Worse than QR codes: when the "Shazam" logo shows up on a commercial because they want you to use your phone to identify the audio in the commercial and be guided to a special website. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
- Rejection letters - Salad dressing on new silk dress - Someone saying "You look tired. Are you not wearing makeup?" - Feeling like a forever fringe freak
Found this in the comments section of a comic about gender in the comics industry (maybe the one you were interviewed for, Joey? I wont name names or link links but AEM/LH)
"Don't ask me why more women don't like comics, I don't know, oh wait, I do know, because women tend to be less visually stimulated than men..."
Being positive all the time is sort of intolerant and as annoying as being negative all the time is draining. I want balance, and have a hard time finding it!
OMG, I just looked at the Burger King site. I would take one bite of that experimental pulled pork sandwich, just to see what its deal was, but I'd be pretty afraid to eat the whole thing.
Also, they have a picture of a caramel sundae with bacon in it!
Nice detective work, Loose Thread! I've stewed in my feelings for enough days now that I think I'm over it... I think addressing sexism is important a lot of the time, but don't be a dick about it, you know? Like if you are interviewing someone, don't just try to make them say the thing you want to hear?
Ed Chigliak: Your story is very sad, I'm sorry. You are right when you say that life is short.
I think I am pretty rant-free today. Lots of stress and trying to meet deadlines, but my friend Tina came over and we snuck in a loud guitar session which felt very cathartic. When feeling down, turn the volume up.
Lately I'm really annoyed at all these naive people trying to reform capitalism. Oh no, women can't have babies anymore because they have to work all the time! We need to REFORM THE SYSTEM! etc.
Capitalism can't be "reformed." We could all choose to live under a different system, but barring that you can't alter the fundamental conceptual bedrock that capitalism is built upon. It's a money-making system that functions by getting more while paying less. It is very good at doing this. Capitalism, corporations--they aren't entities. They aren't people we can expect to uphold certain moral standards. Whenever someone's all upset with Exxon or whatever, it's like, why are we wanting corporations to police themselves as though they have human morality? They don't, and never will.
I think I have already made this rant before, but...
People, when you are in line at a salad bar, please be conscientious as to other people's time. Don't take this as your one chance to express your creativity, composing the pile of food as though you are trimming the world's tiniest and most delicate christmas tree. Do not go back multiple times for the same item, so slowly, until you instictually know that you have *just* the right amount, in the exact proper place. Do not waste my time while you nudge the tomato into its correct place on your pile of food, a process which literally takes minutes. At the end of the row, do not sensually drape the liquid of salad dressing with a self-satisfied look on your face.
Here is the right way to do a salad bar when the line is crowded. When done properly, this should take 10-20 seconds. You've seen food before, right? Ascertain your salad vessel and approach the bar from the far end. With utmost confidence, snatch your bit of greenery. No need to nudge it--gravity will assure that it settles into its proper place in this vessel. You do not need to press it down because the weight of other ingredients will keep it in its place. The leaves will not go flying about--your gesture, which recalls OCD, does not ward off some kind of instantaneous zero-gravity field. Now proceed to scoop each item from its dish. Know that though all measurements are approximate, the scoop has the uncanny ability to deliver to you an optimized volume of each food. Once you get the hang of these basic concepts you should be golden. If I seem to be invading your space, or looking at you sideways, it's because you are being way too precious about collecting your pile of food, and I am letting know that you are a loser.
There. You have completed your most creative task of the day. You are Michaelangelo, you have made a stained glass window, you are the god damned Sol Le Witt of a f*****g salad! Enjoy your MacArthur grant, a*****e!
OMG, last night I was at the salad bar and this lady was standing next to me and in front of something I wanted. I thought "Maybe I'm in her way," so I moved away from her, but she just kept standing there doing nothing!!! Just motionless with a blank look on her face, blocking the delicious food!
I couldn't believe it. Eventually I just reached around her.
People, napkins are items that someone had to pay for and provide for you! Furthermore, they come from trees! I was standing waiting for some crappy airport sandwich, and I stood by the napkin/fork/salt/pepper station, and I saw SO MANY PEOPLE do the following: - grab a huge fistful of napkins - some of the napkins understandably fall onto the counter due to this activity - the person then sweeps those napkins INTO THE GARBAGE - the person then grabs more napkins from the pile
ALSO - the person pulls a napkin out of the dispenser, then immediately throws it in the garbage?? - then pulls out six more napkins, to keep - ?!? throwing away the first napkin, on principle??
Watching the napkin station at the DIA Schlotzky's made me kind of wish America would be completely obliterated, there I said it. Gary said this was "too harsh" of me. YOU BE THE JUDGE
I am abstaining from parenthood so I don't live on through my genes, in this sick world..... we are total barbarians and it would be more practical to achieve spiritual/metaphysical progress than develop the human animal, so...... maybe Gary would like to open a napkin factory and become rich
Speaking of throwing stuff away, my friend who grew up in Telluride and I were talking about that mansion that got pushed into a hole in the ground the other day. Yeesh.
Pet peeve: How the Darwinistic model of evolution gets totally misinterpreted by the masses due to simple ignorance of language. "Fit" meaning suitable, not super-strong. This mistake relates so strongly to the way that Americans will advocate the authority of the English language as if it is static, that there is a "correct" dialect, etc.
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Like, these are not normal bites, they are extra bad, swelling up, sensitive, monster bites.
I guess that is what we get for baring so much flesh to the elements, in worship of our Earth Mother's Solstice!
- Salad dressing on new silk dress
- Someone saying "You look tired. Are you not wearing makeup?"
- Feeling like a forever fringe freak
"Don't ask me why more women don't like comics, I don't know, oh wait, I do know, because women tend to be less visually stimulated than men..."
I hate Shayla's rant the most, because it's so sad... I'm sorry, dude.
Dear Safeway across from my apartment,
Why does your spinach often expire the same day I bought it?
Why has this not already been greenlighted?
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/michael-dorn-pitching-star-trek-movie-worf.html?utm_source=scribol.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com
Being positive all the time is sort of intolerant and as annoying as being negative all the time is draining. I want balance, and have a hard time finding it!
Also, they have a picture of a caramel sundae with bacon in it!
my grandparents just sent me a box of these
come and get 'em!
thanks but no thanks grandparents!
I've stewed in my feelings for enough days now that I think I'm over it... I think addressing sexism is important a lot of the time, but don't be a dick about it, you know? Like if you are interviewing someone, don't just try to make them say the thing you want to hear?
Ed Chigliak: Your story is very sad, I'm sorry. You are right when you say that life is short.
I think I am pretty rant-free today. Lots of stress and trying to meet deadlines, but my friend Tina came over and we snuck in a loud guitar session which felt very cathartic. When feeling down, turn the volume up.
Capitalism can't be "reformed." We could all choose to live under a different system, but barring that you can't alter the fundamental conceptual bedrock that capitalism is built upon. It's a money-making system that functions by getting more while paying less. It is very good at doing this. Capitalism, corporations--they aren't entities. They aren't people we can expect to uphold certain moral standards. Whenever someone's all upset with Exxon or whatever, it's like, why are we wanting corporations to police themselves as though they have human morality? They don't, and never will.
Oops I'm a c*****ist, the drones are gonna zap me
People, when you are in line at a salad bar, please be conscientious as to other people's time.
Don't take this as your one chance to express your creativity, composing the pile of food as though you are trimming the world's tiniest and most delicate christmas tree.
Do not go back multiple times for the same item, so slowly, until you instictually know that you have *just* the right amount, in the exact proper place.
Do not waste my time while you nudge the tomato into its correct place on your pile of food, a process which literally takes minutes.
At the end of the row, do not sensually drape the liquid of salad dressing with a self-satisfied look on your face.
Here is the right way to do a salad bar when the line is crowded. When done properly, this should take 10-20 seconds.
You've seen food before, right?
Ascertain your salad vessel and approach the bar from the far end. With utmost confidence, snatch your bit of greenery. No need to nudge it--gravity will assure that it settles into its proper place in this vessel. You do not need to press it down because the weight of other ingredients will keep it in its place. The leaves will not go flying about--your gesture, which recalls OCD, does not ward off some kind of instantaneous zero-gravity field.
Now proceed to scoop each item from its dish. Know that though all measurements are approximate, the scoop has the uncanny ability to deliver to you an optimized volume of each food.
Once you get the hang of these basic concepts you should be golden. If I seem to be invading your space, or looking at you sideways, it's because you are being way too precious about collecting your pile of food, and I am letting know that you are a loser.
There. You have completed your most creative task of the day. You are Michaelangelo, you have made a stained glass window, you are the god damned Sol Le Witt of a f*****g salad! Enjoy your MacArthur grant, a*****e!
I couldn't believe it. Eventually I just reached around her.
Here's a rant:
People, napkins are items that someone had to pay for and provide for you! Furthermore, they come from trees! I was standing waiting for some crappy airport sandwich, and I stood by the napkin/fork/salt/pepper station, and I saw SO MANY PEOPLE do the following:
- grab a huge fistful of napkins
- some of the napkins understandably fall onto the counter due to this activity
- the person then sweeps those napkins INTO THE GARBAGE
- the person then grabs more napkins from the pile
ALSO
- the person pulls a napkin out of the dispenser, then immediately throws it in the garbage??
- then pulls out six more napkins, to keep
- ?!? throwing away the first napkin, on principle??
Watching the napkin station at the DIA Schlotzky's made me kind of wish America would be completely obliterated, there I said it. Gary said this was "too harsh" of me. YOU BE THE JUDGE