This endless onslaught of FB reminders of what Memorial Day should *really* be about. We know...we don't need a smug reminder every fucking year.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 25 May 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
Skin tags. Sometimes I'm tempted just to grab a pair of nail scissors and start snipping, but I'm sure that is not a good idea.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Oooh that made me wince and clutch my neck just thinking about it arrrrgh.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
I have done the tie-dental-floss-tightly-around to cut off blood supply thing once or twice, but who has the patience?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 May 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
having to click to see instagram pics on twitter
not sure if I'm IA at twitter or instagram or people who tweet nothing but instagram links but I'm IA at something
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
when one end of the cord/ribbon in the waist of your trackie bottoms/pyjamas gets pulled all the way through so you have to spend about AN HOUR trying to thread the other end back through
― kinder, Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Do you know the safety pin trick? Pull the whole thing out, stick a large safety pin through the end of the cord, then thread it back through. Easy breezy.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
He's right.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
omguniversity education taught me nothing
― kinder, Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
I cut off a skin tag with a pair of nail clippers once. I was drunk at the time. It wasn't an unpleasant process, but I'm still squeamish about the prospect of doing it again.
― how's life, Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
My wife had a primary care doctor who confirmed that it's no biggie if they're small enough. I've snipped a couple with the scissors on my swiss army knife.
― Carly Furiosa (WilliamC), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
._.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
my skin tag horror story
(tldr a tick burrowed into the base of my skin tag and cut off the blood flow so it went necrotic; I tied it off with dental floss and cut it off with scissors. I would not recommend this method of skin tag removal, but it worked out just fine for me & didn't even leave a scar)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
*cries*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
(sorry)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
what is a skin tag
― So You've Been Pubically Shaved (wins), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
hanging bit of skin kind of like a skin colored mole
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202015-05-28%2022.51.48.png
― So You've Been Pubically Shaved (wins), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
fucking lawn mower/weed whacker/sidewalk edger/hedge trimmer machine noises
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
i forget that these are a part of every summer
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
from my back porch i am watching this landscaping dude awkwardly maneuver a huge stand-up riding mower on this tiny fucking parcel of an urban residential lot. we are talking like 8 x 12 feet of grass here
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
there are 3 different lawn care machines roaring within 3 houses of me right now
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
one of my neighbors hires a 5-man team of landscapers to manicure this minuscule little yard
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
do you work at home?
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Friday, 29 May 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
ha yes on fridays i do and my back porch is typically a wonderful place to work
― marcos, Friday, 29 May 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
My neighbor used to use an assholish lawn service that blew all his grass clippings into my garden
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 29 May 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
marcos your neighbors need to embrace the Chicago-style yards and swap out the grass for cement, a handful of mulch, and some poorly maintained monkey grass.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 29 May 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Finding out a friend/local living legend in the cartoon and animation scene was turned down for support from the big local public space/street art collective because he "Wasn't famous enough".
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
Irrational in that I have always suspected it to be a popularity contest/ponzi scheme w well-meaning volunteers and fundraisers at the bottom raising the cash to go to hip street artists and art scenesters at the top but just sorta sucks to hear that confirmed from a super talented artist who is struggling rn.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Irrational only inasmuch as I'm not sure that anger is necessarily the most appropriate response, but I'm really really really tired of having to remind people at my work (who are technically above me and certainly make a lot more money than me) how to do their jobs. Guess I should just exit the working world altogether, huh.
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
something I am really considering today
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
My city does a pretty good job of keeping the gutters clean with their street sweepers, but on those features that produces curbs on the "wrong" side of the street, like traffic islands, the gutters look like early man middens with sand, dirt, cigarette butts, shards of car light lenses, batteries, etc.
― nickn, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Walkman melting down. Sad, been a dear companion for the last year and a half.May be a battery thing but looks like changing that can be tricky. Anyway not acting the way that it has been, buttons not responding and getting stuck in one lp instead of shuffling through all the hundreds of hours on there.
