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

My cousin! Who seems to be doing right by her toddler *and* other people in most public settings without resorting to sentences containing the words MY CHILD. That was the day of a thousand toddlercousin meltdowns, triggered by things like very blustery weather, falling over, being in a strange city - you name it. We'd only managed to calm him down from driving-rain distress a few minutes before getting on the bus in question, so when he hit his head there was this moment where Cousin and I exchanged glances in that horrible endless moment of doom when you know what's about to happen is going to be a giant pain in the arse, then toddlercousin just let it rip.

PROTIP: repeated interventions using the no no no-cat video seem to head off wilful-toddler displays of NO and I DON'T WANT TO by turning the behaviour into a really funny joke.

Oh, that's a good tip.

The only thing I did not like about my toddlercousin was: fussy eater. Only into milk, cheese, chocolate buttons, buttered rolls and toast. NOT EVEN PIZZA. I know when I was that age, I was already into Italian and Chinese food, wanted to try anything the adults were having, and ate any vegetable placed before me.

Ohhhh that one kills me. My partner has a 7 yo who has celiac so out of the gate he's a very nervous and fussy eater for very understandable reasons (eating made him scream in pain for a long time til it was diagnosed). We were trying to convince him the other day to have something other than yet another bowl of grated cheese to eat, like hey how about some carrot? (he usually loves carrot and hummus) and he bellowed I DONT EAT VEGETABLES YOU KNOW THAT. This kid is vegetarian. T'fuck is he gonna eat then? My poor bf :/

Ah, the next day he'll forget about not eating veg - kid rage is never logical. When I was seven, I was trying to get promoted off the children's menu (but I wound up having a couple of things I never ate because having chemo at 5/6 made me hate them too much to ever want).

I make pesto with pecorino for a friend who is both celiac and lactose-intolerant; you can make it with basil or with roasted red peppers and a shitload of garlic, then use it with vegetables and meat rather than pasta (or use the gluten-free stuff that's out there). It goes really well with chicken and fish.

Update: my new jumper with too short sleeves is still pissing me off, and my best friend pointed out that the coloured stripe across the lower third is a powerful accentuator of my oversized gut, but I stubbornly wore it today anyway in a fit of "perhaps this comment just shows that SOME PEOPLE are a little too obsessed with my gut which other people will not be looking at at all in this perfectly normal jumper!" and now I keep adjusting how it lies and feeling like I would just like to sit under a cardboard box all day.

Hello does anyone have a large cardboard box? A very, very large cardboard box. (OK, that part may be one for the embarrassed thread but I am angry at the jumper and myself and the shop because I can't take it back now and other people's well-intentioned advice and possibly imaginary thoughts too.)

People who drive down the middle of the lane to minimize the impact of a speed bump, then continue driving down the middle after going over it, ignoring the oncoming traffic that y'know, needs their lane

People who write in the margins of library books. You are bad citizens. I'm thinking of one right now. No one cares what you think about various figures in Alex Ross's "The Rest is Noise". Use a notebook you self-centered cretin.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/18/1405709750524/Joe-Orton-012.jpg

soz Vic

xp - my condolences, spacecadet, that sounds like the absolute worst >:[

People who drink soda for breakfast and/or while eating donuts.

You deserve the unpleasantness of your anger on that one IMO. Diet Coke is a very fine alternative to coffee.

Then he carved his thoughts on the tree for everybody to see.

Wait that's Joe Orton! Nice move, but I'd differentiate between spirited vandalism and pedantic margin splodge.

Coke is a great breakfast beverage, although I'd pair it with something salty

People who drink soda for breakfast and/or while eating donuts.

I think this is fabulously in the spirit of this thread.

otm

(RFI: where on ILX is the best to-have-or-not-to-have-kids discussion?)

let me know so i can spew my hatred of children all over this piece

lovely, thanks

your childless loafing should afford you plenty of time to try the search function

where on ILX is the best to-have-or-not-to-have-kids discussion?

This thread may or may not be the "best", but it went to some length on the subject.

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

thx Aimless, this one is good too. prefer your link because it opens (in my case anyway) to this post:

my kid is great. dunno about other people's kids.

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:51 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

― mh, Monday, 9 February 2015 13:57 (59 minutes ago) Permalink

people being defensive about their childlessness/projecting what people with children think about them (or that they even give them much thought)

your childless loafing should afford you plenty of time to try the search function

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was intended to troll nhex, nothing more

Friends, friends let's turn our irrational anger away from each other and back to the stupid, terrible world at large.

hear hear!!

For some reason every time I see the name "Father John Misty" I want to roll my eyes until they fall out. Something about that name and his public image of some nth-gen folk version of a Jim Morrison ripoff gets on my nerves.

Also people calling themselves a shaman. Just please, stop.

Maybe it's evoking bad memories from a Fleet Foxes-loving ex-roommate who was really into ukulele and wearing suspenders with everything.

people with kids assuming the childless are loafing or not busy

Would never cast aspersions on anyone else but since having a baby I've felt really shocked when I think about what I used to do with all my free time and am kind of mad that I don't speak five languages, play several instruments, and have multiple advanced degrees.

yup

adam bruneau otm

Probably has been said before ITT, but every goddamn site now wanting all of your facebook or personal profile info so you can post a stupid comment on an article. Not to mention all the different things like disqus where you have to set up and remember logins for something you use like once every three months.

Probably for the best as it just discourages me from posting pointless comments on articles.

Kroger wanting me to change my password every three months.

No, that's ok, Kroger. If hackers seize my account and delete my shopping list, it will still have been worth it to not have to change my password four times a year.

omg yes. Or really any service that requires you log in with Facebook.

Holy shit, Kroger! That's bananas. I am resentful enough that I have to change my work network password every three months. No way I would do that with any other webiste. xp

cosign adam bruneau's comments

I don't have a cellphone, but I can use wi-fi. I parked in front of a Books A' Million, and they had the audacity to say I either had to pay for wi-fi or sign in with Facebook. Made me quite IA.

IA about the name "Books A' Million". what does it even mean?

The Books A Millions in Chicago are all garbage, too. I don't understand how they continue to exist when Borders/Barnes and Noble went tits up.

Same reason cockroaches survive?

They are like the Radio Shack of bookstores. You can't ever find what you want. Nothing seems to be sorted correctly. You have to tango with the cashier for five minutes over their little book club before you can actually make a purchase. And, don't forget, you can still buy one of these things for $100.

http://i.imgur.com/Tg6m6VP.jpg

The ones in Chicago, at least the last time I bothered to go in, had a dearth of general interest magazines but a surprising selection of porn. So that probably answers my previous question.

Same thing I wonder about airport bookstores: Who the hell is buying porn at these places.

The Books A Millions in Chicago are all garbage, too. I don't understand how they continue to exist when Borders/Barnes and Noble went tits up.

― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, February 9, 2015 12:18 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same reason cockroaches survive?

They are like the Radio Shack of bookstores.

Uh...

Hey, 95 years pretty good for a cockroach.

spotify's gross rerecorded versions of popular songs that are not tagged as rerecordings & masquerade as the real deal ughhhhhhh

Oh man the college bookstore here has some cheapo radio station that just plays cover versions of popular songs to save money and it's just the worst.

Have I posted about DIY chain B&Q itt? Because they also have that and I have an eye-twitch thanks to it.
It's a really odd selection of songs too, on a loop

I have spent a lot of time in B&Q :(