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

Trousers with fewer than seven belt loops.

Really? I always make mine with 5 which seems to be the right support points. Not really studied it overly but it does seem to work right.
front between pocket and fly, side around where the side seams are and centre back.

I’m a big fan of six loops, but it’s rare to encounter even that many. For decades I’ve semi-often had to remake the centre back loop on otherwise well-wearing five-loop jeans and trousers bcz it’s so load-bearing that it wears through.

I can’t tell if seven seems luxurious or aggressively prophylactic. Three spaced across the back, two by the fly, two perched at the front of the hips?

I prefer one loop, and my belt just hangs from my waist like a coiled bullwhip.

The car thing is otm, it’s so arrogant to think that the road rules are yours to magnanimously dispense with as a favour. Leaves everyone else uncertain as to which rules you’ll be following and which you find optional, i.e. breaks the covenant between road users.

The covenant between road users = above all, behave predictably.

dummy thinks s/he is being kind to a single driver by stopping to let them in

Huh? I would literally never get out onto the main road in rush hour if someone didn't let me out (in). Am I missing something?

There's maybe some situations where this makes sense, like if you are trying to get out of a driveway or parking lot into a street full of busy, slow, non-stop traffic, but in general, cars on a main street should not be yielding to other cars that don't have the right of way because it is unpredictable and messes up the flow of traffic.

exactly

yes - moodles otm

in heavy slow moving traffic it's an understandable courtesy, but stopping free-flowing traffic behind you in order to do this is a decent argument for capital punishment

Well ok then.

Things is, when I'm trying to get out into the rush hour traffic and THERE'S CLEARLY A QUEUE and you (not you folks obv) STILL DON'T LET ME OUT?!? And so you end up with your car stopped in front of me on the main road staring determinedly at the car in front in front hoping I'm not giving you my very hardest Paddington stare (because I am).

in this situation are you indicating?
hate when cars just sit there waiting to be let out but you don't know which way they're going

Your side street must lead eventually to a street where there is a light or stop sign or roundabout or traffic circle that allows you to merge into traffic without relying on hope and the goodness of strangers. You might have to travel east for a block to get west, but it's gotta be there somewhere.

I have made somewhere around 20 or 25 pairs of jeans over the last few years. & most of them have had 5 belt loops which seems to have worked well they are the trousers I wear most of the time.
I just looked at what must be a similar design to the pair that wore out and I have been using the parts of as pattern pieces for what I've made. That has the extra 2 loops on. I think I stopped doing 7 after the first few pairs because they seemed extraneous to need.
So I am surprised that somebody is emphasising that there should be 7 or more. Why do you need more? Do you find the waistband sags at points that don't have the support or something

(I'm guessing the optimum number would differ according to the size of the waistline)

Why do you need more? Do you find the waistband sags at points that don't have the support or something

Yeah. There are sags between the back loop and the side loops on my 5-loop jeans, and I recently got a pair of 7-loop jeans that look and feel much better.

I'm not really angry as such but i dunno what the right thread would be and i can't be arsed to start a new one, anyway there's this "an Orchestral Rendition of Dr Dre" thing and really, fuck off with this shit fffs

forget about it man

Your side street must lead eventually to a street where there is a light or stop sign or roundabout or traffic circle that allows you to merge into traffic without relying on hope and the goodness of strangers. You might have to travel east for a block to get west, but it's gotta be there somewhere.

forget about it man

Your side street must lead eventually to a street where there is a light or stop sign or roundabout or traffic circle that allows you to merge into traffic

So true. How hard is it to work out the least burdensome journey given all the tools at our disposal?

xp dre

i am asking you to forget about dre

an i getting through at all here

I got it D

phew

still deems

xp dre

i am asking you to forget about dre

an i getting through at all here

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, May 14, 2019 2:16 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SOMETHING'S gotten through. Ahem. ;)

when i hit i in my browser, i can quickly go to ilx. except this morning i googled about "installing" a new electrical outlet. therefore, chrome has decided i want to google that over and over, forever.

I use the Google News applet thingy, and it thinks I'm interested in "Vanderpump Rules" which I'm only vaguely aware is a TV show, and I have clicked "fewer stories like this" at least a dozen times, but Google is not convinced.

google news thinks i'm interested in pete davidson, which is awesome

I've never asked for Google news alerts but it keeps telling me about anything Phoebe Waller Bridge is doing

the memeification of building site banter

I just got a Twitter news alert about the death of Grumpy Cat, a topic I’ve never favoured with an opinion.

Google new alerts thinks I'm interested in Lewis Capaldi (who I'd never heard of before that, then a (bad) advert came on TV for him), football (mostly Liverpool and Man U) and exam results in an Asian city I have also never heard of. I've no idea where they come up with this stuff.

Slightly more spookily it's also giving me articles about Twin Peaks which we've been re-watching lately, I assume it's getting this info from NowTV, and not just by listening in on our living room :/

Just came here to post about who the fuck is Lewis Capaldi and why is he all up in my face? Cunt

https://cdn.spindizzyrecords.com/uploads/2019/05/R-13637351-1558022723-2510.jpeg.jpg

I said this on twitter but this is kind of a perfect campaign image/slogan for the chuktzpah party

It is possibly the worst album title of all time so y

Dude himself is like the One Show attained sentience and bought a guitar

Have you see the TV advert for his album? Couldn't find it on YouTube or it's have been straight on the Worst Adverts On TV thread.

Being cutely self deprecating seems to be his 'thing'. Fair enough though, he is just a fat Ed Sheeran.

Yeah he's getting some v heavy PR push, was moved to post because he's in the FA Cup warm-up show for some fucking reason

Ooh, Luther Blissett's on later, hope they've got a new book coming out

He's from Glasgow, he shouldn't give a fuck about the FA Cup. Maybe they've got Bobby Gillespie lined up for the match itself.

Chilling vision of Primal Scream lumbering thru "Abide With Me"

Capaldi's on now, what a grating little shit

He looks like a Peter Kay character

Don't tell me my shoe's untied. I fucking know. And definitely don't tell me that I might trip. I'm not 5.

"brill"

i can't say it anywhere else:

i fucking HATE all the new-age bullshit a lot of my friends are into. i hate tarot. i hate runes. i hate reiki. i hate CST. i hate kambo. i hate crystals.

it's all fucking quackery.

and i hate that whenever i express even a modicum of these opinions in a friendly way, i'm accused of being "brainwashed by western rationality" and shit.

i teach decolonial literature courses at the uni level, Lauren, and you're not a fucking witch.

okay, end rant.

Sounds like someone's chakras are not aligned today

lmao