"I do not give you consent to perform magic on me"
Happy Tuesday! Tuesday is the worst day of the week, but hopefully some internet stuff will make it a little more palatable.
It’s Listener Request Month on I Hate It But I Love It
All November on our podcast, Jocelyn and I are talking about movies that have been requested by our listeners. Last week, we revisited the childhood hell that is Return to Oz, and this Wednesday, we’re continuing the childhood trauma with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. You should subscribe, if you want to be cool. (You can find I Hate It But I Love It in all the usual places, including Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Pocket Casts.)
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
The end of an era. I would be heartbroken:
I got a night-shift job doing data entry back in 2015. I quit and needed something fast at night while I look for something better during the day.
It was a data entry position, meaning I get an email containing the details of an order and proceeding to input the information into our system.
Right after my training I knew this is something Autohotkey can do, I don't know to code that well, so I went to a freelancer website to hire a guy to develop the code, it cost me a two-month salary...
Normalize calling out your shitty children!
I picked her up and brought her home, went in the house to wake up my son, and we argued a bit, before I told him he needed to, “man up, and start bringing something to the table”. He lectured me for saying man up instead of grow up. And I told him that when he acted like this I was embarrassed to call him my son.
This is very shitty and bums me out:
There’s one guy (18M) I know who all of us are friendly with, but we’re not close with him. He is very nerdy (and everyone at our university is nerdy, including me, so that’s saying something). He’s nice to be around when we do talk, but he’s always holed up in his room studying and grinding on work. He has basically no social life. I know from what other people have told me though and from googling his dad that his family is extremely rich. His best friend is one of the guys we originally invited on the trip and mentioned before that he travels everywhere by private plane.
This week’s shitty, shitty parent:
She came home one day after being at her mother’s for a week (we split custody) and wrote “homecoming” on our calendar and starts talking about all the plans she’s made with her best friend to go to homecoming together. Homecoming week happened to fall on a week she was with me…
I was furious with her entitlement to just make all these plans without asking me first… I want to teach her a lesson about asking first and not assuming that I’m just going to let her do whatever she wants and that she can’t manipulate people in order to get her way.
A thread for all the old cranks — things that get more annoying as you get older:
The Grinch in the first half of the movie (before his Enlarged Cardiac Syndrome) becomes more relatable every year, poor guy just wanted to be left alone and have some PEACE AND QUIET! But those Neighbors from Hell, The Whos just wouldn’t SHUT UP!
TUMBLR!
(via monsieurenjolras, thread found here.)
(via bagofbonesmp3.)
(via patrexes, thread found here.)
(via dougramsey, post found here.)
(via filmnoirsbian, thread found here.)
TIKTOK!
MR. FEENY!!!
Dead man walking.
This face just flooded my brain with dopamine.
Oh FUCK NO.
My cat loves me, but he doesn’t love me this much.
Here’s the noodles… and here’s the company.
Awoo!
A nice bonding moment between a dad and son-in-law.
New jingles for brands.
ARTICLES!
The Fight of Meghan Markle’s Life, The Cut
Taylor Swift’s Red Re-Release Proves What Fans Always Knew, Slate
Inside Felicia Sonmez’s War Against the Washington Post, Intelligencer
The Surveillance Apparatus That Surrounded Britney Spears, New York Times
The Chris Pratt Backlash Was Always Coming, BuzzFeed News
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That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat