leave? Thanks, Obama!

people who want to jump ahead in a meeting, who are told "great question, we will be getting to that in a later section", and then continue to keep asking questions about the same thing

people who drive enormous, clearly work-untroubled pickup trucks everywhere they go

Southern California has a lot of this too. Every other vehicle you see is an oversized, white pickup that looks like it's never even had a single box in the back. Which would probably be difficult because the bed is invariably five fucking feet off the ground.

Maybe they just... wash their trucks...

They should sell pre-worn trucks like faded jeans and those beat-up stratocasters

Excellent marketing idea, cha-ching.

People who buy records to turn them into clocks.

All those giant fucking flagpoles in front of the stage at Glastonbury.

(I am not at Glastonbury)

Whipped cream cheese

I remember staying at a big motel in western North Dakota a couple years ago at the peak of the oil boom and there were easily100 brand new giant white pickups in the lot dwarfing our Honda Fit. I was wondering the other day how many of them have been repoed since then.

people who refer to "rottentomatoes" as if they are the ones reviewing the movie themselves.

People who buy records to turn them into clocks.

― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, June 26, 2016 5:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought they made picture discs to cater to the clockmaking crowd. It's more static aesthetic than practical innit?
Or at least for some kind of wall mounting. Maybe framing?
Things tend to blur when spinning at 33 or 45 don't they?

I work next to a record shop and once or twice a week i hear someone exclaim that they have been so happy to find a copy of abbey road or never mind the bollocks etc. To do it with. For yhe people who shout about it, its never a picture disc or something to... ya know... listen to.

Also, noticing this thread. I've gone for my first holiday in years and at the beach in barcelona you have bear people try to sell you shit, like beer and water, or getting massage or braiding yr hair etc. I dont get irrationaly angry at these people, whatevz they provide cos their lives must be hard as shit. I just have a crazy reaction to the people who think a massage from a stranger on a beach in a different country is just cool. Omg ew. Im down with selling beers or whatever but being touched? Wtf?

I also have a similar beef in standardised shopping centres like westfield but on a beach its way worse.

https://www.instagram.com/p/0TTxoYDYfw/

xp. typically the dudes selling beer in Barcelona are doing so as a front for selling drugs

so sometimes the beer they have is the same one they've been carrying around all day, i.e. don't buy it

Oh def. I work in a place where there is a lot of drug/ addiction/ homelessness so i just apply the same rules.

I just cant imagine getting a massage from that. Likewtf? Personal space issues is gross as hell at the best of times...

people who say "whoa, spoilers man, not cool" when you post something as ridiculously vague like "wow can't BELIEVE what happened in that last episode of <tv show>, that was fucked up"

people who attend a conference call and refuse to put themselves on mute while typing away at 90 wpm. cos I really wanna hear your clackety-clackety for a goddamn hour, your loud advertisement that you ain't paying any attention.