when someone comes in my store and asks me if i have something and i tell them no and then someone else in the store just starts talking to them about what they asked for and they can't leave.
basically all old record codgers who overhear someone mention something in the store and then start endlessly talking to the person who mentioned it.
i mean, sometimes this works out and they have a conversation.
but, in general, when someone overhears something and butts in. makes me embarrassed.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Phew! IA that I had to check though.
AP: Use it, not the pronoun she, in references to boats and ships.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Swear to God, if I had the time, I'd go through every wikipedia battleship page and do a REPLACE ALL for she to it.
Which, I admit, might get awkward if I run into any female captains, but worth it in the long run.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
I was wondering if those Les Pauls were seaworthy. Oh...
http://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/archives/9724ea22-ee34-418a-8e34-56b3834c5fc2.JPG
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah using female pronouns to refer to instruments is HELLA GROSS, not innocuous imo.
Also I'm that interrupting codger! Lol
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
As a drummer, I was hoping that you'd be somewhat shielded from this. I just don't think I've ever heard anyone gender a drum before. Anyway, I'm saddened to report...
Up for sale is my Ludwig super sensitive 14x5 snare drum. Serial # is 187327. From the research I've done, the drum was manufactured approximately August 5,1965. As you can see the chrome is flaking off as these were known for this issue. The drum needs new heads and a new snare wire. It is also missing one lug. Everything else works as it should. Rims are in great shape other than needing a good polishing. No dents on the shell that I've been able to see.While this drum may not be the prettiest girl on the team, she still sounds amazing. Even with a beat head and missing snare wires, she sounds great. The internal damper is still intact and working and the snare mechanism is working great as well.
While this drum may not be the prettiest girl on the team, she still sounds amazing. Even with a beat head and missing snare wires, she sounds great. The internal damper is still intact and working and the snare mechanism is working great as well.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Disgusting.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Seriously.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
the part about always wiping her down
― niels, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
god it is so fucking gross it's making me angry
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
using female pronouns to refer to instruments is HELLA GROSS
How about B.B. King naming all his guitars Lucille?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
how about it?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
I went and searched out a "how do you name your guitar" style thread on an unhip music message board in the hopes of returning here and clowning them/being rationally angry and embarassed. But after one or two pages, I just kind of walked away from music forever and I think I'm gonna take up pottery or something.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Must we be judgmental about people who are only trying to be open about their sexual attraction to hunks of wood and wire?
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
I fucking hate the sexist guitar naming/pronoun bullshit so much. Or stuff like this that in a Reverb listing which makes me irate enough that it makes me want to take steps to destroy the seller's livelihood:
Original vintage 1974 hagstrom swede, the rilla-dilla, made by blonde Swedish milkmaids with 70s t-shirt boobs and wild bushes back in the day under the 24 hr summer sun, not the Chinese crap on offer at guitar center.
Any guitar listing that is "ready to rock!" is much more innocuous but still makes me irrationally angry.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
do people still refer to boats as 'she'?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 10:57 (seven years ago) link
oh we've discussed that. My dad was a keen sailor and when i was young his friend told me that boats are always referred to as 'she'. he didn't strike me as the most progressive sort, but i guess he saw it as an endearing thing.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 10:59 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JqqapXt.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
Of course, ships are named after all sorts of people (I want to say mostly male, but I don't know), but some people will insist on calling, for example, the Bismarck a she.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Drydocking at that time revealed that despite the years of neglect, her hull was still in remarkably good condition. In August she was renamed American Star, her propellers were removed and placed on the deck, the funnel and bridge were painted red, and ladders were welded to starboard. She left Greece on 22 December 1993 under tow, but the tow proved impossible due to the weather.
If you are capable of writing in English, how do you come up with something like that without repeatedly stabbing yourself with your quill?
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link
this reminds me of when i ordered a guitar amp but they had to cancel the order because the cargo ship it was on sank in the middle of the atlantic. i like the thought of my poor li'l amp still down there lying on the ocean floor
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
it's sad; she was an amp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
If they floated back up, would they become the new Marshall Islands?
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Or just catch a wave in to shore on a Mesa Boogie board.
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
good job with these innocuous and embarrassing posts, guys
― na (NA), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
i'm irrationally embarrassed by point-missing Facebook replies to other people's posts. i.e. a friend of mine posted this story on Facebook...
http://www.theonion.com/article/third-grader-clearly-biting-more-he-can-chew-eleme-54478
...and one of her relatives said "well clearly the photo shows the boy is in a library and not at a book fair, i'm not sure what this story is going on about."
― nomar, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah it's always the relatives missing the point and everyone just goes silent
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
I was wondering if that qualifies B.B. King as HELLA GROSS in your view? It appeared to, but I wasn't going to assume.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
doing a HELLA GROSS thing != being a HELLA GROSS person
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah, stop being a dumbass
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
i mean doing dumbassery
lol yes otm
Thanks for the lesson -- really needed that!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
brimstead otm
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
using the term 'lede'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
you'd prefer they bury it
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
The UK has the marginally less irritating term 'standfirst' instead of lede.
― jane burkini (suzy), Thursday, 27 October 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
adults who cosplay
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
imagine if you will that your older brother was such an adult and the attendant embarrassment that comes along with such a filial connection
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 October 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
sort of related, anyone over the age of 10 who wears hats like this:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JhWGH0OsL._SX342_.jpg
― joygoat, Friday, 28 October 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
For Helping Immigrants, Chobani’s Founder Draws Threats
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
everytime i see a movie trying to depict a made-up video game or viral video or merely "the internet", it's embarrassing.
― nomar, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
observing bad job interviews. people making bad jokes during job interviews. we interviewed a donor relations/development person and during her presentation she made a joke about how alcohol is key to fundraising and it was kind of funny but by the end of the presentation she ended up making two more alcohol jokes and it reflected poorly. i felt very embarrassed for her
― marcos, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
when people show videos they did not create as a filler during a job interview presentation
people showing video clips during presentations in general is usually bad
good: "here is our new marketing promotional video"
bad: "here is a video I made with my coworkers that is goofy and shows we are a team"
super bad: "so here we are in this all day session. I am going to show you a TED talk video"
― mh 😏, Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
i dunno... it gives me a chance to recover from the crippling embarrassment of actually giving the presentation myself
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2016 09:23 (seven years ago) link
oh i see - yeah i wouldn't show a ted talk, shit no
People are showing video presentations in job interviews now? I AM SO FUCKED
― It's always (sunny successor), Sunday, 12 February 2017 06:35 (seven years ago) link
those twitter essays people link to and say "thread", how people start replying straight away and the person ignores all of them and just barrels on because they have 40 more tweets prepared, makes for a v awkward and embarrassing reading experience
I know that twitter convos will often involve some talking past people anyway but this reads particularly badly, it's partly the fault of the people who should know not to chime in mid-lecture but mostly the fault of the people who didn't say to themselves "hmm I guess it's not really an essay platform is it"
― wins, Sunday, 12 February 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
Twitter
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 February 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link
I think in 2017 it is unfortunately no longer appropriate to keep twitter in a bag labeled innocuous
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 February 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link