alas that mrs mac is no longer available
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link
to proffer me citizenship in the wake of this domestic outrage
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 06:45 (seven years ago) link
just remembered i can get irish citizenship hi
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 9 November 2016 11:26 (seven years ago) link
all talk imo
which tbf is part of the test applied
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 9 November 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
how are we all doing?
― lxy, Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
this hurts.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Friday, 11 November 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
i feel ok because i was feeling so bad to begin with. tired of reading ppl's thinkpieces though. more tired of the democratic party than i ever thought possible. feeling very blamey and partially self-satisfied but also scared for everyone. glad i never got a job in the federal govt. that is all.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 11 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
had an encounter with someone who was being trolly and said can't wait to defund planned parenthood so i will be making a donation in their name after payday
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 11 November 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
I donated yesterday :)
― toadstool might (tehresa), Saturday, 12 November 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
trying to figure out whether i can continue being friends with someone i've known half my life and has been very generous with me but supports fascism run by 'an idiot' because HRC is 'the greatest criminal in world history'
dude is a very wealthy white man living in san francisco. and i don't think i can do it. not simply because i disagree, but because i've lost all respect for him
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 November 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah.
i'm really concerned about having to ever see a few relatives again, but i am also worried because they will suffer more than me if these promises are fulfilled. what do you do with that?
― toadstool might (tehresa), Saturday, 12 November 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
imo the political is always personal and your political beliefs are most certainly a reflection of who you are as a person. not to say that being a lefty automatically makes you a good person, but all right-wing policies seem to spring from hatred of some sort, from negativity and oppression of one or more groups.
trump is so clearly and transparently awful, insincere and corrupt, that if someone is claiming hillary is worse, then i know they're really just bigoted and emails/benghazi/clinton foundation stuff is just a convenient cover for that.
no one needs to be around toxic people, and people on the right are straight-up poison.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 13 November 2016 07:10 (seven years ago) link
ACLU, SPLC, Gay City Health Project, Campaign Zero, Planned Parenthood
― lxy, Monday, 14 November 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
now for the hard part: actually DO something, aside from sending twitter threads to my sisters
― lxy, Monday, 14 November 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
yes.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
outraged by ilx outage
― silby, Friday, 18 November 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
something small but vigorous is doing some loud scuttling in the roof directly above our bed, and it’s an unnerving outrage. i will not be investigating at all due to the awfulness of the possible local candidates.
― estela, Friday, 3 November 2017 09:40 (six years ago) link
Oh I can sympathize but thankfully from past and not present experience
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
it's ant season at my house. my counters are clean. they're marching to god knows where and carrying shit back still. this morning i was trying to dump some leftovers from the fridge and accidentally dropped them on the ground. i cleaned up as well as i could but when i came home the floor was like thishttps://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/great-movie-triumph-of-the-will-1935/hero_EB20080626REVIEWS08911177318AR.jpg
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
i had this a couple years ago and it was outrageous but also really impressive (and horrifying) -- there was a single line of them coming in the window at the other end of the apartment, traversing the length of it in straight lines, and climbing up a wall to a bottle of honey in the cupboard
http://hiandlois.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/182/files/2016/01/FamilyCircus.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
we're contracted for quarterly (supposedly eco) spraying because of the outrageousness of the sugar ants. the guy said they come in looking for water (but apparently they stay for the crumbs). he also said they're called sugar ants because they smell sweet if you squash them, which he then demonstrated by squashing one and smelling it, then holding it out for me to smell, to which i was like HELL NO I AM NOT SMELLING YOUR FRESHLY DEAD ANT JESUS CHRIST DUDE MOVE YOUR HAND AWAY FROM MY FACE.
anyway, they still come in occasionally but not like they used to.
― lxy, Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
i can't tell you the story of the pizza in zanzibar because it is so horrifying that neither jërgins nor i have ever once mentioned it since it happened.
