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Post by Liiisa on Feb 22, 2024 12:35:09 GMT -5
Well, she's a decent, nice, generous person, which is the opposite of the way their idol the Menace is.
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Post by Queen on Feb 22, 2024 12:44:40 GMT -5
Yeah, she seems intelligent and funny in interviews.
Her music isn't my thing - although she writes some interesting lyrics, but I like her a lot, and not just because she annoys mediocre men.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 22, 2024 17:36:10 GMT -5
Right - I genuinely like her as a person, but the only song I really like by her is "Anti-hero."
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me! So relatable
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Post by tzarine on Feb 22, 2024 17:57:50 GMT -5
strutty men talking way too loud thinking they are god's gift to humanity
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Post by tzarine on Feb 22, 2024 22:16:31 GMT -5
from a parents group i belonged to
"I honestly don’t know of any person that had a successful gap year. The ones I know ended up being bums and dropouts, and in some cases became drug addicts."
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 23, 2024 6:36:20 GMT -5
Tell them that you can successfully do too many drugs while in college too
What made me laugh is an article titled "Freeze Every Citrus Peel That Comes Through Your Kitchen." We go through bushels of clementines... the freezer would end up full of nothing but clementine peels.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 23, 2024 11:22:33 GMT -5
Tell them that you can successfully do too many drugs while in college too What made me laugh is an article titled "Freeze Every Citrus Peel That Comes Through Your Kitchen." We go through bushels of clementines... the freezer would end up full of nothing but clementine peels. & continue to do drugs lots of yank parents are really weird bout gap year. the poor woman didn't even address sex during gap year. i love clementines & know a girl named clementine this made me laugh www.bondno9.com/greenwich-village-bejeweled-with-swarovski-crystals.html
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 24, 2024 13:43:19 GMT -5
Obviously haven't used cornstarch in a while... looked in the cabinet to see if I needed to buy any for what I was going to cook tonight and the date I'd written on the jar was July 2008
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Post by tzarine on Feb 24, 2024 15:46:51 GMT -5
the turmeric i used for pumpkin curry was only dated 2017 it came from a restaurant that was going out of business. they were "selling" stuff, but the workers couldn't be bothered one also gave me a van gogh, replica painting of sunflowers, which i gave to tzarevich
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 26, 2024 17:46:39 GMT -5
My mom's ophthalmologist kept saying "wonderful, perfect, awesome. Perfect, great. Awesome. Perfect" to herself constantly and I could hear it in the waiting room and had to keep myself from laughing. Perfect! Awesome
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Post by tzarine on Feb 26, 2024 19:07:04 GMT -5
awesome perfect awesome liisa
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 26, 2024 19:44:51 GMT -5
lmao. Wonderful! Perfect
I think my mom was stressing her out.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 27, 2024 1:42:43 GMT -5
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Post by lillielangtry on Feb 28, 2024 3:38:14 GMT -5
My friend teaches English online. She was doing the days of the week with a Japanese kid yesterday and she circled Monday and said "it's Monday today". The kid's mother in the background said it was Tuesday in Japan but my friend thought she must be confused and ignored it.
Only afterwards did her husband point out that she was the confused one and it was definitely Tuesday in Europe as well ;-)
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Post by Queen on Feb 28, 2024 4:24:13 GMT -5
My friend teaches English online. She was doing the days of the week with a Japanese kid yesterday and she circled Monday and said "it's Monday today". The kid's mother in the background said it was Tuesday in Japan but my friend thought she must be confused and ignored it. Only afterwards did her husband point out that she was the confused one and it was definitely Tuesday in Europe as well ;-) I recently tried to go to work on a Saturday so at least your friend was working on a work day.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 28, 2024 18:26:16 GMT -5
The current track on the radio is named - which I guess is only funny to certain people with certain jobs - and you know what, you probably aren't going to be able to see the name of the song when i post this, because the song title is the code for a nonbreaking space.
lmfao yep it doesn't show up. Oh I am chortling
OOPS NEVER MIND actually that was just the DJ's way of trying to show that it was untitled and for some reason the code displayed instead of the empty space. It's a weird enough piece that I was willing to believe that that was the name. </nerd>
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Post by tzarine on Feb 29, 2024 0:21:33 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Feb 29, 2024 3:25:54 GMT -5
An exchange on FB.
There's a video clip of Rachel Parris, a UK stand up comedian (thoroughly brilliant and witty woman btw). In it she's wearing a dress with bold vertical stripes.
Random Man 1: Is she wearing that dress for a bet?
Random Man 2: yes, that she could get judged for how she dresses by the most boring person on the planet. Looks like I owe her a tenner now.
Rachel Parris: yes! I made a tenner off this, absolute win.
Yeah, don't troll the woman who has been dealing with hecklers for a decade.
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Post by sprite on Feb 29, 2024 12:37:15 GMT -5
I'm in a banking call, and have just had a converstion with someone which loosely translated into us agreeing that my issues were above her paygrade, and my call should be someone else's problem.
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 2, 2024 21:58:11 GMT -5
Wanting to order a particular coffee type and finding the website for it (Amazon don’t deliver to Australia), I was reading about shipping and was amused to read,
”Please be careful when you choose a shipping option, if you don’t choose an incorrect shipping option, your order will automatically be cancelled.” The website is Holiholic.
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Post by sprite on Mar 3, 2024 15:54:20 GMT -5
Visited partner's uncle today, and his two lovely ginger toms. Partner and I were rubbing our thumbs against our front teeth to make a squeaky noise, and one of them was fascinated--up on hind legs, nearly jumped on his lap to work out what the noise was!
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Post by Queen on Mar 4, 2024 9:19:35 GMT -5
I went out for coffee and on the way stopped to pick up some luxury chocolate.
I thought the server said "shall I put it in a bag for you" so I said yes. But she mumbled a bit and I wasn't really paying attention so it might have been a very different question.
Anyway now I have gift-wrapped luxury chocolate for me.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 14:53:04 GMT -5
the number of women falling off their high heeled shoes, tripping over those hideous bathrobe coats wouldn't fluffy slippers be more appropriate?
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Post by sprite on Mar 4, 2024 17:40:34 GMT -5
At a palace ruin Sunday, we were dutifully reading all the info boards, and one included a crowd drawing including a nicely-dressed African woman.
Partner sniffed a bit, "oh yes, the well known multicultural Scotland of the 16th Century!" and then he had to eat his hat because the info gave the woman's name, and her role on the Queen's staff, and described several other Africans in the royal household. Hah!
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 21:48:26 GMT -5
the incredibly unpc 7 wives for 7 brothers based on the rape of the sabine women
great choreography!
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Post by sprite on Mar 7, 2024 9:50:19 GMT -5
Reading an email at 11pm last night from a former student, asking if I can help with an assignment, due within 24 hours.
To write a 3 page report based on a 30 page document. but, teacher, don't worry, the last 15 pages are just statistics.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2024 17:04:08 GMT -5
this exclusive club ive been invited to be a member of "A WORK-FOCUSED MEMBERS CLUB We believe people do their best thinking when they’re able to let go of the day’s routine and allow themselves the luxury of focus. From our SoHo flagship and beyond, one promise lives at the heart of every location: The Malin offers beautiful neighborhood spaces that enable your best work."
bc my postcode is now posh i was also invited to try $500 face creams when this shoppe opened: "https://www.sisley-paris.com/en-US/magazine-maison-sisley-new-york.html"
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 10, 2024 5:11:45 GMT -5
The van I drove past this afternoon, highly decorated, and implying that the answer lies with the extraterrestrials.
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Post by groo on Mar 10, 2024 17:57:04 GMT -5
But what was the question?
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Post by Queen on Mar 11, 2024 5:27:09 GMT -5
A request at work
"can you change the background colour of the website"
Um, no.
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