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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgvXVYg3HXA

I was taken into a fireworks pit (cotton jammed into my 5yo ears) to watch Chinese pyrotechnicians who’d come to Minnesota in a post-Nixon ‘cultural exchange’ set off the Aquatennial fireworks, the most elaborate done to that date. If you want to instil a lifelong love of bangers, that’s a pretty good place to start, seeing the techs choreograph the display so well.

my current IA is an idiotic relative who uses the hashtag #blessup for literally everything

photo of weak looking tea in a paper cup: #blessup
photo of a manicure -#blessup
photo taken inside shuttle bus taking her to her job - #blessup

i dont know why but it drives me insane

sounds like you need to #lightenup #blessup

I put blessup on my fries and they still taste like shit

Brian Blessup was the best part of Black Adder, though

and I do enjoy the music of Blessup Union of Souls

achoo

blessup

My favorite singer is Blessup Dearie

'Fess up, you like blessup.

If they’re white, it’s a bit off because it could be taken as Writing With A Blaccent.

100% that also

"can I call you?" almost always invariably turns into something that didn't need to be a call and then lasts 10 minutes longer than it should because of that

A relative of mine texts me with 'Call me'.

When you're cutting a cake and someone requests a very thin slice. The slice can be near transparent but there is inevitably a follow-up complaint of it being WAY too much.

Also, people who order diet soda from fast food restaurants.

how ungrateful moths are to be put outside

we have a new lightbulb outside our backdoor and it is white like a near-death experience. Even the moths arent foolish enough to believe that it is the sun.

from a moth's perspective, moving indoors with all that electric lighting must a real move up in the world

I don't like cake. In my half-century of sentience I have probably been handed a few thousand slices of cake, and I have wanted maybe five of them.

Almost every birthday cake I've ever had is drier and sweeter than what I wanted on my plate. Pie? Pie is cool. Tarts? Bring them on. Ice cream cake usually okay. German chocolate can work because the coconut brings moisture.

So if I feel it's acceptable to just say "no, thank you," great. But if the social sitch is that I have to pretend to accept a piece of cake, yeah - I'm gonna want the smallest possible piece of dry-ass cakitude you can manage.

I cover mine in ice cream and eat some of that so it looks like the cake has been eaten. It's a twist on the old hide the vegetables under the mashed potato trick.

But, yes, pie is perfectly acceptable.

xps with fireworks the thrill is "how the fck do you bundle up explosive powders to make those incredible blast patterns?" whereas with drones it's some dweeb with a piece of software placing dots in 3D, then the drones fly to those dots and you see the 3D picture, great.

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people who go to live sporting events with me and want to do nothing but talk about completely unrelated things for two hours.

I'm not saying "small talk is banned" at a sporting event, but there's a difference between occasional small talk and spending endless amounts of uninterrupted time trying to engage me in a discussion about shoes or a new sushi restaurant while I'm trying to immerse/focus on the match I'm watching. Particularly soccer, which doesn't stop.

I don't multi-task well and having to actually actively engage in long discussions about other things almost completely pulls me out of the match. Not everybody operates this way but I hate having to remind people that the reason I'm not real responsive to their lengthy discussion of the best sashimis we've ever had because my team is attacking the opposing goal and it's exciting.

also cross-reference with the same behavior at a concert. I didn't pay a ton of money to not listen to the show

people who do small talk at gigs, especially when the band is playing a song they don't know, that is entirely rational anger though

yeah this drives me crazy too

I outright moved three times at the Obituary show a few weeks ago because I'd originally decided to hang in the back as I have mild claustrophobia, and literally nobody back there was listening and all were having loud conversations, to where I Finally moved up and just decided to deal with my personal discomfort, where people were actually listening to the show. much better experience.

some people just seem to go to events to be seen at them.

p bad if your annoying convo is audible ABOVE loud death metal!

Well, you have to yell to be heard above the music!

if I was the band I'd stop playing so everyone could hear the guy saying loudly "I'm more into toes, man"

people who go to weekend music festivals in the woods and then post about how much they 'grew spiritually' or 'learned to love' or whatever

MDMA is quite a drug

Man that Seven Mary Three set stirred up warm things inside of me

“Lumbersome”, hit of the woodsfest

Calling things "camps" that don't involve any camping.
e.g. kids' holiday "camps" where they go to an activity for the day. or even just the morning.

those big khaki bucket hats with drawstrings that old coastal dudes wear

these backpacks

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Calling things "camps" that don't involve any camping.
e.g. kids' holiday "camps" where they go to an activity for the day. or even just the morning.

Yes, let me tell you how much I loved signing my son up for a "sports camp" that ran a whopping two hours every morning. That is not a camp!

xp Seeing a lot of bucket hats on the golf course, and considering sun and skin cancer, even with sunscreen, the shady ear protection has me wanting one.

They do look dopey, though.

Bill Murray would like a word with you

camp, at least the US definition, encompasses more than just pitching a tent in the woods

from Merriam-Webster:

d
: a place usually in the country for recreation or instruction often during the summer
goes to camp every July
also : a program offering access to recreational or educational facilities for a limited period of time
computer camp
a resort offering boating and hiking camps

camp, at least the US definition, encompasses more than just pitching a tent in the woods

from Merriam-Webster:

d
: a place usually in the country for recreation or instruction often during the summer
goes to camp every July
also : a program offering access to recreational or educational facilities for a limited period of time
computer camp
a resort offering boating and hiking camps

I need to decamp, double posting

I sort of just associate those hats with standing behind grumpy Al Davis looking dudes in Togos who act affronted when the sandwich maker asks them if they want mayo or mustard

Bill Murray would like a word with you

He seems to want a word with everyone.

If you are a parent of school-aged children you understand "camp" as shorthand for "give me a fucking break for one cotton-picking second, you goddamn needy heathens."

The niceties and complexities of whether one sleeps away or not are a distant second to this overriding concern.

I hate summer "vacation," because it is the opposite of vacation.

But sure, let's talk about what "camp" means or should mean.

(Kidding, but also not kidding)

We used to call the summer park programme ‘day camp’, if that helps?

Yeah, I used to go to "day camp" at the YMCA when I was a kid — it was from about 9 AM to about 3 PM, so basically school hours. And at some point during the summer they took us to camp out in a state park for a weekend.

My mom signed me up for a "summer camp" when I was about 11 and she was working nights (hence sleeping during the day). It probably lasted more than a week, and was full of mindless activities. I ended up skipping a lot and going wherever. There was a lot less surveillance then.

Still bristle when I go to a page on Wikipedia and click the main image expecting it to display at its hopefully much larger true size in a new tab but it just displays at the same (actual) size.