my friend kyle sent me a picture of a bug he captured in his kitchen, i think it’s brilliant

ahhhhh i’m scared of it

i like that bug a lot and i normally eschew all bugs.

EB brought me an ad for “loungers,” she said it made her think of me. wtf?

(for those of you who don’t know, a lounger is basically a polyester muumuu, but i’ve just dubbed it a “summer slanket.”)

estela why are you chewing all bugs

htfo max you big ratbag jk

my parents have a cat called ratbag

Oh, estela <3

idkwtptsiph: jergins, i like your most recent display name.

smoove is telling me about “ratbag,” saying “it was evidently born to some tomcat’s bitch.”

ratbag is a good name for a cat from taranaki.

what does htfo mean?!

help the fuck out

hey

genuine aw

was laughing so hard at her in that bag

the fucking neighbors are doing thursday night sing-song again and some terrible singer girl is doing that one indigo girls song, and when i say terrible i mean TERRIBLE.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck i can even hear her from indoors. now she’s singing some goddamn simon and garfunkle bullshit.

those people make me hate everything.

omg that is horrible. tell them to take it to a karaoke bar jeeeeze

i think it’s stopped. thank fuck.

those people are such assholes. i’d rather have breakfast with 10 loud chewers than have breakfast with them.

they’re all “ooh we have nice people over and do sing-alongs and use cloth shopping bags and we belong to the neighborhood committee” and yet they never never never even acknowledge their actual neighbors.

except, that is, the day the man came snooping around to see what i was painting (though he didn’t even care once he found out), and then it came out that he thought i’d just moved in. 12 years, dickhead. i’ve lived here 12 fucking years you self-involved prisspot.

and since then he’s gone right back to ignoring me.

(lol at me, they piss me off so much i get all up in arms every time i think about them.)

take a deep breath and do your best not to bludgeon your neighbor to death with his own “welcome friends” door plaque.

I don’t have any hard feelings toward the type of neighbors who have very little interaction with you because they’re intensely private/shy. but these people sound like the smuggest, most self-congratulatory bastahds on earth, so I feel for you.

lxy, i can come over and set some booby traps if you want. they’ll never know who it was!

yes, ur, that’s exactly what they are. well stated.

t, if they got booby trapped one of their song-singing friends would probably organize some motherfucking goddamn candle-in-the-window/flag-at-half-mast/potluck-at-the-turnaround kind of bullshit, so best leave them to their healthy tediousness, i think.

but thank you for your support!

i was leaving for my evening promenade and saw some ladies walk by with balloons and thought, hey, that’s nice! and then when i went outside they had left them by my front door!

i use cloth shopping bags :(

i think i know about this type of people though

i want to evangelize about reusable bags but i won’t

i love them. my two good sturdy fit-lots bags, they’re both from Providence

yeah i walk to the grocery store, i don’t know how i did it without them before. they fit so much and you can put them on your shoulders and no more cabinets full of plastic bags i will never reuse.

nothing in the world wrong with cloth bags, i’m all for them, use them all the time. despite those self-righteous fuckers across the street giving them a bad name.

now that they’ve ruined the indigo girls for me

i bet sunday they’ll crank up and laugh like hyenas at wait wait don’t tell me

yeah i walk to the grocery store, i don’t know how i did it without them before. they fit so much and you can put them on your shoulders and no more cabinets full of plastic bags i will never reuse.

this x1000!

i also like wait wait don’t tell me but i listen to it quietly on my ipod?

:(

those neighbors are too busy strumming folk tunes on their mandolins to listen to radio programs.

“neighbors.”

i don’t use cloth bags

you should, i was skeptical at first but it really improved my life

frankly i can’t imagine t.sila grocery shopping to begin with

they do sell gin at safeway in CA

wait really?

why was this fact not mentioned when i was looking for places to live?

you can buy hard liquor just about anywhere around here

i thought they only did that in sad places like michigan

they sell “gin” at grocery stores in ohio but it’s like 20% abv

you should, i was skeptical at first but it really improved my life

i get paper bags, the kind with the handles. i use them for garbage bags

frankly i can’t imagine t.sila grocery shopping to begin with

the internet makes me lol sometimes. i am a very informed shopper, dating back to my high school supermarket gig.

they do sell gin at safeway in CA

safeway in cali is called Vons iirc. it is a shitty store and i never go there. i buy my gin @ trader joe’s—18.99 for 750ml of tanq/bombay sapphire. my wife started drinking gin again so i go thru 1 1/2 bottles per week

Dang, I just bought 750 of tanq for 22.95 :(

at least you don’t have to share yours with ms. silaviver.

i am very generous with my booze fyi

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<3 xp

i miss californias policy of selling booze everywhere

it does spoil one

i am an informed shopper too

*high five*

i do 100% of the grocery shopping in my family. my kids always misbehave in supermarkets though, i don’t see what the excitement factor is for them but they try my patience (which is admittedly pretty poor)

on the other hand, i hate shopping in drug stores and my wife loves them (stereotypical girlie thing?)

how old are your kids, revivalis.t?

i was SO bad in the grocery store when i was a kid. my brother was worse though. also we always made my mom buy us a donut.

we were never allowed to go inside, we had to wait in the car.

sometimes my brother would refuse to go inside so he waited in the car and my mom would say “you’re gonna get stolen. good.”

one time my brother released the hand brake and we were rolling down a hilly street towards another car all screaming with excitement but then a man we knew was going by and he saw what was happening so he opened the door and put on the brake.

sounds like something jergins would do

hahaha i wish there was a young girls’ novel about estela and her brother’s childhood hijinks that would later be made into a cute summer movie.

my kiddies are preschoolers, hence their disinclination to listen to me

i like the sound of these tiny little silavivers running amok.

i used to teach 3 and 4 year olds. the idea that they will listen to what an adult says, let alone DO what an adult says, is pretty lollable

i’m sure they’ll become very good listeners once they become school-aged

actually when i worked w the lil ones for schooltime at the arts center, i found the 3–6 year olds were super well behaved. older than that you start having to restrain yourself from wanting to shake the little smug, satisfied grins off their faces.

when my nephew was three and in my charge he stole a packet of tic tacs and hid them in the tiny pocket of his tiny shorts, they fitted exactly, but i caught him because he rattled when we ran and when i said, wherever did those come from, he said, the fat boy at the shop gave them to me, and then our friend who was visiting from london turned glum and said, i was the fat boy at my parents’ shop.

haha

i’ve never hated a person as much as i hated this little boy Yuya Mizukami (need to put him on the call a random person a cockfarmer thread. in 20 years he might find it). Age 3, biggest little shit i’ve ever met. he and i, we had a private english lesson, and it was a battle of the wills

just one lesson?

no, 24. once a week

that is a lot of lessons.

23 too many in this case.

the littlest cockfarmer

!!!

t. silaviver do you like cooking also? what about ironing?

wdyll mopping

are you a house-husband

do you know where i can get a house-husband

i am asking because i am on a campaign to stop people ironing. if enough people refuse to iron maybe they will stop producing clothes that require ironing because is there anything more useless and backward and frustrating than ironing

i’m not sure i follow your reasoning. will your house-husband wage this campaign for you? or will he do your ironing while you wage the campaign yourself? what will you do with him once you’ve put sunbeam out of business?

i kind of like ironing.

oh i meant xp

i don’t really have a campaign i just hate ironing

i hate ironing and don’t do it, unless i’m going to a wedding or job interview

i am sort of a house husband at the moment

cooking i’m sort of neutral on—when i feel relaxed and have lots of free time i enjoy it, but as a daily chore i hate it

we should reopen my “ask me a question thread” at this point

i am a neat freak and my wife takes full advantage of that

i like cooking very much

i am ok at cleaning though i can make a lot of clutter. i have a lot of cluttery interests. but being in a cluttery place makes me go kind of crazy so i don’t let it get too bad. also cleaning some stuff is really cathartic! like bathtubs!

harbl when are you coming to visit?

i sense a trap

oh no, nothing like that! i just want to make sure everything’s spic n’ span for you. truly!

(does anyone have a large jar — say about 5’9.75“ tall — and some plastic sheeting i can borrow?)

the harbl jar

someday maybe i will visit for just long enough to get my height marked in the doorframe

i was just thinking about that.

maybe jergins has got some plums you can use as bait for the harbl jar.

we should plan a sandbox fap. in baltimore lol

lazy out loud

uhh

maybe jergins has got some plums you can use as bait for the harbl jar.

― estela, Sunday, July 5, 2009 5:58 PM

i think maybe there’s a joke i’m not getting, but this just sounds plain dirty!

it sounds terrible.

we should plan a sandbox fap. in baltimore lol

did we not do this? i see how important i am.

i wanted to say:

• i love cooking

• i hate ironing and it weirds me out when boys iron more than me (which is also like, job interviews lol)

• something else i forgot

i remembered:*

• as my age advances, i have become increasingly concerned about tidiness in my home space. the reason i remembered this was bc my friend is visiting and i think it is grace training or something because i am constantly being tested to keep cool in the face of domestic disasters such as: spadgetty sauce all over my stove (ay!!!!) and like,is it that hard to wipe up the water you splash all over the bathroom sink that i cleaned before your arrival?

• harbl, i also find bathtub cleaning cathartic! in fact, even in my younger, messier days, bathtubs and toilets were the things i always insisted remained clean (a good thing, i think).

• not having a tv but still being unemployed makes me miss being able to watch the martha show at 11am every morning.

*this remembrance brought on by washing dishes at 3:30 bc i couldn’t rightly go to sleep knowing my kitchen was a mess.

it was a miniature sandbox fap, just a test run

my goodness!

also: tsk!

max max max max you may have forgotten because it is now hidden!

it is true that all that is now hidden has been erased from my mind

by my brother ~15 years ago

here’s a joke i made at pilates. the instructor said, pick a side, any side (to lie on for floor excercises) so i said, i want outside.

*exercises

your joke made me spill candy and cry

<3 your brother was cute.

i don’t see why he wasn’t allowed to cry.

i don’t think it wasn’t allowed but it seems like he didn’t think it was good to do

i used to hate crying but now i like it.

yeah it’s part of life

some1 is practising violin across the alley

i live across the st from an opera singer and sometimes i hear her singing. sounds cool mixed w/ the ghetto bird ; )

Can You Record iPhone Calls?

Legally I realise that in some geographical areas you need to inform the caller the conversation is being recorded so please don’t preach from a legal point of view its very boring and I don’t care.

No. And it’s illegal.

Legally I realise that in some geographical areas you need to inform the caller the conversation is being recorded so please don’t preach from a legal point of view its very boring and I don’t care.

Please search, there’s been at least a couple of threads on this topic already.

No. And it’s illegal.

um might want to research first before you make statements that are wrong

It depends where you live

If you, like me, are better off alone, plan to stay at home and drink by yourself instead of partying with the other cool kids in some fancy club tonight then this is the soundtrack you need. The tapedeck does def. not receive enough electricity and the world is dragged out of its mind. It brings out melanocoly and calms me down. Ravers sit the fuck down for a sec and stay wif me.

i saw juggalos at the grocery store! and smelled them, seriously, within the same second or two.

lx text: “were they buying faygo?”

This is a simple cookie recipe that will surely delight young and old.

a lady asked if i’d trade a cigarette for a nyt. i did.

write a story about a message board weatherman

(greeting card at grocery outlet)

write a story about a message board weatherman

this is a real guy. he hates two of the most popular local weathermen because they’ve been wrong before

i need to lol at a package addressed to the one word LXY arrived no problem

XD

woah that was fast!

THANK YOU RUBY AND YTTH!!!! <3 JAFFAS, <3 ABBOTT’S BOOK, <3 YOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

don’t thank ytth—when he found out i’d been hiding 2 boxes of jaffas from him, he got super pouty at me! and tried to emotionally blackmail me into giving them to him!

p.s. you’re welcome <3

i don’t blame him, you know <3

loved all of this, thank you

you are also welcome <3

estel i had to buy new camper boots because the old ones flat wore out <####3

Moderation outsourcing services will continue to grow, predicts Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst specializing in online customer service with the Altimeter Group.

But, he says, “expect emerging markets like India and the Philippines to offer services to brands direct, with retrained call center staff.”

“There’s a huge surge of companies coming into this market offshore” charging clients $5 an hour, versus the $30 to $40 eModeration does, says Littleton.

lxy, i didn’t see this revival until now but i have been looking for some short boots and i have been thinking about how perfectly cute those looked on your little feet.

what ia this estel businees.

Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane.

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I have not yet read this book but I bought it as it is on the reading list for my uni course. I have had a flick through and I am looking forward to finding the time to make it through this tome!

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A case that haunts me is one of our oldest, unsolved cases from 1977. It’s a case with a twist: we don’t know who the victim is. We know who killed her and how he killed her. We arrested him and he did his time and is out of prison. He has even worked with detectives to try to raise public awareness about the case so we can identify her. Right now, she’s still Jane Doe – a 15 to 21-year- old female, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 155 pounds.

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1.0 out of 5 stars WAY OVERPRICED TINY SINGLE SPEAKERS THAT NOBODY WILL BUY !!!, July 13, 2011

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This review is from: Yamaha NS-B310BL Full-Range Acoustic Suspension Bookshelf Speaker—Each (Black) (Electronics)

MY NAME IS DOUG AND I AM A MAJOR COLLECTOR OF 120 SETS OF VINTAGE SPEAKERS AND 30 VINTAGE STEREOS. I’VE TRASH MANY FROM TRIAL AND TRIBULATION AND KNOWLEDGE !! SEVERAL ARE FULLRANGE WITH 6.5 INCH OR 8 INCH WOOFERS IN THEM. BIG FULL , RICH CLEAR,SOUND IN A LOT BIGGER BOXES IN WHICH FULL RANGE WOOFERS NEED TO PREFORM CORRECTLY !!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD PUT A PRICE OF $149 A PIECE FOR SUPER TINY SPEAKERS. THAT’S OVER $300 FOR TOY SPEAKERS !!! WERE IN A DEPRESSION AND WITH THESE SPEAKERS YOU WILL BE FORCED TO BUY A SUBWOOFER TO OBTAIN ANY BASS !!!! MY SPEAKERS HAVE IT ALL !! BASS, OWESOME MIDRANGE, AND HIGH RANGE UP TO 20,000 HZ. THE SPEAKER BOXES AVERAGE 1500—1750 CUBIC SQUARE INCHES WHICH TRANSLATES TO A SPEAKER BOX MEASURING ABOUT 19 X 11 X 7 DEEP OR BIGGER. LET ME TELL YOU WITH ONLY 2 OF MY VINTAGE SPEAKERS AT A TIME WILL BLOW YOUR MIND IN SOUND, IMAGING, BASS, MIDRANGE, HIGH FREQ , !!! THEY CAN FILL A LARGE ROOM WITH RICH SUPER CLEAR SOUND. YOU DON’T NEED 6–7 SPEAKERS TO DO THAT !! YOU JUST NEED THE RIGHT SPEAKERS AND THE RIGHT SIZES FOR YOUR LISTENING ROOM !!! YES IT’S CONSIDERED STEREO SOUND AND IT’S NOT TOTAL SURROUND SOUND EFFECTS. BUT IT STILL SOUNDS AMAZING. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AMAZON COME OUT WITH A AFFORDABLE LARGER SIZE FULL RANGE SPEAKERS WITH A 6.5 INCH WOOFERS OR BETTER YET 8 INCH FULL RANGE SPEAKERS IN THEM !!! THEN YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT !! THAT’S WHY THERE’S NO COMMENTS ON THIS SITE FOR THESE SPEAKERS !!! NOBODY IS BUYING THEM!!! TO PRICEY AND ANY GUY LIKE ME WHO HAS THE KNOWLEDGE OF FULL RANGE WOOFERS AND SPEAKERS. THEY’LL NEVER BUY THESE SPEAKERS. THERE JUST REALLY SATELITES AND THAT’S IT !!!! GET SOME BIGGER FULL RANGE REAL SPEAKERS AND YOU’LL SELL MILLIONS OF THEM AMAZON !!! I LOVE YOU AMAZON, BUT YOU’VE GOT IT WRONG WITH THIS PRODUCT, BAD !!! THANKS: DOUG THE VINTAGE COLLECTOR

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we have an outoftown guest visiting. he’s very wonderful but i ‘m cold and drunk and tired and... it’s hard to be a good host sometimes.

my dear dear friend {{{you}}}

aw, thank you, jaq.

i think i pulled it off without being too graceless.

i am outraged, on account of the terrible guy referenced above. he moved to a new office (which is wonderful), but before leaving he sent a gushing email about how there was such a surplus in the coffee fund, so there was $100 worth of coffee/sugar/creamer and coffee would be free for the foreseeable future. then he abolished the coffee donation program and jacked almost all of the supplies when he left.

my blood is boiling.

what a complete fucking dick.

i hate him so so so much.

i would chase him

chase him to his stupid new office, then yell at him, and steal back the coffee supplies, although technically it wouldn’t be stealing bc they are not his.

conferencesux

May 5 (1 day ago)

to Lxy

http://www.communichi.org/this-is-your-brain-on-smart-meters/

9:54 AM (11 hours ago)

to Lxy

Poly Speed Dating was created by Luke and Pepper in San Francisco. It’s speed dating with a turbo charge of inclusivity. There is no reason that the complexities of our non-monogamous lifestyles should prevent us from engaging in the celebrated act of speed dating. Using a complex algorithm hand tailored for your satisfaction we can make this dream a reality. Our speed dating system will take into account gender preferences, individual/group preference, age ranges and kinkiness. All sexualities, genders and hair colors are welcome.

all hair colors? that’s good bc no one has the same color hair as me

what word would best describe your hair’s color

ftr i have had my eyes described as ‘pond-colored’

LikkitP ‏@LikkitP 5m

End Leaf blower Violence Now

ppl cannot decide if i have blond hair or brown? i mean it’s blond but dark blond. it’s like gold sometimes. it can be dull or shiny depending if my mood is dull or shiny.

that is an excellent skill for your hair to have!

my hair is the color of a sandy beach

― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, July 2, 2009 8:14 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe the kind of sand on a lake though, not by the ocean

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LOL

hi sandboxies, i am glad you are around sometimes

only sometimes?

i am always glad you are around! but you are only around sometimes

I think the most annoying thing to me about cell phones is the number of cases where defiantly is used instead of definitely, but when I think about things happening defiantly I always giggle a lil.

q: if you login to ilx after 3 years and your bookmarks take up an entire page of your browser is it better to just pretend it never happened?

poll the bookmarks and let us tell u which to bother with

maybe i should create new name and come back covert, without past bookmark baggage. or just not.

What do you miss about it? And what do you recall liking least about it? Both are still there.

not even tbh

I don’t know I was just bored or something. Mostly wondering what people are up to and needing inspiration for nutrition naziing and noise living?

all are welcome on i love baseball

no hurling tho

tza, come hang out in ILS!

oh I had a hurling pic to share

while it may be in my blood, I have nothing to say about baseball.

smoove, what’s up on ils these days? I need more style in my life.

but I also need to spend less time in front of screens :(

so. many. threads.

it’s almost a time capsule.

delete them all except ‘whiskey’ and ‘horseshoe & harbl’

no lie that was my exact thought

at that point, I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink

got some rum yesterday in honor of lxy

Defendant was convicted of bastardy. The Criminal Court of Baltimore, S. Ralph Warnken, J., entered judgment adverse to defendant, and he appealed. The Court of Appeals, Hammond, J., held that where Criminal Court could properly have found, as it did, from evidence of witnesses other than mother of child and her husband that mother and her husband did not have intercourse at time when, under the laws of nature, the child must have been conceived, mother was competent to testify that she had had relations with defendant, that he was the father of the child, what he said and did after he knew that she was pregnant, and her reasons and her husband’s reasons for marrying.

my stepmother, who wanted my parents’ marriage to be annulled, once assured me that such a step would not make me a bastard

you are convicted of bastardy

this will go down on my permanent record

under the laws of nature

https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/?sl=PEACH419003001

hey looks like a pretty good deal

friend of mine (whom lxy & jergins have met!) and i were discussing if there were any good places left in the world

i said well, this group of friends (tbf i used the word ‘coterie’; i was drunk) i’m in is kinda obsessed with the faroes, but you have to learn faroese and i don’t think just looming and bellowing ‘ach!’ are gonna cut it

now he seems vaguely worried that i’ve joined a cult

awww lol! i like them so much. that was fun, wasn’t it? they should join our coterie/cult.

Hello,

I am Ms Rita, I would like to know you. I have important things to share with you on a very serious note.