"If the 12 ft. skeleton from home depot started smoking weed"
Happy Wednesday! I hope your mid-weeks are going relatively well. I hope you get to take some naps this week! Let’s look at internet things.
The ultimate takedown of the Dear Evan Hansen movie
I’ve written about my love of Jenny Nicholson before, and she’s once again hit gold with her 77-minute video poking holes in the much-maligned Dear Evan Hansen movie. I promise, every one of those minutes are perfect, and the studio even filed a bad-faith copyright claim against her (lol).
It’s spooky scary month on I Hate It But I Love It
On my podcast this month, Jocelyn and I are looking at a bunch of supposedly scary films. So far this month, we’ve talked about M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, the bizarre 1981 horror Ghost Story, and this week, we’re making fun of the hilariously silly Urban Legend. You should subscribe, if you wanna 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!
I agree with the top comment that wonders what the husband wants to be doing that he can’t do when his spouse is at home:
The problem and conflict is that I often have 2 or 3 one hour Zoom meetings a day. I use headphones but I do talk during part of them. I close the door but the noise bothers my husband, who is in the other room. He is also at home all day since he's unemployed. He keeps telling me I am selfish to stay at home and bother him when I could choose to go work in the office and he says I'm just too lazy to go to the office and waves off my health concerns as paranoid.
DUMP HIM, he won’t stand up for you OR your children in favour of his racist mother:
we were eating dinner at her house with her new husband and my fiances brothers when out of nowhere she said “I hope your children look only like their dad.” This was out of nowhere but that’s how she always is. I said, “well we aren’t going to be having kids anytime soon so you don’t need to worry about that” to which she replied “well I don’t want biracial grandkids because they’re always so ugly when features are mixed together like that.” Everyone got quiet and I didn’t even know what to say. Eventually she got up and offered everyone dessert.
Soon after we left and in the car I expressed to my fiance that I was hurt by what she said and the fact that he didn’t stand up for me. He said he didn’t want to hurt her feelings and that she didn’t mean it to be hurtful. I told him that if we do have children that she will never be able to see them or be around them because I don’t want our future kids to be around someone like that. He’s mad at me now
This starts out bad and only gets worse
This is when I thought it might be funny to play a little prank on her… when she left her phone unattended I replaced [her ex’s] contact info in her phone with my work phone number (that she never uses.)
Oh hell no to this entire dynamic, let alone the stunt they tried to pull at a wedding:
I M33 have a large family. Mostly aunts and female cousins aside from mom, stepmom, stepsister and grandmother. I don't know how to say this but all those women I mentioned above are into teasing and joking. They've formed a unit (which I admit is kind of toxic) and they'd tease and roast every new woman that enters the family by marriage by setting up "tests" to see if they deserve to be part of the family. Or roast their looks and styles to the point of breaking confidence and self esteem down. Then after a few months of teasing they'd announce that they've finally welcomed them into the family.
I feel bad about laughing at this post, but I can’t help it:
And this made the rounds last week, but oh man, please bottle this text and sell it:
TUMBLR!
(via catchymemes, thread found here.)
(via spacefroggity, thread found here.)
(via tomhardysurinal, thread found here.)
And here’s a good thread about a petition.
TIKTOK!
This is exactly the kind of UK content I’m looking for from TikTok.
He’s an incredible actor.
A person explaining “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” to their boyfriend.
A person’s German mother visiting them in Canada.
I love this kind of bitterness.
“I scared my girlfriend in our bedroom…”
When a man sees a TikTok trend started by women and completely misunderstands it. (Here’s it done right.)
This is the cutest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.
The tea, she is HOT.
And this is a total banger, I am not upset that it’s blowing up on TikTok.
ARTICLES!
How I hacked ALL displays in my high school district to play Rick Astley, TNW
This Virtual Classroom Company Made Millions During The Pandemic While Students Languished, BuzzFeed News
My employee wasn’t respectful enough after the company messed up her paycheck, Ask A Manager
When the red flags are even more ominous than you know…, Ask A Manager
Even Monica Lewinsky Is Too Optimistic About Online Shaming, Slate
Slackers of the world, unite! Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t, The Atlantic
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat