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

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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).

Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link

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

kinder, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link

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.

pplains, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link

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

Stevolende, Sunday, 12 May 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link

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

koogs, Sunday, 12 May 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link

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.

WmC, Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link

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

Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link

forget about it man

deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link

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.


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

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link

forget about it man


No I'm with noodle vague there.

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link

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?

Well it could be exactly like my side street which is a dead end laneway exiting onto a major road half a block from a significant intersection. I have sat through several cycles of lights before anyone queueing up in the near lane decides it's time to generously let me out.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 13 May 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link

xp dre

i am asking you to forget about dre

an i getting through at all here

deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 07:16 (five years ago) link

I got it D

kinder, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 07:32 (five years ago) link

phew

deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 07:38 (five years ago) link

still deems

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link

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. ;)

The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link

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.

forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link

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.

husserl gang (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link

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

forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link

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

kinder, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link

the memeification of building site banter

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 17 May 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link

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

suzy, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link

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 :/

Colonel Poo, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link

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

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link

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

milkshake chuk (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link

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

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link

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.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link

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

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link

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

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link

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

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link

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.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link

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

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link

Capaldi's on now, what a grating little shit

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link

He looks like a Peter Kay character

specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link

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.

☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link

"brill"

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 May 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link

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.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link

Sounds like someone's chakras are not aligned today

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link

lmao

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link

I'm with you mr table. the worst thing of living in vancouver vs living at home in glasgow is the prevalence of west coasty new age bullshit

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link

and i can't say anything negative about it in company basically

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link

Sounds like someone's chakras are not aligned today

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:15 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol thanks for the laugh.

xpost to jim, yeah, it's very much west coast friends. lived out there for nearly ten years.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link

I had dinner with two fairly new friends the other night and had to hold back when they discussed reiki in case I massively offended them. I did have a stupid grimace on my face which I think they noticed tho

kinder, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link

some of these people are potential editors of mine, and they are dear friends in other ways! it's very difficult for me to not think of them as massive idiots sometimes, tho.

i will write that stuff like reiki and kambo an whatnot is very, very different from tarot and more traditional "magick" stuff, which i find ludicrous but relatively harmless.

the former stuff, though, in its presentation as "healing" and "restorative" and other appropriation of medical terminology...well, it's just plain dangerous, imo.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link

lol no it's not, don't be silly

mark s, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link

given that the same people who believe in reiki, kambo, and CST also tend to be anti-vaxxers, well, i beg to differ.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link

assertion made without empirical evidence, claim denied

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link

come on man. people who believe in CAM are probably the one demo most likely to be anti-vaxx https://i.imgur.com/0wWumgj.png

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link

Having to use tongs to grab tortilla chips in a buffet.

pplains, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link

OTFM

especially those small plastic tongs that only have a 2 inch opening

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link


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