My stupid girlfriend ruined $160 worth of CDs with a leaking POTTED PLANT

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Spilled beer would have been less irritating, but to discover your "top shelf" CDs (which are literally on the top shelf) have been ruined by the sheer stupidity of someone placing a obviously dangerous object like a potted plant precariously perched atop is, well, disheartening. There is not a solution in hell that would make me happy. Buying the same CDs over again, no matter whose money is used, just makes me want to kick someone's ass.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i pity you. if that helps.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the cds should still play.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

vinyl: l
CDs: 0

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

But the fuckin' paper part is so warped the ink is bleeding and it's so crusted over I can't pull the booklets out. Also, the cardboard-sleeve packages are stuck to the actual CDs. The back of a rare bootlegs has brown rust on the read-part of the CD (I'm sure it can be wiped, but I'm just fucking pissed because I might as well have mp3s now.)

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

vinyl: l
CDs: 0

Same thing happened to my stupid girlfriend's dad last year when his basement flooded, ruining all of his precious vinyl.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

make up sex is often very good.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, now you have guilt-power

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

naturally, as humans we tend to get upset when we are wronged in any way, including due to negligence, but i find that it helps to remember that everything in life is transitory anyway. also once you lose your health or the functionality of one or more of your limbs (as I did after a somewhat serious bicycle accident recently), you start to understand that your material possessions are so fucking neglible in the face of having good health. just my two cents. peace.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You should post that to every thread!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, you should.

― Bimble..., Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

well now: lets consider the titles. what were they? maybe ilm could dissuade you of the notion they were even worth having in the first place.

― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know some potted plant had a hole in the bottom of the pot so when I watered it, it spilled all over the remote for my Brookstone CD player and they don't make it anymore and can't give me a new remote. I felt like crying :~~~~~~

― Mickey, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Get one of those "universal" remotes. They're bound to have the codes in their somewhere (it may be under a different make - you may have to trial and error all the codes - most makes use the same codes as others)

― Chewshabad00, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Let this be a lesson to you - make sure you have something under the pot like a plate.

― Chewshabad00, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

cd 1 potted plant 0

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The words "stupid" and "girlfriend" sit well together IMO.

― C_Zar, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

By chance did your girlfriend's great-grandfather lose his wax cylinder collection to the great flood of aught-six? It may be a family curse.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm... My expert advice: hit her.

KIDDING!

Oh man, I'll never live that one down.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like it's time for you to buy an iPod, Angrymatopoeia.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What was really great about it is that SHE was angry at ME and did not apologize. I pointed out: "Oh, I see you're mad at me because you ruined my cds. I see! You know, if the roles were reversed the first thing I would do is say, 'oh shit, I'm so sorry!'" To which her response was, "Well of course I'm sorry."

Apparently it really ticked her off that I moved the plant to the table with a note that said (word for word):
"This fucked up my CDs. Do not put it back." and stacked the CD carnage next to the plant. I left a fucking note so as to avoid screaming at her about it, but of course her idiotic reaction fixed that. I was half asleep in bed when she stormed in slamming drawers and giving me the silent treatment. I've noticed she always pulls that role-reversal shit when she fucks up (and no, I don't always leave a note).

The stupid fucking cunt bitch just always moves shit around and fucks shit up and I hate her. Thank you for letting me get that out. Now I can get back to loving her.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mp3s suck. I lose enough sound on a CD so 193 bit mp3s are unacceptable. To think, all these poor slobs are robbing their ears of the real thing and happily paying 99¢ a song. And iPods apparently lose battery charge.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh right, iPods and computers are for the ape-eared.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a tip: You might want to erase this ILM thread from your browser's history in case your girlfriend should stumble upon it.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Compare an high quality mp3 to a cd and see which sounds better. Then realize you paid for the mp3 (if you did). I have an mp3 player and I don't like it. Besides the sound quality, there's just the problem of too many songs in the palm of your hand. It's very easy to forget about bands and albums you'd rather not.

Thanks for the web tip, but I have her trained to use a different browser. I also have her trained not to turn on the computer when I'm not home because every time she uses it, she manages to crash it.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, am really fucking glad that your CDs were ruined. REALLY glad. I could perform a dance of joy. In fact I think I will.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never paid for an mp3 in my life. CDs definitely sound nicer than mp3s, but mp3s are more convenient. Convenient wins ever time. That's why CDs are better than vinyl and vinyl is better than wax cylinders.

Has anyone ever told you that yr a creepy misogynist? I half suspect that you're not for real. I hope you aren't, anyway.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

doritos are better than burritos

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever told you that yr a creepy misogynist? I half suspect that you're not for real. I hope you aren't, anyway.

This is another Calum pseudonym?

Oh no, hang on, this one likes music and not pretty boys.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever told you that yr a creepy misogynist?

ah, the joy of ILX, where saying something bad about a woman = misogyny...

(tho i'd avoid the 'trained' bit in the future, mr. angry)

(actually he prob. IS a misogynist, but if there's one thing ILX has succeeded in doing, it's making me indifferent to misogyny)

― tax pd, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, the joy of ILX, where saying something bad about a woman = misogyny...

Actually, that's probably the Barbelith in me.

Yeah, that "trained" thing was what pushed it from "this is a guy angry at his girlfriend" to "this is a guy who seems to have no respect at all for his girlfriend."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not the girlfriend, it's the potted plant conspiracy. Plants are tired of environmental destruction and are exacting their revenge one CD at a time.

