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

I slept on a yo (Korean relative of a futon) most of my childhood, and a futon directly on the floor between college and marriage. Since getting married, I have been able to manage a futon on a platform. But almost all conventional beds are way too squishy for me.

headboard = you can lean pillows against it and sit up in bed to read without the pillows sliding between the bed and the wall

I've always wanted one of these. Lay in bed at night, dream about Hershey Special Dark.

https://i.imgur.com/2fb9Pes.jpg

And then when my wife leaves me because I spent so much money on the headboard, I can point to it still hung on the wall and say, "That's where my bed used to be."

read “my wife” in borat voice

It's said in more of an Entwhistle way.

headboard = you can lean pillows against it and sit up in bed to read without the pillows sliding between the bed and the wall

― mh, Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:28 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I never had this problem when in my mattress-on-a-box-spring-on-the-floor days. The bed was flush against the wall. But if you're saying that a bed frame with a headboard is better than one without, then I agree.

ppl using the the grave accent as an opening quote mark

― mark s, Friday, September 22, 2017 5:24 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yessss

Also: using the grave accent as apostrophe. Baffles me that this is seen not infrequently over here, given that on the Norwegian keyboard, the actual apostrophe is on an unshifted key, while the grave needs shift + key + next keystroke.

when people ask you for a piece of information, like an email address, and say "go ahead", you start providing it, and then they stop you and say "oh I'm sorry one second".

YOU JUST SAID "GO AHEAD"

also the one Wawa near my friend is supposed to open its beer cooler at 9 am each day per the sign and on the last two occasions I showed up around 9:30 and it was still locked and had to flag an employee down to open it. I'm like c'mon this is a daily thing!

u ok

sobbin'

There are days when I will not get a chance to shop during the day and find myself buying beer at conspicuously early hours. Kids leave at 8:00 and then I need to get to work immediately; kids start coming home at 3:00, when I'm still juggling work calls. Then there's dinner and bedtime and housework and reading time. If I know I will want some beer, I either need to buy it at 8:00AM or at 10:00PM. Sometimes one gets A Look from the other patrons at the 7-11 or whatev, the decent cleanshaven people of the world who are getting coffee and a bran muffin and trying not to spill it on their suit.

I hate it when advertisers insist on slapping stupid copy all over products. Like the side of a toothpaste tube listing all its uses: "freshens breath! cleans teeth! prevents cavities ..." Yeah, it's fucking toothpaste! Or when you buy, I dunno, milk and it says "try it in cereal, or in coffee, or even in a glass!" or some shit. Or a pack of batteries that suggests using them in flashlights, or clocks, or other electronic devices. Duh. I'm looking at the back of a pack of Q-tips right now and it's all "Variety of uses: applying first aid, cleaning electronics, baby care, household use ..." They're Q-tips, I can use them for whatever the fuck I want, I don't need your help, and just because you have a package doesn't mean you need to cover it with words. Especially since, in an ironic turn, the one thing people really use Q-tips for - cleaning their fucking ears - is not really a legally approved use so doesn't get mentioned.

q-tips are ostensibly to clean the outer loops and whorls of your ears but you know you want to shove that sucker in there and dig a little

Sir I do not

oh *that's* the hole they're meant to go into...

Sir I beg you

when you cancel plans you’d already made to drive for 45 minutes to some family dinner and the very loud patriarch announces “RIGHT, THERE’S A NEW RULE, NO MOBILE PHONES” and then spouts racist/homophobic bullshit for three hours

maybe that can be my bargaining chip: no mobile phones, as long as you stop being a giant cock for exactly the same amount of time

Ha ha when I have dinner with the in-laws I always have to have a phone ready to investigate the Russian news site stories they present as fact

Do people who get their news from RT realize it's a Russian propaganda site and just not care or do they have no idea?

they probably think Rotten Tomatoes expanded into news

Tbrr, some of my loved ones take Rotten Tomatoes user reviews as written gospel, so it's not much of a stretch.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is) of parents who bring babies on flights giving out "apology" notes/gifts to their seat neighbors? FUUUUUUUUUCK that shit. But also fuck those people for their passive-aggressive excessive niceness and/or excessive self-deprecation. It's a baby. It's what adults start out as. Sometimes they need to go places, even by airplanes. This has been happening since there were commercial flights.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is)

Words to live by.

I thought it was bullshit when I first read about it, but a guy just suggested it in a facebook parent group (although maybe he just read about it in the same article, IDK).

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

toddlers being renowned for their compliant nature...

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

But yeah, there better be a gift attached to that note, not just some fancy pompamoose calligraphy.

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

wish more neighbours did this

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

― Moodles, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No

Don't bring babies

Babies don't need to fly

Babies got by without flying for millions of years

and vaccines! oh wait

First time I took my then-baby from China to the UK (for my sister's wedding) we got stuck in a landing formation for about an hour just as he needed milk, and the crew wouldn't let us stand up to make milk for him as the seatbelt lights were on and he was screaming like he's never screamed before, the whole plane were glaring at us and we'd been up for 36 hours and had just made the mistake of accepting free cocktails. Sure it wasn't nice for anyone there, but would wager we did worst out of it.

I'm sure we have a thread for the argument but I'm not sure it's a comparison exercise that the other passengers had in mind

Lol we rarely take our toddler out in public but when we do I don’t give a flying fuck whether some meat bag is annoyed

No

Don't bring babies

Babies don't need to fly

Babies got by without flying for millions of years

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, February 25, 2018 5:09 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so did whiny adults

However, I hate the twee parents who hand out sorry-for-my-kid goodie bags almost as much as the complainers

When I punch a whiney adult their dad normally isn't around tbf

IA thread making people IA news @11

My parents took me on a plane when I was two years old and it was such a bad idea that I didn't fly for another twenty years.

did they honor your return ticket after so long?

the return trip was the bad experience

No one wants to go home from Disneyland.

it was disney world! good guess

this is irrational nerd shit but modern books that use Wade-Giles instead of Pinyin for transliterating Chinese really wind me up

i’m planning a taiwan trip and that exact thing is shitting me to tears atm

instead of writing “kaohsiung” or “gāoxióng” or “ㄍㄠ ㄒㄩㄥˊ” i’ve taken to writing characters literally all the time because they’re the only universal/transportable standard that exists

Pinyin just feels cleaner and easier to read and i don't know why anybody would persist with the other systems