Hope I can sort it, but at the moment it just seems to have a mind of its own.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 4 June 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
Finding out I earn slightly less than HALF the average pay for someone in my country (Australia)
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 5 June 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
I get that my first name is spelled differently than the way(s) the name is usually spelled, and I'm generally resigned to the fact that people are going to misspell it. But there's something about people misspelling my name when replying to an email WHERE MY CORRECTLY-SPELLED NAME IS PART OF THE EMAIL ADDRESS that really rankles. And it happens all the time. I'm always tempted to misspell their name in response. "Dear Bobe..."
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 June 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
^ This happens with my surname despite it being four letters long and shared by about 100m people.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Friday, 5 June 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
They must like it a lot.
― Mark G, Friday, 5 June 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
I've got a female co-worker named Lindsay who does this with mine.
― pplains, Friday, 5 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
i hate hate hate a very stupid thing
one of my friends talks about me to all these other friends she has, like apparently is always telling stories about me to them & so now these friends of hers that I dont fucking know all talk to me like they know me when i irl meet them for the first time or on facebook and i hate it
i dont like people!
and i am insecure enough to wonder if they are pulling my leg & they say my whole name (first & last name) like i am some kind of minor lame celebrity it makes me nervous & suspicious & i dont like it
fin
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 June 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
Wondering if it can really be constantly windy every time i walk across the park. Can't keep my hat on my head. Would think that it would have to be calm at least some of the time.& watching trees getting constantly buffered by the wind and losing their purchase in the ground.Have heard that there are people going around intentionally uprooting plants around the park because people I've talked to have seen them do it. Have just seen the end results, young trees lying on the paths around the place. Though have seen people intentionally breaking lower branches of trees, the ones they can reach.
Am certainly aware that somebody has stolen trees from the community garden since there have been 4 missing and the band attaching the tree to its support while it grew strong enough to stand on its own has been cut.
Doesn't seem to have much point apart from the immediate supposed satisfaction of the vandalism.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 6 June 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
More of an irritation than true anger, but it is an irritation every goddamn time I see a license plate holder that says "XYZ Alumni", where XYZ is some university or college. This irritates the hell out of me because in almost every case it ought to say either 'alumnus" or "alumna", not "alumni" - and if you're going to brag about your education, you at least ought to do it in an educated way.
― Aimless, Saturday, 6 June 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
I avoid that irritation by figuring it means "[I am one of the select group of] XYZ Alumni" or like it refers to the Alumni Association.
― Je55e, Saturday, 6 June 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
it just makes me think whatever college license plate frame is most popular in the area graduates the worst drivers. in baltimore i like morgan state university alumni drivers are the worst. it's totally not justified but they're drawing attention to themselves.
― computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 6 June 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
and yes the alumni thing bothers me too. learn latin, asshole.
perhaps the car is owned by a couple who are both graduates of said university
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 June 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
oh that reminds me, i drive down a street with light rail tracks on it every day. only one lane on each side of the tracks for a few blocks. at least twice a week some idiot double parks on the street, which forces everyone to drive onto the tracks to get around them. of course often following the tradition of double parking where there's an open spot very close by. and people near the light sometimes can't understand why they need to stop where the line is or else they are on the tracks. yesterday this heroic light rail driver stops and just lays on his horn and uses the loudspeaker HEY BRO! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE! GET OFF THE TRACKS! WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR LICENSE AT? it was awesome.
― computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 6 June 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
light rail hero
― ultimate american sock (mh), Saturday, 6 June 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
try to use this to get u into restaurants, then yr celebrity will be delicious
― j., Saturday, 6 June 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
TBF re the full name thing Veg, if its on FB maybe theyre just being lazy and tagging you which defaults to full name?
To bring it back to the topic I hate it when people tag people on FB for no or lame reasons (unrelated photos, comments on news posts with nothing but personsname, etc)
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Saturday, 6 June 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
When ppl who aren't buying drinks plant themselves in the way of the bar
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 7 June 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link