― Bimble..., Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

my hot snakes cd is forever warped from bong water

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, am really fucking glad that your CDs were ruined. REALLY glad. I could perform a dance of joy. In fact I think I will.

Did you?

Has anyone ever told you that yr a creepy misogynist?

No, but I have been called a "feminist" which struck me as odd at the time. Of course, I don't go around calling women "cunt" or anything like that, either. And I would never tell my girlfriend I have her "trained" unless I wasjoking. (But, the fact is, she is "trained". It took fucking forever and a million times of her crashing my computer when I wasn't home to realize that every time she did I would catch her and become annoyed that she doesn't respect my property and deliberately ignores my request that she not use my $2600 computer when I'm not home in case anything goes wrong, like it always does when she's on it. She visits the most fucked-up poorly put together websites on the planet, apparently. She would actually leave the computer on but crashed/frozen for hours burning the screen because she was afraid to turn it off or didn't know how.)

my hot snakes cd is forever warped from bong water
But, see, that's not as annoying. I specifically asked her not to put her plant there and she kind of went "pffft" like there was no problem. I have a few beer-soaked cds myself, but they are nowhere near this level of damage.

― Angrymatopoeia, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you have some larger issues to work out with yr girlfriend.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Same thing happened to my stupid girlfriend's dad last year when his basement flooded, ruining all of his precious vinyl.

What kind of moron stores his vinyl in the basement? Especially if it's "precious." It's one thing to have your cds out somewhere potentially dangerous (because let's face it, most of us treat cds like they can't be broken or messed up even though things like the potted plant are possible), but everyone knows that you have to take especially good care of vinyl.

Most folks' CD players have such crap converters in them that they might as well be listening to mp3s. My favorite part of the neverending analog vs digital argument is the number of people participating with shit for gear to listen to either format.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The key here is to keep more than one of everything around. That way, you've already got a replacement handy when something goes wrong.

This is true for CDs, potted plants, and girlfriends.

― cdwill, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like it's time for you to buy an iPod, Angrymatopoeia.

but be sure not to leave it under a potted plant.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

But iPods are good for potted plants! Just dunk them a little in the soil and watch that baby grow!

― Bimble..., Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

iChia!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

IChia, the new Swedish store where you pour water on the package, and it grows into leafy green furniture!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.meredy.com/cagney/mcagenemy.jpg

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, this thread really came around. Thanks ILM.

http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/poppyseed/john_lennon.jpg

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 23 December 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I was going to say about as much. What else anyone could possibly want out of a thread I simply can't imagine. This one is a masterpiece.
Happy Holidays to you all.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, I'm in tears. This thread keeps getting funnier.

the stressing put on the fact that it was a POTTED PLANT is perhaps the funniest part.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Weirdly enough I'd be more sympathetic to Angry's posts here if he suddenly came back and clarified that his girlfriend is nine years old.

― nabiscothingy (nory), Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

**I, for one, am really fucking glad that your CDs were ruined. REALLY glad. I could perform a dance of joy. In fact I think I will. **

**Did you?**

You bet. And I cracked open a bottle of 1983 Moet for good measure. I

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I moved the plant to the table with a note that said (word for word):
"This fucked up my CDs. Do not put it back." and stacked the CD carnage next to the plant. I left a fucking note so as to avoid screaming at her about it

You want to be careful there, the ILX passive-aggressive police will come down on you like a ton of bricks for that shit.

I once got some vinyl water damged. It was my own fucking stupid fault. I should have left myself a note.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 December 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My stupid boyfriend ruined $160 worth of CDs with a leaking BOTTLE OF 1983 MOET

― Myonga Von Bottle (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, 1983 Moet, not bad. I personally would have had a 92 Dom Perignon grand cru.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enough 1983 Moet costs about $160 a bottle

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm thirsty.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

t/s:

$160 of Angrymatopoeia's "presumably" crappy music taste

A bottle of Moet?

― Chewshabado0, Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, presumably said girlfriend keeps her bottle in a pretty cabinet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 December 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i ruined $160 worth of CDs with MY MASSIVE COCK

― i did, Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

**Funnily enough 1983 Moet costs about $160 a bottle**

Good god. I have 2 bottles here. Mrs. Dr. C was given them, but not by me. I doubt my ale-addled pallette can tell between this and cheap fizz, but I'll enjoy it all the same.

Happy Holidays Billy D and Ned!!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I still want to know where the $160 figure came from. Is this how much Angry paid for them at time of purchase or how much they'd be worth on ebay now.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the joke's on you, Mr. Happydance! She got me a gift certificate for $200 at Virgin.

The CD's ruined were the more "boring" old stand-by's but my favorite staples nevertheless: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and David Bowie.

― Angrymatopoeia, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

$160 came from typing in at Overstock.com and it didn't include $20 imports like Les Fleur De Lys and The Creation.

― Angry, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the way Angrymatopoeia has come across on this thread but I LOVE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, of course not. Does anyone like a frothing Angry person? Just venting in a way that real life doesn't allow. GRRRRRRRRRR. Glad someone noticed the silly email address! ;)

― Angrymatopoeia, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the way Angrymatopoeia has come across on this thread but I LOVE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS.

Ha. Now I feel like a jackass for not noticing it before. My attention to detail has been slipping lately...

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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