― lxy, Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
now is the time of year i cross my fingers and hope no bats appear in my house. ts: ants vs bats
― toadstool might (tehresa), Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
the pizza in zanzibar is good code for unspeakable things
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
things are much improved after i found a bait they would actually eat. 99% gone.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 27 April 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
my furnace stopped working on a friday night.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Saturday, 22 February 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link
almost march, no worries
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 February 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
upper midwest outrages chronicle: we're not safe til may
― toadstool might (tehresa), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
a disgraceful reminder we can’t spell furnace without an fu
― estela, Sunday, 1 March 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
i am outraged that, while in-person classes at my university have been suspended through the end of the month, offices will remain open. so, those of us who are in higher-risk age brackets will continue to throw ourselves out into the great world of disease every day, while the people in the less-at-risk age brackets can stay home and away from potential contact at every turn.
the announcement of the above arrived first thing this morning, followed shortly by an announcement that a staff person working in a building up the street has tested presumptive-positive, their building has been closed, and all people who've been in contact with them should self-isolate for 14 days. but yay, let's all the rest of us keep going to germ land all the time.
― lxy, Friday, 6 March 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
i feel strongly that there's a domestic connection to my outrage, but i'm too outraged to quite get at it.
― lxy, Friday, 6 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
this is exactly the kind of thing my employer does. typically it is weather-related and classes are canceled for students, 95% of whom live on campus. meanwhile offices remain open and staff, who have to drive in, are told to report. indeed an outrage. (of the domestic capitalism sort?)
― toadstool might (tehresa), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
i am in a more fortunate place now, but i am reminded that k-12 i had exactly two school days cancelled for weather. one was because the boilers had failed; the other was because the buses couldn't climb the hill due to ice
despite the latter, we still had basketball practice
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 March 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link
my hr department now says that we can't work remotely, despite the fact that all students have been told they have to leave campus by sunday at 3 pm. outraged is too mild a term for how i feel right now.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
we are supposed to work from home when possible and have new technology to do so but i don't believe i will be able to do it, mentally. still have to go to the jail and i have bail reviews all week.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
in the domestic outrages vein i had one packet of yogurt culture left in the fridge and went to all the trouble of heating the milk, etc. last night. incubated in the instant pot and woke up at 5 when it went off to move it to the fridge. i tasted it this morning and the culture must have been dead because it just tasted like cooked milk.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
my new thermostat (see previous furnace outrage) does not seem to work properly, but only malfunctions like 1/5 of the time, which doesn't seem dire enough to risk inviting a technician into my home.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
speaking on both mrs mac and laundry in the other thread, she left what appears to have been several thousand euro worth of loo roll in her jeans when putting them in the basket the last day and was outrageously obvious about not thinking it was *that* big a deal when it destroyed the 40 degree dark wash
she says it served me right for throwing the teabags in the bin from across the kitchen and always splashing the wall (the walls are her job) but it's clearly not comparable imco
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
the main light fixture in my kitchen isn’t working. whether this is due to dumb wiring on the part of the previous owners, or bad wiring choices on the part of the current owner who is currently isolated in the house is yet to be determinedprobably the latter
― knackered housecat, Sunday, 22 March 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
E
came home this evening
feel for my amp
oh you know bout that man
wait my amps not there
A
came home this evenin
oh just feelin for my amp
B
my amps in the closet now
until this is all over
oh you know this is not open for discussion
E (quietly, because you have no amp)
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
part of my closet system fell off the wall.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAB8jcFsStY
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
the mosquitos have arrived in minnesota.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
mosquito season in minnesota, pretty much the yearly apocalypse
― knackered housecat, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
unicorn shower curtain girl has taken over a redecoration of the garden shed for teenage hosting purposes she will not iirc be lisa franking that shit to the maxxx tho
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
a missed opportunity imo
― toadstool might (tehresa), Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
the hot water heater died today so now i get to have that replaced.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Friday, 8 May 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
jesus, rains/pours. sorry for all of this, tehersa.
― lxy, Friday, 8 May 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
<3
― toadstool might (tehresa), Friday, 8 May 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
because this year has not been special enough, my sewer line is now backed up. (luckily caught before my basement totally flooded). 🥴
― toadstool might (tehresa), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link